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Vetted Head of Engineerings in the Bay Area
Pre-screened and vetted in the Bay Area.
Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in mobile, video, and consumer platforms
Andrew Coven
Executive Software Engineering Leader specializing in AI/ML products and large-scale platforms
“Engineering leader who drove Lightroom Mobile’s roadmap at Adobe by enforcing reuse of Photoshop imaging tech to deliver RAW, non-destructive mobile editing with full Creative Cloud compatibility. In startup environments, has repeatedly scaled and professionalized engineering orgs (career ladders, evaluation systems, delivery process) and led high-stakes cloud/platform transformations—migrating off Heroku and consolidating fragmented AWS/GCP usage into a single GCP platform—improving reliability, deploy speed, and cutting cloud costs by 20%+.”
Srini Reddi
Executive technology leader specializing in AdTech, MarTech, and FinTech platforms
“Candidate brings experience across both startups and big tech, along with direct exposure to pitching ideas to several VCs. They show a practical founder mindset centered on rapid prototyping, customer feedback, retention, and building AI/agent-driven products with strong product-market fit potential.”
Executive engineering leader specializing in AI platforms and agentic automation
Padmaja Tyada
Executive engineering leader specializing in cloud, AI, and FinTech platforms
“Engineering leader with experience scaling teams from 25 to 60+ and delivering both enterprise platform modernization and AI-native product innovation. At Experian, he led an AWS transformation of a high-volume credit platform serving 250M+ consumers, achieving 10x performance gains and 30% cost reduction; at Channel Core, he built AI-powered creator tools using OpenAI and RAG that improved adoption and personalized outreach outcomes.”
Executive Engineering Leader specializing in Agentic AI and Generative AI
Swami Nigam
Director-level software engineering leader specializing in AI/ML, analytics, and enterprise platforms
“Senior software engineering leader with 20+ years of management exposure who has alternated between IC and director-level roles, leading teams of up to 25 across AI platform, analytics, Salesforce, and systems software projects. Particularly compelling for roles needing both technical depth and organizational leadership: they have architected systems themselves, built teams in new geographies, and coordinated platform, AI/data, and consumer engineering groups to deliver successful turnkey AI solutions.”
Executive Engineering Leader specializing in Blockchain, FinTech, and SaaS platforms
fritzie alex
Executive engineering leader specializing in AI-native transformation and cloud modernization
“Senior software engineering leader who owned the architecture and delivery of a major VerizonWireless.com transformation, migrating an ATG monolith to Spring Boot/Java microservices with an event-driven architecture across 13 domains. Combines hands-on system design depth with business-facing architecture leadership and team scaling in complex enterprise environments.”
Anupam Kaul
Director-level engineering leader specializing in AI, robotics, embedded OS, and consumer devices
“Senior engineering executive-level leader with deep hands-on systems expertise across Amazon devices, Alexa, Echo, and FireTV/VegaOS. Unusually combines VP-level org leadership at 120+ scale with direct production debugging and architecture ownership, including hybrid edge-AI/cloud systems, partner platforms for 9000+ apps, and shipping long-horizon platform bets under aggressive release cadences.”
Director of Machine Learning specializing in GenAI platforms and enterprise AI/ML
Executive Technology & Product Leader specializing in AI/ML, Cloud Platforms, and SaaS
Executive engineering leader and full-stack engineer specializing in FinTech and AI platforms
Dilpreet Singh
Executive CTO and Founder specializing in AI platforms and hyper-scale SaaS
“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.”
Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in SaaS platforms, cloud architecture, and SRE
Dimple Joseph
Director of Engineering specializing in cloud-native SaaS, e-commerce search, and AI personalization
“Engineering leader (12+ years Director, 17 years lead) focused on developer productivity and platform/framework work across Oracle, PlayStation, Workday, and CafePress. Notable for building distributed teams from scratch and delivering high-impact platform architecture—e.g., re-architected PlayStation’s upload pipeline to support 500GB–5TB submissions using browser-to-AWS chunked uploads with SNS/SQS and deduplication/resume support.”
Director-level AI and Software Engineering leader specializing in enterprise platforms
Kapil Sharma
Executive engineering leader specializing in AI platforms, LLMs, and healthcare SaaS
“Senior engineering leader in healthcare AI who combines org scaling with deep hands-on architecture work. At DriveHealth.ai, they helped evolve isolated workflows into a production-grade intelligent platform, standardizing a shared RAG+DCE architecture while leading teams of 50+ across engineering, AI, platform, QA, and DevOps.”
Director-level product engineering leader specializing in enterprise cloud transformation
Amit Sharma
Principal Software Engineer specializing in AI/LLM platforms, payments, and healthcare systems
“Engineering player-coach who recently shipped an agent-based workflow to extract key info from unstructured web data (browser agents + CDP) and populate daily digests/calendars, owning architecture through testing. Also built a Flask-based LLM evaluation and regression testing system using G-Eval/Confident AI dashboards, and applies a rigorous, research-driven approach to selecting third-party tools with stakeholder buy-in; has healthcare ops/onboarding workflow experience at Vivio Health.”
Michael Yudanin
Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in AI/ML and enterprise software
“Engineering leader with 20+ years of experience who still codes daily, currently directing AI-driven knowledge management systems at eGain. He stands out for combining large-scale people leadership with deep technical ownership of LLM/NLI pipelines and for a track record of turning complex operational problems into high-impact systems, including a manufacturing platform that boosted throughput 4x and expanded across 11 plants.”