Vetted Leadership Professionals

“Former basketball player with deep exposure to youth leagues/tournaments and recruitment events, now coaching middle and high school athletes while coordinating district-wide Special Olympics programming. Currently a full-time Florida State University grad student in athletic coaching who regularly produces and edits video content and uses game film breakdown to develop players; comfortable scouting and communicating with families via social media.”

“ML/computer-vision practitioner who shipped a CycleGAN-based bilingual handwriting translation demo (English↔Telugu) for low-resource scripts using unpaired datasets, focusing on preserving handwriting style and real-time deployment via Gradio. Also delivered a medical imaging pipeline by fine-tuning ResNet-50 and ViT-B/16 for pneumonia detection, emphasizing reproducibility, measurable evaluation, and stakeholder-friendly iteration.”

“Applied AI/ML engineer with hands-on production experience building a RAG-based AI assistant for pharmaceutical maintenance troubleshooting using LangChain + FAISS/Pinecone, including a custom normalization layer to handle inconsistent terminology and duplicate document revisions. Also built Airflow-orchestrated pipelines for document ingestion/embeddings and predictive maintenance workflows (SCADA ETL, drift-based retraining), and partnered closely with production supervisors/quality engineers via Power BI dashboards and real-time alerts.”

“Hospitality operations leader with hands-on experience building administrative and operational infrastructure for new hotel and restaurant openings (handbooks, training, SOPs, cleaning regimens). Known for developing talent—mentored 7 team members into General Manager roles—and for running multi-property oversight using daily reporting and continuous communication to drive operational improvements.”

Christopher Peacock

Screened

Executive CIO and Enterprise Architect specializing in cloud, security, and IT governance

Remote5y exp

“Fractional CIO/founder-type operator at AHDX Inc, a hybrid-cloud/primary storage solutions startup with a compliance focus targeting healthcare; MVP has completed beta and the company has seed funding while pursuing additional investment. Has supported multiple startups (OmniHR, Combat Connect, 3BX) and cites tangible results tied to DoD/security, Medicare/Medicaid, and Air Force LMS contracts, positioning them as a hands-on "fixer" for early-stage technical strategy and architecture.”

“Developed and productionized VL-Mate, a vision-language, LLM-powered assistant aimed at helping visually impaired users understand their surroundings and query internal knowledge. Emphasizes reliability and safety via confidence thresholds, uncertainty-aware fallbacks, hallucination grounding checks, and rigorous offline + user-in-the-loop evaluation, with experience orchestrating multi-step LLM pipelines (LangChain-style and custom Python async) and deploying on containerized infrastructure.”

“Video editor and post producer with ~10 years of extensive Adobe Premiere and After Effects experience, including documentary work for an Abu Dhabi media company (UAE National Day) blending archival footage, live footage, and graphics. Experienced in end-to-end longform YouTube post-production workflows and retention-focused storytelling techniques.”

Hammad Ur Rahman

Screened

Senior DevOps Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and CI/CD

Boston, Massachusetts11y exp

“IBM Power/AIX engineer who has owned a 150+ LPAR AIX 7.x estate with VIOS/HMC/vHMC and PowerHA in production, including real outage and failover recoveries. Also brings modern DevOps/IaC experience—built Jenkins pipelines deploying to AKS and implemented Terraform on AWS with remote state, locking, and drift management.”

Rizwan Manzoor

Screened

Senior Media Buyer specializing in content & search arbitrage

Sargodha, Pakistan9y exp

“Performance media buyer focused on content/search arbitrage and native advertising, managing $100K+/month budgets across Taboola, Outbrain, MGID, Zemanta, Newsbreak, and MediaGo. Emphasizes systematic creative/placement/bid testing and rapid optimization, citing ~20–30% RPM improvement while scaling spend and recovering ROI quickly after performance drops.”

Corbin Melnick

Screened

Senior Customer Success Manager specializing in B2B retention and lead generation

Los Angeles, USA10y exp

“Outbound growth and lead-gen operator who has run multi-channel campaigns (email + LinkedIn) and built scalable outbound infrastructure. Helped scale MintLeads from 10 to 200+ clients (Inc. 5000 honors) by developing the outbound engine, standardized messaging, AI-assisted copy iteration, and domain rotation/deliverability systems; currently supports outbound execution for 50+ clients.”

“Hockey lifer with ~18 years in the sport (4-year varsity player and multi-year captain) who combines on-ice leadership with Marine Corps NCO mentoring experience. Emphasizes disciplined preparation and a holistic approach to player evaluation (IQ, compete level, off-puck play, and character), and is comfortable creating educational social content like roadmaps and Q&As for hockey families.”

