Vetted Cross-Functional Collaboration Professionals

“CIO-level technology leader (most recently at Sovos) who owned the full tech roadmap across product, infrastructure, and corporate IT, scaling engineering across 14 countries with an architectural review board and standardized security/observability. Hands-on in high-severity incidents (ransomware) while managing executive/client communications, and drove a reported 40% product-velocity lift by adopting AI code assistants and agentic AI (Devin) alongside Kubernetes + Bottlerocket for secure scalability.”

Christy Tuescher

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level Talent Acquisition leader specializing in global workforce strategy

Cary, NC20y exp

“Recruiter with hands-on full-desk experience leading complex executive and engineering searches, including a VP of AI and Engineering hire. Stands out for using AI sourcing tools, funnel and cycle-time analytics, and market compensation data to unblock searches, influence hiring teams, and close difficult offers.”

“Senior engineering leader with experience across cybersecurity, retail commerce, consulting, and media platforms, combining large-scale org leadership with hands-on architecture depth. Notable for driving measurable cloud modernization outcomes—multi-million-dollar cost savings, major latency and MTTR reductions, and compliance-heavy transformations—while also leading AI/NLP and consumer product simplification initiatives.”

“Product-minded frontend/UX leader with notable experience at CNBC, where they owned premium subscription and engagement flows from problem definition through production and post-launch iteration. They stand out for combining high-polish React implementation, Figma-driven systems thinking, and AI-assisted prototyping to quickly ship and refine conversion-focused experiences.”

“Engineering leader and player-coach with a long tenure leading 5 teams/17 engineers, combining organizational leadership with hands-on SQL, architecture, and production incident work. Particularly notable for shipping AI-powered lead engagement systems like an intelligent voice agent, while also driving operational improvements such as release cadence standardization, team restructures, database migrations, and major rules-engine performance gains.”

“Built and shipped a production agentic LLM tool that helps internal teams update technical product whitepapers using plain-language edit requests, with strong guardrails (citations, verification, refusal/clarify flows) to reduce hallucinations and maintain compliance. Experienced taking LLM workflows from rapid LangChain prototypes to more predictable, debuggable LangGraph agent graphs, and orchestrating end-to-end ingestion/embedding/indexing/eval/deploy pipelines with Kubeflow.”

Vigynesh Bhatt

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend, cloud, and ML systems

Salt Lake City, UT4y exp

“Software engineer with experience across Goldman Sachs, BYU Broadcasting, Juniper Networks, and an edtech startup (Doubtnut), spanning data migrations, AWS-based media backends, and microservices observability. Built a Redis/ElastiCache caching layer in front of DynamoDB/S3 to improve media delivery latency and cost, and created an SEO indexing automation tool using the Google Search Console API that saved ~15–30 person-hours per day.”

“Leader with 20 years spanning international nonprofit, academic, and business environments, focused on solving hard coordination and scaling problems. More recently led AI-driven modernization in the mortgage sector, including loan processing and underwriting transformation, bridging executives, operations, and technology to deliver meaningful efficiency gains and adoption in historically change-resistant teams.”

George Villacis

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Business Development Manager specializing in financial data for VC/PE

New York, NY6y exp

“Sales/business professional from PitchBook who managed a high-volume pipeline (50–100 opportunities) and drove hundreds of thousands in new business while simultaneously leading cross-functional initiatives, including a product/data dataset implementation and ERG (La Cultura) campaigns. Strong in executive alignment, operational tooling (Salesforce/Asana/Excel), and handling sensitive information with discretion.”

“Seasoned global CTO and executive leader with 20+ years of experience, including a $389M non-founder exit to a Fortune 10 acquirer. Now building a pre-seed AI-driven diagnostic imaging platform for pets with web and mobile products, beta customers, and a patent-pending solution aimed at saving pet lives.”

Emily Wood

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level Product Management leader specializing in digital media, edtech, and e-commerce

Boston, MA15y exp

“Product leader with experience as the first product manager at Harvard Business Review, where they grew into Director of Product and built out the PM team. More recently, they shipped an AI-enabled learning pathway curation tool using RAG and have been driving platform centralization and human-centered AI strategy in enterprise learning.”

David Proctor

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive Enterprise Architecture & AI Strategy Leader specializing in modernization and agentic AI platforms

Colorado Springs, CO25y exp

“Technically and operationally oriented builder with startup ideas of their own, including an AI services firm in the ideation stage. Stands out for a practical understanding of venture studios and accelerators, with fluency in founder-market fit, MVP validation, hiring, and investor readiness, and a measured approach to going all-in only on high-signal opportunities.”

