Vetted Cross-Functional Collaboration Professionals

“Longform YouTube editor currently serving as Food52’s sole editor for YouTube episodes, with prior experience at Maul Media, PES Group/Skypunch Creative, Tubi, and Food52. Has led consistency and quality across series by managing and giving notes to an overseas postproduction agency, and brings a retention-driven approach (cold opens, pacing, music, b-roll, and motion/typography) through final color, mix, and QA.”

“Healthcare operator/strategic program lead currently at Time Care working directly with national health insurance payer partners to translate executive priorities into operational initiatives (e.g., patient marketing, data interoperability, in-home member access). Previously led the build-out and day-to-day execution of a new value-based performance risk division at Stellar Health, combining metrics-driven operations with long-term strategy and executive alignment.”

“Backend engineer who has delivered large, measurable performance wins (10x throughput, 67% latency reduction) by combining Flask microservices, Redis caching, and AWS autoscaling/observability. Has hands-on depth in SQLAlchemy/Postgres optimization and production scaling pitfalls (cache consistency, connection exhaustion), plus experience deploying real-time ML inference (XGBoost) on AWS Lambda and building secure multi-tenant Kubernetes isolation.”

“Paid media specialist with experience owning high-spend campaigns and shifting traditionally print-focused clients into digital (direct-sold + programmatic). Uses Xandr DSP and a KPI-driven full-funnel approach across Meta/Google/TikTok, with hands-on optimization, creative/audience testing, and campaign triage (e.g., resolving ad fatigue via frequency caps).”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered internal operations automation platform using LangChain RAG (Pinecone) and FastAPI microservices, deployed on AWS EKS, serving 10k+ daily interactions. Implemented a rigorous evaluation/observability stack (golden datasets, prompt regression tests, MLflow, retrieval metrics, hallucination monitoring) that drove hallucinations below 2% and improved reliability, and partnered closely with non-technical ops leaders to cut manual lookup work by 60%+.”

“QA professional from enterprise SaaS/cloud environments (Exeter; previously Boeing programs) with strong UI and end-to-end workflow testing experience. Known for rigorous defect investigation and validation across UI/API/DB layers (including SQL checks) and disciplined tooling/workflow in Jira/Azure DevOps/ALM Octane; has QA lead experience supporting release readiness and go/no-go decisions. No professional game studio/AAA shipping experience yet, but experience maps to complex, high-pressure release cycles.”

“Customer Success leader with deep ad tech expertise who owned enterprise accounts end-to-end, including Bank of America, driving ad fraud down from ~8–10% to <1% in ~3 months and resolving spikes through data-driven investigations. Experienced partnering cross-functionally as a PM to build analytics dashboards and using user stories to align Product/Engineering/Sales and influence roadmap priorities; also supports land-and-expand via paid benchmarking/industry data upsells.”

“Software engineer with hands-on ownership of both fintech checkout improvements (saved payment methods/one-click checkout with tokenization and feature-flag rollouts) and production LLM/RAG systems for customer support. Demonstrates strong operational rigor via guardrails, evaluation loops integrated into CI/CD, and scalable data pipelines handling messy PDFs/CSVs/logs with reliability and observability.”

“Engineering leader/player-coach who modernized a legacy C#/SQL Server system to Snowflake + Python on GCP, enabling ~30x scale and supporting hundreds of millions of transactions per day per customer. Strong in architecture tradeoffs (Snowflake vs Databricks), production reliability (New Relic, logging/alerting), and lightweight process improvements like a rigorous Definition of Done and structured PR reviews.”

“Built and productionized AI-driven insurance claims document intelligence/automation at American Family Insurance, integrating OCR/NLP models and a rules-based validation layer into existing claims systems via APIs. Delivered measurable impact (≈28% accuracy lift, ≈35% reduction in manual processing time) and modernized legacy workflows with phased cloud migration, feature flags, parallel runs, and CloudWatch-based monitoring.”

“Data/analytics-focused engineer who builds end-to-end KPI reporting and validation products used daily by plant leads and leadership to track yield, downtime, and defects. Combines Python/SQL + Power BI data pipelines with strong data-quality practices (automated validation, monitoring/alerts) and has experience designing scalable frontend architecture in TypeScript/React and working in distributed/microservices-style data systems.”

“Unity VR game programmer with professional experience shipping a VR experience targeting Meta Quest and SteamVR, including prior VR tech QA experience at Rockstar. Served as the only core tech programmer on a team, owning physics/player controller/gameflow while building designer-friendly workflows so non-coders could create content. Also built a largely solo FPS project (Project Alpha) and later evolved it into a multiplayer game with a data-driven weapon system.”

