Vetted Software Development Professionals

“Fitbit engineer who has taken multiple projects from concept to release, including architecting a new warranty-evaluation system that achieved 100% accuracy and saved the company $6M. Interested in exploring startup ideas and emphasizes mission alignment and building strong cross-functional teams.”

“Gameplay engineer/designer with Unity experience spanning a Peloton open-world multiplayer cycling game (progression, difficulty normalization via FTP, replayability through medals/cosmetics) and a mixed reality soccer training game using a motion-tracked ball. Known for pragmatic, metrics-driven tuning (session length/mission duration), rapid playtest-led iteration, and cross-discipline execution including performance tooling (LOD batch editor) and phased multiplayer implementation planning.”

“Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer who built an internal real-time operations dashboard from 0→1 using React, TypeScript, Redux Toolkit, Material UI, and Node.js integrations. Stands out for hands-on performance tuning at scale—profiling and fixing excessive re-renders, optimizing live-update UIs, and iterating post-launch with caching, pagination, and observability.”

“Product leader with experience spanning global health, startup growth, and AWS enterprise systems. Most notably led a telehealth AI initiative at Orbis that launched in 4 months, validated against historical patient cases at 99.9% match to human consults, and evolved from a support feature into a standalone consult product and app. Brings a strong human-centered AI perspective, using automation to extend expert capacity rather than replace professionals.”

“Healthcare product leader with deep oncology and pharma experience who has built both foundational clinical data platforms and AI-powered patient engagement workflows. Particularly notable for combining rigorous data standardization, LLM evaluation/guardrail design, and human-centered communication changes that drove measurable medication refill and adherence improvements. Also teaches AI to product managers and business analysts, bringing a pragmatic, education-first view of human-centered AI adoption.”

“Fractional CTO and AI/ML consultant at Clover Health with deep insurance domain experience (15 years as CTO/CISO/AI). Has spent significant time in PE/VC-backed environments (including Aquiline Capital Partners and Apollo Group), designing and engineering platforms while delivering against budgets, audits, and regulatory compliance. Recently helped build an insurance startup (2020–2025) and is now seeking a full-time role at a startup.”

Joshua Seiden

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Executive Technology & Product Leader specializing in emerging tech commercialization

Centennial, Colorado33y exp

“Startup operations/product advisor and long-time accelerator mentor who has helped multiple early-stage companies become enterprise-ready—shifting teams to customer-driven roadmaps and implementing CI/Agile delivery processes. Notably supported an Israeli company in landing a Fortune 30 customer before it later IPO’d on NASDAQ, and helped an Australian startup operationalize delivery to secure deployment with a major telecom and sports league.”

“Senior Engineering Manager with large-scale platform/API ownership at eBay, leading a globally distributed team and redesigning Order public APIs used by external developer ecosystems at ~800M requests/day, delivering 84% performance gains and reducing compute by ~300 VMs. Also led Google CRES ETL migration work on GCP, creating reusable Python libraries to standardize configuration across 10 integrations and improve developer productivity.”

Shahla Almasri-Hafez

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Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in mobile platforms and digital transformation

Remote, USA20y exp

“Mobile engineering leader who built Glassdoor's mobile org from 5 to 35 engineers while overseeing both iOS and Android. Started as a lead iOS engineer at CVS Health, moved into management, and combines hands-on technical depth with org building, talent development, and customer-driven product prioritization.”

“Entrepreneurial builder and former founding CTO of a Y Combinator startup that was acquired. Now in the planning stage for a new venture (considering edtech, media creation, and food/"intelligent servicing"), emphasizing early design partners, rapid testing, and iteration to validate ideas.”

“Built a production LLM-powered root cause analysis agent for supply chain alerts that helped operations managers avoid manual dashboard investigation. Demonstrates unusually strong depth in agent reliability, orchestration, and observability, with concrete production practices like hallucination blocking, shadow testing on 500 cases, and data-driven improvements that raised user agreement to 94% while cutting GPT-4 usage by 60%.”

Shant Mardigian

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Executive Engineering Leader specializing in scalable streaming, media supply chain, and AI operations

19y exp

“Tech executive with Disney experience who has repeatedly scaled and restructured engineering organizations (from 4 to 30 and up to 100+), using OKRs/KPIs to drive business-aligned roadmaps. Hands-on with architecture and platform strategy, including adopting MongoDB Atlas to centralize transactional data and building shared core services (security/permissions, auditing, compliance) to increase product velocity across distributed teams.”

Alexander Schaab

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Executive Technology & Product Leader specializing in ADAS and software-defined vehicles

Cupertino, CA14y exp

“Automotive technology leader who has driven ADAS/autonomous driving (L2++ to L4) and AI-assistance roadmaps for Mercedes and Volkswagen Group. In current role, built a software-defined vehicle organization from a handful of people to ~150 supporting VW, Porsche, and Audi, while setting scalable architecture foundations across brands and vehicle classes.”

Philip Kearney

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Executive engineering leader specializing in embedded systems, IoT, and wireless networking

San Francisco Bay Area, CA34y exp

“Former Apple employee who worked with Steve Jobs in the early 2000s and is now looking to join startups as a CTO partner to non-technical founders. Brings a thoughtful, skeptical lens on VC-backed startup execution, emphasizing technical feasibility, real product-market fit, and mission-driven teams solving meaningful problems.”