Vetted Mentoring Professionals

“Brazil-based startup CTO who raised $3M and spent 5 years building an agri-fintech credit origination tool for farmers, including going through Y Combinator and fundraising via Demo Day and Brazilian VCs. Ultimately shut the company down due to market shifts (rising interest rates and farmer delinquency), demonstrating pragmatic judgment and deep exposure to credit-market dynamics.”

“Candidate does not currently have a business plan or startup and has not raised capital. They have not worked directly in VC/studio/accelerator settings but report being familiar through friends/family and personal interest in joining that ecosystem; they are not committed to entrepreneurship at all costs.”

Akhil Jaggari

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in scalable web platforms and cloud microservices

CA, CA6y exp

“Backend engineer with fintech/real-estate lending domain experience (Berkadia) building Python/Flask services for indicative loan pricing across Fannie/Freddie workflows. Strong in scalable AWS architectures (S3, Lambda, SageMaker), database performance (PostgreSQL read replicas, indexing, pooling), and high-throughput optimizations (streaming exports, Redis caching) with measurable production impact.”

Brian Watts

Screened

Senior Sales & Account Management leader specializing in medical devices and industrial safety (PPE)

Charlotte, NC32y exp

“Sales development/outbound-focused seller with 5 years of consistent quarterly results (20+ new accounts added to pipeline, 3–5 meetings set, 5–7 new opportunities; 40–60% close conversion). Experienced selling industrial safety solutions (hearing protection/OSHA, ladder protection, confined space fall protection) and advancing complex, distributor-involved deals—e.g., closing a shipbuilding ladder protection opportunity and uncovering 7 additional multi-year needs.”

colton childrey

Screened

Senior QA Leader specializing in AAA games, XR platforms, and backend systems

Los Angeles, CA7y exp

“Game/interactive software QA professional with experience spanning AAA titles (Activision Black Ops 3; Halo 4/Forge) and VR at Meta (The World Beyond). Notable for modernizing QA operations at Lego BrickLink Studio by implementing Testmo and dramatically increasing test coverage and user satisfaction, plus quickly diagnosing and unblocking a critical public-launch issue caused by misconfigured gatekeeper flags.”

“Solutions Architect with hands-on experience driving AWS Partner Network engagements end-to-end (technical reviews, discovery, demos, incentives, marketplace/GTM) to enable revenue outcomes, even when not the direct closer. Known for navigating complex policy/compliance changes with high-revenue partners and for being a go-to Amazon Connect specialist in ambiguous customer environments; also collaborated with founders of a small health tech company on an AI agent concept tied to healthcare workflows and medical records.”

“Clinical research coordinator pivoting toward outbound sales/SDR work, with hands-on experience running multi-channel participant recruitment campaigns. Stands out for using census data, internal databases, social media, and even bus stop ad targeting to materially improve enrollment in a highly specific clinical study population.”

Chris Przybyszewski

Screened

Executive entrepreneur specializing in biotech, medtech, and fundraising

“Serial entrepreneur who has founded five companies, achieved one acquisition with another pending, and raised $150M across biotech, medtech, and mobile tech ventures. Brings rare end-to-end startup formation experience spanning EIR and accelerator mentorship, board and executive leadership, and sophisticated capital strategy across both dilutive and nondilutive funding.”

“Principal engineer with experience across multiple startups, including direct exposure to VC due diligence and early-stage company strategy. Stands out for making pragmatic product decisions—such as steering a startup away from capital-intensive custom hardware toward mobile applications to validate the business faster and focus on the most valuable software layer.”

“Senior sales executive with deep experience leading large-territory public sector and enterprise sales teams across healthcare, government, and services. Stands out for combining strategic sales transformation—territory design, compensation redesign, CRM/predictive KPI systems, and rapid hiring—with proven results including $80M+ ARR, a $200M+ backlog, an $80M business turnaround, and a $750M complex outsourcing deal.”

Clifton Gilley

Screened

Executive product leader specializing in product management and Agile transformation

Remote, USA25y exp

“Veteran product leader with roughly 20 years of experience spanning legal tech, higher education, and enterprise software, including early AI/ML applications in e-discovery at massive scale. Unusually combines product leadership with a background in law, psychology, and sociology, giving him strong domain empathy and a human-centered approach to UX, AI, and organizational transformation.”

Olivier Meyer

Screened

Executive product leader specializing in AI-enabled B2B SaaS platforms

Herndon, VA31y exp

“Product leader with experience both scaling enterprise platforms and building product organizations from zero. At PerformYard, they introduced AI across HR/performance workflows, built the first PM, design, and QA teams, and applied deep BI/analytics expertise to unblock a stalled reporting product. They also led technically complex platform work at VBrick, including a WebRTC-based peer-to-peer distribution capability for large-scale enterprise video delivery.”

