Vetted Team Leads

“Engineering leader in fintech/digital banking who built a development organization from zero and shipped a branchless banking platform in 18 months. Brings hands-on architecture depth in event-driven, multi-tenant banking systems plus practical AI product experience, including an OpenAI-powered transaction explanation agent and onboarding improvements that cut onboarding time by 30%.”

Carl Kibler

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Executive engineering leader specializing in AI and Healthcare IT

Salt Lake City, UT13y exp

“Senior technical leader pursuing CTO roles who combines deep engineering breadth with strong product instincts and direct investor-facing startup experience. Has represented engineering, security, and IT in diligence processes, built investor-prep materials, and thinks strategically about AI-forward products, pivots, and market fit without falling into hype.”

“Startup-oriented product/technology leader targeting CTO roles, with experience evaluating and scoping high-impact product expansions. At Crelate, helped assess and shape a contract timekeeping/invoicing initiative that expanded TAM by hundreds of millions and increased ACV 2-3x, contributing to successful market traction and the company’s path to Series C.”

“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.”

“Candidate brings analytical, business-focused project experience spanning startup viability and supply chain optimization. They led a startup assessment project evaluating customer demand, pricing, and competitor positioning in West Lafayette, and identified operational efficiencies projected to lower costs by 15%, while also demonstrating strong Excel-based modeling and professional external communication skills.”

“Product leader with deep healthcare experience who has shipped 50+ products, including a mobile app platform adopted by 120+ health plan clients and AI-enabled pharma tools that moved from plan-level to patient-level insights. Former high school science and math teacher who brings a distinctly human-centered, emotionally aware approach to product design, while also driving Agile transformation, mobile-first/API-first modernization, and scalable operational change.”

Sanjay Mamani

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Executive Technology Leader specializing in enterprise data, AI, and cloud analytics

Mooresville, USA26y exp

“25-year builder/operator who has scaled others' visions and led VC-backed startup incubation work (Saltmines). Built Bridgetree’s AI CoE from 0 to 1 and cites $20M+ measurable customer impact, with experience leading 110-person cross-disciplinary teams. Exploring a new venture idea (gotAgentic.ai) focused on agentic AI solutions such as AI-ready data prep, agentic SDLC teams, and front-office automation (scheduling/invoicing).”

“Frontend engineer who led the end-to-end UI for an internal employee catalog tool at Genetec, building React/TypeScript dashboards with complex search filters. Emphasizes tight product-owner feedback loops (weekly demos), Figma-based design alignment, and disciplined delivery practices using CI/CD, automated tests, and version tagging for rollouts/reverts.”

david horachek

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Executive Game Systems & Animation Engineering Leader specializing in console and Unreal/Unity

California, USA26y exp

“Unity/C# engineer with AAA and social MMO experience who owned and shipped a marquee VR gameplay system for Meta Quest, using advanced 3D math and closed-form optimization to maintain a solid 60 FPS on constrained hardware. Also builds LLM systems from first principles and integrates native inference into C# pipelines, and has deep multiplayer architecture experience (Photon/Netcode/frame sync) including fault-tolerant WebSocket messaging for mobile connectivity dropouts. Prefers contract work; time zone flexible (EST).”

Alex Guzman

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Principal Software Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and identity systems

Denver, CO17y exp

“Senior backend-leaning engineer with experience spanning an 8-person early-stage startup and production microservices environments. They helped deliver an MVP for a fintech/charitable donations product by building a resilient abstraction API across multiple rewards vendors, and more recently maintained Go services at scale with Kubernetes autoscaling for workloads reaching roughly 1 million requests per day.”

“Product leader with 6+ years driving digital transformation and healthcare-focused delivery, including founding RemiMinderAI, an AI-powered app for older adults and caregivers. Combines enterprise modernization experience with hands-on AI prototyping using Flutter, Firebase, Vertex AI, and Gemini, and has delivered measurable outcomes like 40% faster onboarding and 30% higher delivery throughput.”