Vetted User Research Professionals

Brandon McCarty

Screened

Executive startup founder specializing in SaaS, FinTech, and operations

Raleigh, NC15y exp

“Founder/product leader who built CureMint, an industry-first procure-to-pay platform for dental groups, combining e-commerce UX, spend controls, AP workflows, and AI-driven catalog normalization. He appears strongest in zero-to-one product leadership, domain-driven product strategy, and strategic pivots—ultimately evolving the company toward fintech/payments and helping support its Series A story.”

“Product leader with early-stage startup experience who has built product teams and worked on complex cross-border payments infrastructure at Navro. Also building an AI-native editorial side project, using Claude and automation to source scientific research, translate it for mainstream audiences, and streamline publishing end-to-end.”

Yashaswini Mohan

Screened

Mid-level Product Manager and Software Engineer specializing in data-driven product execution

San Jose, CA5y exp

“Product professional with 4 years spanning software engineering, program management, and product execution, who led a 0-to-1 AI education product focused on student engagement. Drove AI Academy from ambiguous vision to MVP across 6 sprints, aligning faculty, students, and engineers and reporting 70% user participation.”

Bhoomika Gururaja

Screened

Intern Product & Project Management professional specializing in analytics-driven delivery

Seattle, WA1y exp

“Product Management Intern who owned an end-to-end sourcing-style initiative for a new digital product launch, coordinating internal stakeholders and external vendors. Uses data-driven, value-focused negotiations and milestone-based delivery management (Jira/Smartsheet) to control scope, timelines, and supplier performance while proactively mitigating cost and schedule risks.”

Milan Sharma

Screened

Mid-level Software/Systems Engineer specializing in Python, Linux, and network testing

Richardson, TX9y exp

“Entrepreneurial product builder who has shipped two live App Store apps (Pixo content-based product marketing platform and Clutch AI dating reply helper). Also helped build a real-estate seller platform end-to-end, using AI matching to find buyers and contributing to onboarding nearly paying users and generating active MRR.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building a real-time notification API on Flask/Celery/Postgres and scaling it on AWS with Docker, Redis queuing, and SQLAlchemy query optimization. Also delivered AWS serverless deployments (Lambda) using Terraform + GitHub Actions and built AWS Glue ETL pipelines from S3 to Redshift with CloudWatch monitoring and DataBrew data quality checks.”

Penny Asawadilockchai

Screened

Mid-Level Product Designer specializing in human-centered UX/UI

Oakland, CA4y exp

“Product/UX designer with end-to-end experience building a borrower-facing intake platform that coordinates AI automation and human review across borrowers, loan officers, and processors. Emphasizes explicit system states, clear handoffs, and exception-based visibility to increase trust in high-stakes underwriting/document workflows, using Figma prototyping and close engineering collaboration to ship feasible, scalable interactions.”

Corbin Melnick

Screened

Senior Customer Success Manager specializing in B2B retention and lead generation

Los Angeles, USA10y exp

“Outbound growth and lead-gen operator who has run multi-channel campaigns (email + LinkedIn) and built scalable outbound infrastructure. Helped scale MintLeads from 10 to 200+ clients (Inc. 5000 honors) by developing the outbound engine, standardized messaging, AI-assisted copy iteration, and domain rotation/deliverability systems; currently supports outbound execution for 50+ clients.”

“Builder of practical AI-backed products across developer tooling, travel search, defense, and healthcare-style workflows. They shipped an MCP/FastAPI/Gemma context-compaction system that cut token usage by about 80%, built a flight-price AI layer that validates LLM output against live search data, and helped shape a visionOS command center for a military air wing.”

Stephanie Freedman

Screened

Senior product specialist specializing in FinTech, legal tech, and enterprise SaaS

New Jersey, USA11y exp

“Product leader with experience rebuilding fintech/legal-tech products through direct customer research, especially in credit and restructuring workflows. She has shipped an NLP-driven restructuring risk product for public companies, improved adoption through UX simplification and training, and has worked across users ranging from junior analysts to law firm partners and managing directors.”

Kristoffer Kosunen

Screened

Mid-level UX/HCI & Game Designer specializing in VR and interactive experiences

7y exp

“Early-career UK-based game developer with extensive Unity experience and a postgraduate engineering project involving a Meta Quest prototype built in Godot. Built a solo first-person puzzle/exploration game with FromSoftware-inspired ambiguous narrative, and uses AI workflows for concept visualization and for validating/prototyping gameplay logic before implementing in C#.”

Arpit Singh

Screened

Director-level Head of Technology specializing in e-commerce platforms and digital transformation

Dubai, UAE13y exp

“B2B product builder with prior experience taking products from 0-1 and scaling to revenue; previously implemented e-commerce search and turned it into a monetized paid-results/bidding platform requiring architectural changes and GTM alignment. Now exploring a startup idea focused on retention and upsell for B2B companies, targeting the underserved long-tail partner segment and already validating the gap with industry leaders and POC conversations.”

“Product designer at Cogensus who has owned end-to-end UX for a multi-role AI wellness platform, including dashboard architecture, cross-platform consistency, and production-ready handoff. Particularly strong in simplifying complex wellness and behavioral data into trustworthy, accessible interfaces, and improved team efficiency by cutting design iteration cycles from 4-5 rounds to about 2.”