Vetted Cross-Functional Collaboration Professionals

“Co-founder and employee #1 who built Reva, a vertically integrated conversational CRM for multifamily leasing and resident services, leading product, engineering, and design from inception through acquisition. Combines deep enterprise product leadership with early AI experience, including a pre-LLM chatbot that drove a 400% lift in lead conversion and prior edtech work where AI-enabled learning tools improved struggling students by a full letter grade on average.”

Charles Parsons

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive product leader specializing in SaaS growth and product strategy

Southbury, CT20y exp

“Product and UX leader who has both rebuilt a dated messaging platform through iterative releases and launched a new Salesforce version from scratch. They combine hands-on product management, UX design, and human-centered AI thinking—especially around blended automation/manual workflows—and have also built and mentored early-stage product and design teams in a startup environment.”

“Fintech startup veteran (8+ years) building TrustRelay, a control-plane product between ERPs and banks to verify vendors, enforce pre-flight payout policies, automate reconciliation, and produce deterministic audit evidence. Currently at MVP stage and planning to pursue Founders Institute Boston Sprint 2026 while lining up design partners and raising pre-seed/seed.”

“Robotics software engineer/researcher focused on perception, SLAM, and sensor fusion, with hands-on experience taking systems from simulation to embedded/real-time deployment. Led transparent-surface (glass) detection using GDNet and achieved a major real-time speedup (~7–9 FPS to ~30 FPS) while preserving >90% recall, and has built ROS-based EKF GPS-IMU fusion plus profiled/optimized Visual SLAM for performance and memory stability. Also brings production-style deployment skills via Docker/Kubernetes orchestration of ML inference services with autoscaling and model update rollouts.”

“Frontend engineer at Mailchimp who leads end-to-end React/TypeScript features on the in-app homepage, including onboarding and campaign discovery components. Demonstrated measurable performance impact by cutting homepage LCP by ~2.5s and successfully shipped a major feature on an accelerated deadline using structured QA and staged rollout.”

“LLM/agentic systems practitioner focused on taking customer prototypes to production by hardening reliability (APIs, monitoring, security) and adding guardrails, evals, and incremental rollouts. Experienced diagnosing RAG/agent failures via structured tracing and fixing retrieval-quality issues (freshness checks, filters, schema enforcement). Also supports pre-sales by leading developer demos/workshops and building targeted POCs to address scalability/reliability objections and drive adoption.”

“Former Division I scholarship athlete and professional player who transitioned into professional coaching in Europe, including coaching at Triglav across U12–U18 and the pro team, plus the U20 Women’s Slovenian National Team. Experienced in identifying and recruiting talent via film, in-person scouting, and social media, and leverages connections with major university coaching staffs to track the best recruiting tournaments/camps.”

“Operated as a data-driven cross-functional leader during a major company transition, owning initiatives across sales forecasting, pipeline analytics, and GTM process changes. Built an executive operating cadence with dashboards and weekly briefing packets that reduced information-chasing and improved decision-making, and successfully mediated Sales/Finance forecast assumption disputes using a single-page, fact-based recommendation.”

“Application Engineer supporting customers in a financial trading context, experienced in coordinating urgent patch upgrades and stakeholder communications to minimize downtime. Has hands-on production incident response experience troubleshooting a critical dashboard outage caused by a bad SQL execution plan, escalating with DBAs and deploying a fast fix, then documenting full RCA via problem tickets.”

“Game developer/team lead on the FPS zombie project "Dreadful" who wore many hats (project management, systems/level/UI design, AI assist, QA) and iterated heavily via playtests and heatmap data. Built and tuned UE5 Blueprint-based crowd-control/gravity abilities with cooldowns and actor filtering, and made scope-smart feature swaps by reusing existing systems to hit deadlines.”

Sundarajan Swaminathan

Screened

Senior Product Marketing Leader specializing in GTM strategy and RevOps analytics

Dallas, TX7y exp

“Growth creative/performance marketer from BYJU'S (India) who runs disciplined creative experimentation across Meta, TikTok, and YouTube. Notably shifted messaging from feature-led to outcome/testimonial-led creative, delivering CPA down 27%, ROAS up 35%, and +11% trial-to-paid conversion, and has experience leading a small creative pod (editors + writer) with a rapid-iteration production system.”

Diana Ramirez

Screened

Director of Customer Success specializing in enterprise SaaS implementations and AI platforms

San Francisco, CA25y exp

“Enterprise CSM/program lead specializing in AI-powered search and workflow automation, who owned an end-to-end generative AI chatbot rollout that replaced manual Excel-based RFP processes and achieved 4.5/5 CSAT. Leveraged outcomes to expand the account into two additional use cases (tripling ARR) and has a track record of influencing product priorities (UI personalization) and driving Voice AI expansions tied to operational support workflows.”

