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Vetted Mentorship Professionals
Pre-screened and vetted.
Lavrenti DeLavrenti
Director-level Technology Leader specializing in cloud-native platforms, AI/ML, and SaaS
“Engineering leader (Director/VP level) who has repeatedly aligned product and engineering through ROI-driven quarterly roadmaps and strong stakeholder communication, including board presentations. Built a parallel cloud team to migrate an on-prem product to the cloud, credited with delivering $9M ARR, and led a Python monolith-to-serverless event-driven microservices transformation. Currently manages distributed teams across Mexico, India, and the US using pod-based structures, clear KPIs, and a supportive accountability culture.”
TejaSree Chiluveru
Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and cloud-native microservices
“Built and launched an internal AI troubleshooting assistant focused on safe, retrieval-first root cause analysis for enterprise systems, with strong attention to monitoring, fallback behavior, and post-launch iteration. Also owns full-stack product work across React and Java/Spring Boot, including high-volume financial operations workflows, and reports measurable LLM improvements such as ~30-40% latency reduction.”
Christopher Lopez
Senior HR & DEI leader specializing in workforce culture transformation
“Talent acquisition leader and former COO who has led distributed recruiting teams (up to 20) and specializes in executive search and C-suite talent intake. Has driven enterprise recruiting transformations (talent intake overhaul, ATS implementation, workforce culture change) and delivered high-impact leadership hires including deputy commissioners for a prison system while scaling organizational leadership structures internationally.”
Danilo Plazas
Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Frontend (React/JavaScript)
“Frontend-focused engineer with full-stack experience who modernized a legacy HR platform (CoffeeScript/Marionette) by migrating key UIs to React/Redux and adding TypeScript for robustness. Built an internal client monitoring tool end-to-end with a microservices-oriented approach and strong testing practices (Jest/Selenium), and also led a major GraphQL v1→v2 migration delivered incrementally over ~6 weeks while optimizing Django/MySQL/DynamoDB performance.”
Colin Johnson
Mid-level Growth Marketing Leader specializing in paid media activation and optimization
“Performance marketer focused on high-spend acquisition, having personally owned a ~$500K/month budget driving small business credit card applications for a large US banking client. Experienced running cross-channel programs (Google/Bing search plus LinkedIn/Reddit prospecting) with rigorous experimentation (Drafts & Experiments, bid strategy and match-type tests) and long-horizon measurement to validate sustainable CPA and conversion-rate improvements.”
Sahithi Reddy
Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLM-powered products
“Verizon engineer who productionized an LLM-based personalization capability for a customer-facing digital platform, owning the path from success metrics through scalable APIs, A/B validation, and post-launch monitoring (latency/accuracy/drift). Experienced in diagnosing and fixing real-time LLM/RAG workflow issues under peak load, and in enabling adoption via tailored technical demos/workshops and sales support materials.”
Austin Patten
Senior Unity Engineer specializing in mobile games and interactive apps
“Lead engineer at PeopleFun who owned a data-driven limited-time event system for Wordscapes Search, using Addressables and asset bundles to ship new live content without app updates. Their work was tied to improved retention and stronger player engagement, and they also bring pragmatic AI-assisted development practices plus early VR/Meta Quest prototyping experience.”
Tuukka Luolamo
Executive Technology Leader (CTO) specializing in AI, cloud, and distributed platforms
“Engineering leader who stays hands-on in high-leverage technical areas (architecture, scalability, reliability) while operating at an executive level. Led StagePilot’s shift from a tightly coupled legacy system to a cloud-native, event-driven real-time platform proven at 1M+ concurrent users, and previously scaled multiple SRE teams at McGraw-Hill with SLOs, on-call, and blameless ops practices.”
Kyle Wilson
Senior Technical Lead specializing in accessible, scalable web applications
“Frontend lead who shipped an enterprise social feed, insights dashboard, and a net-new communications platform using React + TypeScript. Known for building scalable quality practices with QA (including automated test suite alignment), introducing RTK Query org-wide, and managing phased, feature-flagged rollouts while coordinating closely with product/design and senior engineering stakeholders.”
Ryan Jones
Director-level athlete advisor and development leader in collegiate athletics
“Sports business professional with experience advising professional tennis coaches on commercial deals, appearances, and contract structure, with adjacent exposure to college athletics through Duke Men's Basketball. Stands out for balancing athlete/coach schedule uncertainty with partner assurance, using contingency-based agreements and transparent expectation-setting to win trust and drive successful activations.”
