Vetted Mentorship Professionals

“Engineering manager/player-coach in the Alexa media ecosystem who led delivery of a Tier-1 gateway service enabling third-party providers (e.g., Spotify/Pandora) to control playback across users’ Echo devices, driving 10–15% lifts in engagement metrics. Deep in API design, AWS infrastructure choices (EC2 vs Fargate), OAuth/LWA auth flows, and production rigor (security reviews, load testing, feature-gated dial-ups), with demonstrated incident ownership and operational automation wins.”

Sahitya Thota

Screened

Staff/Tech Lead Software Engineer specializing in identity, data platforms, and cloud systems

Fremont, CA20y exp

“Engineering leader/player-coach who built and owned end-to-end sales-facing data products, including a 360° advertiser insights platform and a sales AI agent for natural-language access to insights. Demonstrated strong architecture and reliability chops (event-driven redesign to eliminate Hive-query throttling; batching/caching to reduce fan-out) plus incident ownership around ads attribution consistency. Also has 0→1 experience building graph-based recommendation/matching systems with explainability and tight user feedback loops.”

“Founder of Optibuy, a newly launched advisory firm focused on energy and manufacturing, combining AI, risk management, operational excellence, and digital transformation to solve longstanding industry problems. The candidate is pursuing an E&P studio model to incubate client solutions and has a targeted fundraising strategy aimed at O&G corporate VC arms, energy-focused VCs, and experienced industry angels.”

“Product leader at Intuit/QuickBooks Workforce who built an AI-powered conversational agent for payroll and time entry, a high-stakes workflow where mistakes directly affect whether workers get paid correctly. Stands out for combining multimodal AI, RAG, and human-in-the-loop confirmation with strong UX judgment, delivering measurable outcomes including a 60% drop in worker complaints and a 30% faster path to action.”

“Hardware operations and supply chain leader in a startup environment with strong exposure to fundraising dynamics, board-level reporting, and the financial impact of manufacturing and inventory decisions. Has spent several years in Silicon Valley managing teams at scale and brings a rare blend of operational depth, strategic awareness, and entrepreneurial ambition.”

“Former Google Product Policy Ads professional with 7 years of experience at the intersection of policy, operations, legal, and product. They helped inform the largest trademark enforcement system update in Google Ads history and built scalable documentation and response systems supporting high-volume external case handling and partner operations.”

“Technical co-founder of Aldata AI for nearly three years, building an AI platform that ingests 100+ engineering data sources to analyze team behavior and correlate it with business outcomes. Combines hands-on architecture leadership, fast startup execution rhythms, and revenue-driven product prioritization, with prior experience in larger corporate environments like Chase.”