Vetted Product Development Professionals

“Founder-operator with investor experience who has built a seed-stage company to live usage, meaningful DAUs, a large waitlist, and roughly $1.2M raised. Has operated on both sides of the startup ecosystem—as a Techstars founder raising from firms and as a VC deploying capital—and brings a rigorous, user-first approach to evaluating and scaling new ventures.”

“Senior product executive with experience spanning AI-native fintech and employee experience SaaS. Built a multi-agent trading platform at Fintrady, led platform unification after acquisitions at Kazoo, and improved delivery efficiency by 30% at Amyris through org redesign.”

“Seasoned entrepreneurial operator who has raised $185M across ventures in seed treatment, drone spraying, gene editing, and biofuels. Has worked closely with accelerators including AgLaunch and Iowa Startup Accelerator as both a participant and later a mentor, and is now open to either founding a new impactful company or stepping into an experienced CEO/C-suite role.”

Preet Talati

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Junior Full-Stack Developer specializing in .NET Core and React

2y exp

“Full-stack engineer who has shipped end-to-end, customer-facing features in an education/student-population context, including an authorized incident-reporting workflow with RBAC and a PostgreSQL-backed data model. Has 0→1 React+TypeScript/Redux product experience (CTO at Jiffur) and hands-on production operations with CI/CD (Azure Pipelines/GitHub Actions), including resolving a real CPU-saturation outage via operational mitigation and scaling changes.”

William Roy

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Executive sales leader with 13 years in SaaS, technology, and consultative growth

South Bend, IN13y exp

“Sales and operations leader who helped take Executive Career Partners from $2M and in the red to $4M in sales, while owning roughly $1M personally/team-wide and modernizing CRM, reporting, training, and pricing operations. Unusually hands-on across both frontline selling and back-office systems, with additional experience in government proposals, SaaS line creation, ecommerce integrations, and company-wide rebranding.”

“Robotics software engineer who led an autonomous nursery management robot project at Auburn University, spanning RGB-D/IMU sensor fusion, SLAM navigation, and real-time ML for plant detection/quality assessment. Strong ROS1/ROS2 background (C++/Python) with deployment on NVIDIA Jetson, including profiling-driven optimization of YOLO segmentation for real-time behavior and multi-robot (UGV/UAV) communication using ROS2.”

Joey Mule

Screened

Technology executive and engineering leader specializing in Automotive SaaS

17y exp

“Engineering leader who built the MVP and scaled iService Auto into a fixed-ops platform for dealership groups, aligning a dealer-driven roadmap to churn/revenue outcomes and preparing the company for strategic acquisition. Led a major modernization from a legacy Symfony monolith to a React frontend with a Symfony JSON API using feature-flagged incremental migration, while growing and retaining a ~20-person engineering team through the acquisition.”

“Early-stage sales hire who joined a startup just 2-3 months after launch and built their own outbound motion in a low-process environment. They describe strong self-sourced selling, including persistent multi-channel outreach that led to a large account win, and later partnered with a teammate and CEO to create a playbook that lifted office performance by 60%+.”

Tolga Onuk

Screened

Executive product and growth leader specializing in SaaS, mobility, and consumer tech

Houston, TX18y exp

“Product leader, designer, and founder who says he has built more than a dozen platforms from scratch, including a rapid transformation of Envoy from a basic EV rental app into an enterprise multi-company fleet management and EV charging platform before its acquisition. He combines hands-on design, cross-functional team leadership, and executive stakeholder management, and is now advising an AI-driven social media moderation and brand reputation platform.”

“Solo full-stack builder who shipped a restaurant loyalty app across iOS and Android and independently built revenue-generating job data APIs on Apify. Combines product discovery with hands-on engineering, having grown his scraping/API products to 1,800+ MAUs, 1M+ monthly results, and over $8.5K in cumulative revenue.”

“Engineering leader with hands-on architecture depth who has improved team delivery cadence to weekly releases by redesigning SDLC ownership and validation workflows. Currently leading AI/LLM product work around meeting-transcript intelligence for sales use cases, with a strong emphasis on observability, prompt tuning, and iterative UX refinement.”

“Nontraditional founder-operator who chose entrepreneurship over an MBA and built multiple ventures across sustainability, design, technology, and professional services. He scaled an environmental design firm to 40+ projects before it was acquired by his next company, where as CBO/COO he built a data verification product, grew a fully remote team to 30, and led complex global supply chain and sustainability initiatives with corporates, NGOs, and investors.”

babar khan

Screened

Senior Sourcing & Product Development Manager specializing in home textiles

Maryland, USA13y exp

“Merchandising/sourcing professional with hands-on experience building home/fashion supplier partnerships end-to-end, from RFP/RFQ and sample evaluation through negotiation, PO placement, and QC. Uses data (OTB, SKU productivity, margin, Q score/awareness) to shape assortment strategy across subscription box and e-commerce, and has managed 50+ concurrent brand conversations using an Excel-based pipeline tracker.”

