Vetted Mentoring Professionals

“Infrastructure/operations engineer with hands-on production IBM Power/AIX (AIX 7.x, VIOS, HMC) and PowerHA/HACMP clustering experience, including DLPAR changes, failover testing, and incident recovery. Also delivers modern cloud DevOps work—GitHub Actions CI/CD for Docker-to-Kubernetes on AWS and Terraform-based provisioning of core AWS infrastructure (VPC/EKS/RDS/IAM) with controlled rollouts and drift checks.”

“18-year game/real-time animation veteran with shipped AAA experience (e.g., Just Cause 4) and credits across titles like Borderlands 3, The Outer Worlds, Bloodlines 2, and Disintegration. Has served as Animation Director (Decoy Games), leading internal/external teams and defining gameplay/cinematic style, with deep hands-on expertise in mocap + hand-key pipelines, UE integration, and performance-focused iteration in-engine.”

Hleb Rahoisha

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Senior Unity/C# Developer specializing in mobile and VR games

Warsaw, Poland7y exp

“Unity gameplay engineer with hands-on experience spanning AI behavior-tree architecture (Behavior Designer), authoritative multiplayer networking (Photon/Mirror), and aggressive VR (Meta Quest) optimization. Built designer-friendly tooling (Excel-driven balancing, prefab automation bridging Marvelous Designer/Blender/Unity) and has experience mentoring juniors within an entity/HMVC-based architecture at Playtica.”

Husayn El Sharif

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Senior Data Scientist specializing in geospatial ML and environmental analytics

Atlanta, GA16y exp

“Applied ML practitioner who deployed a near-real-time water-quality monitoring tool for Gwinnett County by fusing ESA satellite imagery with in-situ measurements to predict chlorophyll-A and support early warnings for harmful algal blooms. Also working on a multimodal deep-learning project combining skin lesion images with patient tabular/text data (TensorFlow, embeddings) to predict melanoma risk.”

Maxwell Meyer

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Junior Integration Engineer specializing in healthcare interoperability (HL7 v2/FHIR)

Verona, WI2y exp

“Integration engineer at Epic focused on healthcare interoperability, including complex radiology integrations (orders/results) spanning more than a dozen downstream systems and PACS vendors. Experienced coordinating clinical Radiant teams, interface analysts, and networking teams to scope workflows, route/transform messages via an interface engine, and troubleshoot intermittent production issues using structured isolation and live testing.”

“Backend engineer who built an AI-driven "Smart Feedback Analyzer" API (Flask → FastAPI) that processes user feedback with NLP (Hugging Face + OpenAI) and returns structured insights. Demonstrates strong production-minded architecture: stateless services, Cloud Run + Docker deployment, Redis/Celery background processing, and Postgres/SQLAlchemy performance tuning (EXPLAIN ANALYZE, indexing, N+1 fixes), plus multi-tenant data isolation via JWT/API-key derived tenant IDs.”

Rajesh Sivakumar

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Senior Software Engineering Manager specializing in cloud-native distributed systems (FinTech & Healthcare)

San Francisco, CA26y exp

“Engineering leader/player-coach who has led 40+ developers across multiple teams on large financial services web applications (Wells Fargo) and previously delivered a banking mobile app MVP in 6 months with a junior team by setting patterns and CI/CD foundations. Strong in production reliability practices (Splunk monitoring, feature flags, throttled rollouts) and has driven measurable quality/velocity wins, including a 60% faster E2E test framework and a rapid 2-day hotfix during a React 16→18 migration.”

“Platform/infra engineer with deep Kubernetes (EKS) and VMware vSphere experience who has led a monolith-to-microservices transition for a credit lending decision platform. Built GitOps-driven Terraform delivery with strong governance, and used LaunchDarkly-based progressive rollouts plus Datadog observability to safely ship multiple times per day (reported ~6x throughput and 1/3 the bugfix tickets vs legacy). Also operates hybrid on-prem/AWS networking (firewall + Transit Gateway, BGP) and has handled high-stakes datacenter migrations (100TB Storage vMotion) under Sev1 conditions.”

Ashish Kapoor

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Director of Digital Solutions & Principal Architect specializing in composable DXP and AI transformation

Greater Philadelphia Area, USA20y exp

“Enterprise digital transformation technologist with SaaS and AI platform experience who positions themselves as a technical bridge for VC/startup contexts—focused on technical due diligence (scalability, technical debt, AI readiness) and helping portfolio companies build enterprise-grade, scalable platforms with AI-driven product development approaches.”

Shashwat Negi

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Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and full-stack systems

San Jose, CA3y exp

“Data Scientist (2–3 years) at ZS Associates who has built and productionized agentic LLM systems, including a LangGraph-based multi-LLM prompt-optimization pipeline for entity extraction deployed as a Spring Boot microservice via Jenkins. Also built an Insightmate.ai chatbot and improved its RAG accuracy by diagnosing vector retrieval issues and implementing HyDE query expansion, while partnering with sales and pharma stakeholders to drive adoption (e.g., Zimmer Biomet platform migration into a multi-year partnership).”

