Vetted Product Strategy Professionals

“Repeat founder/operator with hands-on experience taking startups from zero to MVP, traction, and fundraising. Built a venture-backed company to roughly a $5M valuation and later served as Interim COO for a prop-tech startup, helping launch operations and support a 4-5M SAR raise. Also brings direct exposure to top startup ecosystems through Techstars, Antler, and close work with founders and investors in SF.”

Sumer Joshi

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Backend Software Engineer specializing in healthcare platforms and AI/ML tooling

San Francisco, CA10y exp

“Built a chatbot for a learning management system during a Deep Atlas bootcamp by mapping an end-to-end RAG architecture (document ingestion, Qdrant-based retrieval scoring, and LLM response synthesis). Previously at Rally Health/UnitedHealthcare, diagnosed load-related memory spikes with JMeter and improved stability by migrating caching from Guava to Redis, and also supported adoption through UI A/B testing in a technical marketing engineer rotation.”

“Engineering leader with hands-on Android architecture expertise who has scaled mobile teams at Weedmaps (including forming a Platform team and rolling out MVVM/unit testing) and also co-founded a bootstrapped side business (Sizzle), owning the technical roadmap, hiring strategy (university pipeline + senior remote engineers in Pakistan), and stepping into fundraising when runway became critical.”

“Freelance CTO with a track record of founding and building early web products, including an award-winning baby website creation platform that was acquired by eStyle after gaining traction via retail/mail-order distribution and PR. Also built a sports event text-alert product, engineering around missing data APIs via a replaceable scraping layer.”

Yanis Liaskos

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Executive Technology Leader (CTO/CPO) specializing in AI, robotics, and warehouse automation

Atlanta, GA14y exp

“VP/CTO-level leader who builds globally distributed engineering organizations and operating systems (SAFe, governance, real-time metrics) to align product, engineering, and executives. Drove a security modernization initiative in a robotics context using Achilles and Polaris, remediating vulnerabilities and upgrading libraries to achieve a cyber certification that was ahead of industry norms.”

“CTO-minded builder seeking to join a startup; previously created an AI-driven platform that abstracted away DevOps and infrastructure for drug discovery researchers. Emphasizes high-leverage, zero-to-one execution with managed cloud/open-source tooling, and a strong reliability/reproducibility mindset validated against existing scientific pipelines.”

“Public speaker and technology strategist focused on how space will impact other industries, with audiences ranging from mid-career professionals to executives. Has operated across the startup ecosystem through Kauffman Foundation, Singularity University, and Starburst, and previously served as CTO at Gantri building process and ROI models to improve system performance. Especially compelling for early-stage, frontier-tech, or space-adjacent companies that need someone who can bring order to ambitious ideas.”

“Operator with consulting and startup experience who has led founder-level, zero-to-one initiatives across highly complex domains—from conceiving and launching an $80M, 80m maritime disaster-response vessel for Global Support & Development (Sergey Brin’s org) to acting as a cross-functional leader at Windfall Bio spanning regulatory, GTM, partnerships, and R&D. At Deloitte, owned the Omnia ESG software roadmap and drove >30% faster delivery through standardization/automation, and was tapped to train other managers on their operating cadence system.”

“Senior technology and venture-oriented leader pursuing a CTO role, with hands-on experience advising an AI startup and a VC firm while also building incubation and technology advisory functions at Iron Mountain. Notably brought a cybersecurity product to market in six months and helped position a blockchain product through early deal development, showing a strong blend of product, strategy, and venture-building capability.”

Jim Glassman

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Executive Technology Leader specializing in Enterprise AI, Cloud Architecture, and Data Platforms

Houston, TX16y exp

“Senior data/technology executive who stays hands-on: currently building a Go micro-kernel orchestration layer for medical AI agents to boost concurrency and enforce HIPAA/PHI controls, achieving 26x throughput on migrated workloads. Has led large-scale transformations across healthcare and financial services, including a 45-day data warehouse rebuild at Elara Caring and a data/ML roadmap at Acelity credited with $230M in annual revenue impact prior to 3M acquisition.”

“CTO-level leader with deep insurtech and cloud security/SaaS experience who has repeatedly scaled global engineering orgs and delivered high-velocity roadmaps. Most recently led Delos Insurance Solutions to launch new homeowners programs for wildfire-prone regions every 3–4 weeks while meeting DOI/SLA requirements, driving $135M GWP and $250M capacity and reaching cash-flow positive. Also led major scalability re-architecture at CloudPassage (Postgres to Cassandra + Kafka) and built a large Estonia-based engineering hub at Cybercube.”

“Seasoned global CTO and executive leader with 20+ years of experience, including a $389M non-founder exit to a Fortune 10 acquirer. Now building a pre-seed AI-driven diagnostic imaging platform for pets with web and mobile products, beta customers, and a patent-pending solution aimed at saving pet lives.”

“Seasoned operator with 20+ years across corporate and startup environments, currently serving as CEO of an AI-powered augmented reality company building a 3D heads-up display for cars. Has raised about $3M pre-Series A and is also advising another AR company on automotive commercialization and Series B fundraising, with a strong VC network in deep tech, mobility, and transportation.”