I run engineering at Everest Group: strategy, hiring, platforms, and our GenAI Center of Excellence. I built the founding engineering team here and shipped our first AI-integrated products. I didn't start in engineering leadership. I started as a data analyst, became a data scientist, then a project lead, then a manager, then Head of Engineering in under four years. That path is exactly why I'm useful to you. I know what the jump looks like from the inside, and I know what it looks like from the other side of the table. I sit in senior interview loops. I write promo cases. I decide who gets the offer. Most people preparing for these conversations are guessing at the bar. I can just tell you what it is. What I help with: · Mock interviews for senior IC and EM roles, run like a real loop, with the written feedback I'd actually submit · Resume and profile reviews from someone who screens them for a living · IC to management, or getting unstuck at senior · Breaking into AI and agentic engineering from a backend, data, or platform background · Promo packets, performance reviews, and the part nobody teaches you: visibility I write about agentic systems, platform engineering, and engineering leadership at prateek-sharma.com. If you want to know how I think before you spend money, start there. Come with a specific problem. You'll leave with a specific next step.