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Vetted Collaboration Professionals
Pre-screened and vetted.
Mid-level Data Analyst and Business Analyst specializing in BI, reporting, and analytics
Senior Full-Stack Developer specializing in FinTech and enterprise systems
Senior IT Project Manager specializing in enterprise applications and public sector IT
Senior Software Engineer specializing in frontend platforms and data-driven web products
Director-level Performance Marketing leader specializing in paid search and e-commerce growth
Director-level Creative Director & Video Editor specializing in film, TV, and video game marketing
Michelle Coblentz
Senior Operations & Business Process Consultant specializing in change management and quality systems
“Operations and quality systems advisor who helps early-stage companies professionalize quickly—implementing ISO 9001-aligned document/vendor management, SOPs, and contracts while coaching founders through change. Has driven measurable process improvements across manufacturing and healthcare/clinical operations, including escalating a nurse productivity issue into a CAPA/IT fix that improved workflows for hundreds of nurses. Known as a cross-functional "Connector" who blends strategic guidance with hands-on execution and human-centered design.”
Robert Heim
Senior Educational Media Producer specializing in video storytelling for higher education
“Boston-area media producer and cinematography instructor with experience creating online instructional content for Boston University (including dental school emergency-response training videos) and producing documentaries for DVD/TV outlets like Frontline/History Channel. Hands-on, technically fluent shooter/editor with strong Sony FX3, drone, Sennheiser/Sony audio, and rapid LED lighting workflows in high-pressure environments.”
Satya Kumar Itekela
Senior Frontend Engineer specializing in high-performance React/Next.js web apps
“Frontend engineer with experience at Autodesk and Quantify, leading and scaling Next.js/React + TypeScript products from architecture through QA. Strong focus on performance (Core Web Vitals, ISR, caching/CDN) and real-time interfaces (WebSockets, Chart.js/D3), with measurable wins like 30–40% bundle reduction and ~60% less data overfetching using GraphQL/Apollo.”
Jivan Shirvanian
Mid-level financial planning professional specializing in wealth management
“Relationship Manager and financial advisor with a strong outbound sales foundation, combining data-driven lead optimization with consultative discovery. Stands out for turning cold, initially resistant prospects into advisory relationships through relevant market insights, structured follow-up, and a disciplined pipeline process that was adopted more broadly and used to train others.”
Mark Kemp
Director of Product Management specializing in FinTech and financial data platforms
“Product leader in financial services who has built both customer-facing and internal AI-enabled products, including an award-nominated retirement plan platform that drove submissions from 40% to 98% in good order and unlocked a $10M revenue stream. Also built product process and team structure from the ground up at Consero, with experience applying AI/LLMs to workflow automation and reporting in complex, data-heavy environments.”
Kimberly Michela
Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in web apps and developer tools
“Frontend engineer who built the full frontend for gameofstreaks.com using React/Next.js with an emphasis on responsive design, accessibility, SEO, and performance profiling. Has experience refactoring legacy HTML/CSS/JS sites into reusable React components and shipping quickly with unit tests, CI/CD, and branch-based deployments; also collaborates with designers in hackathon settings (e.g., an AI interview practice app).”
KrishnaVarshith Pabbisetty
Mid-level Backend Software Engineer specializing in Spring Boot, microservices, and cloud-native AI
“Backend engineer with experience modernizing a large-scale procurement platform at Jio Platforms by breaking a monolith serving 35 business units into Spring Boot microservices, improving uptime and cutting report latency ~30%. Also built high-concurrency FastAPI systems (200ms at ~500 concurrent users) with strong security (JWT/OAuth2/RBAC), event-driven Kafka integrations, and reliability patterns like exactly-once delivery for ~1M monthly triggers.”
Matthew Bousfield
Senior Unity/XR Engineer specializing in VR games, multiplayer, and serious simulations
“Unity VR senior developer with ~8 years in VR and ~3 years focused on Meta Quest, building multiplayer training/digital-twin style experiences. Strong Photon (PUN/Fusion) background, including solving tricky networked object attachment/jitter issues via ownership and local-physics strategies. Demonstrated hands-on performance turnarounds in VR scenes using Mesh Baker, LODs, and impostors, plus experience shipping social multiplayer VR activities with Photon Voice.”
