Vetted Mentoring Professionals

“Frontend engineer who led a networking-device simulation PoC into a production-integrated product, designing microservice-style containerized architecture and optimizing massive telemetry streams with WebSockets and Kubernetes-based scaling. Built a React+TypeScript network orchestration dashboard (Platina Command Center) and drove quality/performance through unit/E2E testing with measurable browser/API performance metrics and CI/CD automation for rapid monthly releases.”

Jeannine Brooks

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Executive product and delivery leader specializing in enterprise software and FinTech

Shelton, CT26y exp

“Product leader in accounting software who drove a legacy desktop application’s transition into a cloud SaaS platform, including security redesign, browser-based UX modernization, and ML-assisted accounting workflows. Stands out for combining deep domain knowledge in finance operations with practical change management, stakeholder alignment, and team leadership that improved quality while cutting backlog nearly in half.”

Dale Durham

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Principal Software Engineer specializing in SaaS architecture and cloud platforms

Hammond, IN23y exp

“Veteran B2B SaaS engineer/technical leader with 13+ years in production systems across medical, legal, and academic conference markets. Stands out for combining hands-on full-stack and microservices architecture work with measurable business impact, including leading an early startup internationalization effort that more than doubled revenue in under a year and modernizing a declining conference platform into the market leader in its niche.”

“Manufacturing and operations leader (industrial engineer turned plant manager) who has driven major operational and business-model change in legacy manufacturing, including demand-driven Kanban replenishment and lead-time reduction. More recently built KPI systems and capacity-scaling improvements at Laboratory Testing Incorporated while integrating an acquisition, and now supports Laminators Incorporated at the board level while hands-on building a formal product development process from ideation through launch.”

Sridhar Duggireddy

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Executive Technology Leader specializing in Cloud Platforms, DevOps, and AI/ML

Tampa, FL21y exp

“Early-stage startup CTO helping build an AI-powered parenting assistant app with features spanning advice, shopping, task management, and inventory management. The team is currently testing an MVP with their network while the candidate simultaneously learns the seed/Series fundraising process through Connectd and early investor conversations.”

“2x co-founder with 2+ years in venture, where they led deal sourcing and built systems to surface roughly 3,500 deals annually using relationship networks, scout programs, and AI tools. Brings a rare mix of founder experience and investor-side pattern recognition, with strong conviction around solving real, monetizable problems.”

“Frontend-leaning engineer at Exchange Lodge who recently took over an entire system end-to-end after team attrition, expanding into backend and platform ownership. They modernized a JSON-driven UI platform into a TypeScript/Angular microfrontend architecture, reporting an ~85% productivity gain, and also rebuilt documentation and developer workflows into a monorepo with AI-friendly Markdown and Mermaid diagrams.”

“iGaming product leader with 11 years of Product Owner experience, spanning QA automation (built a testing framework) through BA and ultimately PO for an online poker team for nearly 6 years. Has shipped and managed live web/mobile/tablet games and worked closely with compliance/UKGC on game certification and launches, using BI/data and player feedback to prioritize features and F2P retention mechanics (tournament ticket funnels, quests).”

“Project management leader with experience delivering enterprise and SaaS implementations across education, financial services, healthcare, and nonprofit/public-sector environments. Notably led delivery of a large-scale K-12 state testing platform at American Institutes for Research used across 26 states, and has since grown from project coordinator into senior PM leadership while managing portfolios of 5 to 8 concurrent projects.”

“Cross-functional operator and executive partner with experience leading ERP implementations, process redesign, quality initiatives, and platform/new-market launches. Known for building governance and executive-briefing systems that reduce operational noise, protect leadership bandwidth, and keep large multi-division organizations aligned—while maintaining discretion during sensitive restructurings.”

Dmytro Medvediev

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Senior Unity Tech Lead specializing in game, AR/VR, and cross-platform development

Warsaw, Poland15y exp

“Gameplay/networking engineer who owned and shipped a networked AR combat system for a hybrid RTS/FPS in Unity/C#, spanning architecture, Photon sync, tooling, performance optimization, and CI/CD. Particularly strong in multiplayer reliability: they built desync detection and replay debugging workflows, plus practical LLM-assisted review/testing processes to improve iteration speed and code quality.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across Python/Flask microservices and AWS serverless/data platforms (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Glue/PySpark). Demonstrated strong reliability and operations mindset (JWT/RBAC, retries/timeouts/circuit breakers, CloudWatch/SNS alerting) and measurable performance wins (SQL report runtime cut from 10 minutes to 30 seconds). Seeking ~$150k base and cannot travel for onsite meetings for the next 5–6 months due to family medical constraints.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building a real-time notification API on Flask/Celery/Postgres and scaling it on AWS with Docker, Redis queuing, and SQLAlchemy query optimization. Also delivered AWS serverless deployments (Lambda) using Terraform + GitHub Actions and built AWS Glue ETL pipelines from S3 to Redshift with CloudWatch monitoring and DataBrew data quality checks.”

“AI/ML engineer who led Impacter AI’s production deployment of a specialized outreach LLM (CharmedLLM) fine-tuned on GPT-4.1, cutting API costs ~40% while boosting outreach effectiveness ~60%. Built the supporting MLOps and data infrastructure (MLflow, Kubernetes, PySpark, Kafka) and has agentic AI experience from University of Dayton, using LangChain + RAG and vector search (Pinecone) to improve reliability and reduce hallucinations.”