Vetted Team Leadership Professionals

“COO at Malk Partners who led a ~75-person org and managed a 6-month sell-side diligence process while still delivering growth targets. Known for building executive alignment and accountability through clear KPIs, strong 1:1 operating rhythms (including N-2s), and board-level strategy projects, and for scaling planning processes by pushing AOP ownership to business unit leaders with templates and coaching.”

“Backend engineer (4 years) who built an end-to-end Python backend for a patent-pending in-car massager/heater system, including GraphQL data modeling and Bluetooth integration with an ESP32 microcontroller (reverse engineered a niche protocol). Also has strong platform experience: on-prem Kubernetes/CI-CD (Jenkins/GitLab, exploring ArgoCD GitOps), Terraform-based infra workflows, a RabbitMQ messaging library used across microservices, and an on-prem migration of ~30 critical applications with rollback/parallel-run strategy.”

“VP/CTO-level leader who builds globally distributed engineering organizations and operating systems (SAFe, governance, real-time metrics) to align product, engineering, and executives. Drove a security modernization initiative in a robotics context using Achilles and Polaris, remediating vulnerabilities and upgrading libraries to achieve a cyber certification that was ahead of industry norms.”

“Hospitality entrepreneur who founded and launched Hotel Lucine, a hotel resort in Galveston, TX, raising approximately $30M and opening in 2023. Led the venture end-to-end—from business model and investor pitches to entity structuring, deal docs, design/construction (including acting as primary general contractor), and ongoing operations spanning service standards, finance/capital strategy, brand, and event bookings.”

“Recruiting leader with AWS LATAM experience managing teams of ~10 (up to 14) and personally owning executive searches for country leaders across Mexico, Chile, Peru, and Colombia. Led compensation benchmarking and package recalibration for new-country office launches (e.g., Argentina) and drove a major recruiting operating-model change to a centralized pod/virtual hiring approach to support rapid headcount growth.”

“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.”