“Operations/industrial automation engineer with several years supporting and upgrading controls, PLCs, networks, and IoT across 300+ North American sites. Led a zero-downtime IoT safety-device integration into an existing plant control/SCADA environment by building a parallel secure network and a Python/Flask + AWS/SQL telemetry pipeline, avoiding a major outage and saving ~$300K. Also co-founded an IoT + ML flood monitoring pilot shaped through direct collaboration with urban planners, emphasizing geospatial flood mapping for decision-making.”

“Backend-focused Python/Flask engineer with strong performance and scalability experience across PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy optimization, caching, and async processing. Has implemented multi-tenant data isolation (schema/db per tenant with RBAC and encryption) and integrated TensorFlow-based ML inference behind a Flask REST API using Redis caching, batching, and async execution; reports measurable wins like cutting endpoints from 6–8s to ~2s and increasing throughput 3–4x via Celery queues.”

“Cross-functional change leader with experience partnering with senior product/engineering/marketing leaders to revamp product development processes, delivering a 30% reduction in time-to-market. Combines systems thinking, executive coaching, and people analytics (engagement/turnover analysis, KPI dashboards) to resolve complex org and employee-relations challenges and improve culture.”

“Healthcare data/ML practitioner with experience at UnitedHealth Group building production ETL and streaming pipelines (Python, BigQuery, Kafka) that unify EHR, IoT device, and lab data for patient risk prediction. Also implemented embedding-based semantic search/linking for noisy clinical notes via domain adaptation and rigorous validation with clinical stakeholders; previously built churn prediction at DirecTV using XGBoost.”

“Regulatory manager at Rally Rd. who functioned as a de facto Chief of Staff to the CFO, driving SEC-related approvals (including IPO/asset approvals) while building firm-wide tracking systems for fundraising and asset status. Also brings Capco consulting experience supporting executive stakeholders on strategic initiatives like target operating models and workflow efficiency, with a strong emphasis on executive alignment and discretion.”

“Led acquisition efforts for the Etkin family partners during their transition from construction ownership into industrial real estate investing, focusing on REO acquisitions in the Denver/Front Range market (1990–1995). Built a structured due diligence and underwriting approach, developed financial analysis tooling, and navigated multi-stakeholder family dynamics while leveraging top brokerage relationships to source and lease assets.”

“Minority owner in a supply chain/logistics SaaS company (10 years operating) deployed in dozens of warehouses across enterprise and SMB customers. Known for turning technical pain points into business opportunities—previously created a paid performance testing services department leveraging OLTP/performance optimization expertise, generating new revenue while improving customer implementations. Demonstrates strong early-stage execution across product, coding, sales, and strategic pivots.”

“Marketing/paid social creative lead who recently ran a 3-month campaign for the Shortzy! app, owning strategy through QA while coordinating freelancers on a small budget. Combines entertainment/on-set direction experience with performance marketing fundamentals (A/B testing, CPA/ROAS/CTR) from Google Marketing certification work, plus conversion assets like landing pages and subscription messaging.”

“Growth/creative marketer who owned an end-to-end market-entry campaign for Deoproce skincare in the Philippines, building a localized acne-focused positioning and executing across influencers/affiliates plus trade events via an external agency. Emphasizes platform-specific creative iteration (Meta/TikTok/YouTube), modular ad development driven by trends, and structured creator direction with clear guidelines and approvals.”

“Operations/project leader with hands-on experience driving an end-to-end transition of legacy customers from on-prem to cloud, including customer communication, structured execution planning, and operational handover. Also improved field operations productivity by selecting and implementing a field management tool that automated work orders and replaced spreadsheet/email workflows with mobile app-driven data flows.”

“At Inertia Systems, built a production LLM-powered ingestion pipeline that converts heterogeneous sources (PDF/JSON/IFC/SQL and financial tables) into standardized text and uses GraphRAG to construct a knowledge graph with verified dependency relationships. Also has hands-on HPC orchestration experience with SLURM, including creating a custom wrapper process manager to improve resource utilization under restrictive scheduling policies.”

“Engineering/technology leader who stays hands-on while driving executive-level roadmap execution, with deep experience modernizing cloud-based LIMS/LIS platforms and building AI-driven lab analytics. Led a monolith-to-microservices cloud migration with containerization and CI/CD, and delivered a reported 30% reduction in lab turnaround time while strengthening compliance.”