Vetted Release Management Professionals

“Candidate brings an operator-to-founder profile with leadership experience in IT and Business Systems and a strong grasp of how ideas become venture-backable products. They speak fluently about startup evaluation criteria such as TAM, technical defensibility, speed to scale, and AI differentiation, and appear especially motivated by building solutions end-to-end in startup or venture studio environments.”

“Game QA professional who shipped AAA (Overwatch 2) as quality feature owner for Campaign missions, owning high-risk areas like mission progression stability and preventing soft-lock/state desync issues. Also shipped Stormgate and caught a critical Steam achievement integration failure near RC by recreating the issue in an anti-cheat, live-mirroring environment and driving it through fix + regression verification.”

“Engineering lead/player-coach working on project management software, owning a high-impact scheduling algorithm rewrite focused on performance, maintainability, and documentation after prior team turnover caused regressions. Previously at EOX Vantage, helped an insurance client modernize monolithic workflows by scoping ambiguous requirements into a roadmap and shipping a day-one MVP before iterating with value-add features.”

“Product leader with experience at Catbird and Ipsy, especially strong in e-commerce, personalization, and operational AI. Stands out for combining direct customer immersion with rigorous scoping and stakeholder alignment—launching a new personalization experience in 10 weeks with 100% ROI in 4 weeks, and later driving AI automation that cut merchandising workload by 30%.”

Kerri Heinen

Screened

Principal Product Owner specializing in healthcare IT and med-tech

Mounds View, MN17y exp

“Product leader with experience modernizing legacy customer-facing platforms and delivering AI-enabled healthcare capabilities, including an algorithm to classify true cardiac arrhythmias for clinicians. Brings a structured, cross-functional approach to roadmap decisions, user engagement, and team development across engineering, UX, and Scrum teams.”

“Product leader with experience building a patented demand chain management application inspired by 7-Eleven Japan’s inventory practices and piloting it with strong results: lower inventory, fewer out-of-stocks and waste, and higher sales. Has also shipped early AI features in edtech, including student chat moderation, and brings a notably human-centered perspective on AI’s role alongside tutors rather than as a full replacement.”

Henry nguyen

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in FinTech and mobile platforms

Dallas, TX6y exp

“Built WalletBuddy, a personal credit card tracking app, end to end using React Native, TypeScript, Convex, and agent-based web research workflows to maintain a 130+ card catalog. Also operated as a solo lead in a constrained Citi environment, rapidly shipping Python/Postgres ETL pipelines for stakeholder reporting while making pragmatic decisions about where AI automation should and should not be used.”

“Engineering leader with experience managing 40+ direct and indirect reports in Agile Scrum environments, improving predictability and cross-functional execution through release-train discipline and close product partnership. Also led an AI-enabled healthcare claims adjudication initiative that automated a previously manual process, improving turnaround time and provider payment timeliness while freeing agents to focus on higher-priority work.”

“Procurement/sourcing professional with deep end-to-end ownership of recurring program supply and services sourcing (materials plus logistics/fulfillment), focused on reducing unit and landed costs while improving OTIF and tightening SAP purchasing controls. Demonstrates structured supplier vetting (capability, capacity, execution reliability), strong negotiation on commercial terms and SLAs, and proactive mitigation of international trade/freight/duty volatility through risk-adjusted sourcing strategies.”

“CTO/enterprise architect who stays hands-on in code while leading strategy, stakeholder alignment, and team scaling. At Eastridge, established product and technology vision/roadmap, built product engineering/strategy functions, and helped launch products into global markets; most recently led GenAI product design including tech selection, infrastructure, scalability, and observability.”

“QA tester with hands-on experience supporting Duolingo’s large-scale, high-stakes releases across iOS, Android, and web. Owns test planning, manual + mobile automation testing, regression, and release verification, with a strong focus on real-world edge cases (low-end devices, poor connectivity, localization/RTL) and rigorous bug triage using JIRA and external user reports.”

