Vetted E-commerce Professionals

Dan Gervais

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive technology leader specializing in big data, AI/ML, and SaaS platforms

Escondido, CA28y exp

“Hands-on IT/engineering executive who has led high-impact architecture changes and compliance-driven data systems. Notably built an internally developed columnar database at Troparé (with dual-support UI for legacy/new DBs) and shipped an MVP in 3–4 months with dramatic performance improvements, and previously delivered PCI/opt-out compliant deletion workflows while addressing DB performance and migrations.”

“AI engineer who built a production e-commerce system that analyzes product images alongside sales and demographic data to generate actionable creative recommendations, now used by 20+ clients. Also built orchestrated document/agent pipelines (Airflow, LangGraph) including a compliance drift detector auditing 401 compliance documents, with an emphasis on traceability, logging, and production integration.”

Chris Solly

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive CPG/Food Commercial Leader specializing in omnichannel growth and PE-backed value creation

19y exp

“Operations/finance leader who repeatedly stood up full business infrastructure for early-stage expansions, including being employee #1 after a cross-country relocation and launching US operations for an Australian company. Also helped professionalize a ~$40M Patriot Supply Store by moving the business to GAAP/accrual accounting and building policies/processes to support a private-equity-ready exit.”

Steven Zavala

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level growth marketer specializing in DTC e-commerce and CPG

Los Angeles, CA10y exp

“Lifecycle/CRM marketing leader from the wine and beverage space who has owned high-volume email/SMS programs end-to-end and translated CRM insights into broader revenue strategy. Stands out for combining rigorous process design, cross-channel automation, and personalization testing to drive measurable gains, including a 45% lift in incremental email revenue and $1.6M in incremental on-site upsell/cross-sell revenue.”

“Marketing motion/video creative with end-to-end ownership (storyboards, design, motion, edit) and a strong performance mindset (first-frame hooks, pacing, above-benchmark watch time). Built a scalable, compliance-safe Figma design system for a Merck vaccine website with locked components and medical/legal sign-offs, and produces high-volume multi-format social video via modular CapCut/After Effects templates in a fully remote, async workflow.”

“Partnerships and GTM operator with experience across healthcare and the creator ecosystem: sourced and negotiated influencer deals for hormone healthcare products, and leveraged a personal network to land a major B2B white-label partnership driving steady monthly B2C sales. At TELUS Health, led a Learning product relaunch from one-time purchases to subscriptions (28% conversion vs 30% goal) and built a webinar acquisition loop optimized through iterative conversion experiments.”

“Fashion buyer/category manager with end-to-end ownership of Shopbop’s evening business, using Excel-driven classification and pricing tier analysis to uncover demand opportunities and deliver +20% above annual sales target on higher margin. Experienced negotiating vendor sell-through agreements (e.g., Marchesa Notte) and using RTV to reduce inventory risk while maintaining full-price selling; also has a track record coaching buyers to drive incremental revenue (e.g., $350K unplanned full-price sales via an exclusive delivery).”

“Brand and growth marketer with experience refining Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield’s brand across 62+ mall locations, using family-focused event programming to increase attendance and tracking results via ticket sales and website sign-ins. Brings 15 years in the entertainment/music/creator ecosystem, including artist representation and label deal experience, and applies that partnership mindset to multi-channel campaigns (owned web + third-party sites) and SEO-driven acquisition.”

“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.”

Bryan West

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI, cloud infrastructure, and full-stack development

Chantilly, VA17y exp

“ML/NLP engineer who built a production system that converts large-scale unstructured text into a connected, searchable knowledge base using spaCy + Sentence Transformers/FAISS and a Neo4j knowledge graph, with BERTopic and XGBoost for organization/labeling. Strong focus on production-grade Python workflows (FastAPI/Celery, Pydantic validation, Docker, AWS ECS/Lambda) and robust entity resolution with measurable precision/recall and human review for low-confidence matches.”

“Built a personal product, Pilly AI—an AI-powered e-commerce product Q&A widget embedded via a simple script tag and served via Cloudflare CDN—covering landing page, backend, database, and deployment end-to-end. Implemented OpenAI integration with prompt/context engineering, JWT-authenticated APIs, and Postgres (NeonDB), and successfully sold the product to a client while shipping in roughly two weeks.”

