Vetted Engineering Managers

“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.”

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.”

“Operations leader specializing in building scalable internal systems for startups, from being Spoonflower’s first ops hire (5th employee) to launching its first international Berlin/EMEA office from scratch. At bookingkit, drove measurable operational improvements by implementing a customized OKR framework (+18% goal achievement) and deploying automation/AI tools like Contractbook and kapa.ai to eliminate manual work and save engineering time.”

bikramjit ganguly

Screened

Staff Full-Stack Engineer specializing in API-driven web platforms and distributed systems

San Jose, CA24y exp

“Highly agent-centric builder who uses Codex daily to generate and manage full application repos, including Next.js CRUD apps, GitHub automation, and AWS lifecycle scripts to avoid long-lived cloud artifacts. They also experiment with multi-agent workflows for parallel development and correctness checking, showing strong practical fluency with emerging AI-native software development patterns.”

“AI/LLM engineer who built a production content-generation system for nursing education, combining multimodal RAG over proprietary PDFs (including images) with structured Cosmos DB data and external sources. Strong focus on production reliability—prompt-chaining with LangChain, validation/guardrails, and Azure-based monitoring/observability—plus experience designing Azure AI agents with tool integrations like Bing Search.”

“Operations/project leader with hands-on experience driving an end-to-end transition of legacy customers from on-prem to cloud, including customer communication, structured execution planning, and operational handover. Also improved field operations productivity by selecting and implementing a field management tool that automated work orders and replaced spreadsheet/email workflows with mobile app-driven data flows.”

John Patton

Screened

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.”

Christopher Schmitt

Screened

Executive Technology Leader specializing in FinTech & SaaS platforms

Atlanta, GA29y exp

“Startup-oriented technology leader with 13 years in early-stage environments, including serving as CTO through Series A and Series B fundraising. Has direct experience presenting to investors and a board of advisors, and is especially motivated by taking products from idea to first sale and scaling them into real businesses.”

“Engineering leader with 8+ years across IoT, emergency messaging, and political campaign data science, including operating a massive IoT microservices platform at several million devices and roughly 200 million requests per minute. Particularly strong in retrofitting legacy systems for modern observability using OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb, and Grafana LGTM, while also managing distributed international teams and developing engineers into senior and tech lead roles.”

“Former Harris County leader turned consulting partner with strong public-sector transformation experience, including a $2.5M Azure-based analytics modernization for Harris County Public Health and governance-heavy infrastructure work on the Harris County Flood Warning System. Also managed multiple concurrent quantum computing optimization and machine learning engagements, showing an unusual blend of government modernization, executive stakeholder management, and frontier-tech delivery.”

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.”

“Hands-on Engineering Manager at Hyper-Reach modernizing a mission-critical emergency alerts platform used by county emergency directors and first responders during live disasters. He led a phased migration from a 25-year-old JSP monolith to React, shipped in 5 months instead of an estimated 1.5 years, with zero regression incidents and clear customer and sales impact.”