Vetted Communication Professionals

Steven Dewey

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Director-level sales leader specializing in OEM, aftermarket, and industrial equipment markets

Hudsonville, MI19y exp

“Public-sector sales leader in emergency vehicle and municipal fleet equipment who drove $90M in combined incremental growth across SoundOff Signal and Buyers Products. Stands out for winning entrenched government accounts through product-led displacement strategies, disciplined KPI/CRM management, and persistence in long-cycle agency sales, including converting Houston PD from a longtime competitor.”

“ML engineer/data scientist who built and deployed a real-time fraud detection platform at Citi on AWS SageMaker, processing 3M+ daily transactions and improving fraud response by 28%. Combines unsupervised anomaly detection (autoencoders) with ensemble models (XGBoost/Random Forest) plus Airflow/Step Functions orchestration, drift monitoring, and explainability (SHAP) to keep models reliable and compliant in production.”

“Robotics-focused full-stack engineer with hands-on ROS experience building sensor-processing and control nodes, plus a track record of debugging and optimizing real-time robot responsiveness via profiling and message-timing analysis. Uses Webots for pre-hardware validation and Docker/CI/CD to standardize deployments and catch issues early.”

“NLP/ML engineer with hands-on healthcare and support-ticket text experience, building clinical-note structuring and semantic linking systems using spaCy, BERT clinical embeddings, and FAISS. Emphasizes production-grade delivery (Airflow/Databricks, PySpark, Docker, AWS/FastAPI/Lambda) and rigorous validation via clinician-labeled datasets, retrieval metrics, and user feedback.”

Ivaylo Ivanov

Screened

Senior Unity Engineer specializing in XR and real-time 3D applications

5y exp

“Unity lead developer/project manager who builds VR storytelling and training simulator experiences, including hand-tracking-driven interactions and custom rendering (Shader Graph, forward rendering, occlusion culling). Created an educational Unity game (Bed Time Hunter) spanning gameplay, VFX/shaders, terrain/lighting, and Photon multiplayer, and built a VR office simulator that targets both Quest standalone and SteamVR while streaming cloud IoT sensor data.”

“Beauty merchandising/category professional with hands-on ownership of brand launches, assortment strategy, subscription participation, and eCommerce growth across 40+ brand partners. Stands out for combining strong vendor relationship management with retail math and negotiation discipline—driving outcomes like 3% of sales from subscription shortly after launch, double-digit YoY growth on a renegotiated top brand, and triple-digit YoY growth after expanding a body care assortment.”

Hayden Brown

Screened

Intern-level marketing professional specializing in content and SEO

Los Angeles, CA1y exp

“Candidate has hands-on B2B SaaS go-to-market experience from Revenue.io, where they built SEO-driven content to support pipeline generation and sales demos. They produced 30+ articles and 10 blogs, including a post that reached the #1 unsponsored Google result for "Best Salesforce Dialers," and also used SEMrush data to segment prospects and personalize email follow-up.”

“People/HR leader with hands-on experience managing teams across Canada and the UK, including navigating provincial requirements, bilingual considerations, and UK employment law. Has supported product, design, and analytics organizations in matrix environments by building scalable people processes and aligning performance, compensation, and benefits frameworks. Partnered with senior leadership to standardize performance management globally, improving accountability and reducing employee relations risk.”

Erico Rahmad Darmanto

Screened

Mid-level QA Engineer specializing in test automation and cybersecurity testing

Yogyakarta, Indonesia5y exp

“Early-career QA tester (no professional game studio experience yet) demonstrating a structured, systems-oriented approach to testing complex state logic. Has hands-on experience using Jira and TestRail and provides detailed defect reports (timing conditions, unstable network scenarios, logs/video) that help engineering diagnose async state-validation issues and verify fixes via regression.”

PAVEL A ASPIAZU

Screened

Senior Paid Media (SEM/PPC) Manager specializing in Google Ads and Meta performance marketing

McLean, VA26y exp

“Paid media performance marketer with agency experience owning a high-spend account for ArcPoint Labs, running multi-channel Google Ads (search/display) and Meta campaigns to drive medical testing appointments and sales. Reported lifting ROAS from ~2x to ~6–7x within ~18 months while supporting expansion from 30 to 60 U.S. locations, using disciplined attribution, constant A/B testing, and structured campaign health audits.”

