Vetted Business Intelligence Professionals

Emily Hottal

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level Product Leader specializing in AI, data, and customer engagement SaaS

Stow, MA17y exp

“Senior product leader at Airship driving both major platform modernization and the company's AI transformation. They led a contact-centric rebuild touching nearly the entire customer engagement platform, then built an AI recommendations product on Vertex/Gemini with a design-partner rollout model. They also bring rare depth across analytics, experimentation, personalization, and email marketing, plus experience rebuilding PM teams and shaping product strategy with executive leadership.”

“AI/ML Engineer (TCS) who built and deployed a production LLM-powered audit transaction validation service to reduce manual review of unstructured transaction records and comments. Implemented a LangChain/Python pipeline for extraction/normalization and discrepancy detection, with strong production reliability practices (decision logging, dashboards, labeled eval sets) and a human-in-the-loop auditor feedback loop to improve precision/recall under strict data-sensitivity and near-real-time constraints.”

Steven Zavala

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level growth marketer specializing in DTC e-commerce and CPG

Los Angeles, CA10y exp

“Lifecycle/CRM marketing leader from the wine and beverage space who has owned high-volume email/SMS programs end-to-end and translated CRM insights into broader revenue strategy. Stands out for combining rigorous process design, cross-channel automation, and personalization testing to drive measurable gains, including a 45% lift in incremental email revenue and $1.6M in incremental on-site upsell/cross-sell revenue.”

“Founder of an LLC operating as a consulting firm providing fractional CTO services to startups, giving them parallel exposure to multiple early-stage companies. Has direct experience with MVP development, building org structures from scratch, and supporting early fundraising, and is exploring a pivot from consulting into a scalable product business while staying engaged with the VC/accelerator ecosystem.”

Nikitha Kommidi

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in fraud detection, NLP, and MLOps

6y exp

“Built a production real-time fraud detection and customer-support automation platform at Citibank, tackling extreme class imbalance (reported ~1:5000) and strict latency constraints. Combines hands-on MLOps (Airflow, Kubernetes, MLflow; Snowflake/Spark/S3 integrations; CI/CD model promotion) with cross-functional delivery to Risk & Compliance focused on interpretability and reducing false positives.”

HIMANSHU SHARMA

Screened

Mid-level AI Solutions Engineer specializing in enterprise GenAI and automation

Orlando, FL6y exp

“Built and shipped multiple production LLM/agentic systems, including an agentic RAG NL-to-SQL analytics app that cut manual reporting from 9 hours/week to 15 minutes by grounding on schema-aware retrieval and robust fallback/monitoring. Also implemented a LangChain supervisor-orchestrated enterprise IT automation agent that routes requests for search, identity validation, and action execution, and created a RAG search tool spanning Jira/Confluence/SharePoint for operations stakeholders.”

shivapriya pillalamarri

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in financial analytics and production ML systems

Boston, MA4y exp

“Analytics candidate with experience in financial transaction and fraud detection projects, combining SQL data preparation, Python-based automation, and dashboarding. They have owned projects from stakeholder alignment and metric definition through rollout, with emphasis on reducing false positives, improving operational efficiency, and making analytics outputs easy for business teams to adopt.”

“Analytics professional at TIAA with hands-on experience combining SQL, Python, and statistical modeling to unify complex marketing, product, finance, and customer datasets. Has worked on advisor-tool adoption analysis, 10-year wealth diagnostics, forecasting, cohort analysis, and escalation-risk modeling, with findings used by marketing and contact-center stakeholders.”

“Analytics professional with healthcare and operations experience who turns messy enterprise data from platforms like Teradata, GCP, SQL Server, and Snowflake into trusted reporting layers and reproducible analysis workflows. They combine SQL, Python, PySpark, Power BI, and Tableau to improve reporting accuracy and performance, including a 30% dashboard refresh improvement and 20-25% accuracy gains in healthcare reporting.”

Shane Howard

Screened

Executive technology and operations leader specializing in consulting, SaaS, and digital transformation

Salt Lake City, UT32y exp

“Serial operator and founder with four exits, including a recent business sale after raising $750K, and experience leading 17 acquisitions. Has held CEO, CIO, and global delivery/operations leadership roles across VC-backed, PE-backed, and high-growth companies, with a strong track record in GTM, operational scaling, and building repeatable cross-functional systems for growth and exit.”

Siva Harini Sri Janaki Raman

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in cloud data platforms

Dallas, TX3y exp

“Built an AI-powered internal support assistant at CVS Health using GPT-4, LangChain, and Pinecone, applying RAG, validation, and monitoring to reduce repetitive support tickets while protecting sensitive healthcare data. Stands out for a pragmatic approach to AI engineering: using multi-agent and LLM workflows to accelerate development while keeping systems constrained, observable, and production-friendly.”

