Vetted Systems Integration Professionals

Howard Ogawa

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive product leader specializing in e-commerce, marketplaces, and direct-to-consumer platforms

California, USA19y exp

“Senior product leader with high-scale marketplace and commerce experience at Ticketmaster and GOAT, spanning checkout, CX automation, logistics, fraud, payments, and catalog. Stands out for pairing rigorous experimentation and measurable business impact—including $60M+ incremental revenue and major conversion gains—with a thoughtful human-centered AI philosophy and a strong track record of building and promoting PM teams.”

“Enterprise product leader with a rare mix of hardware, software, AI, pricing, and GTM experience across Polycom and Mitel. He led a major Polycom portfolio transformation that revived growth in a mature category, and has also driven AI-enabled contact center workflows and ML-based customer targeting programs with measurable commercial impact.”

“Machine learning/AI engineer focused on agentic product experiences, including a parts-finding assistant and other AI-driven tools. Has worked on reinforcement learning projects, agent state management, and making AI understandable for non-technical users through visuals and simplified explanations.”

“Project/program manager with enterprise software implementation experience spanning Dynamics CE/CRM, Azure cloud migrations, SAP modules, and Project Online. Notably led a 20-person cross-functional team on a multi-country CRM migration across the US, UK, India, and Canada while simultaneously managing countries in requirements, pre-go-live, and post-go-live stabilization phases.”

“Cybersecurity entrepreneur building a solution focused on emerging AI-driven security risks, aimed at helping mid-sized companies defend against advanced threat actors without needing large internal teams. Has a business plan, has raised capital, and is currently entering a seed VC round while doing fractional CTO/interim work to cover advisor and corporate legal costs amid upcoming EU cybersecurity/resilience policy changes.”

Pranav Hariharane

Screened

Mid-Level Backend Engineer specializing in REST APIs and AWS

SF Bay Area, CA3y exp

“Backend engineer who built a new REST eligibility service at Barclays that unified siloed account logic (card/loan/deposit) and integrated with web/mobile, ultimately serving millions of users daily. Also built an end-to-end LLM-based pharmaceutical care-plan generation tool in a rapid Columbia startup competition, emphasizing configurable design, strict validation, persistence, and robust error handling.”

“Senior technology and venture-oriented leader pursuing a CTO role, with hands-on experience advising an AI startup and a VC firm while also building incubation and technology advisory functions at Iron Mountain. Notably brought a cybersecurity product to market in six months and helped position a blockchain product through early deal development, showing a strong blend of product, strategy, and venture-building capability.”

Nick Bains

Screened

Mid-level Technical Product Manager specializing in developer platforms and APIs

California, USA6y exp

“Technical Product Manager with recent experience at Affirm and AWS, focused on internal platform and developer productivity products. Most notably led Affirm's rules engine initiative from ambiguous problem statement to 95% adoption, improving reliability and helping address SLA risk with a major customer; also brings regulated-environment experience and hands-on AI/search prototyping.”

“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.”

“Engineering leader (Sr Director/VP) with healthcare marketplace and e-commerce/art marketplace experience who has shipped AI-driven pricing, scaled engineering teams rapidly, and navigated messy legacy integrations. Currently doing fractional tech advisory, leading a migration from self-hosted infrastructure to Google Cloud using IaC while mentoring a junior developer and modernizing security/patching posture.”