Nikhil Mehta
Director of Network Operations specializing in telecom, cloud networking, and service deployments
“Operations/project leader with hands-on experience driving an end-to-end transition of legacy customers from on-prem to cloud, including customer communication, structured execution planning, and operational handover. Also improved field operations productivity by selecting and implementing a field management tool that automated work orders and replaced spreadsheet/email workflows with mobile app-driven data flows.”
Yaw Prempeh
Director-level Performance Marketing Leader specializing in paid social and Google demand platforms
“Performance marketer managing high-spend ecommerce and lead-gen accounts across Meta and Google, including $120K in 3 weeks for a women’s fashion peak sale where they drove 13x blended ROAS vs a 6x target (Oct 2025). Experienced in full-funnel conversion setups (PMax, RSA, Advantage+, DPA), audience segmentation for incremental acquisition, and creative testing/refresh to combat ad fatigue; also ran creative messaging tests at Scholastic focused on teacher lead conversion.”
Raymond Wilson
Senior Unix/AIX & Linux Systems Engineer specializing in enterprise infrastructure and HA/DR
“UNIX/IBM Power administrator with ~20 years of experience across AIX, Solaris, and Linux, including HMC/LPAR provisioning, NIM-based builds, and PowerHA (IBM Spectrum System Mirror) clustering with validated failover as part of rolling patching. Has led cross-team infrastructure work (network/storage/DB/SAP), built SOPs used by junior admins, and automated SLES patching and .GOV-aligned hardening checks; also supported an AWS re-platform migration that later reverted to on-prem ESXi due to cost.”
Wilson Harron
Director-level AI/ML & Computer Vision Engineer specializing in robotics and multimodal AI
“Candidate is not currently pursuing entrepreneurship (no business plan and no capital raised) and is not familiar with the VC/accelerator landscape. They show pragmatic, problem-first thinking about evaluating startup ideas—prioritizing real customer pain points and the quality of the founding team—and are open to working for others rather than founding "at all costs."”
Abdulla Chekfa
Staff Embedded/Real-Time Software Engineer specializing in EtherCAT and semiconductor automation
“Robotics software engineer with semiconductor wafer-handling automation experience at Mattson Technology, building C++ control software for ATM and vacuum robots coordinating through a load-lock (pressure/door/pump sequencing). Implemented multi-vendor communications with auto-detection across SECS serial and TCP/IP, and validated behavior using simulation + GUI animation, logging/sniffers, and hardware-in-the-loop testing; currently self-studying ROS 2.”
Theodore Berchak
Executive Operations & Supply Chain Leader in global manufacturing and private equity turnarounds
“Operations leader experienced in scaling and professionalizing founder-led and early-stage/growth manufacturing organizations (Keyline USA, Novagard, Process Technology). Known for implementing structured operating systems (RACI, S&OP, balanced scorecard, lean daily management) and ERP-enabled visibility (SAP HANA), delivering quantified improvements in throughput, inventory, capacity, and EBITDA while driving cultural adoption through pragmatic change management.”
Luis Aragon
Senior Software Engineer specializing in data infrastructure and distributed systems
“Software engineer working on agentic AI SMS customer engagement flows and a Customer Data Profile service that unifies journey data across SMS/web/calls while enforcing precise consent management. Has hands-on production operations experience, including recovering a reporting-critical Elasticsearch outage by standing up a new cluster in Kubernetes, restoring from snapshots, and rewinding Kafka consumers to reprocess missed data.”
Christopher Schmitt
Executive Technology Leader specializing in FinTech & SaaS platforms
“Startup-oriented technology leader with 13 years in early-stage environments, including serving as CTO through Series A and Series B fundraising. Has direct experience presenting to investors and a board of advisors, and is especially motivated by taking products from idea to first sale and scaling them into real businesses.”
Director-level Brand & Marketing Leader specializing in CPG, storytelling, and investor communications
Senior Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in cloud-native microservices
Director of People Operations specializing in startup HR infrastructure and scalable people systems
Senior Videographer/Editor specializing in sports storytelling and digital content
Senior Marketing & Creative Strategist specializing in brand growth and go-to-market
Mid-Level Backend Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and APIs