Vetted Google Gemini Professionals

Tina Bai

Screened

Executive operator-founder specializing in GTM, revenue strategy, and AI-native commercial operations

New York, NY10y exp

“Operator with Deloitte consulting experience supporting PE/VC-backed portfolio companies and current experience inside a VC-funded Series C scale-up. Building a bootstrapped D2C women’s telehealth brand (Petty Pills) with two initial SKUs, deployed tech stack, and white-labeled clinical/compliance infrastructure, leveraging AI tooling to keep operations lean while focusing on full-time operator roles.”

“AI/LLM engineer with production experience at NVIDIA and Microsoft, including building a RAG-based enterprise knowledge assistant that improved accuracy by 42% and scaled to thousands of queries. Deep in inference optimization (TensorRT-LLM, Triton, quantization, speculative decoding) and MLOps/observability (Prometheus/Grafana, MLflow, LangSmith), plus orchestration with Kubeflow/Airflow across multi-cloud.”

“Hands-on engineering manager on a large web product who built an AI-driven navigation search and led a major post-acquisition unification effort across 3 companies and 5–7 teams, including front-end architecture for 60+ developers. Also owns a high-scale BFF (800 endpoints) and drove a deep reliability fix involving Kubernetes/Envoy/Redis session bloat, adding monitoring and preventative controls.”

“Built and operated a production warehouse metadata collection platform at Sigma Computing, integrating Go/gRPC services with a TypeScript backend and MySQL, with strong emphasis on idempotency, retries, bounded-concurrency job queues, and Datadog-based observability. Also created Kurral (kurral.com), an AI agent runtime security and observability/governance SDK/proxy concept, iterating via pilot-customer feedback and market research; targeting founding engineer roles with $180–200k base and ~2–5% equity.”

Steve Black

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Principal Product Manager specializing in consumer engagement, AI, and connected fitness

Laguna Beach, CA15y exp

“Product leader with experience across Nike, Adidas, Bowflex, and startups, including serving as the first digital product hire at FluidLogic. Stands out for launching a connected hardware-plus-software product from zero to one in just 90 days, while also building AI-powered consumer features and aligning the entire company around digital strategy.”

James Conroy

Screened

Director of Private Capital Markets specializing in private secondary liquidity transactions

New York, NY11y exp

“Private-capital/ECM professional (CFA charterholder) who moved into Carta’s private capital space and built data-driven reporting and pipeline systems. Led a cross-functional effort to productize an internal tender offer seller model into a self-serve report to scale capacity and support GTM, while maintaining executive alignment and rigorous discretion with sensitive financial data.”

Nikhil Reddy

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in GPU inference and LLM platforms

San Francisco, CA5y exp

“Built and deployed an LLM-powered platform that turns models into scalable REST/gRPC APIs, focusing on keeping GPU-backed inference fast and stable during traffic spikes. Experienced with AWS orchestration (EKS/ECS/Step Functions), safe model rollouts, and production-grade monitoring/testing for reliable AI agents and workflows.”

“Co-founded academic-index (10,000+ users) and built a full-stack Next.js 14 document upload + client-side OCR + Gemini-powered analysis pipeline with strong production reliability (custom monitoring, retries, quality gates) and measurable gains (accuracy ~94%→98.5%, failures down ~60%). Also owns end-to-end biometric data visualization and a data-driven brand/UX overhaul at pre-seed health/performance startup Absolute Rest, with a background running a multi-client dev studio (Zen Digital).”

“Healthcare systems leader with unusually broad provider-side experience spanning operations, finance, revenue cycle, supply chain, and strategic planning. Combines executive finance exposure—M&A support, bond offerings, debt reporting, IPO-related work, and FEMA/DOH coordination—with hands-on operating leadership, including recovering $350M in COVID relief funds and helping drive a turnaround that produced $90M in revenue plus $45M in savings within 6 months.”