Our Coaches
Sam B
Engineering Manager @ YouTube
10+ years of experience. Sam is passionate about building engineering teams and shipping delightful user experiences. As a senior frontend engineer at multiple early stage startups, Sam has experience building teams focused on e-commerce, personalization, and growth marketing tech that has helped scale revenue from 0 to billions in sales. Currently, Sam's team at YouTube is driving growth for the fastest growing and largest video platform in the world.
Sam is passionate about helping engineering managers & leaders excel in their career growth, effectively drive & communicate impact, and efficiently prepare for BigTech interviews. Read More
Software Engineering Engineering Management Career Coaching Interview preparation IC to Manager
$150 / 30 mins
John Ferneborg
VP of Talent @ QuSecure
25+ years of experience. John has been on the front lines of hiring and building talent programs for early-stage, high-growth companies. He's led recruiting teams at companies like Alphabet/Google X, and Roblox and currently serves as VP of Talent at QuSecure, a post-quantum cybersecurity solution for government agencies and private sector enterprises.
With his experience in executive search and technical recruiting, Mr. Ferneborg has dedicated his career to helping others succeed. He loves nothing more than helping people find fulfillment in their work – and he knows just how much impact this can have on their lives. Read More
Career Coaching Professional Development Early Career to Executive Level
$162 / 30 mins
Sonya P.
Product Manager – Tech @ Amazon
6+ years of experience. Sonya is currently a Technical Product Manager at Amazon, working on a product that supports over 1M users daily. Prior to Amazon, she was working as a Senior Product Manager at Lob, a start-up in the direct mail space.
Sonya is passionate about empowering people to achieve their goals, especially when it comes to their careers. She uses her own experiences in moving from a liberal arts background to a career in tech and moving from engineering to product management to empathize with and support her mentees. As someone who works backwards to bring big goals to life, Sonya believes that anything can be achieved with a strategic approach, the right support, and a determination to make things happen. Her goal is to empower others to see that they can achieve whatever it is they desire.
Outside of work, Sonya has volunteered as a mental health mentor for 6 years and has spent the past 3 years providing support in her free time to people looking to transition into tech, explore software engineering, move into product, and deal with challenging situations at work. She also enjoys planning meetups and going for long walks with audiobooks. Read More
Product Management Career Transition Career Coaching Coaching Women in Tech Early Career to Mid-Level
$125 / 30 mins
Shivansh Chaudhary
Chief Product and Technology Officer @ Fabric
10+ years of experience. Shivansh is the Chief Product & Technology Officer at Fabric, a venture-backed startup at the intersection of augmented reality, sports and web3. Prior to Fabric, he was a Product Leader at Amazon Web Services, where he led the development and growth of computer vision and machine learning products, serving millions of users globally. He is a first principles thinker, who focuses on frameworks for deconstructing complex problems and finding creative solutions, with exponential impact.
He is passionate about coaching people through challenging career moments with his own experience transitioning from an engineer to a growth product manager. He brings years of executive leadership experience to his coaching conversations, focusing on self reflection, empathy and bias towards action. Outside work, he loves gardening with his wife and running with his dog in Seattle. Read More
Product Management Software Eng / Development Engineering Management IC to Manager
$150 / 30 mins
Ian
Data Engineer, Startups
5+ years of experience. Ian is deeply passionate about all things data and software engineering. As a professional Data Engineer at multiple startups, he has experience interviewing candidates, building teams, and building high performance data products. Ian has significant experience with helping executives find innovative ways to raise revenue and cut costs.
Ian is passionate about helping early career engineers with career direction, career growth, communicating well on remote teams, and preparing for startup interviews. Read More
Data Engineering Software Engineering Interview Prep Early Career
$150 / 30 mins
Salman Arif
Director, Product Management in Fintech
12+ years of experience and multiple hat-wearer. Salman served as a Group Product Manager at Borealis AI (Canada's largest Machine Learning Lab), where he led a team of product managers working on some of the most complex problems in high-frequency and electronic trading. Salman specializes in building high-powered ML teams that take ideas from fundamental research and convert them into trading solutions that power global markets. Salman is a thought leader in this space and advises on structural changes required to transform firms from nascent to ML-first organizations.
Salman also advises series A and B start-up companies as a growth leader with a track record of driving product usage and revenue growth through strategic product planning, customer acquisition, retention, conversion and resurrections. Salman today applies product-led growth strategies to productivity tools in crypto and web 3.0. Before becoming a PM. Salman worked as an Investment Banker and a Quant.
