Vetted Networking Professionals

“Co-founded a Digital Loss Prevention (DLP) startup and raised $6M in seed funding by showcasing a controlled, laptop-based technology demo. Post-funding, drove MVP planning and execution by sequencing operations and assembling a team to build an appliance MVP, using an iterative build/evaluate/visualize approach.”

Mo Hallaba

Screened

Executive Founder & Corporate Strategy leader specializing in AI data analytics and gaming

New York, United States18y exp

“Startup CEO/founder (9 years) who built an AI data assistant and ran cross-functional GTM + engineering prioritization using OKRs and KPI-driven sales experimentation. Previously worked in finance on M&A due diligence for multi-billion-dollar transactions, including hands-on NDA/confidentiality work; seeks roles at $250k+ depending on equity and fit.”

Cornelius O'Donnell

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Director-level Engineering & Program Leader specializing in AI product platforms

San Diego, CA25y exp

“Technical Program Manager and one of three internal "founders" of HP’s Hardware-as-a-Service home printer subscription initiative, spanning DTC shipping, simplified setup, ink replenishment, and warranty coverage. Led roadmap definition/execution, scaled delivery rapidly to 15+ scrum teams (including vendors) with SAFe-like coordination and shared engineering standards, and drove key architecture trade-offs (building an interim subscription management service) to accelerate time-to-market by about a year.”

“Gameplay engineer with hands-on experience across Unreal Engine 5 and Unity, owning systems from level streaming/teleportation to motion-matched character movement. Has shipped/implemented multiplayer features including GAS-based replication with prediction/reconciliation and a deterministic lockstep runner using fixed-point math. Strong at diagnosing hard-to-repro physics issues and balancing performance/feel (e.g., mobile voxel A* pathfinding at 60 FPS, Chaos destruction tuned to avoid trapping players).”

“Robotics software engineer at Tesla who led end-to-end development of a distributed real-time control and orchestration platform for autonomous systems. Deep production ROS 2 experience (nav2, slam_toolbox), with demonstrated wins reducing end-to-end latency 25–30%+ via profiling, multithreaded executors, and QoS tuning, plus simulation and deployment at scale using Gazebo/Webots, Docker/Kubernetes, and CI/CD.”

“Built a production LLM-powered analyst assistant at Discern Security to speed up SOC investigations using a RAG pipeline over security vendor documentation (Python PDF ingestion, vector search). Demonstrates deep, security-critical LLM engineering: structure-aware chunking with custom table parsing, grounded/cited responses, prompt-injection defenses, and post-generation validation, validated via golden datasets and adversarial testing; tool is used daily by analysts.”

“Cloud infrastructure/product engineer with end-to-end ownership of cloud-native storage/observability products, including taking an internal CMS to Google Cloud Marketplace and scaling to ~40,000 deployments. Strong in Kubernetes-based platforms (Operators, microservices, RabbitMQ) and performance/scalability work (e.g., 200% cluster capacity increase) plus internal tooling that materially improved SRE/QA debugging and release velocity.”

“Candidate does not currently have a business plan or startup and has not raised capital. They have not worked directly in VC/studio/accelerator settings but report being familiar through friends/family and personal interest in joining that ecosystem; they are not committed to entrepreneurship at all costs.”

“Solutions Architect with hands-on experience driving AWS Partner Network engagements end-to-end (technical reviews, discovery, demos, incentives, marketplace/GTM) to enable revenue outcomes, even when not the direct closer. Known for navigating complex policy/compliance changes with high-revenue partners and for being a go-to Amazon Connect specialist in ambiguous customer environments; also collaborated with founders of a small health tech company on an AI agent concept tied to healthcare workflows and medical records.”

“Outbound sales candidate with a cold-calling-first approach who consistently hit or exceeded a 10-meeting monthly KPI and earned bonuses. Stands out for creative prospecting, including booking a hard-to-reach Texas transit agency meeting through a custom Spanish-language email, and for having a structured, high-volume approach to building pipeline in low-enablement SDR environments.”

