Vetted Mentoring Professionals

“Full-stack/AI engineer who has shipped production systems spanning real-time analytics dashboards and an internal LLM-powered knowledge assistant. Experienced with RAG pipelines (embeddings/vector DB, semantic retrieval, query rewriting) plus evaluation loops and guardrails, and builds observable Kafka-based data pipelines monitored with Prometheus/Grafana.”

Surya Padmini Konjula

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend, cloud, and AI for FinTech

San Jose, CA6y exp

“Senior full-stack engineer focused on AI-powered workflow automation and customer support products, with hands-on ownership from React/TypeScript UI through FastAPI microservices, retrieval pipelines, and Kubernetes deployment on GCP. Particularly strong in turning ambiguous zero-to-one AI initiatives into production systems that reduce manual operations, improve turnaround time, and remain reliable through strong orchestration and monitoring practices.”

“Full-stack engineer with a strong builder mentality who has designed greenfield cloud-native ingestion platforms, customer-facing CAD/configuration tools for manufacturing automation, and self-service forecasting products. Particularly compelling is their ability to translate ambiguous workflows into robust systems spanning React, Node.js, shared TypeScript/Zod schemas, cloud queues, and even proprietary hardware runtimes.”

Sai Chinthalapudi

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack .NET Developer specializing in cloud and microservices

United States4y exp

“Software engineer with healthcare platform experience at CVS Health, focused on APIs, SQL performance, and distributed systems. Worked on a 5-6 engineer team building a healthcare simulation platform and drove API/query tuning and caching improvements that cut response times by 50% for real-time, high-volume telemetry workflows.”

“Performance marketer with high-spend ($50K+/month+) acquisition experience at TastyTrade (online brokerage), running full-funnel prospecting and retargeting across DV360, Meta, TikTok, Reddit, X/Twitter, and Google Display. Uses structured, KPI-driven testing and weekly reporting; notably reversed a Meta downturn by restructuring campaigns and refreshing creative/audiences, resulting in ~2x performance improvement.”

“Engineering leader with a strong automation-first philosophy ("special treatment doesn't scale"), experienced in building self-service tooling and communicating clearly with executives via BLUF-style updates. Has delivered end-to-end business-driven solutions—from sourcing alternative vendor data to installing infrastructure and writing drivers/analytics—and led pragmatic architecture changes in R/Rserve that significantly improved performance while driving cloud costs toward near-zero.”

“Operations-focused advisor with experience helping small and growing businesses implement structured management frameworks (Balanced Scorecard, Value Chain Analysis) and select supporting systems like CRMs. Notably modernized an architectural firm's outdated hardware/software environment through license consolidation, phased replacement planning, and server re-organization—improving morale and speeding drawing production while reducing man-hours and payroll load.”

“Regional Director of HR with experience supporting a large NYC unionized workforce and handling serious employee relations investigations. Has led people through major organizational transitions (new company structure/benefits/operating practices) via proactive employee communications and cross-department follow-ups, and has a track record of developing HR and payroll staff into regional leadership roles.”

“QA engineer with 12 years of experience in SaaS/platform releases (not AAA games), partnering closely with developers and product through standups, 1:1s, and Three Amigos. Owned high-risk areas like payment data integrity and critical user journeys, running CI-based full regression to support go/no-go decisions. Notably caught a production EV charging receipt defect (zero charge shown) and drove it to resolution with strong Jira documentation and cross-functional escalation.”

“Unity VR developer who has shipped on Meta Quest, including Metro Awakening (Steam Awards 2024 VR Game of the Year) as an AI Programmer, focusing on performance-critical multi-agent AI optimization (EQS/HTN) for Quest 2. Also shipped Final Fury, taking ownership across gameplay, UI, networking (sync mechanics), and AI on a small team, and built a data-driven gesture/move system for VR fighting prototypes.”

Tony Simonetti

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Senior Video Editor specializing in branded, documentary, and real estate profile content

Richmond, VA13y exp

“Video editor/motion graphics specialist with 10+ years in Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects, delivering high-volume branded content under extreme deadlines (200+ videos in 24-hour turnarounds; 300+ assets with AE graphics). Co-led a 7-person post-production team at Homes.com, building templates and workflow standards to maintain quality at scale. Longtime contributor to ArtsEmerson’s YouTube presence for nearly a decade, helping evolve channel branding and cross-platform rebranding.”

Subhash Chandra

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Senior AI/ML & Robotics Research Engineer specializing in SLAM and multi-modal perception

Norman, OK8y exp

“Robotics engineer who built a smart campus tour robot on a Kobuki Turtlebot using ROS 1, implementing a full navigation stack (semantic world model, A* planner, tour executor, path follower) and integrating SLAM (gmapping) plus a hybrid reactive safety controller. Experienced taking systems from Gazebo simulation to real hardware, including extensive real-world debugging and Docker-based development to handle ROS/Ubuntu version constraints; planning a move to ROS 2 on Turtlebot 4.”

