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Product Engineer @ unicorn backed by YC building AI devtools
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prev Founding Eng @ startup; helped achieve €1M ARR in under a year
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built and launched AI coding assistant in 2021; scaled to 1k+ users
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5+ years exp building infrastructure and developer platforms at scale
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lead on-prem to AWS migrations and microfrontend patterns at a major bank
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prev MLH Fellow contributing to Next.js; worked on profiling and ISR
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built Linux Intrusion Detection Systems and CI/CD with AWS CDK
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proficient in TypeScript, React, Node.js, Go, Python and low-level systems
Candidate preferences
AI, Deep tech, Infra
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CS ’24; currently Product Engineer @ $6M+ seed AI startup
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prev Founding Engineer ($10M seed); focused on design for GenAI
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ex-founder; shipped video editing copilot and short-form gen tools
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led Three.js and WebGL engineering for image editing features
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built automated data analysis workflows with AI-in-the-middle evals
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improved transcript accuracy by 40% via AWS serverless and ML
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optimized frontend with lazy loading and virtualized data tables
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proficient in TypeScript, Python, Next.js, Three.js, Figma, UI/UX
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10+ years exp; currently MTS @ $50M+ seed AI startup
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Founding Engineer @ $10M+ seed robotics startup; built the RDK and API
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ex-Director @ public open source tech company; ran 4 cloud platform teams
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reverse-engineered League of Legends client; sold networking stack to Riot
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built core infra for major DBaaS; handled AWS networking and recovery
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led technical integration of a mobile DB acquisition into cloud stack
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architected WebRTC and gRPC tunneling for remote robot control
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proficient in Go, Java, C++, Python, Rust and distributed systems
Candidate preferences
If it’s a “AI to X” company, not interested. I want to work on truly meaningful, tough problems. I typically operate at a hands on, architect/principal engineer role.
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13+ years exp; currently Staff SWE @ Series C startup
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8 years scaling a startup from early stage to acquisition
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published Steam developer; won Houdini Game Jam
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developed air-gapped systems generating over 33% of company revenue
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built custom distributed deployment servers to automate fleet management
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led remote teams to ship MVPs for multiple fintech startups
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built distributed test runners for untrusted customer code
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proficient in Python, Go, Rust, C++, Docker, AWS, Unity
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Senior Staff Engineer at a tech decacorn through Series D → E → F → IPO
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YC-backed Founder/CTO; raised $1.5M+ and managed sales + engineering
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built NLP/deep learning services & custom Word2vec for 500k+ messages/hr
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led tiger team and zero-incident migration for 1B+ daily requests
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led on-prem deployments and on-call for Fortune 500 finance clients
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interviewed 100+ users to drive product roadmap and strategic features
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managed full-cycle product from seed-stage hiring to enterprise sales
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proficient in Go, Python, JavaScript, Node.js, K8s, Swift, AWS/GCP
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Senior MTS @ Series E storage platform; 25+ yrs in kernel & storage
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created major open source operating system focused on enterprise storage
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co-founded NVMe storage startup; led international engineering teams
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ex-Chief Architect @ Series A startup; designed unified storage platforms
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invented patented active defense tech for network storage protocols
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prev Senior+ roles at AMD, Oracle, Sun, Qualcomm; designed storage infra
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designed storage virtualization and distributed block device primitives
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expert in ZFS, kernel drivers, distributed filesystems, C, Go
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Staff ML Engineer at $100B+ public tech company; 10+ years experience
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6+ years building ML infrastructure and distributed data systems
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leads technical direction for ML Platforms and MLOps at scale
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optimized high-performance inference and model serving using Triton
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engineered location telemetry and imagery data pipelines at Mapbox
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deployed big data stacks on AWS using Airflow, Terraform and SQL
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developed GIS and spatial software with Python, Java and SQL
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proficient in Python, Java, TypeScript, Triton, Docker, GCP, AWS, Airflow
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ex-Founder & CTO at YC startup; grew company from 0 to $10M+ ARR
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scaled product used by 75% of Fortune 1000 and 100k+ users
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shipped MS Office 365 integrations and enterprise-grade billing systems
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owned P&L and made direct tradeoffs between infra and revenue goals
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17+ years building technical products from pre-seed to enterprise scale
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led Fly.io Rails adoption by shipping docs, CLIs and full-stack flows
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built a dev platform for streaming CLIs and instant deployment
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proficient in TypeScript, React, Rails, Go and real-time systems