Vetted Stakeholder Management Professionals

Emmanuel Ngalima

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in geospatial AI and cloud security automation

San Ramon, CA5y exp

“Cloud engineer and cloud OS SME (Chevron) who productionized large-scale security remediation—using Tanium and Ansible to address CIS benchmark noncompliance across 5,000+ servers with robust logging and RCA handoffs. Also drives adoption of a geospatial AI refinery inspection product by consolidating siloed imagery into an enterprise geospatial database, and presents internally on agentic/LLM tooling (LangChain/LangGraph, LangSmith observability).”

“Senior CRM/lifecycle marketer with hands-on experience owning campaign operations, segmentation, QA, testing, and performance analysis across tools like Infor, Salesforce, Adobe, and Constant Contact. They’ve led multi-channel growth initiatives tied to measurable business outcomes, including a 35% lift in engagement/response and experimentation programs that improved CTR, participation, and cost efficiency. Holds an MBA and highlights experience supporting global-scale campaigns reaching 126 million contacts.”

Mark Thomas

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level software architect specializing in cloud, distributed systems, and healthcare IT

McCalla, AL20y exp

“Startup veteran with experience at seven companies since 2004 and direct exposure to Birmingham's Innovation Depot accelerator through three different startups. Has worked closely with investment teams on MVPs and pitch decks and brings a pragmatic lens to evaluating ventures through need, margins, burn rate, cash position, and sales growth strategy.”

Jennie Ocken

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level product leader specializing in enterprise SaaS platforms

Remote, MN19y exp

“Senior product leader with a standout track record in large-scale platform transformation at CHR, where they unified fragmented logistics products into a single customer platform serving ~200,000 users. Combines executive-level product strategy, UX transformation, AI/ML workflow integration, and people leadership, with measurable outcomes including 9,000 customer migrations, 13% CX improvement, and $2M in annual cost savings.”

“Paid media specialist from Publicis Group who owned and optimized a high-spend travel campaign for Visit Florida in partnership with Marriott hotels, spanning Google, Meta, and programmatic. Demonstrates deep hands-on experience with early HTML5 ad constraints (polite load, file-size specs) and solved delivery issues via Google Ad Manager transcoding and backup creative workflows while running structured creative/budget testing and optimization.”

“Healthcare product leader who rebuilt the NextCare Anywhere urgent care platform across mobile and web, dramatically improving booking conversion from 2% to 34% by simplifying the patient journey and fixing key caregiver workflows. Also brings emerging AI leadership in regulated environments, having helped define AI policy and pilot human-supervised workflows that delivered 30-40x documentation gains with 100% first-pass approval.”

“Former CTO at Enodo who led development of programmatic parsers to extract unstructured data from real-estate financial documents (rent rolls and T12s), validating with users via prototypes before productionizing. Emphasizes accuracy-driven engineering and scalable test-suite growth based on real user samples, and has experience scoping complex product ideas (e.g., browser-based narrative editor) down to an MVP.”

Trevor Peace

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in Healthcare IT

San Francisco, CA27y exp

“Founding/sole engineer who has built multiple healthcare products from scratch, spanning medical billing, cardiology triage, and cardiac device monitoring. Particularly compelling for healthtech and AI roles: they combine full-stack TypeScript/AWS execution with strong product judgment in regulated settings, including shipping voice-enabled RAG workflows and rejecting unsafe AI automation when simpler human-in-the-loop UX was the right answer.”

Alicia Chaney

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Talent Acquisition & Talent Development Leader specializing in early-career and workforce transformation

Remote, TX9y exp

“Talent/Recruiting Operations leader who has managed teams up to 6 and specializes in fixing broken interview pipelines through workflow standardization, scheduling automation, and ATS analytics. Built real-time dashboards in Lever/ATS to track aging, time-in-stage, and req health, and drove a 20% reduction in time to interview while improving candidate experience and hiring manager visibility. Experienced leading cross-functional tool/workflow implementations with HRIS and IT for high-volume early-career hiring.”

Bryan Vergel

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level sales leader specializing in revenue operations and client experience

Peoria, AZ15y exp

“VP-level revenue leader with experience running a 50+ person, multi-function revenue organization spanning call center, intake, sales, onboarding, and customer experience. Brings strong operational rigor in forecasting, KPI design, compensation strategy, and cross-functional alignment, plus direct experience scaling fiber ISP market expansion and navigating complex, infrastructure-dependent enterprise deals.”

