Vetted User Research Professionals

Vasudha Swaminathan

Screened

Executive product leader specializing in Enterprise SaaS and AI-powered platforms

Seattle, WA19y exp

“Product leader who helped build Stack Overflow for Teams from an unproven internal knowledge product into a $50M ARR business, later leading product, design, research, support, and analytics. Brings a distinctive point of view on human-centered AI from both Overflow AI and Sumble, with repeated evidence of pairing deep user discovery with measurable business outcomes like 20% conversion gains and sustained 100%+ NRR through strategic pivots.”

Rutika Kushe

Screened

Mid-level DevSecOps Engineer specializing in cybersecurity and secure CI/CD

Washington, DC6y exp

“Security-focused solutions engineer/technical consultant with the last five years centered on DevSecOps, vulnerability management, and cloud security for government and defense customers. Stands out for bridging customer stakeholders and engineering teams, leading security-focused discovery and POCs, and automating Jenkins-based CI/CD workflows to improve both security posture and developer efficiency.”

Gurnoor Kaur

Screened

Intern Robotics Software Engineer specializing in motion planning and robot perception

1y exp

“Robotics software engineer with Amazon Robotics internship experience who built a visual-servoing architecture from scratch, navigating multiple simulator pivots to achieve a closed-loop motion-planning and execution prototype. Currently working with ROS 2 on a medical assistive feeding robot using the Kinova Kortex platform (MoveIt2, ros2_control, Gazebo/RViz), and has demonstrated strong real-time debugging and distributed-system synchronization using Carbon and Docker.”

“AI product leader with end-to-end experience building revenue-generating products and internal AI platforms across legal tech, edtech, and neurofeedback healthcare. At Clio, they helped launch the company's first AI offerings, drove $60K MRR in two months, scaled the AI team from 15 to 45, and enabled 12 additional AI applications across the business. They also bring a strong human-centered AI perspective from building tutor matching, lesson-planning, and clinician recommendation systems.”

Kshitij Kakade

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Intern-level AI/Full-Stack Engineer specializing in LLM systems and RAG

Mountain View, CA2y exp

“Product intern at KNEX who stepped into engineering ownership when the team was reassigned and shipped a lease abstraction AI agent that cut data-entry time by roughly 85% in a live CEO demo. Also built a full-stack agentic RAG app with React/TypeScript, FastAPI, pgvector, hybrid retrieval, tool use, and citation-based transparency, showing unusually strong end-to-end AI product depth for an early-career candidate.”

“Product/UX designer with a CS/software engineering background at Microsoft (former intern, now full-time) who bridges design and implementation. Built Shiproom (a Twitch-like live-coding platform) end-to-end with a custom Atomic Design-based system, and has shipped impactful CRM improvements in Dynamics 365 for 60k+ support agents using TypeScript and C#. Also worked on a Microsoft Global Hackathon project integrating a Copilot-backed sign language translation model to reduce documentation friction for deaf support engineers.”

Jay Desai

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Executive Technology Architect specializing in FinTech, AI platforms, and cloud modernization

California, USA24y exp

“Entrepreneur building an early-stage community food-sharing, network-effects platform positioned as an alternative to restaurant-centric delivery models (e.g., DoorDash/Uber Eats) by enabling homeowners to act as micro-entrepreneurs. Has been piloting a local community program for nearly a year and uses experiments and customer feedback to validate hypotheses and assess scalability.”

“UI/UX and product-minded designer with experience shaping digital products from concept to launch across telecom and higher education. Notably pitched a new Globe Telecom app that became the basis for the product after joining, helped launch it within five months, and contributed to a 4x subscription lift through A/B-tested in-flow upsell design.”

Edward Herdemian

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Executive product leader specializing in FinTech, commerce, and marketplace platforms

Phoenix, AZ17y exp

“Product leader from JPMorgan Chase who built a shopping organization from essentially a PM-and-designer starting point into a 50+ person cross-functional team supporting experiences for 30M+ cardholders. While not yet owning a customer-facing AI product, they bring thoughtful experience using internal LLM tools to shape product strategy and a strong human-centered perspective on AI, trust, and UX simplification in complex enterprise environments.”

“Senior product leader at Squarespace overseeing the core website creation experience, with a standout track record in AI-powered product innovation and editor UX. They led major initiatives like Blueprint AI and Fluid Engine, combining user research, experimentation, and cross-functional leadership across a ~100-person org while developing PM talent and championing a human-centered AI philosophy.”

“Product leader and former co-founder/CPO who built a K-12 tutoring marketplace end-to-end and later led AI personalization work at Mattel. Particularly compelling for mission-driven edtech roles: they combine deep two-sided marketplace and trust/safety experience with a clear philosophy that AI should strengthen, not replace, human tutoring relationships.”

DAVID STOKER

Screened

Senior Product and Program Leader specializing in technology, AI, and aerospace operations

Kent, WA12y exp

“Product leader with experience spanning Boeing, Amazon, and ScribeAmerica, combining large-scale operational product builds with human-centered AI in healthcare. Most notably led Amazon's Fleet Edge initiative to 35,000 deployed devices and an estimated $88M in savings, then helped shape Speke AI into a multi-platform medical documentation workflow product focused on provider trust, adoption, and real-world usability.”

Jason Main

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Executive product leader specializing in AI, SaaS, and Healthcare IT

Austin, TX20y exp

“Product leader with experience spanning AWS enterprise software commercialization, healthcare workforce platforms, and AI-enabled peer mentoring products. Notable wins include launching a healthcare internal resource pool product that offset declining revenue by 3x+ and helping commercialize Amazon call center software into a product that generated just under $25M in first-year revenue. Strong throughline is customer-led product strategy, cross-functional execution, and human-centered AI that augments rather than replaces people.”