Vetted Release Management Professionals

Gayatri Puwar Mahendroo

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level Product Leader specializing in AI, platforms, and B2B SaaS

San Francisco, CA19y exp

“Senior product leader with 15+ years spanning FAANG-scale platforms and early-stage startups, from Skype’s bot framework at 300M MAU to AI-native enterprise products in fintech, banking, and data center operations. Particularly strong in human-centered AI, trust and transparency UX, and turning ambiguous 0-1 opportunities into shipped MVPs that win pilots, awards, and business traction—including a GenAI observability platform that earned a Google Accelerator award and later led to acquisition.”

Kyle Warneck

Screened

Director-level Frontend Engineer specializing in high-scale web platforms

Alameda, CA13y exp

“Former Epic Games engineering leader who built the web foundation of the Fortnite creator ecosystem, joining as the first web developer and scaling the team to 21 engineers as the platform grew to tens of thousands of creators and tens of millions of players. Combines deep frontend architecture expertise with backend/infrastructure ownership, observability, and product leadership across publishing, trust and safety, economy, analytics, and public APIs.”

Marc Urbaitel

Screened

Director-level engineering leader specializing in cloud infrastructure and compliance systems

Portland, OR24y exp

“Experienced software builder and former founder who ran his own startup for 15 years in the late 1990s, focused on bleeding-edge online ticketing technology. Brings a mix of hands-on software delivery, team building, and startup leadership, though he is currently seeking a well-backed opportunity with strong cash compensation rather than entrepreneurship at all costs.”

“Engineering/tech leader with experience spanning major platforms (mentions Microsoft and AWS) and leading ML-driven product architecture (ranking systems). Describes driving a shift to a layered, API-standardized service architecture (including vector database components) that materially increased delivery speed (weeks to hours) while improving scalability and security, and emphasizes rigorous execution reviews (QDR/OKRs) plus transparent remote-team operating rhythms.”

RAMAKRISHNA JULURI

Screened

Executive Technology Leader (SVP/VP/CTO) specializing in cloud-native platforms and AI modernization

Seattle, WA28y exp

“Engineering leader with experience across MSCI (Index business), Microsoft Teams (callings/meetings), and MSN Weather. Has led business-aligned roadmaps, scaled orgs (including an ~80-person Teams org during COVID demand surge), and delivered Azure-based, multi-region architectures achieving ~2000 RPS and 99.9% availability with improved RTO/RPO.”

Thazim Banu Shaffee

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Engineering Manager specializing in payments, risk, and high-scale distributed systems

San Jose, CA14y exp

“Engineering leader/player-coach on a risk core transaction platform (payments/branded checkout) who led major migrations from a monolithic stack to microservices, including API contract redesign and performance improvements (reported ~500ms latency reduction). Experienced running high-stakes production incidents (upgrade-related outage/degradation) end-to-end with RCA and rollout-process changes, and has accelerated delivery via documentation/tooling (audit sign-off cycle reduced from ~3 sprints to ~1).”

“QA professional with experience at Google and Meta, focused on end-to-end functional/regression testing, disciplined bug reporting (including ADB logs), and release readiness via staging build promotion and gating on critical/high-priority issues. Emphasizes PRD-driven test planning, edge-case coverage (e.g., low connectivity/low battery), and thorough verification across build versions.”

“Fitbit engineer who has taken multiple projects from concept to release, including architecting a new warranty-evaluation system that achieved 100% accuracy and saved the company $6M. Interested in exploring startup ideas and emphasizes mission alignment and building strong cross-functional teams.”

“Technologist drawn to venture studio/zero-to-one environments, motivated by owning technical architecture and building scalable systems from day one. Interested in rapidly shipping MVPs, iterating toward product-market fit, and validating ideas through real user feedback rather than pursuing entrepreneurship for its own sake.”

Armenak Bdoian

Screened

Senior Product Leader specializing in AI-enabled marketplaces and e-commerce

Seattle, WA18y exp

“Product leader with experience spanning Amazon Prime and List.am, where they built a product org from scratch and drove a marketplace transformation for 3M users. Particularly strong in zero-to-one and rebuild work across search, ads, AI moderation, and complex cross-functional alignment, with measurable impact on engagement, revenue, and operational efficiency.”

“AWS engineering manager leading delivery for an end-to-end encrypted communications product (calling/messaging/screen sharing), including shipping read receipts with full design/engineering/QA ownership. Demonstrated strong customer-driven problem solving (offline/mission users enrollment via admin one-time codes with account allowlisting) and reliability improvements (data retention bot crash RCA, monitoring/notification, and high-volume test simulation).”

“Technology/engineering leader with experience at Real Messenger, Wolters Kluwer, and Accenture AI, spanning roadmap definition through execution and org scaling. Has operated at the executive level (fundraising, investor relations, SPAC merger activities, media presentations) while driving architecture decisions validated by PoC/testing/production success metrics.”