Vetted Testing Professionals

“Venture investing/sourcing professional with experience at L'Attitude running high-volume founder sourcing across tools (Harmonic) and ecosystem channels (accelerators, hackathons, Discord, university labs). Demonstrated ability to turn cold outreach and early relationships into diligence and investment committee discussions, while maintaining a rigorous CRM-driven pipeline process and long-term founder nurturing through consistent value-add.”

“Robotics student who built a fully autonomous "Pacman" robot car using ROS 2, integrating LiDAR/IMU sensing with localization, autonomous driving, and a custom RRT + A* planner. Demonstrated practical embedded optimization on an RP2040 by balancing replanning frequency with safety via rapid collision checks.”

Mirko Richter

Screened

Director-level Product Leader specializing in AI platforms and FinTech

Yorktown Heights, NY19y exp

“Product leader with rare breadth across Amazon-scale operations and applied AI. They led the first profitable same-day delivery launch for Amazon in Spain and Italy, later built AI products including a voice agent that replaced 200 humans and cut CAC by 60%, and have direct edtech experience at Nerdy/Varsity Tutors focused on AI that amplifies human tutoring rather than replacing it.”

“Backend/AI engineer who has built a rule-service platform on AWS and evolved it into an agentic RAG system using LangChain, ReAct, tool calling, and LLM-as-judge review. Notable for combining heavy AI-assisted development with production safeguards like manual CR, CloudWatch monitoring, fallback strategies, benchmark testing, and user-feedback-driven model improvement.”

“Engineering leader with experience at Vertex and Salesforce, combining org leadership with hands-on architecture work. He led a 40-person team through execution and quality improvements, drove legacy modernization and SaaS transition, and launched a 0-to-1 voice capability in CRM while also applying AI to code migration and developer productivity.”

Lisa Wong

Screened

Senior Program Manager specializing in financial services technology transformation

New York, NY20y exp

“Consulting and PMO leader with deep experience inside large financial institutions, specializing in tax technology platform delivery across complex business lines including HNW, hedge funds, mutual funds, insurance, and banking/capital markets. Stands out for building governance, funding, and cross-functional operating structures that reduce redundancy, improve communication, and enable on-time, on-budget implementations with measurable time savings and fewer errors.”

Kartheek Pathuri

Screened

Staff Software Engineer specializing in frontend and full-stack platforms

14y exp

“Frontend/UI engineer with strong ownership of complex browser applications, including leading SentinelOne's in-app notification center from conference prototype to production. Brings deep React/TypeScript and browser performance expertise, plus a track record of integrating heterogeneous backend services and improving UX for demanding technical users.”