Vetted Slack Professionals

“Senior graphic designer with e-commerce marketing experience at AVVA and Apt2B.com, focused on high-polish email and paid social creative. Leans into motion design—shooting and editing video and building animated GIF assets—to drive engagement and revenue, and is experienced producing high-volume sale/Black Friday creative efficiently using grid systems and brand-guideline guardrails.”

Wayne PetinaudJr.

Screened

Director-level Talent Acquisition Leader specializing in SaaS, FinTech, and Design

New York, NY7y exp

“Recruiting leader and hands-on executive search player/coach who has managed teams at Acquire and Mastercard and partnered closely with HRBPs on sensitive, change-management hiring. Pre-Series B at Acquire, collaborated with CFO/CPO/founders on a location-based hiring strategy that reduced salary costs by 30%+. Recently at Paperless Post, implemented AI-era technical assessment and interview tooling (Coderbyte, BrightHire) to improve candidate quality and process efficiency.”

Aidan Anderson

Screened

Director-level engineering leader specializing in AI, security, and FinTech SaaS

California, USA12y exp

“Engineer and bootstrap founder who has worked across roughly five venture-backed startups from pre-seed through Series E. He combines hands-on startup execution with strong judgment around product-market fit, founder fit, and customer validation, while independently building profitable, self-owned micro SaaS ventures on the side.”

“AIX/IBM Power Systems engineer with hands-on production incident leadership in a regulated banking environment, using deep OS-level tooling to diagnose CPU entitlement and memory pressure issues. Experienced with HMC/vHMC, VIOS, and zero-downtime DLPAR resizing, plus PowerHA/HACMP clustering and validated failover testing. Also drives migration readiness via Bash/Python automation (60% manual-effort reduction) and phased AIX cloud/hybrid cutovers.”

“Software engineer with hands-on embedded/robotics coursework experience (Arduino sensor integration and input handling built from scratch without external libraries) and strong DevOps/engineering productivity impact at work, including leading a CI/CD enhancement that runs only impacted tests to catch issues before PR approval.”

“Veteran music editor/mixer and musician with 20+ years in Pro Tools, specializing in broadcast advertising, television, and social media deliverables. Contributed music editing to an Emmy-winning CBS News/60 Minutes year-end sizzle reel and is known for extremely fast turnarounds using an SSL-inspired Pro Tools template and a decades-built SFX library.”

“Built and owned major parts of a real-time distributed AI fraud-detection pipeline (ingestion, inference microservice integration, and automated action layer), optimizing latency and observability and reducing false positives by ~35%. Understands ROS/ROS2 concepts (nodes/topics/services) and planned hands-on ramp-up via ROS2 pub/sub exercises and Gazebo simulation, but has not worked on physical robots or ROS in production.”

“ML/NLP practitioner with experience building a transformer-failure prediction system that combines sensor signals with unstructured maintenance comments using LLM-based extraction and similarity validation. Strong emphasis on production readiness—data leakage controls, SQL-driven data quality tiers, and rigorous bias/fairness validation (including contract/spec evaluation across diverse company profiles).”

“Operations leader/consultant for early-stage, VC-backed and fast-growth companies with hands-on experience spanning NetSuite finance ops, product prioritization, and People Ops/HR systems. Notably overhauled internal communications at a Bay Area home health company by centralizing to HIPAA-compliant Slack integrated with ClickUp, driving ~30% faster project completion and ~25% higher retention, using ADKAR-based change management and rigorous adoption tracking.”

Jordan Roga

Screened

Director-level Business Operations & Finance leader in venture capital and early-stage tech

New York, NY10y exp

“Operations/program leader with experience at Open Core Ventures driving cross-functional initiatives across content/engineering and legal/tax operations. Built systems-heavy process improvements (public handbook + SOP frameworks, DRI accountability) and delivered measurable outcomes like +30% Hacker News front-page frequency and ~80% faster company formation.”

“Org design and change-management leader with experience running globally distributed teams across North America, Europe, and Asia. Has built and managed product/design/analytics functions and partnered with executives on restructures and product rollouts by clarifying decision rights, implementing structured communication rhythms, and using analytics to guide resourcing and planning.”

“Backend engineer who built and owned an AI-powered SMS survey platform for a nonprofit serving at-risk communities (internet-limited users), using Cloudflare Workers + Twilio and a state-machine survey engine. Scaled it to ~10k active users with near-zero downtime, added English/Spanish support, and iteratively improved LLM behavior (Claude 3.7 Sonnet) to handle nuanced, real-world SMS responses reliably.”

