Vetted Mentorship Professionals

“Software engineer currently building for a wealth management platform, with hands-on ownership across React/TypeScript front ends, Azure serverless backends, and SQL data systems. Stands out for turning hackweek concepts into production features, building observability infrastructure from scratch, and delivering measurable gains in latency, uptime, incident response, and client satisfaction.”

“Engineering leader/player-coach who redesigned A/B testing and observability infrastructure for real-time audio/video features at 90M+ DAU scale, using Kafka-based ingestion and horizontally scalable aggregation for near real-time metrics. Managed 10–15 engineers, drove >20% infrastructure cost reduction without user-experience regressions, and led major peak-traffic incident response with lasting reliability improvements (load testing, capacity planning, alerting, pre-mortems).”

ISAURA GUZMAN

Screened

Senior Basketball Coach & Athletic Performance Trainer specializing in youth and elite athlete development

Union City, NJ13y exp

“Youth AAU basketball coach who also ran tournaments at Union City High School, handling real-time event logistics like team dropouts, parking constraints, and staffing referees/scoreboard. Comfortable scouting talent in person and via social media, with a recruiting lens focused on intangibles and team fit, and creates side-by-side video breakdowns connecting skill work to in-game results.”

Christopher Perkins Jr

Screened

Senior Enterprise Account Executive & GTM Lead specializing in early-stage B2B SaaS

New York, NY7y exp

“Full-cycle enterprise seller with deep retail-adjacent fluency in payments, stored value/wallets, martech, and loyalty. Highlights include a $1.9M ARR ($9.5M TCV) deal and 220% quota attainment ($2.2M closed) while also building a GTM playbook and sales process; has proven ability to navigate acquisitions, shifting priorities, and executive turnover mid-deal.”

“Former basketball player with deep exposure to youth leagues/tournaments and recruitment events, now coaching middle and high school athletes while coordinating district-wide Special Olympics programming. Currently a full-time Florida State University grad student in athletic coaching who regularly produces and edits video content and uses game film breakdown to develop players; comfortable scouting and communicating with families via social media.”

“Operator with 10 years of experience helping other businesses grow, now launching their own startup focused on healthy screen time for children ages 2-6. They have completed an initial pitch deck for a brain-friendly kids app and emphasize post-funding execution, scaling, and sustainable systems over capital alone.”

“Agency-side executive search leader with experience running a 360-degree desk for 6+ years and managing both permanent and project-based recruiting teams (including 2 direct reports and teams supporting 7–10 concurrent searches). Regularly partners with executive stakeholders and HRBPs, and has driven process improvements such as expanding a VP Product search from local to national/remote to improve candidate quality.”

“Engineering leader who modernized infrastructure by migrating a ~100-server co-location setup to AWS/GCP with IaC, auto-scaling, and fault-tolerant design, reducing hardware upgrade burden. Also led a key analytics architecture shift from MySQL to ClickHouse to enable highly granular ad revenue attribution and profitability insights, while scaling the dev org from 2–3 to ~12 with stronger CI/testing and review processes.”

“Cloud/infrastructure engineer with strong production operations background across AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes, supporting 30+ enterprise workloads for ~40,000 users. Demonstrated incident leadership (hybrid AKS-to-AWS routing outage) with a reported 60% MTTR reduction, plus hands-on CI/CD (Jenkins) and Terraform-based IaC for AWS (VPC/EC2/EKS). Lacks direct IBM Power/AIX/PowerHA experience but emphasizes transferable ops and troubleshooting skills.”

“Unity mobile game developer (10+ years) who has shipped 15+ iOS/Android titles (including Word Collect, Trivia Start, Word Nut, Hot Las Vegas Slots). Built a large-scale adventure/quest progression feature with 1000+ quests using procedural map generation, UI virtualization for mobile memory constraints, and a server-driven, spreadsheet-importable configuration system that became a reusable standard across games. Based in San Diego (PST) and targeting $155k USD; open to contract or full-time.”

“Serial founder and fractional CTO with 8 companies founded and 3 exits, now looking to commit full-time to a venture-backable startup. Currently advising two startups that recently raised $400K friends-and-family and $1M pre-seed, and brings thoughtful perspective on venture-scale economics, team quality, and AI disruption risk.”

Jason Wadsworth

Screened

Principal/Chief Cloud Architect specializing in AWS serverless SaaS platforms

Overland Park, KS24y exp

“Interested in early-stage ideation and evaluating new ideas through market viability and values alignment. Emphasizes building focused MVPs with limited resources using a value-first prioritization approach, and prefers people-centered concepts rather than profit-only ventures.”

Steve Majko-Ruben

Screened

Executive software architect specializing in AI, Azure, and enterprise platforms

Bellingham, WA25y exp

“Founder of NeuroCoreTech, an AI startup that has generated about $70K in under a year while building products including an interactive story platform, spam detection, and custom AI solutions. Brings startup experience dating back to 2009, exposure to $130M+ in fundraising, and a US patent, with a clear focus on revenue-first, privacy-conscious AI for PII/HIPAA-sensitive customers.”

“Pre-seed startup cofounder with hands-on experience in federal contracting through the Apex accelerator, including six competitive bids and direct involvement in pitch prep and investor readiness. Brings an unusual mix of AI opportunity scoping, deep-tech/patent exposure, and nonprofit ecosystem-building, with a clear ability to translate technical work into investor and partner value.”