Vetted Mentoring Professionals

Edward Yeh

Screened

Director-level Data Engineering & MDM leader specializing in enterprise data platforms

Hunt Valley, MD20y exp

“Former Xendit (YC-backed fintech) operator applying outcome-driven, scalable product-building experience to a new startup: a real-time, personalized real estate investment intelligence platform. Has begun prototyping, completed ROI analysis, and validated the space with US market research plus broker interviews in Chicago and Los Angeles, aiming to differentiate from Zillow/Redfin with goal-based ranked investment recommendations.”

Joseph Leybovich

Screened

Senior Unity Engineer specializing in XR and game development

Culver City, CA13y exp

“Unity/C# gameplay engineer with hands-on experience shipping end-to-end game systems, including a story mode pipeline on Marvel Mighty Heroes that supported designers directly and improved player retention. Also brings experimental AI/LLM and VR experience from Meta hackathons plus Photon multiplayer and cross-platform VR/mobile prototyping expertise.”

“Engineering leader with experience at CBS Interactive and Paramount who scaled a web engineering team from 4 to 30+ (adding QA/PMO/mobile) while instituting strong agile and code-quality processes. Led a major architectural shift to a generic content API that decoupled web/mobile experiences from niche publishing systems, reportedly cutting developer onboarding time by ~50% and enabling some day-one production commits.”

HUGH BOYLE

Screened

Executive marketing leader specializing in brand, digital, and agency transformation

Grapevine, TX18y exp

“Experienced corporate operator with a co-founder bringing 50+ combined years of relevant large-company experience, now building a bootstrapped AI/SaaS/Data Infrastructure startup. They have spent the past year developing a detailed business plan, playbook, and investor materials with support from Accenture's startup assessment tools, and are just beginning to engage VCs from a position of strong preparation.”

Yash Jajoo

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI and FinTech platforms

New York City, NY8y exp

“Built a production LLM pipeline at Walter AI that scans massive user inboxes, identifies financial newsletters, and extracts trading strategies into structured JSON for downstream paper-trading workflows. Stands out for combining agent architecture with strong production discipline—cutting scan time from 20 to 5 minutes, reducing LLM costs by 90%, and achieving 3-second P99 latency while handling messy, inconsistent email data at scale.”

Josh Rhoades

Screened

Executive Technology Leader (CTO) specializing in AI-enabled SaaS and regulated platforms

Los Angeles, CA30y exp

“Senior engineering leader with experience at Disney and BlackLine who drives business-aligned technology roadmaps through deep Product/Engineering partnership (two-in-a-box) and pragmatic prioritization frameworks. Has led major modernization initiatives—private-to-public cloud migration to GCP with multi-cloud evolution, data-layer performance improvements (Mongo/Redis, caching/query optimization), and tooling upgrades (VSS to GitHub)—while scaling teams with strong quality and accountability culture.”

Vineeta Srivastav

Screened

Senior Talent Acquisition Lead specializing in AI, Cloud, and technical recruiting

Dallas, TX18y exp

“Talent/Recruiting Operations leader with Siemens experience managing a blended internal team plus RPO and owning end-to-end TA operations (ATS/Lever, onboarding, background checks, compliance, reporting). Known for redesigning intake-to-offer workflows with measurable impact (20% faster time-to-fill; ~33% fewer aging reqs) and leading automated interview scheduling implementations in partnership with HRIS, IT, and SSO teams.”

“Video editor with a decade of experience cutting longform YouTube and series content, working daily in Adobe Premiere and leveraging After Effects for motion graphics/MOGRTs. Has held supervisory roles at Vox Media projects including Netflix/YouTube Originals (e.g., Glad You Asked) and collaborated with major creators like Cleo Abram and Marques Brownlee, with recent work for Daily Mail Online and More Perfect Union.”