Vetted Prototyping Professionals

“Senior engineer (8 years) with experience at Facebook/Meta and Apple, spanning design tooling and XR/enterprise device experiences. Built the Origami component marketplace end-to-end (packaging node logic + metadata, SQL/JSON storage, filtering/search, local caching) with versioning and forward-compatibility decisions, and has a strong track record of UX-focused robustness improvements and safe rollouts via feature flags and telemetry.”

“Serial entrepreneur with multiple startups and demonstrated VC fundraising experience, including raising $125K for a current business plan and building investor relationships across several VC firms. Driven by tackling difficult problems and assessing opportunities through a lens of solution creativity and team execution, while prioritizing sustainable quality of life.”

“Entrepreneur building a mental healthcare solution (business plan + prototype; no capital raised yet) targeting therapists and patients. Former Fortune 50 leader who drove a multi-year digital transformation from stakeholder discovery through funding and execution, and previously scaled a data monetization offering by securing 20+ channel partnerships and investing in partner enablement and brand awareness.”

“CMU robotics PhD/PhD researcher and former CMU Robotics Club project lead who built a novel Bayes-filter-based system to localize within music so robotic instruments can follow a human’s tempo in real time. Also works on simulation-heavy multi-agent vehicle routing with traffic-signal scheduling, optimizing for real-time performance via profiling, multithreading, and neural-network surrogates for signal control.”

“Operations/Continuous Improvement leader with 25 years of Lean/Kaizen experience, including roles at Danaher and 10x Genomics. Known for building enterprise operating rhythms (True North + daily management) and developing internal CI certification programs, while delivering measurable quality and cycle-time gains (e.g., NCR/MRB lead time cut 47→14 days and FPY improvements via global test-equipment relocation).”

“Backend engineer with ad-tech experience who improved advertiser dashboard accuracy by exempting 1% of traffic from ML-based dropping in a ~1B-requests/day pipeline, trading storage for higher customer satisfaction and reduced debugging load. Demonstrates strong migration discipline (phased rollouts, compatibility layers, rollback/change-history recovery) and production API/security practices in Python/FastAPI (async, caching, throttling, RBAC/RLS, monitoring).”

“Operations and business leader with deep footwear/apparel experience who built and scaled internal operating systems for lululemon’s footwear startup division—creating strategic plans, end-to-end product-to-shelf playbooks, and launching product management software to replace Excel/Access. Previously led adidas North American Brand & Product (300 people, $500M budget) and now advises a growing footwear startup preparing for acquisition, including hands-on partnership solutions to improve inventory and P&L.”

“Robotics engineer/researcher from Stanford’s Assistive Robotics and Manipulation Lab who built a custom tactile-sensing gripper system and ROS 2 data pipeline to classify the number of thin material layers grasped using a transformer-based model. Has internship experience at Motiv Space Systems building ROS 2 hardware abstractions for BLDC motor dynamics simulation, plus hands-on SLAM and manipulation work in Gazebo/MoveIt-based projects.”

“Product/system designer focused on ultra-clean, modular, customizable work/organization environments (e.g., making stations for studios and fabrication spaces). Emphasizes rules-based interaction models, restrained structural visual language, and hands-on field research/prototyping to embed industrial constraints (tolerances, load paths, safety) into intuitive, training-free user experiences.”

“Engineering/product leader with repeated experience defining roadmaps and delivering platform migrations across SaaS and enterprise contexts. Scaled an education system from two districts to 2M+ students statewide, and led an Elasticsearch-based architecture for an internal Disney product serving ~100K employees. Known for rigorous execution (RAID/OKRs/sprints), strong stakeholder communication (weekly AI summaries), and empowering teams via end-to-end ownership and customer-connected development.”

“AWS-focused software engineer who built a self-serve ETL pipeline scheduling service for non-engineers, including automated CloudFormation-based onboarding that cut setup time from 2–3 weeks to ~5 minutes. Strong in production reliability and customer-facing data platforms (EMR/DynamoDB/Lambda), with examples spanning pagination at scale, cross-table consistency, and phased rollouts to improve Parquet log SLAs.”