Vetted Product Management Professionals

Apurva Banka

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack & AI Engineer specializing in cloud, data platforms, and LLM automation

Houston, TX5y exp

“Software engineer/product builder who has owned an agentic affiliate lead-gen platform end-to-end (Django + React/TypeScript) and deployed it on Kubernetes in anticipation of 10x user growth from ~5K DAUs. Also has healthcare claims microservices experience using Kafka, including hands-on performance tuning to address consumer lag and broker pressure, and built an internal downtime alerting tool adopted across the organization.”

Erik Moyer

Screened

Director-level Data Science & Analytics Leader specializing in cloud data platforms and AI/ML

Dallas, TX13y exp

“Candidate states they are very familiar with the venture capital/studio/accelerator landscape and expresses strong willingness to pursue entrepreneurship "at all costs," but did not provide details on a current startup, business plan, fundraising, or prior accelerator/VC involvement during the interview.”

Robert Wheeler

Screened

Executive Technology Leader (CTO) specializing in cloud, AI/ML, and scalable product platforms

Manhattan, USA25y exp

“Technical leader and hands-on engineer with 20+ years of experience who has previously raised funding and exited a venture. Currently bootstrapping a new AI-direction startup with personal and family capital, leveraging structured financial planning and a relationship-driven approach to investor outreach.”

“Full-stack product engineer who has owned complex internal platforms end-to-end, spanning React/TypeScript frontends, Flask/Redis backend systems, and relational data design. Particularly strong at turning technically dense workflows into intuitive user experiences, including a synthetic-imagery platform adopted by multiple Army research labs and a marketing analytics system with 99.99%+ uptime.”

“Lifecycle/CRM marketer with 14 years of cross-functional experience, leveraging SQL-driven segmentation and structured A/B/multivariate testing to optimize engagement and conversions. Has led coordinated national/regional launches for a hardware product and tracks impact through CRM campaign codes tied to closed sales.”

“Candidate participated in Launch Factory's venture studio selection process, which introduced them to a formalized startup methodology, and then went on to found and recently exit their own business. They are highly motivated to keep building companies, with a clear emphasis on creating products that serve a community and validating market need through product-market fit.”

Mark Peters

Screened

Executive sales leader specializing in MedTech, medical devices, and mission-critical communications

New Jersey, USA15y exp

“Senior public sector sales leader with repeated success building and scaling national SLED, Federal, and DoD organizations through hybrid direct and channel models. Has owned up to $200M+ in annual revenue, secured major state contract wins in New Jersey, drove post-bankruptcy growth at 3-5x market rates in the AED space, and helped create acquisition-driving commercial momentum.”

“Early-stage product engineer who has shipped an AI-assisted workflow web app end-to-end, spanning Next.js/TypeScript frontend, Python-backed LLM APIs, Postgres analytics, and async backend workflows. Strong ownership after launch as well, including usage tracking, prompt and UX iteration, latency reduction, and measurable database performance improvements.”

“Analytics professional with hands-on experience unifying marketing-platform data through Fivetran and Snowflake, building reporting views, and catching source-to-report issues like timezone-driven spend discrepancies. They also owned subscription LTV/cohort analysis and engagement tracking initiatives, partnering with e-commerce, product, and senior leadership to turn behavioral and demographic data into dashboards, lead-qualification metrics, and lifecycle marketing insights.”

Ben Coats

Screened

Executive technology leader specializing in startups, SaaS, and cloud-native platforms

Newport, VT24y exp

“Early-stage technical advisor working fractionally with an AI health tech startup focused on autism therapy, helping turn a functional prototype into a deployable enterprise application. Brings a mix of hands-on coding, infrastructure/Terraform experience, and founder-oriented thinking around market opportunity, studio fit, and right-to-win.”

Sarfaraz Karim

Screened

Mid-level Finance Analyst specializing in product, analytics, and technology strategy

Chicago, IL4y exp

“Startup-oriented business development candidate who built outreach and pipeline processes from scratch for early-stage companies including a law firm and consulting-related work. Stands out for highly persistent, research-driven prospecting across social, email, phone, and even in-person outreach, including winning a hotel client after failed remote attempts by showing up with a tailored strategy.”

“People Operations/HR leader in a healthcare setting (Episcopal Health Services) who designed and rolled out a scalable panel interview and behavioral interviewing approach across senior stakeholders. Strong in people analytics and process improvement—cut onboarding cycle time from 4–6 weeks to under 2 weeks—and experienced in complex employee relations (PIP + FMLA) and union workforce performance management.”

Bhakti Patel

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in .NET, Python, and cloud-native systems

Worcester, MA11y exp

“Full-stack engineer who owned an end-to-end production feature for a Piraeus Bank stock exchange module, spanning React/TypeScript, backend services, and cloud operations with Docker + CI/CD, delivering reported 90% faster API responses and improved uptime. Also built a Smartwound research MVP on AWS, creating a Python image-processing/scoring pipeline to ship despite unclear image-analysis specs.”

“Serial founder with experience across both bootstrapped and venture-backed startups, including scaling Aloa past $1M in first-year revenue and raising $1.3M for Bracketology, a fantasy gaming platform for reality TV now in sale process. Combines sales, marketing, product, automation, and AI implementation experience, with exposure to WeFunder, Newchip, and 1871 as both participant and mentor.”

“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.”

“Paystand engineer/intern who built a multi-agent LLM orchestration system (with logging/feedback loops) that became part of the team workflow and reportedly cut development time ~70%. Partnered with sales/product on enterprise demos and implemented a dynamic RBAC system that helped drive adoption of an intern-built product to multiple enterprise clients, contributing to seven-figure ARR. Also founded and pitched a student-entrepreneur business management/payments project (HustleHub) and won a university startup competition.”

“Candidate claims responsibility for end-to-end technical delivery and describes a structured four-phase delivery process (discovery, design/wireframes, build/testing with quality and velocity focus, and smooth launch). They declined to provide any specific project case studies, technologies, incidents, management examples, or compensation details during the screen.”

“Former mechanical engineering professional who pivoted into business development and drove major international growth through strategic partnerships (helping scale headcount from a few to 300+ in 2–3 years). Now finishing an MBA (graduating in May) and building a recruiting/hiring-manager-focused product—prototype complete, validating demand, and aiming to launch an MVP within ~2 months before fundraising.”

“Platform/infra engineer with deep Kubernetes (EKS) and VMware vSphere experience who has led a monolith-to-microservices transition for a credit lending decision platform. Built GitOps-driven Terraform delivery with strong governance, and used LaunchDarkly-based progressive rollouts plus Datadog observability to safely ship multiple times per day (reported ~6x throughput and 1/3 the bugfix tickets vs legacy). Also operates hybrid on-prem/AWS networking (firewall + Transit Gateway, BGP) and has handled high-stakes datacenter migrations (100TB Storage vMotion) under Sev1 conditions.”