Vetted Engineering Managers

“Aspiring founder building an AI governance and compliance startup for the finance industry, focused on agents that monitor data lakes/lakehouses to detect security vulnerabilities, PII exposure, and governance issues in real time. Has already formed an S-corp, has not raised capital yet, and approaches idea validation through Minimum Lovable Product testing with potential clients.”

“Unity/C# gameplay engineer who has shipped across console/PC/VR and mobile, including Ace Combat 7 (VR) and mobile titles. Built monetization-impacting gameplay systems (power-ups) and a full server-authoritative multiplayer architecture, and uses LLM-driven editor tooling and multi-agent workflows to rapidly prototype features while adding automated testing, benchmarking, dashboards, and CI/CD.”

“Engineering leader with experience at CBS Interactive and Paramount who scaled a web engineering team from 4 to 30+ (adding QA/PMO/mobile) while instituting strong agile and code-quality processes. Led a major architectural shift to a generic content API that decoupled web/mobile experiences from niche publishing systems, reportedly cutting developer onboarding time by ~50% and enabling some day-one production commits.”

“Senior Engineering Manager with a player-coach style who stays technically engaged through heavy code reviews and pair programming. Led prioritization and stakeholder alignment for a scalable, resilient feature-flag evaluation service with strict sub-50ms latency goals, including a major caching-strategy redesign and incremental rollout approach. Experienced in incident response/retrospectives and in coaching engineers toward improved performance and promotions.”

Tonya Jackson

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Executive Supply Chain & People Leader specializing in ESG, product delivery, and corporate governance

Lexington, KY40y exp

“Angel investor (Bluegrass Angels) who advises early-stage companies on product and organizational design, with a background leading corporate back-office (finance/customer service) and supply chain. Proposed and implemented a Global Business Services/shared services unit at a large corporation, building the savings/ROI case and running quarterly progress reviews to ensure adoption and results.”

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.”

“Executive MBA candidate exploring entrepreneurship with exposure to the venture capital ecosystem (including an investor-focused conference). Highly committed to building a product from the ground up and uses authenticity, market fit, and personal expertise alignment as key criteria for pursuing new ideas.”

Chetan Mukhopadhyay

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Senior Engineering Manager specializing in software quality, automation, and web/mobile platforms

Seattle, WA16y exp

“Engineering leader at Bayer Crop Science leading a Core Platform team responsible for widely used open-source TypeScript/React and mobile SDKs (npm/GitHub) embedded across 10M+ monthly active devices. Known for shipping high-performance, backward-compatible developer frameworks with rigorous release discipline (bi-weekly releases, 99.99% uptime, long streaks of zero breaking changes) and major DX wins (onboarding cut to minutes, support tickets down 82%).”