Vetted Product Development Professionals

Lavrenti DeLavrenti

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level Technology Leader specializing in cloud-native platforms, AI/ML, and SaaS

Remote15y exp

“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.”

Carlos Arambula

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Principal & Senior Brand/Marketing Leader specializing in go-to-market, multicultural and digital growth

Manhattan Beach, CA37y exp

“Brand and growth marketer with experience spanning global CPG and corporate brands through to healthcare/pharma and financial services. Known for consumer-insight-led repositioning and measurable, digital-first acquisition (notably CTV), plus executing U.S. market entry and scaling distribution into major retailers and pharmacies within months.”

“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.”

Chris Solly

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive CPG/Food Commercial Leader specializing in omnichannel growth and PE-backed value creation

19y exp

“Operations/finance leader who repeatedly stood up full business infrastructure for early-stage expansions, including being employee #1 after a cross-country relocation and launching US operations for an Australian company. Also helped professionalize a ~$40M Patriot Supply Store by moving the business to GAAP/accrual accounting and building policies/processes to support a private-equity-ready exit.”

Guillermo Salas

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive software engineering leader specializing in AI-augmented Healthcare SaaS platforms

Elm Grove, WI15y exp

“VP-level software engineering leader in a private-equity-backed company, overseeing a 50+ person org through aggressive growth and operational efficiency goals. Particularly strong in building the operating system around engineering—product-to-engineering governance, AI-augmented SDLC practices, ADRs, and feature-flag-driven delivery—to reduce ambiguity, dependency on institutional knowledge, and cycle time.”

“Fashion buyer/category manager with end-to-end ownership of Shopbop’s evening business, using Excel-driven classification and pricing tier analysis to uncover demand opportunities and deliver +20% above annual sales target on higher margin. Experienced negotiating vendor sell-through agreements (e.g., Marchesa Notte) and using RTV to reduce inventory risk while maintaining full-price selling; also has a track record coaching buyers to drive incremental revenue (e.g., $350K unplanned full-price sales via an exclusive delivery).”

“Brand and growth marketer with experience refining Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield’s brand across 62+ mall locations, using family-focused event programming to increase attendance and tracking results via ticket sales and website sign-ins. Brings 15 years in the entertainment/music/creator ecosystem, including artist representation and label deal experience, and applies that partnership mindset to multi-channel campaigns (owned web + third-party sites) and SEO-driven acquisition.”

“Founder of an LLC operating as a consulting firm providing fractional CTO services to startups, giving them parallel exposure to multiple early-stage companies. Has direct experience with MVP development, building org structures from scratch, and supporting early fundraising, and is exploring a pivot from consulting into a scalable product business while staying engaged with the VC/accelerator ecosystem.”

Jaideep Jain

Screened

Executive Business, Product & Engineering Leader in SaaS, Data Platforms, and IoT

33y exp

“Serial entrepreneur (13 years) currently building a consumer-focused startup with an MVP completed and initial customers acquired. Has interacted with multiple VCs and is very familiar with the VC/accelerator ecosystem, with a near-term focus on scaling customer acquisition while iterating the product.”

Omkar Lahurikar

Screened

Senior engineering founder specializing in AI systems and automotive controls

Dearborn, MI13y exp

“Builder-minded founder/operator currently at Ford who previously co-founded MeruDynamics, an "Uber for manufacturing" platform, and took it from zero to paying customer without raising capital. He also independently built and deployed RDD, an AI copilot for engineering decision capture, with evals, prompt versioning, and LLM cost telemetry—showing unusual depth in both product thinking and practical AI execution.”

“Entrepreneurially minded operator with ~20 years in corporate now building a new venture (business plan + MVP in progress) and focused on rapid traction to reach PMF. Previously identified and executed a major student-events opportunity in Milan, scaling from renting a hotel for 800 paying guests to an Olympic village for 5,000, handling logistics, outreach, and team coordination.”

“Senior technology/executive leader with 30+ years building and scaling mission-critical platforms across blockchain, cloud, cybersecurity, and fintech, including leading 100+ person global teams and managing $100M P&Ls. Founded Pharus (2022) after driving Web2-to-Web3/DeFi/metaverse initiatives at SDK Co, using a first-principles, PoC-driven approach to deliver secure, compliance-aware transformations (GDPR/NYDFS) and multi-million-dollar optimizations, with a focus on quantum-resistant Web3 and ethical AI governance.”

“Former President/CEO who led MyGov through a successful acquisition, now on sabbatical building ncognait LLC—an AI-enabled app studio with one product launched (Taistful) and another in private beta (AIDONIS). Focused on startup CTO/founding roles and highly opinionated about using agentic coding to dramatically compress product development cycles and compete with larger incumbents.”

