Vetted Slack Professionals

Tara Petrin

Screened

Executive Marketing Leader specializing in MarTech, CRM, and digital growth

Los Angeles, CA14y exp

“Marketing/CRM professional who has built a CRM and marketing department from scratch—starting with Excel, then integrating into a formal CRM—using segmentation by geography (zip code/geofencing) and profession. Has run retention and lifecycle programs across both B2B and B2C via email/newsletters/social, with A/B testing experience and exposure to major clients including Fox and Sony.”

Scott Compton

Screened

Staff/Lead Game Systems Designer specializing in AAA live games and emergent narrative

30y exp

“Progression/economy designer and lead live designer with shipped AAA and live-service experience across Shadow of Mordor/War, Guardians of Middle-earth, Days Gone, and Star Trek Online. Known for building quantitative tuning models (200+ stat points calculator), leading large QA-driven balance loops, and using telemetry to uncover and fix major friction points (e.g., off-screen archer deaths) while maintaining engaging, fair progression.”

Ranganayak Meravath

Screened

Mid-level Generative AI Engineer specializing in RAG, agentic copilots, and regulated AI

5y exp

“Senior engineer who built and productionized an Azure-based Enterprise AI Copilot for financial/compliance teams, focused on grounded, auditable answers with citations to reduce hallucinations in regulated workflows. Experienced designing multi-step agent orchestration and improving reliability through targeted iterations (e.g., fixing chunking/parsing to materially improve citation accuracy), plus building defensive pipelines for messy ERP/operational finance data.”

“Ad operations-focused paid media candidate with broad exposure across major DSPs and ad servers, including DV360, AppNexus, The Trade Desk, Amazon DSP, CM360, and Sizmek. Their experience centers on campaign setup, tagging, QA, reporting, and diagnosing tracking/viewability issues rather than owning budget strategy, making them potentially strong for execution-heavy media operations roles.”

“Design-technologist with both UX and front-end development depth, spanning high-impact brand launches and regulated pharma sales tools. Led the experience direction and technical implementation support for DuPont's Kevlar product site—featuring Three.js, AEM, and advanced motion design—which generated strong lead capture and won an Effie, and also improved Eli Lilly IVA delivery by building a grunt.js workflow that reduced update cycles from a week to just a few days.”

“Has experience in several VC-backed companies and is motivated by early-stage company building—especially the fast pace of early engineering and cross-functional "wearing many hats" as a startup grows. Some exposure to investors through prior roles, though has not fundraised directly; familiar with VC and has read about accelerators like Y Combinator.”

Sam McKenzie

Screened

Mid-level Business Operations & FP&A professional specializing in RevOps automation and GTM strategy

Remote7y exp

“At BuildZoom, led cross-functional alignment to launch a new product (Data Explorer) and grew it from $0 to $1.3M ARR in 12 months. Leverages analytics and BI tooling (HubSpot, Looker, Tableau, Sisense) to build executive dashboards and drive strategic decisions, including redesigning sales incentives to emphasize recurring revenue.”

Mark Krawczuk

Screened

Senior Program & Project Leader specializing in digital transformation and cross-functional delivery

New York, NY30y exp

“Cross-functional operator with experience at Rippling and Twitter, known for building lightweight but rigorous communication and reporting systems (shared notes, weekly updates, exec decks, issue-tracker velocity) to keep teams and executives aligned. Emphasizes psychological safety and early conflict resolution, and has supported senior leaders managing high-volume creative/media output through concise, proactive executive briefings.”

Sai Dinesh Pusapati

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI agents and LLM workflows

San Francisco, CA6y exp

“LLM/AI engineer with production experience building a retrieval-based document intelligence system that extracts information from PDFs/emails, backed by Python + Spark pipelines. Focused on reliability and cost/latency optimization (caching, batch processing) and has hands-on orchestration experience with Airflow (sensors, retries, alerts). Also partnered with business stakeholders to deliver customer feedback classification/summarization for faster sentiment insights.”

“Former Division I baseball player who spent nearly seven years at the MLB Commissioner's Office overseeing the international signing process. Brings a rare combination of lived player experience, bilingual international recruiting work across Latin America, and a decade-plus network spanning every MLB club from GMs to academy administrators.”

“Frontend-focused engineer with 5 years at Shopify building and maintaining internal tooling. Led modernization from ERB/jQuery to React/TypeScript/GraphQL and improved performance on large datasets with server-side pagination. Also delivered an end-to-end search feature with filters, URL-driven state, pagination, and error correction, using strong review/testing and zero-downtime rollout practices.”

