Vetted SaaS Professionals

“CEO & co-founder of Spotlight Creators, a digital platform for visual artists, which they took from idea validation (100 artist interviews) to a live product with 50+ artists and 50+ customers. Drove GTM through hands-on social content across Instagram/YouTube/TikTok, ran local artist spotlight events, and pursued fundraising via cold outreach and acceptance into Launch NY while building skills in pitch decks, financial projections, and ARR modeling.”

“Backend engineer with deep experience modernizing a provider credentialing/compliance platform with multiple upstream/downstream integrations. Focused on building predictable, scalable REST APIs (primarily ASP.NET Core; framework-agnostic approach applicable to FastAPI), improving performance via DB/query optimization, and hardening workflows with idempotency, transactions, feature flags, and strong auth/RBAC patterns.”

“Frontend engineer/product lead with experience building a Tableau-like data visualization dashboard at StradigiAI, including a scalable SQL-like query/filter approach for high-volume data. At LogMeIn/GoTo, migrated a TypeScript React product from Redux to React Query with shared state abstractions across web, Electron, and React Native, and helped leverage a design system to support a rapid company rebrand.”

“Built and deployed a scalable, production-ready LLM knowledge assistant using a RAG architecture (LangChain + vector store/FAISS) to replace keyword search for internal documents. Demonstrates hands-on expertise in hallucination reduction and retrieval quality improvements through semantic chunking, similarity tuning, prompt design, and human-in-the-loop validation, plus strong stakeholder communication via demos and visual explanations.”

John Kalyango

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in geospatial and mobile data collection

Germany9y exp

“Frontend engineer who led end-to-end development of a React-based carbon credits data collection and analysis tool, focusing on scalable architecture and performance (code splitting, SWR caching, memoization, Lighthouse monitoring). Experienced building complex route-driven TypeScript wizards with Redux/Rematch state persistence, and refactoring legacy monolithic UI into reusable, tested, documented components while shipping deadline-driven features using feature flags and tight QA collaboration.”

“Independent product builder with several live startups spanning transit, gaming, and SaaS/API tools. Notably built a Cyprus bus routes app before transit data was broadly available on Google Maps, and is currently maintaining products like CountriesDB and HolidayDB while pursuing SEO-led growth and validating ideas solo before expanding.”

Chukwunonso Azuka

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in secure backend systems and re-engineering

Remote16y exp

“Founder of LexaBooks, an active bootstrapped startup being built with scalability, recurring revenue, and investor readiness in mind. Participated in the 2024 Startup Wise Guys accelerator and has continued training across SaaS, AI, and fintech, giving them a strong understanding of early-stage growth and venture dynamics.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience in financial payroll, tax, and compensation platforms, building Python microservices and AWS-based data pipelines for high-volume, peak-driven workloads. Strong reliability focus (OAuth2 auth, retries/timeouts, structured logging, incident response) and proven performance wins, including cutting complex report queries from ~8 minutes to under 30 seconds.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building a real-time notification API on Flask/Celery/Postgres and scaling it on AWS with Docker, Redis queuing, and SQLAlchemy query optimization. Also delivered AWS serverless deployments (Lambda) using Terraform + GitHub Actions and built AWS Glue ETL pipelines from S3 to Redshift with CloudWatch monitoring and DataBrew data quality checks.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across Python/Flask microservices and AWS serverless/data platforms (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Glue/PySpark). Demonstrated strong reliability and operations mindset (JWT/RBAC, retries/timeouts/circuit breakers, CloudWatch/SNS alerting) and measurable performance wins (SQL report runtime cut from 10 minutes to 30 seconds). Seeking ~$150k base and cannot travel for onsite meetings for the next 5–6 months due to family medical constraints.”

Jeffery Bray

Screened

Executive Board Director & Healthcare/AI Strategy Leader

Salt Lake City, UT22y exp

“Operator-advisor with deep healthcare/pharmacy leadership: CEO of MedQuest Pharmacy for over a decade and cofounder/CEO of Vibrix Pharmacy and Vibrix Technologies. Known for architecting scalable operating models (decision rights, role scorecards, workflow mapping, communication cadences) and aligning cross-functional teams—including product/engineering/compliance—while mentoring founders through practical, low-bureaucracy systems.”

