Vetted Stakeholder Management Professionals

Tanya Parker

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Frontend Developer specializing in WebXR and Three.js

London, UK9y exp

“XR professional with 9 years in the industry and 3 years using Unity; built a solo Unity city-building/resource management game (BLEAK) inspired by Anno in a dystopian cyberpunk setting. Has shipped web-based XR experiences (not Unity headset titles) and emphasizes pragmatic scope control and production adaptability, honed further during time at Zappar.”

“Full-cycle startup seller at Cellfire selling Aceable's continuing education products through high-volume outbound. He highlights a recent end-to-end win closing a 3,000-employee insurance company in Texas within a few calls and a demo, and reports strong performance metrics including a 60% demo hold rate and 88% close rate on held demos.”

“Backend engineer focused on reliability and production operations, with hands-on experience implementing an outbox pattern to keep database updates and downstream events consistent. They also described diagnosing transaction-related latency under heavy client traffic and using monitoring data to validate performance improvements, showing a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to scaling integrations.”

“Full-stack engineer who built a custom LMS end to end with Next.js, TypeScript, Python, AWS, and S3, owning the learning module experience and structured progress tracking. Also shipped a bilingual English-Swahili caregiver support WhatsApp chatbot using OpenAI, with strong attention to safety boundaries, anonymous logging, prompt iteration, and real-world deployment in a sensitive support context.”

Samantha Portillo

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level Talent Acquisition Leader specializing in scaling recruiting operations

Fort Worth, TX9y exp

“Talent Acquisition/Recruiting Operations leader who has repeatedly built and rebuilt TA infrastructure—writing end-to-end processes, migrating ATSs to Lever, and integrating with HRIS/background check systems. Has managed teams up to 30 (indirect) and delivered measurable outcomes, including doubling headcount in a year by standardizing and streamlining interview workflows while training technical hiring managers on best practices.”

DAVID WOODBURY

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive COO/CRO and growth consultant specializing in scaling founder-led businesses

Grand Rapids, MI18y exp

“Serial founder and agency leader (recent agency exit with completed 3-year earn-out) currently serving as COO but prefers CEO/founder role. Spun Camp Native out of an agency after spotting a hospitality tech gap, raised venture funding, scaled partnerships to 800+ properties, and led the company to a private equity acquisition. Uses AI tools to dramatically accelerate go-to-market, research, and validation cycles.”

Ose Okpamen

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Product Manager specializing in UX, growth, and data-driven product strategy

London, UK12y exp

“Product manager from edTech focused on AI-driven, B2B HR training simulations (live work-scenario platforms). Demonstrated measurable funnel improvement by diagnosing a registration drop-off issue, coordinating a cross-functional fix (including Android), and delivering ahead of schedule, resulting in a 20% increase in sign-ons. Has shipped/managed products on web and mobile.”

Amanda Galvez

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Graphic Designer specializing in branding, print, and social media

Williams, Arizona6y exp

“Marketing/brand designer and media asset manager with deep beverage/craft beer experience, including leading a D9 Brewing brand refresh and producing conversion-driven creative at scale at Bevana Partners. Managed corporate + 18 partner brands/10 affiliates, maintained 73+ regulated product labels, and built Figma systems/templates enabling bulk edits across 200+ label variants and multi-format social video exports.”

NICOLAS ROCHA

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Technical Artist specializing in Unity game animation pipelines

São Paulo, Brazil7y exp

“Tech artist/VFX specialist who shipped Unity effects for mobile games including Card Guardians (cards, enemies, heroes across world space and UI canvas). Demonstrates strong real-time optimization skills—profiling GPU/CPU/overdraw, targeting 60 FPS on mid-range devices, using pooling, texture atlases, and a reusable RGB-mask recolor shader to create many enemy/element variations without blowing memory budgets.”

“Built a LangGraph-based, tool-routing LLM chatbot to deliver fast, trustworthy investment-stock insights (including tariff impact) and deployed it to production on Snowflake after initially developing in Azure with AI Search and the Microsoft Agent Framework. Improved routing robustness by moving from LLM-based decisions to a deterministic router backed by schema-relationship graphs and YAML metadata, and ran the project iteratively with non-technical stakeholders over an 8-month engagement.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered text-to-SQL/document intelligence chatbot on AWS that lets non-technical business users query complex enterprise databases in plain English. Demonstrates deep practical expertise in schema-aware prompting, embeddings-based schema retrieval, SQL safety/validation guardrails, and rigorous offline/online evaluation with human-in-the-loop approvals for risky queries.”

Andrew Brala

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Mid-level sales and operations manager specializing in B2B and retail growth

New York, NY7y exp

“Sales professional with hands-on experience owning complex commercial equipment deals in the hospitality space, including a $590k project closed through an 8-week multi-stakeholder cycle. Stands out for consultative selling of lesser-known specialty products, building repeatable outbound processes in unstructured environments, and navigating cross-functional buying groups from discovery to signature.”

