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Vetted Problem Solving Professionals
Pre-screened and vetted.
Ian Herbst
Executive Operations Leader / Chief of Staff supporting federal, defense, and museum leadership
“Senior executive operations leader with experience supporting top leadership at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum and the Defense Health Agency. Built executive-facing tracking systems (Excel/SharePoint), implemented meeting-time standards (25/50), and led large-scale initiatives including multi-million dollar exhibits and a 25,000-person keynote event, with deep discretion from long-term military security clearance.”
Christina Flores
Director-level Executive Operations & Administrative Leader in government, nonprofit, and private office settings
“Executive operations/project leader who managed cross-entity priority initiatives for Eric Schmidt’s family office, driving alignment through structured reporting and dashboards. Led a board-level digital transformation at ACC, moving a 14-member Board of Trustees from paper processes to board software, and brings high-discretion experience supporting Senator Warner.”
Sai Haritha Sardena
Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in web, cloud, and AI/ML
“Software engineer with experience at Wipro and Tylmen Tech owning customer-facing onboarding and real-time features end-to-end (React + Spring Boot) and building TypeScript/React apps backed by Node.js microservices (MongoDB, RabbitMQ). Strong in production reliability and fast iteration: feature-flagged rollouts, idempotent APIs/consumers, DLQs, and SLO-driven incident tooling, including an internal QA & release dashboard adopted by engineering and support teams.”
Savannah McMenemy
Mid-level Campaign Manager specializing in digital advertising operations
“Paid media professional from Vox Media who owned multiple high-spend accounts (including Apple), focused on impression delivery and above-benchmark CTR. Uses Google Ad Manager/Analytics plus 3P systems to optimize creative performance and validate results via 1P vs 3P reporting, and emphasizes proactive, client-safe communication around risks like underdelivery.”
Mark Thomas
Director-level software architect specializing in cloud, distributed systems, and healthcare IT
“Startup veteran with experience at seven companies since 2004 and direct exposure to Birmingham's Innovation Depot accelerator through three different startups. Has worked closely with investment teams on MVPs and pitch decks and brings a pragmatic lens to evaluating ventures through need, margins, burn rate, cash position, and sales growth strategy.”
Simon Sikora
Director-level XR/Unity Application Development Manager specializing in training simulators
“Unity XR/VR developer with extensive Meta Quest experience who shipped a high-performance Quest 2 training simulation for a major pharmaceutical manufacturer, emphasizing 90 FPS optimization and highly accessible, low-UI interaction design validated by elderly user testing. Built a largely solo VR game end-to-end (assets, UI, audio, optimization, input) and standardized on OpenXR with custom solutions to stay future-proof amid changing VR SDKs; has also served as lead developer and service delivery manager.”
Manyuvraj Sandhu
Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in Next.js, AI-driven apps, and payments
“Frontend engineer who has led complex React + TypeScript products end-to-end, including a real-time canvas-based digital signature editor and a multi-step AI workflow dashboard. Demonstrates strong architecture and performance instincts (state machines for streaming async updates, bundle/render optimizations) plus pragmatic shipping practices (feature flags, automated tests, analytics and user interviews), with a quantified impact from refactoring (~30% less duplicated UI code).”
Anthony Odinukwe
Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in React/Next.js web applications
“Frontend-focused engineer who has led end-to-end delivery for an ecommerce web app and built complex React + TypeScript dashboards with real-time data and multi-step workflows. Strong in scalable architecture (typed API layers, shared hooks, design systems), quality at scale (Jest/RTL + Playwright), and performance optimization (virtualization, lazy-loading, memoization). Experienced shipping high-impact checkout changes via feature-flagged rollouts with metric/error monitoring and rapid iteration.”
Naga Karumuri
Mid-Level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI and 3D computer vision
“Built and productionized an LLM-driven document verification workflow for a construction firm’s submittals process, moving from a Vercel/Next.js prototype to a FastAPI + LangChain/LangGraph backend with background workers and multi-server deployment. Uses LLM tools (e.g., OpenAI Codex/Cloud Code) for rapid development and log-driven root cause analysis, and partners with customer teams on evaluation metrics and iterative improvements.”
Analuz Perez Comellas
Mid-level Post-Production Audio Engineer specializing in dubbing, restoration, and immersive mixing
“Audio post professional specializing in music editing, sound design, and mixing for TV/series content, with hands-on Dolby Atmos experience. Uses a Pro Tools template-driven workflow with iZotope RX restoration, broadcast loudness targets, and full deliverables (stems + international mix), and is comfortable turning fixes around under same-day air/QC deadlines. Targeting $35/hr.”
Lavrenti DeLavrenti
Director-level Technology Leader specializing in cloud-native platforms, AI/ML, and SaaS
“Engineering leader (Director/VP level) who has repeatedly aligned product and engineering through ROI-driven quarterly roadmaps and strong stakeholder communication, including board presentations. Built a parallel cloud team to migrate an on-prem product to the cloud, credited with delivering $9M ARR, and led a Python monolith-to-serverless event-driven microservices transformation. Currently manages distributed teams across Mexico, India, and the US using pod-based structures, clear KPIs, and a supportive accountability culture.”
Ashwith Poojary
Mid-level Software & AI Engineer specializing in Robotics, LLMs, and Reinforcement Learning
“Robotics/AI Master's thesis researcher building an LLM-driven workflow to generate and evaluate robot policies before running them in an environment. Also built a local LLM-based real-time target-tracking robot using a pan-tilt camera with LangChain + Ollama, and has hands-on ROS 2/Gazebo experience including URDF-based simulation and a TurtleBot multi-agent chase project.”