Noah Fax

Screened

Junior sports operations professional specializing in basketball operations and brand strategy

Chicago, IL4y exp

“Grassroots basketball scout working on the Puma circuit who advises athletes and families on NIL considerations, brand alignment, and realistic college pathways. Brings a mix of player evaluation, relationship-driven recruiting, and candid expectation management, with an example of accurately projecting rising NYC guard Denim Trotman.”

“Candidate brings a blend of consulting and brand-side marketing sourcing experience from Deloitte Consulting and L’Oreal. They stand out for using deep research, cost analysis, and one-on-one stakeholder engagement to drive agency negotiations, support a $4M annual savings target, and win adoption of new project tools like Smartsheet in change-resistant client environments.”

“Customer support professional with Scrum Master and Product Owner certifications who has handled high-stakes account security incidents (including locking down an account to protect over $200k) and troubleshot live data feed integrations (XML/socket) by identifying IP whitelisting mismatches. Emphasizes transparent stakeholder communication, escalation, and building internal wiki documentation to prevent repeat issues.”

“Backend/LLM engineer who built a production-critical Amazon Bedrock + RAG correction and compliance layer for employee communications, integrating tightly with existing Spring Boot/AWS microservices to reduce manual review while keeping outputs explainable and auditable. Also designed an event-driven system processing 10M+ events/day (SQS/Lambda/DynamoDB/Elasticsearch) and handled on-call incidents with strong observability and reliability patterns (idempotency, retries, hotspot mitigation).”

Velusamy Ramasamy

Screened

Principal Software Architect specializing in cloud platforms, data engineering, and enterprise security

Seattle, WA29y exp

“Engineering leader with experience defining solutions from business requirements through detailed specifications and implementation, emphasizing cost-aware technology selection. Has led architectural changes including adding IBM Cloud alongside AWS for budget reasons and integrating caching/messaging to improve availability and performance, and describes scaling distributed teams via experienced DevOps/QA hires and structured evaluation.”

Deepika Gotla

Screened

Senior Technical Support Engineer specializing in Azure Cloud & Generative AI

Bellevue, WA7y exp

“Microsoft cloud/infra engineer with 5+ years supporting enterprise Azure environments, specializing in security-focused networking (private endpoints, DNS) and production troubleshooting across Azure Front Door/App Gateway WAF/AKS. Has implemented posture improvements via Defender for Cloud, Azure Policy, and RBAC tightening, and also designs secure AWS agent/scanner integrations and modern EKS/GitHub Actions/Secrets Manager observability-enabled SDK rollouts.”

Chris Ferrario

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Principal Gameplay/AI Programmer specializing in game AI and gameplay systems

London/Zurich18y exp

“Gameplay/AI engineer with end-to-end ownership of racing-sim AI (fair physics parity, competitive overtaking) and strong iteration tooling (live tuning + config). Has shipped networked VR multiplayer work at Ready At Dawn, including a consensus-style goal validation approach to reconcile non-deterministic replication/smoothing discrepancies, plus experience with Havok/Bullet, spline math (Catmull-Rom), and complex creature/boss animation behaviors.”

Julie Rice

Screened

Director-level Lab Operations & Facilities Leader specializing in life sciences startups

San Francisco, CA20y exp

“Independent biotech operations consultant and former biotech operations director who specializes in standing up startup lab operations end-to-end—facility buildouts, equipment procurement, and workflow/SOP implementation. Known for building clear operating rhythms (SMART/RACI, dashboards in MS Project/Smartsheet) and driving cross-functional execution; previously centralized R&D procurement at Abbvie/Pharmacyclics to cut PO processing time by 40%.”

“Platform/infrastructure-focused engineer with hands-on experience automating AWS EKS upgrades in Python, building observability around logs/metrics/SLOs, and migrating Terraform delivery from CodePipeline to Atlantis. They describe shipping automation that handled 140 resources across 50+ Terraform files ahead of schedule and debugging a Karpenter/CoreDNS regression in Kubernetes by tracing it from regional traffic spikes to a missing local DNS cache configuration.”