Vetted Product Management Professionals

Mahgoub Gaafar

Screened

Senior Product Manager specializing in AI-driven engagement and gamification

Dubai, UAE7y exp

“F2P product/game designer with live-ops experience on an NBC Group-owned mobile app in the MENA region (~200k users), driving personalization (segmented ads/trivia) and monetization (regional pricing, LTOs, season pass). Owns the full delivery lifecycle—PRDs/backlog through QA/UAT and release—and uses retention/conversion metrics and A/B testing to tune rewards and the game economy.”

Alok Patel

Screened

Senior Product Manager specializing in AI-driven SaaS, FinTech, and E-commerce

NC, USA13y exp

“Product leader who built Dhurba, a SaaS commerce and business management platform for small and medium retailers, owning the lifecycle from strategy and discovery through launch and scale. Particularly strong in simplifying complex products for non-technical users, aligning cross-functional teams, and introducing explainable AI features that improve merchant outcomes without removing human control.”

“Unity/C# gameplay engineer with strong hands-on experience architecting modular multiplayer FPS systems, especially weapon inventory/equipment flows built for server-authoritative networking. Also brings adjacent AI/computer vision integration experience with OpenCV plus shipped platform work across Meta Quest 2 VR, mobile, and WebGL, making them a versatile real-time systems developer.”

“Frontend tech lead for a university e-signature platform (Next.js/React/TypeScript) replacing paper-based signing. Built a trustworthy multi-signer PDF signing workflow with backend-as-source-of-truth state handling, strong quality gates (typed contracts, linting, pre-commit, PR reviews), and performance work like Web Workers for heavy PDF operations.”

Shreya Sivakumar

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning & Generative AI Engineer specializing in AI agents and LLM workflows

4y exp

“Customer-facing AppSec/solutions engineer with experience securing cloud-native AI/LLM deployments on Azure and Kubernetes. Led threat modeling and production hardening (Key Vault secrets migration, least-privilege IAM, rate limiting, structured logging/monitoring, LLM guardrails) and has supported retail search/catalog platforms using Elasticsearch, including performance triage and rollout playbooks that improved customer trust and enabled engagement expansion.”

Mike Costa-Merle

Screened

Executive Fractional GM & Advisor specializing in venture studios, SaaS, and live events

New York, NY21y exp

“Fractional executive (CEO/COO/CRO) who specializes in taking startups from concept to market across entertainment, tech/SaaS, hospitality, and healthcare. Reports scaling an entertainment marketing venture to $15M ARR within two years, using data-driven market analysis, customer discovery, and rapid team buildout, and leverages AI tools to accelerate GTM and investor readiness.”

Shima DoraghiPour

Screened

Senior Product Manager specializing in AI, SaaS, and e-commerce products

Michigan, USA10y exp

“Product leader with experience spanning AI workflow automation, e-commerce UX, and educational products. Led Reply Neurons AI at Valorem Reply, where human-in-the-loop AI agents reduced backlog and requirements effort by about 40%, and previously helped shape product discovery improvements at GCC toy retailer Dabdoob while also building out the product function at Nizek as its first product manager.”

“Product-minded full-stack engineer with hospitality tech experience who owned and scaled a multi-region guest verification/check-in workflow (ID/passport scanning, OCR, and government submissions) and built internal tools that cut manual entry up to 80%. Also built a React/TypeScript + FastAPI RAG “second brain” with async ingestion workers and an event-driven e-folio email microservice hardened with idempotency and retries.”

“F2P mobile LiveOps/product specialist (iOS) who acted as a bridge between product, design, and data during the live phase—analyzing player behavior, identifying loop friction, and iterating on progression, rewards, and live events. Emphasizes trust-preserving monetization through incremental cohort rollouts and tight monitoring of retention, funnel, revenue, and player feedback signals.”

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.”

Adam Gautille

Screened

Executive product leader specializing in AI, EdTech, and multi-platform digital products

Boston, MA12y exp

“Product leader with hands-on experience shipping AI features for small business marketing and redesigning education workflows to materially improve engagement. Has managed cross-functional teams of up to 30 and combines strong UX instincts, analytics-driven iteration, and a clear human-centered perspective on AI in learning.”

Craig Hall

Screened

Director-level Sales & Commercial Leader specializing in Automotive and SaaS

Gorebridge, UK13y exp

“Product manager who led the development cycle and UI design for the TIER mobile/web app used by search-and-rescue teams to manage competency checks, training, equipment records, and incident response. Experienced coordinating web and mobile teams to align APIs to cross-platform features, and demonstrates solid understanding of F2P live-ops, event planning, and IAP experimentation/metrics.”

Nachshon Fertel

Screened

Executive startup founder and product engineer specializing in marketplace platforms

Minneapolis, MN12y exp

“Repeat founder currently building Unhookt, a digital wellness app, after co-founding Poplin and helping raise $10M in VC funding in 2021. He has already completed Unhookt’s frontend MVP, is building the backend, and is gathering early user feedback while navigating the shift from metrics-driven Series A fundraising to vision-led pre-seed pitching.”