Vetted Mentorship Professionals

Mazhar Haq

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior AWS Cloud Architect and Technical Leader specializing in security, migrations, and cost governance

Santa Monica, CA26y exp

“Infrastructure/platform engineer with strong AWS and hybrid on-prem networking depth, spanning Kubernetes platform engineering (IaC, autoscaling, GitOps, observability) and large-scale VMware operations. Managed thousands of VMs across 56 US military bases/airports and has resolved real production hybrid incidents involving BGP/Direct Connect route advertisement and prefix-limit constraints.”

“Engineering leader with hands-on Android architecture expertise who has scaled mobile teams at Weedmaps (including forming a Platform team and rolling out MVVM/unit testing) and also co-founded a bootstrapped side business (Sizzle), owning the technical roadmap, hiring strategy (university pipeline + senior remote engineers in Pakistan), and stepping into fundraising when runway became critical.”

Alex Norman

Screened

Executive Growth & Partnerships Leader specializing in enterprise GTM and platform ecosystems

Miami, FL26y exp

“Repeat entrepreneur (Babson entrepreneurship grad) with two prior company exits and deep accelerator/VC ecosystem experience (YC alum; Techstars and Endeavor mentor; advisor to High Alpha). Currently piloting an AI solution for emergency response planning focused on people with conditions (aging/disabled), reporting 75%+ readiness score improvements and leveraging a proprietary behavioral crisis dataset with anonymization and security controls; also authored an Amazon-bestselling book on related solutions.”

“CTO-minded builder seeking to join a startup; previously created an AI-driven platform that abstracted away DevOps and infrastructure for drug discovery researchers. Emphasizes high-leverage, zero-to-one execution with managed cloud/open-source tooling, and a strong reliability/reproducibility mindset validated against existing scientific pipelines.”

Brayden Tremper

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in game UI systems and gameplay features

Olympia, WA4y exp

“Unity/C# game engineer with hands-on ownership of live-service systems, including a real-time multi-channel chat feature for Squid Game: Unleashed that launched alongside Squid Game Season 2 on Netflix and increased player retention and engagement. Brings a strong blend of mobile performance optimization, server-authoritative architecture, multiplayer systems, and practical experimentation with LLM-assisted narrative tooling.”

“ML/NLP engineer focused on production-grade data and search/recommendation systems: built an end-to-end pipeline that connects unstructured customer feedback with product data using TF-IDF/BERT, Spark, and AWS (SageMaker/S3), orchestrated with Airflow and monitored for drift. Also has hands-on experience with entity resolution at scale and improving search relevance via BERT embeddings, FAISS vector search, and domain fine-tuning validated with precision@k and A/B testing.”

Bryan Mangelson

Screened

Executive operator specializing in SaaS, cloud infrastructure, and M&A

Remote, USA11y exp

“Candidate has prior startup experience that included raising money and evaluating accelerator opportunities, giving them practical exposure to early-stage company building. They are motivated by the chance to shape company culture and vision, and they assess ideas with a mix of market research, customer interviews, and personal conviction.”