Vetted Stakeholder Communication Professionals

“Engineering leader (ActiveCampaign, Yalo) with a track record of scaling both systems and orgs: grew an engineering team from 90+ to 200+ (30+ scrum teams) while re-architecting a marketing automation platform from batch to near real-time. Led major infrastructure shifts (RabbitMQ to Kafka, multi-region redundancy) and reports outcomes including 600%+ throughput gains, 99.99% uptime, and business growth from ~80K to 185K customers with revenue surpassing $200M over ~3 years.”

Kaushik Mukherjee

Screened

Executive technology leader specializing in search, ads, and data/AI platforms

Bangalore, India

“Engineering/technology leader with payments (UPI) scale experience who built fraud and growth systems for tens of millions of daily transactions while keeping CAC and cost guardrails. Scaled an engineering org from 12 to 155 in a year using platform + pod structures, and institutionalized canary deployments with auto-rollback (cutting degradations ~75%) while leveraging GenAI for code and test automation.”

Vinay Ramrupe

Screened

Mid AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM and enterprise generative AI

San Francisco, CA5y exp

“ML/AI engineer focused on taking LLM systems from experimentation to reliable production, including enterprise copilot and RAG-based knowledge retrieval use cases. Stands out for combining data pipelines, model training, inference optimization, automated evaluation, and safety guardrails, with cited impact including 20% throughput gains and 30% less manual evaluation effort.”

“Full-desk recruiter who has owned end-to-end searches (example: Senior Business Intelligence Engineer) and operates in high-throughput environments with multiple shifting reqs. Differentiates through hands-on process unblocking (notably interview scheduling) and a metrics-driven approach—tracking inclined/conversion rates by stage to balance pipeline health and drive offers to close.”

“Engineering leader with hands-on Android architecture expertise who has scaled mobile teams at Weedmaps (including forming a Platform team and rolling out MVVM/unit testing) and also co-founded a bootstrapped side business (Sizzle), owning the technical roadmap, hiring strategy (university pipeline + senior remote engineers in Pakistan), and stepping into fundraising when runway became critical.”

Nishitha Thummala

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and scalable inference

San Francisco, CA6y exp

“Backend/retrieval-focused engineer with production experience at Perplexity building a large-scale real-time Q&A system using retrieval-augmented generation, emphasizing low-latency, high-quality answers through ranking, context optimization, and caching. Also has orchestration experience from both product-facing LLM pipelines and large-scale infrastructure workflows at Meta, and has partnered with non-technical stakeholders to align AI trade-offs with business goals.”

Nikhil Reddy

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in GPU inference and LLM platforms

San Francisco, CA5y exp

“Built and deployed an LLM-powered platform that turns models into scalable REST/gRPC APIs, focusing on keeping GPU-backed inference fast and stable during traffic spikes. Experienced with AWS orchestration (EKS/ECS/Step Functions), safe model rollouts, and production-grade monitoring/testing for reliable AI agents and workflows.”

“Public speaker and technology strategist focused on how space will impact other industries, with audiences ranging from mid-career professionals to executives. Has operated across the startup ecosystem through Kauffman Foundation, Singularity University, and Starburst, and previously served as CTO at Gantri building process and ROI models to improve system performance. Especially compelling for early-stage, frontier-tech, or space-adjacent companies that need someone who can bring order to ambitious ideas.”

“Operator with consulting and startup experience who has led founder-level, zero-to-one initiatives across highly complex domains—from conceiving and launching an $80M, 80m maritime disaster-response vessel for Global Support & Development (Sergey Brin’s org) to acting as a cross-functional leader at Windfall Bio spanning regulatory, GTM, partnerships, and R&D. At Deloitte, owned the Omnia ESG software roadmap and drove >30% faster delivery through standardization/automation, and was tapped to train other managers on their operating cadence system.”

“ML/NLP engineer focused on production-grade data and search/recommendation systems: built an end-to-end pipeline that connects unstructured customer feedback with product data using TF-IDF/BERT, Spark, and AWS (SageMaker/S3), orchestrated with Airflow and monitored for drift. Also has hands-on experience with entity resolution at scale and improving search relevance via BERT embeddings, FAISS vector search, and domain fine-tuning validated with precision@k and A/B testing.”

Vandana Ravi

Screened

Mid-level GTM analytics professional specializing in strategy, operations, and growth

New York, NY6y exp

“Engineer and current MBA student making a post-MBA pivot into venture capital, with a strong track record of sourcing and nurturing early-stage founder relationships. She combines technical curiosity in AI with deep NYC ecosystem networking and says she has translated hundreds of qualified founders into conversations with relevant VCs.”

“15-year Talent Acquisition leader in the airline industry who has run large, high-volume recruiting operations (6,000–8,000 hires/year) across airport ops, maintenance, IT, and inflight roles. Known for rebuilding TA workflows and ATS operations (iCIMS) to automate communications and improve compliance transparency—cutting onboarding from 6 to 2 weeks and improving time-to-fill—while also delivering multi-source Power BI KPI dashboards and leading change management for major ATS transitions (Taleo to SAP SuccessFactors).”

“Deloitte consultant who led cross-functional teams delivering a Snowflake/AWS data ingestion, warehousing, and analytics platform, with a strong track record of executive alignment and risk mitigation. Built reusable business-development accelerators (including an end-to-end Appian app and a Java integration-config tool) credited with helping secure $75M+ in contracts, and has high-confidentiality experience consulting for DoD and FDA.”