Vetted Mentoring Professionals

“Marketing/brand designer with end-to-end ownership experience, including leading a full Boost Insurance brand redesign as the sole designer and updating all existing collateral on a tight deadline. Built a scalable Figma design system/marketing kit supporting high-volume output across paid social, landing pages, email, sales collateral, and website UI, and also produces lightweight marketing videos in Canva/After Effects for social and conference placements.”

“AWS-focused Python backend/data engineer who builds production analytics APIs and ETL pipelines using API Gateway, Lambda, Step Functions, ECS, Glue, S3, and RDS. Strong in operational reliability and performance tuning (including SQL indexing/partitioning) and has modernized legacy SAS statistical processing into validated Python services with phased rollouts and stakeholder sign-off.”

“Sourcing/PD leader with 15+ years in home categories (home textiles, furniture, area rugs, home decor) who has owned end-to-end programs for major US retail, including vendor qualification across China/Vietnam and trade-risk mitigation by diversifying sourcing to Vietnam/Malaysia. Known for disciplined milestone tracking (T&A calendars, ETD/ETA) and rebuilding supplier relationships to restore sampling and drive order placement.”

“CTO-level leader who drove a major post-buyout transformation at NPact—modernizing engineering (CI/CD, QA, observability), moving products toward SaaS/cloud, and scaling the org from ~20 to ~70 while maintaining 97% retention. Uses instrumentation and workflow analytics (including Atlassian-derived data) to improve delivery, citing an ~80% reduction in feature/bug churn through better scoping and requirements. Comfortable with board-level ROI decisions and customer/fundraising conversations, translating technical tradeoffs into clear business outcomes.”

“Video editor/producer with deep Adobe Premiere experience since 2008, specializing in longform, multi-cam interview content and retention-focused YouTube-style edits using b-roll, stock, and 4K reframing. Former Video Producer at IFundWomen who led monthly workshops (5–20 attendees) teaching creators core production fundamentals (lighting, audio, composition). Has also shot branded behind-the-scenes content for DL1961 featuring Emily Ratajkowski.”

“Recruiting Operations/Talent Ops leader who has managed both onshore and offshore recruiting teams and trained branch managers nationally on VMS tools. Known for redesigning ATS workflows and building recruiting dashboards to reduce time-to-hire in high-volume environments (including call center hiring), while improving candidate experience through scheduling and intake process standardization.”

“Unity developer with shipped Meta Quest experience (including Meta Quest for Business) and a recently released Steam demo for a self-built simulation game, Skyfields: Gooey Garden. Built system-heavy gameplay including procedural creature generation and a genetics/breeding mutation system, and has hands-on experience with multiplayer/networking stacks (Photon, Unity Netcode, Relay) while using sprint-based user feedback loops to drive iteration.”

“Unity gameplay developer who implemented complex, role-based unit movement around a central arena target (including altitude separation and animation-synced, math-driven motion) to create more unpredictable and engaging gameplay. Over the last 3 years has focused on REST API work, including building a robust, switchable communication layer (HttpClient/UnityWebRequest) with cancellation, retries, and error handling; has prior experience with deprecated Photon PUN.”

“Player-coach engineering leader who stayed hands-on (coding/reviews) while leading delivery, including designing an event-driven AI workflow engine with explicit state modeling and robust retries. Built near real-time enterprise analytics for campaign measurement and drove reliability/process improvements (observability, incident runbooks, release management). Introduced lightweight CI/CD and automated testing to cut release time by ~40% while maintaining quality.”

“Growth/partnership leader spanning gaming, creator ecosystems, and consumer/B2B GTM with unusually strong network reach (senior contacts across major tech). Built a white-label game hosting partner channel at Shockbyte to $5MM+ net new ARR with minimal investment, and previously conceived/negotiated a globally scaled Kinect experiential retail strategy attributed to 1M+ units and ~$500MM revenue. Also led FreshBooks’ early GTM and scaling from ~$500K to $15MM+ annual revenue while growing teams from 3 to 50–75.”