Vetted Cross-Functional Collaboration Professionals

“Retail buyer/category manager with experience rebuilding underperforming programs end-to-end through data-driven assortment strategy, supplier selection, and product/value engineering. Led a pet beds turnaround (70% sell-through in week one; category mix from ~20% to ~35% and primary IMU driver) and previously drove a licensed sports vendor at Amazon from a $550K projection to $1.7M by re-framing assortment planning around turn and product-type insights.”

Vivek Shrivastava

Screened

Director-level Technology Leader specializing in data platforms, AI, and media/AdTech transformation

Los Angeles, California24y exp

“Technology leader who built a unified platform for Fox live sports production operations starting in 2019, delivering an initial operational system on an ~18-month timeline while simultaneously scaling an in-house engineering team from a service-provider partnership. Led a security architecture for external vendors/partners using a separate Okta instance with zero-trust and passwordless authentication, and drove adoption through strong change management, documentation, and agile execution.”

Nicholas Johnson

Screened

Senior Recruiting Operations & Analytics professional specializing in high-volume technical hiring

Brentwood, CA10y exp

“Full-cycle recruiter who recently led a hard-to-fill technical search at AMS.net, driving the process from hiring manager intake through offer acceptance. Leverages market data and compensation benchmarks to realign stakeholders, optimize title/JD and outreach messaging, and keep pipelines moving with tight feedback SLAs and metric-driven cadence.”

“Currently a development analyst at a large national real estate developer and previously exposed to startup/founder ecosystems through Carta. He combines venture-style sourcing and founder outreach with real estate and infrastructure investing context, including cross-border deal exposure in the Balkans, climate tech, AI infrastructure, and med spa opportunities.”

“Backend/platform engineer with experience at Fidelity and PayPal, spanning financial systems, payment pipelines, and regulated AI workflows. They’ve owned large-scale deployments end-to-end, including a brokerage platform for 150,000+ accounts, and have hands-on experience integrating OpenAI into internal research tooling with compliance-safe validation and human review.”

“Senior engineering leader who scaled a global organization from 15 to roughly 100 people and operates comfortably at both executive and hands-on architecture levels. Has led SaaS platform improvements, AI-based compliance workflow automation with LLM observability, and consumer-facing product modernization using analytics-driven UX decisions.”

“Shopify full-stack engineer focused on AI/LLM-powered merchant automation products. They have hands-on experience building React/TypeScript and Python/FastAPI systems for long-running agentic workflows, including orchestration, guardrails, observability, and customer-facing trust features, with measurable gains in task completion and latency.”

Shane Westra

Screened

Executive product and technology leader specializing in B2B SaaS

27y exp

“Senior product leader with a track record of building and repositioning B2B software businesses into major growth engines, including initiatives that contributed to Workfront’s $1.5B Adobe acquisition and SimpleNexus’s $1.2B nCino acquisition. Brings deep experience across product strategy, UX transformation, AI-enabled workflows, and cross-functional org leadership, with repeated success turning research insights into high-impact products.”

“Frontend engineer focused on React and TypeScript dashboards with dense data, fast search/filter workflows, and reusable UI architecture. They stand out for improving production performance by identifying unnecessary re-renders, optimizing state and data loading, and making complex reporting interfaces easier to navigate.”

“Game engineering leader/player-coach who recently shipped Netflix/Boss Fight’s mobile hit Squid Games Unleashed, owning live ops scheduling (XML/JSON to C# in Unity) and storefront integrations while reviewing 6–8 engineers’ code. Experienced in client-server reliability work (The Sims 4 time-sync incident) and in speeding delivery via process redesign (gated approvals), with a coaching style informed by 6 years teaching improv theater.”

Garretson Beebe

Screened

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in cloud, data, and AI platforms

San Francisco, CA17y exp

“Engineering leader with deep product-platform experience across Splunk and Alation, including owning the multi-year SPL2 initiative at Splunk from customer research and architecture decisions through execution planning and org scaling. Also grew Alation's Data Analytics organization from 8 to 22 engineers across three squads, combining hands-on technical problem solving with strong managerial systems.”