Vetted Mentoring Professionals

“Full-stack engineer with production experience building and owning high-traffic e-commerce checkout flows in Next.js (App Router) + TypeScript across microservices (REST/GraphQL). Demonstrated measurable performance wins (30% checkout improvement; 85% initial load reduction at 20th Century FOX) and strong production rigor (APM/logs, CloudWatch, Postgres indexing + EXPLAIN ANALYZE), including offloading PDF generation to AWS Lambda.”

Dylan Tang

Screened

Intern Software Developer and ML Researcher specializing in medical imaging and computer vision

Chicago, IL0y exp

“AI/ML practitioner with experience spanning audio/LLM applications (built "Iota" using Whisper, tiktoken, and a local Ollama-served LLM) and healthcare ML (Facemed.ai; UChicago Radiology). Demonstrates a production-oriented mindset—focus on data/model fit, deterministic field testing, and operational safeguards—and has improved research evaluation workflows via a hash-table-based concurrent model tracking approach.”

Prateek Patil

Screened

Engineering Leader specializing in Digital Health, AI, and Cloud Platforms

Santa Clara, CA16y exp

“Senior Engineering Manager at Roche leading two Scrum teams building internally shared (“inner-sourced”) tools and libraries for a healthcare enterprise. Has led security/compliance-first architecture decisions (e.g., Python AI modules running inside a Java container) and front-end modularization (Angular monorepo to module federation), with a strong focus on developer experience via automated Swagger/OpenAPI documentation and robust testing/versioning practices.”

Mounika Gunturu

Screened

Senior Python Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud-native microservices and data platforms

New York, NY9y exp

“Backend/data engineer from Oliver Wyman who built and ran production Python (FastAPI) services on AWS (ECS/Lambda/API Gateway) supporting risk modeling and regulatory reporting. Strong in reliability/observability, Glue-based ETL with data quality controls, and legacy SAS-to-Python modernization with rigorous parity validation; also demonstrated measurable SQL performance wins and cost-control improvements in serverless scaling. Based in Raleigh, NC and can travel onsite for important Bethesda-area meetings.”

Johnq Gromada

Screened

Principal Sound Designer/Composer specializing in theatre, audio drama, and broadcast media

Nyack, NY35y exp

“Music editor/composer and Pro Tools power user who handled all music editing plus original composition/production (with live musicians) for Chazz Palminteri’s "A Bronx Tale: The One Man Show" (Tribeca premiere), and supervised a 5.1 mix at Harbor in NYC. Experienced in dialogue cleanup (iZotope), music-to-picture editing (time-stretch/Melodyne), and fast-turnaround workflows supported by a proprietary FileMaker Pro tracking database; also produces audio drama/Audible Originals.”

jitender Hooda

Screened

Executive Client Partner specializing in engineering and digital services

San Ramon, CA19y exp

“Founder building an agentic AI-based low-code platform for B2B enterprise applications, validated through enterprise client conversations and delivered via rapid paid MVP/POCs. Platform has seen production traction (6–7 apps, 1000+ daily users) and includes capabilities like QR scanning integrated with ERP/PLM systems. Experienced in business development and client relationships, with a pragmatic, ROI- and speed-focused approach to product and GTM under tight capital constraints.”

Swathi Sankaran

Screened

Senior Python Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud, data engineering, and ML/GenAI

New York, NY10y exp

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building FastAPI services on AWS and implementing strong reliability/observability (CloudWatch, ELK, correlation IDs, alarms). Has delivered serverless + container solutions with IaC (CloudFormation/Terraform) and Jenkins CI/CD, and built AWS Glue/PySpark pipelines into S3/Redshift with schema-evolution and data-quality safeguards; demonstrated large-scale SQL tuning (45 min to 3 min on a 500M-row workload).”

Gregoire Monteil

Screened

Senior Game Designer specializing in AI systems and live ops

Montreal, Quebec, Canada12y exp

“Gameplay/system designer with shipped AAA experience on Far Cry (5/6), including end-to-end ownership of AI NPC class redesigns and a stealth system redesign in a chaotic open-world context. Also designed Dead by Daylight’s winter event centered on snowball mechanics that players adopted for emergent communication and that appealed to casual/new players; experienced with UE Blueprints prototyping and modular, data-tuned systems.”

“Performance marketer with hands-on ownership of SGD 60K-80K/month multi-channel accounts across Google, Bing, Meta, and TikTok. Demonstrates strong full-funnel thinking, disciplined experimentation, and practical optimization instincts—especially around CPL, lead quality, creative fatigue, and budget shifting between social and search to restore efficiency.”

“Product leader with experience at Catbird and Ipsy, especially strong in e-commerce, personalization, and operational AI. Stands out for combining direct customer immersion with rigorous scoping and stakeholder alignment—launching a new personalization experience in 10 weeks with 100% ROI in 4 weeks, and later driving AI automation that cut merchandising workload by 30%.”

“Seasoned enterprise program/project leader with 12+ years delivering complex technology initiatives in highly regulated federal, healthcare, and financial services environments. Stands out for managing portfolios of 6-7 concurrent modernization and operational transformation efforts, with strong governance, executive communication, and cross-functional coordination across engineering, security, and operations.”

