Vetted Engineering Managers

“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

Screened

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%).”

“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.”

Michael Yudanin

Screened

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in AI/ML and enterprise software

San Ramon, CA19y exp

“Engineering leader with 20+ years of experience who still codes daily, currently directing AI-driven knowledge management systems at eGain. He stands out for combining large-scale people leadership with deep technical ownership of LLM/NLI pipelines and for a track record of turning complex operational problems into high-impact systems, including a manufacturing platform that boosted throughput 4x and expanded across 11 plants.”

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.”

“Engineering leader who has operated effectively in both a VC-backed startup and SAP, combining director-level org leadership with day-to-day technical depth. Notable for re-architecting integrations that produced a 3x revenue gain, leading a 90-engineer matrixed organization, and staying hands-on in GenAI, infrastructure, and full-stack problem solving.”

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.”

“Senior engineering leader with over 20 years of management experience and a hands-on background leading large-scale SaaS, eCommerce, CRM, and customer data platform systems serving millions of users. Stands out for combining deep technical architecture leadership with org-scale people management, including solving multi-tenant SaaS scaling issues, driving self-service product improvements from support patterns, and building governance models for cross-functional delivery.”

Shane Westra

Screened

Executive product and technology leader specializing in B2B SaaS

27y exp

“Senior product leader with a track record of building and repositioning B2B software businesses into major growth engines, including initiatives that contributed to Workfront’s $1.5B Adobe acquisition and SimpleNexus’s $1.2B nCino acquisition. Brings deep experience across product strategy, UX transformation, AI-enabled workflows, and cross-functional org leadership, with repeated success turning research insights into high-impact products.”

“Senior engineering leader who scaled a global organization from 15 to roughly 100 people and operates comfortably at both executive and hands-on architecture levels. Has led SaaS platform improvements, AI-based compliance workflow automation with LLM observability, and consumer-facing product modernization using analytics-driven UX decisions.”

“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.”