Dawood Shaik

Screened

Senior Product Marketing Manager specializing in GTM, channel enablement, and pricing analytics

Minneapolis, MN9y exp

“Growth-creative/performance creative specialist focused on UGC-led paid social across Meta, TikTok, and YouTube. Uses structured creative testing (e.g., hook/angle matrices) and modular asset systems to iterate quickly; cited a campaign that lifted efficiency (25% CPA improvement, ROAS 1.8x→2.4x) and then scaled spend ~60% while maintaining performance.”

“Full-stack product engineer who has built AI-assisted CRM and agent workflows in Project SARA and operational systems like payroll for a staffing platform. Stands out for combining React/TypeScript, Django/Postgres, real-time systems, and LLM orchestration with strong product instincts—delivering measurable gains in response time, conversion, and engineering leverage.”

“Serial entrepreneur with capital-raising experience across three startups, now building an early-stage online BBQ meat store targeting a Goldbelly launch by July. Previously operated a BBQ restaurant in Texas and has direct Goldbelly experience, giving him practical insight into e-commerce food operations, seasonal demand swings, and social-driven sales.”

“Co-founder at Skoolive who built a multi-agent LLM application to help users understand complex research papers (including PDF interaction and flowchart-style representations), moving from prototype to production using Gemini SDK and deployment to Runway. Also developed and demoed a web-agent benchmarking framework, running hands-on sessions with customer-facing teams to improve agent reliability and drive adoption.”

“AIX/IBM Power Systems engineer with hands-on production performance troubleshooting (NMON) and operational administration across VIOS/HMC/LPAR/DLPAR. Has implemented enterprise patching and security remediation using NIM (e.g., OpenSSH vulnerability) and built automation to generate and curate weekly AIX images for the NIM environment.”

“Enterprise Customer Success leader in the Azure/AVD ecosystem (Nerdio) with end-to-end ownership of large accounts, driving measurable adoption growth and Azure cost optimization. Demonstrated ability to orchestrate complex migrations (Citrix to AVD), align multi-stakeholder enterprise priorities, and convert customer feedback into roadmap action that directly supported renewal and expansion (including GovCloud use cases).”

Ali Zafar Zaidi

Screened

Senior Frontend/Full-Stack Developer specializing in React and Next.js

Hamilton, Canada8y exp

“Frontend engineer who has led architecture and delivery of large, data-driven React/TypeScript interfaces used by thousands of users, with strong emphasis on scalable structure, performance, and automated quality gates (CI/CD, Jest/Cypress). Recently building a resume screening application for McMaster University students and has experience shipping role-based (RBAC) features with tight cross-functional collaboration and PR-based QA deployments.”

Richa Jindal

Screened

Senior Product Manager specializing in SaaS CRM, MarTech, and GenAI products

India8y exp

“Product/LiveOps leader who applies free-to-play mechanics to live consumer products; led monetization and engagement for Pavo (video-based Gen Z dating app on iOS/Android), addressing weak D7 retention and low free-to-paid conversion. Implemented progression, nudges, soft paywalls, experimentation, and real-time moderation, driving 3.2x DAU and ~60% lift in early engagement while improving conversion without harming retention.”

Mark Eagle

Screened

Executive Technology & Operations Leader (CTO/COO) specializing in scaling SaaS and enterprise software

Denver, Colorado29y exp

“Operations leader and advisor (former COO at College Partnership; also worked with Founders Advisors) who rebuilds and scales early-stage operations using Lean Startup experimentation and KPI-driven execution. Notably centralized a call-center function, implemented scripts/SLAs/metrics, and iterated staffing based on conversion and response-time data while mentoring non-ops founders on MVPs, SMART goals, and tactical operating plans.”

“Candidate is targeting a CTO Venture Studio role and positions themself as a technical partner to founders rather than a founder personally. They demonstrate strong fluency in early-stage startup evaluation, especially around validating whether a product truly tests the business hypothesis and whether the underlying technology can scale significantly.”

“Outbound-focused AE with a structured cold-calling and multi-channel prospecting approach, generating 3-4 meetings per week through phone, email, and LinkedIn. Notably sourced and closed Rutgers University from cold outreach into a $40K annual spend, and shows a data-driven mindset by refining ICPs toward larger organizations to improve opportunity conversion.”

“Frontend product builder who has shipped and maintained a two-mobile-app ecosystem (user + employee) backed by Node.js, emphasizing separation of concerns, shared libraries for reuse, and TypeScript type safety. Re-architected a Sunmor Research codebase using MVC, improving readability and collaboration and taking the product from unusable to working, with a strong regression-testing mindset and customer-feedback-driven iteration.”