Vetted Vice President of Engineerings in California

“Engineering leader who built and delivered an IoT smart-spaces platform for the self-storage and smart-living domains, translating customer requirements into architecture, capability maps, and a multi-milestone roadmap. Personally stood up missing AI/ML capabilities (including churn prediction) using Databricks (Delta Lake/MLflow), enabling follow-on features like energy optimization and security/anomaly detection. Scaled an org from 20 to 80+ with disciplined Agile planning (Jira Advanced Roadmaps/Confluence) and strong executive/customer-facing leadership during high-stakes customer commitments.”

Ashraf Jahangeer

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Executive engineering leader specializing in AI, SaaS, and large-scale platform transformation

Pleasanton, CA19y exp

“Senior engineering executive with 20+ years of experience scaling and restructuring product engineering organizations across startups and larger companies. Over the last 8 years, they grew teams significantly at Stitch Fix and EasyPost, led monolith-to-microservices modernization, and launched products associated with 50M-100M+ ARR. Currently a hands-on VP Engineering at BlueCargo, combining executive leadership with direct technical contribution when customer-critical issues arise.”

Josh Rhoades

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Executive Technology Leader (CTO) specializing in AI-enabled SaaS and regulated platforms

Los Angeles, CA30y exp

“Senior engineering leader with experience at Disney and BlackLine who drives business-aligned technology roadmaps through deep Product/Engineering partnership (two-in-a-box) and pragmatic prioritization frameworks. Has led major modernization initiatives—private-to-public cloud migration to GCP with multi-cloud evolution, data-layer performance improvements (Mongo/Redis, caching/query optimization), and tooling upgrades (VSS to GitHub)—while scaling teams with strong quality and accountability culture.”

“Architecture leader from Disney who managed system, AI, and data architects while staying hands-on in solution design. Has experience building LLM-based video advertising products, designing Kafka-based real-time data architectures, and using MVP/POC approaches to align product and executive stakeholders.”

Sean Cohen

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Executive medical device engineering leader specializing in digital health hardware platforms

Mountain View, CA7y exp

“Engineering and operations leader in connected healthcare/medical devices with senior experience at AliveCor and Sibel Health. He has owned everything from ultra-thin FDA-cleared ECG hardware architecture and firmware-risk decisions to supplier qualification, manufacturing system buildout, and make-vs-buy strategy across a portfolio of clinical sensing products. Strong differentiator: combines deep technical judgment with hands-on manufacturing scale-up, including taking KardiaMobile Card to mass production in under 18 months and driving Sibel to 98%+ yield with controlled production processes.”

“Climate-tech founder with multiple EV infrastructure ventures, including Electriflow Finance and ChargeNet Stations. Has already raised $300k, signed a $1M term sheet, and piloted an AI-driven, app-less EV fleet charging platform with 36 fleets in Southern California.”

“Operations/process-focused leader with hands-on manufacturing and quality mindset: improved product stability by preventing oxidation via inert gas and oxygen monitoring, and implemented sensor-based automation to maintain conditions without manual intervention. Uses time studies and benchmarking to redesign workflows (reported ~60% labor reduction per batch) and trains teams on GMP/regulatory and contamination-control practices using practical demonstrations.”

“Part-time founder building a bootstrapped IT startup in the R&D phase, running multiple product iterations and cost/benefit analyses to validate uniqueness and monetization potential. Has prior experience working for venture capital firms and is familiar with how accelerators operate, with a strong focus on finding investors who can be true thought partners for rapid pivots.”

Ilya Kravchenko

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Executive engineering leader specializing in AI-enabled SaaS and internet-scale platforms

Thousand Oaks, CA20y exp

“Engineering leader with a rare blend of SaaS, robotics, and AI systems experience, most recently leading a 21-engineer org under the CTO. They pair strong people/process leadership with hands-on architecture depth, driving dramatic delivery improvements while also building grounded LLM support tooling for warehouse operations where accuracy directly impacts physical execution and customer outcomes.”