Vetted Communication Professionals

Mark Krawczuk

Screened

Senior Program & Project Leader specializing in digital transformation and cross-functional delivery

New York, NY30y exp

“Cross-functional operator with experience at Rippling and Twitter, known for building lightweight but rigorous communication and reporting systems (shared notes, weekly updates, exec decks, issue-tracker velocity) to keep teams and executives aligned. Emphasizes psychological safety and early conflict resolution, and has supported senior leaders managing high-volume creative/media output through concise, proactive executive briefings.”

Sai Dinesh Pusapati

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI agents and LLM workflows

San Francisco, CA6y exp

“LLM/AI engineer with production experience building a retrieval-based document intelligence system that extracts information from PDFs/emails, backed by Python + Spark pipelines. Focused on reliability and cost/latency optimization (caching, batch processing) and has hands-on orchestration experience with Airflow (sensors, retries, alerts). Also partnered with business stakeholders to deliver customer feedback classification/summarization for faster sentiment insights.”

Umesh Toprani

Screened

Executive Cloud & Product Operations Leader specializing in SaaS transformation

26y exp

“Transformation leader brought into Barracuda Networks to orchestrate a founder-level shift from legacy software to SaaS across 14 product lines. Drove a metrics- and operating-margin-focused, multi-cloud (AWS/Azure/private cloud for DR) execution plan while aligning engineering, GTM, finance (subscription accounting), and support—contributing to nearly doubling revenue over ~4 years.”

Aaron Jacob

Screened

Senior Music Coordinator/Composer specializing in film & TV animation production

Remote10y exp

“Music editor and composer with Disney animation credits (Milo Murphy's Law; Disney YouTube shorts), specializing in reshaping longform scenes through precise cue editing, tonal/key-aware transitions, and retention-focused pacing. Works primarily in Pro Tools (with Cubase for bespoke transitions), delivering stem-based mixes and handling rapid, late-stage iteration for high-volume episodic workflows.”

“Lifelong entrepreneur and early Pixar employee who has spent decades in the Bay Area, New York, and Europe building companies and operating in venture ecosystems. He has raised $20M via ICO, raised £3M for a London venture studio, and brings a strong point of view on AI: product creation is commoditizing, so durable startups need a distribution edge.”

“Compensation and payroll professional with hands-on experience owning U.S. payroll validation, reconciliation, and exception management, plus supporting compensation cycles across base pay, bonuses, and incentives. Stands out for building Excel-based audit and validation tools, resolving HRIS/payroll/finance data mismatches, and strengthening controls to improve payroll accuracy and compensation consistency.”

Hailey Tu

Screened

Intern-level business consulting candidate specializing in strategy and process improvement

Atlanta, GA1y exp

“Georgia Tech graduating senior and student leader who turned campus professional programming into real-world outreach experience, securing startup sponsorships and building external partnerships through cold outreach. Combines relationship-building and communication strengths with structured market research experience, including a Sweetgreen strategy project with 187 survey responses and a GE Vernova process-improvement project focused on automation and cost savings.”

Akhil Jaggari

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in scalable web platforms and cloud microservices

CA, CA6y exp

“Backend engineer with fintech/real-estate lending domain experience (Berkadia) building Python/Flask services for indicative loan pricing across Fannie/Freddie workflows. Strong in scalable AWS architectures (S3, Lambda, SageMaker), database performance (PostgreSQL read replicas, indexing, pooling), and high-throughput optimizations (streaming exports, Redis caching) with measurable production impact.”

Mariana Quintanilha

Screened

Executive Brand & Integrated Marketing Leader specializing in GTM and growth strategy

Los Angeles, CA18y exp

“VP-level marketing leader in proptech/real estate marketplaces who blends brand strategy with performance rigor. Repositioned RentSpree with a full narrative/IA and cross-channel messaging overhaul driving +32% conversions and major signup growth, and built an internal AI copy assistant to scale on-brand content across teams. At QuintoAndar, created the company’s first 360 mass media acquisition engine, delivering significant lifts in direct traffic, visits, and contracts while implementing CAC guardrails and MMM-style measurement.”

