Vetted Team Leadership Professionals

Dane Copsey

Screened

Director-level Customer Support Manager specializing in video games and player support operations

Simi Valley, CA16y exp

“Game industry QA and customer support professional with experience at Zynga (QA tester in a small, highly collaborative studio) and 505 Games (customer support manager). Has supported live-service operations and major releases for 8+ years, combining community-driven bug triage/regression with strong cross-team reporting and player communication to drive fixes through verification.”

Umair Khokhar

Screened

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in AI Platforms for Enterprise B2B SaaS

San Francisco, CA15y exp

“Technical leader/player-coach who architected and shipped an end-to-end computer vision pricing system for a major North American auto seller, using Go + Ray + AWS SageMaker in a low-latency distributed inference architecture. Strong in production governance (logs/tracing/guardrails/AppSec), reliability incident ownership (DNS limits affecting 20% traffic), and measurable delivery acceleration (deployment cycle 16→4 days; delivery speed 5→2 days) through process optimization and AI-assisted enablement.”

Ido Avnon

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI, geospatial, and full-stack applications

Seattle, WA5y exp

“Early-stage startup engineer with experience at pre-seed and roughly Series A-stage companies, including Rage Events Inc. Shipped production full-stack features with Next.js/TypeScript, designed Postgres-backed workflow systems, and took ownership of post-launch support and fixes in fast-moving environments.”

Ajibade Quwiyu

Screened

Mid-level XR Developer specializing in VR/AR and Unity game development

Lagos, Nigeria7y exp

“Unity VR/AR developer with industrial training simulation experience (heavy machinery, electrical panel, arc welding) who improved user completion and retention by shipping a context-aware AI instructor. Uses Unity Analytics and in-game feedback to pinpoint drop-offs and drive measurable gains (e.g., 30%→75% completion; 60% drop-off fixed to reach 85%). Has also built multiplayer collaborative training prototypes with Photon PUN2 and strong Git/Unity workflow practices to reduce scene conflicts and technical debt.”

“Fullstack engineer with strong backend depth who has owned complex digital banking modernization work end-to-end, spanning React UI workflows, Spring Boot microservices, API design, and event-driven integrations. Stands out for balancing technical architecture with user clarity, especially in ambiguous environments where stakeholder feedback reshaped workflows after launch.”

“CRM and lifecycle marketing professional with broad hands-on experience across Salesforce, HubSpot, Microsoft Dynamics, and other platforms, focused on retention, reactivation, and CLV growth. Stands out for building customer recovery programs from scratch, improving campaign performance through granular segmentation and A/B testing, and coordinating multiple internal teams plus an agency in complex multichannel CRM environments.”

“CRM/lifecycle marketer with healthcare/practice-operations domain fluency who built highly targeted campaigns for a premium insurance-claims product, using customer data signals to find best-fit accounts and generating roughly $800K in incremental revenue. Experienced as a central hub coordinating sales, product, legal, design, pricing/billing, and leadership to deliver consistent messaging without overwhelming customers.”

Seymour Douglas

Screened

Executive Data & AI Leader specializing in cloud-native platforms and data-intensive systems

18y exp

“Data/ML and product leader with large-scale consumer and enterprise experience (including Walmart) who blends hands-on prototyping with executive stakeholder alignment. Has delivered measurable outcomes across personalization, semantic search/knowledge graphs, and fraud/security architecture, and has scaled organizations rapidly (30→180 in 12 months) by upskilling and building modern data/ML engineering capabilities.”

“Executive/engineering leader with 18+ years at an established company who helped turn a top-3 telco data opportunity into meaningful revenue and a continuing partnership to launch new data-driven products. Brings a security/privacy-first approach (compliance assessments and documentation) and a structured North Star + technical planning method for building with limited resources; interested in joining an early-stage founding journey with the right vision and team.”

“Growth/creative marketer with experience running end-to-end campaigns for a nonprofit (holiday giving via email) and optimizing app acquisition creative across major platforms (Meta/TikTok/YouTube). Emphasizes structured experimentation, dashboard-driven iteration, and building scalable processes (templates) while training creative teams on performance-oriented ad best practices.”

“Lifecycle and CRM operations professional who grew from hands-on Shopify e-commerce management into owning cross-channel campaign QA, deployment, and process building at Fashion Nova. Brings high-volume execution experience across email, app push, web push, and on-site messaging, including support for major promotional periods like Black Friday/Cyber Monday and retention programs such as abandoned cart recovery.”

“Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist with experience leading small TA teams (4–6) and owning recruiting operations initiatives including metrics implementation, job description upkeep, and community partnerships. Has redesigned a college graduate rotational (CORE) recruiting workflow to improve candidate flow and offer acceptance, and led a full ATS transition to UltiPro in partnership with IT and executive leadership.”

Damian Christiansen

Screened

Director-level Talent Acquisition & People Operations leader in biotech, healthcare, and tech

17y exp

“Talent/Recruiting Operations leader with 15 years of experience across Google and multiple healthcare/biotech organizations, managing teams up to 25 and owning end-to-end recruiting ops (ATS/HRIS, payroll, metrics, onboarding). Notable for redesigning Google’s high-volume new-hire orientation (150–300 hires weekly) and for driving systems implementations (ADP→Rippling, JazzHR) and process standardization during GenMark’s rapid scale and Roche acquisition integration.”