Ashley Borges

Screened

Senior Solutions Engineer specializing in mobile SDK integrations and AdTech

Alameda, CA13y exp

“Customer-facing technical professional with hands-on ad tech experience enabling a non-SDK header-bidding integration by analyzing APIs/SDK behavior, documenting end-to-end requirements, and guiding the customer through release. Strong at tailoring technical demos for mixed executive/engineering audiences and partnering with sales on metrics-driven launches and beta rollouts. No direct on-the-job LLM/agentic systems experience yet, but interested in moving into that space.”

Amanda Melendez

Screened

Mid-level Customer Success Manager specializing in SaaS onboarding, adoption, and retention

San Francisco, CA8y exp

“Customer Success/implementation leader with enterprise experience at ADP managing payroll tax compliance for major brands (e.g., McDonalds, Staples, Williams Sonoma) and coordinating closely with product/compliance/engineering to reduce errors and escalations. Also led cross-functional operational rollouts at Starbucks, improving customer satisfaction by 27%, and currently at Together Groups influencing product roadmap via therapist/participant feedback to lift onboarding engagement by 40%.”

“Builder-minded founder who co-started Renew-IQ, an insurtech company that landed successful pilots with major insurance brokerages and wholesalers without raising capital. Demonstrated practical enterprise product judgment by overcoming adoption challenges through integration with required compliant systems, improving user satisfaction, communication, and efficiency.”

Kavyashree Sudhakar

Screened

Junior Business Analyst specializing in operations and banking workflows

Tempe, AZ2y exp

“Entry-level data/business analytics candidate with hands-on experience building SQL and Python workflows to clean fragmented subcontractor data, generate risk scores, and feed Power BI dashboards. Also demonstrated strong operational analytics impact at Amazon by defining and operationalizing process-quality metrics that reduced CPO rate from roughly 10% to 0.6%.”

shivapriya pillalamarri

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in financial analytics and production ML systems

Boston, MA4y exp

“Analytics candidate with experience in financial transaction and fraud detection projects, combining SQL data preparation, Python-based automation, and dashboarding. They have owned projects from stakeholder alignment and metric definition through rollout, with emphasis on reducing false positives, improving operational efficiency, and making analytics outputs easy for business teams to adopt.”

“Analytics professional at Santander Bank with hands-on experience building SQL and Python workflows for transaction reporting, reconciliation, and monitoring across messy multi-source financial data. They combine strong data validation and exception-handling practices with stakeholder-friendly dashboards, and also bring digital analytics experience from a Google Analytics UI optimization project focused on funnel drop-off and engagement.”

“Software developer with a one-year Philips co-op who has already applied AI-assisted coding in production, not just side projects. Stands out for using multi-agent development setups with task-specific sub-agents and a clear human-led orchestration philosophy focused on context, quality control, and security.”

“Built Nexthire-AI, shipping an end-to-end LLM-powered resume–job description matching product (React + Node.js) using embeddings and retrieval to generate match scores and skill-gap recommendations. Improved post-launch engagement by making feedback cleaner and more actionable, and added production guardrails (validation, timeouts, fallbacks) to handle messy resume formats and AI API instability.”

Thomas LaBarbera

Screened

Executive sales leader specializing in security technology and enterprise SaaS

New Jersey, USA21y exp

“Senior public sector sales leader with national territory experience across law enforcement, transit, city, and government accounts. Stands out for combining strategic sales leadership with direct involvement in complex enterprise deals, including winning NYPD, closing a $3.4M transit software deal, and launching Canada to 224% of target through a channel-led expansion strategy.”

“Sales leader from construction equipment, industrial distribution, and contractor-focused markets who has translated highly consultative, operationally critical selling into public-sector-like environments. He has led dispersed, multi-territory teams, delivered double-digit revenue and market share growth, and won complex CalTrans business by displacing an incumbent through executive relationship strategy, operational creativity, and disciplined execution.”

Robbie Harol

Screened

Principal Product Leader specializing in AI-native, civic, and climate tech

Los Angeles, CA18y exp

“Product leader with unusually broad experience spanning adtech startups, consumer rewards, political-tech nonprofits, and consulting for operational automation. Stands out for pairing strong UX and monetization instincts with practical AI product work, including building a RAG-based chatbot and consistently using user research to drive measurable outcomes like 400% conversion growth, higher satisfaction, and faster onboarding.”

Vik Krane

Screened

Director-level Product Leader specializing in AI-powered SaaS and FinTech

12y exp

“Product leader and startup co-founder who has been shipping AI-powered products since 2020 across creative tools, expert knowledge products, and financial compliance workflows. Particularly notable for building Shotcraft from zero to scale, using AI to turn scripts into executable shot lists, and for a nuanced human-centered AI philosophy that emphasizes user control over critical outputs.”