“Independent product builder with several live startups spanning transit, gaming, and SaaS/API tools. Notably built a Cyprus bus routes app before transit data was broadly available on Google Maps, and is currently maintaining products like CountriesDB and HolidayDB while pursuing SEO-led growth and validating ideas solo before expanding.”

Oleg Strakh

Screened

Executive robotics architect specializing in embedded AI and autonomous systems

Vilnius, Lithuania16y exp

“Founder of Workaholic-Robotics, a self-funded physical AI agriculture robotics startup, with hands-on experience spanning product development, customer discovery, commercialization, and fundraising prep. Brings a pragmatic, capital-efficient approach shaped by direct work with growers, dealers, and OEMs, plus accelerator experience through Innovate EU and Grishin Robotics Accelerator in London.”

“Product leader with hands-on experience building enterprise SaaS products from 0 to 1, including Valueflow, a customer lifecycle mapping platform shipped as an MVP in 6 months. Also brings applied AI product experience in compliance software, launching an LLM-based document validation workflow with human-in-the-loop review and strong cross-functional alignment across regulatory, engineering, design, and customer-facing teams.”

Brandon McCarty

Screened

Executive startup founder specializing in SaaS, FinTech, and operations

Raleigh, NC15y exp

“Founder/product leader who built CureMint, an industry-first procure-to-pay platform for dental groups, combining e-commerce UX, spend controls, AP workflows, and AI-driven catalog normalization. He appears strongest in zero-to-one product leadership, domain-driven product strategy, and strategic pivots—ultimately evolving the company toward fintech/payments and helping support its Series A story.”

“Product leader with early-stage startup experience who has built product teams and worked on complex cross-border payments infrastructure at Navro. Also building an AI-native editorial side project, using Claude and automation to source scientific research, translate it for mainstream audiences, and streamline publishing end-to-end.”

“Sourcing/Product Development professional with deep China-based manufacturing experience who launched an eco-friendly cleaning brush line made from 100% recycled fishing nets and delivered on an Earth Day deadline. Built cost and tariff calculators to drive decisions and profitability, including improving Target private label net margins by 6 points, and runs a compliance/QC-heavy vendor qualification process (BSCI/SMETA, golden samples, third-party inspections).”

Christopher Peacock

Screened

Executive CIO and Enterprise Architect specializing in cloud, security, and IT governance

Remote5y exp

“Fractional CIO/founder-type operator at AHDX Inc, a hybrid-cloud/primary storage solutions startup with a compliance focus targeting healthcare; MVP has completed beta and the company has seed funding while pursuing additional investment. Has supported multiple startups (OmniHR, Combat Connect, 3BX) and cites tangible results tied to DoD/security, Medicare/Medicaid, and Air Force LMS contracts, positioning them as a hands-on "fixer" for early-stage technical strategy and architecture.”

Asifa Aziz Poppy

Screened

Executive Apparel Merchandising & Sourcing Leader specializing in global supply chain

Dhaka, Bangladesh27y exp

“Sourcing/merchandising professional with experience supporting US brands via Youngone Corporation (YHT unit, Bangladesh), managing end-to-end vendor evaluation, FOB/MOQ/lead-time negotiations, compliance and AQL-based quality standards. Uses OTB, SKU productivity, margin and Q-score/customer feedback to rationalize assortments—citing a data-led shift where 30% of styles drove 70% of revenue and reallocating spend to higher-margin sustainable products improved sell-through, margin, and satisfaction.”

Wayne Werling

Screened

Executive Operations Leader specializing in manufacturing buildouts and multi-industry scaling

Beavercreek, OH13y exp

“Entrepreneur building a self-funded men's routine/body care startup that originated from developing a topical product to support a brother’s nerve injury recovery, revealing a perceived gap in men’s care. Has also identified and executed a manufacturing coatings opportunity by creating detailed execution plans and building stakeholder trust, and describes a structured, resource-conscious go-to-market approach.”

Rachel Stanford

Screened

Senior Import Production Manager specializing in global sourcing and demand planning

Arcadia, CA13y exp

“Fashion/retail sales and partnerships professional who previously ran an independent multi-line showroom (sales rep for 5 Jr/Young Contemporary lines) and successfully landed a high-profile, celebrity-backed graphic tee line at Nordstrom—driving 80% sell-through from a test order into an all-door program. Leverages SKU-level selling data, OTB/SKU productivity, and hands-on quality control (including chargebacks for off-spec product) to optimize assortments across retail and e-commerce.”

Katy Repa

Screened

Junior Product Engineer specializing in sporting goods and athlete performance

Thousand Oaks, CA3y exp

“Former D1 softball player at Stephen F. Austin and the University of Houston who turned her own recruiting, injury, transfer, and scholarship journey into a career advising athletes. She now runs the Easton/Rawlings Fastpitch ambassador program, growing it to 250 players in six months and helping drive major brand launch visibility, while also coaching and mentoring young athletes on recruiting, NIL, and long-term fit decisions.”