“Chief of Staff to the family of Kevin Scott (CTO of Microsoft), serving as the first CoS to unify previously siloed teams and build an operating cadence for executive decision-making. Experienced running high-stakes, high-security events including a Presidential fundraiser/President Biden visit, coordinating with the presidential advance team and Secret Service while protecting principal priorities and privacy.”

“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.”

“Healthcare-focused software engineer/lead who has delivered customer-facing portals and internal call-center tools, including rebuilding a legacy Adobe Flash call center app into a modern TypeScript frontend with NgRx state management. Experienced leading onshore/offshore teams, integrating healthcare APIs, and driving adoption by visiting call centers to capture user workflows and bake them into regression testing—work that proved especially valuable during COVID-era shifts to video appointments.”

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.”

“Built and deployed an AI Copilot for Healthful Telehealth that helps dietitians generate personalized meal plans using patient data and real-time clinical context. Stands out for owning the full lifecycle—from workflow discovery and ETL/RAG architecture to production incident response and post-launch stabilization—while delivering roughly 30% gains in retrieval accuracy and latency.”

Bibhash Biswas

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive technology leader specializing in AI/ML, SaaS, and cloud architecture

Los Angeles, CA25y exp

“Hands-on CTO and player-coach engineering leader from MindShow who led a 10-person team, transformed a services business into a licensable product sold to Fortune 500 customers, and stayed deep in architecture, AI, and UI work. Particularly notable for combining microservices/system design leadership with practical AI product delivery in speech and media workflows, including a phoneme-generation system the candidate says achieved 99.9%+ accuracy.”

“Creative director/designer spanning high-polish marketing brand work and enterprise innovation: built a full podcast brand ecosystem and a cinematic historical visualization using Google Veo 3. Also led an AR/VR-assisted remote troubleshooting initiative at TriMas (HoloLens-style workflows), delivering a 40% MTTR reduction and cutting expert travel by 50%+ while standardizing reusable interaction components for global teams.”

“Recruiting leader with experience managing a 5-person, non-US sourcing team and building their US hiring compliance knowledge (EEOC/visas/laws) through ongoing training. Has executed hands-on executive searches (Sr Director/VP), including filling a VP Revenue Operations role in ~2 months via tight CRO partnership, and led an ATS transformation by implementing Greenhouse with company-wide training.”

“AI/ML Engineer (TCS) who built and deployed a production LLM-powered audit transaction validation service to reduce manual review of unstructured transaction records and comments. Implemented a LangChain/Python pipeline for extraction/normalization and discrepancy detection, with strong production reliability practices (decision logging, dashboards, labeled eval sets) and a human-in-the-loop auditor feedback loop to improve precision/recall under strict data-sensitivity and near-real-time constraints.”

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.”

Ashwith Poojary

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Software & AI Engineer specializing in Robotics, LLMs, and Reinforcement Learning

4y exp

“Robotics/AI Master's thesis researcher building an LLM-driven workflow to generate and evaluate robot policies before running them in an environment. Also built a local LLM-based real-time target-tracking robot using a pan-tilt camera with LangChain + Ollama, and has hands-on ROS 2/Gazebo experience including URDF-based simulation and a TurtleBot multi-agent chase project.”

Carlos Arambula

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Principal & Senior Brand/Marketing Leader specializing in go-to-market, multicultural and digital growth

Manhattan Beach, CA37y exp

“Brand and growth marketer with experience spanning global CPG and corporate brands through to healthcare/pharma and financial services. Known for consumer-insight-led repositioning and measurable, digital-first acquisition (notably CTV), plus executing U.S. market entry and scaling distribution into major retailers and pharmacies within months.”

“Former CEO of Foreman Technologies, a multidisciplinary tech company commercializing an autonomous painting robot, where they led early-scale operations and helped drive the business to #533 on the Inc. 5000. Brings rare operator-side startup experience spanning bridge financing, pricing and margin turnaround, operating infrastructure, and product-market alignment, and is specifically seeking an early-stage studio-style partnership to do it again from a stronger starting point.”