Vetted Regulatory Compliance Professionals

Jignesh Desai

Screened

Director of Software Engineering specializing in fraud detection and payments platforms

San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA26y exp

“Engineering manager/player-coach who focuses on laying technical foundations and improving team execution: kickstarted Visa standard UI library adoption, standardized API exception handling, and introduced a test automation framework that enabled a shift from quarterly to monthly releases. Led a phased latency/throughput initiative that doubled throughput, and owned a production incident caused by a dependency’s expired certificate, driving monitoring and certificate-expiry notification improvements across dependent systems.”

“GenAI/LLM engineer who architected and deployed a production RAG “research assistant” for JPMorgan Chase’s regulatory compliance team, focused on safety-critical behavior (mandatory citations, refusal when evidence is missing). Deep hands-on experience with LlamaIndex, Pinecone, Hugging Face embeddings, LangGraph agent workflows, and metric-driven evaluation (golden sets, TruLens), including a reported 28% relevancy lift via cross-encoder re-ranking.”

Krishna Guda

Screened

Principal Software Engineer specializing in AI-native FinTech systems

Mountain View, CA23y exp

“Fintech product engineer working on a large-scale credit monitoring platform (tens of millions of users) with deep experience in regulated banking integrations, PII security, and step-up/MFA flows. Has shipped customer-facing React/TypeScript experiences driven by Optimizely experimentation and built reliable partner-facing microservices/SDKs on AWS, including resolving production traffic loss caused by edge security (DataDome/CAPTCHA) conflicts with payment providers.”

“Enterprise implementation leader with 10+ years delivering multi-million-dollar B2B/SaaS rollouts across procurement, expense management, legal tech, and fraud/identity platforms. At Amazon Business, managed 12+ concurrent enterprise implementations and owned the full lifecycle from strategy and change management through go-live, with strong executive stakeholder management and governance discipline.”

“Private banker and wealth-focused business developer with experience at BofA and CNB, combining referral-driven growth with targeted outreach to ultra-high-net-worth clients. They describe consistently outperforming goals, moving wealthy clients across firms, and contributing to a top-ranked team that brought in $5MM in new money and funded $20MM in loans.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered RAG assistant for enterprise internal document search (PDFs, knowledge bases, structured data), addressing real-world issues like noisy documents, hallucinations, and latency with grounded prompting, retrieval-confidence fallbacks, and performance optimizations. Also partnered with compliance and business teams at JPMc to deliver a solution aligned with regulatory constraints, supported by monitoring, feedback loops, and systematic evaluation.”

“Senior HR leader/HRBP with experience at Lowe's and as VP of HR at Chefs' Warehouse (NYSE: CHEF), known for building scalable talent and performance systems across large operational workforces. Led a nationwide assessment across 15 distribution centers and delivered executive-ready insights that earned a CEO commendation, and is a strong HRIS/people-metrics practitioner (Workday/ADP/Dayforce) who turns survey and workforce data into concrete action plans.”

“Backend/microservices engineer with fintech loan-lifecycle experience operating low-latency (sub-250ms) services in production using Kafka, idempotent transaction design, and Datadog observability. Also built an end-to-end LLM chatbot (React + Flask) with a decoupled model integration layer (FLAN-T5 via Hugging Face) and has experience designing partner-facing REST APIs with OAuth2/JWT and Swagger documentation.”

Julie Rice

Screened

Director-level Lab Operations & Facilities Leader specializing in life sciences startups

San Francisco, CA20y exp

“Independent biotech operations consultant and former biotech operations director who specializes in standing up startup lab operations end-to-end—facility buildouts, equipment procurement, and workflow/SOP implementation. Known for building clear operating rhythms (SMART/RACI, dashboards in MS Project/Smartsheet) and driving cross-functional execution; previously centralized R&D procurement at Abbvie/Pharmacyclics to cut PO processing time by 40%.”

“Entrepreneurial operator with 30+ years of experience building internal startup-style business cases inside private companies, securing capital/OpEx funding, and turning proposals into delivered technology initiatives. Brings a strong venture-informed mindset, including familiarity with Series A/B/C funding dynamics, combined with hands-on strength in business planning, financial modeling, team building, and execution.”

“Senior engineering leader with over 20 years of management experience and a hands-on background leading large-scale SaaS, eCommerce, CRM, and customer data platform systems serving millions of users. Stands out for combining deep technical architecture leadership with org-scale people management, including solving multi-tenant SaaS scaling issues, driving self-service product improvements from support patterns, and building governance models for cross-functional delivery.”

“Strategy-and-operations leader who has moved across three distinct chapters: co-founding and exiting a digital advertising startup, helping scale Razor Group during rapid acquisition-driven growth in Germany, and advising major enterprises at Simon-Kucher and Roland Berger. Stands out for acting as the 'connective tissue' between strategy, analytics, and execution, including leading a commercial pricing and GTM redesign for a top U.S. real estate marketplace with a projected $82M revenue uplift.”

“Senior engineering leader who scaled a global organization from 15 to roughly 100 people and operates comfortably at both executive and hands-on architecture levels. Has led SaaS platform improvements, AI-based compliance workflow automation with LLM observability, and consumer-facing product modernization using analytics-driven UX decisions.”

Roger Woody

Screened

Executive Operations & Transformation Leader in Federal and Defense organizations

36y exp

“Operations and Chief of Staff leader with experience at NRO, DHS/TSA, and NOAA, translating complex, regulated enterprise environments into startup-like scalable operating systems. Implemented Salesforce/PeopleSoft/Cognos-driven process optimization, governance, and keystroke-level SOPs, delivering measurable improvements (20% performance gains; 15% error reduction) while driving adoption through hands-on change management and executive alignment.”

Alex Lange

Screened

Executive Strategy & Technology Leader specializing in PropTech, digital marketing, and venture innovation

Bellevue, WA36y exp

“Serial entrepreneur with decades in lead gen and CRM marketing and a track record of three exits/acquisitions. Founded Roost, a national MLS-driven real estate portal, leveraging SEO/SEM/email and a pilot-led, unit-economics approach (pricing, retention, CAC/LTV). Now exploring an AI-driven, end-to-end automation concept for SMB hyper-local marketing and execution.”