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The talent that isn't on the open market.

In Formula 1, the Paddock is where championships are decided: the behind-the-scenes hub most fans never see. This is ours: exceptional engineers and designers, employed and quietly open to the right startup. Not applying. Not job-hunting. Reachable only through Optimal.

107,000+
In our network
Engineers & designers, and growing
~350
Open to a conversation
Right now
100%
Employed, not applying
Reachable via Optimal
$165M+
Cash & equity deployed
Across placed candidates
Currently employed at
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350 open None of them applying
Top-tier fintech and payments Open
Senior Frontend Engineer
~6 years
  • Architected a multi-step payments workflow used by hundreds of employees across dozens of branches.
  • Owned frontend architecture at a major bank, driving compliance-grade form validation and state integrity.
  • Delivered accessible, production-hardened UI in a highly regulated financial environment with zero tolerance for data errors.
  • Bridged frontend and backend teams to integrate complex APIs across enterprise Java services at scale.
Request intro →
Top-tier fintech and payments Open
Manager Data Engineer
8 years
  • Wrote SQL analyses that identified hundreds of millions of dollars in potential harm to retail banking customers, directly informing redress strategy
  • Delivered data-driven client engagements in financial services, translating complex query outputs into executive-level recommendations
  • Operated at the intersection of consulting and data engineering, scoping and executing analytical workstreams end-to-end
  • Managed cross-functional teams through high-stakes remediation programmes in regulated industries
Request intro →
Top-tier fintech and payments Open
Senior Design Engineer
~6 years
  • Shaped design systems and interactive interfaces at one of the most admired fintech companies on the planet.
  • Now building at a fintech startup, owning the full spectrum from product vision to shipped code.
  • Rare hybrid who closes the gap between design and engineering without losing fidelity on either side.
  • Brooklyn-based and independently operating, available to bring that Stripe-caliber craft to the right team.
Request intro →
FAANG-class big tech Open
Director Engineering Management
10+ years
  • Scaled a business unit P&L from single-digit millions to tens of millions through new product and market expansion
  • Angel investor in a loyalty-tech startup that achieved a successful acquisition exit
  • Coaches cohorts of emerging business and operations talent through a multi-week strategy and ops program, preparing them for high-impact roles
  • Experienced in end-to-end ownership of revenue-generating operations at high-growth consumer-facing companies
Request intro →
Top-tier fintech and payments Open
Lead Frontend Engineer
~7 years
  • Re-architected payment dashboard modules at a top-tier global payments platform to reliably handle millions of transactions at scale
  • Led enterprise web platform modernization initiatives spanning telecom, healthcare, and retail verticals for a major digital transformation consultancy
  • Delivered large-scale frontend architecture improvements across multiple high-traffic, mission-critical consumer financial products
  • Drove cross-functional engineering efforts to modernize legacy web systems into performant, maintainable front-end codebases
Request intro →
Scaled a unicorn through hypergrowth Open
Lead Engineering Management
10+ years
  • Leads luxury and premium segment strategy and operations at a globally recognized consumer travel platform serving millions of users
  • Built and scaled an enterprise upmarket go-to-market program at a major B2B SaaS company, driving structured bids and pursuits motions
  • Founded an IT investment advisory practice at a global consultancy covering data center infrastructure, SaaS evaluation, and M&A due diligence
  • Career spans strategy, operations, and advisory across enterprise software, professional services, and high-growth consumer platforms
Request intro →
Top-tier fintech and payments Open
Senior Frontend Engineer
~7 years
  • Sole frontend engineer responsible for designing and shipping dozens of screens for a privacy-preserving cryptographic computing platform adopted by large enterprise clients
  • Delivered production AI-powered React and TypeScript experiences integrated with a large-scale taste and recommendation graph spanning music, film, books, games, and podcasts
  • Improved analytics platform performance by roughly 50% for a major regulated utility's internal data UI
  • Proven track record of owning frontend delivery end-to-end across fintech, AI, and data-intensive domains
Request intro →
FAANG-class big tech Open
Senior Product Designer
~7 years
  • Owned full roadmap and product-led growth commercialization strategy for an enterprise data and AI product at a major cloud platform, spanning discovery through go-to-market
  • Led a zero-to-one internal AI product incubation at a large technology company, guiding an ambiguous enterprise problem from proof-of-concept through early roadmap definition
  • Advised an AI services firm on pivoting to a platform model, identifying Data Quality and Predictive Maintenance as scalable product verticals with repeatable revenue potential
  • Operates at the intersection of enterprise AI, data infrastructure, and platform strategy, with repeated success shaping early-stage products inside large organizations
Request intro →
Pioneering deep-tech & hardware Open
Senior Design Engineer
~7 years
  • Drove process improvements on a semiconductor etch platform that resolved long-standing customer escalations and elevated the tool to best-in-class standing within its market segment
  • Secured multiple customer demo wins against challenging profile specifications by applying ML-assisted process optimization techniques
  • Applied FIB lift-out and STEM elemental mapping to characterize nanoscale defects across compound semiconductor and thin-film photovoltaic materials in a research setting
Request intro →
Top-tier AI lab Open
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
~10 years
  • Building AI safety systems for chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear threat domains at a top AI lab.
