Vetted Quality Assurance Professionals

Joe Brannon

Screened

Executive IT & PMO leader specializing in digital commerce and enterprise transformation

Baton Rouge, LA19y exp

“IT leader with hands-on M&A integration experience (including day-one readiness) across notable brands (e.g., Billabong, Marucci Sports) and product-focused organizations (Oakley). Brings broad IT domain expertise (AI, business systems, digital sales technologies) and has worked with multiple startups; interested in joining an existing startup to help it scale rather than founding a new company.”

Zhiwen Zhao

Screened

Junior Data Engineer specializing in cloud ETL and big data platforms

New York, NY3y exp

“Data engineer focused on transit/transportation datasets, building Spark-based pipelines that ingest from Oracle/APIs, apply PySpark data-quality fixes, and publish star-schema fact tables to Azure Data Lake. Experienced troubleshooting complex Spark failures (using checkpointing to manage long lineage) and operating Airflow-driven backfills and GitLab CI deployments for production DAGs.”

“Candidate founded a non-profit and developed unconventional funding mechanisms for it, including a book whose proceeds support the organization and a patented AI stack designed for licensing royalties. They also bring early startup experience and acquisition due-diligence exposure, and are specifically interested in contributing their technical and venture incubation background within an existing entrepreneurial company rather than founding a new one.”

Kishore Koduri

Screened

Director-level Enterprise Architecture leader specializing in AI and platform transformation

Akron, OH29y exp

“Entrepreneurial candidate with deep technology expertise who has already acted as a founder/principal across a real estate venture and early-stage tech startups. Most notably, they raised approximately $1-2M for a real estate project and describe hands-on ownership from ideation and business case development through ROI validation and investor commitment.”

Mohammed Ahmed

Screened

Senior Media Performance Manager specializing in programmatic advertising

Hyderabad, India10y exp

“Performance marketer with 10 years of experience managing large US media budgets for global brands including Ford, Toyota, Nestle, Daimler, and Mondelez. Brings strong programmatic and measurement expertise across DV360, The Trade Desk, StackAdapt, Yahoo DSP, Google Ads, Innovid, IAS, and CM360, with hands-on examples of improving e-commerce sales and restoring lost attribution through pixel diagnostics.”

Scott Mangino

Screened

Executive product leader specializing in SaaS and consumer mobile platforms

Denver, CO14y exp

“Product leader who blends strategy, UX, and hands-on building—designing in Figma, using Claude Code to prototype and push PRs, and partnering closely with engineering to ship faster. Led the Travel Noire app from content brand extension to AI-enabled travel companion, and independently built human-centered AI workflows for grassroots volunteer management. Particularly strong in trust-based, assistive AI products that amplify human relationships rather than replace them.”

“Implementation consultant/business analyst with 8 years of experience delivering enterprise banking, tax, and payroll deployments, including 100+ Horizon Core implementations at FIS and roughly 20 ADP Workforce Now rollouts. Stands out for combining hands-on technical mapping and IBM i/AS400-based configuration work with strong banking compliance knowledge across OFAC, Regulation E, Regulation O, and NRA requirements.”

“Gameplay QA professional with hands-on experience testing and iterating on live production changes for 2XKO, including move/frame adjustments and system interactions. Known for structured ISTQB-based test planning, video-backed documentation, and strong defect isolation (e.g., tracing knockdown roll issues to collision capsule sizing) to speed up developer triage and resolution.”

Ramon Villacorta

Screened

Senior QA & Live Ops Configuration Manager specializing in console and mobile games

Culver City, CA14y exp

“Game industry QA tester with several years of experience supporting multiple AAA titles, including multiplayer ownership and work spanning pre-alpha through gold master and post-launch updates. Known for proactive edge-case exploration—e.g., finding and documenting a late-stage crash tied to a mission timer interaction—backed by strong evidence capture (video, crash dumps) and thorough verification/regression practices.”

Donovan Mason

Screened

Senior Audio Engineer specializing in audio QA, annotation, and studio production

11y exp

“Game/audio engineer focused on Unreal Engine audio implementation and optimization, with hands-on experience building spatial/environmental and combat/weapon audio behaviors via Sound Cues and Blueprints. Has owned an end-to-end AAA-style audio pipeline (recording through Pro Tools mixing to in-engine integration) with defined sign-off criteria and playtest validation, plus strong dialogue repair experience using iZotope RX.”

Bradley Willson

Screened

Senior Linux Systems Engineer specializing in hardware qualification and Bash test automation

Seattle, WA14y exp

“Former software tester with historical exposure to AIX 5.2 and Solaris 9 (circa 2001) and extensive Linux experience dating back to 1994. They indicated their background is primarily in testing and server hardware validation rather than IBM Power/AIX/Solaris operations and migrations.”