Vetted Engineering Managers in the NYC Metro

“Repeat startup co-founder with multiple successful exits and significant fundraising experience (most recent raise $6M USD; prior raise £10M GBP). Interested in roles bridging investors and startups—performing due diligence and evaluating MVPs/USPs to help firms invest in the right companies and support portfolio growth toward exit.”

Paiman Nodoushani

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Executive CTO specializing in AI-powered transformation for enterprise SaaS

New York, NY35y exp

“Former Cisco professional who successfully pitched and got funding for adding virtualization to access routers to enable third-party application development, framing the opportunity with clear revenue upside and risk management. Highly interested in AI—especially agent-based development—and believes it lowers the barrier to building and shipping new products with small, high-caliber teams.”

“Entrepreneur building a bootstrapped AI-native manufacturing company that combines agentic AI, LLM-assisted CAD/CAM, and in-house CNC machining to speed up hardware iteration. Comes from an early-stage enterprise SaaS background and evaluates opportunities like an angel investor, with strong fluency in VC dynamics and founder-market-team fit.”

“Builder-minded founder who co-started Renew-IQ, an insurtech company that landed successful pilots with major insurance brokerages and wholesalers without raising capital. Demonstrated practical enterprise product judgment by overcoming adoption challenges through integration with required compliant systems, improving user satisfaction, communication, and efficiency.”

John Patton

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Executive Atlassian and Agile transformation leader specializing in AI-enabled enterprise collaboration

Aberdeen, NJ6y exp

“Product leader with hands-on experience modernizing enterprise internal tooling and shipping AI-enabled support workflows. At Peloton, they led the end-to-end migration of Jira, Confluence, and JSM from on-prem Data Center to cloud; at Atlas Vega, they implemented a RAG-based Slack/JSM support assistant with strong governance, data hygiene, and measurable support outcomes.”

“Infrastructure/automation engineer with experience bridging post-acquisition environments (Pandora + SiriusXM) by building an API-driven integration to provision Debian workloads on RHV while preserving iPXE-based imaging workflows. Strong in deep debugging across virtualization/network/OS layers (e.g., resolving virtio/vCPU contention causing network/NFS issues) and in extending automation tooling via custom Ansible/Python modules. Also has exposure to biomanufacturing on-prem devices (Hamiltons, shakers) alongside AWS microservices.”

EMMANUEL ETIENNE

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Engineering Manager specializing in FinTech money movement and AI-driven infrastructure

Brooklyn, NY12y exp

“Player-coach fintech engineer/engineering lead who built a deterministic payer-ID wire reconciliation system with Citi, including idempotent ingestion and webhook processing across Ruby and Go, materially reducing accounting manual work. Experienced in incident response (Plaid-related customer-impacting issue), stakeholder-driven MVP scoping for ACH status visibility, and delivery acceleration via infrastructure templating (EC2) and standardized Magento project setups.”

“Operations and membership professional with broad experience spanning bookkeeping, office management, executive support, HR tasks, and marketing in nonprofit-focused organizations. Stood out by building core processes from scratch, taking over a delayed invoicing workflow using QuickBooks and Excel, and turning it into a standardized process adopted across departments.”