Vetted Product Development Professionals

“Entrepreneur and operations/IT advisor who helps early-stage companies scale efficiently through automation (CRM lead capture, invoicing, collections) and pragmatic process design. Built a year-long data standardization solution converting broker inputs from 60+ formats, enabling better sales forecasting and market projections. Also advises founders on go-to-market fundamentals and creative fundraising strategies, including forming paid customer consortia to co-develop products.”

“Sourcing professional with experience across both softlines and hardlines who led an end-to-end cashmere baby apparel program for PETIT-LOULI, including vendor discovery (Alibaba/Canton Fair), multi-supplier sampling/production, consolidation for final packing, and DDP delivery to the US. Demonstrates strong cost and risk management, including proactive mitigation of raw material volatility (e.g., TDI in memory foam) and practical factory capability assessment via audits.”

Syed Mujtaba

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Frontend Developer and MERN Stack specialist

Pakistan9y exp

“Frontend engineer experienced leading client-facing portals (including WebGL integrations) and admin panels, with a strong focus on scalable architecture (monorepo, shared design system/atomic design) and performance. Has built complex React+TypeScript workflows like multi-step user creation with dynamic forms, and ships major features (e.g., video recording) using feature-flagged, trunk-based delivery and E2E testing.”

John Meyer

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Global Sourcing & Procurement Manager specializing in international supply chains

Simi Valley, California36y exp

“Global sourcing/procurement professional with deep China manufacturing experience, owning end-to-end programs (example: automotive trunk organizers) from factory selection and audits through production and delivery. Uses reverse-costing/target pricing for negotiations, manages QA and on-site factory oversight, and has navigated tariff-driven trade risk decisions across China and Southeast Asia while maintaining strong supplier networks.”

DAVID WOODBURY

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive COO/CRO and growth consultant specializing in scaling founder-led businesses

Grand Rapids, MI18y exp

“Serial founder and agency leader (recent agency exit with completed 3-year earn-out) currently serving as COO but prefers CEO/founder role. Spun Camp Native out of an agency after spotting a hospitality tech gap, raised venture funding, scaled partnerships to 800+ properties, and led the company to a private equity acquisition. Uses AI tools to dramatically accelerate go-to-market, research, and validation cycles.”

“Built and shipped a production Python-based agentic RAG document retrieval system over 80K records using FastAPI, OCR, vector search, and AWS infrastructure, with a strong emphasis on reliability, testing, and observability. Stands out for treating AI failures like production incidents—turning hallucinations, retrieval misses, and OCR issues into regression tests—and for quantifiably reducing document lookup time from about 12 minutes to under 90 seconds.”

“Frontend-focused engineer with full-stack capability (Node/Express + MongoDB/MySQL) who emphasizes scalable quality practices: PR-driven reviews, CI quality gates, and a full testing pyramid (Jest/Vitest, React Testing Library, Cypress/Playwright). Built complex React + TypeScript role-based dashboards/workflows using reusable component architecture and layered state management (React Query/SWR, Context for auth/roles), with strong performance and UX polish (Lighthouse, lazy loading, accessibility, responsive design).”

“Product leader with experience spanning startups and enterprise-scale logistics in MENA, building and managing web/mobile business interfaces including dashboards, admin tools, marketplaces, and B2B quoting systems. Brings a metrics-driven approach to product health and experimentation, plus strong player-informed understanding of core F2P mechanics and live-ops planning.”

“Retail buyer/merchandising candidate from a small custom fragrance and souvenir business who has sourced vendors, pitched new product concepts, and negotiated creative wholesale terms to reduce inventory risk. Stands out for combining hands-on merchandising instincts with practical SKU-level analysis and customer experience thinking, including translating an in-store fragrance blending experience into an at-home sampler product.”

“Early major technical hire who helped build fintech startup Ugami from MVP to near Series A, while supporting bridge round and Series A fundraising with technical materials for leadership. Also grew from intern to lead engineer at a venture-backed product shop, giving him firsthand exposure to investor expectations, startup incubation, and practical AI opportunities with tight scope and strong unit economics.”

“Founder/partner of two staffing companies and former Chief Strategy Officer who led executive-level strategy including acquiring a locums staffing firm and scaling it from $4M to $14M revenue in one year. Experienced recruiting leader managing up to 15 recruiters (and recruiting leaders), known for building repeatable processes, coaching managers, and improving recruiting workflows while preventing burnout.”

“Founder building SmartTreeQuote, an AI-powered quoting and lead qualification platform for tree service companies, created from direct operator pain points and validated via an image-based remote quoting workflow. Has already built a targeted customer acquisition motion resulting in 5 active paying subscribers, and brings experience proposing AI-driven workflow automation to remove operational bottlenecks in a high-volume install environment.”

Umair Azam

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Ruby on Rails and React

Lahore, Pakistan10y exp

“Frontend engineer with React/TypeScript experience who has led end-to-end UI work on a fintech product (React frontend with NestJS APIs), emphasizing performance (virtualized rendering, memoization, lazy loading, profiling) and quality at scale (unit tests and TDD). Also built and iterated on a snooker sports app, simplifying UX through audience-focused design decisions and streamlined onboarding.”

“Women’s apparel merchandising/category leader who owned end-to-end seasonal strategy across DTC e-commerce and a broad wholesale footprint (6–7 platforms plus trade shows). Delivered outsized wholesale growth (e.g., FAIRE from $40K to $370K/month in 6 months) and strong trade show revenue ($650K–$1.3M per show) by combining rigorous sell-through/returns analysis, SKU rationalization, and margin-protecting factory negotiations with tight production/QC execution.”

“Global sourcing/procurement professional with experience managing Walmart-related order workflows end-to-end (vendor selection via trading companies, pre-production testing, packaging confirmation, sampling/approvals, inspection, and export shipping documentation). Emphasizes proactive risk control around production capacity, timeline buffers, and material cost volatility, and notes they are a new immigrant to the United States seeking roles in the $7k–$10k/month range.”

“Lifecycle/CRM marketer from Lid Vizion who led behavior-segmented onboarding/reactivation email programs, delivering a 26% lift in email engagement. Experienced running A/B tests (subject lines, CTAs, send times) and coordinating cross-functionally across creative/product/dev to align influencer, blog, and email messaging—cutting go-to-market time by 20%.”

“Backend engineer at PlatePost who built an AI-driven food pairing/recommendation feature for restaurants using Google Gemini, shipping quickly by caching results with a 24-hour refresh and manual override. Emphasizes practical reliability/security patterns (logging, error handling, tenant-scoped queries) and proactively caught an accessibility issue via screen reader testing.”

DIANA ROMERO

Screened

Director-level business development and sales leader in hospitality, marketing, and events

Albany, CA14y exp

“Sales professional with experience selling streaming, white-label software, and broader SaaS solutions into media, communications, and marketing/revenue-facing teams. Stands out for building pipeline in early-stage environments, leveraging industry relationships and budget-cycle timing to win deals, including a $120K contract and a $30K deal later expanded by $15K.”

“Operations-focused problem solver with hands-on experience improving cash flow and throughput in small businesses: built a collections and insurance follow-up framework for an auto body shop that recovered $10K quickly and exceeded $100K collected, and implemented a speech-recognition workflow at a car dealership that cut 2–3 hours from each vehicle financing process. Also introduced spreadsheet-based applicant screening and background-check processes for an apartment complex to standardize leasing decisions and improve safety.”