Vetted Mentoring Professionals

“Senior executive operations leader with experience supporting top leadership at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum and the Defense Health Agency. Built executive-facing tracking systems (Excel/SharePoint), implemented meeting-time standards (25/50), and led large-scale initiatives including multi-million dollar exhibits and a 25,000-person keynote event, with deep discretion from long-term military security clearance.”

THAMES HARRISON

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Engineering Manager specializing in enterprise SaaS, cloud architecture, and AI/ML

Gainesville, FL17y exp

“Senior engineering manager who stays hands-on (~50/50) while leading teams through design reviews, code reviews, and production issue triage. Shipped scalable platform features (notifications, user action tracking via microservices) with strong quality/performance practices (TDD, high-load testing). Owned a complex cross-system SSO/IdP incident end-to-end, identifying a SameSite+iFrame root cause and delivering a configurable product fix plus support documentation.”

“Unity VR senior developer with ~8 years in VR and ~3 years focused on Meta Quest, building multiplayer training/digital-twin style experiences. Strong Photon (PUN/Fusion) background, including solving tricky networked object attachment/jitter issues via ownership and local-physics strategies. Demonstrated hands-on performance turnarounds in VR scenes using Mesh Baker, LODs, and impostors, plus experience shipping social multiplayer VR activities with Photon Voice.”

“Architect/product owner/lead developer who built high-scale ERP supply chain and inventory transaction capabilities (including order-to-order pegging) with strong performance tuning in Postgres and robust monitoring/reprocessing dashboards. Also led product for an enterprise agentic development platform using LLM integrations to generate user stories, data models, workflows, and RBAC-secured applications, with sandboxing and promotion guardrails plus UAT across technical and non-technical personas.”

“Frontend-focused engineer (~8 years) with strong React/TypeScript and Angular experience who leads end-to-end UI architecture, performance budgets, and quality practices at scale. Known for restructuring large, tightly coupled codebases into feature-based domains to eliminate UI freezes and improve team throughput, and for tight Product/Design/QA alignment via a “3 Amigos” process that catches workflow gaps early. Currently seeking a new frontend role due to GE Vernova outsourcing; has been acquired twice by large companies.”

Sai Haritha Sardena

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in web, cloud, and AI/ML

Remote, USA7y exp

“Software engineer with experience at Wipro and Tylmen Tech owning customer-facing onboarding and real-time features end-to-end (React + Spring Boot) and building TypeScript/React apps backed by Node.js microservices (MongoDB, RabbitMQ). Strong in production reliability and fast iteration: feature-flagged rollouts, idempotent APIs/consumers, DLQs, and SLO-driven incident tooling, including an internal QA & release dashboard adopted by engineering and support teams.”

Mark Thomas

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level software architect specializing in cloud, distributed systems, and healthcare IT

McCalla, AL20y exp

“Startup veteran with experience at seven companies since 2004 and direct exposure to Birmingham's Innovation Depot accelerator through three different startups. Has worked closely with investment teams on MVPs and pitch decks and brings a pragmatic lens to evaluating ventures through need, margins, burn rate, cash position, and sales growth strategy.”

“Former CTO at Enodo who led development of programmatic parsers to extract unstructured data from real-estate financial documents (rent rolls and T12s), validating with users via prototypes before productionizing. Emphasizes accuracy-driven engineering and scalable test-suite growth based on real user samples, and has experience scoping complex product ideas (e.g., browser-based narrative editor) down to an MVP.”

Trevor Peace

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in Healthcare IT

San Francisco, CA27y exp

“Founding/sole engineer who has built multiple healthcare products from scratch, spanning medical billing, cardiology triage, and cardiac device monitoring. Particularly compelling for healthtech and AI roles: they combine full-stack TypeScript/AWS execution with strong product judgment in regulated settings, including shipping voice-enabled RAG workflows and rejecting unsafe AI automation when simpler human-in-the-loop UX was the right answer.”

Bryan Vergel

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level sales leader specializing in revenue operations and client experience

Peoria, AZ15y exp

“VP-level revenue leader with experience running a 50+ person, multi-function revenue organization spanning call center, intake, sales, onboarding, and customer experience. Brings strong operational rigor in forecasting, KPI design, compensation strategy, and cross-functional alignment, plus direct experience scaling fiber ISP market expansion and navigating complex, infrastructure-dependent enterprise deals.”

“Checkout-focused engineer with hands-on experience integrating many dependent microservices and Kafka event flows, including managing SLA/timeout issues with partner teams. Led a PayPal Braintree SDK migration across iOS/Android/web with strong testing discipline, and built an AWS Lambda automation to clean up stale CloudFormation test stacks to reduce monthly AWS spend.”

