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
$300 / hr
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
$325 / hr
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 mentored 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
$275 / hr
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
$250 / hr
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
$325 / hr
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
$350 / hr
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