  • Sits at the sharpest edge of frontier model risk: where misuse could be measured in mass casualties.
  • Research engineering work bridges cutting-edge ML and real-world harm prevention at global scale.
  • One of a tiny handful of engineers in the world trusted to work where AI safety and existential risk intersect.
Request intro →
FAANG-class big tech Open
Staff Infrastructure / Platform Engineer
~6 years
  • Staff engineer at a FAANG-class tech giant, owning core infrastructure relied on by dozens of engineers across multiple global sites.
  • Architected large-scale distributed workflow engines that tackled real costs, scaling limits, and developer experience at the same time.
  • Hands-on builder of distributed deep reinforcement learning systems, including decoupled actor-learner architectures and LSTM-based policies.
  • Designs agentic LLM systems with behavior-tree planning, meta-programming orchestration, and retrieval-augmented context management.
Request intro →
Top-tier AI lab Open
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
~4 years
  • Architected scalable LLM inference pipelines using container orchestration and model-serving frameworks, delivering roughly 30–40% throughput gains in a high-scale production environment
  • Deployed large language model infrastructure handling inference at significant scale, integrating open-standard model optimization tooling across heterogeneous hardware
  • Built a time-series forecasting system for cloud cost prediction achieving accuracy in the low-to-mid 90s percentile range, directly informing infrastructure spend decisions
Request intro →
Pioneering deep-tech & hardware Open
Senior Design Engineer
~7 years
  • Led process development across multiple thin-film deposition technologies — including atomic-layer, chemical-vapor, and physical-vapor deposition — for advanced memory devices at a globally recognized semiconductor manufacturer
  • Applied design-of-experiments methodologies to optimize high-κ metal gate integration, resolving complex materials and reliability challenges at the process node level
  • Drove root cause analysis workflows that resolved critical HKMG integration failures, directly improving device yield and reliability across memory product lines
  • Operated at the intersection of DRAM and Flash process engineering, contributing to next-generation memory scaling at a top-tier semiconductor organization
Request intro →
Industry-defining infrastructure Open
Staff Frontend Engineer
~7 years
  • Redesigned a core collaboration workflow at a widely-used enterprise messaging platform, shifting a multi-step acceptance flow from email into the product itself — measurably reducing friction for millions of users
  • Led an algorithmic channel-membership recommendation feature at scale, using behavioral signals to surface invite suggestions across a platform with tens of millions of daily active users
  • Architected and scaled a cross-team design system adopted across multiple production applications, accelerating UI consistency and delivery velocity organization-wide
  • Staff-level frontend contributor with a track record spanning developer-tooling and SaaS platforms, driving both user-facing product features and foundational engineering infrastructure
Request intro →
Shaped a product used by millions Open
Principal Product Designer
12 years
  • Led customer experience and product strategy for a digital platform serving hundreds of millions in revenue within the aviation industry
  • Drove business operations and guest experience strategy contributing to a luxury hospitality property earning a globally recognized best-new-hotel award
  • Managed end-to-end product lifecycle for high-traffic consumer-facing platforms across travel and hospitality verticals
  • Principal-level operator bridging product, design, and business strategy across complex service environments
Request intro →
Zero-to-one product engineer at a funded company Open
Senior Frontend Engineer
7 years
  • Sole frontend architect on a greenfield FinTech platform processing tens of millions of dollars in monthly authorization volume across tens of thousands of commercial cardholders
  • Built workflow automation that converts email activity into automatically generated billable time entries inside an AI-powered legal billing platform
  • Mentored dozens of engineers through a multi-month full-stack JavaScript program at a coding bootcamp
Request intro →
Top-tier fintech and payments Open
Senior Frontend Engineer
~6 years
  • Architected a multi-step payments workflow used by hundreds of employees across dozens of branches.
  • Owned frontend architecture at a major bank, driving compliance-grade form validation and state integrity.
  • Delivered accessible, production-hardened UI in a highly regulated financial environment with zero tolerance for data errors.
  • Bridged frontend and backend teams to integrate complex APIs across enterprise Java services at scale.
Request intro →
Top-tier fintech and payments Open
Manager Data Engineer
8 years
  • Wrote SQL analyses that identified hundreds of millions of dollars in potential harm to retail banking customers, directly informing redress strategy
  • Delivered data-driven client engagements in financial services, translating complex query outputs into executive-level recommendations
  • Operated at the intersection of consulting and data engineering, scoping and executing analytical workstreams end-to-end
  • Managed cross-functional teams through high-stakes remediation programmes in regulated industries
Request intro →
Top-tier fintech and payments Open
Senior Design Engineer
~6 years
  • Shaped design systems and interactive interfaces at one of the most admired fintech companies on the planet.
