Vetted Mentorship Professionals

Osaze Edo-Osagie

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Frontend/Full-Stack Engineer specializing in React and TypeScript

New York, USA7y exp

“Frontend engineer from Meltwater who led delivery of a universal post details modal used across multiple apps, integrating three different frontend frameworks (Vue, React, StencilJS) into a plug-and-play StencilJS feature. Built scalable, reusable UI components and even helped create an internal CSS library/design system, with a strong focus on performance optimization and reliable QA-driven rollouts.”

Vijay Mohan

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive technology leader specializing in AI, cloud platforms, and enterprise software

Nashua, NH25y exp

“Founder of Braindump (redfly.ai), an AI companion for memory and personal organization, who has already raised $60,000 from Alchemist Accelerator. Brings hands-on experience with customer discovery, technical validation, and VC pitching, and stands out for a first-principles approach to building products with dramatic performance and cost improvements.”

Rory Catinella

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level Talent Acquisition & Recruiting Leader specializing in scaling high-growth hiring

Southlake, TX15y exp

“Senior staffing/recruiting operations leader with large-scale, high-volume experience across Amazon and Integrity Staffing, known for building rigorous operating cadences, analytics, and documentation that materially improve productivity and rankings. Also led SaaS-enabled workforce solutions operations at Indeed Flex, implementing strategic account planning that cut high-risk churn by 77% while managing multi-market teams.”

CHIRAG ARORA

Screened

Senior Backend Software Engineer specializing in microservices and cloud platforms

San Jose, CA9y exp

“Backend engineer with PayPal experience building a high-reliability onboarding API platform (Java/Spring Boot) integrating KYC/compliance and serving 1M+ users annually. Also shipped an internal LLM-driven developer tool that automates PR review insights and OpenAPI documentation with rigorous evaluation, schema-bound guardrails, and production observability.”

“Frontend engineer with senior-level scope who has shipped complex React/TypeScript products end-to-end, including a multi-page site built solo in four weeks (complex forms, PDF generation, email + localization) and a GraphQL-driven dashboard for a car dealership management platform. Known for modular, testable architecture, performance-minded data fetching (batched calls), and improving design-system consistency via reusable, Storybook-documented components and feature-flagged rollouts.”

“Entrepreneurial builder using Claude Code to rapidly prototype multiple product ideas and validate them with target users via social channels. Created and launched NotePulse (a lower-priced Notionlytics alternative), acquiring a dozen early users through Reddit-driven discovery and light paid experiments, with a strong emphasis on MVP scoping and product polish.”

“Engineering lead/player-coach working on project management software, owning a high-impact scheduling algorithm rewrite focused on performance, maintainability, and documentation after prior team turnover caused regressions. Previously at EOX Vantage, helped an insurance client modernize monolithic workflows by scoping ambiguous requirements into a roadmap and shipping a day-one MVP before iterating with value-add features.”

Briana Schoffman

Screened

Director-level Program & Professional Services Leader specializing in Enterprise SaaS and PMO

25y exp

“Entrepreneur who invested in a startup franchise concept and opened a dog-grooming store that became the most successful location in company history within one year, with projected revenue of $600K+ in 2026. Uses structured market sizing (PAM/TAM) and GTM thinking, and has executed cost-effective local marketing through grassroots social and community sponsorships.”

Sandeep Mekala

Screened

Director-level Mobile Engineering Manager specializing in Generative AI and agentic mobile experiences

Remote13y exp

“iOS player-coach who led end-to-end development of real-time customer support chat and unified notification systems for T-Mobile’s iOS app using SwiftUI, Firebase, WebSockets, and Core Data (including offline handling). Drove measurable reliability/latency gains (~30%) through a major notification refactor and owned a high-severity push-notification incident from rollback through RCA and backward-compatible hotfix, while also scaling team process and people management.”

“Talent Acquisition Operations leader who has managed teams up to 10 and owns end-to-end TA ops areas (strategy, selection, employer branding, and process/tech optimization). Recently standardized fragmented hiring by moving to a one-funnel approach with competency weighting and recruiter triage, already improving time-to-fill. Led Gem implementation/integration and uses ATS analytics (SmartRecruiters) plus post-hire performance data to validate sourcing and selection quality.”

João Arruda

Screened

Senior Frontend Engineer specializing in Vue.js, testing strategy, and scalable architecture

Remote, EU15y exp

“Frontend engineer/lead focused on scalable architecture and reusable UI platforms: built a schema-driven, IoC-based unified filtering system across an app with feature-flagged rollout and strong TypeScript/testing discipline. Also created a standalone React NPS survey package that works across microfrontends (handling peer dependency/version issues) and implemented accessibility improvements for complex interactions like drag-and-drop while leading an Atomic Design → Feature-Sliced Design migration.”

“Entrepreneur building a luxury rental car company startup with capital already raised, though undisclosed. Demonstrates a thoughtful founder mindset centered on vision, growth trajectory, due diligence, and market penetration, and is actively building connections in the VC/accelerator ecosystem.”