Vetted Mentoring Professionals

“Talent acquisition leader and executive recruiter who has managed up to 10 recruiters while driving tech stack optimization, vendor/cost management, and executive-level reporting. Experienced partnering closely with HRBPs and CFO-level stakeholders on director+ hiring, including internal audit leadership roles, and has led a full recruiting lifecycle redesign to improve candidate experience and hiring leader visibility.”

“Longform video editor/content creator who supported Principal Financial Group (Fortune 200) for 13 years, handling end-to-end production across video, photography, audio, and music. Emphasizes narrative storytelling for engagement, disciplined media organization for reliable handoffs, and has experience mentoring other editors using brand-standard playbooks and stakeholder review processes.”

“Engineering/technology leader with experience tying roadmaps to OKRs/KPIs, scaling cross-functional engineering teams, and driving go-to-market execution for Managed IT Services revenue growth. In an early-stage company setting, personally stood up core systems (CRM, lead gen, website) and multi-cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS) while building investor materials (pitch deck, VDR, financials), resulting in an investor LOI within 8 months. Also led an on-prem deployment architecture redesign for a network monitoring (NPM) product to improve compatibility, scalability, and security.”

“Hands-on backend/AI engineer who solo-built two production Claude-based agent systems: an internal Slack RAG over Confluence/Jira/code/regulatory docs and a HIPAA/GDPR-compliant patient chatbot with embedding guardrails and expert-in-the-loop evals. Also architected a multi-region patient portal + microservices platform with Terraform/CI-CD and federated gateways, delivering major onboarding automation and strong reliability wins (PgBouncer, chaos/perf testing).”

david horachek

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Executive Game Systems & Animation Engineering Leader specializing in console and Unreal/Unity

California, USA26y exp

“Unity/C# engineer with AAA and social MMO experience who owned and shipped a marquee VR gameplay system for Meta Quest, using advanced 3D math and closed-form optimization to maintain a solid 60 FPS on constrained hardware. Also builds LLM systems from first principles and integrates native inference into C# pipelines, and has deep multiplayer architecture experience (Photon/Netcode/frame sync) including fault-tolerant WebSocket messaging for mobile connectivity dropouts. Prefers contract work; time zone flexible (EST).”

Neus Tosi

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Director-level Talent Acquisition & Development leader in beauty and pharmaceuticals

New York, NY9y exp

“Recruiting leader with experience managing teams of 2–5 and driving end-to-end recruiting process improvements, including SOP standardization, ATS implementations (Taleo/Paylocity), and data-driven reporting. Has led confidential executive searches (VP level) and partnered closely with HRBPs on strategic, high-volume initiatives such as building a global IT service center in Argentina (Boehringer Ingelheim).”

Jackie Chui

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Senior Front-End Developer specializing in React/Next.js and interactive web experiences

8y exp

“Frontend engineer with 2 years at WestJet building an agent-facing booking UI layered on top of guest flows, including creating a dedicated agent UI library packaged in JFrog Artifactory for reuse across microfrontends. Also delivered a highly interactive Micron brand site using GSAP for scroll-driven animations and implemented resilient audio state/transition logic to handle rapid user scrolling. Experienced partnering closely with design/product (e.g., Corient) to prototype and ship polished, responsive experiences on tight timelines.”

“Data-focused engineer who has built near real-time trending news sentiment pipelines end-to-end (API/web ingestion, validation, transformations, and dashboard serving) and implemented reliability patterns like retries with exponential backoff and backfills. Also shipped Java/Spring Boot REST APIs backed by SQL with indexing/pagination, and stood up an early-stage QR-based attendance MVP using Firebase with iterative hardening via logging and validation.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience spanning React/TypeScript frontends, Cloudflare serverless RAG systems, SQL-heavy backend redesigns, and computer vision workflows. He has shipped practical automation and reliability improvements with measurable impact, including cutting a video-validation reporting process from a week to 2 days and fixing a memory-heavy shipment system before Black Friday to support 30K+ orders successfully.”

Marc de Vinck

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Executive product leader specializing in AI, edge hardware, and SaaS platforms

Kinnelon, NJ24y exp

“Product leader from Deep Sentinel with a strong track record in security tech, AI-enabled video monitoring, and cross-functional execution. He rescued a long-stalled product by redefining the core problem, launched it in 6 months, and has also driven edge-AI threat detection, rapid UX-led web app delivery, and strategic decisions to avoid costly commodity hardware bets.”

