Vetted Cross-Functional Collaboration Professionals

Mer Stern

Screened

Senior Video Editor & Producer specializing in mission-driven storytelling

Brooklyn, NY11y exp

“Music editor/mixer with a musician background who shapes longform storytelling through precise cue timing, genre-aware sourcing (including original artist tracks), and seamless restructuring/rescoring. Has edited documentary content on discrimination in the music industry and adjusted mixes/edits for institutional clients like Lincoln Center to improve clarity and engagement.”

Courtney Madigan

Screened

HR Director specializing in people strategy, analytics, and organizational change

New York, NY8y exp

“HR/people strategy professional with experience at global organizations (including GroupM) driving org design and restructuring for digital/analytics teams. Successfully navigated global headcount approval constraints by directly influencing executive approvers, enabling a restructured analytics org that went on to generate significant revenue. Partners closely with senior leaders on workforce planning, change communications, and tailored upskilling programs.”

Shruti Krishnagiri

Screened

Executive Engineering Leader & Technical Founder specializing in AI automation platforms

San Francisco Bay Area, California20y exp

“Founder/CTO who built and shipped a consumer subscription-bundling platform end-to-end (architecture, implementation, testing) and scaled it to thousands of customers and major partners. Previously led a major reliability overhaul at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative for a Google-Docs-like ed-tech product—boosted observability, introduced incident management, and migrated to a Docker-based scalable architecture. Heavy user of AI tools (Cursor/Claude) for development, testing, and code review, with a strong bias toward lightweight, fast-moving execution.”

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.”

Mayuresh Kanade

Screened

Director-level GTM and Customer Success leader specializing in Enterprise AI and SaaS

Redlands, CA18y exp

“Global sales and customer success leader with 20 years across the US, UK, and India who is now developing a buyer-first B2B platform focused on data sovereignty and shifting control from seller CRMs to enterprise buyers. Has worked with VC-backed startups and portfolio companies, including GTM efforts around AI/ML and cloud ecosystems such as Snowflake, Dataiku, Databricks, and Azure.”

“ML/AI engineer with Goldman Sachs experience building production fraud detection and RAG-based trading insights systems end-to-end. Stands out for combining real-time ML infrastructure, GenAI retrieval systems, and compliance-aware design, with measurable impact including nearly 25% false-positive reduction and improved analyst productivity.”

Sai Karthik Chittamuru

Screened

Senior Salesforce Developer specializing in AI systems and enterprise cloud solutions

Pittsburgh, PA15y exp

“Salesforce-focused engineer with hands-on experience building Sales Cloud and Service Cloud solutions, including a Zoho billing integration for quote/contract workflows and a multi-panel LWC case management dashboard. Stands out for making practical architecture decisions around middleware vs. custom REST, handling idempotency with upsert patterns, and modernizing legacy Aura patterns with Lightning Message Service.”

Ammaar Janjua

Screened

Junior Sales Professional specializing in SaaS and AI account growth

New York, NY4y exp

“Outbound sales professional at Vendela with a highly structured, signal-driven approach to prospecting across phone, email, and LinkedIn. They stand out for combining ICP research, stakeholder mapping, and rapid messaging experimentation to consistently book 25 meetings per month and improve conversion with senior decision-makers.”

“Senior sales leader from On Location who built and scaled a multi-property sales and service organization supporting major sports and entertainment partners including the NFL, WWE, UFC, NCAA, and PGA. He created the company’s first inside sales team, introduced pod-based coverage and CRM rigor, and drove an average 54% YoY revenue growth over three years while also expanding premium hospitality demand into international markets.”

“Education product leader and former teacher/cofounder who built Teaching Garage’s K-5 digital STEM curriculum from Harvard Innovation Lab pilot to rapid adoption across U.S. districts and international markets. Brings a rare blend of curriculum expertise, 0-to-1 product building, and educator-facing AI enablement from Renaissance, with a strong human-in-the-loop philosophy for educational equity.”

Sanjay Santhanam

Screened

Mid-level AI Software Engineer specializing in LLMs and FinTech data systems

San Jose, CA4y exp

“Backend/AI systems engineer focused on productionizing agentic document-processing workflows for large financial PDFs. They describe owning deployments end-to-end, combining Python, Redis, LLM function calling, RAG/ReAct-style orchestration, and strong reliability practices to deliver 80% faster processing, reduce parsing errors from 12% to ~1%, and sustain 99.9% uptime in high-concurrency environments.”

“Senior GTM and marketing executive with 20+ years leading growth strategy across Fortune 500 brands and startups in sectors including automotive, telecom, retail, finance, and logistics. Notable highlights include leading an automotive GTM initiative tied to $200M+ opportunity capitalization, serving as CMO for a $550M organization, and creating a novel embedded insurance product for a marketplace that later became an industry standard.”

