Vetted Cybersecurity Professionals

“Entrepreneur and operations/IT advisor who helps early-stage companies scale efficiently through automation (CRM lead capture, invoicing, collections) and pragmatic process design. Built a year-long data standardization solution converting broker inputs from 60+ formats, enabling better sales forecasting and market projections. Also advises founders on go-to-market fundamentals and creative fundraising strategies, including forming paid customer consortia to co-develop products.”

Eric Lane

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive Technology Architect specializing in IT/OT convergence and industrial cybersecurity

Ventura, CA29y exp

“Entrepreneurial technical leader with ~3 decades in R&D/startup environments and proprietary consulting across government and private industry. As Sr Electrical Controls Engineer/IT Director at V-Grid Energy Systems, redesigned gasification automation instrumentation by creating custom PCB multiplexing and ladder-logic drivers, avoiding an estimated ~$2M in CAPEX and reducing per-machine cost to under $200—positioning him well for CTO roles supporting scalable new ventures.”

“Full-stack engineer at an early-stage EdTech startup building an AI-tutoring product; owns most of a Django REST backend, CI/CD, and key customer-facing features like FERPA-compliant auth, subscription payments, and real-time LaTeX input/rendering. Also built a /rPlace-style real-time multiplayer canvas (PolyPlace) using microservices, WebSockets, and event sourcing, with performance-focused client rendering (zoom/pan/viewport-based updates) and stress testing.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based clinical decision support assistant at MedLib, focused on fast, trustworthy answers from large medical documents. Demonstrates deep practical experience improving retrieval accuracy (semantic chunking + metadata-aware search), controlling hallucinations with grounded generation and thresholds, and adding clinician-requested citations using chunk metadata, with evaluation driven by healthcare professional review.”

prashank dubey

Screened

Senior Growth & Performance Marketing Manager specializing in digital advertising

9y exp

“Paid media specialist running multi-platform acquisition for e-commerce, allocating budgets across Meta/Google/TikTok/Snapchat and optimizing toward conversions and ROAS. Emphasizes structured creative experimentation (video engagement + LPCR) and audience segmentation/exclusions to reduce overlap, with a seasonality recovery example in jewelry (post–Mother’s Day retargeting with offers to restore ROI).”

“Entrepreneur with 20+ years in the recruiting industry building a Salesforce-based CRM tailored to track candidate outreach from initial identification (positioned as a differentiated alternative to traditional ATS workflows). Previously launched a small consulting company after spotting unmet technical needs among small medical practitioners, emphasizing branding and relationship-driven business development.”

“Business/partnerships-focused project/program leader with government contracting (SLED) experience who supported a cybersecurity solicitation response for Amtrak after a breach, using NIST-aligned posture assessment and recommending MFA, Zero Trust, and incident/vulnerability registers. Also led an urgent COVID-era recovery from a server crash by coordinating a move to AWS EC2 and managing vendor negotiation and project timelines for a CRM platform serving the winery/beverage industry.”

Rethvick Sriram Yugendra Babu

Screened

Junior AI/ML Software Engineer specializing in Generative AI and scalable data pipelines

Tucson, AZ2y exp

“Built and operated large-scale biodiversity/ecological research platforms, integrating 50+ heterogeneous global datasets into a unified BIEN 3 schema on PostgreSQL/PostGIS and improving data consistency by 35%. Strong production engineering background (Linux monitoring, CI/CD performance gates, Docker on AWS/Azure) plus applied AI work building a Python RAG system (0.90 precision) and halving latency with Elasticsearch.”

Shuchi Shah

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in Backend Systems and Generative AI (RAG)

San Jose, CA12y exp

“Backend engineer with experience building an end-to-end civic tech AI platform that ingests city council meeting videos, transcribes them with Whisper, and enables natural-language Q&A via a LangChain/FAISS RAG pipeline. Demonstrated strong systems thinking by tuning retrieval for accuracy/latency/memory (cutting response time ~3s→1s and memory ~500MB→25MB) and by safely migrating an ERP from monolith toward services using dual writes, reconciliation, and idempotency to protect financial workflows.”

Edoardo Radaelli

Screened

Junior Robotics & Industrial Automation Engineer specializing in ROS 2 AGV navigation

Brescia, Italy2y exp

“Master’s thesis (Industrial Automation) building a real Automated Guided Vehicle entirely solo using ROS 2 Jazzy and Isaac ROS—implemented everything from a C++ ROS2 Control hardware plugin (UART to ESP32 for encoders/PWM) through EKF fusion, SLAM Toolbox, and Nav2 (NavFn + DWB) with lidar obstacle detection. Now porting the stack to Jetson Orin + Isaac ROS to add RealSense-based 3D perception, NVIDIA VSLAM, and Nvblox, and has also built a full AGV simulation in Gazebo Classic.”

“Founder/operator of an AI services firm that has not raised outside capital; exploring executive technology leadership roles due to a major partner stepping down. Familiar with the VC/accelerator landscape through research and direct experience working in and with venture-backed startups, and is motivated by shaping market forces and driving business outcomes.”