“Game QA lead with 20+ years of tooling and workflow experience, most recently leading QA on a Unity-based MLB mobile title with annual releases and major feature updates. Led QA for the PS Vita port of Borderlands 2 focused on technical requirements, performance, and usability, including making a key ship-risk call to limit multiplayer players. Known for disciplined Jira/TestRail administration, strong cross-functional communication, and uncovering critical submission-blocking issues with clear evidence and repro steps.”

“Has experience improving an ad server workflow by standardizing genre selection with templates, enabling reuse across multiple accounts and measuring success via hours of manual labor saved. Also delivered an internal technical demo on a device-metrics-to-AWS-CloudWatch logging workflow using whiteboarding and PowerPoint to onboard a new team.”

“HR leader/HRBP with experience supporting global expansion (UK, Portugal, Canada) and building the operational backbone for distributed teams (Sapling onboarding, Slack norms, localized intranet content). Partnered directly with a COO at Oula to redesign a compensation matrix and implement distinct compensation philosophies for clinical provider teams versus corporate functions, alongside launching performance management and internal visibility programs like engineering demo days.”

“People/HR leader who has built HR foundations from scratch and partnered directly with CEOs/C-level teams. Led global team members in Tel Aviv and London, and drove major org change by implementing a first-time performance management framework that reduced escalated ER issues and improved alignment. Brings a systems-and-data-driven approach to scaling, restructuring, and benefits strategy in fast-growing startups.”

“Customer-facing technical support/solutions professional with experience at Stripe and Intuit helping developers take payment API and webhook integrations from testing to production. Uses Datadog and AWS CloudWatch to diagnose real-time production issues (e.g., webhook signature validation errors causing retries/delays) and unblocks customer deployments through hands-on, developer-oriented guidance.”

“Built and productionized an AI extension for JetBrains IDEs providing coding assistance, testing, security sweeps, and documentation generation using both an internal LLM and third-party models (e.g., Gemini, Claude). Experienced in diagnosing customer issues in real time (Slack) with structured follow-through (GitHub Issues) and driving adoption through developer-oriented walkthroughs and video demos.”

Alex ZhuZhou

Screened

Intern Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI/LLM platforms and data systems

Berkeley, CA2y exp

“Backend/LLM engineer with experience productionizing RAG systems (legal-case natural language querying) and optimizing for latency/cost, including a reported ~40% reduction via Redis caching and batching. Built monitoring and real-time debugging workflows (FastAPI, structured logging, correlation IDs, sandbox repro) and regularly delivered technical demos/workshops. Also partners with BD/sales to translate LLM capabilities into business value, including ESG-metric extraction from corporate filings.”

Akhil Jaggari

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in scalable web platforms and cloud microservices

CA, CA6y exp

“Backend engineer with fintech/real-estate lending domain experience (Berkadia) building Python/Flask services for indicative loan pricing across Fannie/Freddie workflows. Strong in scalable AWS architectures (S3, Lambda, SageMaker), database performance (PostgreSQL read replicas, indexing, pooling), and high-throughput optimizations (streaming exports, Redis caching) with measurable production impact.”

Jacqueline Excoffier

Screened

Senior Graphic & Web Designer specializing in audience development and brand design

13y exp

“Marketing designer with Crunchyroll experience spanning OOH billboard/signage campaigns (including India launch creative for dubbed anime), scalable Figma template systems for high-volume social output, and short-form social video editing. Comfortable operating in fast-feedback environments (Wrike/Slack), collaborating with art directors, UA/growth, and external partners (e.g., Spotify) while maintaining brand and licensor constraints.”

Jason Salas

Screened

Senior QA Engineer specializing in game quality ownership, automation, and analytics

Los Angeles, California9y exp

“QA/engineering background spanning Riot Games (VALORANT leaderboard systems) and early-stage startups. Has hands-on experience improving performance and reliability via caching, rate limiting, deduplication/idempotency, and shipping/validating high-stakes production hotfixes; also builds Next.js/TypeScript projects and automation/internal tools (Python).”

“Data/ML backend engineer with hands-on production experience spanning RAG services (LlamaIndex/OpenAI) and AWS data platforms. Has delivered Terraform-managed AWS architectures (Lambda + ECS Fargate) with secure secrets handling, built Glue-to-Redshift ETL with schema evolution controls, modernized SAS reporting into Python microservices, and achieved major Redshift query speedups (2+ hours to under 15 minutes).”