Sonia Jairath

Screened

Executive Talent Acquisition leader specializing in high-volume and executive hiring across media and tech

Los Angeles, CA20y exp

“Talent Acquisition leader (former Director of Talent Acquisition at Paramount Global) who has managed recruiter teams (1–7 direct reports) and can jump into high-impact executive searches. Experienced partnering with C-suite/EVP stakeholders and HRBPs on offer approvals and leveling/comp adjustments, and has implemented recruiting process/ATS workflows and team training programs across both startups and large enterprises.”

Samikshya Satpathy

Screened

Mid-level UI/UX & Product Designer specializing in e-commerce and enterprise SaaS

Ann Arbor, MI4y exp

“Product/UX designer with large-scale consumer and omnichannel experience across Nykaa and Swiggy (100M+ users), combining deep research with high-polish UI and scalable design systems. Demonstrated measurable business impact across ops efficiency (1500 hrs/year saved), app quality (4.3→4.8 rating), and e-commerce conversion (48% uplift), and has owned a growth pod while collaborating closely with UA/growth and engineering.”

Christi Lind

Screened

Senior HR Business Partner specializing in employee relations and organizational change

New York, NY10y exp

“People/HR partner with experience supporting globally distributed teams at Justworks, Flatiron School, and WeWork (including greenfield operations in APAC). Has partnered closely with engineering/product/design/analytics leaders on job architecture, leveling criteria, and change rollouts, including coaching senior technical leaders on communication and engagement during mergers and restructuring.”

Ekta Rani

Screened

Mid-level Customer Success Manager specializing in enterprise SaaS and digital banking adoption

6y exp

“Customer Success/CSM leader with Freshworks enterprise experience owning complex accounts end-to-end (onboarding, adoption, renewal, and expansion). Demonstrated impact through quantified outcomes (e.g., +20% resolution speed, +15% CSAT, +25% handling-time improvement) and strong cross-functional execution on high-stakes integrations (Freshdesk–Salesforce) plus product influence via PRDs/user stories (Shopify integration improvements).”

“Full-stack product engineer who has built end-to-end apps and internal tools spanning React/TypeScript, Node/Express, and Postgres. Stands out for pragmatic shipping under ambiguity, creating reusable platform primitives like a centralized notification API, and designing safe multi-tenant configurable dashboards with schema validation.”

“Game QA professional with live production experience owning QA strategy for a cross-platform seasonal loadout system in a live server shooter. Works in Agile/Scrum with CI/CD, using Jira + TestRail (including two-way sync) to drive traceable test coverage and fast triage via evidence-rich bug reports. Emphasizes risk-based coverage, regression discipline across builds, and converting gameplay feel into actionable design/engineering feedback.”

“Software engineer with strong end-to-end ownership across frontend, backend, data, and infrastructure, including real-time systems (Kafka/Postgres) and observability (Datadog). Built and productionized an AI-native RAG support assistant (OpenAI embeddings + Pinecone) with prompt/guardrail design, achieving 48% agent adoption and 30% faster responses. Experienced in legacy modernization and reliability work using feature flags, event/transaction replay, and rapid embedded delivery.”

“Full-desk recruiter who has led both GTM and technical hiring, including a rapid India expansion in 2024 that grew to 100 employees within a year. Recently redesigned sales hiring for a new SaaS hunter model—sourcing via LinkedIn Recruiter/Boolean and hiring 4 reps across two regions in two months—while running a tight stakeholder cadence using Greenhouse scorecards and Slack.”

Meghana Madi

Screened

Mid-level Product & UI/UX Designer specializing in AI, cybersecurity, and SaaS

Remote, USA4y exp

“Product/UI-UX designer with hands-on experience owning end-to-end web and e-commerce flows, from problem discovery and information architecture through Figma design and implementation support. They stand out for translating rough concepts into production-ready, scalable interfaces with reusable components, polished interaction states, and measurable usability improvements.”

“AI engineer and current tech lead building a RAG-based multi-agent QA platform for financial document analysis at significant scale (40,000-50,000 documents). They combine Python, CrewAI, FastAPI, Hugging Face embeddings, Pinecone, and AWS SageMaker to deliver retrieval, calculation, summarization, forecasting, and visualization workflows, while leading a small cross-functional team.”

“Banking infrastructure engineer who owns large-scale IBM Power/AIX (AIX 7.x, VIOS, HMC/vHMC) environments with hundreds of LPARs and deep PowerHA/SAN recovery experience. Also builds modern cloud delivery platforms—Azure DevOps/Jenkins CI/CD and Terraform for AWS/Azure (EKS/AKS, networking, security)—bridging legacy mission-critical systems and cloud-native automation.”