Muhammad Mohsin Khan

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Senior Unity XR Developer specializing in networked VR/MR collaboration

Remote, Germany10y exp

“Unity/VR developer who has shipped a Meta Quest enterprise multiplayer immersive meeting platform (Arthur Spaces) and also delivered a puzzle/quest-style Unity game release in just one month. Leverages AI-assisted Blender workflows to rapidly prototype 3D assets and accelerate MVP development, and is comfortable in both structured studio pipelines and startup-style cross-functional teams.”

“Serial entrepreneur with 30+ years of professional software engineering experience who co-founded Food Truck Stars, initially a food-truck search engine and later pivoted into a catering marketplace to overcome adoption barriers. Validated the model by prototyping at car enthusiast events across the U.S. and turning a profit, using hands-on customer discovery with low-tech, time-constrained operators.”

“Analytics professional with operations-grounded experience at WWEX Group who built a Snowflake/dbt fleet-efficiency data model combining telematics, ERP, and driver logs into near real-time executive reporting. They pair strong SQL/Python workflow automation with practical stakeholder enablement, and cite measurable impact including cutting reporting time from 72 hours to 15 minutes and helping drive $450K in quarterly fuel savings.”

Dennis Onyukwu

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Senior Performance Marketing Manager specializing in SEO, paid media, and lifecycle growth

Caudalie, Asana, Build-a-Bear, Slack, AutoDesk8y exp

“Creator-first growth and partnerships operator spanning gaming and consumer (skincare) launches, combining creator-led activations with paid amplification across Meta/TikTok/Discord. Strong in performance-based deal structures and rigorous measurement (CAC, ROAS, cohort/LTV) to scale what works and stop what doesn’t; has delivered 3.4x ROAS partnerships and a 31% new-customer lift in a GTM.”

Žarko Petrović

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Director-level Unity Engineer specializing in multiplayer, WebGL/WebGPU, and XR

Stockholm, Sweden15y exp

“Lead Unity engineer who shipped a Meta Quest VR free-to-play poker title, tackling hand-tracking controls, physics-driven chip interactions, and large-room multiplayer with anti-cheat needs. Also independently built a mobile real-time multiplayer racing game through beta, including backend, progression, on-demand track delivery, and a custom car physics engine.”

Mudit Devenkumar Choksi

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in web apps, automation, and cloud systems

Louisville, KY2y exp

“Engineer with hands-on experience owning end-to-end industrial automation deployments and real-time data systems. Most notably led a multi-million dollar warehouse automation implementation that reduced manual intervention by 25%, while also building streaming text analytics pipelines and strengthening production reliability through robust observability and pipeline controls.”

“AWS-focused backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building serverless APIs (Lambda/API Gateway) secured with Cognito/JWT, deploying via Terraform + CI/CD, and managing secrets with Secrets Manager/Parameter Store. Also built AWS Glue ETL from S3 to RDS with schema evolution and data-quality controls, modernized a monolith into microservices using parallel testing, and delivered major SQL performance gains (minutes to seconds) while owning incident response for batch pipelines.”

“Founder/operator who turned around an underperforming nightlife/hospitality venture by rebuilding the operating system end-to-end—SOPs, dashboards, staffing/onboarding, pricing/promotions, and weekly forecasting/reporting. Demonstrates strong zero-to-one and ambiguity-to-clarity execution with a metrics-driven operating cadence across GTM, finance, and people operations.”

“Built and deployed an LLM product called "Content Craft" combining BART-based summarization with a RAG Q&A chatbot using LangChain, embeddings, and a vector database. Has hands-on MLOps experience containerizing and serving models with FastAPI and running them on Kubernetes with monitoring, self-healing, and autoscaling, and has practical experience reducing hallucinations through structured prompting.”

“Built and marketed a live free-to-play web word game (Techies WordFinder) from scratch using the Lovable AI platform, reaching 100+ users in under a month. Iterated quickly based on player feedback, reporting a 28% UX improvement and +32 seconds average time per user, and demonstrates practical live-ops and F2P analytics/A-B testing knowledge.”

“Product-focused F2P operator with hands-on experience shipping and optimizing a live social casino game on iOS/Android. Led a board-style progression meta and solved fairness-vs-economy constraints by designing a volatility model for dice RNG, validated through offline modeling and live cohort tests, delivering strong engagement and monetization lifts.”

“Recruiting Operations leader with 5+ years managing a small team and owning end-to-end process improvements, including implementing a new ATS that cut time-to-fill by 30%. Built structured, role-specific interview feedback surveys (9 Microsoft Forms) and leveraged Lever reporting to diagnose funnel drop-off and improve candidate experience. Also designed an early-careers hiring roadmap that enabled 30 intern offers in a single quarter through assessments, campus outreach, and faster scheduling.”