Vetted Stakeholder Communication Professionals

“Bootstrapped founder of ByteThirst, a launched browser extension and CLI that monitors and estimates the environmental cost of LLM usage. They are targeting a niche climate-tech/AI space with support for 14 platforms, a freemium subscription model, and a first-mover thesis backed by market research, market sizing, and profit projections.”

“Engineering leader who drove TiVo IPTV’s client-facing API modernization from a monolith to AWS-based microservices (API Gateway, Lambda, EKS, Kafka, DynamoDB/RDS), including phased/blue-green production routing of millions of calls. Emphasizes org scaling through skill-based hiring, mentorship, and a you-build-you-run ownership culture, while balancing technical leadership with executive stakeholder communication and budgeting.”

Alexander Goldberg

Screened

Executive Technology & Product Leader specializing in AI/AR SaaS and cybersecurity

Los Angeles, CA30y exp

“Engineering/technology leader with mission-critical experience at JPL NASA on the Mars Curiosity Rover, delivering an AI-driven navigation system designed for zero tolerance for mistakes and reportedly operating with no failures for 15+ years. Also led a monolith-to-microservices, cloud-native migration that improved scalability by 300% and cut deployments from days to hours, and is comfortable switching between executive fundraising/stakeholder communication and deep technical leadership.”

“Data/pipeline engineer with experience in space and scientific data systems, including JPL-related satellite transmission workflows and customer deployments involving NOAA/Argo standards. Stands out for building autonomous production pipelines, debugging subtle logic failures in data integrations, and improving processing efficiency while reducing manual operational work.”

“Private equity/growth investor with sourcing-heavy experience across software, currently at PSG within a $30B AUM platform after originating 1200+ net new companies at Akmazo Capital. Stands out for combining high-volume outbound founder sourcing with rigorous market research and relationship-building that has led to proprietary SaaS deals and active investment diligence.”

“Backend-focused software engineer (4+ years) across e-commerce, banking, and healthcare who owned mission-critical checkout/order management end-to-end and improved peak-traffic success rates via resiliency patterns (timeouts/retries/caching) and data-driven iteration. Also built and shipped real-time operational dashboards (React/TypeScript + Spring Boot) using WebSockets and event-stream integrations, with strong experience in Kafka/RabbitMQ-style messaging at scale.”

“ML/AI engineer with Goldman Sachs experience building production fraud detection and RAG-based trading insights systems end-to-end. Stands out for combining real-time ML infrastructure, GenAI retrieval systems, and compliance-aware design, with measurable impact including nearly 25% false-positive reduction and improved analyst productivity.”

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.”

Harshana Ragipindi

Screened

Mid-level Support/Software Engineer specializing in incident response, automation, and AWS monitoring

USA4y exp

“Built and owned end-to-end travel booking and baggage fee calculation platforms used by both customer support and customers, emphasizing fast iteration with automated guardrails and production visibility. Experienced designing TypeScript/React systems and operating RabbitMQ-based microservices at scale, including disciplined event contracts, idempotent consumers, and schema evolution strategies. Also created an internal real-time troubleshooting/pricing console that replaced fragmented tools and improved support resolution workflows through pilot-led adoption.”

“Search/backend engineer with hands-on experience improving Apache Solr-based search systems end-to-end (indexing strategy changes, ETL updates, and Java/Spring Boot Search API work). Demonstrated production rigor with QA partnership, A/B testing, and rollback-safe kill switches, plus measurable product impact (e.g., +1.5% add-to-cart) and operational troubleshooting including traffic/security mitigation.”

“Customer support professional with Scrum Master and Product Owner certifications who has handled high-stakes account security incidents (including locking down an account to protect over $200k) and troubleshot live data feed integrations (XML/socket) by identifying IP whitelisting mismatches. Emphasizes transparent stakeholder communication, escalation, and building internal wiki documentation to prevent repeat issues.”

Velusamy Ramasamy

Screened

Principal Software Architect specializing in cloud platforms, data engineering, and enterprise security

Seattle, WA29y exp

“Engineering leader with experience defining solutions from business requirements through detailed specifications and implementation, emphasizing cost-aware technology selection. Has led architectural changes including adding IBM Cloud alongside AWS for budget reasons and integrating caching/messaging to improve availability and performance, and describes scaling distributed teams via experienced DevOps/QA hires and structured evaluation.”

Deepika Gotla

Screened

Senior Technical Support Engineer specializing in Azure Cloud & Generative AI

Bellevue, WA7y exp

“Microsoft cloud/infra engineer with 5+ years supporting enterprise Azure environments, specializing in security-focused networking (private endpoints, DNS) and production troubleshooting across Azure Front Door/App Gateway WAF/AKS. Has implemented posture improvements via Defender for Cloud, Azure Policy, and RBAC tightening, and also designs secure AWS agent/scanner integrations and modern EKS/GitHub Actions/Secrets Manager observability-enabled SDK rollouts.”

Abraham Musa

Screened

Senior Solutions Architect specializing in cloud AI infrastructure and security

Union City, NJ9y exp

“Cloud-native architect focused primarily on AWS, with experience designing Kubernetes and AI/ML infrastructure for customers rather than owning day-to-day operations. Particularly interesting for AI platform roles: they described using Amazon Bedrock to analyze Terraform and automatically generate compliant IaC templates and runbooks for new multi-cloud AI environments.”

Michael Singleton

Screened

Executive Soccer Coach & Sports Psychology Leader in Coaching Education

St. Petersburg, FL29y exp

“Senior soccer leader and educator: former NCAA coach across Div I/II/III, youth national team contributor, and ex-leader within a major state soccer organization. Now VP of Education at United Soccer Coaches, known for integrating sports psychology into coaching and for transforming Washington & Lee into a #1-ranked, perennial Final Four program while also excelling in recruiting and player evaluation.”

Jamie Jones

Screened

Executive biotech and pharma commercial leader (CEO/CBO/VP) specializing in growth, launches, and fundraising

Greater Boston, MA37y exp

“Entrepreneur and fundraising leader with 8 years raising $500K–$55M across life sciences, transportation, and brand marketing. Notably raised $55M for an oncology startup by de-risking the story and sourcing aligned institutional investors with drug development expertise. Brings a highly structured, metrics-driven approach to validation and surgical go-to-market execution in resource-constrained environments.”

“Platform/infrastructure-focused engineer with hands-on experience automating AWS EKS upgrades in Python, building observability around logs/metrics/SLOs, and migrating Terraform delivery from CodePipeline to Atlantis. They describe shipping automation that handled 140 resources across 50+ Terraform files ahead of schedule and debugging a Karpenter/CoreDNS regression in Kubernetes by tracing it from regional traffic spikes to a missing local DNS cache configuration.”

“Backend/platform engineer with experience at Fidelity and PayPal, spanning financial systems, payment pipelines, and regulated AI workflows. They’ve owned large-scale deployments end-to-end, including a brokerage platform for 150,000+ accounts, and have hands-on experience integrating OpenAI into internal research tooling with compliance-safe validation and human review.”