Vetted Mentorship Professionals

“Engineering lead/player-coach working on project management software, owning a high-impact scheduling algorithm rewrite focused on performance, maintainability, and documentation after prior team turnover caused regressions. Previously at EOX Vantage, helped an insurance client modernize monolithic workflows by scoping ambiguous requirements into a roadmap and shipping a day-one MVP before iterating with value-add features.”

Briana Schoffman

Screened

Director-level Program & Professional Services Leader specializing in Enterprise SaaS and PMO

25y exp

“Entrepreneur who invested in a startup franchise concept and opened a dog-grooming store that became the most successful location in company history within one year, with projected revenue of $600K+ in 2026. Uses structured market sizing (PAM/TAM) and GTM thinking, and has executed cost-effective local marketing through grassroots social and community sponsorships.”

Sandeep Mekala

Screened

Director-level Mobile Engineering Manager specializing in Generative AI and agentic mobile experiences

Remote13y exp

“iOS player-coach who led end-to-end development of real-time customer support chat and unified notification systems for T-Mobile’s iOS app using SwiftUI, Firebase, WebSockets, and Core Data (including offline handling). Drove measurable reliability/latency gains (~30%) through a major notification refactor and owned a high-severity push-notification incident from rollback through RCA and backward-compatible hotfix, while also scaling team process and people management.”

“Product leader with cross-industry experience spanning field-service/mobile platforms, healthcare EHR patient portals, and legal contract lifecycle management. Stands out for building and pitching platform strategy at the executive level, shipping AI-assisted workflow improvements that saved technicians time, and tying product investments directly to business outcomes like ARR growth.”

“Product and engineering leader with experience driving large-scale transformation in regulated and enterprise environments, including security modernization at LPL Financial and developer platform standardization at General Motors. He combines hands-on technical judgment, UX modernization, and people leadership, and also brings a former teacher’s perspective to human-centered AI in education.”

Javon Lee

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI platforms and cloud-native systems

Baltimore, MD8y exp

“Engineer with startup CTO experience and recent hands-on full-stack work at Microsoft and Clarity, focused on compliance and AML workflow platforms for financial services. Stands out for building scalable data and audit systems that reduced manual processing and improved performance, while operating effectively in ambiguous early-stage environments.”

“Product design leader who has operated as both design head and product owner across retail, supply chain, and global trade platforms. Notable for turning design research into business strategy shifts, leading AI/ML workflow products with measurable adoption gains, and scaling globally distributed design teams while tying UX decisions directly to ROI.”

“Engineering leader with experience managing 40+ direct and indirect reports in Agile Scrum environments, improving predictability and cross-functional execution through release-train discipline and close product partnership. Also led an AI-enabled healthcare claims adjudication initiative that automated a previously manual process, improving turnaround time and provider payment timeliness while freeing agents to focus on higher-priority work.”

“Talent Acquisition Operations leader who has managed teams up to 10 and owns end-to-end TA ops areas (strategy, selection, employer branding, and process/tech optimization). Recently standardized fragmented hiring by moving to a one-funnel approach with competency weighting and recruiter triage, already improving time-to-fill. Led Gem implementation/integration and uses ATS analytics (SmartRecruiters) plus post-hire performance data to validate sourcing and selection quality.”

João Arruda

Screened

Senior Frontend Engineer specializing in Vue.js, testing strategy, and scalable architecture

Remote, EU15y exp

“Frontend engineer/lead focused on scalable architecture and reusable UI platforms: built a schema-driven, IoC-based unified filtering system across an app with feature-flagged rollout and strong TypeScript/testing discipline. Also created a standalone React NPS survey package that works across microfrontends (handling peer dependency/version issues) and implemented accessibility improvements for complex interactions like drag-and-drop while leading an Atomic Design → Feature-Sliced Design migration.”

“Entrepreneur building a luxury rental car company startup with capital already raised, though undisclosed. Demonstrates a thoughtful founder mindset centered on vision, growth trajectory, due diligence, and market penetration, and is actively building connections in the VC/accelerator ecosystem.”

“Repeat founder and active VC with over 3 years of experience running a fund and syndicate. Currently exploring an agentic deal flow CRM for venture funds, with early components already built and a clear plan to dogfood it and recruit other VCs for validation.”

“Frontend architecture leader with experience at Citi and Warner Bros. Discovery, building high-performance browser UIs for demanding enterprise and media workflows. Stands out for combining design-system standardization, deep browser performance optimization, and measurable impact: ~50% frontend improvement and 40% faster feature delivery across a 20+ engineer team.”

