Vetted Compliance Professionals

“Cross-functional operations leader who managed six departments and led a first-time international expansion from Dubai into Riyadh, including hiring a Saudi GRO to navigate registrations/licensing and local requirements. Implemented a BI dashboard and later integrated it with an ERP to give executives real-time visibility into sales, project delivery, and finance, and stood up a PMO to improve delivery and collections while reducing sales-to-delivery friction.”

RajaSekhar Divakaruni

Screened

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in Payments and Financial Services

Edison, New Jersey21y exp

“Senior Director-level engineering leader from Zelle who built a multi-year cloud and use-case expansion roadmap (e.g., SMB and brokerage funding) aligned to an aggressive growth target (from $1.2T to $5T in 5 years). Experienced scaling an engineering org from ~25–30 people into domain-driven pods and leading audit/compliance remediation (OCC, SOC 2, PCI) through security and infrastructure reengineering, including multi-region/multi-zone architecture.”

Pavanika Thotakura

Screened

Senior Data Engineer specializing in cloud big data pipelines and real-time streaming

Seattle, WA6y exp

“Amazon data engineer who built a real-time fraud detection pipeline for AWS Lambda, tackling multi-region telemetry quality issues and scaling stream processing for billions of daily requests. Strong in production-grade data/ML workflows on AWS (EMR, Glue, Kinesis, SageMaker) with hands-on entity resolution and anomaly detection.”

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.”

“Operations/program leader who partnered closely with a COO to drive transformation initiatives (compliance workflow automation and budgeting redesign), implementing governance cadences and executive dashboards to improve alignment and decision speed. Managed a $120MM operating budget and successfully delivered regulator-mandated resolution planning under tight timelines, while maintaining strict discretion during restructuring work involving sensitive HR data.”

Jehanzeb Khan

Screened

Director-level Engineering Manager specializing in large-scale data and compute platforms

Sunnyvale, CA20y exp

“Platform and distributed-systems leader (player-coach) who owned architecture and reliability for an Amazon analytics/data platform serving ~100K internal users at exabyte scale. Built an ML-driven “Lakeflow” optimization layer that cut pipeline completion times ~20–25% and reduced compute waste >15%, and led major incident response/redesign efforts (e.g., deletion storm) with strong rollout/observability/rollback practices.”

“HR Business Partner with global people leadership experience across Europe and Asia and deep partnership with Product, Design, and Data/Analytics teams. At Samsung, led a major integration and headcount expansion, partnering with TA/HR Ops/Talent/Comp and providing weekly SVP updates; credits the effort with helping grow revenue from ~$3B to $5B+ and onboarding/training new hires at a flagship location.”

“Senior engineering leader in the Bay Area with experience spanning VMware, Hortonworks/Cloudera, Barracuda, and Palo Alto Networks, including leading open-source work (Apache Knox) and architecting large-scale security platforms. Has driven disaster recovery and cloud security products, designed Python microservices for Microsoft 365 security, and scaled teams (3x) while formalizing enterprise readiness practices with automated documentation using Notebook LLM.”

“Aspiring founder building an AI governance and compliance startup for the finance industry, focused on agents that monitor data lakes/lakehouses to detect security vulnerabilities, PII exposure, and governance issues in real time. Has already formed an S-corp, has not raised capital yet, and approaches idea validation through Minimum Lovable Product testing with potential clients.”

“Built and productionized a dual-agent LLM invoice-processing system for GFI Partners, adding guardrails and audit trails to earn stakeholder trust and drive adoption while cutting operational burden by 75%. Uses LangSmith observability to diagnose real-time workflow regressions and has experience teaching agentic AI concepts (e.g., at Carnegie Mellon) through hands-on, scaffolded demos.”

Josh Rhoades

Screened

Executive Technology Leader (CTO) specializing in AI-enabled SaaS and regulated platforms

Los Angeles, CA30y exp

“Senior engineering leader with experience at Disney and BlackLine who drives business-aligned technology roadmaps through deep Product/Engineering partnership (two-in-a-box) and pragmatic prioritization frameworks. Has led major modernization initiatives—private-to-public cloud migration to GCP with multi-cloud evolution, data-layer performance improvements (Mongo/Redis, caching/query optimization), and tooling upgrades (VSS to GitHub)—while scaling teams with strong quality and accountability culture.”