Vetted Leadership Professionals

“Operations and quality systems advisor who helps early-stage companies professionalize quickly—implementing ISO 9001-aligned document/vendor management, SOPs, and contracts while coaching founders through change. Has driven measurable process improvements across manufacturing and healthcare/clinical operations, including escalating a nurse productivity issue into a CAPA/IT fix that improved workflows for hundreds of nurses. Known as a cross-functional "Connector" who blends strategic guidance with hands-on execution and human-centered design.”

“Senior executive operations leader with experience supporting top leadership at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum and the Defense Health Agency. Built executive-facing tracking systems (Excel/SharePoint), implemented meeting-time standards (25/50), and led large-scale initiatives including multi-million dollar exhibits and a 25,000-person keynote event, with deep discretion from long-term military security clearance.”

“Technical Product Manager with hands-on experience shipping and running live free-to-play games (including Cartoon Network BMX Champions) across web and mobile, with exposure to Roblox and some console. Focuses on data-driven live ops—daily rewards, streaks, push notifications, and limited-time events—paired with A/B testing and funnel/retention analytics to improve engagement and IAP performance.”

“Senior engineering manager who stays hands-on (~50/50) while leading teams through design reviews, code reviews, and production issue triage. Shipped scalable platform features (notifications, user action tracking via microservices) with strong quality/performance practices (TDD, high-load testing). Owned a complex cross-system SSO/IdP incident end-to-end, identifying a SameSite+iFrame root cause and delivering a configurable product fix plus support documentation.”

“Unity XR/VR developer with extensive Meta Quest experience who shipped a high-performance Quest 2 training simulation for a major pharmaceutical manufacturer, emphasizing 90 FPS optimization and highly accessible, low-UI interaction design validated by elderly user testing. Built a largely solo VR game end-to-end (assets, UI, audio, optimization, input) and standardized on OpenXR with custom solutions to stay future-proof amid changing VR SDKs; has also served as lead developer and service delivery manager.”

“Frontend engineer who has led complex React + TypeScript products end-to-end, including a real-time canvas-based digital signature editor and a multi-step AI workflow dashboard. Demonstrates strong architecture and performance instincts (state machines for streaming async updates, bundle/render optimizations) plus pragmatic shipping practices (feature flags, automated tests, analytics and user interviews), with a quantified impact from refactoring (~30% less duplicated UI code).”

“Audio post professional specializing in music editing, sound design, and mixing for TV/series content, with hands-on Dolby Atmos experience. Uses a Pro Tools template-driven workflow with iZotope RX restoration, broadcast loudness targets, and full deliverables (stems + international mix), and is comfortable turning fixes around under same-day air/QC deadlines. Targeting $35/hr.”

“Engineering leader (Director/VP level) who has repeatedly aligned product and engineering through ROI-driven quarterly roadmaps and strong stakeholder communication, including board presentations. Built a parallel cloud team to migrate an on-prem product to the cloud, credited with delivering $9M ARR, and led a Python monolith-to-serverless event-driven microservices transformation. Currently manages distributed teams across Mexico, India, and the US using pod-based structures, clear KPIs, and a supportive accountability culture.”

“Operations leader with repeated startup/entrepreneurial experience building internal operating systems from the ground up—creating department-by-department SOP/policy manuals and implementing KPI-driven management. Strong in diagnosing issues via operational/financial data and rolling out scalable people systems (structured interviews, training/certifications, onboarding) with retention measured across 14/30/60/90-day cohorts.”

“Veteran Unity game developer with extensive multiplayer networking experience (Photon PUN2/Quantum/Fusion, Unity Netcode), including work on Payday: Crime War and an in-development arena battler using Invector + PUN2. Also builds cloud backends for Unity titles (Azure/PlayFab/Firebase, SQL, CI/CD) and actively uses multiple AI assistants to speed up architecture and implementation.”

“Experienced editor/motion graphics professional with deep Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects expertise spanning broadcast TV spots, music videos, social/web content, and feature-length films. Notably worked on the YouTube channel Black20—nominated for Best Web Series and awarded G4TV's "Kings of DotComedy"—with videos reaching millions of viewers.”