“Senior multi-state sales leader with deep public-sector and partner-led go-to-market experience, overseeing a 14-person team across 9 southern states. Stands out for 8 straight years of plan attainment, 8,400+ new PODs in 2024, and a track record of using data, field coaching, and cross-functional influence to drive distribution growth, brand expansion, and complex sponsorship deals.”

“Customer success and growth leader with deep PLG-adjacent experience in cybersecurity/fraud platforms. Built post-sales and professional services functions from scratch, scaled engagement across thousands of customers, cut churn to 1.77%, and materially expanded major enterprise accounts including Netflix, eBay, Intuit, Best Buy, Target, and TripAdvisor.”

“Director of Engineering at Proofpoint for 8 years, leading architecture and integration of Java microservices within a detection platform. Demonstrates pragmatic delivery leadership—incurring short-term cost to meet launch deadlines, then systematically paying down technical debt and optimizing AWS spend—plus a disciplined, long-horizon approach to backward-compatible API/schema evolution across many dependent services.”

Jeremiah Medina

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and cloud-native MLOps

Orlando, FL11y exp

“Built and owned a real-time clinical AI assistant at Andor Health, taking it from prototype through deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement. Brings strong healthcare-focused GenAI experience across RAG, hybrid retrieval, LoRA fine-tuning, and production Python services, with measurable gains in accuracy, speed, and reliability.”

Lissa Miller

Screened

Director-level Product Leader specializing in 0-to-1 B2B SaaS and AI platforms

Danville, CA20y exp

“Product leader with experience spanning Apple and healthcare AI, including leading the global Apple Relay partner portal now used across 80+ countries and building LLM-powered clinician documentation tools at Xolv. Stands out for combining large-scale platform execution, measurable business impact, and a human-centered approach to AI in regulated environments.”

“Product manager with 5+ years spanning JPMorgan Chase and Airbnb, combining fintech, marketplace, and platform experience. Stands out for driving measurable growth— including 50,000 new active users via onboarding experimentation— and for leading ambiguous 0-to-1 internal automation work in a regulated compliance environment.”

“Product manager with 7-8 years of experience spanning e-commerce and internal customer support platforms, including 2.5 years owning a Walmart product used to service customer contacts. Particularly strong at combining data, user research, and AI/LLM capabilities to design support workflows and 0-to-1 agent-assist experiences in ambiguous environments.”

“People/HR leader (HRBP-style) with strong compliance and change-management experience, including leading an FLSA exempt-to-non-exempt reclassification for SMB sales AEs and implementing time tracking/overtime in Rippling with zero compliance findings. Uses systems thinking and people analytics to redesign performance frameworks and reduce regrettable attrition (30% drop in two quarters), and coaches senior leaders using data-driven methods (GROW) to improve engagement and build leadership bench.”

“UE5 gameplay scripter/engineer who worked on player-facing weapon systems for Perfect Dark, owning Blueprint-driven state management, projectiles/damage, and player feedback with a strong focus on edge-case polish and responsiveness. Experienced in modular Blueprint architecture (inheritance-based) for scalable content, playtest/analytics-driven iteration, and performance optimization of gameplay loops (e.g., reducing runtime NPC tracking for a disguise gadget).”

“Product-focused operator with ~20 years experience helping both large companies and newer market entrants launch successful products, with a strong emphasis on disciplined product-market fit in emerging markets. Has personal investing exposure as an LP in two private funds and is researching seed-stage angel investing, and is motivated to found a consumer/software venture built with lean execution and clear defensibility.”

Ahmed Elias

Screened

Director-level Talent Acquisition Leader specializing in global technical recruiting

14y exp

“Talent Acquisition leader who scaled a LATAM recruiting team to 17 and led major operational transformations at Amazon, including onboarding a workforce tracking tool across a ~20K employee population in BR/MX/CR. Known for hands-on confidential executive searches and for building a standardized SDE interview-prep program that materially lifted conversion rates (TPS 23%→46%, onsite 13%→33%) while freeing significant recruiter capacity.”

Frank Goodman

Screened

Executive Engineering & Product Leader specializing in Cloud/SaaS observability and security

San Jose, CA31y exp

“Product/technology leader with deep security and cloud infrastructure expertise who drove a major shift from hardware-based networking/security appliances to cloud-native capabilities, growing cloud revenue from $0 to $400M in 4.5 years. Led an innovative eBPF-based approach (“precryption”) to enable lightweight cloud TLS interception/decryption, and has hands-on coding interest (recent Rust work on a personal cybersecurity identity/trust platform).”