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Boyan Angelov – Meet the Mentor
I am a management consultant and a fractional CTO, focusing on data and AI strategy, and bridging that difficult gap between sky-high expectation of the amazing technology we have, and the software and organisational complexity that we face in reality. Beyond consulting, I am also an author, with books so far on programming languages and strategy.
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Auws Al-Gaboury – Meet the Mentor
I’m Auws Al-Gaboury, a creative producer and founder of Hyper Film, a London-based studio that helps brands turn content into real business results. Over the past decade I’ve worked with startups and global brands, focusing on strategy, storytelling…
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Taskin Karlar – Meet the Mentor
I’m a multi-time founder and CTO with a background in building and scaling deep tech ventures across AI, biotech, and aerospace. Over the past decade, I’ve led teams through complex product, infrastructure, and growth inflection points. I mentor…
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Ahmed Elbagoury – Meet the Mentor
I am a Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Google with over a decade of experience building scalable, safe, and efficient AI systems, ranging from LLM safety frameworks to multimodal document understanding. Beyond my engineering work, I am a passionat…
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From the Community: Mentor Contributions
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Adam Oskwarek – Meet the Mentor
I'm a seasoned operator with 20 years of experience across startups, corporates, and venture — spanning Founder, COO, CPO, & growth leadership roles. I thrive in fast-paced environments where clarity, structure, and execution are critical and I'm calm, unflappable and focused under pressure. I've worked in large corporations & startups/scale-ups in edtech, climatetech, fintech, SaaS and more.
Adam Oskwarek
Adam Oskwarek
November 14th, 2025
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Linda Scotti – Meet the Mentor
I’m Linda Scotti, an Executive & Career Coach with 23 years in tech (including 12 at Google and 5 at Indeed) and 9 years in corporate coaching. Certified in Positive Intelligence, I help leaders navigate transformation, scaling, and high-pressure challenges—building high-performing teams, mastering emotional intelligence, and achieving measurable results through confident, authentic leadership.
Linda Scotti
Linda Scotti
October 3rd, 2025
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Harold Park – Meet the Mentor
Full-stack engineer specializing in modern front-end web technologies, with a focus on empathy-driven team collaboration and servant leadership
Harold Park
Harold Park
September 26th, 2025
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Lizabeth murphy – Meet the Mentor
AS a seasoned Chief People Officer & Organizational Psychologist with over a decade of experience serving startups, VC-backed ventures, and SMBs in the tech, retail, and services sectors. As the founder of Advise Me, I combine strategic leadership, operational excellence, and holistic coaching to help founders and leadership teams build high-performing, people-first organizations.
Lizabeth murphy
Lizabeth murphy
September 12th, 2025
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Ludwig Wullner – Meet the Mentor
I’m Ludwig, a Senior Manager at McDonald’s Global Technology. I lead backend and frontend deployment operations and the Deployment Reliability Engineering function, focusing on making large-scale releases predictable, secure and repeatable across global markets. I blend technical fluency with process design and people leadership to help engineering teams move faster with less operational risk.
Ludwig Wullner
Ludwig Wullner
September 12th, 2025
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Living Mindfully in a High‑Growth World: A Fifth‑Decade Reset
In this post I share my fifth‑decade reset, practical steps and reflections on mindful, grounded leadership, that can help founders and product leaders balance ambition with longevity and presence.
Soodeh Farokhi
Soodeh Farokhi
September 12th, 2025
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Rishabh Misra – Meet the Mentor
I’m a Staff ML Engineer with a decade of experience across applied research, engineering leadership, and knowledge sharing. I have built AI-powered personalization systems at startups, Twitter, and Amazon, and co-authored ML research on novel user-facing problems, applying it to improve real-world experiences. I share learnings through writing, speaking, and mentorship.
Rishabh Misra
Rishabh Misra
May 12th, 2025
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Aymen Segni – Meet the Mentor
I’m a Cloud & SRE Leader with deep expertise in platform engineering, cloud-native architectures, and DevOps best practices. Over the years, I’ve helped companies—from startups to enterprises—scale their infrastructure, improve reliability, and optimize performance. As a mentor, I focus on guiding engineers through career transitions, technical challenges, and leadership growth.
Aymen Segni
Aymen Segni
February 10th, 2025
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Tomek Nowobilski – Meet the Mentor
I'm a ex-chemist, but I've also created my own marketing agency in San Francisco and ran it for 7 years. The last 15 years gave me incredible experience in Growth Marketing, Sales and Leadership.
Tomek Nowobilski
Tomek Nowobilski
October 14th, 2024
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Valentin Chanmala – Meet the Mentor
I'm Valentin, a seasoned SaaS Sales leader with 11+ years' experience and two IPOs under my belt. Through mentorship, I empower aspiring professionals to excel in sales strategy, team leadership, and career growth.
Valentin Chanmala
Valentin Chanmala
April 15th, 2024
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Demian Gutierrez – Meet the Mentor
I have 20+ years of experience in software development roles. I founded two companies serving government and building enterprise systems. As a professor, I modernized software engineering/computer science curriculum by integrating theory with hands-on learning. At Amazon/AWS as a Principal Engineer, I provided technical leadership for complex, critical services, and mentoring for 50 people org.
Demian Gutierrez
Demian Gutierrez
March 5th, 2024
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Miky Bayankin – Meet the Mentor
My name is Miky, I'm an entrepreneur, startup founder, and a product manager. I have a background in product, operations, business and people leadership. Most of my career, I have been launching new products and businesses - both as standalone companies and within the larger companies.
Miky Bayankin
Miky Bayankin
February 12th, 2024
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Catalin Rosu – Meet the Mentor
I am a Software Development Lead with a strong background in software engineering, specialising in architecting and delivering robust software applications, as well as leading and building high-performing teams. With nearly two decades in coding, my transition to leadership was driven by a passion for creating impactful solutions the right way with the right team.
Catalin Rosu
Catalin Rosu
December 4th, 2023
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Larry Jacobson – Meet the Mentor
15+ years experience managing cross-functional technology teams, delivering impact while fostering innovation and a growth-oriented culture. I've worked at Amazon, Snap, and several midsize companies and startups. Currently I am an independent career and leadership coach, and have a few entrepreneurial efforts in the works.
Larry Jacobson
Larry Jacobson
August 16th, 2023

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