Vetted Stakeholder Communication Professionals

Blaise Govatos

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Graphic Designer specializing in digital marketing campaigns and motion assets

St. Petersburg, FL6y exp

“Marketing/brand designer with beauty-industry experience (SalonCentric, IT Cosmetics) focused on modern, high-polish creative that balances luxury aesthetics with clarity for complex promotional information. Produces high-volume print variations efficiently in Illustrator (multi-artboard files) and supports fast-turn video needs via an asset-library + template-driven editing workflow.”

“Venture/accelerator-style investor operator with hands-on experience sourcing founders via LinkedIn and events, running screening calls, and moving qualified startups into diligence. Uses AI and startup databases (Claude, Perplexity, Product Hunt, Crunchbase) alongside Salesforce/HubSpot to manage a fast-moving pipeline, targeting 100–200 outbounds per week and converting into regular founder conversations.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-driven document verification workflow for a construction firm’s submittals process, moving from a Vercel/Next.js prototype to a FastAPI + LangChain/LangGraph backend with background workers and multi-server deployment. Uses LLM tools (e.g., OpenAI Codex/Cloud Code) for rapid development and log-driven root cause analysis, and partners with customer teams on evaluation metrics and iterative improvements.”

Reza Mawardana

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Software QA Engineer specializing in Insurance and HRIS, transitioning to SDET

7y exp

“QA-minded candidate with unusually deep, self-driven experimentation in game mechanics (RNG and EXP optimization) using emulators and save-state methodology, translating that same rigor into production release verification and bug triage practices. Has experience in embedded QA and proactively proposed a centralized QA model with sharing sessions to improve coverage during absences; uses AI tools to speed up Jira documentation and test case creation.”

“Senior/Team Lead SDR at Rippling with top performance (President’s Club FY2025), credited with sourcing the largest closed-won deal in company history and generating $7.95M pipeline / $2.45M closed-won. Previously spent ~8 years in full-cycle recruiting across internal (Hyatt) and agency (Randstad, Kforce) including tech/finance, known for data-driven stakeholder management and persistence on difficult searches (e.g., hard-to-fill Linux Engineer role resulting in offer and later FTE conversion).”

“Merchandising/sourcing professional from World Market with deep experience building and optimizing home/fashion partnerships end-to-end—using tariff-driven margin pressure to shift sourcing outside China while maintaining design elevation. Highly metrics-driven across OTB, SKU productivity, margin/IMU, full-price sell-through, attachment rate, and digital conversion, and comfortable managing 50+ vendor negotiations simultaneously.”

Lavrenti DeLavrenti

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level Technology Leader specializing in cloud-native platforms, AI/ML, and SaaS

Remote15y exp

“Engineering leader (Director/VP level) who has repeatedly aligned product and engineering through ROI-driven quarterly roadmaps and strong stakeholder communication, including board presentations. Built a parallel cloud team to migrate an on-prem product to the cloud, credited with delivering $9M ARR, and led a Python monolith-to-serverless event-driven microservices transformation. Currently manages distributed teams across Mexico, India, and the US using pod-based structures, clear KPIs, and a supportive accountability culture.”

Rob Wlaschin

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level Engineering Manager specializing in AI platforms, FinTech, and Healthtech

Santa Clara, CA24y exp

“Serial entrepreneur building three distinct products: a context-aware AI chatbot, a connected TV companion-screen platform with an implementation client, and gamerogue.net, a mobile-optimized web-based virtual tabletop marketplace currently seeking funding. Brings hands-on fundraising experience, familiarity with the VC/accelerator ecosystem including YC, and a notably pragmatic approach to validating ideas based on existing market demand rather than speculative adoption.”

“AI engineer who built a production e-commerce system that analyzes product images alongside sales and demographic data to generate actionable creative recommendations, now used by 20+ clients. Also built orchestrated document/agent pipelines (Airflow, LangGraph) including a compliance drift detector auditing 401 compliance documents, with an emphasis on traceability, logging, and production integration.”

Bradley Krupkin

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive Digital Marketing Leader specializing in performance media, SEO, and e-commerce growth

Troy, MI15y exp

“Paid media strategist with ~25 years of client-facing performance marketing experience, owning seven-figure monthly budgets across Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, and Meta. Led an international North America campaign for Pirelli Tires that increased unit sales 37% in under a year, and has a track record of using rigorous testing and attribution to reallocate spend (including shifting budget from outdoor to digital to fill a luxury apartment building). Experienced advising automotive clients through 2025 market headwinds and retaining major accounts by translating complex performance data into decisive action.”

“Performance marketer managing a $500K/month paid media portfolio across Google, Microsoft, Meta, TikTok, Reddit, YouTube, and Quora with a focus on profitable growth. Uses a rigorous testing framework across creatives, bidding, and landing pages (leveraging Adobe Analytics and customer journey dashboards) and cites 200–400% YoY revenue growth plus 200–300% ROAS improvement; recently restored 20–30% of lost conversions at Labcorp within two weeks after diagnosing competitive and seasonal shifts.”