  • Now building at a fintech startup, owning the full spectrum from product vision to shipped code.
  • Rare hybrid who closes the gap between design and engineering without losing fidelity on either side.
  • Brooklyn-based and independently operating, available to bring that Stripe-caliber craft to the right team.
Request intro →
FAANG-class big tech Open
Director Engineering Management
10+ years
  • Scaled a business unit P&L from single-digit millions to tens of millions through new product and market expansion
  • Angel investor in a loyalty-tech startup that achieved a successful acquisition exit
  • Coaches cohorts of emerging business and operations talent through a multi-week strategy and ops program, preparing them for high-impact roles
  • Experienced in end-to-end ownership of revenue-generating operations at high-growth consumer-facing companies
Request intro →
Top-tier fintech and payments Open
Lead Frontend Engineer
~7 years
  • Re-architected payment dashboard modules at a top-tier global payments platform to reliably handle millions of transactions at scale
  • Led enterprise web platform modernization initiatives spanning telecom, healthcare, and retail verticals for a major digital transformation consultancy
  • Delivered large-scale frontend architecture improvements across multiple high-traffic, mission-critical consumer financial products
  • Drove cross-functional engineering efforts to modernize legacy web systems into performant, maintainable front-end codebases
Request intro →
Scaled a unicorn through hypergrowth Open
Lead Engineering Management
10+ years
  • Leads luxury and premium segment strategy and operations at a globally recognized consumer travel platform serving millions of users
  • Built and scaled an enterprise upmarket go-to-market program at a major B2B SaaS company, driving structured bids and pursuits motions
  • Founded an IT investment advisory practice at a global consultancy covering data center infrastructure, SaaS evaluation, and M&A due diligence
  • Career spans strategy, operations, and advisory across enterprise software, professional services, and high-growth consumer platforms
Request intro →
Top-tier fintech and payments Open
Senior Frontend Engineer
~7 years
  • Sole frontend engineer responsible for designing and shipping dozens of screens for a privacy-preserving cryptographic computing platform adopted by large enterprise clients
  • Delivered production AI-powered React and TypeScript experiences integrated with a large-scale taste and recommendation graph spanning music, film, books, games, and podcasts
  • Improved analytics platform performance by roughly 50% for a major regulated utility's internal data UI
  • Proven track record of owning frontend delivery end-to-end across fintech, AI, and data-intensive domains
Request intro →
FAANG-class big tech Open
Senior Product Designer
~7 years
  • Owned full roadmap and product-led growth commercialization strategy for an enterprise data and AI product at a major cloud platform, spanning discovery through go-to-market
  • Led a zero-to-one internal AI product incubation at a large technology company, guiding an ambiguous enterprise problem from proof-of-concept through early roadmap definition
  • Advised an AI services firm on pivoting to a platform model, identifying Data Quality and Predictive Maintenance as scalable product verticals with repeatable revenue potential
  • Operates at the intersection of enterprise AI, data infrastructure, and platform strategy, with repeated success shaping early-stage products inside large organizations
Request intro →
Pioneering deep-tech & hardware Open
Senior Design Engineer
~7 years
  • Drove process improvements on a semiconductor etch platform that resolved long-standing customer escalations and elevated the tool to best-in-class standing within its market segment
  • Secured multiple customer demo wins against challenging profile specifications by applying ML-assisted process optimization techniques
  • Applied FIB lift-out and STEM elemental mapping to characterize nanoscale defects across compound semiconductor and thin-film photovoltaic materials in a research setting
Request intro →
Top-tier AI lab Open
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
~10 years
  • Building AI safety systems for chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear threat domains at a top AI lab.
  • Sits at the sharpest edge of frontier model risk: where misuse could be measured in mass casualties.
  • Research engineering work bridges cutting-edge ML and real-world harm prevention at global scale.
  • One of a tiny handful of engineers in the world trusted to work where AI safety and existential risk intersect.
Request intro →
FAANG-class big tech Open
Staff Infrastructure / Platform Engineer
~6 years
  • Staff engineer at a FAANG-class tech giant, owning core infrastructure relied on by dozens of engineers across multiple global sites.
  • Architected large-scale distributed workflow engines that tackled real costs, scaling limits, and developer experience at the same time.
  • Hands-on builder of distributed deep reinforcement learning systems, including decoupled actor-learner architectures and LSTM-based policies.
  • Designs agentic LLM systems with behavior-tree planning, meta-programming orchestration, and retrieval-augmented context management.
