Vetted Vice President of Engineerings

“Engineering leader and hands-on architect from Sony Pictures Entertainment who has led large-scale platform modernization, digital supply chain delivery, and multiple GenAI/RAG initiatives in media and rights-management domains. Notable for combining people leadership with deep AWS/LLM architecture work, including a 1M+ record GenAI title search system and AI-driven contract insights that reportedly helped unlock a 20% revenue increase.”

Ravikanth Kasamsetty

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Executive engineering leader specializing in AI, data platforms, and cloud SaaS

California, USA23y exp

“Senior engineering executive with a rare mix of VP-level people leadership and deep hands-on architecture across cloud-native and AI platforms. He led secure hybrid SaaS design at Promethium, built GenAI-powered analytics with LLMs/RAG, and translated customer needs into product wins including the largest deal in company history and a PLG motion that generated 100+ leads.”

“Engineering leader (ActiveCampaign, Yalo) with a track record of scaling both systems and orgs: grew an engineering team from 90+ to 200+ (30+ scrum teams) while re-architecting a marketing automation platform from batch to near real-time. Led major infrastructure shifts (RabbitMQ to Kafka, multi-region redundancy) and reports outcomes including 600%+ throughput gains, 99.99% uptime, and business growth from ~80K to 185K customers with revenue surpassing $200M over ~3 years.”

“Engineering/data platform leader from FLYR (airline ML forecasting and automated pricing) who built scalable ingestion/ETL and a canonical data model to onboard airlines with highly heterogeneous source systems. Created a golden-metrics layer for airline KPIs and implemented monitoring/backfill capabilities, cutting onboarding time by 50%+ while improving SLA performance and controlling cloud/ML training costs through stronger data quality gates.”

Philip Kearney

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Executive engineering leader specializing in embedded systems, IoT, and wireless networking

San Francisco Bay Area, CA34y exp

“Former Apple employee who worked with Steve Jobs in the early 2000s and is now looking to join startups as a CTO partner to non-technical founders. Brings a thoughtful, skeptical lens on VC-backed startup execution, emphasizing technical feasibility, real product-market fit, and mission-driven teams solving meaningful problems.”

Mirko Richter

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Director-level Product Leader specializing in AI platforms and FinTech

Yorktown Heights, NY19y exp

“Product leader with rare breadth across Amazon-scale operations and applied AI. They led the first profitable same-day delivery launch for Amazon in Spain and Italy, later built AI products including a voice agent that replaced 200 humans and cut CAC by 60%, and have direct edtech experience at Nerdy/Varsity Tutors focused on AI that amplifies human tutoring rather than replacing it.”

“Seasoned business leader with decades of leadership experience (including Fortune 50/500) and prior Silicon Valley startup exposure, now pursuing entrepreneurship. Building “Datascension,” a gamified, story/episode-based career coaching platform that includes hands-on tasks (e.g., SQL queries, Python scripts) plus a participation-based credit/currency system and certification/badging, informed by feedback from recruiters and coaching/recruiting firms.”

“Freelance CTO with a track record of founding and building early web products, including an award-winning baby website creation platform that was acquired by eStyle after gaining traction via retail/mail-order distribution and PR. Also built a sports event text-alert product, engineering around missing data APIs via a replaceable scraping layer.”

Yanis Liaskos

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Executive Technology Leader (CTO/CPO) specializing in AI, robotics, and warehouse automation

Atlanta, GA14y exp

“VP/CTO-level leader who builds globally distributed engineering organizations and operating systems (SAFe, governance, real-time metrics) to align product, engineering, and executives. Drove a security modernization initiative in a robotics context using Achilles and Polaris, remediating vulnerabilities and upgrading libraries to achieve a cyber certification that was ahead of industry norms.”

“CTO-minded builder seeking to join a startup; previously created an AI-driven platform that abstracted away DevOps and infrastructure for drug discovery researchers. Emphasizes high-leverage, zero-to-one execution with managed cloud/open-source tooling, and a strong reliability/reproducibility mindset validated against existing scientific pipelines.”

“CTO-level leader with deep insurtech and cloud security/SaaS experience who has repeatedly scaled global engineering orgs and delivered high-velocity roadmaps. Most recently led Delos Insurance Solutions to launch new homeowners programs for wildfire-prone regions every 3–4 weeks while meeting DOI/SLA requirements, driving $135M GWP and $250M capacity and reaching cash-flow positive. Also led major scalability re-architecture at CloudPassage (Postgres to Cassandra + Kafka) and built a large Estonia-based engineering hub at Cybercube.”