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Vetted Leadership Professionals
Pre-screened and vetted.
Tashkeel Shah
Senior Technical Artist specializing in real-time XR performance and rendering systems
“UE5 gameplay/tech designer focused on VR and performance, with shipped systems spanning networked energy-driven Niagara VFX for a mobile VR live-concert MMO and an end-to-end performer avatar builder supporting editor/runtime and JSON-serialized UGC workflows. Known for deep profiling/debugging (Unreal Insights, Niagara CPU vs GPU emitter behavior) and for refactoring/optimizing animation and rendering across PC and mobile VR constraints.”
Dhruv Kamalesh Kumar
Mid-level Generative AI Engineer specializing in LLM agents and RAG applications
“GenAI builder and technical lead with ~2 years of hands-on production experience, including GENIE (a GenAI sandbox for ~44,000 Massachusetts public-sector employees) and A-IEP, a multilingual platform helping parents understand complex IEP documents (cut processing from ~15 minutes to ~2 and used by 1,000+ parents). Strong in RAG/agentic architectures, AWS serverless + Step Functions orchestration, and rigorous evaluation/guardrails for reliable real-world deployments.”
Meng Yang
Staff Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems, cloud platforms, and IoT
“CTO/Chief Architect who rebuilt an IoT platform from a fragile legacy stack into an AWS-based, multi-tenant cloud-native system supporting 50k+ connected devices and 10M+ monthly events, then layered in real-time data pipelines and ML anomaly detection. Known for tightly aligning roadmaps and OKRs to business KPIs (onboarding speed, uptime, velocity) and for scaling teams into domain-focused pods; previously led a shift from LAMP to event-driven Node.js microservices using MQTT and message queues.”
Parker Frost
Executive marketing and business development leader specializing in branding, digital media, and growth
“Seasoned entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience who has raised capital for both his own companies and others, primarily through private equity and angel investors. Currently exiting his last company and open to either launching a new startup or stepping into a leadership role, with a strong bias toward disruptive, high-growth businesses that can leverage AI.”
Stephanie Kline
Executive Content Strategy & Thought Leadership Leader specializing in B2B growth
“Chief-of-Staff / operations leader who has scaled creative and production organizations through hyper-growth, including growing a creative team from ~30 to 200+ while improving turnaround times and protecting margins. Acts as a founder force-multiplier by installing operating cadences, dashboards, and decision systems, and has built scalable editorial and motion-graphics pipelines tied to growth metrics (e.g., ~$2 CPI and seven-figure media spend scaling).”
Vladimir Novick
Executive CTO and Software Architect specializing in AI systems and cloud platforms
“Startup-minded technical founder currently running Novicklabs and building Itervox.dev, an AI agent orchestration platform for developer teams. Previously served as CTO at EventLoop and shows strong insight into multi-agent tooling, observability, security, and the open-source-to-cloud path for developer infrastructure products.”
Jhoneider Vanegas Vásquez
Senior Game Developer specializing in Unity/Unreal and XR (VR/AR)
“Unity developer who built a physics-driven city traffic AI system for a car driving simulator, including modular managers/handlers to enforce traffic lights and speed-limit zones around the player. Also has prior Photon PUN multiplayer experience implementing matchmaking/rooms, movement sync, and RPC-based actions for simple competitive games.”
Douglas Green
Executive sales and marketing leader specializing in language services and healthcare
“Mission-driven builder focused on transforming education by embedding entrepreneurial mindset training into student learning. Already runs a fellowship for Alpha School/University of Austin students and is developing FounderOS, a remote cohort-based platform built on an entrepreneurial knowledge graph, learning science, and gamification. Brings unusually deep ecosystem knowledge from studying 1,000+ global founder programs.”
Jose Hernandez
Senior Sales Development Representative specializing in outbound prospecting and strategic accounts
“Former SDR at Placer AI (later promoted into Customer Success) who generated high outbound volume—booking ~40–50 meetings/month and converting ~30 into opportunities. Experienced selling into municipalities with research-led personalization, and has navigated multi-stakeholder buying committees in healthcare staffing (recruiters/ops/CFO) including ATS and Salesforce-based solution discussions.”
Anandita Maurya
Mid-level Marketing Analytics & Growth Specialist in performance marketing
“Paid media specialist with nonprofit/fundraising experience at Keelworks Foundation, running high-spend acquisition across Google, Meta, and LinkedIn (and familiar with TikTok). Uses CRM-driven funnel segmentation and disciplined A/B testing across ads, landing pages, and email flows; has recovered stalled performance and delivered ~10% donation growth while tracking deep donor-quality KPIs (lead-to-donor, retention, avg gift).”
“Game QA professional experienced in live production pipelines with daily builds and sprint cadence, emphasizing LKG-based verification/regression, smoke/BVT stability checks, and disciplined backlog closure. Known for isolating low-repro gameplay/system defects using video evidence and logs, and for streamlining team workflows through standardized JIRA/Azure DevOps templates and data-driven quality feedback to designers/engineers.”
