Vetted Automation Professionals

“Fractional CTO and AI/ML consultant at Clover Health with deep insurance domain experience (15 years as CTO/CISO/AI). Has spent significant time in PE/VC-backed environments (including Aquiline Capital Partners and Apollo Group), designing and engineering platforms while delivering against budgets, audits, and regulatory compliance. Recently helped build an insurance startup (2020–2025) and is now seeking a full-time role at a startup.”

“Senior infrastructure/platform engineer with deep IBM Power/AIX (Power9, VIOS, HMC, LPAR/DLPAR) and PowerHA production ownership at scale (40 frames / ~300 LPARs), including hands-on outage recovery and performance tuning. Also delivers modern DevOps/IaC capabilities—CI/CD for Kubernetes microservices and Terraform-based multi-account AWS (EKS/VPC/IAM/RDS) with drift detection and safe rollout controls.”

“Venture investing/sourcing professional with experience at L'Attitude running high-volume founder sourcing across tools (Harmonic) and ecosystem channels (accelerators, hackathons, Discord, university labs). Demonstrated ability to turn cold outreach and early relationships into diligence and investment committee discussions, while maintaining a rigorous CRM-driven pipeline process and long-term founder nurturing through consistent value-add.”

“AI-native engineer who says 100% of current development is done through coding agents and reports roughly 10x productivity gains. Currently building 'AI TV,' a production video-generation system with multi-agent orchestration, including a motion-graphics pipeline where agents handle high-level design, low-level implementation, and iterative review. Particularly strong in designing codebases and workflows so AI systems can effectively use architectural and product context.”

“TA/Recruiting Operations leader who was the first in-house TA hire at Pyant Therapeutics, building the entire function and tech stack (Greenhouse, LinkedIn Recruiter, SeekOut, Gem, Ashby) from the ground up. Managed a 6-person team supporting all business units, redesigned workflows to cut time-to-fill ~50% for urgent clinical ops hiring, and led an EOR rollout that saved ~$1M in year one.”

“AWS Software Development Manager leading globally deployed, production-critical DDoS protection (L3/L4) across AWS. Known for scaling teams and driving cross-org tiger-team initiatives from concept through worldwide rollout, including performance-focused Python architecture changes and a major JDK 8→21 migration while maintaining strict backward compatibility. Also led an internal SDK-like integration framework improving APIs, documentation, and onboarding for major AWS service teams.”

Alan Cardenas

Screened

Executive General Counsel / Chief Legal Officer specializing in public company governance and M&A

Flemington, New Jersey23y exp

“Sitting General Counsel/executive leader who helped post-IPO Coursera transition from founder-led to scaled global enterprise by embedding legal, compliance, governance, and risk management into the operating model (including committees, OKRs, and automated compliance/contract tooling). Also led high-stakes international response work (coordinated exit from Russia) and brings prior Siemens North America supply chain/procurement leadership experience in a blended business/legal role.”

Shant Mardigian

Screened

Executive Engineering Leader specializing in scalable streaming, media supply chain, and AI operations

19y exp

“Tech executive with Disney experience who has repeatedly scaled and restructured engineering organizations (from 4 to 30 and up to 100+), using OKRs/KPIs to drive business-aligned roadmaps. Hands-on with architecture and platform strategy, including adopting MongoDB Atlas to centralize transactional data and building shared core services (security/permissions, auditing, compliance) to increase product velocity across distributed teams.”

Conway Cheng Cheng

Screened

Executive transformation leader specializing in global risk architecture and financial services

Dallas, TX26y exp

“Advisory and financial-services professional with exposure to PE/VC boards, Big 4 strategic partnerships, and innovation labs, now exploring a commercialization venture via a venture studio model. Brings a structured approach to building new businesses—combining Design Thinking, feasibility testing, rapid prototyping, and SBIR-backed R&D strategy with cross-border market entry and enterprise modernization experience.”

Alexander Schaab

Screened

Executive Technology & Product Leader specializing in ADAS and software-defined vehicles

Cupertino, CA14y exp

“Automotive technology leader who has driven ADAS/autonomous driving (L2++ to L4) and AI-assistance roadmaps for Mercedes and Volkswagen Group. In current role, built a software-defined vehicle organization from a handful of people to ~150 supporting VW, Porsche, and Audi, while setting scalable architecture foundations across brands and vehicle classes.”

Tina Bai

Screened

Executive operator-founder specializing in GTM, revenue strategy, and AI-native commercial operations

New York, NY10y exp

“Operator with Deloitte consulting experience supporting PE/VC-backed portfolio companies and current experience inside a VC-funded Series C scale-up. Building a bootstrapped D2C women’s telehealth brand (Petty Pills) with two initial SKUs, deployed tech stack, and white-labeled clinical/compliance infrastructure, leveraging AI tooling to keep operations lean while focusing on full-time operator roles.”