“Customer Success leader with deep ad tech expertise who owned enterprise accounts end-to-end, including Bank of America, driving ad fraud down from ~8–10% to <1% in ~3 months and resolving spikes through data-driven investigations. Experienced partnering cross-functionally as a PM to build analytics dashboards and using user stories to align Product/Engineering/Sales and influence roadmap priorities; also supports land-and-expand via paid benchmarking/industry data upsells.”

“AI-focused full-stack product builder from Verizon Applied Research who has shipped internal tools spanning API documentation governance, patent exploration agents, and prompt optimization. Particularly strong at turning unreliable or opaque LLM behavior into structured, trustworthy product workflows that enterprise users can actually adopt.”

“AI/LLM engineer who built a production autonomous GenAI content ecosystem that generates short-form scripts, extracts viral highlights from long-form video, and dubs content into 33+ languages. Focused on making LLM outputs production-safe via schema enforcement, token-to-time alignment, critic-agent verification, and scalable async orchestration—cutting manual workflows by ~90% and saving $200k+ annually.”

Jax Diagana

Screened

Senior AI Engineer specializing in forward-deployed voice agents and incident-response automation

San Francisco, CA7y exp

“FDE at Bland.ai and founder of Fi (incident-response agent) who routinely takes LLM/agentic concepts from prototype to production. Has hands-on experience reverse-engineering undocumented systems to deliver integrations, building LLM testbeds for voice-agent reliability, and rapidly shipping RAG/semantic search solutions (e.g., Confluence runbooks) after deep customer discovery with DevOps/SRE teams.”

David Erickson

Screened

Executive Software Technology Leader specializing in enterprise supply chain and workforce optimization

Cary, NC36y exp

“Minority owner in a supply chain/logistics SaaS company (10 years operating) deployed in dozens of warehouses across enterprise and SMB customers. Known for turning technical pain points into business opportunities—previously created a paid performance testing services department leveraging OLTP/performance optimization expertise, generating new revenue while improving customer implementations. Demonstrates strong early-stage execution across product, coding, sales, and strategic pivots.”

Mukundan Sridharan

Screened

Executive Technology Leader (CTO) specializing in IoT sensing, AI/ML, and RF/embedded systems

Rockville, MD22y exp

“Currently a startup CTO who thrives on building new technology stacks and rapidly turning technical ideas into products. Interested in partnering with a CEO/business team to commercialize embedded/edge concepts such as multi-sensor drone localization (video/audio/RF with SDR), low-cost solar+battery power nodes networked via LoRa, and an Amazon Sidewalk/LoRa connectivity device with cloud management.”

“Quality professional with QC technician and QA experience across medical devices and pharmaceutical manufacturing (contract and direct hire). Has hands-on experience preventing shipping/packaging/labeling defects by tightening work instructions and documentation, and driving investigations/CAPA using 5 Whys and tools like TrackWise and DocuSign. Comfortable commuting to Beverly Hills and targeting $40–$50/hr.”

Waldorff Villacres

Screened

Healthcare technology executive and architect with 20+ years leading enterprise platforms and digital transformation.

Seattle, Washington, USA21y exp

“Healthcare-focused founder in the R&D stage building an EHR and clinical staffing startup centered on value-based care. They have already tested the concept with the market, are engaging Medicaid/Medicare leaders and industry conferences like ViVE and HIMSS, and are focused on early-signal detection to improve patient outcomes while lowering utilization costs.”

“Full-stack product engineer with hands-on experience building a React/serverless/SQL e-commerce platform for Haagen-Dazs and improving consumer UX in a location-based animal discovery app. Stands out for pairing strong technical fundamentals—component architecture, SQL performance tuning, reusable primitives—with measurable product outcomes like 40% more completed orders, 25% customer growth, 95% navigation accuracy, and 20% fewer device malfunctions.”

“Omnichannel merchandising and partnerships leader who owned end-to-end strategy for major soccer programs, including USA Soccer and the Argentina National Team. Negotiated a sophisticated dual-license structure to preserve Amazon channel rights while protecting margin, and drove $8M in pre-buys plus margin improvement through disciplined planning, Excel-based hindsight analysis, and in-season inventory adjustments.”

“Engineering/technology leader who stays hands-on while driving executive-level roadmap execution, with deep experience modernizing cloud-based LIMS/LIS platforms and building AI-driven lab analytics. Led a monolith-to-microservices cloud migration with containerization and CI/CD, and delivered a reported 30% reduction in lab turnaround time while strengthening compliance.”