Vetted Artificial Intelligence Professionals

“Board member/advisor to a mid–$10M revenue company aiming for $100M+, focused on portfolio trimming, analyst-quadrant positioning (Gartner/Forrester/ISG), and building scalable commercial operations. Has driven org redesign (separating marketing and sales), CRM rollout (Salesforce) alongside existing Dynamics accounting, and coaches founders to adopt metrics, messaging discipline, and delegation for global scale.”

Thomas Douaihy

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive CIO/CDO/CTO specializing in digital transformation, data/AI, and cloud modernization

Florida/Missouri34y exp

“Operations/process improvement leader with executive experience at Nestlé Purina, applying Lean/value stream mapping to improve IT service response times and user satisfaction. Led the integration of Merrick Pet Food into Purina, addressing scaling constraints by redesigning outdated processes. Also served as a technology mentor to the Purina executive team/CEO to improve decision-making on technology investments.”

“Engineering manager/player-coach in the Alexa media ecosystem who led delivery of a Tier-1 gateway service enabling third-party providers (e.g., Spotify/Pandora) to control playback across users’ Echo devices, driving 10–15% lifts in engagement metrics. Deep in API design, AWS infrastructure choices (EC2 vs Fargate), OAuth/LWA auth flows, and production rigor (security reviews, load testing, feature-gated dial-ups), with demonstrated incident ownership and operational automation wins.”

“Built end-to-end AI analytics experiences spanning React/TypeScript, serverless APIs, and Postgres, with a strong focus on streaming UX, observability, and reliability. Stands out for turning ambiguous AI product ideas into shippable MVPs, then abstracting repeated patterns into reusable orchestration and multi-tenant configuration systems that improved speed, consistency, and maintainability.”

“Early-stage founder building a service business targeting small clinics, already with one client. Identified the opportunity by helping a family member and then validating needs through direct client conversations; uses AI (including AI agents) for content generation and plans deeper workflow automation to scale cost-effectively.”

“Growth-creative/performance marketer with hands-on Google Ads experience who expands search-heavy advertisers up-funnel via intent-driven display and remarketing. Demonstrated measurable impact (10% traffic lift at 1.8 ROAS; ~20% ROAS improvement via responsive creative formats) and runs fast, statistically driven creative iteration across Meta/TikTok/YouTube while directing creators and editors.”

“Cross-functional operator with experience coordinating a medical device build across functions and time zones, emphasizing executive alignment and decision sign-off. Has also standardized customer-site product deployment processes and streamlined investment screening/reporting using Bloomberg and Excel automation to enable faster executive decision-making.”

“Repeat startup co-founder with multiple successful exits and significant fundraising experience (most recent raise $6M USD; prior raise £10M GBP). Interested in roles bridging investors and startups—performing due diligence and evaluating MVPs/USPs to help firms invest in the right companies and support portfolio growth toward exit.”

“Founder building an enterprise agentic AI startup who has already raised about $100K (friends & family plus self-funding). Has prior and current experience engaging VCs (including outreach to both large and small firms) and emphasizes demo-driven pitching, enterprise customer validation, and targeting billion-dollar market opportunities.”

Sai Anirudh Kondaveeti

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in Azure cloud, identity, and networking

Redmond, WA7y exp

“Backend/cloud engineer with deep Azure and distributed-systems experience: owned an end-to-end Python multi-orchestrator config generator (Contrail) spanning OpenStack/vCenter/OpenShift/Kubernetes via a translation-layer approach. Built GitOps-style ARM-template infrastructure and CI/CD with automated testing, including a zero-downtime Databricks-to-Synapse migration using parallel production validation. Worked on Microsoft Azure Identity gateway (reverse proxy for auth) and executed ring-based deployments for major platform migration.”

“Operator-turned-aspiring founder with experience building CI, cloud, and AI businesses at Harness, including P&L ownership and 0-to-1 execution. Exploring an AI-native infrastructure/control-plane thesis focused on moving enterprise workflows from AI assistance to execution, with a strong emphasis on ROI, coordination gaps, and durable moats.”

“Backend/AI engineer currently at Stripe building Minions, an internal LLM-based developer agent that automates code generation, bug fixes, and PR creation. They combine strong production LLM architecture skills with reliability engineering, having improved routine PR merge times by ~40-45%, lowered post-merge bug rates by 12%, and previously built an invoice-processing pipeline that achieved 91% straight-through processing in a B2B payments context.”

“Founder of Optibuy, a newly launched advisory firm focused on energy and manufacturing, combining AI, risk management, operational excellence, and digital transformation to solve longstanding industry problems. The candidate is pursuing an E&P studio model to incubate client solutions and has a targeted fundraising strategy aimed at O&G corporate VC arms, energy-focused VCs, and experienced industry angels.”