Comet
Hand-picked & poached candidates for Comet
Comet
Hand-picked & poached candidates who like Comet and want to interview
Team
Gideon Mendels
CEO and Co-Founder
Nimrod Lahav
CTO and Co-founder
Amir Zucker
VP of Engineering
Shir Rinot
Chief of Staff
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Staff SWE at Meta (3+ yrs) leading large scale project
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ex-Infra Team Lead at Wix; led backend core services team
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strong in Java, TypeScript, Scala; built microservices, full-stack systems
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ex-Squad Commander at Israel Defense Forces
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exp with high scale, resilience, perf, distributed architecture, integrations
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Software Engineer II at AWS (3+ years)
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shipped greenfield AWS services for customers using serverless architecture
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developed full-stack solutions with Python, Kotlin, TypeScript
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built Python framework for reactive microservices (400+ stars)
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exp with data science and machine learning
Candidate preferences
Remote-only, individual contributor
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ex-Senior SWE at Pulumi & Microsoft
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led release & deployment for Azure Search (~70k VMs)
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proficient in Go, Python, TypeScript, K8s, Elastic, DevOps, Hadoop, ETL
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contributed across the IaC stack at Pulumi
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worked with customers & OSS users in client-facing role
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Principal SWE at IBM, prev Principal SWE at Red Hat
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proficient in Java, TypeScript, Scala, Go, WASM, AWS, Terraform
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20+ yrs exp across the stack, from cloud infra to full-stack web apps
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prolific OSS contributor; 100+ merged PRs in Keycloak, Akka, Apache, Fabric8
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Senior SWE at JetBrains; ex-Python Developer at Yandex
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proficient in Python, Java, Kotlin, Rust, JavaScript
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contributed to JetBrains TeamCity core and cloud
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passionate about developer tooling and backend systems
Candidate preferences
Compilers or static analysis tools are always a yes. Developer tooling is always fun. Challenging backend systems are fun.
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6+ years at Oracle as Senior Solution Architect and Senior Tech PM
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shipped customer solutions & product demos w/ Python, Terraform, Ansible
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managed product release for significant customer-visible features
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drove operational/major incident response processes for team of 35+
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deep experience with OCI; 20+ merged PRs in K8s, Terraform, Moby
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Founding Eng at YC startup working on infra, vendor and client integrations
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helped onboard clients for $500K+ ARR for 150+ providers
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delivered and maintained production integrations for clients
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proficient in Kubernetes, Docker, Python, Go, Rust, React
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built firmware stack for AI Inference models on NVIDIA Jetson
Candidate preferences
Prefer health care, open to good problems outside healthcare that either need compliance or such. Very few consumer apps for which I am a good fit, exceptions include places where I can learn a lot. Prefer to work in South Bay or remote. Hybrid SF for the right compensation.
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SWE at Atlassian; ex-Staff SWE at Rivian; 10+ yrs experience
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proficient in Kubernetes, Python, Terraform, React, Node.js, PostgreSQL
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built real-time data pipelines for Rivian’s fleet of vehicles
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built event-driven architectures and distributed systems
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OSS contributions to React, Aiohttp and more
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Infrastructure Engineer at Apple for 2,5+ years
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5+ years exp with on-prem & multi cloud deployment
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proficient in Python, Go, TypeScript, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, K8s
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shipped analytics dashboard & change detection jobs for real-time monitoring
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passionate about deep learning
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Backend/SRE at Microsoft; MSCE w/ ML concentration in top US college
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proficient in Python, Go, Java, .NET
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spearheaded CLI Toolchain and containerization at AppsFlyer
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prolific OSS maintainer; 50+ merged PRs in Roboflow, Buildpacks, Datadog
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loves experimenting with machine learning projects in spare time
Candidate preferences
I’m open to open/closed source, and I have experience in Go, .NET, Python, and Java
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lead maintainer of AI orchestration framework (20k+ stars, 300+ contribs)
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Senior SWE at investment bank building LLM-as-a-Service backends
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ex-Lead AI Engineer at voice agents startup** (Python framework)
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ex SWE at CERN building Python tools for accelerator
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5+ yrs experience in startups, GenAI, LLMs; MS in Data Science
Candidate preferences
Strongly prefer remote, only open to on-site for really exceptional offers (way above my minimum salary requirements). Prefer open spurce engineering or highly technical devrel roles but open to every offer.
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Senior SWE at Coiled; ex-SWE at Scale AI
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prolific OSS contributor; 100+ PRs in Dask, XGBoost, Apache Iceberg
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extensive exp building distributed systems for data and ML
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migrated search functionality from PostgreSQL to Elasticsearch at Scale AI
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led data shuffle service design; improved Dask DataFrame API
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ex-ML Engineer at Hugging Face
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prolific OSS maintainer; 100+ PRs in scikit-learn, numpy, keras, fairlearn
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10+ yrs exp in research, software & ML
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PhD in computational biology; 400+ citations
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2 yrs experience as tech founder
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MTS at AMD Silo AI; ex-SWE at Aiven
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proficient in Python, FastAPI, AWS, Azure, GCP; PostgreSQL
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maintained open-source Python clients for Aiven
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led cloud optimization projects improving cost efficiency
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maintains 50+ Fedora RPM packages
Candidate preferences
Remote / hybrid or on-site in Helsinki Open Source projects Backend, devtools, AI
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7+ years as Research Scientist / ML Engineer at Meta
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PhD in statistics; proficient in in Python, R, ML, SQL, Presto
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taught and consulted in statistics and R programming
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OSS contributions in Presto, Seaborn, tidyverse
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ex-Meta, Deliveroo, Spotify; 15+ years of design exp
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proficient in front-end dev, product design and marketing design
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led product design at Chromatic
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ran award-winning digital studio for 7+ years
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prolific OSS contributor (Backstage, Storybook)
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Product Design Lead at AI unicorn (3 years)
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10+ yrs in UI/UX, led 70+ projects; excels in team leadership
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conducted 50+ interviews, grew design team by 3 members
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built a custom Figma plugin for enhanced design process
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founder experience
Candidate preferences
Remote-only, best in European timezones, I’m a product designer (even if I code a lot)
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Software Engineer and UI & UX Designer at seed startup in SF
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300+ merged PRs across Meta repos (React, React Native)
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10+ yrs of exp in web/mobile with strong UI/UX design background
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versed in TypeScript, React, React Native, Scala, Swift, Rust
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ships code every day of the week (avg 11 commits per day)
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prolific OSS contributor (Next.js, Ladybird, Sentry, Adobe)
Candidate preferences
Remote-only