“HR leader who joined Polished as Head of HR days before the entire C-suite resigned, then partnered with new executives to restructure a $500M e-commerce organization using rapid internal promotions and manager development. More recently at Coforge, supported a North America population and used exit-interview and compensation data to address call-center turnover in Charleston, WV, alongside deep experience running sensitive ER investigations.”

Joseph Orisino

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Senior Longform Video Editor specializing in YouTube-style storytelling and post-production leadership

New York, NY18y exp

“Senior editor/post-production supervisor with extensive Premiere + After Effects experience across major media brands (Yahoo Finance, Thrillist, Yahoo News/Katie Couric) and current work producing a video suite for SkinCeuticals (L'Oréal). Known for building scalable editorial workflows (style guides, review processes) and delivering retention-focused longform YouTube edits with strong cross-functional coordination through color, audio, graphics, and social versioning.”

Elbot Carman

Screened

Senior Creative & Brand Designer specializing in brand systems, digital marketing, and UI/UX

Atlanta, GA13y exp

“Brand/marketing designer with experience modernizing a SaaS company’s identity (Hudson MX) and improving external perception through cohesive brand systems and asset libraries. Also supported American Express by building a scalable Figma component library to rapidly recreate UI screenshots with high fidelity using in-product access and Chrome DevTools for exact specs, and produced stakeholder interview videos for LinkedIn/Vimeo in Adobe Premiere.”

“Built and shipped an end-to-end autonomous telemetry and log-triage product that combined LLM-based anomaly analysis, strict typed validation, and a React observability UI. Particularly compelling is their focus on making non-deterministic AI reliable in production at scale—500,000 daily requests and 99.9% uptime—while also translating complex AI output into a usable experience for non-technical teams during live outages.”

“Senior frontend engineer with 8+ years of experience spanning Verizon and 7-Eleven, focused on developer platforms, design systems, and real-time operational products. Built framework-agnostic component libraries and large-scale React/TypeScript architectures that reduced feature development time by 30%, improved UI satisfaction by 40%, and cut onboarding time by 25-30%. Particularly strong in WebSocket-driven GenAI experiences, observability dashboards, and cross-functional API/platform leadership.”

“Operations leader with 8 years of experience spanning healthcare, consumer products, and financial services, now serving as a strategic operational partner to senior leadership at Point72. Stands out for redesigning complex cross-functional processes, including cutting associate integration cycle time by 4 weeks and building governance frameworks that reduced compliance risk across HR, Legal, Recruiting, and Immigration.”

“HR leader experienced in partnering with senior leaders through restructuring and process standardization, supporting multi-location organizations with diverse teams. Strong in org design/workforce planning, manager coaching, and change communications (talking points/FAQs), with a focus on minimizing disruption while monitoring engagement and attrition trends.”

“Built and deployed an LLM + RAG + memory system on a Furhat social robot, adding continuous face/voice recognition embeddings over WebSockets to enable persistent, natural conversations across sessions. Experienced working around real-world hardware/latency constraints and uses Datadog plus structured debugging/rollback practices for stabilizing customer-facing LLM workflows.”

Samikshya Satpathy

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Mid-level UI/UX & Product Designer specializing in e-commerce and enterprise SaaS

Ann Arbor, MI4y exp

“Product/UX designer with large-scale consumer and omnichannel experience across Nykaa and Swiggy (100M+ users), combining deep research with high-polish UI and scalable design systems. Demonstrated measurable business impact across ops efficiency (1500 hrs/year saved), app quality (4.3→4.8 rating), and e-commerce conversion (48% uplift), and has owned a growth pod while collaborating closely with UA/growth and engineering.”

“Product-minded full-stack engineer with experience shipping engagement features and core communication systems at DribbleUp and Expys. Stands out for combining rapid MVP execution with rigorous iteration: delivered a leaderboard feature that lifted engagement by 8% initially and 20% overall, built a chat MVP in 3 days, and has hands-on experience deploying LangChain-based concierge agents with evals and human review.”

Huy Hua

Screened

Senior Product Designer specializing in enterprise B2B SaaS and AI governance

San Francisco, CA12y exp

“Product/UX designer focused on AI governance and GRC, who led end-to-end design of IBM Watsonx.governance by unifying previously siloed products (OpenPages, OpenScale, Factsheets) into a role-based platform for proactive risk detection and audit-ready compliance. Combines deep field research with strong technical fluency (CS degree, SQL, API-aware collaboration) and has shipped award-winning work (iF Gold 2025) with market recognition (IDC MarketScape Leader).”