Vetted Artificial Intelligence Professionals

“Education product leader with a strong track record building learner-facing engagement and AI features at Sophia, including an AI chat-based assessment, motivational messaging system, and course planning experience. Stands out for combining measurable product impact with thoughtful human-centered AI practices, academic integrity safeguards, and strong cross-functional leadership across product, engineering, academics, ops, legal, and PR.”

Bill Cheng

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Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in SaaS platforms and AI systems

Remote, USA26y exp

“Entrepreneurial candidate building an LLC focused on applying AI to improve call center customer service, with an early go-to-market focus on local government call centers. They are already in discussions with a government prospect and have a clear thesis around solving high turnover and low knowledge retention through AI-assisted training and support systems.”

“Unreal Engine 5 gameplay/systems developer who led major core features for the Early Access Steam city builder Geopogo Cities: Windsor Detroit, including an end-to-end building placement system tightly integrated with economy, AI pedestrians (Mass AI/Zone Graph/State Trees), and procedural city block generation. Also built a third-person exploration layer with character customization, stamina, and animation retargeting on top of the City Sample Crowd framework, plus shipped player-driven UX improvements based on live Early Access feedback.”

Sanjay Mamani

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Executive Technology Leader specializing in enterprise data, AI, and cloud analytics

Mooresville, USA26y exp

“25-year builder/operator who has scaled others' visions and led VC-backed startup incubation work (Saltmines). Built Bridgetree’s AI CoE from 0 to 1 and cites $20M+ measurable customer impact, with experience leading 110-person cross-disciplinary teams. Exploring a new venture idea (gotAgentic.ai) focused on agentic AI solutions such as AI-ready data prep, agentic SDLC teams, and front-office automation (scheduling/invoicing).”

“Frontend engineer who led the end-to-end UI for an internal employee catalog tool at Genetec, building React/TypeScript dashboards with complex search filters. Emphasizes tight product-owner feedback loops (weekly demos), Figma-based design alignment, and disciplined delivery practices using CI/CD, automated tests, and version tagging for rollouts/reverts.”

“AI/ML engineer with CVS Health experience deploying production LLM systems in regulated healthcare settings, including a large-scale RAG solution (1M+ documents) built for compliance-grade, auditable policy/regulatory Q&A with strong anti-hallucination controls. Also delivered an NLP summarization system for physician notes/case narratives by partnering closely with non-technical care operations stakeholders and iterating via prototypes, dashboards, and feedback loops.”

“Unity/C# VR developer who shipped core UX infrastructure (a reusable Toast Manager) used for state-change/error/CTA notifications, designed to be easily consumed by other engineers via a one-line API. Has shipped on Meta Quest (Adobe Substance 3D Reviewer) and built cross-platform controller mappings with Unity Input Actions, emphasizing event-driven performance and profiling. Worked alongside a Photon networking lead to integrate gameplay/UI systems with multiplayer synchronization patterns (ghost players/drift correction).”

Erik Moyer

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Director-level Data Science & Analytics Leader specializing in cloud data platforms and AI/ML

Dallas, TX13y exp

“Candidate states they are very familiar with the venture capital/studio/accelerator landscape and expresses strong willingness to pursue entrepreneurship "at all costs," but did not provide details on a current startup, business plan, fundraising, or prior accelerator/VC involvement during the interview.”

Robert Wheeler

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Executive Technology Leader (CTO) specializing in cloud, AI/ML, and scalable product platforms

Manhattan, USA25y exp

“Technical leader and hands-on engineer with 20+ years of experience who has previously raised funding and exited a venture. Currently bootstrapping a new AI-direction startup with personal and family capital, leveraging structured financial planning and a relationship-driven approach to investor outreach.”

“Performance marketer with experience owning a very large e-commerce media budget at Dossier Perfumes, including a $3M/month spend and sophisticated always-on testing across paid social and search. Brings a highly analytical approach to creative testing, attribution, and budget allocation, and is specifically seeking contract/freelance work.”

