Vetted Software Development Professionals

“Product leader with a strong blend of AI/ML product strategy, UX optimization, and design org building. They drove a matching product enhancement that increased daily matches from 2,400 to 7,800, and separately improved Amex onboarding conversion from 67% to 92% through targeted user research and copy changes. They also turned a vulnerable design team into an integral cross-functional capability by hiring talent and operationalizing design support across product teams.”

Zia Karim

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive AI and technology leader specializing in regulated enterprise and FinTech

Stamford, CT26y exp

“Founder with 10+ years in the startup ecosystem who is actively building an early-stage company and raising capital through partners in Singapore, Dubai, and LatAm. Deeply familiar with VC and accelerator models but intentionally pursuing a partner-led, B2B enterprise route to accelerate revenue, preserve control, and leverage direct customer and distribution access.”

Richard Adams

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Executive Technology Leader (CEO/CTO) specializing in IoT, wireless audio, and connected devices

Los Angeles, California24y exp

“Repeat entrepreneur with multiple exits who emphasizes rigorous pre-build market research and customer discovery to validate product-market fit. Previously built Hygiene IQ for restaurant/hospitality markets and describes an end-to-end process from prototyping and MVP testing through supply chain. Currently has a pitch deck for an AI-enabled holistic companion for healthy aging (physical, mental, emotional, and social wellbeing).”

Afra Ali

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Senior Technical Program Manager specializing in infrastructure and systems delivery

Worcester, MA10y exp

“Program/design management professional with architectural and operations experience who has supported highly complex infrastructure environments, including Houston Airport System's $1.5B International Terminal Redevelopment Program. Stands out for bridging technical teams and executive stakeholders, building real-time governance tools, and coordinating multilingual client engagement across large-scale design and construction programs.”

“Backend-focused engineer with deep Java/Spring expertise in fintech and SaaS integrations, including high-scale financial data pipelines and partner-facing APIs. Most notably re-platformed a 100M+ record ETL system to a custom concurrent Spring Batch architecture that cut failures dramatically and reduced infrastructure costs by over 90%, while also leading enterprise-grade event-driven integrations for customers like Bosch and Amazon.”

Sean Cohen

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Executive medical device engineering leader specializing in digital health hardware platforms

Mountain View, CA7y exp

“Engineering and operations leader in connected healthcare/medical devices with senior experience at AliveCor and Sibel Health. He has owned everything from ultra-thin FDA-cleared ECG hardware architecture and firmware-risk decisions to supplier qualification, manufacturing system buildout, and make-vs-buy strategy across a portfolio of clinical sensing products. Strong differentiator: combines deep technical judgment with hands-on manufacturing scale-up, including taking KardiaMobile Card to mass production in under 18 months and driving Sibel to 98%+ yield with controlled production processes.”

“Frontend engineer with experience at Target, Fortinet, and Groupon, focused on complex browser UI modernization and performance. Notable work includes rebuilding Target's internal uploader to support nearly 1GB uploads with granular progress/retry UX, and helping Fortinet incrementally migrate a large Jinja-based application to Vue to improve responsiveness and reduce backend load.”

“Product leader with a strong track record of modernizing legacy SaaS platforms, including an API-first rebuild that increased engagement by 40% and reduced support burden. Also led AI-powered workflow automation that delivered 80-90% time savings through human-in-the-loop design, showing a pragmatic, user-centered approach to applied AI.”

“At Triple Whale, partnered with product, engineering, and sales to bring enterprise LLM-based budget recommendation agents from impressive prototypes to trusted production workflows. Strong in prompt/input tuning, explainable structured outputs, and running tightly-scoped POCs with clear success criteria—plus hands-on technical demos and post-sale implementation to drive adoption.”

“Candidate is not currently pursuing a startup and has no familiarity with the VC/accelerator ecosystem, but shows a thoughtful founder mindset centered on building from scratch, evaluating user impact and implementation feasibility, and avoiding financially reckless entrepreneurship.”

Neeshma Narahari

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Mid-level Software Developer specializing in backend microservices and cloud platforms

Irving, TX6y exp

“Full-stack product engineer with strong React and TypeScript depth who has owned dashboard features end-to-end, from UI architecture and rendering optimization through Spring Boot APIs and database query tuning. Particularly compelling for startup or high-growth teams: they’ve shipped 0→1 internal operations platforms, prioritized MVP workflows effectively, and iterated post-launch using user feedback, logs, and usage metrics.”

“Engineering leader (Credit Karma/fintech) who built internal developer-platform frameworks at near open-source scale, including a unified key management system migrating ~450 services from on-prem HSM to a centralized KMS. Known for driving large cross-team migrations with strong safety mechanisms (canaries, shadow reads, rollback toggles) and measurable DX/ops improvements (60% fewer provisioning requests; 40% faster time-to-first-secret).”

“Previously co-founded a company and describes that experience as the most fulfilling work of their career, which strongly motivates them to found again. They are actively searching for a monetizable problem to solve, bring prior startup experience, and already have a network of former collaborators they could recruit into a new venture.”

“Repeat founder and active VC with over 3 years of experience running a fund and syndicate. Currently exploring an agentic deal flow CRM for venture funds, with early components already built and a clear plan to dogfood it and recruit other VCs for validation.”

“Previously founded and successfully exited a self-funded startup in the marine electronics and vessel monitoring/control space. Brings unusually broad end-to-end technical depth—from transistor-level design and firmware to Internet-connected systems and software—paired with a pragmatic founder mindset around market needs, differentiation, reliability, and product strategy.”

“Product designer with hands-on front-end implementation experience who has owned complex flows end-to-end at Wix and Intuit, including a live keynote demo for Wix’s first developer conference and a tournament-based inner-source readiness program across global AI/data teams. Particularly strong at turning ambiguous briefs into structured experiences, using design systems rigor, interaction design, and implementation fluency to ship polished, understandable products.”

“Engineering leader with experience owning product engineering strategy, architecture, and org scaling across hospitality/workforce management and insurance startup environments. They describe being brought in to help Fourth Inc. revamp engineering for large-scale enterprise customers, while also scaling teams at The Zebra and staying hands-on with production monitoring, performance analysis, and cross-team architectural execution.”

“Engineering director and former front-end engineering manager with a strong blend of people leadership, UX/design-system ownership, and hands-on technical depth. At Siemens, they led a 15-person US/Europe team through a SaaS-era design-system transformation, winning over resistant product teams and exceeding adoption goals; at Intellimize, they solved legacy-browser constraints with a custom TypeScript-based build pipeline that improved quality, morale, and user experience.”

“Full-stack engineer with recent JPMorgan experience building GPT-4-powered customer sentiment/feedback analytics products (Next.js 14 App Router + FastAPI + Postgres) and owning them post-launch with CloudWatch/Datadog observability. Also implemented Temporal-based transaction reconciliation workflows with strong reliability patterns (idempotency, retries, DLQ, versioning) and has prior high-scale healthcare dashboard experience at Optum.”

“Built a production AI-powered insights platform for marketing teams analyzing large-scale social and news data, combining Java microservices, Kafka, Spark, React, and LLM-based retrieval workflows. Stands out for shipping customer-facing AI features with measurable gains in accuracy and latency, plus solid reliability practices for high-volume backend systems.”