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Vrishali Hajare 🇺🇸

Senior Engineering Manager at Oracle
5.0 (1)

With over 15 years of industry experience, I bring a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the table. My journey in the industry has been marked by continuous learning, growth, and a deep passion for what I do. One of the most fulfilling aspects of my career is the opportunity …
Engineering & Data Product Development Career Growth Interview Preparation Women In Tech Leadership Career Development
$70 / month
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Sonia Jindal 🇺🇸

Engineering leader at Apple
5.0 (2)

About Me I’m passionate about helping people land their dream jobs and build fulfilling careers. With over 20 years in the tech industry, specializing in distributed systems, I’ve worked across both engineering and leadership roles, giving me deep insight into the hiring process. I’ve conducted 500+ interviews and helped countless …
Engineering & Data AI Machine Learning Java Swift Apple Ebay
$330 / month
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Rusty Gaillard 🇺🇸

Executive & Career Coach at Silicon Valley Dreambuilders
5.0 (2)

Ex Apple Director of Worldwide Finance, helping seniors leaders become more clear, confident, and capable. I climbed the ladder for 25 years, from Stanford MBA to Apple worldwide director of finance. I left a great job at an amazing company to become an executive leadership coach. My passion is helping …
Business & Management Leadership Communication Productivity Promotion Career Growth Career Coaching
$480 / month
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Karlie Jessop 🇺🇸

Executive Director at Richmond Radford Ventures
5.0 (1)

Karlie has 20 years of experience working in Sales, Marketing, Sales/Revenue Operations, and Customer Success for the "OGs" like Xerox and ADP, and almost 10 years of wins and learnings in the startup world as well. Her expertise is in B2B, and particularly solutions for the HR space. With a …
Product & Marketing Go To Market GTM Sales Enterprise Sales Coaching Lead Generation
$350 / month
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Liming Liu 🇺🇸

Data Science Manager at BlockFi
5.0 (9)

Hi there! I have conducted numerous DS/DA interviews and thus possess a deep understanding of the qualities and skills needed to succeed for the data analyst or data scientist. Last year, I helped 10+ mentees (5 are from non-tech background) to land their jobs in the data field. Whenever you …
Engineering & Data Data Science Data Analytics Product Analytics Interview Preparation Career Growth A/B Testing
$180 / month
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Kavya Srinet 🇺🇸

Uber Tech Lead at Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) at Meta AI
5.0 (1)

Currently an Uber Tech Lead at FAIR (switched from TLM path to IC), led teams of 15+ people before that working in areas of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning like speech, NLP, computer vision and embodied AI. My big contributions to the field include the first end to end to …
Engineering & Data Artificial Intelligence Research Engineering Software Engineering Research Scientist Machine Learning Senior IC
$220 / month
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Gozde Gorce 🇺🇸

Strategic CSM at Apollo.io
5.0 (1)

With over 10 years of experience in Customer Success, I have excelled in cultivating top-tier teams and guiding individuals to achieve remarkable results. My track record includes building and scaling Customer Success teams from the ground up in both early and mid-stage startups. As a mentor with programs like Customer …
Business & Management Customer Experience Account Management Enterprise Sales Team Lead Leadership Customer Success
$240 / month
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Will Pizzano 🇺🇸

Founder & CEO (1x Exit) | CISO & vCISO
4.8 (5)

I'm a lifelong cybersecurity technologist turned entrepreneur. In 2016, I founded Sentant as my "side hustle" security consulting practice. It grew to over 30 employees, ~$6MM in revenue and was acquired in 2022. I've worked directly with dozens of startups over the years, both as a consultant and in-house. This …
Business & Management Cybersecurity Startup SaaS Bootstrapping Cyber Security Information Security
$220 / month
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Ino Chang 🇺🇸

Sr. Manager, Principal Product Manager at Palo Alto Networks
5.0 (7)

I'm a Sr. Manager and Principal Product Manager at Palo Alto Networks integrating companies and launching products in the cybersecurity space. I was also a product manager at Google, Salesforce, and IBM and an ex-consultant for the Big4 (Deloitte, PwC). I've done management and tech consulting in Fortune 500 companies …
Product & Marketing Product Management Consulting Management Consulting Product Design Product Strategy Product
$480 / month
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Nikhil Maddirala 🇺🇸

Product Manager at Meta
5.0 (7)

As an AI Product Manager at Meta and Adobe, I've built and scaled multiple AI products serving billions of individuals and millions of businesses. I've also advised Fortune 500 companies on AI strategy and implementation as a Consultant at Deloitte. I love learning — I've earned degrees in computer science, …
Product & Marketing Product Management AI Machine Learning Interview Career Growth Artificial Intelligence
$240 / month
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Wayne Chen 🇺🇸

Principal Product Manager at Instacart
5.0 (3)