Kerri Heinen

Screened

Principal Product Owner specializing in healthcare IT and med-tech

Mounds View, MN17y exp

“Product leader with experience modernizing legacy customer-facing platforms and delivering AI-enabled healthcare capabilities, including an algorithm to classify true cardiac arrhythmias for clinicians. Brings a structured, cross-functional approach to roadmap decisions, user engagement, and team development across engineering, UX, and Scrum teams.”

Betsie Hoyt

Screened

Director-level Product Management leader specializing in SaaS, AI, APIs, and mobile products

18y exp

“Senior product leader in construction technology with experience at Trimble, where they helped reshape a fragmented 15-acquisition portfolio into a platform strategy that became central to how a $250M business is sold and supported. They combine enterprise platform thinking, AI product delivery, and change management, including launching a voice-based LLM workflow for regulated field reporting and coaching cross-functional teams into stronger product practices.”

“Marketing/brand designer with ~4 years at Overtime Sports, creating high-polish brand identities and sales enablement creative. Built the full identity for the Overtime Lunchbox show (now 500k+ followers) and designed an interactive Ceros-based advertising site that helped generate partnerships and RFP responses, alongside scalable deck/template systems for high-volume sales pitching.”

“Founder/CEO of a consumer products startup since 2020 who has raised angel funding and reinvested it into R&D, product development, production, and expert legal/industry support (has not taken a salary). Former financial and deals consultant who applies rigorous market, buyer-landscape, and exit-path analysis (including Blue Ocean Strategy) to choose and execute opportunities, with a strong commitment to entrepreneurship.”

“AI Product Manager who also operates as a product marketer/CRM lifecycle lead, focused on behavior-driven onboarding and retention. Has delivered measurable growth through segmentation, multi-channel lifecycle programs, and experimentation (e.g., activation +23%, TTFV -30%, retention +14%), and led a cross-functional chatbot integration that improved course completion (+23%) while reducing refunds (-15%).”

“CTO/enterprise architect who stays hands-on in code while leading strategy, stakeholder alignment, and team scaling. At Eastridge, established product and technology vision/roadmap, built product engineering/strategy functions, and helped launch products into global markets; most recently led GenAI product design including tech selection, infrastructure, scalability, and observability.”

“Engineering leader (Credit Karma/fintech) who built internal developer-platform frameworks at near open-source scale, including a unified key management system migrating ~450 services from on-prem HSM to a centralized KMS. Known for driving large cross-team migrations with strong safety mechanisms (canaries, shadow reads, rollback toggles) and measurable DX/ops improvements (60% fewer provisioning requests; 40% faster time-to-first-secret).”

“QA tester with hands-on experience supporting Duolingo’s large-scale, high-stakes releases across iOS, Android, and web. Owns test planning, manual + mobile automation testing, regression, and release verification, with a strong focus on real-world edge cases (low-end devices, poor connectivity, localization/RTL) and rigorous bug triage using JIRA and external user reports.”

“Engineering leader/player-coach who led a high-stakes 0→1 in-house usage-based billing/rating platform to replace a third-party system, saving millions and protecting 30M+ in revenue. Deep experience in event-driven microservices on AWS (Lambda/SQS/DynamoDB), billing correctness, migrations, and incident response, while scaling teams through hiring, coaching, and lightweight execution processes.”

“Early-stage founder building an engineering alpha product and planning a structured path to pilot and general availability. Active mentor in TechStars and MassChallenge with a strong VC network, emphasizing PMF, MVP-in-market feedback, and early sales while maintaining a sustainable approach to entrepreneurship.”

Allan Farinas

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Python and AWS

West Covina, CA11y exp

“Backend/data engineer who has built production Python microservices (FastAPI) and AWS-native platforms for event ingestion and analytics, combining ECS/Fargate + Lambda with CloudFormation-driven environments and strong secrets/IAM practices. Experienced modernizing legacy logic with parallel-run parity validation and safe phased cutovers, and has demonstrated measurable SQL tuning wins (20–30s down to 1–2s) plus incident ownership in Glue/Step Functions ETL pipelines.”

Maranatha Ilesanmi

Screened

Senior Frontend Engineer specializing in React and TypeScript

Kitchener, Canada11y exp

“Frontend engineer with deep experience modernizing KYC flows at Carta, including rebuilding country-specific KYC forms into a scalable configuration + validation-schema system that cut new-jurisdiction support from 2–3 months to ~2 weeks. Strong on quality and rollout practices (E2E/backend testing, early QA engagement, staged/A-B rollouts) and performance optimization for heavy React/TypeScript dashboards using Intersection Observers for lazy loading.”

Alex Yum

Screened

Senior Supply Chain & Warehouse Operations Leader specializing in logistics optimization

Leonia, NJ20y exp

“Operations leader at AWI who ran multiple high-impact initiatives in parallel, including a WMS implementation, fulfillment workflow redesign, and a company-wide cost optimization effort. Known for building KPI dashboards and exception-based reporting that improved data trust and saved executives ~4–6 hours per week, while standardizing warehouse processes and coaching supervisors to reduce escalations and stabilize day-to-day ops.”