“Strategy & operations leader with senior roles at OnDeck, BlockFi, and Protocol Labs who owned founder-level initiatives end-to-end. Notably launched the first crypto credit card, driving 150k first-year sign-ups (vs 30k target) and boosting adoption of other offerings, and later cut time-to-hire from ~6 months to ~6 weeks while rebuilding GTM and operating frameworks.”

“Sourcing/procurement-focused candidate who owned vendor selection and risk planning for an IoT pressure/temperature gauge prototype, partnering with a procurement expert on negotiations. Demonstrates strong operations/process mindset by fixing a sales-to-production handover bottleneck with a simple checklist and managing milestones via master trackers and RACI.”

“HR business partner with global team experience (India/London) and deep expertise in large-scale organizational change. At Barclays, partnered with senior leaders on multiple RIF initiatives and a call center closure impacting 500+ employees, focusing on consistent selection/severance practices and adverse impact avoidance. Also partnered closely with a data analytics team to address attrition root causes and implement career pathing, succession planning, and leadership development.”

“Product/UX designer with hands-on experience designing AI-driven products end-to-end, including an AI shopping assistant (Stylaire) with multimodal conversational search (text/voice/image). Uses rapid prototyping and usability testing to simplify complex flows (e.g., reducing filter overload via progressive disclosure) and collaborates closely with engineers with working knowledge of HTML/CSS and component systems.”

“People/HR leader who has built HR foundations from scratch and partnered directly with CEOs/C-level teams. Led global team members in Tel Aviv and London, and drove major org change by implementing a first-time performance management framework that reduced escalated ER issues and improved alignment. Brings a systems-and-data-driven approach to scaling, restructuring, and benefits strategy in fast-growing startups.”

“AI engineer with production experience building a high-accuracy (98%) fraud detection system operating at real-time latency (1–2s) over millions of transactions, using a multi-model pipeline approach to meet performance constraints. Also implemented Airflow-orchestrated workflows (DAGs, retries, alerts) to replace brittle cron scripts and is currently pursuing a master’s project on real-time ASL-to-text conversion.”

“QA professional with ~7 years of experience working in Scrum teams, involved from requirements and user story creation through test strategy/planning, execution, defect triage in Jira, and verification. Highlighted catching multiple issues early on an AI-driven project to avoid production regressions and escalating a blocker where a frequently used UI was broken to get it fixed quickly. Has not shipped an AAA game title.”

“Revenue Ops-aligned sales development professional from Opto 22 who builds CRM dashboards and integrates AI (Claude + HubSpot) to identify under-penetrated and dormant accounts, then runs targeted outbound to uncover expansion pipeline. Reported results over the last 2–3 quarters include 70+ qualified conversations, 40+ meetings with sales engineering, and 200+ SQLs/opportunities moved into pipeline, including a re-engaged dormant customer that purchased $30K after LinkedIn outreach.”

“Founder of an algorithmic trading startup who reports raising $25M+ over roughly the last three years. Has spent several years working closely with VC funds, focusing on fundraising and lead generation with VC/PE firms, and is strongly committed to entrepreneurship and scaling new technologies.”

Jiayi Huang

Screened

Junior Product/UX Designer specializing in FinTech and conversational AI

Chicago, IL2y exp

“Founding product designer at a startup building RealSpend, an AI-powered fintech product centered on conversational decision support (contextual insights and in-flow actions). Also designed the companion app for Lasso Loop, an in-home recycling appliance, translating an industrial process into a warm, kitchen-friendly UX using layered information architecture and progressive disclosure, with strong design-system alignment to React/Tailwind/Ant Design engineering stacks.”

Bhargava Prabu Reddy Mallikarjuna

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in automation, microservices, and cloud deployments

Cupertino, CA3y exp

“Full-stack engineer with experience at Apple, Walmart, and a healthcare startup (Legacy), building customer-facing PWAs and internal platforms. Delivered HIPAA-compliant clinician/patient workflows with rapid weekly releases and measurable engagement gains, and built scalable automation/testing and real-time analytics systems using Next.js/React/TypeScript, Node/FastAPI, Redis, and PostgreSQL.”

Harshana Ragipindi

Screened

Mid-level Support/Software Engineer specializing in incident response, automation, and AWS monitoring

USA4y exp

“Built and owned end-to-end travel booking and baggage fee calculation platforms used by both customer support and customers, emphasizing fast iteration with automated guardrails and production visibility. Experienced designing TypeScript/React systems and operating RabbitMQ-based microservices at scale, including disciplined event contracts, idempotent consumers, and schema evolution strategies. Also created an internal real-time troubleshooting/pricing console that replaced fragmented tools and improved support resolution workflows through pilot-led adoption.”