Vetted Product Development Professionals

Kela Olsen

Screened

Director-level sales professional specializing in medical devices and sports business

Loomis, CA22y exp

“Former Division I standout and professional baseball player turned college recruiter, coach, academy owner, and athlete advisor with deep Northern California baseball relationships. He combines data-driven player evaluation, consultative family guidance, and a strong coach/scout network to help athletes navigate recruiting and development decisions, with outcomes including 90%+ transfer/pro signing rates at Sierra College and early advocacy for players like Nick Madrigal.”

“Entrepreneur building an AI-driven outbound growth and automation startup, currently self-funding development through consulting while validating market demand. Stands out for combining technical workflow automation with practical go-to-market experimentation, including deliverability-focused outbound systems and webinar partnerships with local experts to drive trust and conversion.”

“Backend engineer who built an AI-powered grant matchmaking platform for researchers and professors, combining semantic matching, embeddings, and Semantic Scholar enrichment with rule-based eligibility filters. Stands out for pragmatic AI engineering: they focused on reliability through confidence scoring, logging, manual validation, and production-minded backend design.”

“Robotics engineer who led core autonomy stack development at Spacer Robotics (Isaac ROS/ROS2) spanning sensor integration, SLAM/mapping, navigation, and validation. In a research lab thesis, built three mobile robots from scratch and created a distributed multi-agent collaboration framework with blockchain-based incentive models, demonstrating depth in both hands-on robotics and distributed systems.”

kartikeya tiwari

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI systems and platform engineering

Bangalore, India6y exp

“Backend/AI engineer with experience owning production systems in fintech and product startups, including a predictive scaling platform that cut AWS spend by 40% and an ambiguous social-intelligence feature that doubled MRR from $50K to $100K. Also building AI search and document-processing workflows, with reported 99.7% extraction accuracy and hands-on use of both classical forecasting and modern LLM stacks.”

Tyler Moon

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in medical device and embedded systems

Sunnyvale, CA5y exp

“Software engineer from Abbott with hands-on experience building internal medical device engineering tools in MFC/C++/C#, including a reusable Trim Converter that automated manual workflows. Strong in modular architecture, asynchronous device communication, and iterating with users to improve reliability and workflow fit, now targeting fullstack engineering roles despite limited React/TypeScript production experience.”

Sarita Patade

Screened

Mid-level Regulatory Affairs Manager specializing in cosmetics, OTC, and global compliance

Frisco, TX

“Sourcing/product professional with hands-on experience managing end-to-end contract manufacturing for consumer products (including a pressed eyeshadow palette) from vendor selection and GMP-focused audits through formula approval, pilot batches, claims testing, and launch. Demonstrates strong commercial negotiation (MOQs, tiered pricing, component cost-downs tied to service metrics) and pragmatic risk mitigation, including a COVID-era nutrition drink mix launch pivot to a flavor extension leveraging existing inventory.”

“Three-time co-founder with experience building both bootstrapped and funded startups, including raising $150K personally and advising companies that raised $500K+ in angel and pre-seed capital. Brings unusually broad startup operating range across customer discovery, product, GTM, hiring, legal, fundraising, and VC/studio mechanics, with entrepreneurial experience dating back to childhood and multiple business exits in college.”

“Founder building Hubub, a digital concierge startup that automates business client entertainment workflows from reservations and ticketing to CRM updates and expense reporting. They have a business plan, 500 beta users, positive traction around event discovery, and are exploring a partnership with a major credit card company while prioritizing compliance and expense features next.”

“Software engineer who recently shipped an authentication and role-based access feature for a web app, using AI selectively for boilerplate, debugging, and test suggestions while retaining ownership of architecture, security, testing, and final review. Stands out for a disciplined, security-first approach to AI-assisted development and a pragmatic preference for lightweight API-driven solutions over unnecessary framework complexity.”

“Startup operator with 8 years of experience who helped grow the business from limited initial capital into a much larger ARR. Somewhat familiar with the VC/accelerator landscape and strongly motivated to pursue entrepreneurship, with a clear framework for evaluating new venture ideas.”

Savya Patel

Screened

Junior Mechatronics Engineer specializing in robotics, embedded systems, and mechanical R&D

Watertown, MA3y exp

“Lead hardware/integration engineer on a high-speed autonomous drone for adversarial drone tracking and surveillance, owning the full stack from custom electronics and flight-controller tuning to ROS2 SLAM and GPU-accelerated computer vision. Built a custom USB-based ROS2 LiDAR driver and migrated SLAM from SLAM Toolbox to Google Cartographer, while boosting YOLOv5 tracking from ~2 FPS to ~45 FPS on an NVIDIA Jetson through CUDA/dependency optimization.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience spanning React/TypeScript frontend architecture, .NET/Entity Framework backend services, and database optimization. Has owned end-to-end features like payment processing flows and also helped ship a 0→1 AI developer productivity capability, showing a mix of product sense, startup speed, and practical performance engineering.”

Rachel Kellogg

Screened

Executive revenue leader specializing in consumer, beauty, wellness, and omnichannel growth

Lincoln, CA20y exp

“Entrepreneur from a family of entrepreneurs who is building a service business focused on helping small businesses create the infrastructure needed to scale over a 3-6 month engagement. Differentiates through a mix of visionary thinking, operational execution, and the ability to restore belief and momentum in founders who have lost passion along the way.”