Vetted Communication Professionals

“Senior HR Business Partner with demonstrated impact driving org change and people strategy: led a sales division restructure delivering a 25% efficiency gain, and used people analytics to launch a mentorship program that improved retention by 30%. Strong in systems-thinking diagnostics (metrics + focus groups), leader coaching, and high-stakes employee relations/mediation.”

“Safety-critical firmware validation engineer with Tesla autonomous vehicle experience who built Python-based HIL/SIL automation and dashboards, cutting regression time by 30% while maintaining an auditable risk-tradeoff process with safety and engineering teams. Also deployed an inventory management system across 8+ R&D teams in 3 countries at FUJIFILM, troubleshooting a major cross-site sync issue to a timezone root cause with strong documentation and interim mitigations.”

Michael Smith

Screened

Executive HR Business Partner specializing in global people experience and organizational transformation

New York, NY11y exp

“HR Business Partner with strong senior-leader partnership experience spanning org design/workforce planning, people analytics, and executive coaching. Has led high-impact retention and compensation strategies using attrition and market data, and managed complex employee relations matters including an ADA disability discrimination case through investigation and separation agreement.”

Luke Akinsola

Screened

Senior Content & Digital Media Lead specializing in sports publishing operations

New York, NY8y exp

“NBA professional leading strategy for the league’s Future Starts Now platform, combining elite youth-basketball scouting and event coverage with content publishing to NBA App/NBA.com. Also brings global media partnerships sales experience (ad spots and sponsorship rights) and produces/publishes short- and long-form video (vertical and 16x9) across NBA social channels.”

Erik Melanson

Screened

Executive intelligence and cyber operations leader in defense and national security

Annapolis Junction, MD19y exp

“Aspiring founder in the early stages of shaping a startup concept, with a practical plan to refine the initial offering, sharpen the value pitch, and secure both investors and early client interest. Brings firsthand exposure to private-equity-backed companies, including experience seeing capital raising and board accountability from the operating side.”

Vela Sivasankaran

Screened

Executive technology leader specializing in cloud, telecom, and digital transformation

Virginia, USA16y exp

“Former founder of a financial services technology startup that is currently on hold for family reasons. Has hands-on startup fundraising exposure from employee roles, including presenting proof-of-concept demos to venture capital firms, and brings a strong focus on fraud prevention, safeguards, and regulatory compliance.”

“ML/AI engineer with experience at Uber and Scale AI, focused on customer service automation across both classical NLP and generative AI systems. Has owned systems from experimentation through production on AWS, including LLM fine-tuning, RAG optimization, safety evaluation, and internal Python platform tooling that improved consistency and engineering velocity.”

KARTHIKBABU VADLOORI

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in Spring Boot, React, and cloud microservices

San Francisco, CA5y exp

“Backend engineer with experience at Meta and Accenture building regulated-data systems (healthcare/financial) using Python/Flask and Postgres. Has scaled high-throughput services to millions of daily requests, delivering measurable latency wins (~40% API latency reduction; ~35% faster DB-backed endpoints), and has productionized ML inference services using Docker/Kubernetes and AWS (ECS/SageMaker).”

“Architect/engineering leader who built a multi-tenant AI platform end-to-end, including a secure FastAPI orchestrator (JWT, RBAC, tenant isolation, auditing) and an extensible MCP tool-routing layer, then productionized it via fully containerized microservices (Docker, Postgres/pgvector, Redis). Also has strong governance and compliance experience (ARB with security/privacy/SOX) and has owned high-severity incidents through mitigation and RCA/RCCA, plus prior high-volume payments/accounting data pipeline design with audit-grade integrity checks.”

Bradley Schleyer

Screened

HR Director / HR Business Partner specializing in global people strategy and employee relations

New York, NY16y exp

“People/HR leader with demonstrated impact influencing C-suite decisions on compensation and benefits—implemented a simplified bonus structure and drove a 401(k) match change using salary-band contribution data and executive-ready PPTs. Experienced in high-stakes employee relations, including investigating a microaggression complaint involving a top executive with legal collaboration, confidentiality, and proportional outcomes.”

Kevin Hoffman

Screened

Director-level product and engineering leader specializing in distributed systems and cloud platforms

Windsor, CT16y exp

“Former CTO and co-founder of Cosmonic who led technology vision, roadmap, and team building while also serving as the technical lead in investor and VC meetings. Has hands-on experience supporting seed and Series A rounds, plus strategic exposure to later-stage fundraising at Synadia, combining startup-building depth with a pragmatic view of risk and business viability.”