“Unity/C# gameplay engineer with strong multiplayer systems experience, including shipping a DarkRift-based server-authoritative architecture with prediction/reconciliation and measurable gains: frame time improved from ~30ms to 18ms and packet sizes dropped by roughly 40%. Also brings practical thinking around AI-assisted content tooling, using async service layers, JSON pipelines, and validation rules to support designers without disrupting production workflows.”

Evan Tobias

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Director-level sales leader specializing in Enterprise SaaS and strategic partnerships

New York, NY20y exp

“Sales leader who was the first Director of Sales at Statista and built the function from the ground up, scaling the team from 6 to 27 and ARR from $5M to $33M in five years. Brings strong public sector and healthcare sales experience, including a $500K Kaiser Permanente deal, plus hands-on expertise implementing CRM/process infrastructure and creating new verticals that doubled revenue.”

Steven Lindstrom

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Executive sales leader specializing in construction and restoration

Tampa, FL18y exp

“Sales leader with a long track record of rebuilding underperforming teams, channels, and offices across software and disaster restoration. At Syntellect, he revived a dormant indirect sales program and earned back-to-back President's Club honors; more recently at BluSky, he led the Tampa office turnaround by expanding into multifamily, hospitality, healthcare, and county partnerships, including hurricane-response work and a healthcare partner recognition as a Gold Standard vendor.”

Joshua Miner

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Executive product leader specializing in enterprise SaaS, B2B, and product marketing

Remote, USA27y exp

“Product leader with experience spanning immigration tech, cybersecurity AI, and post-acquisition platform integration. They’ve led complex rebuilds involving sensitive data, access controls, and workflow automation, delivering measurable gains in onboarding speed, satisfaction, and audit-risk reduction. Also brings a pragmatic, human-centered view of AI shaped by building an SLM for cyber threat intelligence and personal exposure to tutoring and education.”

“General Manager of Animoto and longtime product leader who has led zero-to-one builds and major rebuilds across video, insurance, automotive, and web products. Most notably, they transformed Animoto’s product into a more flexible creation platform, driving 80% higher conversion, doubling LTV, tripling NPS, and cutting video creation time from roughly 100 hours to 20. They also bring practical AI product experience and a clear human-centered philosophy shaped by tutoring and family ties to education.”

Indra Shakya

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Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in FinTech

Charlotte, NC8y exp

“Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer with deep experience building real-time financial trading platforms at Bank of America. They led modernization of a global markets product by consolidating three legacy apps into a single React/Next.js platform, built WebSocket-driven market data experiences, and helped drive shared component libraries and engineering standards used across multiple teams.”

“Product leader with deep fintech experience who led the international expansion of TradeStation, rebuilding a legacy English-only C++ trading platform for Japan, Korea, and China. Brings a rare mix of global localization, regulated-market product strategy, AI-enabled trading insights, and UX design for complex financial workflows.”

“Software engineer focused on internal platform and workflow automation, with hands-on experience building a React/TypeScript + .NET/MSSQL application that streamlined laptop provisioning for employees. Also contributed in a very early-stage startup setting by introducing Agile process and helping shape initial architecture, and is now expanding Python/AI skills while looking to deepen Go and Kubernetes expertise.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer who has owned production retail and order/inventory systems end-to-end, using Spring Boot microservices with Kafka event-driven workflows. Strong in production correctness patterns (idempotency, retries/DLQs, schema versioning) plus observability (Prometheus/Grafana) and developer-facing API design (Swagger, OAuth2/JWT, versioning/deprecation). Also built TypeScript/React SPAs and cited ~40% UI performance improvement.”

“Engineering leader focused on developer platforms and identity: led a 5-person team building a multi-tenant IAM framework extending Duende IdentityServer, including governance, API standards, and multi-language SDKs. Drove major API architecture improvements by introducing GraphQL alongside REST, cutting client calls from 4 to 1 and reducing payload size by 60% within 6 months, with strong emphasis on stability (semver, E2E tests, feature flags, blue-green deploys).”

Daniel Dickson

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Executive engineering leader specializing in SaaS, AI/LLM systems, and startup growth

Portland, OR16y exp

“Experienced CTO with a track record of taking three companies to successful exits, including one merger with eBay. Has worked extensively across venture capital, startup studio, and accelerator environments, with core responsibility for leading software development and infrastructure in high-growth settings.”

“Sales professional focused on staffing/talent operations and GTM enablement solutions, with a disciplined outbound motion (ICP, org mapping, multi-threading across calls/LinkedIn/email). Has examples of winning mid-market deals ($30K–$60K) and expanding an account to ~$52K ACV, plus building early-stage sales process rigor (MEDDICC, pipeline reviews) that produced predictable pipeline in ~90 days and shortened cycles by ~20%.”

Andreas Haryono

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Senior Technical Project Manager specializing in game development QA and SDK releases

Sukoharjo, Central Java, Indonesia13y exp

“Game tester with hands-on QA experience primarily on mobile and PC titles, looking to transition into console testing. Emphasizes critical-path prioritization (e.g., crashes) and uses AI-driven R&D to ramp quickly while reviewing test cases and masking sensitive data.”