Vetted Mentorship Professionals

Rachel Ng

Screened

Mid-level Marketing Account Manager specializing in integrated and multicultural campaigns

Toronto, Canada7y exp

“Influencer/creator marketing specialist with experience at Balmoral Marketing running end-to-end creator partnerships for FreshCo in Ontario, including sourcing, negotiating usage rights and deliverables, and measuring performance via reach/engagement/views and sentiment. Leverages an established creator network to move quickly (e.g., 2-week lead time) and uses paid channels (Meta, programmatic, Google) plus A/B testing and Google Analytics to optimize CTR and engagement.”

Brian Porter

Screened

Executive sports operations leader specializing in baseball and revenue partnerships

Boston, MA26y exp

“Former White Sox player development executive and Commissioner's Office scout with 14 years across MLB-facing roles, including draft evaluation, contract negotiation, and player advising. Now an independent advisor guiding amateur players and families through recruiting, draft preparation, and pro-ball decisions, with a network that has helped create offers, workouts, and development opportunities.”

Sky Nite

Screened

Senior Unity Developer specializing in real-time 3D, VR/XR, and WebGL platforms

Seattle, WA11y exp

“Unity engineer with a rare mix of real-time multiplayer, cross-platform shipping, and applied LLM/avatar experience. Built production systems ranging from scalable social-game avatar customization and multiplayer sandbox tooling in Agora World to a low-latency AI negotiation roleplay avatar in Unity WebGL, while also owning client-facing event features end-to-end.”

“Engineering leader who has led 100+ engineers at Sainsbury’s Tech and previously scaled an org from 6 to 60+ at AND Digital. Drove a high-impact modernization of a pricing/decisioning platform serving 1,700 stores—moving from batch monolith to real-time Kafka-based event-driven microservices with MLOps, IaC (Terraform), and zero-trust—delivering £18m+ annual profit uplift and 10+ deploys/day.”

“Compensation and payroll professional with hands-on experience owning U.S. payroll validation, reconciliation, and exception management, plus supporting compensation cycles across base pay, bonuses, and incentives. Stands out for building Excel-based audit and validation tools, resolving HRIS/payroll/finance data mismatches, and strengthening controls to improve payroll accuracy and compensation consistency.”

Sai Karthik Chittamuru

Screened

Senior Salesforce Developer specializing in AI systems and enterprise cloud solutions

Pittsburgh, PA15y exp

“Salesforce-focused engineer with hands-on experience building Sales Cloud and Service Cloud solutions, including a Zoho billing integration for quote/contract workflows and a multi-panel LWC case management dashboard. Stands out for making practical architecture decisions around middleware vs. custom REST, handling idempotency with upsert patterns, and modernizing legacy Aura patterns with Lightning Message Service.”

“Education product leader and former teacher/cofounder who built Teaching Garage’s K-5 digital STEM curriculum from Harvard Innovation Lab pilot to rapid adoption across U.S. districts and international markets. Brings a rare blend of curriculum expertise, 0-to-1 product building, and educator-facing AI enablement from Renaissance, with a strong human-in-the-loop philosophy for educational equity.”

Maziyar Karimian

Screened

Director-level product strategist specializing in AI-native and design-first digital products

New York, NY13y exp

“Product and strategy leader spanning NBCUniversal, Peloton, ustwo, AKQA, and PowerSchool, with a rare mix of AI product execution, gamified consumer product design, and human-centered education strategy. Led NBCUniversal's Claude-powered Atlas platform and helped shape Peloton's Lanebreak UX, combining strong governance-minded AI judgment with proven user-centered product outcomes at scale.”

“Staff software engineer at Indeed specializing in high-scale financial and invoicing platforms, including a major 8-team migration that moved invoicing for $6B in revenue to a new accounting vendor. Combines deep distributed-systems experience with pragmatic technical leadership and has also built AI bots that cut SDLC lead time from 20 days to under 7.”

Andrew Lanzino

Screened

Executive Growth & Strategy Leader specializing in hospitality, entertainment, and large-scale events

Las Vegas, NV21y exp

“Strategic operations and org design leader who led restructuring at MGM Resorts, including an "org-blind" approach separating structure design from talent evaluation to reduce bias. Also teaches strategic management at a university and has advised/mentored C-suite leaders, combining high-level strategy with hands-on stakeholder listening (e.g., UNLV dean strategic re-envisioning).”

colton childrey

Screened

Senior QA Leader specializing in AAA games, XR platforms, and backend systems

Los Angeles, CA7y exp

“Game/interactive software QA professional with experience spanning AAA titles (Activision Black Ops 3; Halo 4/Forge) and VR at Meta (The World Beyond). Notable for modernizing QA operations at Lego BrickLink Studio by implementing Testmo and dramatically increasing test coverage and user satisfaction, plus quickly diagnosing and unblocking a critical public-launch issue caused by misconfigured gatekeeper flags.”

“Commercially driven founder/operator with hands-on fundraising experience across angels, family offices, SPVs, VC, and PE-backed brands. Helped MATE.bike raise a $10M Series A and supported K-Way's US market development, while currently building a startup with up to $3.9M in soft commitments.”

Shriya Bannikop

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud platforms, data engineering, and distributed systems

Seattle, WA5y exp

“Full-stack engineer who built and owned an AI-assisted job-matching dashboard in Next.js App Router/TypeScript, keeping LLM logic server-side and improving performance via deduplication, caching/revalidation, and streaming (35% fewer duplicate LLM calls; 40% faster first render). Also has strong data/backend chops: designed Postgres models and optimized queries at million-record scale (1.8s to 120ms) and built durable AWS multi-region telemetry workflows with idempotency, retries, and monitoring.”

Jignesh Desai

Screened

Director of Software Engineering specializing in fraud detection and payments platforms

San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA26y exp

“Engineering manager/player-coach who focuses on laying technical foundations and improving team execution: kickstarted Visa standard UI library adoption, standardized API exception handling, and introduced a test automation framework that enabled a shift from quarterly to monthly releases. Led a phased latency/throughput initiative that doubled throughput, and owned a production incident caused by a dependency’s expired certificate, driving monitoring and certificate-expiry notification improvements across dependent systems.”

“LLM/MLOps engineer who has shipped production systems for complaint intelligence and contact-center NLU, including LoRA/RLHF-tuned LLaMA models deployed on GKE with vLLM and Vertex AI batch pipelines to BigQuery. Demonstrates strong practical focus on hallucination control, data imbalance mitigation, and production monitoring (Langfuse) with regression testing and canary rollouts, plus experience orchestrating complex workflows with AWS Step Functions.”

“Operations leader with manufacturing-heavy experience across Greene Tweed, Chem-Trend, and Ketjen, known for building operational structure (org design + KPI flow-down) and translating shop-floor realities into measurable financial outcomes. Has delivered significant profitability gains (20% site profitability; 15% product profitability) through Lean methods, process documentation, SIOP/production planning improvements, and cross-functional alignment with Sales/CCO.”

Roger Woody

Screened

Executive Operations & Transformation Leader in Federal and Defense organizations

36y exp

“Operations and Chief of Staff leader with experience at NRO, DHS/TSA, and NOAA, translating complex, regulated enterprise environments into startup-like scalable operating systems. Implemented Salesforce/PeopleSoft/Cognos-driven process optimization, governance, and keystroke-level SOPs, delivering measurable improvements (20% performance gains; 15% error reduction) while driving adoption through hands-on change management and executive alignment.”