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ZanderDent.

Zander Dent

Co-founded VibeOps: built the initial Reportly prototype, then led product and engineering as the team grew. Ran the full sales cycle myself, 180+ discovery calls into $63,275 CAD closed. Now building ML and data pipelines with SRF's Software and Data Intelligence team.

CO-FOUNDER / CEO, VIBEOPS TECHNOLOGIES · SOFTWARE ENGINEER I, SRF CONSULTING

BASED
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
CITIZENSHIP
US / CANADA DUAL
EDUCATION
B.A.SC. CIVIL, UBC 2026
EIT
CIVIL, STATE OF CALIFORNIA

02 / FIELD

REELVANCOUVER

03 / NUMBERS

QUALIFIED PIPELINE BUILT

SELF-SOURCED, NO PAID ACQUISITION

DISCOVERY CONVERSATIONS

ACROSS 140+ FIRMS. SET THE ICP, QUALIFICATION, AND PRICING

IN ONE PART-TIME SUMMER, AGE 16

#1 SALESPERSON NATIONWIDE, ERIK'S BIKE SHOP

04 / EXPERIENCE

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Software Engineer I

SRF Consulting Group

JUN 2026 – PRESENT

MINNEAPOLIS, MN

Building ML and data pipelines for transportation problems on the Software and Data Intelligence team.

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Web Designer & Developer

Freelance

2024 – PRESENT

REMOTE

Design and build custom websites for artists, filmmakers, videographers, ceramicists, tattoo artists, and other creatives, translating each client's visual identity and ideas into the actual site.

Build the weird, specific interactions each project calls for, from 3D camcorder sequences and interactive portfolios to booking flows, dynamic galleries, and custom animations.

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Co-Founder / CEO

VibeOps Technologies (Reportly)

MAY 2025 – JUN 2026

SAN FRANCISCO, CA / VANCOUVER, BC

Built the initial Reportly prototype, then led product and engineering direction as the company expanded to a technical team. Stayed hands-on, with substantial work on the AI service and the .NET application layer.

Personally closed four contracts totaling $63,275 CAD, all self-sourced with no paid acquisition, on top of $106,500 in qualified pipeline built by multi-threading firm principals, project managers, and staff engineers.

Set the ICP, qualification criteria, and pricing from scratch off 180+ discovery conversations across 140+ firms. Ran every demo and POC myself on the product (Next.js, .NET, PostgreSQL, Stripe).

Wrote the outbound stack in Apps Script: automated sequencing, reply detection, and a 3-7-7 follow-up cadence across every campaign.

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Engineering Intern (Civil / Software)

SRF Consulting Group

JUN – OCT 2025

MINNEAPOLIS, MN

Built a crash-analysis dashboard over 50,000+ traffic records and the Python/SQL pipelines behind it, cutting roughly 10 hrs/week of manual analyst work.

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Product & Automation Intern

Effortlo

JAN – MAY 2025

REMOTE

Helped drive adoption of an AI expert-matching tool to 500+ security experts, working directly with the founder on workflow and positioning.

Cut manual sales-ops time by roughly 30% by building CRM integrations and automated sequences in Zoho.

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Sales Associate, #1 Salesperson Nationwide

Erik's Bike Shop

MAY 2019 – AUG 2023

MINNETONKA, MN

Ranked #1 company-wide at age 16 on $250K+ in revenue in a single part-time summer, owning the full customer interaction from needs discovery through close.

Held top-performer ranking for 4+ years and covered as acting store lead, running consultative discovery on high-consideration purchases.

University of British Columbia

B.A.SC., CIVIL ENGINEERING

APR 2026

VANCOUVER, BC

GPA 82.4%

CIVIL ENGINEER IN TRAINING (EIT), STATE OF CALIFORNIA

1ST PLACE, UBC CIVIL ENGINEERING CAPSTONE, DESIGN & INNOVATION DAY 2026

DEAN'S HONOUR LIST

INNOVATION UBC VENTURE FOUNDER COHORT

05 /Portfolio↗

Own products: Teams Music Status · Tenvy, an AI job-application assistant (Mac and iPhone, coming soon)

06 / SKILLS

SALES & GTM
Full-cycle B2B sales · Outbound prospecting · Customer discovery · Demos & POCs · Multi-threading · Pipeline management · ICP and pricing · Technical pre-sales · Sales automation (Apps Script, Gmail/Sheets APIs) · HubSpot · Zoho
AI & PRODUCT
LLM APIs · RAG · Agentic workflows · Vector search · Prompt engineering · Product strategy
TECHNICAL
Python · TypeScript/JavaScript · SQL · C#/.NET · REST APIs · OAuth/JWT · Next.js · React
CLOUD & INTEGRATIONS
Azure · PostgreSQL · Docker · Stripe · DocuSign · Microsoft Graph · Google APIs · Git

07 / REFERENCES

I'd hand him a problem - often not fully defined, since I'm not the technical one - and he'd come back quickly with something that actually worked.
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Zander supported a number of tech-forward initiatives and AI tool development for me at Effortlo, and he's the kind of person every founder hopes to have on the team.

I'd hand him a problem - often not fully defined, since I'm not the technical one - and he'd come back quickly with something that actually worked. He built our outreach and follow-up automation largely on his own, took feedback well, and turned fixes around fast, often the same day. Throughout, he was professional, communicative, and genuinely easy to rely on.

What impressed me most was his ability to take what I needed in plain business terms and turn it into a working technical solution without me having to spell out the how. He's sharp, dependable, and takes real ownership of his work. I'd happily work with him again and recommend him without reservation.

Steve Lisle

Steve Lisle

CEO and Founder, Effortlo

Steve managed Zander directly · June 30, 2026

BUILT IT
I originally reached out to Zander hoping to sign his team at VibeOps up as a customer for GrantFundPro. Funny how that turned out - a few conversations in, he'd completely flipped it and I ended up becoming HIS client instead!
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I originally reached out to Zander hoping to sign his team at VibeOps up as a customer for GrantFundPro. Funny how that turned out - a few conversations in, he'd completely flipped it and I ended up becoming HIS client instead! That alone should tell you how sharp and convincing the guy is.

What stood out most was how fast he got to the heart of what we needed and turned it into something that actually worked. His team was super responsive, handled the tricky technical pieces without any fuss, and worked right alongside our own developers rather than around them. He's just as strong on the business side of a conversation as the technical side - which honestly isn't common.

One of the more impressive people I've worked with, hands down. Would recommend him to anyone, and I'm sure we'll work together again!

Jonathan Stacey

Jonathan Stacey

Founder, GrantFundPro

Jonathan was Zander's client · June 29, 2026

CAME TO SELL