Vetted Mentorship Professionals

Priyanka Ramesh

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Java/Spring Boot and React

Boston, MA2y exp

“Backend engineer (IpserLab) who owned Python services for a production quiz/analytics platform, focusing on reliability and low-latency behavior under peak load. Hands-on with Kubernetes + Docker deployments and GitHub Actions CI/CD in a GitOps-style workflow, including solving configuration drift and enabling fast rollbacks. Also implemented Kafka-based event streaming with idempotent consumers and strong observability (lag tracking, structured logging, alerting).”

“Senior-care and post-acute business development professional in upstate South Carolina with experience selling hospice, home health, and personal care services since 2017. Stands out for deep referral relationships across cardiology and hospital case management, including being the top referral source for AnMed Cardiology, and for building territories from scratch using cold outreach, education, and CRM-driven targeting.”

“Front-end engineer with significant ownership of a large-scale TypeScript application for a federal healthcare program, serving analysts and administrators under strict CMS and WCAG/508 requirements. Stands out for combining deep browser-performance work, accessibility remediation of 100+ issues, and modernization of legacy code into a reusable, well-tested Angular architecture with over 90% automated test coverage.”

“UNIX infrastructure engineer with hands-on AIX 7.x and Solaris 11.4 operations, including high-severity Oracle/NFS I/O incidents resolved via MTU/Jumbo Frame tuning and performance tooling (iostat/vmstat/top/fio). Experienced in IBM Power (P5–P9) environments with VIOS/LPAR and PowerHA/HACMP (up to 8-node clusters), plus legacy Sun/Oracle SPARC and AIX migrations using custom Bash/Python discovery scripts and rsync-based cutovers.”

Danny Beck

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive Technology Leader (CTO/Head of Engineering) specializing in platform rebuilds, AI, and Web3

California, USA11y exp

“Startup leader with 15+ years of experience, including lead engineer and founding CTO roles across 5 companies from pre-seed to Series A. Actively develops personal venture ideas by creating product specs/SLAs/business plans and engaging in investor pitch sessions and incubators, with a strong focus on early product-market fit via validated learning and data-driven pivots.”

Stephanie Kline

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive Content Strategy & Thought Leadership Leader specializing in B2B growth

North Carolina, US13y exp

“Chief-of-Staff / operations leader who has scaled creative and production organizations through hyper-growth, including growing a creative team from ~30 to 200+ while improving turnaround times and protecting margins. Acts as a founder force-multiplier by installing operating cadences, dashboards, and decision systems, and has built scalable editorial and motion-graphics pipelines tied to growth metrics (e.g., ~$2 CPI and seven-figure media spend scaling).”

Michael St.Claire

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Chief Architect specializing in microservices, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise AI agents

Idaho, US22y exp

“Startup-focused engineering leader applying for a CTO role; previously served as founding CTO of a tech startup and held engineering/architecture roles across several others. Evaluates new ventures through market research and market demand, and emphasizes building from the ground up with strong teams (has not personally participated in fundraising).”

Rebecca Johnson

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Senior Product Manager specializing in AI workflows and healthcare SaaS

Remote, USA8y exp

“Homegrown product/program leader with 8 years of experience who has repeatedly found high-cost operational pain points and turned them into scalable product wins. Most notably, they built an address-validation and fraud-prevention system in non-emergency medical transportation that produced multi-million-dollar savings, and previously led an AI-assisted OCR workflow that raised accuracy to 98.6% and drove major efficiency gains.”

“Candidate brings hands-on grassroots marketing and operations experience from a breakdance nonprofit, where they drove outreach to sponsors, venues, staff, and high-profile community figures to execute events. They also supported a coffee shop CEO with local market research, AI-assisted analysis, and college-focused customer targeting, showing a blend of creative community engagement and practical go-to-market thinking.”

“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.”

Irina Morris

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in scalable web platforms and cloud migrations

Remote11y exp

“Full-stack architect/engineer with startup and Meta experience who built a real-time school safety and lockdown coordination platform used by schools and emergency organizations. Particularly compelling for roles requiring ownership in ambiguous environments, real-time systems design, and configurable B2B SaaS platforms in high-stakes domains.”

“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.”

Alex Lopez

Screened

Executive AI product and platform leader specializing in FinTech

New York City, NY11y exp

“Founder and CTO of Relish who scaled the company through Series A and B, raising over $35M, while building an enterprise AI invoice-processing platform for major customers including Apple and PayPal. Combines deep technical fluency in LLM/OCR orchestration and ERP integrations with strong product and UX judgment, including a redesign that improved NPS by roughly 20 points. Also brings a university teaching background that informs a distinctly human-centered view of AI.”

Spenser Mix

Screened

Executive operations leader specializing in EdTech growth and strategy

Los Angeles, CA11y exp

“Founder and COO of Thinking Nation, a 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit, with a standout track record of raising nearly $4M from a private foundation over five years. Brings a mix of Pepperdine MBA training and real-world operator experience, with particular strength in mission-driven fundraising, timing-sensitive strategy, and translating abstract ideas into actionable go-to-market plans.”

“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.”