I am Wayne Chen, a Principal Product Manager at Instacart with ten years of experience in enterprise and consumer products. My journey into product management has been anything but straightforward, and that has shaped my passion for helping others with their career growth. Here’s what you can expect from me: …
Product & Marketing Product Management Leadership User Experience Product Strategy Career Growth Product Design
$240 / month
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Colleen Graneto 🇺🇸

Product management coach & advisor at former PM at Airbnb, Procter & Gamble
5.0 (31)

Having worked with B2B, B2C, and platform products over the last 15 years, including the last 6+ at Airbnb, I have a unique understanding of what is necessary to launch products that resonate with users, and of how to bring those products to market quickly. I teach and coach at …
Product & Marketing Product Management Product Discovery Product Strategy Metrics Product Roadmap Product Metrics
$590 / month
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Jane Adams 🇺🇸

Head of User Research at Ripple
5.0 (1)

I am a seasoned research professional with 16+ years of experience in user research, usability tests, product research, satisfaction tracking programs, secondary/syndicated, market analysis/sizing, customer journey and mapping, brand positioning, Net Promoter Score, with statistical analysis. I've built a team from the ground up and can help with any research …
UX & Design Stakeholder Management UX Research User Research Qualitative Research Resume Portfolio Review
$300 / month
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Ben Shan 🇺🇸

VP, Conversational AI at Sutherland
4.3 (3)

I have over 20 years years of experience in software development, inclusive of 8 years in engineering roles and several years of technical product management with solution architecture responsibilities. I am primarily in product management now, but I manage and can still speak comfortably with engineers. I am available to …
Engineering & Data Product Management Product Development Software Architecture UX Design Natural Language Processing Project Management
$110 / month
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Mainak Sen 🇺🇸

Senior Director of Engineering at Databricks, previously Dir @Meta
5.0 (7)

I've worked at Facebook/Meta as an Engineering Director, Microsoft as a Principal Eng Manager and currently Senior Director of Engineering at Databricks. I have also built my own startup, raised ~10 million dollars in funding which failed within 2 years (with lots of lessons along the way :) ). I …
Engineering & Data Engineering Management People Management Management Hiring Interview Interview Preparation
$140 / month
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Quynh Nguyen 🇺🇸

Senior Manager, Product Design at Oura Ring
5.0 (3)

I went from a Biologist working in the lab with no design experience, to a Product Design Manager managing incredibly skilled senior designers at an award winning company. My passion is designing for impact and helping others build confidence in design and life. I specialize in mentoring junior/ mid level …
UX & Design Product Design UX Design UI Design Career Growth Career Change Career Transition
$180 / month
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Elnaz Sarraf 🇺🇸

Founder & CEO at ROYBI
5.0 (5)

Elnaz Sarraf is the CEO and founder of the award-winning ROYBI® Robot – the world’s first AI-powered smart toy to teach children language and STEM skills. It also has been named one of TIME Magazine’s Best Inventions in Education, on the 2019 CNBC Upstart 100 list as one of the …
Business & Management Fundraising Pitch Review Business Development Marketing Sales Pitch Deck
$290 / month
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Jason Xie 🇺🇸

Research Scientist at Adobe
5.0 (4)

12 years ago, like many of us, I started learning about Machine Learning models and reading any books or blogs that I can get my hands on. After dropping out of the PhD program at UC Berkeley, I was so fortunate to be able to apply my skills and passion …
Engineering & Data Machine Learning Python Data Science Data Analytics Software Engineering SQL
$80 / month
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Walter Lee 🇺🇸

Former Head of Product at Stessa
5.0 (15)

I've been working in San Francisco and Silicon Valley for the last 20 years. I was Head of Product at 3 startups, ranging from 3-guys-in-a-garage to a Series D startup. I have always done a mix of hands-on PM work and managing other product managers. Before that, I started my …
Product & Marketing Product Roadmap Scrum Agile Prioritization Interviewing
$200 / month
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Jeremy Glassenberg 🇺🇸

Director/VP Product, Platform and APIs at Ex-DocuSign, Box, Tradeshift
5.0 (1)

I'm Jeremy. I have over 17 years of experience in Product Leadership, building Platform Product teams at several startups now worth over $1 billion, specialized in APIs and Marketplace products. I led Box's developer platform as one of their first 20 employees, managed Tradeshift's developer ecosystem, and most recently led …
Business & Management People Management Product-Market Fit API Startups Leadership Product Management
$240 / month
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Find Career Coaches in the San Francisco Bay Area
  • Naz

    "Naz is an amazing person and a wonderful mentor. She is supportive and knowledgeable with extensive practical experience. Having been a manager at Netflix, she also knows a ton about working with teams at scale. Highly recommended."

  • Brandon

    "Brandon has been supporting me with a software engineering job hunt and has provided amazing value with his industry knowledge, tips unique to my situation and support as I prepared for my interviews and applications."

  • Sandrina

    "Sandrina helped me improve as an engineer. Looking back, I took a huge step, beyond my expectations."