Vetted Cross-Functional Collaboration Professionals

“Fractional CTO and AI/ML consultant at Clover Health with deep insurance domain experience (15 years as CTO/CISO/AI). Has spent significant time in PE/VC-backed environments (including Aquiline Capital Partners and Apollo Group), designing and engineering platforms while delivering against budgets, audits, and regulatory compliance. Recently helped build an insurance startup (2020–2025) and is now seeking a full-time role at a startup.”

Neel Sen

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive product leader specializing in AI, platforms, and growth

Florham Park, NJ13y exp

“Innovation leader with 8 years managing Verizon's innovation arm, working closely with venture teams, innovation studios, and early-stage startups across multiple markets. Currently building a homeowner-focused AI startup with a working backend prototype using LLM and multimodal AI, combining enterprise product lifecycle experience from Cisco with 0-to-1 venture building.”

“Former corporate retail leader (25 years) who recently launched a boutique consultancy and has already advised ~12 early-stage founders. Specializes in installing disciplined but lightweight operating systems across merchandising, inventory planning, and wholesale readiness—driving outcomes like +53% YTD growth for a D2C/wholesale apparel brand and rebuilding a NYC candy brand’s margin structure ahead of major wholesaler launches in 2026.”

Paul Baker

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Director-level Video & Creative Producer specializing in branded storytelling and studio operations

Remote, CA15y exp

“Senior video editor/motion-focused post-production leader with 18+ years in Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects, including Creative Cloud 2025 AI tools and Dynamic Link workflows. Managed the Google Analytics YouTube channel for hundreds of videos over 6 years at Google, and has delivered brand-critical work for major enterprises (Google, Visa, Capital One, ServiceNow), including tight-turn executive-facing motion pieces.”

“AWS Software Development Manager leading globally deployed, production-critical DDoS protection (L3/L4) across AWS. Known for scaling teams and driving cross-org tiger-team initiatives from concept through worldwide rollout, including performance-focused Python architecture changes and a major JDK 8→21 migration while maintaining strict backward compatibility. Also led an internal SDK-like integration framework improving APIs, documentation, and onboarding for major AWS service teams.”

Carrie Vincent

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Executive Design & Strategy Leader specializing in global studio leadership and service innovation

Seattle, WA29y exp

“Operations and consulting leader with ~30 years’ experience scaling and stabilizing creative/consulting organizations, including growing frog’s Seattle office from a 3-person seed team to nearly 60 and serving as interim MD at ustwo. Known for diagnosing friction across people/projects/P&L, implementing operating rhythms and stage-gated delivery systems, and driving profitability improvements through client rate-structure redesign and executive decision-making coaching.”

hemant jha

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Executive Design & Innovation Leader specializing in product, strategy, and sustainable systems

Chicago, Illinois25y exp

“Product/system designer focused on ultra-clean, modular, customizable work/organization environments (e.g., making stations for studios and fabrication spaces). Emphasizes rules-based interaction models, restrained structural visual language, and hands-on field research/prototyping to embed industrial constraints (tolerances, load paths, safety) into intuitive, training-free user experiences.”

Rich Espinoza

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Executive sales leader specializing in media distribution and enterprise revenue growth

Los Angeles, CA30y exp

“Senior media sales and distribution executive with 25+ years at NBCUniversal and Sony Pictures Television, leading national account strategy across U.S. broadcast groups, affiliates, and platform distributors. Most notably helped lead Seinfeld renewal negotiations that generated more than $300M in licensing revenue, while also steering distribution strategy through the industry's shift from linear TV to streaming, FAST, and AVOD.”

“Technical founder at Mightier, a clinically-validated mental health video game system for kids, where the company has raised $30M. Brings 25+ years of game development experience, has built zero-to-one titles with millions of players, and has scaled core functions from product/dev through QA, customer support, and even manufacturing for a physical-shipping business; currently leading an agentic coding transformation.”

Kusumita Dasgupta

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Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in data platforms, cloud systems, and LLM products

United States22y exp

“Engineering leader/player-coach with recent hands-on work delivering an agentic AI MVP on Amazon Bedrock (conversational UI + supervisor agent routing between internal knowledge and external sources). Previously drove large-scale data platform cost optimization at Twitter, saving ~$3M–$5M annually, and has owned production incidents end-to-end with a focus on analytics/monitoring improvements and team coaching.”

Sanket Patel

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Director-level Front-End Engineering Leader specializing in scalable web and mobile apps

Palo Alto, CA17y exp

“Amazon engineer/leader who drove a major modernization of the AWS Database Migration Service Console, migrating a monolithic UI to a micro-frontend architecture while improving performance, reliability, and engineering standards. Operates as a player-coach (80/20 hands-on/management), with demonstrated incident ownership and process improvements across Amazon and Walmart Labs.”

“AI/LLM engineer with production experience at NVIDIA and Microsoft, including building a RAG-based enterprise knowledge assistant that improved accuracy by 42% and scaled to thousands of queries. Deep in inference optimization (TensorRT-LLM, Triton, quantization, speculative decoding) and MLOps/observability (Prometheus/Grafana, MLflow, LangSmith), plus orchestration with Kubeflow/Airflow across multi-cloud.”

Vinay Ramrupe

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Mid AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM and enterprise generative AI

San Francisco, CA5y exp

“ML/AI engineer focused on taking LLM systems from experimentation to reliable production, including enterprise copilot and RAG-based knowledge retrieval use cases. Stands out for combining data pipelines, model training, inference optimization, automated evaluation, and safety guardrails, with cited impact including 20% throughput gains and 30% less manual evaluation effort.”

“Hands-on engineering manager on a large web product who built an AI-driven navigation search and led a major post-acquisition unification effort across 3 companies and 5–7 teams, including front-end architecture for 60+ developers. Also owns a high-scale BFF (800 endpoints) and drove a deep reliability fix involving Kubernetes/Envoy/Redis session bloat, adding monitoring and preventative controls.”