“Candidate is not currently pursuing a startup or business plan and is not looking to found a company at this time, expressing a preference for joining an existing organization. They have limited familiarity with the VC/accelerator landscape but are specifically interested in learning how companies are evaluated and how investment decisions are made.”

Bhumika Shah

Screened

Mid-level Product Manager specializing in data-driven product strategy and analytics

TX, USA3y exp

“Procurement/sourcing professional with hands-on experience selecting and rolling out an analytics dashboard vendor end-to-end—using stakeholder discovery, POCs, and a scoring matrix—then negotiating a ~26% cost reduction and waiving implementation fees. Also demonstrates strong trade compliance instincts by catching and correcting an incorrect tariff code that would have increased duties ~18%, and uses structured milestone/risk tracking (RAG) to keep OTD and approvals on track.”

SaiTeasmitha Kaja

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Java/Spring Boot and cloud microservices

Houston, TX4y exp

“Backend-focused Python/Flask engineer who has built authentication/profile services with clean modular architecture (blueprints + service layer) and tuned SQLAlchemy/Postgres for scale using indexing, query rewrites, and pagination. Has production-style integration experience for AI/ML via TensorFlow Serving and OpenAI APIs (batching, rate limiting, caching), plus multi-tenant data isolation and high-throughput background processing with Celery/Redis and idempotent jobs.”

Gilbert Martin

Screened

Executive Cloud Operations & DevSecOps Leader specializing in multi-cloud platforms and compliance

Pleasanton, CA9y exp

“Former founder who built a revenue-generating DevOps GTM service from zero, using milestone-based revenue targets and multi-channel selling (relationships, channel partners, and major conferences like AWS events and Dreamforce). Also led a cross-functional FedRAMP Moderate readiness strategy to enable selling into regulated environments, coordinating engineering/product/finance/sales/security/support and third-party partners under a tight timeline.”

Nirmal Attarde

Screened

Mid-Level Software Development Engineer specializing in backend microservices and cloud

3y exp

“Software engineer with Oracle experience deploying a BioCatch fraud-detection integration into HDFC Bank’s core banking platform, using phased rollout and real-time monitoring and reporting ~80% fraud reduction. Also built a modular speech-to-text product (VocalSense AI) achieving ~95% accuracy and has strong production incident response skills (15-minute recovery) plus AWS serverless API hardening for messy inputs.”

“Salesforce-focused candidate with hands-on experience owning Sales Cloud automation end to end, including requirements translation, Flow/Apex design, testing, and production deployment. They show practical judgment in choosing hybrid declarative/code solutions, bulk-safe Apex patterns, and modern UI work across both LWC and legacy Aura components.”

“UX/product design leader with experience at Humana/CenterWell and Zelis, focused on AI-assisted experiences in healthcare and fintech. Stands out for designing explainable, trust-centered AI that supports people in high-stakes moments, and for leading enterprise design teams to think beyond screens toward full ecosystem and business impact.”

“Serial venture builder/operator across ad tech, media delivery, search engines, international content management, and ecommerce; has raised up to $150M and been involved in 8 acquisitions or IP-acquisition events. Known for refactoring/re-engineering smaller or troubled platforms into higher-value businesses, including building yield-management algorithms and a Kafka-like system to improve ad delivery profitability.”

“Windows/VMware infrastructure project lead with experience managing 3,000+ servers across large enterprise environments (mentions Pfizerco, American Express, and FedEx). Focused on performance troubleshooting and stability using monitoring tools, plus security hardening and dependency/latency evaluation during on-prem to AWS/Azure hybrid migrations.”

Jeff Cushler

Screened

Executive Technology & Product Leader specializing in Healthcare IT, SaaS, and Cloud Transformation

Austin, TX30y exp

“Startup product/enterprise-stack builder who helped take Ventric Health from R&D to a market-launched healthcare product in 2024, operating in a $34M-raised, revenue-generating model leveraging Medicare C reimbursement through providers. Previously drove adoption of an integrated K-12 digital learning platform distributed to 100+ institutions over two years, with reported improvements in test scores.”