“Engineer working in a venture-studio-style company that spins up SaaS products and new businesses, often owning early product and technical direction across teams ranging from 1 to 100 people. Particularly strong at hardware-software systems: they led software design and hardware choices for a 360 vision product and built a company-wide HIL testing platform with Go/Python/TypeScript, multi-language SDKs, and flexible endpoint architecture.”

“Programmatic media specialist with deep hands-on experience running high-budget AWS/Amazon campaigns, including a $4MM side-by-side DSP bakeoff (DV360, The Trade Desk, Amazon DSP) focused on awareness and cost efficiency. Strong in CTV/OLV optimization and measurement, leveraging brand lift and attention studies, and known for disciplined testing frameworks and practical troubleshooting to restore performance.”

“Unity VR/MR developer with multiple shipped Meta Quest projects, including a multi-user mixed-reality co-creation experience featuring real-time connection logic and shader-driven mesh generation for performance. Also builds AI-powered interactive applications, recently creating a video interview simulator using OpenAI API, HeyGen real-time avatars, and AWS audio/agent tooling while managing end-to-end latency challenges.”

“Talent acquisition leader who has built and managed recruiting teams up to 12 and maintained hands-on executive recruiting when needed. Led a major recruiting tech/process upgrade by replacing a legacy ATS with Greenhouse and driving adoption through training, and has partnered closely with HRBPs on compensation strategy, performance KPIs, and sensitive employee-relations communications. Also created and rolled out a Sales Consultant Program across US operations at RTB House.”

“Operations-focused leader with experience spanning client delivery, sales operations, and longer-term customer success initiatives at a reputation analytics firm and at Penta. Known for implementing systems (ClickUp, Salesforce/HubSpot, marketing tech) and rigorous reporting rhythms that improve executive visibility, accountability, and data-driven resource allocation; also supported an acquisition by preparing confidential financial documentation and contracts.”

“Operations and revenue-ops leader with higher-education experience who built a team and the full operating/marketing/sales infrastructure from scratch, getting to revenue in under a year and beating projections by year 2. Deep hands-on Salesforce CRM implementation and automation (lead-to-opportunity conversion, round-robin assignment, dashboards) paired with data-driven brand/market research and executive mentoring.”

“Infrastructure/DevOps engineer with primary ownership in enterprise Linux and AWS/Azure production environments (including financial systems). Built secure, repeatable CI/CD pipelines deploying containerized workloads to EKS/ECS and implemented Terraform/CloudFormation IaC with drift detection and rollback practices; lacks direct IBM Power/AIX/PowerHA experience.”

Velusamy Ramasamy

Screened

Principal Software Architect specializing in cloud platforms, data engineering, and enterprise security

Seattle, WA29y exp

“Engineering leader with experience defining solutions from business requirements through detailed specifications and implementation, emphasizing cost-aware technology selection. Has led architectural changes including adding IBM Cloud alongside AWS for budget reasons and integrating caching/messaging to improve availability and performance, and describes scaling distributed teams via experienced DevOps/QA hires and structured evaluation.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on compliance and statistical processing systems on AWS, building containerized FastAPI services plus event-driven async workflows (Step Functions/EventBridge) with strong reliability patterns (JWT auth, idempotency, structured logging). Has modernized SAS-based batch pipelines into modular Python/AWS services with parallel-run parity validation, and has demonstrated measurable SQL performance wins (40+ min to <10 min) and hands-on incident ownership using CloudWatch-driven detection and prevention.”

“Backend/platform engineer building HIPAA-compliant, real-time healthcare systems: owned a Python/Flask API layer for an AI-enabled patient engagement and risk scoring service, implemented PHI-safe logging and cross-service auditability, and delivered Kubernetes microservices via ArgoCD GitOps. Also has experience with Kafka streaming pipelines and hybrid cloud-to-on-prem migrations in regulated healthcare/fintech environments.”

“AI/full-stack engineer with experience delivering production-critical healthcare AI at Roche (digital pathology imaging platform using Microsoft Gigapath for cancer diagnosis) and building scalable LLM-backed products. Strong in designing async AI backends (Django/Celery/Postgres/Redis on GCP), reliability engineering (Datadog, incident response), and agent-style document analysis workflows with evaluation loops.”

“Game QA professional with live production ownership on New World Aeternum (progression-driven connected rewards spanning UI, backend tracking, and live tuning) and experience on God of War Ragnarok. Emphasizes risk-based test planning, strong cross-functional triage grounded in player impact/live risk, and highly actionable Jira/TestRail practices (PAL titles, traceability, video/log evidence) to speed resolution and reduce late-cycle churn.”