Hy Serure

Screened

Executive Technology Leader & Architect specializing in enterprise digital transformation

Oakhurst, NJ29y exp

“Longtime S-Corp founder (20+ years) who evolved from running a web agency to becoming a Shopify expert contracted by agencies/brands to upskill teams and lead enterprise eCommerce builds. Recently built and launched a payment-links/QR-code web app in weeks that gained 20 users on day one without advertising; now looking to pivot toward building a scalable product business not tied to hourly contracting.”

Mayank Srivastava

Screened

Director of Technology Transformation specializing in ERP, Cloud & Cybersecurity

India23y exp

“Senior technology leader focused on joining existing organizations to build and scale products rather than founding at all costs. Has turned a recurring manual data-process bottleneck into a production platform by validating via user interviews, integrating with legacy systems through phased decoupling, and improving reliability with strong data validation/observability while driving cross-team adoption.”

Xin Li

Screened

Staff Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and high-concurrency APIs

Santa Clara, CA17y exp

“Full-stack engineer in an insurance + telematics org who built a 0→1 multi-agent, AI-driven mobile regression execution system integrating Jira and n8n, emphasizing determinism (schema-validated outputs), traceability (state-machine style step archives), and scalable device scheduling. Also designed an event-driven microservices architecture using Kafka with standardized API/event contracts and has hands-on incident response experience improving resilience via rate limiting, circuit breaking, caching, and idempotency.”

Emmanuel Bakwowi

Screened

Senior DevSecOps Engineer specializing in multi-cloud Kubernetes and CI/CD automation

New York, NY10y exp

“Cloud/DevOps engineer operating across AWS and Azure, running Kubernetes workloads with secure CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps) and Terraform IaC. Has supported AIX/PowerHA systems in hybrid environments—handling failover testing, incident recovery, and performance troubleshooting (including multipath/storage-path issues)—and has led cutovers by managing dependencies, rollback, and stabilization.”

Ajibade Quwiyu

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Mid-level XR Developer specializing in VR/AR and Unity game development

Lagos, Nigeria7y exp

“Unity VR/AR developer with industrial training simulation experience (heavy machinery, electrical panel, arc welding) who improved user completion and retention by shipping a context-aware AI instructor. Uses Unity Analytics and in-game feedback to pinpoint drop-offs and drive measurable gains (e.g., 30%→75% completion; 60% drop-off fixed to reach 85%). Has also built multiplayer collaborative training prototypes with Photon PUN2 and strong Git/Unity workflow practices to reduce scene conflicts and technical debt.”

“Built a production AI stylist agent for retail store associates that pulls customer loyalty, address, and purchase-history data to generate in-store product recommendations. Demonstrates hands-on experience across agent orchestration, MCP-based tool integration, Vertex AI/GCP deployment, observability, resilience patterns, and pragmatic production tradeoffs like using PostgreSQL with pgvector instead of a standalone vector database.”

“Fullstack engineer with strong backend depth who has owned complex digital banking modernization work end-to-end, spanning React UI workflows, Spring Boot microservices, API design, and event-driven integrations. Stands out for balancing technical architecture with user clarity, especially in ambiguous environments where stakeholder feedback reshaped workflows after launch.”

“Systems-oriented engineer with strong Python depth who repeatedly improves throughput in complex, ambiguous environments by designing pragmatic human-in-the-loop automation. Notable wins include a record-validation workflow that put a department over six months ahead of schedule and saved $500K+, plus AI-assisted and migration tooling integrated with Jama for engineering requirements and traceability.”

John Singleton

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Director-level Human Resources Leader specializing in HR strategy and people operations

Waxahachie, TX15y exp

“HR leader with 16 years of experience running end-to-end people operations (recruiting ops, payroll, benefits, engagement, performance) and managing small recruiting/ops teams. Notably revamped a logistics hiring process to fill 60 roles in two months and drove ~20% turnover reduction, and led a multi-entity PeopleSoft HCM integration across a state college system with heavy compliance/security stakeholder coordination.”

Seymour Douglas

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Executive Data & AI Leader specializing in cloud-native platforms and data-intensive systems

18y exp

“Data/ML and product leader with large-scale consumer and enterprise experience (including Walmart) who blends hands-on prototyping with executive stakeholder alignment. Has delivered measurable outcomes across personalization, semantic search/knowledge graphs, and fraud/security architecture, and has scaled organizations rapidly (30→180 in 12 months) by upskilling and building modern data/ML engineering capabilities.”

“VR/Unity developer with ~3 years building and shipping educational VR games/simulations for EU/Erasmus+ initiatives (disability, elderly, migrant worker audiences). Has delivered 4 VR projects as a solo developer handling everything end-to-end, and also built a Unity WebGL tabletop game featuring Firebase auth/database, localization, customization, and third-party API-based rewards.”

“Entrepreneurial product builder who created chaintrigger.com in response to early Web3 demand for real-time on-chain event reactions, offering an alternative to The Graph Protocol and achieving adoption among games and other Web3 projects. Currently developing new tools, dogfooding internally, and building distribution via personal network and a niche Twitter/X following to gather feedback and iterate quickly.”