Request intro →
Top-tier AI lab Open
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
~4 years
  • Architected scalable LLM inference pipelines using container orchestration and model-serving frameworks, delivering roughly 30–40% throughput gains in a high-scale production environment
  • Deployed large language model infrastructure handling inference at significant scale, integrating open-standard model optimization tooling across heterogeneous hardware
  • Built a time-series forecasting system for cloud cost prediction achieving accuracy in the low-to-mid 90s percentile range, directly informing infrastructure spend decisions
Request intro →
Pioneering deep-tech & hardware Open
Senior Design Engineer
~7 years
  • Led process development across multiple thin-film deposition technologies — including atomic-layer, chemical-vapor, and physical-vapor deposition — for advanced memory devices at a globally recognized semiconductor manufacturer
  • Applied design-of-experiments methodologies to optimize high-κ metal gate integration, resolving complex materials and reliability challenges at the process node level
  • Drove root cause analysis workflows that resolved critical HKMG integration failures, directly improving device yield and reliability across memory product lines
  • Operated at the intersection of DRAM and Flash process engineering, contributing to next-generation memory scaling at a top-tier semiconductor organization
Request intro →
Industry-defining infrastructure Open
Staff Frontend Engineer
~7 years
  • Redesigned a core collaboration workflow at a widely-used enterprise messaging platform, shifting a multi-step acceptance flow from email into the product itself — measurably reducing friction for millions of users
  • Led an algorithmic channel-membership recommendation feature at scale, using behavioral signals to surface invite suggestions across a platform with tens of millions of daily active users
  • Architected and scaled a cross-team design system adopted across multiple production applications, accelerating UI consistency and delivery velocity organization-wide
  • Staff-level frontend contributor with a track record spanning developer-tooling and SaaS platforms, driving both user-facing product features and foundational engineering infrastructure
Request intro →
Shaped a product used by millions Open
Principal Product Designer
12 years
  • Led customer experience and product strategy for a digital platform serving hundreds of millions in revenue within the aviation industry
  • Drove business operations and guest experience strategy contributing to a luxury hospitality property earning a globally recognized best-new-hotel award
  • Managed end-to-end product lifecycle for high-traffic consumer-facing platforms across travel and hospitality verticals
  • Principal-level operator bridging product, design, and business strategy across complex service environments
Request intro →
Zero-to-one product engineer at a funded company Open
Senior Frontend Engineer
7 years
  • Sole frontend architect on a greenfield FinTech platform processing tens of millions of dollars in monthly authorization volume across tens of thousands of commercial cardholders
  • Built workflow automation that converts email activity into automatically generated billable time entries inside an AI-powered legal billing platform
  • Mentored dozens of engineers through a multi-month full-stack JavaScript program at a coding bootcamp
Request intro →
Industry-defining infrastructure Open
Senior Full-Stack Engineer
~7 years
  • Contributed to a widely adopted open-source browser-based IDE with tens of millions of downloads, serving in a team leadership capacity
  • Architected a Redis-cached Node.js/TypeScript backend for a high-traffic platform sustaining millions of requests per day
  • Published frontend development courses covering React hooks and design tooling with thousands of enrolled students across a major developer learning platform
Request intro →
Industry-defining infrastructure Open
Senior Design Engineer
~7 years
  • Built an AI-assisted development enablement platform that onboarded hundreds of engineers and designers to AI-augmented workflows at a major enterprise security organization
  • Led consolidation of a multi-brand enterprise design system into a single unified UI component platform adopted across multiple business units at a large insurance company
  • Implemented an end-to-end testing suite that merged developer and QA workflows into a shared automation pipeline, improving release confidence across a large engineering org
  • Operates at the intersection of design systems, frontend engineering, and AI tooling — enabling teams to ship faster with consistent, scalable interfaces
Request intro →
Top-tier fintech and payments Open
Senior Frontend Engineer
~7 years
  • Built analytical dashboards and data visualization tools at a leading research institution to model industrial material flows and communicate complex sustainability findings
  • Collaborated directly with PhD and postdoctoral researchers to translate experimental scientific models into production-grade web platforms
  • Contributed to the MVP launch of a digital banking web application within a fast-moving startup environment
  • Spans academic research computing and regulated fintech, delivering polished interfaces across both high-rigor scientific and compliance-sensitive domains
Request intro →
Top-tier fintech and payments Open
Senior Frontend Engineer
~7 years
  • Delivered dozens of WCAG-compliant React components adopted across multiple enterprise brands by thousands of engineers
  • Built seat assignment UI systems supporting projected billions in annual revenue for a major consumer-facing platform
  • Designed healthcare UIs serving thousands of agencies and millions of patients across a national care platform
Request intro →
FAANG-class big tech Open
Senior Creative Technologist
~10 years
  • Ran 100+ developer workshops in a single year at a FAANG-class voice platform, driving top adoption numbers nationwide.
