Vetted Networking Professionals

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered grading platform that automates rubric-aligned scoring and feedback, with strong guardrails (RAG grounding, structured JSON, validation/retries) and operational rigor (metrics, drift monitoring). Experienced using CrewAI to orchestrate multi-agent workflows end-to-end and validating quality via gold-set benchmarking against human graders with regression testing on every prompt/model change.”

“Recruiting leader with experience managing teams of 2–5 and driving end-to-end recruiting process improvements, including SOP standardization, ATS implementations (Taleo/Paylocity), and data-driven reporting. Has led confidential executive searches (VP level) and partnered closely with HRBPs on strategic, high-volume initiatives such as building a global IT service center in Argentina (Boehringer Ingelheim).”

“Director of the feature film "The Compatriots," distributed worldwide by Blue Harbor Entertainment and available on Amazon, Apple, and other TV channels. Previously served as Saucony’s lead videographer for four years producing CTV, social, digital, and YouTube content, and runs a YouTube channel with editing tutorials that have reached tens of thousands of views. Owns a full production kit (including a RED Komodo) and is highly fluent with RED/Canon systems, DJI drones/Ronin stabilizers, and Zoom audio workflows.”

“Serial entrepreneur since leaving corporate in 2009, working largely for equity on multiple startups. Building (1) academically rigorous, anti-overfitting quant/backtesting tools for retail investors (with potential applicability to smaller hedge funds lacking quant staff) and (2) a partner-led “social-as-a-service” platform for verticals like real estate/PropTech (including FSBO use cases) focused on first-party data capture vs. big tech.”

“Backend/web API engineer with hands-on experience deploying .NET Core APIs to Azure App Service and stabilizing production systems through disciplined log-driven troubleshooting, environment configuration management, and SQL performance tuning (execution plans, query rewrites, indexing). Has also debugged cross-layer incidents involving DB locks and network latency, and modifies Python/XML automation scripts to meet customer-specific requirements while improving logging and performance.”

“Robotics software engineer who built the software layer for an autonomous warehouse sorting system, spanning navigation/path planning, task scheduling, and backend services. Deep hands-on ROS 2 Foxy experience (Nav2/costmaps) and real-time multi-robot debugging, using simulation-driven analysis plus incremental/partial re-planning to handle dynamic obstacles in production-like warehouse environments.”

“Full-stack engineer with early-stage startup experience who shipped and owned production Next.js (App Router + TypeScript) features end-to-end, including auth-aware APIs, caching, and post-launch monitoring/iteration. Demonstrates strong performance and reliability chops across React UX optimization, Postgres analytics modeling/query tuning (validated via query plans), and durable ingestion workflows with retries/idempotency.”

“Senior production infrastructure/SRE-style engineer with deep IBM Power/AIX (7.2/7.3) ownership at scale (40+ LPARs) supporting SAP/Oracle, including live DLPAR changes and PowerHA clustering. Also brings modern cloud/DevOps experience—Azure DevOps CI/CD secured with Key Vault and Terraform-based Azure provisioning—bridging legacy enterprise platforms with cloud automation.”

“Enterprise retail seller focused on quantified, finance-grade ROI storytelling and pilot-to-expansion motions. Has closed and expanded major logos including Kroger (flagship pilot leading to $200K MRR upsell) and Procter & Gamble (expanded from $20K to $250K MRR), and exceeded a $540K MRR quota two years running (106% in 2024; 116% in 2025) with additional $100K+ MRR wins like Target and First Student.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on system-level C++/Linux stacks for multi-robot platforms, owning the communication layer and validation/testing infrastructure. Built Python simulation/replay and fault-injection tooling integrated with Docker + GitLab CI/CD, and debugged real-time localization issues by instrumenting IPC timing and refactoring multi-threaded pipelines for deterministic performance.”

“Unity/VR developer with hands-on experience integrating Pupil Labs eye tracking on HTC Vive to make VR interactions and diegetic UI feel more natural, including building calibration directly into the app for different users. Developed multi-user applications at Fundamental VR using Photon PUN 2 for cross-platform networking, and leverages AI tools for debugging/optimization and GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline troubleshooting.”

“Recruiting leader with 4 years managing a 25-person recruiting team and deep experience in C-suite executive search. Built a full recruiting lifecycle process from the ground up in their current role, scaling to ~60 candidate interviews per week and implementing Salesforce-based pipeline tracking. Regularly partners with HRBPs and works directly with CEO/COO on retention, budgeting, and hiring/firing decisions.”

“Cloud/DevOps-focused engineer with production experience in Linux, AWS, Kubernetes, and cloud-native architectures. Has built GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines for containerized Kubernetes deployments and implemented Terraform-based AWS infrastructure with modular design and remote state/locking (S3 + DynamoDB) plus PR/CI-driven change control.”

“Unity gameplay engineer with hands-on experience spanning AI behavior-tree architecture (Behavior Designer), authoritative multiplayer networking (Photon/Mirror), and aggressive VR (Meta Quest) optimization. Built designer-friendly tooling (Excel-driven balancing, prefab automation bridging Marvelous Designer/Blender/Unity) and has experience mentoring juniors within an entity/HMVC-based architecture at Playtica.”

“Software/IoT-focused candidate with startup internship experience building a planner AI service integrating Google Calendar (OAuth/token handling) and connecting AI, backend, frontend, and database. Also has embedded systems + AWS networking troubleshooting experience and has implemented TCP networking projects optimized for throughput and low jitter/latency; collaborates with clients via weekly meetings using Trello/Slack.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership of real-time, Kafka-driven systems in production, spanning React/TypeScript frontends, Spring Boot/Node backends, and AWS (EKS/ECS/EC2) operations. Notable for modernizing legacy batch workflows into event-driven architectures with measurable impact (35% faster risk calculations, 30% better accuracy) and scaling to 2x volume using reliability patterns like idempotency, retries, and staged rollouts.”

“Sales professional focused on staffing/talent operations and GTM enablement solutions, with a disciplined outbound motion (ICP, org mapping, multi-threading across calls/LinkedIn/email). Has examples of winning mid-market deals ($30K–$60K) and expanding an account to ~$52K ACV, plus building early-stage sales process rigor (MEDDICC, pipeline reviews) that produced predictable pipeline in ~90 days and shortened cycles by ~20%.”