Vetted E-commerce Professionals

Bill DeVinney

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive Hospitality & Food/Beverage Operator specializing in multi-unit growth and brand building

Hershey, PA30y exp

“Experienced hospitality operator and entrepreneur with 30+ years of experience, including building businesses for VC- and PE-backed companies. Now self-funding an RTD adaptogenic tea and seltzer startup in Pennsylvania and preparing to launch into the CPG market across retail and e-commerce.”

“Software engineer with JPMorgan Chase experience building a real-time operations console backend on Spring Boot/Kafka/Kubernetes and resolving peak-load latency through profiling, indexing, caching, and async processing. Also built and owned an AI-driven digital-archives metadata pipeline during a master’s at UNT using OCR + LLaMA-based prompting with validation, near-human accuracy, and human-in-the-loop guardrails.”

Sophie Adams

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in event technology and interactive systems

New York, NY20y exp

“Full-stack product engineer in event tech who has owned AI-powered web products from architecture to live production, including a no-code SaaS/marketplace for event activations and real-time AI kiosk experiences. Particularly strong in building for non-technical users in high-stakes live environments, with hands-on experience across Vue/Laravel, LLM workflows, image generation pipelines, and operational reliability.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of production recommendation and GenAI systems, spanning experimentation, deployment, monitoring, and iteration. Stands out for delivering measurable outcomes—22% CTR lift, 15% conversion lift, and a 30% reduction in support tickets—while demonstrating strong judgment on latency, cost, and safety tradeoffs in real-world systems.”

“Bootstrapped founder/fractional-CTO type building a community-first tooling platform and niche product lab, emphasizing trust and "family" culture. Operates extremely lean by self-hosting open-source LLM tooling locally and leverages a network of senior generalists willing to trade short-term compensation for learning and equity. Has worked across real estate tech, logistics, and hospitality POS and is applying a multi-modal "brain trails" concept to product opportunities.”

Jay Johansson

Screened

Senior Growth & Digital Marketing Manager specializing in performance, SEO, and demand generation

21y exp

“Performance marketer with ownership of low-to-mid six-figure monthly spend across Google and Meta, combining SEO leadership with structured A/B testing and landing page optimization. Built cross-department Looker Studio reporting for spend, web, and revenue metrics, and delivered measurable impact including a 40% CPL reduction and significant ranking gains across ~1100 non-branded keywords.”

“Growth/brand leader who drives measurable revenue outcomes through rebrands, GTM execution, and multi-channel acquisition. Has delivered on-time/on-budget website + brand rebuilds via sourced expert partners, improved conversion from 3% to 8% for an MSP using outsourced outbound, and helped an industrial manufacturer exceed a $2M revenue goal by reaching $3M through repositioning and market expansion.”

“Frontend engineer who has owned end-to-end delivery of multi-step commerce workflows, including an e-commerce cabinet customization platform and a food/grocery pickup ordering flow. Emphasizes scalable React architecture (Redux/RTK Query), strong automated quality (TDD, Jest/RTL, ESLint/Prettier/Husky), and performance/cost optimization via API caching and reduced AWS Lambda calls.”

“Founding-style SDR candidate with recent experience at an AI accounts receivable startup, prospecting into finance and operations leaders across mid-market and enterprise accounts. Stands out for combining intent signals, verified data, and highly specific operational messaging to win meetings with senior stakeholders like the CFO of Coca-Cola MENA, and for articulating a clear framework to build outbound pipeline from scratch.”

George Platon

Screened

Principal Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI, DevOps, and cloud platforms

Romania, Romania16y exp

“Built a production end-to-end AI video-to-reels clip extraction system using a multi-agent architecture with transcription, captioning, effects generation, and centralized orchestration. Demonstrates unusually strong systems thinking around reliability, observability, evaluation, and production tradeoffs for LLM-powered workflows, including Kubernetes/Kafka-based deployment and regression-driven prompt governance.”

Shady Alzayat

Screened

Executive engineering leader and full-stack builder specializing in platforms, payments, and healthcare

San Francisco, CA20y exp

“Serial entrepreneur building appetier.com, an agentic restaurant marketing and ecommerce automation platform for restaurants. Previously raised for Atlas Mental Health and brings thoughtful fundraising perspective centered on investor alignment, GTM partnership, and vertical SaaS/SMB infrastructure expertise.”