Vetted Head of Engineerings

Trevor Peace

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in Healthcare IT

San Francisco, CA27y exp

“Founding/sole engineer who has built multiple healthcare products from scratch, spanning medical billing, cardiology triage, and cardiac device monitoring. Particularly compelling for healthtech and AI roles: they combine full-stack TypeScript/AWS execution with strong product judgment in regulated settings, including shipping voice-enabled RAG workflows and rejecting unsafe AI automation when simpler human-in-the-loop UX was the right answer.”

“Engineering leader in fintech/digital banking who built a development organization from zero and shipped a branchless banking platform in 18 months. Brings hands-on architecture depth in event-driven, multi-tenant banking systems plus practical AI product experience, including an OpenAI-powered transaction explanation agent and onboarding improvements that cut onboarding time by 30%.”

Bibhash Biswas

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive technology leader specializing in AI/ML, SaaS, and cloud architecture

Los Angeles, CA25y exp

“Hands-on CTO and player-coach engineering leader from MindShow who led a 10-person team, transformed a services business into a licensable product sold to Fortune 500 customers, and stayed deep in architecture, AI, and UI work. Particularly notable for combining microservices/system design leadership with practical AI product delivery in speech and media workflows, including a phoneme-generation system the candidate says achieved 99.9%+ accuracy.”

Joshua Smith

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive engineering leader specializing in AI automation and enterprise transformation

Banks, OR23y exp

“Technology leader with deep accelerator and zero-to-one product experience across the Department of Defense, Fortune 100 enterprises, academia, and GovTech. Most notably, they built a seven-tier solution that generated over $10M in first-year savings and was adopted by 300+ DoD organizations, positioning them as a strong CTO-type operator for mission-driven startups and complex enterprises.”

Carl Kibler

Screened

Executive engineering leader specializing in AI and Healthcare IT

Salt Lake City, UT13y exp

“Senior technical leader pursuing CTO roles who combines deep engineering breadth with strong product instincts and direct investor-facing startup experience. Has represented engineering, security, and IT in diligence processes, built investor-prep materials, and thinks strategically about AI-forward products, pivots, and market fit without falling into hype.”

“Startup-oriented product/technology leader targeting CTO roles, with experience evaluating and scoping high-impact product expansions. At Crelate, helped assess and shape a contract timekeeping/invoicing initiative that expanded TAM by hundreds of millions and increased ACV 2-3x, contributing to successful market traction and the company’s path to Series C.”

“Engineering leader with 11 years at Nokia/Janus International scaling an engineering organization from 3 to roughly 50 people, plus recent startup experience building an AI-powered virtual property manager platform. Particularly compelling for roles needing a rare mix of hands-on architecture depth, people leadership, and cross-functional execution across backend, web, mobile, QA, and even hardware-integrated products.”

“Healthcare product leader who started as a front-end engineer/unofficial product head and helped transform a custom hospital software business into a SaaS platform that became the company's flagship, generating over 80% of revenue. Later, as VP of Product after acquisition by Press Ganey, they led multi-product consolidation across global teams and launched HIPAA-compliant genAI features that delivered measurable customer efficiency gains.”

“Senior technology leader and hands-on builder spanning enterprise architecture and product/engineering leadership across healthcare and entertainment. Has led high-impact cloud and security architecture decisions (including establishing a private cloud to address scalability/security at massive scale) and scaled orgs 300% using pod-based team structures. Currently building an AI-supported hydroponics/vertical farming IoT framework (ESP32 + Azure) and a musician collaboration platform (React + Neo4j + AWS).”

Chakravarthy V P

Screened

Executive AI Consultant/CTO specializing in Agentic AI, GenAI, and cloud-native data platforms

Texas, USA21y exp

“Bootstrapped founder and CTO of C4Scale, a 2.5-year-old services-led company delivering MVP-to-scale product/platform builds for high-value clients across 5+ countries (10+ projects). Strong fit for roles blending scalable SaaS platform engineering, technical org leadership, and practical AI adoption, with clear awareness of the operational and GTM challenges of scaling into enterprise.”

Andrew Sheehan

Screened

Executive engineering leader specializing in enterprise architecture and digital transformation

27y exp

“Candidate has spent years working with startups across various industries and has been involved in multiple stages of company building, including hiring, technology choices, and budgeting. They appear especially oriented toward operational discipline, cost control, and evaluating ideas through structured cost, time, and value analysis.”

Andre Kuznetcov

Screened

Staff Front-End Engineer specializing in high-performance web apps and AI products

Remote, US4y exp

“Frontend engineer who built uichallenges.design end-to-end in Next.js, delivering hourly AI-generated challenges across timezones and a CDN-backed gallery of 1k+ items while staying fast for 100s of weekly active users. Also led a full replacement of Zenhub’s kanban board, forking DnD tooling and adding custom virtualization + Redux to support thousands of items with real-time socket updates, shipped safely via gradual rollout with Sentry/Mixpanel and A/B testing.”