Vetted User Research Professionals

Aravind Konakondla

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Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI automation and FinTech

Dallas, TX5y exp

“Built and owned an AI-powered document automation platform for enterprise customers, covering frontend, backend APIs, workflow orchestration, and downstream integrations. Stands out for translating AI extraction into a simple, trust-building product experience for non-technical users, with strong attention to production reliability, human review flows, and measurable quality metrics.”

“Product and design leader with hands-on experience shipping early AI-powered insights products at Grow Progress and redesigning complex data dashboards at MikMak. Stands out for pairing human-centered AI judgment with strong people leadership, including managing product and design teams, building growth frameworks, and creating internal AI tools and prototyping standards.”

“Private capital operator turned founding AI product manager, with experience spanning capital deployment strategy, digital transformation, and AI product prototyping. Helped grow deployed capital from $2M to $100M at Leadership Capital Partners, then led an AI-driven product repositioning in transportation logistics at Canopy, combining strategic thinking with hands-on product execution.”

“Product/UX designer with academic HCI experience (CMU HCII) and Tufts coursework who has built research-driven products ranging from a fiber-focused community wellness app to a VR emotion-inducing gamified experience. Also completed a product design internship at a stealth consumer robotics startup in the beauty industry, conducting in-salon field research and prototyping human touchpoints, and has led a website team bridging UX and engineering with hands-on coding knowledge.”

“Worked at easybee ai building a production-grade "voice of the customer" LLM intake agent, hardening a fragile sandbox prototype with JSON-schema constrained outputs, Python/FastAPI validation middleware, and automated retries. Strong in real-time debugging of agentic workflows (snapshot isolation, modular tracing) and in implementing safety/compliance guardrails like a content-moderation middleware to support enterprise adoption.”

“Growth creative marketer who led end-to-end experimentation for Kahana’s Oasis agentic browser launch, repositioning it as a task-specific “productivity multiplier” and validating the message via structured A/B tests across Meta, LinkedIn, and landing pages. Reported performance lift included CPA reductions (23% Meta, 17% LinkedIn) and a 28% ROAS increase, with a repeatable modular framework for rapid creative iteration and hands-on direction of UGC creators and editors.”

“Game designer from Turn 10 Studios who owned major Forza Motorsport multiplayer features end-to-end, including a refreshed competitive multiplayer mode built for live service (skill/safety ratings, rotating events, telemetry-driven tuning) and the post-launch return of Public Meetups shipped for the 20th Anniversary update under proprietary-engine/UI constraints. Also builds UE5 Blueprint prototypes (third-person action-adventure) with animation blueprints and data-table-driven randomized loot systems.”

Nadia Elinbabi

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Senior Product and Systems Design Leader specializing in AI-enabled enterprise workflows

Charlotte, NC18y exp

“Former UX designer with 12 years in design who moved into product management and now leads complex AI-enabled retail experiences. Most notably, they championed Competitive Quote from an overlooked Hack Day prototype into a major initiative later valued at $300M over three years, combining strong product strategy, agentic UX thinking, and deep practical understanding of human-in-the-loop AI systems.”

“Product and UX leader with experience launching a new direct-to-consumer ecommerce channel inside an enterprise business and later optimizing it to double revenue and conversion. Also built early AI-assisted workflows in regulatory/risk software, with a strong emphasis on trust, human oversight, and adapting quickly to new domains through first-principles product thinking.”

“Front-end engineer with experience building high-stakes internal products in financial services at Visa and Wells Fargo. They combine deep browser-performance knowledge with pragmatic typed architecture and close user observation, delivering measurable outcomes like cutting AML case resolution from 12 days to 4 and improving trader alert response through data-driven UI changes.”

“Product leader with 20 years of experience across startups and agencies, including leading the end-to-end rebuild of Filmik, an AI-enabled workflow platform for film and television production teams. Stands out for combining deep UX simplification instincts with human-centered AI thinking, using automation to reduce friction while preserving trust, control, and collaboration. Has also built and mentored globally distributed product, design, engineering, and delivery teams across multiple regions.”

