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Vetted Founders in the DMV
Pre-screened and vetted in the DMV.
Thomas Wuchte
Executive International Security Leader specializing in multilateral counterterrorism and nonproliferation
Ralph Sonenshine
Director-level Economist and Market Research Consultant specializing in industrial organization and finance
Ashitha Gowda
Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in GenAI and backend systems
“Built and productionized an LLM-based PDF extraction pipeline for Medicaid policy documents by fine-tuning Gemini Flash 2.0 and deploying via Vertex AI, adding validation/guardrails to improve trust and reliability. Also built and scaled a SaaS platform (cnotes) for cable operators and regularly partners with customers and sales teams through interactive demos, rapid iteration, and real-time workflow debugging.”
Jeremy Goldstein
Executive nonprofit education leader specializing in strategic partnerships and major gift fundraising
Paul Tran
Executive Technology Leader specializing in SaaS, federal consulting, and digital transformation
“Former CEO of GravyWork with hands-on experience building an org-wide strategic plan and modernization roadmap for a growing company. Uses Michael Gerber’s innovation/orchestration/quantification framework and structured as-is/gap/to-be analysis to drive cost reduction, automation/outsourcing decisions, and leadership alignment through change.”
Ellie Le Tu
Mid-level Growth & Finance Analyst specializing in AI startups, public affairs, and real estate finance
Mohan Pushadapu
Mid-level Mechatronics Engineer specializing in robotics, embedded firmware, and autonomous systems
“Robotics/embedded engineer with hands-on firmware ownership for closed-loop motor/vision systems and strong ROS1 navigation experience (move_base, gmapping, robot_localization), including EKF sensor fusion to eliminate localization drift to sub-10cm accuracy. Also brings IoT distributed pub/sub expertise (30+ devices over MQTT, 99% uptime) plus Unity AR/VR simulation and computer-vision test automation that saved 100+ hours.”