Vetted User Research Professionals

“Technical Product Owner with a technical background who led a net-new invoicing and reconciliation product across business stakeholders, architecture, and dependent teams, shipping close to target despite unexpected issues. Also brings a distinctive mentoring profile from tutoring and teaching in data analytics bootcamps, including hands-on support for learners with very low technical literacy.”

Fadi Abbas

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive product leader specializing in AI-native products and EdTech platforms

Dearborn Heights, MI16y exp

“Product leader and founder with experience spanning EdTech, AI, LegalTech, and mobile imaging. He co-founded a tutoring platform that grew to 300K+ students and later built citation-grounded legal AI systems designed for high-trust, high-stakes workflows. Particularly compelling is his consistent philosophy of using AI to amplify human expertise rather than replace it, backed by global team leadership and strong product execution across EMEA, the US, and Asia.”

Tasmeena Maryam

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Senior Design Lead specializing in brand strategy and multi-channel digital campaigns

Atlanta, GA8y exp

“Senior Art Director/design lead focused on high-polish marketing creative and brand systems, spanning a packaging relaunch campaign and a B2B rebrand for a complex, data-driven product (ROIOn). Experienced building scalable Figma design systems and modular templates that enable rapid iteration and late-stage changes without quality drift, plus short-form social video production using After Effects/Premiere/CapCut in fully remote, async workflows.”

“Product manager with 4 years of PM experience and an earlier software engineering foundation, spanning enterprise healthcare, operations platforms, and AI products. Most notably, they founded and shipped a GenAI app builder SaaS, built evaluation and reliability layers for production use, and exceeded first-quarter adoption targets by 35%.”

“Software engineer experienced owning internal, customer-facing dashboards and internal ops tools end-to-end, emphasizing fast iteration without sacrificing stability (CI/CD, automated tests, feature flags, monitoring). Built a TypeScript/React role-based dashboard backed by Java Spring Boot and has hands-on microservices experience with RabbitMQ, including production hardening with retries, dead-letter queues, logging, and health checks.”

“Software engineer with experience at PTC (Onshape cloud CAD) and Firebolt building customer-facing features end-to-end—from user research and prototyping (tooltips, CSV imports) through deployment and usage monitoring. Also handled urgent production crashes in a Flutter mobile app across iOS/Android by diagnosing state-management conflicts and shipping a stabilizing patch; enjoys hands-on, customer-facing work and travel.”

“Implementation/CS professional with enterprise account ownership in fintech/payments and ERP-integrated workflows (NetSuite, QuickBooks), including complex hybrid AP/mass pay setups and bidirectional sync challenges. Partners closely with Product/Engineering on integration plans and sandbox validation, and has driven expansion by upselling REST API automation beyond initial iFrame/ERP scope.”

“Education strategy and product leader with deep math education expertise who helped transform a literacy/assessment-focused company into a more comprehensive, integrated math solutions provider. Particularly strong at embedding AI-driven insights into teacher workflows in a human-centered way, balancing personalization, usability, teacher autonomy, and educational equity.”

“Built and productionized an internal LLM-powered search tool that helps engineers find the right SolidWorks macros using plain-English queries, using OpenAI embeddings and ChromaDB with strong logging/fallback safeguards. Experienced in diagnosing RAG/agentic workflow issues in real time and in hands-on API support, including fixing customer macros after SolidWorks version updates and driving adoption through reusable solutions and best practices.”

“Early-stage product engineer who has shipped an AI-assisted workflow web app end-to-end, spanning Next.js/TypeScript frontend, Python-backed LLM APIs, Postgres analytics, and async backend workflows. Strong ownership after launch as well, including usage tracking, prompt and UX iteration, latency reduction, and measurable database performance improvements.”

Jinyao Ouyang

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Mid-level Design Engineer specializing in product UX and front-end systems

Grand Rapids, MI4y exp

“Designer-engineer who independently rebuilt the Flexi-Casa ecommerce experience end-to-end as a headless Shopify/Next.js storefront. Stands out for combining UX, frontend implementation, analytics, and A/B testing in one role, using funnel analysis to identify conversion issues and ship data-informed IA and UI improvements.”

“Product designer-developer leading the modernization of One Shot Records from a legacy PHP storefront to a React/Next.js marketplace experience. Particularly interesting for combining UX, frontend engineering, and product strategy—he not only redesigned the mobile-heavy experience, but also proposed a shift from eBay-style sales to a barter-based marketplace model backed by AI validation and a multi-layer API/data architecture.”

Briana Lonappan

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Entry-level product and project management candidate specializing in operations and user insights

Remote2y exp

“Early-career candidate with a blend of product research and project coordination experience from a BeReal Product Innovation Externship and Aspire Skill Development internship. They bring strong analytical and organizational skills, including user interviews, competitive benchmarking, prototyping, and stakeholder tracking, with a demonstrated contribution to reducing missed deadlines by 20%.”

Ryan O'Keefe

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Director-level Product Leader specializing in AI-driven SaaS, EdTech, and FinTech

Austin, TX13y exp

“Product leader with 6 years of hiring and management experience who has driven major edtech and mobile product transformations, including a full mobile app rebuild launched in 2 months and an AI-powered content aggregation feature shipped from prototype in 2 weeks. Has worked at OnlineMedEd and Zogo, with a strong track record in personalization, rapid MVP execution, and human-centered AI that supports learning and coaching rather than replacing it.”

HASHIM YAQUB

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Staff Unity XR Software Engineer specializing in VR surgical training and haptics

Bath, UK12y exp

“Unity/VR developer with hands-on experience integrating Pupil Labs eye tracking on HTC Vive to make VR interactions and diegetic UI feel more natural, including building calibration directly into the app for different users. Developed multi-user applications at Fundamental VR using Photon PUN 2 for cross-platform networking, and leverages AI tools for debugging/optimization and GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline troubleshooting.”

Bria Marks

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Entry-Level Game Designer & Gameplay Programmer specializing in Unity and Unreal Engine 5

Los Angeles, CA1y exp

“Game designer with hands-on experience shipping and tuning a branching memory-deletion narrative system in Unity (Echoes of Memory), focused on creating emotional tension through meaningful player choice. Also builds and iterates cooperative level layouts in Unreal Engine 5 with ~1-week idea-to-playtest cycles, collaborating closely with teammates on Blueprint implementation.”

Corbin Ward

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Junior Product Manager / APM specializing in data tools, CMS platforms, and AI-enabled products

San Jose, CA1y exp

“Data Software Tools Analyst at Q.ai through rapid growth and a $2B Apple acquisition who led an internal CMS for participant/PII workflows using Next.js (App Router) + FastAPI/Postgres with strong security controls (JWT + Postgres RLS). Also drove a major frontend architecture shift toward React Server Components, reporting ~4x faster page loads, and has experience building durable realtime collaboration systems with Supabase/SvelteKit and server-centric state management.”

“Senior edtech product and UX executive with 20+ years of experience leading both product and engineering/design organizations, including building a Science of Reading product from 0 to 1 that earned All-Green EdReports ratings and two CODiE awards. Particularly compelling for AI-in-education roles because they pair hands-on AI product experience with a clear human-in-the-loop philosophy grounded in equity, teacher trust, and real classroom research.”

“Product leader with experience reshaping complex onboarding experiences at Progressive Leasing, where they expanded a tablet privacy problem into a broader universal application flow that improved trust, reduced hardware costs, and increased approvals and revenue. They also contributed to an AI conversational analytics product at SeekInsights, combining roadmap thinking, UX research, and cross-functional leadership.”