“Principal-level product leader with deep experience rebuilding complex enterprise platforms in fraud prevention and HR tech. Stands out for unifying siloed acquired products into a single API-driven platform at TransUnion, pairing strong commercial outcomes ($400K early revenue, $2M projected cost savings) with thoughtful human-centered AI work including chatbots, RAG, and an AI copilot for fraud investigators.”

“Startup operator and co-founder who helped build SmartSquash AI from pre-product, pre-revenue stage to $600K ARR in 2 months, 125+ club pilots, a PSA enterprise analytics partnership, and a $1.4M acquisition. Brings a rare mix of 0-to-1 product/GTM execution and trust-sensitive AI deployment, plus process improvement experience at Microsoft that drove major efficiency and cost savings.”

Phil Satterfield

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Director-level Product Leader specializing in AI-native customer and education platforms

Pittsburgh, PA19y exp

“Product leader and founder who has built human-centered AI products in both healthcare and automotive services. At Highmark, they reframed Medicare Advantage retention as a decision-support UX problem and cited 97% retention; as founder of ServiceEdge Auto, they designed explainable AI workflows that guide operators without replacing human judgment.”

Upasana Pandey

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Senior Product Designer specializing in enterprise, AI-driven, data-heavy products

Dallas, TX6y exp

“Product/UX designer who has led end-to-end design systems for high-impact, multinational products—most notably a live African Union policy tracking platform used by 11 countries. Experienced translating complex, regulated workflows into intuitive experiences (including a gamified pediatric vaccination journey) and collaborating closely with engineers using component-based design systems and Agile delivery.”

Neda Bokhari

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Entry-level AI product and data professional specializing in workflow automation

San Francisco, CA1y exp

“Early-stage go-to-market candidate at Retroshift who has owned outreach across users, investors, and prospective clients in a zero-to-one environment. They’ve helped onboard 20+ alpha users and pushed the company into 3+ accelerator interview processes, showing strong traction-building ability through scrappy, multi-channel outbound.”

“AI/LLM-focused builder with internship experience at Curated, where they owned a voice AI support deployment end-to-end and built a RAG-based internal knowledge assistant. They pair practical production instincts with measurable outcomes, including a 30% reduction in human-handled support tickets, a 20-point NPS improvement, and a 40% reduction in manual document search across five teams.”

“Full-stack software engineer who has owned production workflows spanning React/Next.js, FastAPI, Redis-backed async processing, and PostgreSQL in a multi-tenant invoice-processing product. Shows strong product instincts as well—improving UX for long-running operations, iterating MVPs based on real user behavior, and balancing reusable abstractions with practical implementation constraints.”

“Founder and Head of Product who built Cloud Institute around a contrarian AI-plus-human coaching thesis, launching adaptive learning, personalized pathing, and 24/7 expert support that drove 91% retention and $1.2M ARR in 18 months. Particularly compelling for mission-driven EdTech or human-centered AI roles: they combine hands-on product leadership, team building, and a clear philosophy that AI should deepen trust and learning rather than replace people.”

“Product leader with deep recruiting-tech and HR-tech experience, including leading an end-to-end ATS rebuild and shipping AI-powered candidate matching across tens of millions of profiles. Stands out for turning ambiguous, spreadsheet-level asks into scalable products, improving user efficiency by 40%, and aligning engineering, design, legal, HR, and global stakeholders around clear delivery.”

Obinna Okoro

Screened

Senior Frontend Engineer specializing in FinTech and distributed systems

El Salvador, El Salvador8y exp

“Senior frontend/product engineer with uncommon depth in both decentralized peer-to-peer messaging and high-frequency crypto trading interfaces. Has owned product surfaces end-to-end at Holepunch and Bitfinex, including protocol-aware architecture, cross-platform TypeScript/React systems, and measurable performance wins like 40% responsiveness improvement and 66% faster media uploads.”