  • Spearheaded international expansion efforts, bringing a major voice AI product to a new market from the ground floor.
  • Built original demos and curriculum at a top search and cloud giant, bridging bleeding-edge AI with real developer education.
  • Now prototyping ambient computing and AI-enriched experiences independently, moving fast where big companies move slow.
Request intro →
Scaled a unicorn through hypergrowth Open
Senior Design Engineer
~7 years
  • Engineering lead for a digital accessibility initiative at a globally recognized consumer tech platform, driving inclusive design standards across millions of users
  • Co-founded and led a marginalized genders in tech employee resource group at a top-tier tech company, growing community programs adopted org-wide
  • Served on a company-wide Tech Leadership Council at a scaled SaaS platform, influencing architectural decisions across engineering organizations of hundreds of engineers
  • Led frontend shared component library efforts as an engineering lead, standardizing UI infrastructure across multiple product teams
Request intro →
FAANG-class big tech Open
Principal Engineering Management
10+ years
  • Built an AI agent using a major LLM API and cloud-native tooling to automate task prioritization and data workflows, maintaining delivery continuity through a major org restructuring
  • Led initial commercialization of a cross-platform connectivity product at a top-tier tech company, coordinating across Product, Sales, Engineering, and Finance to exceed launch targets by more than 15% on a multi-billion-dollar revenue opportunity
  • Managed a multi-event mobile activation program spanning dozens of engagements across multiple continents for hundreds of enterprise clients, driving double-digit adoption growth within a single quarter
Request intro →
World-class quant & trading Open
VP Backend Engineer
10+ years
  • Held VP-level responsibility for global strategic and tactical asset allocation at a major financial institution, shaping multi-asset investment strategy across market cycles
  • Architected algorithmic trading systems across multiple asset classes including equities, crypto, and high-frequency trading, with hands-on implementation of direct market access and smart order routing
  • Teaches advanced HFT and volatility trading courses at a graduate-level quantitative finance program, mentoring engineers and analysts in building production-grade trading strategies
  • Career spans institutional investment management, systematic trading infrastructure, and applied financial education — bridging theory and high-stakes production systems
Request intro →
FAANG-class big tech Open
Director Engineering Management
10+ years
  • Served as executive proxy for a senior general manager, owning strategic follow-through across an entire regional revenue organization
  • Founding member of a regional go-to-market team that built North American operations from the ground up at a high-growth enterprise software company
  • Operated at the intersection of executive leadership and cross-functional program delivery, bridging strategy and execution across multiple business units
  • Career spans FAANG-class big tech and high-growth SaaS, with progressive ownership across operations, strategy, and organizational scaling
Request intro →
FAANG-class big tech Open
Staff Mobile Engineer
10+ years
  • Migrated a major streaming music app's Android and iOS codebases to a shared cross-platform component framework at a FAANG-class big tech company, serving millions of users
  • Tech Lead driving app-builder primitives for an AI-powered application platform at a scaled SaaS company
  • Delivered data feed-driven interactive digital installations for large-scale public display environments at a global creative agency
Request intro →
Pioneering deep-tech & hardware Open
Senior Design Engineer
~7 years
  • Developed a particle detection qualification system for semiconductor process kits that operates well below the tens-of-nanometers scale, pushing far beyond conventional industry detection thresholds
  • Built a bi-layer porous structure process on industry-standard wafer formats to enable kerfless silicon lift-off through epitaxial deposition, advancing thin-film silicon reuse techniques
  • Pioneered wet chemical and plasma clean processes for next-generation lithography mask blanks, reducing defect adders and improving yield in leading-edge EUV patterning workflows
Request intro →
Pioneering deep-tech & hardware Open
Principal Frontend Engineer
10+ years
  • Led a full frontend rewrite migrating a legacy JavaScript codebase to a modern TypeScript and web components architecture, modernizing the entire UI layer of an enterprise application
  • Architected and delivered a software access management dashboard for an enterprise platform, handling complex role hierarchies, permissions, and multi-party relationships at scale
  • Built serverless functions and Node.js microservices supporting ecommerce shipment processing workflows for a production system serving real-time transactional traffic
  • Demonstrated range across enterprise frontend architecture, cloud-native backend services, and access control systems spanning multiple industries
Request intro →
Pioneering deep-tech & hardware Open
Senior Design Engineer
~7 years
