Vetted Scalability Professionals

DAVID WOODBURY

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive COO/CRO and growth consultant specializing in scaling founder-led businesses

Grand Rapids, MI18y exp

“Serial founder and agency leader (recent agency exit with completed 3-year earn-out) currently serving as COO but prefers CEO/founder role. Spun Camp Native out of an agency after spotting a hospitality tech gap, raised venture funding, scaled partnerships to 800+ properties, and led the company to a private equity acquisition. Uses AI tools to dramatically accelerate go-to-market, research, and validation cycles.”

“Serial entrepreneur with 30+ years of professional software engineering experience who co-founded Food Truck Stars, initially a food-truck search engine and later pivoted into a catering marketplace to overcome adoption barriers. Validated the model by prototyping at car enthusiast events across the U.S. and turning a profit, using hands-on customer discovery with low-tech, time-constrained operators.”

“Backend engineer who rebuilt and refactored high-traffic systems at Phenom using Java/Spring Boot/Play and also designs Python/FastAPI services. Focused on measurable reliability and performance gains through DB/query optimization, async processing, and strong observability, with disciplined rollout practices (feature flags, parallel runs, rollback) and security patterns including token auth and row-level security.”

“Frontend-focused React and TypeScript candidate with hands-on experience building dynamic quiz applications and complex data dashboards with charts, tables, filters, and drill-down interactions. Demonstrates strong practical judgment around maintainable component architecture, type-safe API integration, accessibility, and production performance optimization for data-heavy UIs.”

“Frontend engineer who has led customer-facing React + TypeScript products end-to-end, building complex dashboards with robust async state patterns (caching, deduping, cancellation, optimistic updates) and strong quality practices (TypeScript standards, layered testing, production monitoring). Experienced modernizing inherited codebases through modularization and performance work (code splitting/memoization) while aligning stakeholders and shipping safely via feature flags and staged rollouts.”

“Operations and accounting transformation leader who specializes in reorganizing high-growth and distressed companies using a people/processes/systems framework. Notably helped a distressed mid-stage tech company clean up historical financials, rebuild the accounting function, fix broken operations, and become VC-fundable. Experienced fractional CFO and board advisor who mentors founders/executives and builds scalable hiring plans with clear headcount triggers.”

Volodymyr Pisotskyi

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI-powered web applications

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“Full-stack engineer building production AI/RAG systems for benefits workflows, including a state-level deployment that introduced filestore-based evaluation and improved answer correctness by about 30%. Strong across Next.js, backend infrastructure, and AI evaluation tooling, with hands-on experience in LangChain/LangGraph, Langfuse, accessibility-minded UI work, and zero-to-one product leadership in fast-moving environments.”

“Data engineer with experience at Morgan Stanley and Star Health owning production-grade lakehouse pipelines for credit risk and healthcare datasets. Built Azure/Databricks/Delta/Snowflake-based platforms processing millions of records per day with strong data quality, observability (Monte Carlo/Azure Monitor), and reliability practices, plus experience delivering curated data services with performance tuning and backward-compatible versioning.”

Sakshi .

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Senior Backend Engineer specializing in scalable cloud-native and AI-integrated systems

Remote, India4y exp

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who has repeatedly built web products end-to-end, including an artist booking and event management platform with complex location-based pricing, search, and booking flows. Strongest signal is ownership of backend architecture, API design, database modeling, performance optimization, and production stabilization while also partnering on frontend integration and UX improvements.”

“Owned and stabilized Decathlon e-commerce payment services, taking a prototype reliability effort to production by implementing failure detection/retries, load testing, and DB performance optimizations—reducing payment failures and cart abandonment. Also demonstrates an LLM/agentic workflow support mindset with strong observability, rapid incident diagnosis, and durable prevention via RCA, safeguards, and regression/replay testing, plus experience supporting sales/support with technical reassurance.”

“Built and deployed a production AI accessibility platform that turns chart and image-based graphs into real-time audio narratives for visually impaired users. Implemented a ResNet-based CV + OCR + NLP + TTS pipeline and improved performance through preprocessing, Redis caching, and Kubernetes autoscaling/rolling updates on AWS to handle traffic spikes with no downtime.”

Asad Abdul

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Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in AI-driven cloud-native applications

Laguna Niguel, CA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with healthcare/ops analytics experience at PatientXpress, shipping a real-time operational dashboard end-to-end (React/TypeScript + Node/Postgres on AWS) that cut manual reporting by 50%. Strong in performance and reliability work—pagination/caching, Postgres indexing/partitioning, Terraform-based AWS provisioning, CI/CD with GitHub Actions, and production incident response with improved monitoring (CloudWatch/Prometheus).”

Farhad Poorsolaymani

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Senior Unity Developer specializing in mobile multiplayer games

Munich, Germany14y exp

“Unity engineer with experience dating back to 2011 who has taken multiple company games from prototype and architecture through delivery and years of maintenance. Built a dynamic AssetBundle system to optimize memory and loading for a high-fidelity mobile title, and delivered end-to-end multiplayer/social systems (clans/leaderboards) using Firebase (Firestore, Functions, Hosting). Also leverages AI tools to rapidly generate and integrate C# frameworks like ECS to speed up development.”

“Infrastructure engineer focused on AWS platform automation: built a full CloudFormation-based environment (networking, Aurora, ElastiCache) and created Python tooling plus Lambda-backed custom resources to automate deployments, user provisioning (MySQL/RabbitMQ), and operational workflows. Also migrated a company from Rackspace to AWS and maintains an 8-year Debian homelab with VMs/containers, RAID6 backups, and GPU passthrough troubleshooting. No Kubernetes experience.”

Nachshon Fertel

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Executive startup founder and product engineer specializing in marketplace platforms

Minneapolis, MN12y exp

“Repeat founder currently building Unhookt, a digital wellness app, after co-founding Poplin and helping raise $10M in VC funding in 2021. He has already completed Unhookt’s frontend MVP, is building the backend, and is gathering early user feedback while navigating the shift from metrics-driven Series A fundraising to vision-led pre-seed pitching.”