Vetted Networking Professionals

“People/organizational leader with hands-on experience managing global teams (India, Mexico, UK, Canada) and partnering with product/design/analytics leadership on org design, workforce planning, and restructuring. Drove measurable outcomes including engagement improvement (67% to 82%), reduced role ambiguity (15%), and faster hiring (25%) while scaling cross-functional product and analytics organizations.”

Christina Vogel

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive Chief of Staff and Operations Strategist specializing in enterprise SaaS and compliance

Newtown Square, PA22y exp

“Operations/executive-support leader with Chief of Staff compensation expectations who routinely managed multiple cross-functional initiatives, including large customer conferences and strategic customer escalations. Created scalable digital onboarding (rewrote customer comms, built self-serve implementation materials and product onboarding videos) that eliminated workflow bottlenecks and increased customer adoption by a few hundred percent while keeping executives aligned through concise status updates.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-enabled system visualization web app at Longshot, designed modularly to pivot quickly to a mobile-friendly interface as customer needs changed. Experienced in diagnosing LLM/agentic workflow failures using observability, deterministic replay, and fault-tree root cause analysis. Also delivers developer-focused demos and trainings (including robotics deployment/mapping at Meta) and partners with sales as a technical closer, including for government clients by demonstrating failure modes and system modularity.”

“Infrastructure/DevOps-focused engineer working across Linux-based enterprise platforms that include IBM Power/AIX in a broader OpenShift/Kubernetes and cloud ecosystem. Built Azure DevOps CI/CD for containerized deployments and resolved a production deployment failure by tracing ImagePullBackOff to outdated registry credentials in Kubernetes secrets. Uses Terraform (with modular structure) plus Ansible to provision and standardize production environments with pipeline-based validation.”

Scott Quinlan

Screened

Director-level Talent Acquisition leader specializing in executive search and recruiting analytics

14y exp

“Talent Acquisition/Recruiting Operations leader with 10 years of experience managing distributed teams (4–19) across North America and LATAM in automotive, construction, and energy/utilities. Led a nationwide onboarding/orientation redesign that lifted employee feedback to 94% and accelerated time-to-productivity, and has implemented multiple ATS platforms (iCIMS, Taleo, UKG, Workday) plus career site launches in partnership with HR, Marketing, and senior leadership.”

“Former Division I athlete with 30 years in basketball and 20 years building a career training and mentoring players, including multi-season youth coaching and recruiting. Brings a character-first recruiting philosophy shaped by mentorship from high-profile coaches/players and is eager to create on-camera/social content to help families navigate the recruiting process.”

“Bootstrapped founder of a 1-year-old IT consulting/technology advisory firm with two active contract clients. Focuses on integrating business strategy with technology direction for organizations, growing through networking and targeted marketing (e.g., LinkedIn/Indeed) while maintaining a financially disciplined, client-first growth approach.”

“Unity developer with shipped Meta Quest VR experience, including a concert app featuring 180/360 video selection, live camera connectivity, and a 3D main menu, with videos stored on AWS S3. Also runs a small studio (Hunterbyte Digital) and published an indie puzzle game, Cubuleto, on Steam featuring a built-in editor.”

Benjamin Hudnut

Screened

Junior Live Events & Music Operations professional specializing in booking, touring, and community events

Los Angeles, CA4y exp

“Founder/director of the music and event production company Tuned In, personally driving outbound BD to book underground LA talent and produce 25 events, including a major Lunar New Year collaboration with Alice Longyu Gao. Also ran multi-channel voter/community outreach for the Frankie Carrillo campaign (door knocking, 1,000+ SMS) and built automation tools (Apple widget; AI image-to-CSV workflow at Live Nation) to improve operational efficiency.”

“Founder/CTO-type startup leader who has built cloud-native data and AI platforms from scratch while owning both technical vision and product direction. Brings rare end-to-end startup experience spanning zero-to-one building, growth-stage execution, and fundraising from early stage through exit, with a strong ability to translate technical complexity into clear investor narratives.”

“Software engineer with experience spanning an SEL internship and Walmart, combining backend/data pipeline work (Python, Kafka, relational DBs) with DevOps practices (Docker, Grafana, GitHub/Jenkins CI/CD, GitOps). Notably contributed to a REST-to-GraphQL migration aimed at reducing cloud utilization and implemented testing strategies to validate the transition.”

Bassam Amrou

Screened

Director-level Digital Solutions & IT Transformation Leader specializing in enterprise innovation

Plano, TX12y exp

“Entrepreneurial operator with experience creating business plans and securing venture capital to accelerate a go-to-market strategy. Demonstrates a structured approach to new ventures: framing opportunities, validating/de-risking via market/competitive/external analysis and financial modeling, then building governance, sponsorship, and an execution plan with the right team.”

“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.”

“Database/platform engineer with hands-on ownership of large-scale GCP data systems in financial services, including customer-facing SaaS investment products with strict SLAs. Stands out for leading an on-prem-to-GCP modernization using Spanner, AlloyDB, Bigtable, and BigQuery, and for building Terraform/Python automation that cut provisioning time by ~70% while improving reliability and self-service.”

Manvee Bansal

Screened

Mid-level Financial Analyst specializing in financial modeling and cost automation

Silicon Valley, CA4y exp

“Startup founder who co-founded Boogy, an LLM-based professional matchmaking product that scaled to 37k+ users in under 7 months by shifting GTM from individual onboarding to accelerator/VC partnerships (driving 5x engagement). After Boogy was acquired, joined Dossy as co-founder, hiring global growth interns and running LinkedIn-led GTM while fundraising.”

Kevin Scharf

Screened

Senior Project Management & Compliance Professional in Aerospace & Defense

Englewood, CO8y exp

“Internal audit/GRC professional who partners closely with engineering on access controls, change management, and remediation—often translating "technically compliant" states into realistic threat scenarios and business impact. Has driven measurable reductions in privileged-access exposure through least-privilege resets and recurring reviews, and has hands-on experience troubleshooting real-world deployment/integration issues (including in a manufacturing environment) using logs/metrics and strong escalation documentation.”

Kanaka Chalam Volety

Screened

Staff DevOps/SRE Engineer specializing in AWS, Kubernetes, and GitOps

San Jose, CA24y exp

“Infrastructure-focused engineer with Vonage experience modernizing early-stage cloud architecture (Terraform modularization, blue-green deployments, containerization, and zero-downtime database migration planning to Aurora). Also built a local end-to-end side project, Vastu AI, combining a custom-trained YOLO model (Roboflow-labeled data) with a locally hosted LLM via Ollama to generate a vastu compliance report from floor-plan images.”