“Marketing creative/designer who helped lead the PopSockets brand refresh and owned the digital campaign rollout by translating new brand guidelines into scalable templates and a campaign guideline book. Built a collaborative Figma template system (design libraries + stakeholder feedback boards) to support high-volume output without quality drift, and uses Claude for structured ideation on partnership campaigns like Electric Picks x PopSockets.”

“Performance marketer focused on e-commerce growth, managing $120K/month in spend across Google and Meta with reported 5x+ ROAS. Emphasizes full-funnel structure and creative iteration (copy, hooks, UGC) in collaboration with in-house creative teams, and prioritizes client reporting around sales/profit outcomes.”

“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.”

“Solo developer who shipped an Android game (Master Caster) built around touch gesture recognition (P$ algorithm) and data-driven potion/ingredient systems using JSON/dictionaries. Has hands-on experience optimizing Unity projects for mobile constraints (framerate, heat/battery) using techniques directly applicable to VR, and is actively porting the game to VR in Unreal with a focus on accessibility and room/standing/seated play modes.”

“Game developer with 13 years in the games industry who built a Unity VR feature using machine learning to recognize player-drawn spell symbols, training an accurate neural network from an existing dataset and solving tricky screen-space/world-space input constraints. Actively uses AI assistants for targeted code snippets and code review while emphasizing understanding over "vibe coding," and is interested in expanding into multiplayer/networking.”

“LLM/RAG engineer who took a PDF-heavy agent from prototype to production for an Africa-based client, combining Pinecone retrieval with robust PDF parsing (unstructured.io, OCR, structured table extraction). Demonstrates strong production mindset (eval metrics, prompt hardening, security/scalability) and measurable optimization impact (30% efficiency gain, 2x faster responses), and has helped close deals by building security-focused POCs for skeptical IT stakeholders.”

“Global talent acquisition/executive search leader from FIS Global who managed a distributed recruiting org and partnered closely with HRBPs and C-suite leaders. Has driven enterprise-wide recruiting lifecycle improvements (including onboarding programs to reduce attrition) and engaged in strategic initiatives like an AI council tied to product roadmap decisions.”

“Backend engineer who has delivered large, measurable performance wins (10x throughput, 67% latency reduction) by combining Flask microservices, Redis caching, and AWS autoscaling/observability. Has hands-on depth in SQLAlchemy/Postgres optimization and production scaling pitfalls (cache consistency, connection exhaustion), plus experience deploying real-time ML inference (XGBoost) on AWS Lambda and building secure multi-tenant Kubernetes isolation.”

“AI/LLM engineer who built a production autonomous GenAI content ecosystem that generates short-form scripts, extracts viral highlights from long-form video, and dubs content into 33+ languages. Focused on making LLM outputs production-safe via schema enforcement, token-to-time alignment, critic-agent verification, and scalable async orchestration—cutting manual workflows by ~90% and saving $200k+ annually.”

“Frontend-focused engineer who built a full movie recommendation system from concept to production, comparing classic collaborative filtering with LLM-based recommendation approaches on AWS. Emphasizes scalable architecture, strict TypeScript data contracts, and high-quality Next.js/React UI patterns (defensive states, scoped state management, performance optimization) with disciplined QA and feature-flagged rollouts.”

“Backend engineer with strong Python/FastAPI microservices ownership, including an ML-serving service with embeddings, async DB access, and Redis caching to reduce latency under high load. Experienced deploying and operating containerized services on Kubernetes using GitOps (Argo CD/Helm) with automated CI/CD, plus hands-on Kafka streaming pipeline tuning and enterprise migration work (Infosys) using blue-green/active-passive strategies.”

“Growth/creative marketer who owned an end-to-end market-entry campaign for Deoproce skincare in the Philippines, building a localized acne-focused positioning and executing across influencers/affiliates plus trade events via an external agency. Emphasizes platform-specific creative iteration (Meta/TikTok/YouTube), modular ad development driven by trends, and structured creator direction with clear guidelines and approvals.”

“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.”