Vetted Leadership Professionals

Maria Fernanda Andrade

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Senior Performance Marketing Specialist specializing in global paid media

Berlin, Germany9y exp

“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.”

“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.”

Subhash Chandra

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Senior AI/ML & Robotics Research Engineer specializing in SLAM and multi-modal perception

Norman, OK8y exp

“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.”

Bhavishyasai Chigurupati

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Mid-Level Data/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and cloud data platforms

Overland Park, KS5y exp

“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.”

“Worked on a CVS Health project transforming large healthcare claims data from databases and APIs into clean reporting tables and Power BI dashboards. Brings hands-on experience in SQL, Python automation, data validation, and stakeholder-driven metric definition for analytics workflows.”

“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.”