Kristopher Goins
Executive venture-stage CEO specializing in robotics, operations, and cybersecurity
“Former CEO of Foreman Technologies, a multidisciplinary tech company commercializing an autonomous painting robot, where they led early-scale operations and helped drive the business to #533 on the Inc. 5000. Brings rare operator-side startup experience spanning bridge financing, pricing and margin turnaround, operating infrastructure, and product-market alignment, and is specifically seeking an early-stage studio-style partnership to do it again from a stronger starting point.”
Andree Urcuyo
Director of Operations specializing in HR and global supply chain
“Operator/program leader from Keyo who builds the “operating backbone” for fast-moving teams—OKRs/KPIs, dashboards, SOPs, and tight decision cadences. Led end-to-end initiatives spanning supply/delivery stabilization, finance reporting/forecasting inputs, vendor alignment, and company-wide SOC 2 Type II compliance with centralized audit evidence.”
Allison Bendersky
Director-level HRIS & Talent Acquisition leader specializing in enterprise HR systems and compliance
“HR analytics and systems leader with experience managing distributed teams and building executive-level workforce metrics. Delivered a rapid SAP SuccessFactors Performance and Compensation implementation (12–14 weeks) to hit time-sensitive review and bonus cycles, and has driven high-impact change initiatives including a 12+ year employee financial wellness program and data-led restructuring that significantly reduced layoffs.”
Alexander Meyer
Senior/Lead Game Developer specializing in Unity and cross-platform multiplayer games
“Veteran Unity game developer with extensive multiplayer networking experience (Photon PUN2/Quantum/Fusion, Unity Netcode), including work on Payday: Crime War and an in-development arena battler using Invector + PUN2. Also builds cloud backends for Unity titles (Azure/PlayFab/Firebase, SQL, CI/CD) and actively uses multiple AI assistants to speed up architecture and implementation.”
Emilie DeMun
Senior Brand Designer specializing in multi-channel campaigns and visual identity systems
“Marketing creative/designer who helped lead the PopSockets brand refresh and owned the digital campaign rollout by translating new brand guidelines into scalable templates and a campaign guideline book. Built a collaborative Figma template system (design libraries + stakeholder feedback boards) to support high-volume output without quality drift, and uses Claude for structured ideation on partnership campaigns like Electric Picks x PopSockets.”
Kamera Jordan
Senior Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner specializing in mental health care
“New PMHNP with behavioral health experience across inpatient and outpatient settings, primarily serving adolescent to adult populations. Demonstrates a cautious, patient-centered approach to diagnosis and psychotropic prescribing, with solid knowledge of DSM-5-based differential diagnosis, safety assessment, and medication/lab monitoring.”
Victor Perez
Senior Customer Success leader specializing in PropTech and FinTech
“Customer Success / product-facing account owner in a property management/rent payments platform, managing enterprise onboarding, adoption, and subscription conversion. Strong track record using CSAT/NPS and direct customer feedback to influence roadmap (e.g., shipping UX fixes within a sprint and reducing closed accounts ~10%), plus experience implementing AI chatbot/agentic workflows to improve support and drive upsell into partner services like mortgages and insurance.”
Bhargav Adsupalli
Mid-level Solutions Architect / Full-Stack Developer specializing in LLM-enabled applications
“LLM/agentic systems practitioner focused on taking customer prototypes to production by hardening reliability (APIs, monitoring, security) and adding guardrails, evals, and incremental rollouts. Experienced diagnosing RAG/agent failures via structured tracing and fixing retrieval-quality issues (freshness checks, filters, schema enforcement). Also supports pre-sales by leading developer demos/workshops and building targeted POCs to address scalability/reliability objections and drive adoption.”
Austin Hobby
Junior Game Designer specializing in Unreal Engine systems and level design
“Game developer/team lead on the FPS zombie project "Dreadful" who wore many hats (project management, systems/level/UI design, AI assist, QA) and iterated heavily via playtests and heatmap data. Built and tuned UE5 Blueprint-based crowd-control/gravity abilities with cooldowns and actor filtering, and made scope-smart feature swaps by reusing existing systems to hit deadlines.”
Emmanuel Olaimolu
Senior Cloud Solutions Architect specializing in AWS and regulated healthcare environments
“Cloud/platform engineer with hands-on ownership of AWS EKS Kubernetes platforms built and upgraded via Terraform, including AWS networking/security, EBS/EFS/S3 storage integration, and reliability validation through CloudWatch plus Prometheus/Grafana. Also has on-prem VMware/vSphere administration experience and day-to-day hybrid on-prem-to-AWS operations (VPN/Direct Connect), with examples of resolving pod instability from an application memory leak and fixing a production connectivity drop via routing/firewall troubleshooting.”
“Solo developer who shipped an Android game (Master Caster) built around touch gesture recognition (P$ algorithm) and data-driven potion/ingredient systems using JSON/dictionaries. Has hands-on experience optimizing Unity projects for mobile constraints (framerate, heat/battery) using techniques directly applicable to VR, and is actively porting the game to VR in Unreal with a focus on accessibility and room/standing/seated play modes.”
Carla DiNapoli
Senior Sales Development & Business Development professional specializing in Enterprise B2B SaaS
“Sales development professional with strong outbound and enterprise support experience, generating $2.5M pipeline and 15–20 meetings/month with a 45% meeting-to-opportunity conversion rate. Broke into the financial sector using ZoomInfo/LinkedIn Sales Navigator and Outreach sequencing, and helped win a $250K Nevada Department of Corrections deal by nurturing a CISO relationship over 8 months; known for exemplary Salesforce hygiene (Trailblazer certified).”