Arun Gampala

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in MERN and AWS microservices

TX, USA4y exp

“Backend engineer with experience at MetLife and Amazon focused on security and control for internal and customer-facing services. Emphasizes contract-first Python/FastAPI APIs with strong auth (JWT + RBAC/claims), data-layer isolation (RLS/tenant scoping), and reliability practices like incremental refactors, rollback planning, and idempotency to handle retry-driven failure modes.”

“Principal engineer with experience across multiple startups, including direct exposure to VC due diligence and early-stage company strategy. Stands out for making pragmatic product decisions—such as steering a startup away from capital-intensive custom hardware toward mobile applications to validate the business faster and focus on the most valuable software layer.”

“Former AlphaSights manager who grew into full P&L ownership of a $30M business unit before earning an MBA and moving into strategy consulting at OC&C. Now leads private equity diligence and corporate strategy engagements, combining hands-on team leadership with rigorous analytics and executive-level client management. Particularly compelling for roles requiring structured problem solving in fast-paced, ambiguous commercial environments.”

“Recruiting leader and player/coach manager who has led teams of 2–6 recruiters and can jump in hands-on for high-impact executive searches. Recently supported a CTO search by building an executive recruiting strategy and process that impressed leadership, and drove adoption of a standardized hiring approach by publishing a detailed recruitment guidebook for hiring managers. Brings 5+ years of close partnership with HRBPs on talent planning, succession planning, and D&I-aligned recruiting.”

Blake Thomas

Screened

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in AI and EdTech platforms

San Mateo, CA21y exp

“Has been on the receiving end of a VC investment and took responsibility for significant parts of the diligence process, drawing parallels to hands-on work with security compliance and auditors. Approaches entrepreneurship and idea selection with a structured framework (leverage, resources/runway, passion) and a sustainability-first mindset around risk and personal/family well-being.”

“Data engineer with experience at Expedia building SQL Server and Azure Data Factory pipelines for business reporting and analytics. Stands out for pragmatic end-to-end pipeline ownership in ambiguous environments, with a strong emphasis on data quality, rerunnability, query performance, and making downstream datasets reliable for other teams.”

“Applied ML/LLM engineer currently building AppleCare’s production chat recommender, owning the full lifecycle from transcript cleaning and fine-tuning through distributed deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement. Their work delivered >10% copy-count improvement, 5% lower modification rate, 60% cost reduction, and $1.1M profitability in 2025, and they also created a reasoning-data generation approach that enabled a reasoning model and a judge model that cut eval time by over 99%.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on compliance and statistical processing systems on AWS, building containerized FastAPI services plus event-driven async workflows (Step Functions/EventBridge) with strong reliability patterns (JWT auth, idempotency, structured logging). Has modernized SAS-based batch pipelines into modular Python/AWS services with parallel-run parity validation, and has demonstrated measurable SQL performance wins (40+ min to <10 min) and hands-on incident ownership using CloudWatch-driven detection and prevention.”

“Performance marketing and ad operations specialist who owned an Eli Lilly high-spend account ($75K–$150K/month), running campaigns across GAM, FreeWheel, and Operative One. Focused on disciplined pacing, trafficking/QA, and cross-system reporting reconciliation to hit 100% in-full delivery, stabilize CPA mid-flight, and avoid makegoods or billing escalations.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG fraud investigation system to replace manual investigator workflows, combining transaction data, historical cases, and policy documents with agent-style steps and LoRA fine-tuning. Demonstrates strong reliability engineering (grounding, citations, abstention paths), performance optimization (retrieval/indexing/caching), and end-to-end MLOps orchestration using Azure ML Pipelines/MLflow plus Kubernetes/Argo with canary and rollback deployments.”

“ML/LLM engineer who has shipped a production transformer-based document understanding system on AWS, owning the full pipeline from domain fine-tuning to Dockerized CI/CD deployment. Demonstrates strong production rigor—latency optimization (distillation/quantization, async batching, autoscaling), orchestration with Airflow/Step Functions/Azure Data Factory, and monitoring/drift detection—plus experience translating ops stakeholder needs into adopted AI automation via dashboards.”

“Game QA professional with live production ownership on New World Aeternum (progression-driven connected rewards spanning UI, backend tracking, and live tuning) and experience on God of War Ragnarok. Emphasizes risk-based test planning, strong cross-functional triage grounded in player impact/live risk, and highly actionable Jira/TestRail practices (PAL titles, traceability, video/log evidence) to speed resolution and reduce late-cycle churn.”