Vetted Quality Assurance Professionals

Paul Kasinski

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive CIO/CTO specializing in enterprise transformation across retail, e-commerce, and AI

Santa Monica, CA17y exp

“Senior technology executive (CTO/SVP Technology, also board member) with experience modernizing legacy environments and scaling teams in high-growth and PE-owned contexts. Architected a standardized enterprise platform (ERP/WMS/CRM/POS/eComm/DWH/BI/integration) to rapidly migrate acquisitions—moving 7 companies in under 3 years and cutting migration timelines ~4x—while also driving major org redesign and hiring acceleration (30+ hires in 6 months).”

“Senior full-stack engineer with 5 years of experience across Bank of America, AT&T, and NextAI/XAI, building cloud-native, high-availability products spanning React, Node, Java, Kotlin, Python, and AWS. Particularly compelling for teams needing someone who can own architecture, implementation, DevOps, and UX polish end-to-end—from a real-time loan eligibility platform handling 50,000+ daily requests to live event dashboards that improved operations and helped drive $250K in ARR.”

“Fractional CTO and AI/ML consultant at Clover Health with deep insurance domain experience (15 years as CTO/CISO/AI). Has spent significant time in PE/VC-backed environments (including Aquiline Capital Partners and Apollo Group), designing and engineering platforms while delivering against budgets, audits, and regulatory compliance. Recently helped build an insurance startup (2020–2025) and is now seeking a full-time role at a startup.”

“Engineering leader and hands-on architect from Sony Pictures Entertainment who has led large-scale platform modernization, digital supply chain delivery, and multiple GenAI/RAG initiatives in media and rights-management domains. Notable for combining people leadership with deep AWS/LLM architecture work, including a 1M+ record GenAI title search system and AI-driven contract insights that reportedly helped unlock a 20% revenue increase.”

Shant Mardigian

Screened

Executive Engineering Leader specializing in scalable streaming, media supply chain, and AI operations

19y exp

“Tech executive with Disney experience who has repeatedly scaled and restructured engineering organizations (from 4 to 30 and up to 100+), using OKRs/KPIs to drive business-aligned roadmaps. Hands-on with architecture and platform strategy, including adopting MongoDB Atlas to centralize transactional data and building shared core services (security/permissions, auditing, compliance) to increase product velocity across distributed teams.”

“Senior engineering executive-level leader with deep hands-on systems expertise across Amazon devices, Alexa, Echo, and FireTV/VegaOS. Unusually combines VP-level org leadership at 120+ scale with direct production debugging and architecture ownership, including hybrid edge-AI/cloud systems, partner platforms for 9000+ apps, and shipping long-horizon platform bets under aggressive release cadences.”

“Software engineer with experience across early-stage startups and production full-stack systems, including migration work from a Go monolith to a Node.js backend and a clinical research application deployed on Kubernetes in AWS. Has worked across Go, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, SQL databases, and B2B SaaS data-streaming products.”

Ravikanth Kasamsetty

Screened

Executive engineering leader specializing in AI, data platforms, and cloud SaaS

California, USA23y exp

“Senior engineering executive with a rare mix of VP-level people leadership and deep hands-on architecture across cloud-native and AI platforms. He led secure hybrid SaaS design at Promethium, built GenAI-powered analytics with LLMs/RAG, and translated customer needs into product wins including the largest deal in company history and a PLG motion that generated 100+ leads.”

“Operator focused on scaling and growing organizations, with experience in PE/VC-backed environments. Familiar with PE/VC and accelerator/studio models and how to apply them to create business agility and rapid experimentation while preserving innovation as companies scale.”

Philip Kearney

Screened

Executive engineering leader specializing in embedded systems, IoT, and wireless networking

San Francisco Bay Area, CA34y exp

“Former Apple employee who worked with Steve Jobs in the early 2000s and is now looking to join startups as a CTO partner to non-technical founders. Brings a thoughtful, skeptical lens on VC-backed startup execution, emphasizing technical feasibility, real product-market fit, and mission-driven teams solving meaningful problems.”

“Engineering leader with a mix of large-scale platform experience at Microsoft and product/customer-facing work across GM, Panasonic, Acuity, and other environments. Stands out for combining people leadership with hands-on depth in accessibility, web performance at 120M+ MAU scale, and cross-functional delivery spanning enterprise permissions, e-commerce, AI, and automotive systems.”

“Serial game publishing builder who has helped raise $300M+ across multiple rounds for four publishers. Deeply embedded in the SF/LA VC ecosystem and actively advises clients through pitch rounds, emphasizing data-driven narratives, timing, and investor relationship-building in highly scrutinized markets.”

“Hands-on engineering manager on a large web product who built an AI-driven navigation search and led a major post-acquisition unification effort across 3 companies and 5–7 teams, including front-end architecture for 60+ developers. Also owns a high-scale BFF (800 endpoints) and drove a deep reliability fix involving Kubernetes/Envoy/Redis session bloat, adding monitoring and preventative controls.”