Vetted Software Development Professionals

“Highly experienced robotics software engineer building ROS/ROS2 systems for fleets of autonomous mobile robots (Clearpath Jackal/Husky and custom platforms), spanning localization, navigation, and multi-robot coordination. Has published work at ICRA (including RL-based local planning and heterogeneous robot coordination via a ROS-to-ZMQ bridge) and maintains open-source ROS modules, with strong simulation, debugging, and CI/CD practices.”

Bill Eichen

Screened

Executive product and business leader specializing in AI, semiconductors, and growth strategy

Palo Alto, CA23y exp

“Candidate indicated they have a business plan or startup and referenced Gimmelfund.com, a VC fund in Palo Alto. They also stated they are very familiar with the venture capital, studio, and accelerator landscape, but provided limited detail during the screen.”

“Senior engineering leader with deep hands-on architecture experience across fintech and enterprise software. At DriveWealth, he led a major backend replatform for a brokerage platform handling 10M+ trades per day, combining event-driven design, Kinesis/Kafka, and regulatory-grade accuracy; at TIBCO, he built a Kubernetes-based API management product from near scratch into a successful revenue-generating offering.”

“Strategy and operations leader with experience spanning Anheuser-Busch and McMaster-Carr, combining large-scale cost ownership, frontline operations leadership, and sourcing strategy. Particularly compelling for operationally intensive roles: they’ve managed a 150-person service organization, owned a ~$750M cost base, built strategy in ambiguous environments, and independently drove an LLM automation pilot that reached 97% accuracy and saved 3 FTEs.”

Angel Kelchev

Screened

Executive VC & Corporate Development leader specializing in M&A, partnerships, and growth investing

Tampa, FL17y exp

“Entrepreneur and investor applying for a venture studio CEO role; previously founded Centruida (custom software services in blockchain and computer vision), scaled to ~65–70 people, raised early capital, and exited to Logicr within ~2 years. Also co-founded Ayan Capital (venture fund) raising primarily from family offices/individuals, and runs a consulting business plus a nonprofit school.”

“Software engineer with a rare mix of early startup product-building and large-scale enterprise data platform work. At a 40-person digital signage startup, they wrote much of the customer-facing software, and later at Qualtrics built Go and Python ETLs, internal configuration tools, and B2B data products supporting survey analytics and custom data science workflows.”

“Serial entrepreneur with multiple startups and demonstrated VC fundraising experience, including raising $125K for a current business plan and building investor relationships across several VC firms. Driven by tackling difficult problems and assessing opportunities through a lens of solution creativity and team execution, while prioritizing sustainable quality of life.”

“Senior product manager with deep fintech and AI product experience across Vanguard and Seeking Alpha. Most notably led Vanguard's first shipped AI product—an ML-powered portfolio optimization web app for financial advisors—from Python prototype to production, while also building internal model validation systems and later redesigning PM training adopted across the organization.”

michael avrahamov

Screened

Executive engineering leader specializing in AI-first SaaS and cloud platforms

San Francisco Bay Area, CA22y exp

“Senior engineering executive who operated as an org-level CTO at both ServiceNow and Oracle, leading global teams up to 150 engineers and driving cloud-native, multi-tenant platform architecture. Particularly strong in observability, streaming systems, and security, with experience delivering large-scale systems ingesting data from millions of agents while building high-performing, high-DORA engineering organizations.”

Britney Russ

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive product leader specializing in consumer technology and EdTech

Los Angeles, CA13y exp

“Senior product leader from Codecademy who has spent roughly a decade building and mentoring cross-functional organizations while leading major strategic pivots in education. Most notably, they repositioned Codecademy toward a new learner segment and launched an AI-native learning platform that tripled signup rates, while also creating new revenue streams like live learning and accessible AI workshops.”

“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.”

Timothy Mazenge

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in Ads frontend and high-scale web platforms

Kirkland, WA6y exp

“Backend engineer with ad-tech experience who improved advertiser dashboard accuracy by exempting 1% of traffic from ML-based dropping in a ~1B-requests/day pipeline, trading storage for higher customer satisfaction and reduced debugging load. Demonstrates strong migration discipline (phased rollouts, compatibility layers, rollback/change-history recovery) and production API/security practices in Python/FastAPI (async, caching, throttling, RBAC/RLS, monitoring).”