  • Doctoral research developing magnetoelectric self-assembled oxide nanocomposites targeting low-power memory device applications
  • Demonstrated magnetostatically interacting ground states in ordered arrays of magnetic nanopillars by tuning oxide composition to control magnetic anisotropy
  • Showed resistive switching with high on/off switching ratios in doped polycrystalline bismuth ferrite thin films, deriving switching mechanisms from current-voltage characteristics
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Industry-defining infrastructure Open
Principal Backend Engineer
10+ years
  • Architected and delivered an end-to-end authentication stack migration between enterprise identity providers at a leading cybersecurity firm, improving security posture and developer experience at scale
  • Built a multi-cloud credit management service spanning major public cloud platforms, enabling accurate financial tracking across hundreds of millions in cloud spend
  • Led development of a multidisciplinary collaboration module for a healthcare platform, enabling cross-specialist coordination on complex patient therapy decisions
Request intro →
Shaped a product used by millions Open
Senior Full-Stack Engineer
~7 years
  • Built a cross-platform messaging integration that cut client response times by more than half and significantly reduced ticket creation overhead
  • Architected a full-stack observability platform for health monitoring across distributed systems at scale
  • Delivered end-to-end features spanning frontend, backend, and infrastructure layers in high-traffic production environments
  • Experienced contributing to platforms serving millions of users across cloud-delivered services
Request intro →
Zero-to-one product engineer at a funded company Open
Senior Frontend Engineer
8 years
  • Founded and led a UX-focused development studio, growing it to serve major media and entertainment clients with millions of viewers
  • Earned widespread recognition for CSS mastery while anchoring frontend architecture on a federated node module system for a large automotive platform
  • Conceived, built, and shipped multiple software products from zero to launch under a single founding venture
  • Bridges deep UI craft with systems-level frontend thinking across consulting engagements spanning multiple industries
Request intro →
Industry-defining infrastructure Open
Senior Full-Stack Engineer
~7 years
  • Contributed to a widely adopted open-source browser-based IDE with tens of millions of downloads, serving in a team leadership capacity
  • Architected a Redis-cached Node.js/TypeScript backend for a high-traffic platform sustaining millions of requests per day
  • Published frontend development courses covering React hooks and design tooling with thousands of enrolled students across a major developer learning platform
Request intro →
Industry-defining infrastructure Open
Senior Design Engineer
~7 years
  • Built an AI-assisted development enablement platform that onboarded hundreds of engineers and designers to AI-augmented workflows at a major enterprise security organization
  • Led consolidation of a multi-brand enterprise design system into a single unified UI component platform adopted across multiple business units at a large insurance company
  • Implemented an end-to-end testing suite that merged developer and QA workflows into a shared automation pipeline, improving release confidence across a large engineering org
  • Operates at the intersection of design systems, frontend engineering, and AI tooling — enabling teams to ship faster with consistent, scalable interfaces
Request intro →
Top-tier fintech and payments Open
Senior Frontend Engineer
~7 years
  • Built analytical dashboards and data visualization tools at a leading research institution to model industrial material flows and communicate complex sustainability findings
  • Collaborated directly with PhD and postdoctoral researchers to translate experimental scientific models into production-grade web platforms
  • Contributed to the MVP launch of a digital banking web application within a fast-moving startup environment
  • Spans academic research computing and regulated fintech, delivering polished interfaces across both high-rigor scientific and compliance-sensitive domains
Request intro →
Top-tier fintech and payments Open
Senior Frontend Engineer
~7 years
  • Delivered dozens of WCAG-compliant React components adopted across multiple enterprise brands by thousands of engineers
  • Built seat assignment UI systems supporting projected billions in annual revenue for a major consumer-facing platform
  • Designed healthcare UIs serving thousands of agencies and millions of patients across a national care platform
Request intro →
FAANG-class big tech Open
Senior Creative Technologist
~10 years
  • Ran 100+ developer workshops in a single year at a FAANG-class voice platform, driving top adoption numbers nationwide.
  • Spearheaded international expansion efforts, bringing a major voice AI product to a new market from the ground floor.
  • Built original demos and curriculum at a top search and cloud giant, bridging bleeding-edge AI with real developer education.
  • Now prototyping ambient computing and AI-enriched experiences independently, moving fast where big companies move slow.