Salman believes that any candidate with the right mindset can enter lucrative roles in trading, Fintech and ML-first organizations. Salman's coaching methodology focuses on problems first and skills second, which will help you grow from zero to one on frontier topics but also help you grow from one to N. With this vast experience, Salman can help prospective candidates with personalized plans to identify skills needed to level up careers and avoid common career mistakes at important inflection points Read More
Product Management Finance Career Coaching Early Career to Mid-Level
$175 / 30 mins
Keenan Komoto
Senior Software Engineer @ Sparrow
5+ years of experience, 1+ career coaching. I do not come from a traditional background in computer science, and worked my way into the tech industry through self-teaching, determination, odd-jobs, and a lot of networking. I understand what it's like to apply to countless jobs, be constantly rejected (or ghosted), all while continuously studying algorithms and watching your bank account drain as you work low-paying (or in my case, no-pay) jobs. My career path has never been "easy". I worked hard to get something on my resume, was lucky enough to be accepted into the Recurse Center, all while constantly interviewing to land my first job at Oracle.
Since then I have worked with a team of highly skilled data scientists, a data pipeline team handling terabytes of data per day, backend API, and now am spanning the whole range at a small startup. I learned what makes a healthy work environment, and what creates a toxic or hostile one. I have made strategic moves which in turn has attracted companies to constantly reach out to me. I understand that everyone gets into engineering in a different way, and I want to help you on that path. Whether you don't know the first thing about "coding", or are early in your career and are not sure how to deal with things that you don't know are normal or not. I am a resource for you to get anything you need from. Read More
Software Engineering Career Coaching Job Search Resume Feedback Early Career
$125 / 30 mins
Muji
Data Scientist @ Lyft
3+ years of experience. Muji is a product data scientist with a background in software engineering. He joined Lyft after studying computer science and statistics at UC Berkeley. During his time at Lyft, he has worked on growing new teams, building out data analytics pipelines, and making user-focused product strategy decisions.
Muji is passionate about helping students and early career professionals build the skills they need to break into data science roles and be successful as data scientists at data-driven technology companies. Read More
Data Science Career Coaching Resume Feedback Early Career
$125 / 30 mins
Neal
Senior Strategy and Finance Manager @ FAANG
14+ years of experience. Neal started as a software engineer & grew into an engineering manager, before switching into investment banking & then corporate strategy. He has been on the hiring committee at each firm he’s worked at, and uses that experience to uniquely tailor his advise to each client. He has also been a manager for over a decade, and enjoys helping other managers & leaders drive impact & grow in their careers.
Neal has coached hundreds of candidates over 14+ years & helped them break into some of the top tech & finance companies, through job search coaching, industry change / career switches, interview prep, professional development & general career coaching. Read More
Software Engineering Product Management Job Search Professional Development Early Career to Executive Level
$137 / 30 mins
Marwa Mabrouk
Product Lead in Health Tech
20+ years of experience. Marwa has a passion for building high-tech products to help people. For the last 8+ years, she has been a product lead at Google, working on different products like YouTube, Ads, and Android. She started her career as a software engineer and then transitioned to product management. She has experience building new products from vision to launch to market-leading; and leading products that generate billions of dollars with billions of users. She has recently joined a startup for health tech.
Marwa has several years of experience mentoring professionals who wish to transition to product management from other roles or want to grow their careers in product management. She is a mentor who invests a lot of caring. She also has experience mentoring women in tech. Read More
Product Management Career Coaching Creative Vision and Execution Professional Development Interview Prep Early Career to Senior Level
$200 / 30 mins
Randy V.
Executive Principal Recruiter @ Woven Planet
Randy has 20+ years of recruiting experience from a variety of industries that include companies like Rackspace, Riot Games, Uber, Cruise, Woven Planet and Coinbase. He has held a variety of positions including Principal Technical Recruiter, Executive Recruiter and Sr. Manager of Recruiting of a medium sized recruiting team. Randy has been working as a career coach for almost 3 years with a focus on interview prep, resume review and offer negotiations.
Randy has a passion for making sure that clients have access to understanding the entire recruitment process from the start to finish, how to navigate the difficult conversations with recruiters and how to get in front of the right individuals for consideration. Randy build strong relationships with his clients to fully understand motivations beyond just the compensation aspect of a role. Read More
Career Coaching Professional Development Interview Prep Job Search Coaching Early Career to Exec Level
$125 / 30 mins
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