“Former Database Marketing Analyst with hands-on SQL experience supporting targeted casino marketing campaigns and a strong emphasis on validation accuracy. Also describes owning analytics work that standardized engagement metrics across teams, automated cohort/segmentation reporting, and helped identify onboarding friction that improved user engagement.”

“Candidate explicitly stated they have no experience working with football athletes or athlete sourcing/conversion and withdrew from the application process when informed those were job requirements.”

“Chief of Staff/operator who joined venture-backed startup Blockless at the pre-seed stage and built the operating system from scratch while acting as the founder’s right hand. Combines startup execution, fundraising support, and deep Web3/DeFi domain fluency, including helping close a $3.5M seed round ahead of schedule with clean diligence materials.”

“Performance marketer with 5+ years of deeply hands-on experience across Meta, Google, YouTube, and full-funnel growth systems for e-commerce, supplements, CPG, and lead-gen businesses. Stands out for combining strategy, execution, tracking, and client communication—highlighted by scaling Gaspari Nutrition from under $10K/month to over $250K/month and helping REDCON1 triple revenue while managing $100K+/month in ad spend.”

“Candidate’s primary change-management approach centers on employee dialogue sessions and coaching, focusing on explaining business results and organizational climate to build employee understanding and support for organizational changes.”

“Built a production LLM-RAG system at McKesson to let internal healthcare operations teams query large volumes of unstructured operational documents via natural language with source-backed answers, designed with HIPAA/FHIR compliance in mind. Demonstrated strong production engineering across hallucination mitigation, retrieval quality tuning, and latency/scalability optimization, using LangChain/LangGraph and Airflow plus rigorous evaluation/monitoring practices.”

“GS-9 federal civilian Human Resource Specialist supporting Navy recruiting at Fort Hamilton (Brooklyn), leading ~12 military recruiters and overseeing elements of contracting and security clearance processing via NASIS. Brings prior Army experience (medically discharged) plus a BS in Legal Studies/Criminology and is starting an MBA in Global Management & Leadership, with a strong data-driven approach to executive stakeholder decisions.”

“Worked on large financial analytics datasets combining complaint text, transaction logs, and demographics; built end-to-end NLP/ML pipelines (TF-IDF + Random Forest) and data integration in BigQuery with Tableau reporting, citing ~95–98% accuracy. Also implemented entity resolution with fuzzy matching and semantic linking using BERT sentence-transformer embeddings stored in FAISS, including fine-tuning on labeled pairs to improve search/linking relevance.”

“Built an Arduino-based obstacle-avoiding robot using sonar/laser sensors and improved performance from 0.60 to 0.87 accuracy through sensor-fusion thresholding and iterative tuning. In an internship, optimized a legal-document NLP pipeline by switching to a distilled/quantized transformer and offloading inference to a GPU-backed Flask service, cutting inference time by 40%+ without added infrastructure spend.”

Vanessa Avilez

Screened

Senior Lifecycle & Retention Marketing Manager specializing in CRM and subscriber growth

Los Angeles, CA13y exp

“Lifecycle/CRM marketer with hands-on Braze automation experience, running cross-channel (email + push) onboarding and milestone campaigns for an app-based content product. Demonstrated strong activation metrics on Day 0 and drove a 10% week-over-week churn reduction by partnering with Customer Service on winback save-rate and scripting tests.”

bayu putra

Screened

Senior QA Lead specializing in console certification and compliance for video games

Yogyakarta, Indonesia16y exp

“Console game certification-focused QA tester with strong PlayStation (PS4/PS5) TRC experience and solid Nintendo LOT check exposure, including NDI and Nintendo Developer Center submission tracking. Works deadline-driven submissions using prioritized templates/checklists and leverages internal AI tools for reporting, documentation lookup, and certification risk/go-no-go recommendations.”

Haritha Peddi

Screened

Mid-level SOC Analyst specializing in SIEM detection, threat hunting, and incident response

USA5y exp

“Backend/AI engineer with production experience in payments/reporting systems and high-scale Node/NestJS services on AWS (ECS/ALB) using PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Prisma, and Datadog. Shipped applied AI features including a Zendesk-embedded support copilot (summarization, draft replies, internal doc retrieval, playbook next steps) and an LLM-driven ops workflow agent with robust error taxonomy, retries/escalation rules, and auditability.”