Vetted Cybersecurity Professionals

“Robotics/AV-focused engineer who built an end-to-end gesture controller for a GEM e2 autonomous vehicle using YOLOv8 pose and ROS, including model training, ROS perception nodes, and a safety-oriented state machine (stop override + hold-to-register). Also has internship experience at Intramotev integrating LiDAR object detection via Redis pub/sub and performing sensor-frame calibration (roll/pitch correction using ground-plane normals), plus Dockerized deployments and Gazebo-based testing.”

“Backend engineer who built a serverless AWS Lambda microservices backend for a parenting assistance mobile app, including a personalized recommendation system optimized to sub-500ms via precomputed scoring and DynamoDB caching. Demonstrates strong production pragmatism: CloudWatch-driven performance tuning (provisioned concurrency), zero-downtime phased schema migrations, and robustness patterns like optimistic locking and request deduplication. Also led a refactor of an LLM RAG pipeline to improve retrieval quality and cut latency from ~5s to ~3s.”

“Sales/business development candidate with hands-on outbound experience targeting Amazon FBA sellers, combining cold calling and LinkedIn outreach with event-based lead generation at seller conferences. Uses AI tools (Notion, Gemini, ChatGPT) and company research to tailor scripts and messaging based on a prospect’s growth stage and needs, with a focus on SMEs seeking Amazon reimbursement services.”

“Bootstrapped founder of a 1-year-old IT consulting/technology advisory firm with two active contract clients. Focuses on integrating business strategy with technology direction for organizations, growing through networking and targeted marketing (e.g., LinkedIn/Indeed) while maintaining a financially disciplined, client-first growth approach.”

“Former PwC Director with hands-on early-stage venture experience (e.g., BridgeLights, a big-data analytics concept for early fintech) spanning concept creation, platform architecture, and go-to-market experimentation. Strong focus on building scalable, modular data platforms with rigorous governance/compliance (data lineage, quality controls) and supporting technical diligence in investor-aligned environments.”

“Commercial leader currently in building management systems/DDC controllers with a focus on the data center vertical; previously worked at Oracle. Has negotiated reserved-capacity style agreements in telecom (including a Vodafone Group deal using a retail-minus model) and has experience selling into Federal Government and Defense by shaping RFP outcomes through stakeholder alignment.”

“CTO/enterprise architect who stays hands-on in code while leading strategy, stakeholder alignment, and team scaling. At Eastridge, established product and technology vision/roadmap, built product engineering/strategy functions, and helped launch products into global markets; most recently led GenAI product design including tech selection, infrastructure, scalability, and observability.”

“Built ToolDreamer, a framework for selecting relevant tools for LLM agents by training a retriever on LLM-generated reasoning traces, and has hands-on experience building multi-agent systems in AutoGen (MAG-V) focused on question generation and tool-trajectory verification. Currently works as an AI-guides supervisor at Penn State, regularly communicating AI concepts to non-technical stakeholders.”

“Candidate is not currently pursuing a startup or business plan and is not looking to found a company at this time, expressing a preference for joining an existing organization. They have limited familiarity with the VC/accelerator landscape but are specifically interested in learning how companies are evaluated and how investment decisions are made.”

Bassam Amrou

Screened

Director-level Digital Solutions & IT Transformation Leader specializing in enterprise innovation

Plano, TX12y exp

“Entrepreneurial operator with experience creating business plans and securing venture capital to accelerate a go-to-market strategy. Demonstrates a structured approach to new ventures: framing opportunities, validating/de-risking via market/competitive/external analysis and financial modeling, then building governance, sponsorship, and an execution plan with the right team.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on medical robotics experience on an automated CT-guided lung biopsy robot, building a CT-voxel-to-mesh pipeline that generates and visualizes up to 1000 collision-safe needle insertion points and ports them into robot space for IK execution. Strong ROS2 background spanning AprilTag perception, Kalman-filter state estimation, visual SLAM, and Voronoi-based motion planning, plus deployment work containerizing ORB-SLAM on ROS2 Humble and CI/CD automation at Siemens EDA using Perforce.”

“Founder/builder of an EdTech startup (robograde.io) who personally conducted on-site classroom discovery with teachers and rapidly iterated the product based on real-world feedback. Implemented a Canvas LMS integration and refined it through weeks of in-person testing, and handled a live production grading failure by quickly debugging and deploying a fix, then adding fault-tolerant/backup API design.”

“Platform-focused engineer experienced in productionizing ML/LLM systems: containerized a local prototype, implemented CI/CD, deployed to Kubernetes with scaling controls, and added monitoring/logging. Comfortable diagnosing real-time issues in LLM/agent workflows using logs/metrics and incident stabilization tactics, and supports sales calls by clearly explaining production scalability to unblock customer decisions.”