“Veteran software engineering leader who started as an early internet engineer in the mid-1990s and has since grown into Director/VP-level leadership across legacy web platforms, logistics systems, and modern data engineering. Particularly compelling for companies needing a hands-on leader who can modernize complex Perl/UNIX monoliths, manage large cross-functional teams, and deliver operational systems in warehouse, marketplace, and reverse-logistics environments.”

“Product leader with a rare mix of healthcare, HR tech, mobile, and AI experience. They rebuilt UPMC's member app for 3M members while pioneering a product-based funding model inside a large enterprise, and later drove 80%+ revenue growth at JazzHR by reshaping marketplace UX for SMB buyers. Their AI work is notably human-centered, with explicit fairness, compliance, and approval guardrails.”

Leah Kenehan

Screened

Senior CRM & Lifecycle Marketing Manager specializing in retention and customer growth

Valencia, CA19y exp

“Senior CRM/lifecycle marketer who has grown from email execution into full-funnel campaign ownership, spanning strategy, segmentation, deployment, and performance analysis. Brings hands-on experience with Simon Data, Iterable, and Moveable Ink, plus interim people leadership managing a team of six while driving retention and rebooking campaigns in a travel/hospitality-style DTC environment.”

“Built internal product features at Sysco's Collab Cafe across React/TypeScript frontend and Spring Boot/PostgreSQL backend, including a full project invite flow and an early AI-style project matching capability. Stands out for owning features end-to-end, improving React dashboard performance with profiling and component refactoring, and making pragmatic 0→1 tradeoffs to ship quickly.”

“Operations leader specializing in building scalable internal systems for startups, from being Spoonflower’s first ops hire (5th employee) to launching its first international Berlin/EMEA office from scratch. At bookingkit, drove measurable operational improvements by implementing a customized OKR framework (+18% goal achievement) and deploying automation/AI tools like Contractbook and kapa.ai to eliminate manual work and save engineering time.”

“Entrepreneurially minded operator with ~20 years in corporate now building a new venture (business plan + MVP in progress) and focused on rapid traction to reach PMF. Previously identified and executed a major student-events opportunity in Milan, scaling from renting a hotel for 800 paying guests to an Olympic village for 5,000, handling logistics, outreach, and team coordination.”

“Data engineer (Charles Schwab) who took ownership of an unstable, ambiguous nightly financial data pipeline and rebuilt it into a reliable, incremental AWS Glue/Airflow/Redshift system feeding Power BI. Created a custom Python data-quality framework with hard-stop gating and schema drift detection, improving integrity (99.9%), cutting runtime (~20%), and reducing incidents/tickets (35% fewer schema-related dashboard incidents; 30% fewer investigations).”

MOUNIKA SAI MEKALA

Screened

Junior Data Analyst specializing in financial and operational analytics

Kansas, USA3y exp

“Analytics professional with experience at KPMG turning messy operational and financial data from SQL Server and AWS S3 into clean reporting datasets and automated Python workflows. They combine SQL, Python, Power BI, and experimentation methods to deliver stakeholder-aligned KPI dashboards and marketing performance insights with a strong focus on data integrity and reproducibility.”

“Healthcare product leader with substantial experience in clinical software, medical devices, analytics, and AI/ML-enabled workflows. They have led a cloud analytics platform for hospital systems, managed a machine-learning insulin dosing product in a safety-critical environment, and driven UX modernization of clinician-facing applications while coordinating deeply across engineering, QA, data science, DevOps, and customer success.”

“Early-career solutions engineer with experience spanning Dell Technologies and insurance operations, combining enterprise hybrid cloud pre-sales exposure with hands-on AI and API integration work. Completed a master's at Illinois Institute of Technology while building customer-facing experience in technical discovery, POCs, security/compliance discussions, and workflow automation.”

Waldorff Villacres

Screened

Healthcare technology executive and architect with 20+ years leading enterprise platforms and digital transformation.

Seattle, Washington, USA21y exp

“Healthcare-focused founder in the R&D stage building an EHR and clinical staffing startup centered on value-based care. They have already tested the concept with the market, are engaging Medicaid/Medicare leaders and industry conferences like ViVE and HIMSS, and are focused on early-signal detection to improve patient outcomes while lowering utilization costs.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based internal knowledge assistant that let analysts query company documents in natural language, using LangChain/LangGraph with Pinecone and a FastAPI service for integration. Emphasizes reliability in production through hallucination mitigation (retrieval tuning + prompt guardrails) and measurable evaluation/monitoring (accuracy, latency, task completion, hallucination rate), iterating based on user feedback.”