Vetted Leadership Professionals

“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.”

Lachlan Hunt

Screened

Junior Game Programmer specializing in Unity and Unreal Engine

2y exp

“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.”

Ivan Pavkovic

Screened

Senior Paid Ads Specialist specializing in multi-platform performance marketing

Remote9y exp

“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.”

“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.”

Kyle Holmquist

Screened

Senior Gameplay Engineer specializing in Unity/Unreal gameplay, AI, and narrative systems

11y exp

“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.”

“Houston-based football advisor, current high school coach, and former college athlete/coach with 30+ years in sports management. He has negotiated six-figure NIL collective deals and brand sponsorships, sources athletes through direct outreach and deep football relationships, and supports families across recruiting, transfer portal, scouting, and long-term athlete development.”

“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.”

Mukul Sai Pendem

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and DevOps

United States (Remote)4y exp

“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.”

Yijun Chen

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in IoT and cloud systems

Toronto, ON4y exp

“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.”

Waldorff Villacres

Screened

Healthcare technology executive and architect with 20+ years leading enterprise platforms and digital transformation.

Seattle, Washington, USA21y exp

“Healthcare-focused founder in the R&D stage building an EHR and clinical staffing startup centered on value-based care. They have already tested the concept with the market, are engaging Medicaid/Medicare leaders and industry conferences like ViVE and HIMSS, and are focused on early-signal detection to improve patient outcomes while lowering utilization costs.”

“Engineering Manager/player-coach leading Data Infrastructure, ML/DS, and AI Engineering pods who recently shipped multiple production agentic GenAI features. Built privacy-preserving LLM workflows (PII redaction via Microsoft Presidio) and drove an AI expense-approval agent from ambiguous ask to GA, cutting approval time from ~2.5 days to <4 hours with >85% accuracy. Also owned a major LLM cost overrun incident and implemented cost observability plus circuit breakers to prevent runaway agent loops.”

Chris Colinsky

Screened

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.”

Derick Labit

Screened

Intern/Entry Accountancy professional specializing in audit, tax, and sustainability reporting

Los Angeles, CA

“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.”

“Wealth management sales professional who built a book of business through high-volume cold calling and relationship-driven networking, converting personal-network introductions into paying clients. Applies a VC-style lens to founder sourcing and early evaluation (problem, traction signals, founder insight), with an emphasis on disciplined CRM-based pipeline management.”

“Performance marketer focused on paid social and search across Meta, Google, TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook. Demonstrates a methodical approach to full-funnel media buying, creative and audience testing, and diagnosing stalled performance through metrics like CPA, ROAS, frequency, and audience saturation. Seeking a full-time role.”

“Growth/creative marketing leader who served as CMO of a leading online travel agency in Brazil, owning Black Friday performance and creative strategy under budget constraints. Drove a Meta-to-WhatsApp segmented community funnel (plus live shopping) that they report produced ~$400K in sales from ~$20K spend, using pixel-based targeting, bots for in-group conversion, and a SOP-driven creative production system.”

“QA tester from core banking systems (SIT/UAT) looking to transition into console game testing; brings disciplined end-to-end testing, defect triage, and clear bug reproduction/documentation. Not yet familiar with Sony TRCs/Microsoft XR/Nintendo LOT checks but has a concrete plan to learn platform certification standards through documentation, mentorship, and hands-on practice.”

“Operations leader experienced in scaling and professionalizing founder-led and early-stage/growth manufacturing organizations (Keyline USA, Novagard, Process Technology). Known for implementing structured operating systems (RACI, S&OP, balanced scorecard, lean daily management) and ERP-enabled visibility (SAP HANA), delivering quantified improvements in throughput, inventory, capacity, and EBITDA while driving cultural adoption through pragmatic change management.”

“Senior enterprise architecture and engineering leader (Sr. Director / Principal Architect) who has owned enterprise IT strategy and governance for a $100M budget and partnered directly with C-suite stakeholders. Led a cruise-industry employee/crew digital transformation, scaling to 10 agile teams (~70 people) using SAFe/TOGAF and making architecture decisions optimized for low-connectivity environments (local database to avoid internet authentication).”

“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.”

Ann-Marie Waterman

Screened

Executive Higher Education Administrator specializing in operations, finance, and enrollment management

Baltimore, MD29y exp

“Higher-education operations leader (Assistant Dean at Howard University School of Business; inaugural Associate VP of Student Affairs/Enrollment Management at University of the District of Columbia) known for rebuilding and modernizing internal operations under constraint. Delivered measurable results including sustaining fiscal integrity across three budget cycles post-staff reduction and improving admissions throughput (+25% applications, 50% faster decisions) through process re-engineering, automation, and cross-functional governance.”

Matthew Penner

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in systems programming and web development

Hillsboro, OR3y exp

“Entry-level candidate who built an air-traffic-control (ATC) simulation game in Rust, using a tick-based loop to model real-time behavior. No hands-on robotics/ROS experience yet, but has foundational software development tooling experience with GitHub and Linux/Vim.”