“Frontend-focused engineer with internship experience at eXp Realty and Pulse InfoFrame, building survey platforms and a drag-and-drop survey management UI in React + TypeScript. Notably helped execute a post-deployment migration from DynamoDB to Amazon RDS to enable scalable SQL aggregation (tested with ~70k survey instances), and monitored rollout via CloudWatch/Cloudflare logs while driving QA and load testing.”

“Early-career engineer who built a self-directed production-grade security scanning/analysis pipeline that normalizes multi-scanner results, correlates CVEs, and uses an LLM to generate exploit hypotheses—then hardened it for real-world reliability (timeouts, confidence scoring, feature flags, graceful degradation). Also integrated a real-time audio ML model into Discord/Zoom and debugged intermittent latency/dropouts across Python inference, virtual audio drivers, and network jitter; experienced with IAM integrations (Entra ID/Salesforce) and cloud tooling (AWS/Docker/Kubernetes).”

“Growth creative specialist who builds and iterates high-volume, platform-native paid social ads for an AI app (Smarter Chat), using performance analytics (hook/hold rates) to engineer creative improvements. Developed a POV/"hidden camera" confrontation concept around infidelity that achieved a $2 CPA and influenced broader creative strategy toward more authentic, unscripted-feeling social content.”

Jason Tsui

Screened

Executive Finance Leader specializing in FP&A, BI, and cash flow optimization

Orange, CA14y exp

“Founder and financial-operations-focused consultant who builds FP&A/BI frameworks for early-stage and legacy businesses, including KPI systems tied to month-end close and integrated manufacturing/distribution datasets (BOM, PPV, rolling forecasts). Drove a 400% cash-position increase for a distribution client by redesigning collections analytics (customer-level DSO + proprietary PTC ratio) and has coached PE-installed executives through U.S. operational/legal and cultural nuances.”

“Unity lead/gameplay engineer who built and shipped Explottens (Apple Arcade) from scratch, including a custom 2D physics system and performance-focused pooling; reports the title generated seven-figure USD revenue. Also integrated an LLM/RAG-driven conversational avatar experience (English/Arabic TTS with lip sync) via a reliability-focused backend layer, and has hands-on Unity Netcode multiplayer experience solving desync and precision issues with deterministic predicted trajectories.”

Mohammed Syed

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer & Researcher specializing in healthcare AI and multimodal LLM systems

Remote2y exp

“Backend/ML engineer focused on clinical AI transparency who built ShifaMind, an explainability-enforced clinical ML system using UMLS/MIMIC-IV/PubMed data with RAG, GraphSAGE, and cross-attention. Demonstrated strong production engineering via FastAPI API design and safe migrations (feature flags/shadow inference), plus HIPAA-aligned auth/RLS patterns; also delivered a real-time comet detection system reaching 97.7% accuracy.”

Joseph Whissel

Screened

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in scalable SaaS, cloud, and embedded systems

12y exp

“Startup-experienced builder exploring an ambitious “internet 2.0” concept: a decentralized wireless mesh network using custom hardware nodes, with a security-first communications goal. Has thought through adoption mechanics via at-cost node distribution, usage-based crypto incentives, and an AR area-control game to drive network growth; also brings practical insight into what VCs value from working at startups including one owned by a PE firm.”

Rebecca Attanasio

Screened

Senior Venture Builder specializing in DTC subscription and partner-led growth

Remote, USA11y exp

“Serial entrepreneur who has built and sold two companies and is now looking to build a new zero-to-one venture within a venture studio. Values fast iteration with strong operator partners, focusing on product/customer experience, early traction, and investor-ready fundamentals (traction, margins, customer signals).”

Janusz Kozakiewicz

Screened

Senior Unity Developer specializing in gameplay programming and scalable architecture

8y exp

“Unity game developer who built high-impact combat UI feedback systems (multi-stage laser charging reticle) using lightweight DOTween animations and math-based reticle switching for multi-cannon gunboats. Has experience shipping features in an always-online mobile title (Fishing Clash) involving protobuf-based client/server communication, and uses AI tools to iterate on scalable MVVM UI architectures (e.g., modular journal with infinite paging).”

ivan martinez

Screened

Senior Industrial Robotics Programmer & Integrator specializing in grinding, welding and packaging

Sant Cugat del Vallés, Spain19y exp

“Robotics integrator/programmer with ~20 years of experience across high-robot-count industrial cells, including automotive welding plus grinding/polishing, and currently focused on packaging end-of-line palletizing. Strong in KUKA (KRL/WorkVisual) integration, PLC communication troubleshooting, multi-robot coordination (ABB/Yaskawa), and using OEM simulators plus Mastercam/Robotmaster for offline prep.”