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Vetted Engineering Managers
Pre-screened and vetted.
Darren Scott
Executive CTO specializing in data platforms, DevOps, and regulated FinTech
“Startup and early-internet product leader with repeated experience building in new companies and executing pivots. Helped transform a web-based calendar business into a CMS + RBAC platform that became best-in-breed for US K-12 organizations within about three years, emphasizing ROI-driven prototyping and market validation to conserve resources.”
Luke Evers
Director-level engineering leader specializing in full-stack product and e-commerce systems
“Candidate is an aspiring founder currently exploring startup ideas and potential collaborators, with firsthand experience as an early employee at VC-backed companies, including joining a current company shortly after seed funding. They have not raised capital themselves but bring early-stage operating exposure and a strong desire to build something they own with a high-trust team.”
Executive engineering leader specializing in Healthcare IT and enterprise SaaS
Executive CTO / VP Engineering specializing in AI, Healthcare IT, and FinTech SaaS
Executive CTO specializing in AI platforms, cloud architecture, and compliance
Engineering Manager specializing in enterprise web APIs and digital banking platforms
Senior Unity Engineer specializing in XR/VR/AR and multiplayer mobile/PC games
Executive AI Strategy & Engineering Leader specializing in Generative AI and cloud platforms
Director of Engineering specializing in AI/ML products, cloud modernization, and compliance
Director-level engineering leader specializing in mobile platforms and organizational modernization
Gibran Rodriguez
Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in cloud, AI, and healthcare platforms
“Senior engineering leader with a rare mix of org-scaling and deep hands-on technical execution across cloud platforms, AI/RAG systems, IoT, mobile, and operational software. Has led zero-downtime migrations, improved deployment velocity by 50%+, and built DataFabriks from an internal warehouse AI platform into a multi-tenant commercial SaaS product across healthcare and industrial environments.”
VIVEK PATEL
Director of Engineering specializing in cloud-native SaaS and distributed systems
“Engineering leader for a facial-recognition edge platform who drove a full-stack modernization to scale from ~100 edge devices to thousands of locations. Led a major distributed-systems re-architecture (NATS streaming), database migration (MongoDB to PostgreSQL + TimeScaleDB), and UI/API modernization (React), while scaling the team 5→15 and implementing CI/CD + automated QA to improve release velocity and reliability.”
Director-level AI/ML engineering leader specializing in cybersecurity and data platforms
Executive CTO and Engineering Leader specializing in AI/ML, computer vision, and scalable systems
Director-level Engineering Manager specializing in AI-native product delivery
Director-level software engineering leader specializing in frontend architecture and AI products
Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in AI transformation and platform modernization
Executive Engineering Leader specializing in Product, Mobile, and SaaS platforms
Ashutosh Srivastava
Senior Engineering Manager specializing in AI platforms and cloud-native backend systems
“Player-coach engineering leader who stayed hands-on (coding/reviews) while leading delivery, including designing an event-driven AI workflow engine with explicit state modeling and robust retries. Built near real-time enterprise analytics for campaign measurement and drove reliability/process improvements (observability, incident runbooks, release management). Introduced lightweight CI/CD and automated testing to cut release time by ~40% while maintaining quality.”
James Choi
Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in cloud architecture and SaaS platforms
“Engineering leader with hands-on architecture depth who has improved team delivery cadence to weekly releases by redesigning SDLC ownership and validation workflows. Currently leading AI/LLM product work around meeting-transcript intelligence for sales use cases, with a strong emphasis on observability, prompt tuning, and iterative UX refinement.”
Kingsley Torlowei
Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI systems and data platforms
“Built and productionized LLM agents that ingest multi-source workplace data (Slack, meetings, calendars, PM tools) to extract entities (tasks/decisions/risks/initiatives) and generate customer insights like risk alerts, deadline-miss prediction with evidence, and workload overload detection. Also architected a graph-DB-backed multi-step agent using LangChain + Pydantic with async queue/worker execution and LLM-as-judge evaluation plus human review loops.”
Chukwunonso Azuka
Senior Software Engineer specializing in secure backend systems and re-engineering
“Founder of LexaBooks, an active bootstrapped startup being built with scalability, recurring revenue, and investor readiness in mind. Participated in the 2024 Startup Wise Guys accelerator and has continued training across SaaS, AI, and fintech, giving them a strong understanding of early-stage growth and venture dynamics.”
Hammad Ur Rahman
Senior DevOps Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and CI/CD
“IBM Power/AIX engineer who has owned a 150+ LPAR AIX 7.x estate with VIOS/HMC/vHMC and PowerHA in production, including real outage and failover recoveries. Also brings modern DevOps/IaC experience—built Jenkins pipelines deploying to AKS and implemented Terraform on AWS with remote state, locking, and drift management.”