Vetted Product Development Professionals

Sagnik Mazumder

Screened

Executive ML/AI Founder specializing in agentic analytics and data infrastructure

10y exp

“Founder of Photosphere Labs (agentic AI for ecommerce data synthesis/analysis) who worked directly with customers to scope, build, demo, and iterate LLM-based solutions, including an AI chat product for brand owners. Previously at Block, built and explained a nuanced causal inference/propensity model tied to Square POS integrations, translating model specs and outputs into business impact for varied client contexts.”

“Full-stack engineer (Snowflake) who shipped an AI/LLM-powered data exploration product end-to-end, spanning Spring Boot/Python services and a polished React UI with streaming responses and robust fallbacks. Experienced operating high-scale AWS deployments (Docker/Kubernetes, SNS/SQS, RDS Postgres, CloudWatch, Jenkins CI/CD) supporting thousands to tens of thousands of concurrent users, including handling real traffic-spike scaling incidents.”

Richard Ferguson

Screened

Executive technology leader specializing in government, cloud, and cybersecurity

Reno, NV31y exp

“Founder with a bootstrapped startup who navigated early hiring and scaling by leveraging contractor talent before converting key contributors to full-time employees. Active in Northern Nevada's startup ecosystem through Generator and StartupNV, and notably declined angel/VC offers to preserve equity because of strong conviction in a differentiated product and its market fit.”

Robert Davis

Screened

Staff Software Engineer specializing in backend and distributed systems

Remote, US19y exp

“Backend engineer who co-launched SkyKick’s Office 365 SharePoint/Exchange backup product, built the MVP, and then architected and led its design for 9 years. Stands out for high-scale systems expertise, including an algorithmic redesign that cut cloud costs by an order of magnitude, plus earlier experience integrating speech recognition systems in noisy real-world customer environments.”

James Lee

Screened

Intern Product Manager specializing in go-to-market and customer experience

New York, NY2y exp

“Outbound-focused sales/business development experience at early-stage OneCo, owning end-to-end prospecting from lead list building and account research through cold email/LinkedIn sequences, booking first conversations, and handing off qualified leads. Leverages Clay, n8n, and AI tools to automate enrichment and speed research while keeping outreach highly personalized and concise.”

Eidin Khial

Screened

Executive Merchandising Leader specializing in fashion buying and e-commerce growth

Encino, CA10y exp

“VP-level fashion merchandising leader (Men's at Fashion Nova; also experience at "Protein One") with deep expertise in fabric-led assortment strategy, OTB/line planning, and factory cost engineering. Demonstrated outsized impact on margin, lead times, and retention (e.g., +600 bps GM, lead time 120->35 days, retention +22%) and has executed celebrity collaborations with structured royalties and co-sponsored marketing activations.”

“Engineering/technology leader from Ticketmaster who drove a domain-driven modernization strategy for legacy commerce platforms while launching new revenue features (add-on sales like merch/parking/hotels). Rebuilt and scaled teams post-COVID by reorganizing around business domains and implementing federated architecture governance, including a distributed-saga-based order orchestration approach that improved resilience and enabled partial-order success.”

Charles Darling

Screened

Executive Founder and Venture Builder specializing in Healthcare, MedTech, and AI-driven commercialization

Houston, TX22y exp

“Medtech-focused venture builder with experience as a VC venture partner, family office investor, venture studio COO, and repeat founder (Techstars Boulder alum). Currently incubating two medtech deals with a VC fund, applying a rigorous diligence process spanning KOL interviews, regulatory/reimbursement strategy, manufacturing sourcing, GTM/competition analysis, and exit/acquirer milestone mapping before company formation or fundraising.”

William Elderton

Screened

Executive technology leader specializing in FinTech, cloud platforms, and digital transformation

Austin, TX26y exp

“Seasoned operator with 30 years of experience at multiple startup companies, primarily in venture-backed environments, plus some exposure to private equity-backed firms. The candidate is highly familiar with the VC and accelerator ecosystem, though they clarified they were pursuing a CTO role rather than actively planning to found a startup.”

“Engineering leader focused on large-scale enterprise SaaS and MDM platforms, with experience modernizing monoliths into microservices, improving reliability, and scaling systems to support 15M devices across AWS and Azure. Stands out for combining deep platform architecture work with strong org-building: managed teams up to 45 globally and built a 0-to-1 platform services team to 22 people in under a year.”

“Early-stage venture and talent operator with experience sourcing founders and leadership talent, including helping source Truemoringa into a pre-seed investment. Brings a relationship-first style, broad venture-network sourcing, and structured diligence processes spanning product, IP, legal, operations, and cap table review.”

“Infrastructure/operations engineer with hands-on IBM Power/AIX administration (LPAR/DLPAR, HMC, RMC) and PowerHA cluster failover experience, plus modern DevOps tooling across CI/CD, Kubernetes/Helm, and IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation/Ansible). Emphasizes controlled change management, drift prevention via Git-as-source-of-truth, and observability practices using Prometheus/Grafana.”