Vetted Networking Professionals

Neus Tosi

Screened

Director-level Talent Acquisition & Development leader in beauty and pharmaceuticals

New York, NY9y exp

“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).”

Jacob Allyn

Screened

Senior Physics & Gameplay Engineer specializing in Unity vehicle and multiplayer systems

9y exp

“Unity/C# engineer who led and shipped a backend-driven mobile AR platform (4D VIEWR) using Vuforia, enabling dynamic content delivery without app updates and focusing heavily on stability under real-world tracking/connectivity constraints. Also shipped authoritative-server multiplayer matchmaking/gameplay flow for NBA 2K vehicle modes, including server-side anti-cheat validation and live issue instrumentation. Recently built a self-hosted multi-agent LLM pipeline to accelerate game-dev workflows with strong reliability and cost/latency controls.”

“Built a Python pipeline to monitor and classify public posts from sources like Hacker News and Reddit for SWE/tech job opportunities, with a strong focus on reliability, observability, and recoverable failures. Also currently building a court queueing system for the UCSD Badminton Club, showing an ability to turn messy, informal real-world processes into practical automation through iterative user feedback.”

“Accounting and finance professional with startup founder-sourcing experience through StageSphere, combining grassroots community outreach with highly organized pipeline tracking. Also led employer relationship-building as Accounting Club president, helping create student-to-firm recruiting pipelines in Minneapolis while drawing on experience from PwC and Minnetronix Medical.”

“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.”

Cia Hang

Screened

Executive IT and Operations leader specializing in digital transformation and security

Chicago, IL13y exp

“Candidate is very familiar with the venture capital and broader investment landscape, but is not interested in founding a company. They have worked with several TPG-backed or TPG-owned organizations, helping drive business scaling, cost reduction, and execution against investor governance requirements.”

Kela Olsen

Screened

Director-level sales professional specializing in medical devices and sports business

Loomis, CA22y exp

“Former Division I standout and professional baseball player turned college recruiter, coach, academy owner, and athlete advisor with deep Northern California baseball relationships. He combines data-driven player evaluation, consultative family guidance, and a strong coach/scout network to help athletes navigate recruiting and development decisions, with outcomes including 90%+ transfer/pro signing rates at Sierra College and early advocacy for players like Nick Madrigal.”

Craig Anderson

Screened

Senior Enterprise Account Executive specializing in SaaS and HR tech

Little Falls, NJ14y exp

“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.”

Abi Olatunji

Screened

Senior DevSecOps/SRE Engineer specializing in secure AWS & Azure cloud platforms

Dallas, TX9y exp

“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.”

“Early-stage venture sourcing professional from Magnivia Ventures with a strong track record of proactively building founder relationships months before a raise. Stands out for combining high-volume outbound, sector mapping, and value-add relationship nurturing to win early access to seed opportunities and move promising founders into diligence quickly.”

“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.”

“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.”

HASHIM YAQUB

Screened

Staff Unity XR Software Engineer specializing in VR surgical training and haptics

Bath, UK12y exp

“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.”

“Founder/outbound sourcing professional who builds high-trust pipelines through network-driven outreach, LinkedIn research, and in-person community events, then nurtures prospects with low-pressure, transparent multi-call processes. Created and used a custom Salesforce module to track founder candidates, manage stages, and run disciplined follow-up cadences with strong internal/external communication.”

“Serial founder with experience across both bootstrapped and venture-backed startups, including scaling Aloa past $1M in first-year revenue and raising $1.3M for Bracketology, a fantasy gaming platform for reality TV now in sale process. Combines sales, marketing, product, automation, and AI implementation experience, with exposure to WeFunder, Newchip, and 1871 as both participant and mentor.”

“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.”

Hleb Rahoisha

Screened

Senior Unity/C# Developer specializing in mobile and VR games

Warsaw, Poland7y exp

“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.”

Kyle Vo

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in web, mobile, and embedded systems

Davis, CA1y exp

“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.”

“Platform/infra engineer with deep Kubernetes (EKS) and VMware vSphere experience who has led a monolith-to-microservices transition for a credit lending decision platform. Built GitOps-driven Terraform delivery with strong governance, and used LaunchDarkly-based progressive rollouts plus Datadog observability to safely ship multiple times per day (reported ~6x throughput and 1/3 the bugfix tickets vs legacy). Also operates hybrid on-prem/AWS networking (firewall + Transit Gateway, BGP) and has handled high-stakes datacenter migrations (100TB Storage vMotion) under Sev1 conditions.”

“Built and shipped production LLM agents including an AI patient appointment assistant for Kyron Medical that automated specialist matching and end-to-end booking with email/SMS confirmations and a voice mode. Strong focus on production reliability (double-booking prevention with DB constraints and pre-write checks), deterministic multi-step orchestration with LangGraph, and rigorous monitoring/evaluation using LangSmith trace replay for prompt regression testing.”