Vetted Leadership Professionals

“Former college basketball coach and 12-year Division I recruiting coordinator who recently left Regis University to found Level Up Coaching, providing individual player development and recruiting guidance. Deeply connected in the Colorado club/high school ecosystem and experienced recruiting nationally, with strong on-camera and social content capabilities (including current skill-video work with Gold Crown Foundation and D1 analyst work at University of Wyoming).”

“QA tester with consulting experience focused on payment systems, including scenario testing and automation using QF-Test. Has a business-impact mindset (prioritizes revenue-critical end-to-end flows) and has surfaced high-severity defects that required source code changes; not yet experienced with console game testing or platform certification requirements.”

“Exited Founder-CEO with deep-tech experience who raised capital and built a venture around making end-to-end encryption with cloud-level performance and data sovereignty feasible. Demonstrated first-principles technical rigor (network/TCP analysis) to prove scientific feasibility, then progressed from proof of concept to prototype and eventual exit, with a strong bias toward ultra-lean, customer-paid MVPs.”

“Unity lead developer/project manager who builds VR storytelling and training simulator experiences, including hand-tracking-driven interactions and custom rendering (Shader Graph, forward rendering, occlusion culling). Created an educational Unity game (Bed Time Hunter) spanning gameplay, VFX/shaders, terrain/lighting, and Photon multiplayer, and built a VR office simulator that targets both Quest standalone and SteamVR while streaming cloud IoT sensor data.”

“Paid media performance marketer with agency experience owning a high-spend account for ArcPoint Labs, running multi-channel Google Ads (search/display) and Meta campaigns to drive medical testing appointments and sales. Reported lifting ROAS from ~2x to ~6–7x within ~18 months while supporting expansion from 30 to 60 U.S. locations, using disciplined attribution, constant A/B testing, and structured campaign health audits.”

“Full-stack engineer who modernized mission-critical legacy COBOL/AS400 systems into a Java + Angular/TypeScript web application, owning backend APIs, UI, database performance tuning, and JWT security end-to-end. Built and transitioned an internal docketing/hearing scheduling system with complex business rules, emphasizing smooth adoption, performance, and quality through phased agile delivery.”

“Backend/data engineer who builds Python (FastAPI) data-processing API services for internal analytics/reporting, emphasizing modular architecture, async performance tuning, and reliability patterns (health checks, retries, observability). Also migrated legacy on-prem ETL pipelines to Azure using ADF/Data Lake/Functions and implemented a near-real-time ingestion flow with Event Hubs plus watermarking to handle late events and deduplication.”

“Engineering/technology leader with experience at Evocative and through a merger with Hivelocity, aligning tech roadmaps to managed services growth. Led multi-region self-hosted cloud and automation initiatives that cut delivery time from days to hours/minutes and informed cost-saving infrastructure decisions (reported $500K OPEX savings). Known for scaling teams with pod ownership, agile/intake governance, and disciplined rollout practices that protect uptime and security.”

“Early-career QA tester (no professional game studio experience yet) demonstrating a structured, systems-oriented approach to testing complex state logic. Has hands-on experience using Jira and TestRail and provides detailed defect reports (timing conditions, unstable network scenarios, logs/video) that help engineering diagnose async state-validation issues and verify fixes via regression.”

“GS-9 federal civilian Human Resource Specialist supporting Navy recruiting at Fort Hamilton (Brooklyn), leading ~12 military recruiters and overseeing elements of contracting and security clearance processing via NASIS. Brings prior Army experience (medically discharged) plus a BS in Legal Studies/Criminology and is starting an MBA in Global Management & Leadership, with a strong data-driven approach to executive stakeholder decisions.”

“Built and deployed a production multimodal language translation platform (text-to-text, speech-to-text, text-to-speech) using fine-tuned pretrained models (NLLB, XLSR), MLflow-orchestrated pipelines, and Docker/Kubernetes on AWS. Worked closely with non-technical linguists to tackle data cleaning and dialect variation in minority languages, improving accuracy through consistent evaluation and monitoring.”

“ML/AI engineer who deployed a real-time, edge-based computer-vision pipeline for produce recognition in retail self-checkout to reduce shrink. Demonstrates strong end-to-end production chops: multi-camera data calibration/sync, ranking-based modeling for fine-grained classes, latency-focused optimization, and continuous A/B testing/monitoring with guardrails. Experienced with ML orchestration (Kubeflow Pipelines, Airflow) and CI/CD via GitHub Actions, and collaborates closely with store operations to make interventions usable in the checkout flow.”

“Built an Arduino-based obstacle-avoiding robot using sonar/laser sensors and improved performance from 0.60 to 0.87 accuracy through sensor-fusion thresholding and iterative tuning. In an internship, optimized a legal-document NLP pipeline by switching to a distilled/quantized transformer and offloading inference to a GPU-backed Flask service, cutting inference time by 40%+ without added infrastructure spend.”

“Contract/freelance paid media specialist who personally managed a high-spend ($50K–$80K/month) ecommerce cycling brand across Meta and Google. Drove measurable gains including ROAS improvement (~3.2 to ~5.2), ~$330K+ tracked revenue on an ~$80K peak-month spend, and ~20% CPA reduction through structured creative/audience testing, feed optimization, and profitability-focused campaign management.”

“Robotics engineer who built a smart campus tour robot on a Kobuki Turtlebot using ROS 1, implementing a full navigation stack (semantic world model, A* planner, tour executor, path follower) and integrating SLAM (gmapping) plus a hybrid reactive safety controller. Experienced taking systems from Gazebo simulation to real hardware, including extensive real-world debugging and Docker-based development to handle ROS/Ubuntu version constraints; planning a move to ROS 2 on Turtlebot 4.”

“Engineering leader with a strong automation-first philosophy ("special treatment doesn't scale"), experienced in building self-service tooling and communicating clearly with executives via BLUF-style updates. Has delivered end-to-end business-driven solutions—from sourcing alternative vendor data to installing infrastructure and writing drivers/analytics—and led pragmatic architecture changes in R/Rserve that significantly improved performance while driving cloud costs toward near-zero.”

“Decathlon sourcing/procurement professional managing end-to-end materials and components sourcing for multiple sportswear lines, spanning vendor selection, cost negotiation, production execution, and delivery. Known for building SOPs and performance dashboards to drive 98%+ OTIF, eliminating air freight entirely, and delivering ~5% seasonal cost savings. Also led supplier quality accountability (zero fabric rejections in 2 seasons) and advanced sustainability initiatives like the "No Coal 2025" transition via collaborative pilots.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-based financial document analysis system using a RAG pipeline, including robust ingestion/chunking/embedding workflows, vector DB retrieval, and an AWS-deployed FastAPI service containerized with Docker. Demonstrates strong applied expertise in improving retrieval quality and latency at scale, plus hands-on experience debugging agentic/LLM workflows with monitoring and trace-based analysis while supporting demos and customer-facing adoption.”

“Entrepreneurial product builder who created chaintrigger.com in response to early Web3 demand for real-time on-chain event reactions, offering an alternative to The Graph Protocol and achieving adoption among games and other Web3 projects. Currently developing new tools, dogfooding internally, and building distribution via personal network and a niche Twitter/X following to gather feedback and iterate quickly.”

“Executive/engineering leader with 18+ years at an established company who helped turn a top-3 telco data opportunity into meaningful revenue and a continuing partnership to launch new data-driven products. Brings a security/privacy-first approach (compliance assessments and documentation) and a structured North Star + technical planning method for building with limited resources; interested in joining an early-stage founding journey with the right vision and team.”