Vetted Team Leadership Professionals

Alireza Razinejad

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Frontend Architect specializing in Angular, React, and FinTech web platforms

Yerevan, Armenia11y exp

“Fullstack engineer who has personally architected and implemented entire systems, including a clinic patient management platform and multi-tenant product capabilities. Stands out for combining domain-driven design with hexagonal architecture to keep fast-changing products maintainable, and for shipping customer-facing improvements that increased user satisfaction and helped drive revenue growth.”

“Education product leader who has built and rebuilt large-scale learning platforms from the ground up, including GamED Academy, a Minecraft-based K-12 platform that grew to 6,000+ active students per cycle and produced IP tied to a Microsoft/Mojang exit. Particularly compelling for mission-driven edtech roles: combines curriculum, UX, platform, and AI product leadership with a clear philosophy that technology should amplify human teaching relationships rather than replace them.”

“Venture/accelerator operator with experience at Newchip Accelerator (Austin) and Boomerang Venture Studios, focused on high-volume sourcing and qualifying founders and building an investor network through automated LinkedIn/email outbound and events. Known for translating outreach into founder–investor meetings, running structured discovery, and using rubric/risk grading to drive go/no-go decisions while maintaining strong post-meeting feedback loops.”

Affaf Imran

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Director-level Gameplay Engineer specializing in Unreal, Unity, multiplayer, and VR

USA, Remote10y exp

“Gameplay/engine developer who rebuilt a legacy Unity VR firetruck simulator into a modular, state-driven training system used for realistic firefighter scenarios, while also working on a massive AI-native metaverse platform with backend-driven world generation and data pipelines. Brings an unusual mix of serious-simulation VR, multiplayer/backend systems, and large-scale world tooling across both Unity and Unreal.”

“Marketing creative/design systems specialist who led the Renew Communities rebrand end-to-end (logo, typography, color, layout rules) with an emphasis on clarity and scalability across digital, environmental, and print. Builds lightweight, opinionated Figma systems and modular content frameworks for high-volume output, and produces multi-platform marketing video edits using CapCut/Final Cut Pro with reusable templates in an async remote collaboration cadence.”

“Veteran basketball leader with 20+ years coaching at the high school/college level who also owns and operates a large youth/AAU organization and officiates at a high level. Brings a relationship-driven recruiting mindset (athletes, parents, coaches) plus daily social-media scouting and video-based communication/training experience, with strong knowledge of key exposure events like GymRat Challenge and regional showcases.”

“Software engineer with a graphic design/marketing background who led a 4-month U.S. Department of State Diplomacy Lab project delivering a proprietary React/Electron + Flask + PostgreSQL scheduling app, including OKTA SSO integration under strict government confidentiality constraints. Also has hands-on production web experience fixing a broken WordPress/Elementor content system by scripting automated recategorization and date corrections.”

“Full-stack engineer who built an email/SMS marketing platform from the ground up using PHP (Yii2/Laravel) and JS (jQuery/Vue components), including campaign reporting, A/B testing, and extensive ESP/SMS integrations (Mailgun/Mailjet/Twilio plus AWS SES/SNS). Notably scaled the system for very large contact ingestion by migrating from MySQL to ClickHouse and implemented reliability measures like retries, logging, and rate limiting.”

“Serial entrepreneur and entrepreneurship instructor at Montana State University currently bootstrapping MEETR (meetr.pro), a platform targeting snowsports instructors and outdoor guides, with early customers acquired via paid social, SEO, paid search, and cold outreach. Previously built and scaled EXEC from zero to one to 25,000+ members, culminating in acquisition by Community.co after selling into elite professional organizations and private clubs.”

Edmarie Bonilla

Screened

Director-level Operations & HR Talent Strategy leader specializing in performance metrics and L&D

Remote, US22y exp

“Operations Manager leading a 10-person BA team and owning operations execution across three lines of business, with additional ownership of OKRs tied to talent development (IDPs), value metrics, and recognition programs. Designed an onboarding framework aligned to company strategy and OKRs that improved retention, ramp-up, and engagement, and built healthcare college partnerships to strengthen hiring and internship pipelines while supporting cross-functional enterprise system implementations (policy admin, finance/HR, billing, call centers).”

Joey Mule

Screened

Technology executive and engineering leader specializing in Automotive SaaS

17y exp

“Engineering leader who built the MVP and scaled iService Auto into a fixed-ops platform for dealership groups, aligning a dealer-driven roadmap to churn/revenue outcomes and preparing the company for strategic acquisition. Led a major modernization from a legacy Symfony monolith to a React frontend with a Symfony JSON API using feature-flagged incremental migration, while growing and retaining a ~20-person engineering team through the acquisition.”

Gregory Koteles

Screened

Director-level Art Director & Web Designer specializing in UX/UI, branding, and growth marketing

Los Angeles, CA26y exp

“Marketing-focused web and creative designer who ships conversion-oriented Shopify and WordPress redesigns, pairing premium UX/UI craft with practical SEO and measurement (metadata, analytics/KPI tracking, Search Console). Comfortable operating under strict brand guidelines (e.g., Microsoft/Disney) while iterating quickly with growth/product partners, and also produces lightweight, multi-format marketing videos in Adobe Premiere Pro.”

