Vetted Problem Solving Professionals

“Founding electronics engineer at Anoria who built the electronics, PCB, and firmware stack for a battery-powered BLE wearable during a YC batch, taking it from concept to EVT in under 90 days. He combines deep embedded/hardware judgment with fast iteration discipline, including MCU trade-off analysis, HDI board development, and sensor-data pipeline work across firmware and ML.”

“Robotics software engineer who built a ROS Noetic-based perception-to-control stack for a pick-and-place robotic arm, integrating OpenCV/TensorFlow vision with motion planning and PID tuning. Demonstrated strong real-time debugging skills (rosbag, queue/latency fixes) and experience deploying reproducible robotics environments with Gazebo simulation, Docker, and GitLab CI.”

“Private Equity Secondaries Analyst (Series 7) who founded and launched the Canadian Student-Athlete Association during the pandemic while in university, playing varsity football, and running a window glass business. Drove executive alignment by directly engaging CEO/President-level decision makers with tailored, concise written cases and relationship-building across universities, sports governing bodies, and government stakeholders.”

“ML/AI practitioner with hands-on experience deploying models to production and optimizing for low-latency inference using pruning/quantization, with deployments on AWS SageMaker and Azure ML. Has orchestrated end-to-end ML pipelines with Airflow and Kubeflow (ingestion through evaluation) and emphasizes reproducibility via containerization and version-controlled artifacts, while effectively partnering with non-technical stakeholders using dashboards and business-aligned metrics.”

“Data Engineer (TCS) who owned an end-to-end CRM analytics pipeline for Bayer’s eSalesWeb integration, ingesting from Salesforce APIs/databases/S3 and serving analytics-ready datasets via PostgreSQL/S3 for Tableau. Drove measurable outcomes: ~60% reduction in manual data-quality effort, ~30% lower latency through SQL optimization, and ~35% improved stability via monitoring, retries, and idempotent processing.”

taylor joseph

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Mid-level Buyer and Merchandiser specializing in fashion retail and wholesale

Hollywood, CA4y exp

“Current Revolve merchandising/buying professional with prior wholesale brand management experience, bringing a blend of retail and wholesale partnership perspective. Strongest differentiator is hands-on, data-driven inventory and assortment management—she cites improving turns/productivity by roughly 50% in a slow-moving business area and helping support consistent year-over-year growth through better reorder and inventory processes.”

“HRIS/payroll support professional with hands-on Workday experience focused on pre-payroll validation, compensation data accuracy, and reconciliation. They stand out for catching effective-date and compensation mismatches before payroll cutoff, building practical Excel audit tools, and supporting merit/bonus cycles through reporting, exception management, and testing.”

“Full-stack engineer with end-to-end ownership of a production customer plan activation and account management flow at T-Mobile, spanning Java/Spring Boot APIs, React frontend, and Docker-based CI/CD deployments. Demonstrated performance/scalability work (query optimization, indexing, caching) and measured success via improved retrieval speed and reduced support tickets.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who has shipped both enterprise workflow software and AI-powered document intelligence products. Stands out for combining practical product judgment with strong production debugging skills across Spring Boot, GraphQL, FastAPI, vector search, and RAG systems, and for improving adoption by making AI search experiences intuitive for non-technical users.”

Randall radcliff

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Mid-level Project Manager specializing in Healthcare IT and applied AI

Verona, WI4y exp

“Epic project manager and AI adoption/application manager specializing in complex healthcare EHR implementations, especially radiology and regulated data conversions. Drove measurable financial outcomes at Memorial Sloan Kettering, including identifying roughly $1M in missing MRI charges, and helped create an LLM-based legacy mapping tool that became the standard first-round mapping approach across installs.”

“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.”

“Product designer/hardware prototyper building Saccade (VR headset attachment for Apple Vision Pro) to enable earlier, lower-cost Alzheimer's detection via eye-tracking and on-device CV/ML; designed a custom biocompatible snap-on light-shield replacement with integrated cameras/PCB after Apple camera-data restrictions. Also has biomedical manufacturing experience (major fixture-driven throughput gains) and leads a 160-member Assistive Technology Club sponsored by Apple and Google.”

“Transformation-focused operator with experience at CVS Health and Wurth, leading usability analysis across dozens of programs during a major operational transformation. Known for data-driven prioritization and executive-ready communication (weekly metric/risk updates, concise progress briefs) to drive cross-functional alignment and measurable operational improvements.”

“Data engineer focused on AWS + Spark/Databricks pipelines, including an end-to-end nightly loan-data ingestion flow (~2.2M records) from Postgres/S3 through Glue and Databricks into a DWH with layered validation and alerting. Also built real-time streaming with Kafka + Spark Structured Streaming and a master’s project streaming Reddit data for sentiment analysis under ambiguous requirements and tight budget constraints.”

Sreeja Venkatakrishnan

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Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in Java/Spring and modern JavaScript frameworks

Virginia, USA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience building real-time applications (Socket.io chat app) and data-heavy systems in banking/loan management. Comfortable across React and backend services (Spring Boot/Node), with a focus on scalable API design, database performance (indexing/pagination/caching), and deployment via CI/CD and cloud infrastructure.”

Richie Henderson

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Director of Athletic Operations and Basketball Coach specializing in school athletics and compliance

19y exp

“Veteran college/high school basketball coach and recruiter with a proven track record signing elite talent (7–8 ESPN Top 100 players) and contributing to top-ranked recruiting classes (including #1 in Conference USA and multiple Big 12 Top 25 classes). Also produces athletic department and recruiting video content, with strong editing skills in Final Cut Pro/CapCut and comfort being on camera for social media.”

Yusuf Abdikadir

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in 3D simulation, digital twins, and robotics

London, United Kingdom6y exp

“UK-based Unity developer who built a 3D simulation/digital-twin platform for an autonomous-vehicle startup, integrating Unity environments with external robotics stacks, web APIs, virtual sensing, and dynamic traffic systems. Interested in moving into VR, though has not shipped VR/Meta Quest titles yet.”