Vetted Kanban Professionals

“Senior engineering leader with experience across cybersecurity, retail commerce, consulting, and media platforms, combining large-scale org leadership with hands-on architecture depth. Notable for driving measurable cloud modernization outcomes—multi-million-dollar cost savings, major latency and MTTR reductions, and compliance-heavy transformations—while also leading AI/NLP and consumer product simplification initiatives.”

Emily Wood

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Director-level Product Management leader specializing in digital media, edtech, and e-commerce

Boston, MA15y exp

“Product leader with experience as the first product manager at Harvard Business Review, where they grew into Director of Product and built out the PM team. More recently, they shipped an AI-enabled learning pathway curation tool using RAG and have been driving platform centralization and human-centered AI strategy in enterprise learning.”

“Director of Engineering at Proofpoint for 8 years, leading architecture and integration of Java microservices within a detection platform. Demonstrates pragmatic delivery leadership—incurring short-term cost to meet launch deadlines, then systematically paying down technical debt and optimizing AWS spend—plus a disciplined, long-horizon approach to backward-compatible API/schema evolution across many dependent services.”

Jared Wiener

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Senior Solutions Architect & Full-Stack Developer specializing in Media & Entertainment on AWS

Santa Monica, CA20y exp

“Engineering/product leader with experience at ABC News and AWS who built newsroom collaboration and internal tooling initiatives into a full department, aligning roadmaps to business outcomes and navigating Disney-scale bureaucracy. Demonstrates hands-on architectural depth in serverless systems (Lambda/SQS/Parquet) and strong distributed-team operating cadence (Kanban/Asana, Jira/GitHub, Zoom/Slack), including leading while frequently traveling to evangelize and test products across bureaus.”

“Product leader with 8+ years across AI, platform, data, and customer-facing products, including personalization, discovery, loyalty, digital ordering, and conversational AI. Notable wins include launching an AI recommendation engine for Baskin Robbins that lifted conversion 20% and AOV 12%, and improving Apple discovery feature adoption by 25% through phased delivery under complex data-quality constraints.”

“Unity/C# gameplay engineer who has shipped a modular, data-driven combat ability system with strong measurable outcomes (≈80% fewer GC allocations, 15–20% better frame times, 10–12% higher early retention). Also integrated an LLM-driven NPC dialogue/quest hint system with a C#/.NET backend, caching/guardrails, and telemetry-driven iteration, and shipped Photon PUN real-time 4-player co-op plus a shared codebase across Meta Quest VR and iOS/Android.”

“Product and engineering leader with experience spanning Mozilla, CDW, Interac, and EdTech, including launching Firefox Translations as a privacy-preserving on-device AI feature that reached 1M+ DAU in four weeks. Has also driven $21M in quarterly revenue through AI-powered enterprise device refresh programs and managed 3 cross-functional teams across product, design, QA, and engineering. Brings a distinctive mix of AI product execution, security/identity experience, and a human-centered mission orientation shaped by EdTech work and a Master's in Technology and Social Change.”

Shady Ashkar

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Executive Technology & Engineering Leader specializing in SaaS, FinTech and HealthTech

Orange County, CA30y exp

“Engineering leader (Octane) who drove business-aligned technology roadmaps and scaled a fully distributed engineering org from 35 to 150 in 9 months using a rigorous ownership model (OARP). Led a greenfield architecture for a new vertical (AWS Lambda/ECS, Python/JS/React) that delivered an MVP in 3 months while cutting per-service cloud OPEX from ~$300+ to ~$20/month, with 15+ years of remote-first leadership experience.”

ALEXANDER SHEYNER

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Executive IT & Enterprise Architecture leader specializing in portfolio transformation, data/AI, and M&A

Boston, MA35y exp

“Fractional CTO supporting early-stage teams in the UAE and Ukraine to build platforms using an "Agentic OS" approach—one focused on reducing friction across patient/provider/payor engagement and another on enforcing transparency for international rebuilding investments to reduce fraud. Also exploring an alternative-energy feedstock plantation opportunity in Armenia with multi-industry downstream revenue potential; has created project-specific investor pitch decks and is actively engaging potential investors.”