Vetted Director of Engineerings

“Startup-oriented product/technology leader targeting CTO roles, with experience evaluating and scoping high-impact product expansions. At Crelate, helped assess and shape a contract timekeeping/invoicing initiative that expanded TAM by hundreds of millions and increased ACV 2-3x, contributing to successful market traction and the company’s path to Series C.”

Ravi Gairola

Screened

Executive engineering leader specializing in AI platforms and cloud infrastructure

San Francisco, CA15y exp

“Engineering leader and hands-on architect with experience managing three teams spanning product, internal tooling, and ML, while also building AI chat and digital twin systems. Particularly notable for a patented memory architecture used to impersonate users in meetings/chat, plus prior delivery of a consumer digital payments system for Razer under tight deadlines and heavy tech debt.”

Kurt Balingit

Screened

Senior Digital Marketing Specialist specializing in demand generation and SEO/SEM

7y exp

“Performance marketer with hands-on ownership of high-spend acquisition programs, including managing ~50K/month at Backblaze across Google Ads and paid social while optimizing for trial-to-paid conversion. Built Protective's employee benefits paid media from scratch into a full-funnel LinkedIn + Google program, scaling spend ~300% YoY and improving lead quality through tighter targeting and keyword refinement.”

Tuukka Luolamo

Screened

Executive Technology Leader (CTO) specializing in AI, cloud, and distributed platforms

Remote14y exp

“Engineering leader who stays hands-on in high-leverage technical areas (architecture, scalability, reliability) while operating at an executive level. Led StagePilot’s shift from a tightly coupled legacy system to a cloud-native, event-driven real-time platform proven at 1M+ concurrent users, and previously scaled multiple SRE teams at McGraw-Hill with SLOs, on-call, and blameless ops practices.”

“Senior engineering executive with 8+ years leading large-scale SaaS modernization across AI, compliance, ecommerce, streaming, IoT, and travel. Has led a 150+ global engineering org, modernized seven cloud-native platforms for a $400M business, and consolidated travel systems processing $1B+ annually while staying hands-on in architecture, incident response, and AI integration.”

“Senior technology leader who has served as the top tech executive at a venture-backed SaaS company and is motivated by the pressure and complexity of early-stage environments. Also co-founded an ecommerce business with his wife, giving him both operator and hands-on entrepreneurial experience.”

Andrew Sheehan

Screened

Executive engineering leader specializing in enterprise architecture and digital transformation

27y exp

“Candidate has spent years working with startups across various industries and has been involved in multiple stages of company building, including hiring, technology choices, and budgeting. They appear especially oriented toward operational discipline, cost control, and evaluating ideas through structured cost, time, and value analysis.”

“Senior engineering leader with 8+ years of hands-on and people leadership experience across data-intensive enterprise platforms. He has led legacy-to-AWS modernization for mission-critical identity data workflows at Deep Sync, built and scaled teams rapidly, and previously helped create a 0-to-1 enterprise analytics platform at Kantar that later scaled to handle 10x more data with major performance gains.”

Mike Gardiner

Screened

Technology Executive / Engineering Director specializing in AI-driven platform transformation

Lehi, UT12y exp

“Built a 0-to-1 iOS mobile gardening application that helps users plan, track, and harvest crops with pest control guidance, weather, and climate-zone-based planting date recommendations. Demonstrated strong customer discovery and MVP-first product execution, including a major data challenge: compiling US climate zone data for every ZIP code from widely dispersed public sources into an app-ready database.”

“Senior edtech product and UX executive with 20+ years of experience leading both product and engineering/design organizations, including building a Science of Reading product from 0 to 1 that earned All-Green EdReports ratings and two CODiE awards. Particularly compelling for AI-in-education roles because they pair hands-on AI product experience with a clear human-in-the-loop philosophy grounded in equity, teacher trust, and real classroom research.”