Request intro →
Scaled a unicorn through hypergrowth Open
Senior Design Engineer
~7 years
  • Engineering lead for a digital accessibility initiative at a globally recognized consumer tech platform, driving inclusive design standards across millions of users
  • Co-founded and led a marginalized genders in tech employee resource group at a top-tier tech company, growing community programs adopted org-wide
  • Served on a company-wide Tech Leadership Council at a scaled SaaS platform, influencing architectural decisions across engineering organizations of hundreds of engineers
  • Led frontend shared component library efforts as an engineering lead, standardizing UI infrastructure across multiple product teams
Request intro →
FAANG-class big tech Open
Principal Engineering Management
10+ years
  • Built an AI agent using a major LLM API and cloud-native tooling to automate task prioritization and data workflows, maintaining delivery continuity through a major org restructuring
  • Led initial commercialization of a cross-platform connectivity product at a top-tier tech company, coordinating across Product, Sales, Engineering, and Finance to exceed launch targets by more than 15% on a multi-billion-dollar revenue opportunity
  • Managed a multi-event mobile activation program spanning dozens of engagements across multiple continents for hundreds of enterprise clients, driving double-digit adoption growth within a single quarter
Request intro →
World-class quant & trading Open
VP Backend Engineer
10+ years
  • Held VP-level responsibility for global strategic and tactical asset allocation at a major financial institution, shaping multi-asset investment strategy across market cycles
  • Architected algorithmic trading systems across multiple asset classes including equities, crypto, and high-frequency trading, with hands-on implementation of direct market access and smart order routing
  • Teaches advanced HFT and volatility trading courses at a graduate-level quantitative finance program, mentoring engineers and analysts in building production-grade trading strategies
  • Career spans institutional investment management, systematic trading infrastructure, and applied financial education — bridging theory and high-stakes production systems
Request intro →
FAANG-class big tech Open
Director Engineering Management
10+ years
  • Served as executive proxy for a senior general manager, owning strategic follow-through across an entire regional revenue organization
  • Founding member of a regional go-to-market team that built North American operations from the ground up at a high-growth enterprise software company
  • Operated at the intersection of executive leadership and cross-functional program delivery, bridging strategy and execution across multiple business units
  • Career spans FAANG-class big tech and high-growth SaaS, with progressive ownership across operations, strategy, and organizational scaling
Request intro →
FAANG-class big tech Open
Staff Mobile Engineer
10+ years
  • Migrated a major streaming music app's Android and iOS codebases to a shared cross-platform component framework at a FAANG-class big tech company, serving millions of users
  • Tech Lead driving app-builder primitives for an AI-powered application platform at a scaled SaaS company
  • Delivered data feed-driven interactive digital installations for large-scale public display environments at a global creative agency
Request intro →
Pioneering deep-tech & hardware Open
Senior Design Engineer
~7 years
  • Developed a particle detection qualification system for semiconductor process kits that operates well below the tens-of-nanometers scale, pushing far beyond conventional industry detection thresholds
  • Built a bi-layer porous structure process on industry-standard wafer formats to enable kerfless silicon lift-off through epitaxial deposition, advancing thin-film silicon reuse techniques
  • Pioneered wet chemical and plasma clean processes for next-generation lithography mask blanks, reducing defect adders and improving yield in leading-edge EUV patterning workflows
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Principal Frontend Engineer
10+ years
  • Led a full frontend rewrite migrating a legacy JavaScript codebase to a modern TypeScript and web components architecture, modernizing the entire UI layer of an enterprise application
  • Architected and delivered a software access management dashboard for an enterprise platform, handling complex role hierarchies, permissions, and multi-party relationships at scale
  • Built serverless functions and Node.js microservices supporting ecommerce shipment processing workflows for a production system serving real-time transactional traffic
  • Demonstrated range across enterprise frontend architecture, cloud-native backend services, and access control systems spanning multiple industries
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Pioneering deep-tech & hardware Open
Senior Design Engineer
~7 years
  • Doctoral research developing magnetoelectric self-assembled oxide nanocomposites targeting low-power memory device applications
  • Demonstrated magnetostatically interacting ground states in ordered arrays of magnetic nanopillars by tuning oxide composition to control magnetic anisotropy
  • Showed resistive switching with high on/off switching ratios in doped polycrystalline bismuth ferrite thin films, deriving switching mechanisms from current-voltage characteristics
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Industry-defining infrastructure Open
Principal Backend Engineer
10+ years
  • Architected and delivered an end-to-end authentication stack migration between enterprise identity providers at a leading cybersecurity firm, improving security posture and developer experience at scale
  • Built a multi-cloud credit management service spanning major public cloud platforms, enabling accurate financial tracking across hundreds of millions in cloud spend
  • Led development of a multidisciplinary collaboration module for a healthcare platform, enabling cross-specialist coordination on complex patient therapy decisions
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Shaped a product used by millions Open
Senior Full-Stack Engineer
~7 years
  • Built a cross-platform messaging integration that cut client response times by more than half and significantly reduced ticket creation overhead
  • Architected a full-stack observability platform for health monitoring across distributed systems at scale
  • Delivered end-to-end features spanning frontend, backend, and infrastructure layers in high-traffic production environments
  • Experienced contributing to platforms serving millions of users across cloud-delivered services
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Zero-to-one product engineer at a funded company Open
Senior Frontend Engineer
8 years
  • Founded and led a UX-focused development studio, growing it to serve major media and entertainment clients with millions of viewers
