Vetted SaaS Professionals

Rebecca Johnson

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Senior Product Manager specializing in AI workflows and healthcare SaaS

Remote, USA8y exp

“Homegrown product/program leader with 8 years of experience who has repeatedly found high-cost operational pain points and turned them into scalable product wins. Most notably, they built an address-validation and fraud-prevention system in non-emergency medical transportation that produced multi-million-dollar savings, and previously led an AI-assisted OCR workflow that raised accuracy to 98.6% and drove major efficiency gains.”

“Early-career candidate with customer service experience and a cybersecurity bootcamp background (vulnerability management). Undergraduate project focused on securing online exams during COVID using identity verification (facial recognition + email/phone code) and 360-degree monitoring to reduce cheating, and they navigated student pushback to enforce integrity.”

Jasmeet Kaur

Screened

Senior HR & People Operations Leader specializing in organizational design and workforce planning

8y exp

“Operations-focused startup advisor/consultant who builds lightweight, scalable internal systems (ownership mapping, cadences, Notion, OKRs) for early-stage teams. Drove measurable ops impact including a 35% reduction in onboarding time at Securiguard by implementing an automated onboarding platform integrated with HRIS, and is experienced coaching founders through change resistance while maintaining speed.”

Frank Albanese

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Executive CTO & Engineering Leader specializing in AI/ML and distributed systems

New York, NY10y exp

“Founder of Essence, a wisdom and memory preservation platform with early testing indicating mental health benefits and positive impact for hospice patients. Has raised $25K to date and reports prior capital-raising experience through Y Combinator and the Berkeley Angel Network, with a GTM plan starting in hospice and expanding to the general public.”

“Full-stack and applied AI candidate who has shipped both a shift-management workflow product and an LLM-powered business insights system using Athena, S3, and Bedrock. They show strong grounding in prompt design, retrieval-based AI architecture, and practical human-in-the-loop product judgment, while also working in an early-stage university research project focused on accessibility for hard-of-hearing users.”

“Product leader who progressed from Director to VP while building a 0-to-1, award-winning B2B eCommerce platform on MACH architecture. Brings unusually hands-on AI product depth, including vectorized/document-based data foundations, RAG-powered commerce use cases, and a customizable GPT-based shopping assistant, while emphasizing human-supervised AI and customer-driven roadmap decisions.”

Tolga Onuk

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Executive product and growth leader specializing in SaaS, mobility, and consumer tech

Houston, TX18y exp

“Product leader, designer, and founder who says he has built more than a dozen platforms from scratch, including a rapid transformation of Envoy from a basic EV rental app into an enterprise multi-company fleet management and EV charging platform before its acquisition. He combines hands-on design, cross-functional team leadership, and executive stakeholder management, and is now advising an AI-driven social media moderation and brand reputation platform.”

“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

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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.”

“Product leader with hands-on experience building enterprise SaaS products from 0 to 1, including Valueflow, a customer lifecycle mapping platform shipped as an MVP in 6 months. Also brings applied AI product experience in compliance software, launching an LLM-based document validation workflow with human-in-the-loop review and strong cross-functional alignment across regulatory, engineering, design, and customer-facing teams.”

“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.”

Jeffery Bray

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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

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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).”