Ross Blackburn
Mid-level Product Owner / Application Developer specializing in supply chain ERP and agentic AI platforms
“Architect/product owner/lead developer who built high-scale ERP supply chain and inventory transaction capabilities (including order-to-order pegging) with strong performance tuning in Postgres and robust monitoring/reprocessing dashboards. Also led product for an enterprise agentic development platform using LLM integrations to generate user stories, data models, workflows, and RBAC-secured applications, with sandboxing and promotion guardrails plus UAT across technical and non-technical personas.”
Joseph Bonassar
Executive General Counsel specializing in global risk, compliance, and complex litigation
“First in-house General Counsel multiple times, brought in during high-change environments (notably Neopost’s acquisition of Hasler) to build corporate structure and operational/legal systems from scratch. Known for embedding contract management and governance into end-to-end workflows and for standardizing complex dealer distribution networks via pilot-and-scale approaches. Also led a first acquisition at a multinational specialty chemical company (Dymax) and currently advises a startup consolidating dental practices.”
Rafael Ortega
Senior Full-Stack & AI Engineer specializing in LLM integrations and cloud-native systems
“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building FastAPI Python APIs and AWS-native platforms (Lambda/API Gateway, SQS, ECS Fargate) with Terraform + GitHub Actions CI/CD and strong reliability practices (JWT/RBAC, retries/timeouts, structured errors/logging). Also built AWS Glue ETL pipelines (S3/RDS to curated S3/Athena) with schema evolution and data quality controls, modernized legacy processing via parallel-run validation and phased cutovers, and has demonstrated SQL tuning impact (seconds to <200ms) plus incident ownership for batch pipeline SLAs.”
Bryan Holland
Executive AI Product & Controls Engineering Leader specializing in agentic video editing and EV systems
“Startup builder (MagicSeven) who designed and implemented a browser-based, agentic video editor end-to-end, including an AWS event-driven multimodal LLM “indexing” pipeline and an orchestration LLM agent for searching and manipulating footage. Demonstrates deep video file/codec knowledge plus practical production hardening of LLM workflows (format validation, plan/execute, S3-based state for debuggability).”
Mark Thomas
Director-level software architect specializing in cloud, distributed systems, and healthcare IT
“Startup veteran with experience at seven companies since 2004 and direct exposure to Birmingham's Innovation Depot accelerator through three different startups. Has worked closely with investment teams on MVPs and pitch decks and brings a pragmatic lens to evaluating ventures through need, margins, burn rate, cash position, and sales growth strategy.”
Douglas Elder
Director-level Product & Delivery Leader specializing in healthcare and enterprise software
“Healthcare product leader who rebuilt the NextCare Anywhere urgent care platform across mobile and web, dramatically improving booking conversion from 2% to 34% by simplifying the patient journey and fixing key caregiver workflows. Also brings emerging AI leadership in regulated environments, having helped define AI policy and pilot human-supervised workflows that delivered 30-40x documentation gains with 100% first-pass approval.”
Blaise Govatos
Mid-level Graphic Designer specializing in digital marketing campaigns and motion assets
“Marketing/brand designer with beauty-industry experience (SalonCentric, IT Cosmetics) focused on modern, high-polish creative that balances luxury aesthetics with clarity for complex promotional information. Produces high-volume print variations efficiently in Illustrator (multi-artboard files) and supports fast-turn video needs via an asset-library + template-driven editing workflow.”
Trevor Peace
Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in Healthcare IT
“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.”
Vigneshwari Shankiri
Senior Java Full-Stack Developer specializing in microservices and cloud platforms
“Frontend engineer who has led enterprise-scale UI delivery end-to-end on a microservices platform, designing modular Angular SPAs (v12-17) tightly aligned to Spring Boot REST APIs. Emphasizes quality and release velocity through layered testing (Karma/Jasmine), CI/CD automation (Jenkins/Azure DevOps), performance tuning with RxJS/lazy loading, and incremental rollouts with close product/design/QA collaboration.”
Alicia Chaney
Senior Talent Acquisition & Talent Development Leader specializing in early-career and workforce transformation
“Talent/Recruiting Operations leader who has managed teams up to 6 and specializes in fixing broken interview pipelines through workflow standardization, scheduling automation, and ATS analytics. Built real-time dashboards in Lever/ATS to track aging, time-in-stage, and req health, and drove a 20% reduction in time to interview while improving candidate experience and hiring manager visibility. Experienced leading cross-functional tool/workflow implementations with HRIS and IT for high-volume early-career hiring.”