“Product leader with deep edtech experience who helped take Honor Education from an incomplete early product at zero users/zero revenue to general availability and a $38M Series A. Combines zero-to-one product building, AI feature delivery, LMS integration strategy, and team leadership, with a clear philosophy around human-centered AI that supports educators and learners rather than replacing them.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who has shipped both enterprise workflow software and AI-powered document intelligence products. Stands out for combining practical product judgment with strong production debugging skills across Spring Boot, GraphQL, FastAPI, vector search, and RAG systems, and for improving adoption by making AI search experiences intuitive for non-technical users.”

Maryna Deundiak

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Director-level Product Leader specializing in enterprise automation and platform integration

Florida, USA15y exp

“Product leader at Stellantis with a strong track record in large-scale digital transformation across automotive brands and markets. He combines platform modernization, UX simplification, and AI-enabled connected vehicle services to drive measurable outcomes, including a 30% lift in online bookings, while also mentoring cross-functional teams and future product leaders.”

Rodolfo Spier

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Senior Frontend Engineer specializing in React, Angular, and enterprise web platforms

Remote, USA8y exp

“Engineer with experience at smaller companies building internal tools and modernizing legacy systems. Most notably contributed to a "one click" demo tool for internal marketing teams, working across Angular/Nx front-end and backend microservice integrations while making pragmatic tradeoffs to simplify UX and hit deadlines.”

Julian Lobeto

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Senior Unity Engineer specializing in multiplayer mobile games

Argentina10y exp

“Unity gameplay engineer with strong multiplayer and live-service experience across Android, iOS, and PC. Particularly notable for architecting a configurable FTUE/tutorial framework that empowered designers to iterate without engineering support, and for deep hands-on work with Photon Quantum deterministic networking, including desync/checksum debugging and authoritative server integration.”

“Built a live free-to-play web-based financial market simulation game (YouTube-channel stock market) as a hobby project, now serving 3000+ users. Implemented core F2P systems including gacha, timed progression gates, and analytics-driven monitoring of engagement and economy health using a TypeScript/Python stack with Redis and Postgres.”

“Recruiting leader managing a team of 3 who stays hands-on in high-impact executive searches, including a confidential CMO search run directly with the CEO. Strong HRBP partnership experience, driving company-wide workforce planning/hiring prioritization and implementing Spark Hire one-way video interviews to speed screening and improve consistency and candidate experience.”

“Former co-founder at PreConception (acquired) who partnered closely with Operations, Legal, and Medical teams to deliver a HIPAA-compliant product meeting technical and regulatory requirements. Motivated by mission and team fit, and interested in a Venture Studio CTO path with a focus on 0-to-1 building and early validation via beta testing/PMF.”

“Financial data engineer who has built and operated high-volume batch + streaming pipelines (200–300 GB/day; 5–10k events/sec) using AWS, Spark/Delta, Airflow, Kafka, and Snowflake, with strong emphasis on data quality and reliability. Demonstrated measurable impact via 99.9% SLA adherence, major reductions in bad records/nulls, MTTR improvements, and significant latency/runtime/query performance gains; also built a distributed web-scraping system processing 5–10M records/day with anti-bot and schema-drift defenses.”

Jon Davis

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Executive business leader specializing in operations, growth, and M&A

Kalamazoo, MI23y exp

“Former CEO of Davis Oil who led an operational and cultural reset in a multi-location business—rebuilding org structure, KPI reporting, SOPs, and accountability systems. Now consults and advises leaders (especially family businesses) who lack formal operations backgrounds, using a systems-focused “diagnose before design” approach grounded in frontline discovery.”

SreeHarsha Kelam

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Senior DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure

Atlanta, GA5y exp

“GCP-focused database/platform engineer with hands-on production experience operating Cloud SQL at scale, especially around performance tuning, reliability, and day-2 operations. Has supported migration from a single-instance database setup to a more scalable GCP architecture and built Terraform/Python automation for provisioning and recovery workflows.”

Tara Worrell

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in backend systems, AI/LLM integration, and cloud infrastructure

Brooklyn, NY6y exp

“Backend engineer with experience in highly regulated and high-stakes systems, including an airline crew messaging platform requiring near-zero-error real-time operations and a HIPAA-compliant mental health application built from an early-stage concept. They also show strong operational maturity, having owned a GoDaddy production incident through resolution and then led deployment pipeline improvements that reduced build failures by 40% and doubled deployment frequency.”

Kela Olsen

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Director-level sales professional specializing in medical devices and sports business

Loomis, CA22y exp

“Former Division I standout and professional baseball player turned college recruiter, coach, academy owner, and athlete advisor with deep Northern California baseball relationships. He combines data-driven player evaluation, consultative family guidance, and a strong coach/scout network to help athletes navigate recruiting and development decisions, with outcomes including 90%+ transfer/pro signing rates at Sierra College and early advocacy for players like Nick Madrigal.”