Vetted Engineering Managers

“Engineering leader who drove TiVo IPTV’s client-facing API modernization from a monolith to AWS-based microservices (API Gateway, Lambda, EKS, Kafka, DynamoDB/RDS), including phased/blue-green production routing of millions of calls. Emphasizes org scaling through skill-based hiring, mentorship, and a you-build-you-run ownership culture, while balancing technical leadership with executive stakeholder communication and budgeting.”

Jignesh Desai

Screened

Director of Software Engineering specializing in fraud detection and payments platforms

San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA26y exp

“Engineering manager/player-coach who focuses on laying technical foundations and improving team execution: kickstarted Visa standard UI library adoption, standardized API exception handling, and introduced a test automation framework that enabled a shift from quarterly to monthly releases. Led a phased latency/throughput initiative that doubled throughput, and owned a production incident caused by a dependency’s expired certificate, driving monitoring and certificate-expiry notification improvements across dependent systems.”

Eric Low

Screened

Principal Engineering Leader specializing in platform, product, and AI advisory

14y exp

“Fractional CTO/lead engineer who shipped an end-to-end Next.js + FastAPI product experience (login, data processing results, chatbot Q&A) with an architecture designed to support future ML model integration. Has led large-scale engineering enablement (continuous delivery across ~150 devs/200 systems), owned production incident response with lasting test/contract improvements, and delivered a 3x productivity gain by fixing debugging/tooling bottlenecks while mentoring junior teams into independent delivery.”

“Game engineering leader/player-coach who recently shipped Netflix/Boss Fight’s mobile hit Squid Games Unleashed, owning live ops scheduling (XML/JSON to C# in Unity) and storefront integrations while reviewing 6–8 engineers’ code. Experienced in client-server reliability work (The Sims 4 time-sync incident) and in speeding delivery via process redesign (gated approvals), with a coaching style informed by 6 years teaching improv theater.”

“Wi-Fi firmware engineer building a Linux host-based AI diagnostic agent that ingests TLV telemetry from firmware modules (scan/datapath/security/roam/low power) to detect anomalies and automatically push mitigations. Delivered measurable production impact (27% reduction in field issues) and improved performance by replacing netlink with shared memory (+30% kernel-layer improvement), while also driving customer-facing demos and instituting release-gating controls after a factory-line crash incident.”

Vijay Mohan

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive technology leader specializing in AI, cloud platforms, and enterprise software

Nashua, NH25y exp

“Founder of Braindump (redfly.ai), an AI companion for memory and personal organization, who has already raised $60,000 from Alchemist Accelerator. Brings hands-on experience with customer discovery, technical validation, and VC pitching, and stands out for a first-principles approach to building products with dramatic performance and cost improvements.”

Luis Mirantes

Screened

Executive engineering leader specializing in scaling ML platforms and FinTech systems

Chevy Chase, MD30y exp

“Founder of an AI-agent startup focused on high-speed train braking efficiency, with a subsystem already demoed to RENFE Spain and positive initial feedback. Has hands-on fundraising and investor presentation experience, and stands out for a highly analytical approach to venture building centered on ROI, competitive barriers, IP protection, and evidence-based decision making.”

Jones Pavan

Screened

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in platform modernization and AI integration

Burbank, CA15y exp

“Engineering leader from Blackline who has repeatedly rescued and delivered high-visibility products by resetting roadmaps, tightening execution (better specs/estimation), and accelerating team velocity. Scaled a distributed org from ~20 to ~40 engineers by building a new India team with strong hiring rubrics and governance-as-code/SDLC consistency. Also modernized legacy systems into microservices (Kafka/Kubernetes/Apigee) and drove hackathon-to-production innovation using Google Vertex AI.”

“Seasoned IT professional services and business transformation executive (currently global Head of Business Transformation Management at Fujitsu) who has built scalable sales-to-delivery operating models for growing boutique firms. Uses data-driven process/task mining plus stakeholder-led prioritization to deliver measurable outcomes, including a 30% manufacturing cycle-time improvement and 80+ SAP S/4HANA improvement recommendations implemented via a phased roadmap.”

“Frontend engineer who led end-to-end architecture for a cross-platform Payments Checkout SDK at Inai Technologies, scaling it to support iOS/Android/React Native/Flutter/Capacitor and powering 2.4M+ transactions per month. Emphasizes performance (bundle size/tree-shaking), OTA update delivery for mobile wrappers, and strong engineering guardrails (SonarQube, Snyk, CI/CD, regression suites, Sentry/PostHog) to ship quickly with high quality.”