Vetted E-commerce Professionals

“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.”

Michael Zhu

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Mid-level Frontend Software Engineer specializing in React and e-commerce UI

West Hollywood, CA5y exp

“Frontend engineer with strong React/TypeScript depth who has shipped reusable CMS-driven UI architecture and improved production performance by eliminating inefficient per-component API calls. Particularly strong in maintainable component design, pagination/state management, and practical UX optimization using tools like Chrome DevTools and Theme UI.”

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

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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.”

“Senior engineering executive with 8+ years leading large-scale SaaS modernization across AI, compliance, ecommerce, streaming, IoT, and travel. Has led a 150+ global engineering org, modernized seven cloud-native platforms for a $400M business, and consolidated travel systems processing $1B+ annually while staying hands-on in architecture, incident response, and AI integration.”

“Early-career candidate with a thoughtful, engineering-first approach to AI-assisted development: they use AI to accelerate implementation while retaining human ownership of architecture and final code quality. They recently built a speech-to-text workflow using Groq Whisper and showed practical judgment by designing around imperfect transcription accuracy with checks and fallback handling.”

Matthew McVaney

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Executive revenue leader specializing in FinTech and SaaS GTM

Austin, TX14y exp

“Revenue leader and repeat zero-to-scale operator with 15+ years across SaaS, MarTech, and fintech, including founding-employee experience and multiple major growth milestones. He has built GTM motions from scratch, led full revenue organizations, scaled brands from $200M to $500M ARR, and was part of a $6.5B exit—positioning him as a high-impact leader for growth-stage or turnaround environments.”

“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

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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.”

“Product leader with 20 years of experience across startups and agencies, including leading the end-to-end rebuild of Filmik, an AI-enabled workflow platform for film and television production teams. Stands out for combining deep UX simplification instincts with human-centered AI thinking, using automation to reduce friction while preserving trust, control, and collaboration. Has also built and mentored globally distributed product, design, engineering, and delivery teams across multiple regions.”

“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

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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.”

“Founder and Head of Product who built Cloud Institute around a contrarian AI-plus-human coaching thesis, launching adaptive learning, personalized pathing, and 24/7 expert support that drove 91% retention and $1.2M ARR in 18 months. Particularly compelling for mission-driven EdTech or human-centered AI roles: they combine hands-on product leadership, team building, and a clear philosophy that AI should deepen trust and learning rather than replace people.”

“Senior project/program leader with 19+ years of experience delivering enterprise B2B and SaaS implementations across highly regulated and operationally complex industries. Brings broad cross-domain expertise spanning CRM, IAM, IoT/fleet, data migration, and platform modernization, with repeated ownership of multi-project portfolios, executive governance, and go-live readiness for high-visibility enterprise releases.”