Tanish Raorane
Junior XR Developer specializing in AR/VR training simulations and immersive applications
“Unity/C# VR developer with shipped Meta Quest experience across multiplayer VR simulations, haptics-driven maze navigation, and VR interior walkthroughs. Built a solo sound-based sandbox VR game ('Alchemix'd') and demonstrates strong hands-on debugging of XR rig collisions, multiplayer sync, and URP performance issues.”
syifa layla
Entry IT Testing Automation Engineer specializing in banking QA and Google Cloud
“QA professional with a web and backend API testing background pivoting into console game QA; brings strong exploratory/regression testing, test case creation, and detailed bug reporting. Familiar with PlayStation/Nintendo UI patterns and gameplay flows as a long-time player, and is proactively preparing to learn console certification standards (Sony TRC, Microsoft XR, Nintendo LOT).”
Deva Sai Kumar Bheesetti
Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in data automation, cloud & AI
“JavaScript engineer who effectively "maintains" an internal open-source-style React/Node.js shared library used by multiple teams—owning API stability, semantic versioning, CI/testing, logging, and documentation. Demonstrates strong cross-team debugging and change-management skills (schema-driven refactors, feature flags, validation layers) to ship new features without breaking existing workflows, plus a profiling/benchmarking-driven approach to performance.”
Faizan Faisal
Director-level Product & Growth Leader specializing in mobile games and user acquisition
“Mobile F2P product leader (11+ years) who has built and published multiple games—most notably Hexa Sort—into multi-million-dollar IPs with publishers like Lion Studios (AppLovin), Voodoo, and Tango. Known for rigorous, data-driven monetization and engagement optimization (months-long multi-variant testing, activation milestone discovery, ROAS-focused launch tuning) and for leading cross-functional teams across product, growth, and data.”
Joshua Carson
Senior Audio Producer & Sound Designer specializing in music, post-production, and game audio
“Recent audio production bachelor’s graduate with Unity-based game and cinematic school projects, creating and layering original SFX from scratch and implementing via Wwise. Former 1990s drummer who recorded, mixed, and mastered band EPs using analog gear; eager to ramp up on Unreal Engine audio systems.”
Sloan Caplan
Executive Manufacturing & Operations Leader specializing in strategy, MRP, and growth
“Operations-focused leader/advisor who has spun up and redirected an internal startup into a standalone division with full P&L ownership, introducing tech-enabled order tracking and a weekly management operating cadence. Experienced driving change in legacy environments through transparency and KPI-driven execution, with additional advisory work supporting founders/executives through M&A and working-capital/inventory discipline.”
ISAURA GUZMAN
Senior Basketball Coach & Athletic Performance Trainer specializing in youth and elite athlete development
“Youth AAU basketball coach who also ran tournaments at Union City High School, handling real-time event logistics like team dropouts, parking constraints, and staffing referees/scoreboard. Comfortable scouting talent in person and via social media, with a recruiting lens focused on intangibles and team fit, and creates side-by-side video breakdowns connecting skill work to in-game results.”
Christopher Perkins Jr
Senior Enterprise Account Executive & GTM Lead specializing in early-stage B2B SaaS
“Full-cycle enterprise seller with deep retail-adjacent fluency in payments, stored value/wallets, martech, and loyalty. Highlights include a $1.9M ARR ($9.5M TCV) deal and 220% quota attainment ($2.2M closed) while also building a GTM playbook and sales process; has proven ability to navigate acquisitions, shifting priorities, and executive turnover mid-deal.”
Sufyan Shaikh
Director of Growth Marketing specializing in multi-channel acquisition and attribution
“Growth and partnerships leader spanning creator ecosystem and B2B SaaS GTM. Drove measurable revenue outcomes by combining performance-based creator deals (including whitelisting/retargeting and geo lift testing) with a repeatable demand engine using Google Search, LinkedIn ABM, AI-personalized outbound, and HubSpot automation—scaling MRR from $15K to $110K and lifting trial-to-paid conversion from ~3.4% to ~9% via persona-based onboarding.”
Michelle Jimenez
HR Director specializing in HR strategy, benefits/payroll, and industrial security programs
“People/HR leader focused on retention, engagement, and organizational effectiveness—partnering with executives to implement performance review systems, redesign teams for growth, and improve hiring/onboarding. Brings strong employee relations experience (including harassment investigations) and uses people metrics and market research to optimize benefits and drive participation.”
Tomasz Klapsia
Executive Technology Leader (CTO) specializing in SaaS platforms, DevOps, and regulated systems
“Independent product builder with several live startups spanning transit, gaming, and SaaS/API tools. Notably built a Cyprus bus routes app before transit data was broadly available on Google Maps, and is currently maintaining products like CountriesDB and HolidayDB while pursuing SEO-led growth and validating ideas solo before expanding.”
Nicholas Homme
Senior Full-Stack Developer specializing in React, Node.js, and AWS
“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across Python/Flask microservices and AWS serverless/data platforms (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Glue/PySpark). Demonstrated strong reliability and operations mindset (JWT/RBAC, retries/timeouts/circuit breakers, CloudWatch/SNS alerting) and measurable performance wins (SQL report runtime cut from 10 minutes to 30 seconds). Seeking ~$150k base and cannot travel for onsite meetings for the next 5–6 months due to family medical constraints.”