Vetted Mentorship Professionals

“Veteran hockey coach and player-development consultant (UConn NCAA ’92; minor pro) with 30+ years spanning AAA, prep, junior, and NCAA, plus experience as Player Personnel Director in the USHL. Key architect of South Kent’s Selects Academy, credited with 23 NHL draft picks and hundreds of NCAA placements, and runs an education-focused consulting practice helping families navigate pathways with honest, level-appropriate guidance.”

“Engineering leader who delivered a Magento-to-Shopify rebuild ahead of schedule while maintaining 100% team retention over 4 years at Hydrobuilder Holdings. Also built and ran a concert-listing platform (TourVolume) in production for 12+ years (Webby Honorable Mention) and later open-sourced the full codebase. Deep experience in auth/API platforms on AWS, including moving critical auth services from Lambda to ECS to eliminate cold-start latency.”

“Public sector IT and cybersecurity sales leader with a track record of transforming reactive sales motions into proactive growth engines. He scaled Washington State business to over $1M/month, turned around a King County security account to $1M+ annually, and later drove 27% domestic and 30% international growth as a Global VP of Sales ahead of a successful acquisition.”

“Group CTO at Airobod who combines executive-level engineering leadership with hands-on technical depth across architecture, cloud, performance debugging, and AI-enabled platforms. He has led platform modernization, scaled engineering organizations in high-growth environments, and implemented rigorous multi-tenant SaaS architecture with zero cross-tenant data leaks over 12 months.”

“Hands-on public sector sales leader with 20 years of experience building and scaling government-focused SaaS and tech-enabled sales organizations. Most notably, he was the first sales hire at Library Ideas and grew the business from $0 to $19M ARR across 5,000 customers in 20 countries, while also demonstrating strong team turnaround, forecasting rigor, and success in complex RFP-driven government deals.”

“Front-end engineer with strong experience building high-performance browser UIs for financial professionals, especially complex onboarding flows and real-time data dashboards in React. Stands out for combining browser-level performance tuning, asynchronous architecture expertise, and measurable business impact, including 30% faster onboarding and 15% higher client satisfaction; also brings Angular/C#/D3 experience from higher-ed analytics platforms.”

Omar Rahmoun

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and AI platforms

Chicago, IL5y exp

“Senior engineer transitioning into a lead engineer role who is actively overseeing 5 developers and championing an AI-first development culture. Stands out for a highly structured approach to AI-assisted software delivery, including context engineering, phased planning, multi-agent orchestration, and deliberate hallucination mitigation rather than 'vibe coding.'”