Darrell Estes

Screened

Senior Sales Leader specializing in telecom, energy, and in-home consultative sales

St Augustine, FL15y exp

“AT&T In-Home Expert with 7 months tenure who reports being a consistent top-2 sales rep, running 3–4 in-home appointments/day at a ~30% close rate plus high-volume outbound activity tracked in Salesforce. Has experience closing larger multi-line telecom deals (e.g., 15 lines with device payoff incentives) by using consultative discovery, documentation, and network speed tests to win customer buy-in.”

“Founder of pre-revenue cybersecurity startup Ceyepher Security; has already set up lead-intent sourcing, automated pipeline/CRM analytics, and outbound marketing. Plans to raise capital after landing first clients to demonstrate value via revenue, whitepapers, and customer testimonials; interested in studio support to accelerate sales. Mentions a disability that has enabled significant time honing computer science skills and is open to joining innovative work even outside their own company.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-driven document verification workflow for a construction firm’s submittals process, moving from a Vercel/Next.js prototype to a FastAPI + LangChain/LangGraph backend with background workers and multi-server deployment. Uses LLM tools (e.g., OpenAI Codex/Cloud Code) for rapid development and log-driven root cause analysis, and partners with customer teams on evaluation metrics and iterative improvements.”

“Healthcare-focused software engineer/lead who has delivered customer-facing portals and internal call-center tools, including rebuilding a legacy Adobe Flash call center app into a modern TypeScript frontend with NgRx state management. Experienced leading onshore/offshore teams, integrating healthcare APIs, and driving adoption by visiting call centers to capture user workflows and bake them into regression testing—work that proved especially valuable during COVID-era shifts to video appointments.”

Analuz Perez Comellas

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Post-Production Audio Engineer specializing in dubbing, restoration, and immersive mixing

Mexico, Mexico4y exp

“Audio post professional specializing in music editing, sound design, and mixing for TV/series content, with hands-on Dolby Atmos experience. Uses a Pro Tools template-driven workflow with iZotope RX restoration, broadcast loudness targets, and full deliverables (stems + international mix), and is comfortable turning fixes around under same-day air/QC deadlines. Targeting $35/hr.”

Bibhash Biswas

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive technology leader specializing in AI/ML, SaaS, and cloud architecture

Los Angeles, CA25y exp

“Hands-on CTO and player-coach engineering leader from MindShow who led a 10-person team, transformed a services business into a licensable product sold to Fortune 500 customers, and stayed deep in architecture, AI, and UI work. Particularly notable for combining microservices/system design leadership with practical AI product delivery in speech and media workflows, including a phoneme-generation system the candidate says achieved 99.9%+ accuracy.”

“Recruiting leader with experience managing a 5-person, non-US sourcing team and building their US hiring compliance knowledge (EEOC/visas/laws) through ongoing training. Has executed hands-on executive searches (Sr Director/VP), including filling a VP Revenue Operations role in ~2 months via tight CRO partnership, and led an ATS transformation by implementing Greenhouse with company-wide training.”

Rob Wlaschin

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level Engineering Manager specializing in AI platforms, FinTech, and Healthtech

Santa Clara, CA24y exp

“Serial entrepreneur building three distinct products: a context-aware AI chatbot, a connected TV companion-screen platform with an implementation client, and gamerogue.net, a mobile-optimized web-based virtual tabletop marketplace currently seeking funding. Brings hands-on fundraising experience, familiarity with the VC/accelerator ecosystem including YC, and a notably pragmatic approach to validating ideas based on existing market demand rather than speculative adoption.”

“Implementation leader with 7 years of client-facing experience delivering source-to-pay and contract management SaaS projects, including full ownership of governance, configuration, integrations, migration, and training. At Intelagree, managed 6-10 concurrent CLM implementations end-to-end and regularly worked with legal, procurement, IT, and C-level stakeholders to drive complex enterprise go-lives.”

“Operations leader with repeated startup/entrepreneurial experience building internal operating systems from the ground up—creating department-by-department SOP/policy manuals and implementing KPI-driven management. Strong in diagnosing issues via operational/financial data and rolling out scalable people systems (structured interviews, training/certifications, onboarding) with retention measured across 14/30/60/90-day cohorts.”

Chris Solly

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive CPG/Food Commercial Leader specializing in omnichannel growth and PE-backed value creation

19y exp

“Operations/finance leader who repeatedly stood up full business infrastructure for early-stage expansions, including being employee #1 after a cross-country relocation and launching US operations for an Australian company. Also helped professionalize a ~$40M Patriot Supply Store by moving the business to GAAP/accrual accounting and building policies/processes to support a private-equity-ready exit.”