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Vetted Engineering Managers in California
Pre-screened and vetted in California.
Gabriel Undrerwood
Engineering executive specializing in production ML systems and enterprise SaaS
“Engineering/data platform leader from FLYR (airline ML forecasting and automated pricing) who built scalable ingestion/ETL and a canonical data model to onboard airlines with highly heterogeneous source systems. Created a golden-metrics layer for airline KPIs and implemented monitoring/backfill capabilities, cutting onboarding time by 50%+ while improving SLA performance and controlling cloud/ML training costs through stronger data quality gates.”
Philip Kearney
Executive engineering leader specializing in embedded systems, IoT, and wireless networking
“Former Apple employee who worked with Steve Jobs in the early 2000s and is now looking to join startups as a CTO partner to non-technical founders. Brings a thoughtful, skeptical lens on VC-backed startup execution, emphasizing technical feasibility, real product-market fit, and mission-driven teams solving meaningful problems.”
Director-level Engineering Manager specializing in identity platforms and authentication
Executive engineering leader specializing in enterprise SaaS, AI, and platform development
Director of Machine Learning specializing in GenAI platforms and enterprise AI/ML
Executive Technology & Product Leader specializing in AI/ML, Cloud Platforms, and SaaS
Engineering leader specializing in data platforms and distributed systems
Executive engineering leader specializing in aerospace, cloud infrastructure, and mission systems
Director-level Engineering & Operations leader specializing in aerospace/defense autonomy and systems delivery
Executive engineering leader and full-stack engineer specializing in FinTech and AI platforms
Ryan Simon
Staff Android Engineer and mobile engineering leader specializing in Kotlin Multiplatform
“Engineering leader with hands-on Android architecture expertise who has scaled mobile teams at Weedmaps (including forming a Platform team and rolling out MVVM/unit testing) and also co-founded a bootstrapped side business (Sizzle), owning the technical roadmap, hiring strategy (university pipeline + senior remote engineers in Pakistan), and stepping into fundraising when runway became critical.”
Aravind Sudha
Director-level engineering leader specializing in cloud platforms and distributed systems
“Senior engineering leader at AWS currently managing two services in the MSK organization, including Replicator for disaster recovery/data distribution and Glue Schema Registry. He combines hands-on distributed systems depth with large-scale people leadership, having managed teams up to 32 engineers and coordinated platform onboarding work across roughly 340 AWS services. Earlier experience in payroll and compliance platforms adds strong enterprise domain breadth beyond cloud infrastructure.”
Dipti Shethia
Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in consumer platform growth and SaaS
“Engineering leader with experience at Vertex and Salesforce, combining org leadership with hands-on architecture work. He led a 40-person team through execution and quality improvements, drove legacy modernization and SaaS transition, and launched a 0-to-1 voice capability in CRM while also applying AI to code migration and developer productivity.”
Ananda Kanagaraj Sankar
Engineering Leader specializing in marketplace monetization, pricing, payments, and trust & safety
“Early-stage founder in the ideation phase who previously took a hackathon concept in digital accessibility from prototype to a scalable SaaS platform, validating with developers, government web teams, and accessibility experts; the product was selected for deployment by the Indian Government. Strong focus on MVP validation, leveraging AI/automation, and building with limited resources; requires visa sponsorship due to immigration status.”
Director-level Engineering & AI Product Leader specializing in GenAI and cloud platforms
Rhutwij Tulankar
Engineering Manager and ML/Data Architect specializing in scalable data platforms and personalization
“Hands-on engineering manager at a marketing company leading a highly senior, distributed team (10 direct reports) while personally coding ~60–70% and owning end-to-end architecture across three interconnected products. Built agentic CRM automation and a reinforcement-learning-driven distribution layer for channel spend/bidding, with a strong focus on scalable design and observability (Prometheus/APM/logging) enabling frequent releases and few production incidents.”
Brian Frisch
Director-level engineering leader specializing in high-scale cloud platforms
“Engineering leader and player-coach with a long tenure leading 5 teams/17 engineers, combining organizational leadership with hands-on SQL, architecture, and production incident work. Particularly notable for shipping AI-powered lead engagement systems like an intelligent voice agent, while also driving operational improvements such as release cadence standardization, team restructures, database migrations, and major rules-engine performance gains.”
Ali Rezafard
Director of Engineering specializing in cybersecurity SaaS platforms and cloud-scale backend systems
“Director of Engineering at Proofpoint for 8 years, leading architecture and integration of Java microservices within a detection platform. Demonstrates pragmatic delivery leadership—incurring short-term cost to meet launch deadlines, then systematically paying down technical debt and optimizing AWS spend—plus a disciplined, long-horizon approach to backward-compatible API/schema evolution across many dependent services.”
Jeetendra Patil
Engineering Manager specializing in MLOps/DevOps and CI/CD for deep learning platforms
“Player-coach engineering leader focused on AWS ML infrastructure and deep learning image delivery: provisioned EKS/Kubernetes for multi-node training and automated image release pipelines (Python + AWS CDK) to cut release time from 2 weeks to 1. Also built customer migration tooling for SageMaker HyperPod and owned a security incident end-to-end, implementing prevention tests and process improvements.”
Rohini Rajagopalan
Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in SaaS, Cloud Migration, and Cybersecurity
“Senior engineering leader with experience at Cisco, Amazon, and startup Shopkick, operating at high scale (e.g., Secure Web Gateway handling ~40M QPS). Known for measurable impact across reliability and cost (85% efficacy improvement; Datadog spend cut from ~$500k/month to ~$15k/month) and for leading complex platform modernization (1-year monolith-to-microservices/event-driven migration with zero customer impact) plus compatibility-focused API design that cut device onboarding from a month to a day.”
Aesha Choksi
Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in Cloud Security and Data Platforms
“Engineering leader in cloud security at SysTech with player-coach experience spanning cross-team data/ownership standardization and reporting platform user-journey improvements. Stays technically deep through observability (SLA/SLOs, dashboards, alerting), rigorous code reviews (including AI-assisted coding), and end-to-end incident ownership in IAM/agentless cloud event collection. Targeting $270K–$300K base plus bonus/equity.”
Shady Ashkar
Executive Technology & Engineering Leader specializing in SaaS, FinTech and HealthTech
“Engineering leader (Octane) who drove business-aligned technology roadmaps and scaled a fully distributed engineering org from 35 to 150 in 9 months using a rigorous ownership model (OARP). Led a greenfield architecture for a new vertical (AWS Lambda/ECS, Python/JS/React) that delivered an MVP in 3 months while cutting per-service cloud OPEX from ~$300+ to ~$20/month, with 15+ years of remote-first leadership experience.”