Martin Wells

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Executive AI & Technology leader specializing in AI, streaming, and gaming platforms

Seattle / Tacoma, WA18y exp

“Worked at an accelerator and served as an Entrepreneur in Residence, providing CTO and general founder support to startups. Although not pursuing entrepreneurship personally, they bring direct exposure to early-stage company building and accelerator ecosystems.”

David Russ

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Director-level sales leader specializing in public sector and public safety technology

Carmel, IN15y exp

“Public-sector sales leader with nationwide experience selling consulting and modernization services into state agencies across all 50 states, especially HHS, Medicaid, child welfare, and related departments. At Public Knowledge, they built a contract-vehicle- and legislation-driven go-to-market approach that produced more than $7M in new contracts and $2.8M realized in-year, while also leading complex IV&V and modernization deals.”

“Built an itinerary-planning startup MVP (LessGO) using React/TypeScript and a Node/Express backend integrating Google Maps and Gemini AI. Notably optimized Gemini latency from ~40 seconds to ~3 seconds through frontend caching, debugging, and model selection, and has TA experience supporting others with deployments and database connectivity.”

“Product leader with deep edtech experience who helped take Honor Education from an incomplete early product at zero users/zero revenue to general availability and a $38M Series A. Combines zero-to-one product building, AI feature delivery, LMS integration strategy, and team leadership, with a clear philosophy around human-centered AI that supports educators and learners rather than replacing them.”

Bhagyashree Patil

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Intern Applied AI Engineer specializing in LLM systems and data engineering

Los Angeles, CA1y exp

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on production experience across both traditional SaaS and LLM-powered support tooling. They owned a real-time ecommerce order tracking dashboard that improved support response times by 40%, and helped ship an AI support assistant using the OpenAI GPT API that cut ticket handling time by 30% through strong prompt design, retrieval grounding, validation, and human-in-the-loop safeguards.”

“Full-stack engineer who shipped a production "Financial Insight" assistant dashboard in Next.js App Router/TypeScript, integrating a RAG pipeline (embeddings + ChromaDB + LLM) via route handlers and owning post-launch performance (latency, token cost, retrieval relevance). Also built/optimized Postgres-backed workflows for an outbound dialer and callback routing engine handling ~10,000 daily contacts, validating query performance with EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS).”

“AI/LLM practitioner at iFrog Marketing Solutions who drove a RAG chatbot from prototype to production in a legacy, AI-resistant environment by validating customer needs and building a business case. Implemented production-grade LLM practices (CI/CD eval gating, rollbacks, prompt/context engineering) and led internal workshops to bring non-AI-native developers up to speed while partnering with sales on tailored demos to drive adoption.”

“Software engineer with BitSight experience owning and revitalizing a critical internal Entity Management Portal (Django/React), clearing 30+ backlog items and boosting internal workflow efficiency ~40% through performance re-architecture (Redis caching) and disciplined testing. Also built a collaborative chore management platform (React/FastAPI) emphasizing responsiveness (optimistic UI) and scalability (connection pooling, Docker), and improved microservices security by centralizing secrets management with AWS Secrets Manager across multi-cloud environments.”

“Built and deployed a production real-time voice AI support agent that answers inbound calls, identifies callers, troubleshoots via a knowledge base, and automatically creates/updates tickets with escalation to humans when needed. Demonstrates strong reliability/latency engineering (streaming, schema validation, idempotency, DB constraints) and uses LangGraph state machines plus OpenAI Agents SDK for multi-agent routing, with KPI-driven testing and monitoring.”

Devin Jackson

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Mid-level Gameplay AI Engineer specializing in Unreal Engine

Vancouver, WA4y exp

“UE5 gameplay/system designer with an engineering background who has shipped player-facing systems including an enemy weak-point feature (with replication and performance fixes) and a modular spectator minigame framework for Killer Klowns from Outer Space: The Game. Also implemented lobby mode and disconnect team-balancing (AI backfill) for Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed, leveraging profiling/debug tooling and cross-discipline collaboration to get features to shipping quality.”

“Candidate participated in Launch Factory's venture studio selection process, which introduced them to a formalized startup methodology, and then went on to found and recently exit their own business. They are highly motivated to keep building companies, with a clear emphasis on creating products that serve a community and validating market need through product-market fit.”