Radek Kozaczuk

Screened

Senior Unity Developer specializing in mobile games, AR, and procedural generation

11y exp

“Unity gameplay engineer with hands-on experience building a procedurally generated world prototype (Roblox/Minecraft-like) using a data-oriented approach and Perlin noise for fast, believable generation. Also worked on a DOTS-based battle royale using Unity netcode, navigating client/host/server separation and complex entity state synchronization decisions.”

Alexander Mammele

Screened

Senior Technical Designer/Engineer specializing in Unreal Engine and AR/VR interactivity

Manchester, NH9y exp

“UE5 Blueprint-focused gameplay developer who shipped a VR rhythm title (Starwave), owning the player-facing star-hit interaction/feel and iterating heavily through playtests without dedicated QA. Also designed a modular tutorial/quest system by decomposing quests into reusable components so writers could assemble content independently, and has experience debugging Unreal Nav Mesh pathing issues that impacted gameplay and load times.”

teresa clark

Screened

Executive Sales Leader specializing in Automotive & Industrial accounts

Etna, OH33y exp

“Commercial leader in the automotive/tools space currently serving as VP of Sales, managing a large global portfolio of major tool brands and distributors. Known for structuring low-risk, drop-ship seasonal programs that drove $3M–$5M incremental revenue and scaling Mac Tools’ non-tool business to ~$36M, with extensive Vendor of the Year recognition. Seeking to step back into a buyer/assortment-focused role and prefers remote work.”

Sakethram Marpu

Screened

Junior Investment Analyst specializing in AI & DeepTech

Bengaluru, India2y exp

“VC-style founder sourcer who uses technical signals (GitHub) and niche communities (Elpha/Indie Hackers/Discord) to identify early-stage opportunities, including thesis-driven sourcing in applied AI infrastructure/observability from YC W24. Emphasizes value-first LinkedIn outreach and long-horizon relationship building (e.g., built a personal relationship with Snitch’s CTO who later reached out first about a new startup).”

Reena Nikam

Screened

Senior Ad Operations Manager specializing in digital and programmatic media

Mumbai, India16y exp

“Performance marketer with hands-on ownership of a high-spend, highly seasonal e-commerce account for a niche product, managing an $850k budget across DV360, Google Ads, Meta, and PMax. Stands out for combining structured testing, cross-channel attribution, and weather-based targeting to drive 30% YoY sales growth and exceed ROAS goals by 10x. Currently open to remote roles after a personal break and ready to re-enter at full speed.”

“Public sector sales leader with hands-on experience running direct, online, and partnership channels, generating over $2M in revenue and 85% retention. Built and coached teams across mid-market and government segments, with a practical playbook around consultative/value selling, compliance-aware selling, rigorous CRM discipline, and closing municipal deals such as Euless Power and Water.”

“Sales leader with experience spanning government/military and industrial markets, including a standout win at Crushproof Tubing where he helped replace a military breathing hose specification dating back to the 1950s. That redesign-driven public sector deal grew into nearly $3M in annual sales and remains with the company, while he also built sustained 30% YoY growth in the agriculture segment for four consecutive years.”

“Engineering leader with hands-on architecture depth who has improved team delivery cadence to weekly releases by redesigning SDLC ownership and validation workflows. Currently leading AI/LLM product work around meeting-transcript intelligence for sales use cases, with a strong emphasis on observability, prompt tuning, and iterative UX refinement.”

“ROS2/Python robotics engineer who led a 4-person team building a simulated multi-robot warehouse system (SLAM + NAV2 + centralized task allocation) in Gazebo Ignition, including a distance/priority-based controller that reduced task completion time by ~30%. Also has hands-on real-time debugging/tuning experience for both mobile robots and a MyCobot 600 Pro manipulator, plus simulation work in CARLA using RL (TD3) and Social-LSTM for pedestrian behavior modeling.”

“Backend/data engineer with strong production experience across Python microservices (FastAPI) and AWS serverless/data platforms (Lambda, API Gateway, Glue, Redshift). Demonstrates reliability and incident ownership (rate limits, retries/circuit breakers, monitoring) and has delivered measurable SQL performance gains (12–15s to <800ms, ~60% CPU reduction). Seeking fully remote work and not open to relocation/onsite meetings.”

“High-volume full-cycle recruiter promoted to lead, managing a team of 4 and serving as primary client POC while filling 30–40 roles per week. Built pipeline dashboards/trackers, introduced a structured screening questionnaire focused on people skills, and optimized job board spend to reduce costs while maintaining candidate flow. Also owned JazzHR ATS operations and data-quality process documentation, troubleshooting workflow gaps (e.g., RTR generation) to keep hiring moving within a 2–3 day submission SLA.”

“Senior Data Scientist in consulting who has built production RAG systems for insurance/annuity document search at large scale (100K+ PDF pages), emphasizing grounded answers, guardrails, and low-latency retrieval. Experienced in end-to-end MLOps for LLM apps—monitoring, evaluation sets, drift handling, and safe rollouts—and in orchestrating complex pipelines with Prefect/Airflow and deploying services on Kubernetes.”