Vetted Slack Professionals

Kamilah Patterson

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Senior HR Business Partner specializing in talent strategy and workforce analytics

Brooklyn, New York11y exp

“HR Business Partner with GroupM experience supporting multiple mergers, building and transitioning Analytics/Programmatic/Account Management teams through hands-on job architecture, benchmarking, and performance management. Uses HR analytics (including an Excel-based retention model with visual reporting) and cross-functional partnership with IT to reduce disruption and improve retention during restructuring and major policy changes like return-to-office.”

“Game QA tester with experience at QLOC (Poland) and EA Burnaby (Canada), focused on audio/commentary quality for the FIFA/FC franchise. Shipped FIFA 23, FC 24, and FC25, including validating a major new commentary team integration and ensuring situational commentary triggers correctly using debug tools, evidence capture, and close collaboration with audio artists/developers.”

“HR manager and lead recruiter with cross-border oversight (US, Canada, UK) and hands-on experience navigating region-specific employment law, benefits, and offboarding. Built product, analytics, and creative teams by designing structured hiring processes (panels, portfolio/presentation steps) and prioritizing candidate experience. Partnered with C-level leadership to migrate payroll/benefits from ADP Workforce Now to TriNet, coordinating IT/Finance and employee training for a smooth transition.”

“ML/NLP practitioner who built a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system for large financial and operational document sets using Sentence-Transformers (all-mpnet-base-v2) and a vector DB (e.g., Pinecone), with a strong focus on retrieval evaluation and chunking strategy optimization. Experienced in entity resolution (rules + embedding similarity with type-specific thresholds) and in productionizing scalable Python data workflows using Airflow/Dagster and Spark.”

“Engineering/technology leader with experience tying roadmaps to OKRs/KPIs, scaling cross-functional engineering teams, and driving go-to-market execution for Managed IT Services revenue growth. In an early-stage company setting, personally stood up core systems (CRM, lead gen, website) and multi-cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS) while building investor materials (pitch deck, VDR, financials), resulting in an investor LOI within 8 months. Also led an on-prem deployment architecture redesign for a network monitoring (NPM) product to improve compatibility, scalability, and security.”

“Cloud/DevOps engineer (6+ years) with healthcare domain experience who has owned production AWS systems end-to-end—building real-time data pipelines and an admission forecasting ML service delivered via API and Tableau. Led EMR modernization from on-prem/VMs to containerized AWS using phased migration and blue-green deployments, achieving ~99.5% uptime while cutting on-prem footprint ~30% and driving major automation gains (up to ~90% manual work reduction).”

“Performance marketer with experience owning a very large e-commerce media budget at Dossier Perfumes, including a $3M/month spend and sophisticated always-on testing across paid social and search. Brings a highly analytical approach to creative testing, attribution, and budget allocation, and is specifically seeking contract/freelance work.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who has shipped both enterprise workflow software and AI-powered document intelligence products. Stands out for combining practical product judgment with strong production debugging skills across Spring Boot, GraphQL, FastAPI, vector search, and RAG systems, and for improving adoption by making AI search experiences intuitive for non-technical users.”

“People/HR leader with experience supporting globally distributed teams (US, Canada, UK) and partnering with senior leaders on org design and scalable people processes. Implemented a formal performance review program, including manager training and 1:1 coaching, to improve consistency, transparency, and performance conversations as the company grew.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on ownership of FastAPI/Django services using MongoDB and React integration, focused on production reliability and performance (Redis caching, Celery background jobs, automated testing). Has delivered AWS container deployments via GitHub Actions to ECR with scripted rollouts/health checks, and supported phased migrations with replication and rollback planning. Also built a real-time user-activity streaming pipeline addressing partition hot spots and consumer lag through partition-key strategy, idempotency, and monitoring.”

“Enterprise Customer Success professional (Iron Mountain Services) who owns accounts end-to-end from onboarding through renewal, with a strong focus on driving adoption via success plans, stakeholder alignment, and integration unblocking across Product/Engineering/Sales. Also has adjacent martech/analytics exposure (Google Analytics, Search Console, SEO audit tools) and experience translating customer feedback and usage data into roadmap-impacting product requirements.”

WAYNE WILLIAMS

Screened

Senior Game QA Analyst specializing in functional testing and dev tracking

Foster City, CA22y exp

“Embedded QA analyst at Sledgehammer Games on Call of Duty titles (Modern Warfare 3 and shipped Call of Duty: Vanguard), owning deep testing for campaign maps and Zombies systems. Coordinated cross-studio testing with Treyarch and global QA teams, using JIRA/TestRail dashboards and daily reporting to manage regressions, crashes, and high-risk gameplay features, including platform-specific cert-impacting issues.”

“Backend-focused engineer with strong Go and database optimization experience who improved a high-traffic API by about 30% and helped stabilize peak-load performance for an event reservation platform. Brings hands-on production experience across PostgreSQL, Redis, Rails/Go services, and B2B SaaS integrations with Slack, Hubstaff, and RingCentral, with a clear pattern of owning performance bottlenecks end to end.”

“HRBP leader in a startup environment with experience supporting global teams and driving org change through structured communication and ADKAR-based change management. Built an analytics-focused function to mature data-driven decision-making, and created a role expectations playbook that later shaped onboarding and reduced role-related performance issues for newly promoted senior staff.”