Vetted Mentorship Professionals

Luke Akinsola

Screened

Senior Content & Digital Media Lead specializing in sports publishing operations

New York, NY8y exp

“NBA professional leading strategy for the league’s Future Starts Now platform, combining elite youth-basketball scouting and event coverage with content publishing to NBA App/NBA.com. Also brings global media partnerships sales experience (ad spots and sponsorship rights) and produces/publishes short- and long-form video (vertical and 16x9) across NBA social channels.”

KARTHIKBABU VADLOORI

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in Spring Boot, React, and cloud microservices

San Francisco, CA5y exp

“Backend engineer with experience at Meta and Accenture building regulated-data systems (healthcare/financial) using Python/Flask and Postgres. Has scaled high-throughput services to millions of daily requests, delivering measurable latency wins (~40% API latency reduction; ~35% faster DB-backed endpoints), and has productionized ML inference services using Docker/Kubernetes and AWS (ECS/SageMaker).”

“Senior engineering leader in the Bay Area with experience spanning VMware, Hortonworks/Cloudera, Barracuda, and Palo Alto Networks, including leading open-source work (Apache Knox) and architecting large-scale security platforms. Has driven disaster recovery and cloud security products, designed Python microservices for Microsoft 365 security, and scaled teams (3x) while formalizing enterprise readiness practices with automated documentation using Notebook LLM.”

“Engineering leader with hands-on architecture depth who has managed offshore teams up to ~30 engineers across mobile, web, backend, and Roku. Particularly strong in applying AI pragmatically—driving code-generation and review workflows, tailoring model usage by tech stack, and building internal LLM/RAG tools—while also improving operational KPIs through automation, cost optimization, and workflow redesign in content/media environments.”

Robert Davis

Screened

Staff Software Engineer specializing in backend and distributed systems

Remote, US19y exp

“Backend engineer who co-launched SkyKick’s Office 365 SharePoint/Exchange backup product, built the MVP, and then architected and led its design for 9 years. Stands out for high-scale systems expertise, including an algorithmic redesign that cut cloud costs by an order of magnitude, plus earlier experience integrating speech recognition systems in noisy real-world customer environments.”

“Software engineer with experience spanning early-stage startup architecture and large-scale Amazon product development. They’ve driven search and data-platform decisions in a 20-person startup, built full-stack React/Python tools that automate internal workflows, and shipped marketplace expansion and personalization features impacting 200k sellers and millions of end users.”

“Player Experience developer on Madden who shipped player-facing Weekly Recap and Halftime Show flows built in visual scripting, including a custom solution to keep full-screen UI persistent across level loads with strong logging and failsafes. Also builds networked UE co-op ARPG systems (talent trees, combat/animation, leveling/stats, AI, dynamic spawning) and has a track record of refactoring shared UI/banner logic into scalable prefabs to reduce bugs and improve team workflow.”