“HR analytics and systems leader with experience managing distributed teams and building executive-level workforce metrics. Delivered a rapid SAP SuccessFactors Performance and Compensation implementation (12–14 weeks) to hit time-sensitive review and bonus cycles, and has driven high-impact change initiatives including a 12+ year employee financial wellness program and data-led restructuring that significantly reduced layoffs.”

Sindy Milosevich

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Marketing & Communications Manager specializing in integrated brand and digital campaigns

Dartmouth, NS13y exp

“Marketing/PR professional with B2B/B2C demand-gen experience in the trucking/fleet space, including influencer sourcing/vetting (NDAs, background checks) and performance marketing. Has run Meta-driven acquisition funnels to landing pages/Marketo forms routed to Sales, measuring impact by completed credit applications, and partnered with Exxon to build monthly sales calendars and sales-ready social content.”

“Cloud-native integration engineer (Oracle/OCI) with strong production deployment and incident-response experience, including API gateway rollouts, observability (Prometheus/Grafana), and multi-layer debugging for payments systems. Built Python/FastAPI microservices and automation for customer-specific reporting and data sync, and has delivered major performance gains (45 min to <10) plus reliability improvements (MTTD reduced 40%+) through monitoring, playbooks, and resilient integration patterns (streaming/queuing, retries, secure tokens, VPC peering).”

“Application Engineer supporting customers in a financial trading context, experienced in coordinating urgent patch upgrades and stakeholder communications to minimize downtime. Has hands-on production incident response experience troubleshooting a critical dashboard outage caused by a bad SQL execution plan, escalating with DBAs and deploying a fast fix, then documenting full RCA via problem tickets.”

Sundarajan Swaminathan

Screened

Senior Product Marketing Leader specializing in GTM strategy and RevOps analytics

Dallas, TX7y exp

“Growth creative/performance marketer from BYJU'S (India) who runs disciplined creative experimentation across Meta, TikTok, and YouTube. Notably shifted messaging from feature-led to outcome/testimonial-led creative, delivering CPA down 27%, ROAS up 35%, and +11% trial-to-paid conversion, and has experience leading a small creative pod (editors + writer) with a rapid-iteration production system.”

“Cloud-focused platform/infrastructure engineer centered on AWS and Kubernetes, with hands-on experience building EKS environments via Terraform/Terragrunt, bootstrapping clusters with Cilium and ArgoCD, and integrating persistent storage and backup tooling like EFS/EBS CSI and Velero. While no longer focused on on-prem or hybrid operations, they also bring prior VMware/Hyper-V and migration-to-AWS experience, making them strongest in modern cloud platform engineering roles.”

Kavyashree Sudhakar

Screened

Junior Business Analyst specializing in operations and banking workflows

Tempe, AZ2y exp

“Entry-level data/business analytics candidate with hands-on experience building SQL and Python workflows to clean fragmented subcontractor data, generate risk scores, and feed Power BI dashboards. Also demonstrated strong operational analytics impact at Amazon by defining and operationalizing process-quality metrics that reduced CPO rate from roughly 10% to 0.6%.”

Gnaneswar Markat

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native distributed systems

Charlotte, NC4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with Bank of America experience building and owning a customer portfolio dashboard end-to-end, from requirements through launch and ongoing iteration. They combine React/Spring Boot/PostgreSQL implementation with strong performance tuning, real-time data handling, and UX improvements, and cite adoption by roughly 12,000 active internal users.”

“Backend/platform engineer who has owned a Python/FastAPI results API and deployed it on Kubernetes with Helm and GitHub Actions-driven CI/CD. Demonstrates strong production operations mindset across performance tuning, monitoring, safe rollouts/rollbacks, and phased migrations, plus hands-on Kafka streaming experience focused on ordering and idempotency.”

“LLM/RAG engineer with production deployments in highly regulated domains (Frost Bank and GE Healthcare). Built secure, explainable document-grounded Q&A systems using LoRA fine-tuning, strict RAG with confidence thresholds, and citation-based responses; also established evaluation/monitoring (golden QA sets, hallucination tracking, drift) and achieved ~40% latency reduction through retrieval/prompt tuning.”

“Recruiter with strong full-desk experience in high-throughput GTM hiring, including a recent search where they filled 7 senior account executive roles for an ecommerce AI adtech platform. Stands out for partnering closely with senior revenue leadership to redefine the profile, building targeted LinkedIn sourcing campaigns from market maps, and driving a tightly managed sub-3-week process to close hires efficiently.”

“Master’s in Business Analytics candidate with hands-on project experience spanning FMCG sales analytics, insurance risk modeling, and HR attrition analysis. Demonstrates strong SQL and Python fundamentals, including advanced CTE/window-function work, reproducible modeling workflows, and Power BI dashboards that translate analysis into clear business actions.”

“Hands-on engineering manager/lead focused on Azure application deployments and CI/CD automation. Has led design sessions and 1:1 code reviews, and owned a production performance incident end-to-end from measurement and test-environment setup through production validation, while coaching team members via regular 1:1s.”