“Senior technology leader and hands-on builder spanning enterprise architecture and product/engineering leadership across healthcare and entertainment. Has led high-impact cloud and security architecture decisions (including establishing a private cloud to address scalability/security at massive scale) and scaled orgs 300% using pod-based team structures. Currently building an AI-supported hydroponics/vertical farming IoT framework (ESP32 + Azure) and a musician collaboration platform (React + Neo4j + AWS).”

Vu Tran

Screened

Senior Product Manager specializing in 0–1 platforms, AI workflows, and product operations

Oakland, CA8y exp

“Customer success/product-facing operator from AllRoomie (AI-powered rental marketplace) who owned an enterprise real estate brokerage account end-to-end. Improved conversion and adoption by automating lead intake/routing and fixing integration issues, citing ~40% less manual coordination, faster response times, and expansion into additional regions through ROI-driven land-and-expand motions.”

Eugene Nelepko

Screened

Executive growth leader specializing in AI-powered SaaS, marketplaces, and e-commerce

San Francisco, CA13y exp

“Growth leader with strong zero-to-one and systems-building experience across e-commerce and retail media. Most notably, they proposed and launched a new retail media division from scratch, presold demand before product build, and scaled it to $1.5M ARR with 85% margin, while also building data-driven lifecycle and acquisition systems that materially improved activation and CAC efficiency.”

“Engineer working on high-throughput financial systems who uses AI pragmatically to accelerate development without sacrificing design ownership, correctness, or compliance. Particularly interesting for teams building regulated, real-time platforms: they have hands-on experience integrating fraud detection models into microservices, handling transaction ingestion, scoring, decisioning, and throughput-sensitive asynchronous workflows.”

“Growth creative marketer who led end-to-end experimentation for Kahana’s Oasis agentic browser launch, repositioning it as a task-specific “productivity multiplier” and validating the message via structured A/B tests across Meta, LinkedIn, and landing pages. Reported performance lift included CPA reductions (23% Meta, 17% LinkedIn) and a 28% ROAS increase, with a repeatable modular framework for rapid creative iteration and hands-on direction of UGC creators and editors.”

“Providing technical guidance to a small team exploring a biomedical startup focused on earlier disease detection, including for remote/underserved areas. The venture is in ideation with initial research completed and is moving toward prototyping while exploring initial investment/support.”

Chris Colinsky

Screened

Executive Technology Leader/CTO specializing in data platforms, AI agents, and e-commerce/payments

Los Angeles, CA23y exp

“Engineering leader with hands-on coding time who has driven major commerce and data-platform transformations: defined goop’s omnichannel strategy, unified payments to Square, and rebuilt real-time NetSuite inventory flows plus forecasting tools. Currently reorganized engineering into Product/Data/Support teams to hit aggressive seasonal roadmaps, and led a data-lake/medallion ELT refactor feeding embedded analytics (Tinybird) with improved reliability and cost efficiency; also accelerates onboarding via AI coding tools in a serverless, event-driven architecture.”

Michael Kramp

Screened

Executive sales leader specializing in global retail, distribution, and e-commerce growth

Oklahoma City, OK23y exp

“Sales executive with a consumer products and national retail background who successfully built a government/public sector channel from scratch while leading six sales divisions across retail, ecommerce, international, and institutional markets. Particularly compelling is his blend of eight-figure commercial leadership and firsthand law enforcement/SWAT experience, which helped him win business with agencies like the FBI Academy at Quantico, the U.S. Military Academy, and Homeland Security.”

“Operations/product-and-engineering leader who has repeatedly retooled early-stage/growing orgs (Open English, Metrc) to scale by implementing Scrum/Kanban, building metrics-driven decision systems, and upgrading teams with experienced product/engineering leadership. At Metrc, used data to drive executive alignment, established scrum teams and a 2-week cadence within 30 days, and helped burn down years of backlog/bugs while improving customer survey feedback within 3 months.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience designing and refactoring scalable Node.js/MongoDB systems and building Python/FastAPI services. Emphasizes production-grade security (JWT, refresh tokens, RBAC, Supabase Auth, RLS) and reliability practices like strong testing, monitoring, and rollback planning, including resolving concurrency and token/validation edge cases.”

Michael Boaz

Screened

Senior Software Developer specializing in cloud-native and event-driven architecture

Atlanta, GA24y exp

“Built and shipped production LLM/agent systems on AWS for internal developer support and IT observability use cases, including a Claude-based support tool grounded in internal documentation and a cost-optimized ServiceNow integration. Stands out for combining agent design, cloud architecture, CI/CD, chaos testing, and observability to make non-deterministic systems reliable and maintainable in production.”