  • Earned widespread recognition for CSS mastery while anchoring frontend architecture on a federated node module system for a large automotive platform
  • Conceived, built, and shipped multiple software products from zero to launch under a single founding venture
  • Bridges deep UI craft with systems-level frontend thinking across consulting engagements spanning multiple industries
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Top-tier fintech and payments Open
Senior Design Engineer
~7 years
  • Built an internal AI-powered rapid prototyping platform at a top-tier payments company that became a primary tool for design and engineering teams across the organization
  • Led engineering efforts to publicly launch a large company's design system, including building an icon discovery experience using modern static-site and component frameworks
  • Co-founded an AI-driven travel planning app with a cross-platform mobile frontend, a Node-based backend, and AI-generated itinerary features
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Pioneering deep-tech & hardware Open
Manager Engineering Management
10+ years
  • Led penetration and adoption of advanced ALD/CVD deposition processes for next-generation sub-2nm semiconductor nodes at a leading capital equipment manufacturer
  • Drove process demonstration projects at sub-2nm and 1nm technology nodes for major logic customers, while managing critical process escalations at established nodes
  • Won a formal customer appreciation award at a top semiconductor equipment company for successful RTP process transfer and development at mature technology nodes
  • Operates at the intersection of key account management and deep process engineering, bridging customer technical requirements with equipment solutions across multiple leading-edge chipmakers
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Staff Infrastructure / Platform Engineer
~7 years
  • Early infrastructure engineer on an LLM and RAG platform built for deployment on secure government networks, scaling from zero to production
  • Designed and shipped AI research agents as a forward-deployed engineer embedded with government customers
  • Served as a military innovation officer advising on technology adoption for advanced programs
  • Spans the full stack of defense AI: embedded field deployment, agent systems, and secure government infrastructure
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Senior Full-Stack Engineer
~4 years
  • Built serverless cloud integrations to unlock new customer verticals on a high-growth product platform
  • Delivered full-stack features across a real-estate analytics platform, spanning data pipelines in Python and customer-facing React/TypeScript applications
  • Worked across cloud infrastructure and frontend layers, bridging backend event-driven architecture with polished user-facing experiences
  • Contributed to a product used by large numbers of customers in a regulated industry, balancing velocity with reliability
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Pioneering deep-tech & hardware Open
Senior Design Engineer
~7 years
  • Applied DOE-driven process development for advanced memory device architectures, improving fab throughput by over 20%
  • Reduced reflection loss by more than 25% through development of photolithography and plasma dry etch processes for nanophotonic devices
  • Achieved nearly an order-of-magnitude improvement in etch depth on nanostructures via cleanroom process optimization
  • Experienced across both high-volume semiconductor manufacturing and academic cleanroom environments spanning memory and photonic device technologies
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World-class quant & trading Open
VP Full-Stack Engineer
10+ years
  • Builds real-time front-office trading dashboards at a top-tier automated trading firm, delivering low-latency data pipelines for live market operations.
  • Full-stack ownership across trading UIs and backend data infrastructure in high-stakes financial environments.
  • Experienced delivering end-to-end engineering in regulated, performance-critical fintech and trading contexts.
  • VP-level technical contributor with a track record spanning both product-facing interfaces and core data engineering.
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Defense & intelligence tech leader Open
Senior Infrastructure / Platform Engineer
~4 years
  • Engineered packet-acceleration infrastructure at a large-scale networking platform
  • Built and deployed a market-making system for a financial exchange
  • Joined a crypto venture as a founding engineer from day one, turning down a competing new-grad offer from a major exchange to own the zero-to-one build
  • Completed a competitive engineering residency program, shipping production infrastructure during the batch
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Pioneering deep-tech & hardware Open
Senior Design Engineer
10+ years
  • Drove semiconductor fab process development at a leading capital equipment company, contributing to next-generation wafer manufacturing workflows
  • Managed strategic accounts across a major regional market for a top-tier semiconductor equipment supplier, spanning multiple large-scale fab customers
  • Cross-functional experience bridging deep process engineering and commercial account management within the global semiconductor supply chain
  • Sustained senior technical staff tenure across hardware-intensive environments, with applied expertise in advanced fabrication processes
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FAANG-class big tech Open
Staff Full-Stack Engineer
~7 years
  • Architected and led a platform consolidation from micro-frontends to a unified config-driven React + TypeScript system, now powering hundreds of distinct cloud services at scale
  • Delivered a customer-facing logistics tracking portal rolled out across thousands of retail locations nationwide
  • Proven ownership of frontend platform decisions with org-wide impact, spanning architecture, developer tooling, and multi-team adoption
  • Experienced across enterprise-scale big tech and global IT services, contributing to products used by millions of end users
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Top-tier AI lab Open
Staff Design Engineer
~7 years
  • Led UX design and front-end engineering for advertising products at a scaled consumer platform
  • Shipped voice visualization and multimodal UI features for a flagship AI assistant, driving significant daily active user growth
  • Delivered AI-powered video generation capabilities within a consumer mobile app, taking the feature from concept to production
  • Operates at the intersection of design and engineering at staff level, owning full product surfaces across both disciplines
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Top-tier AI lab Open
Senior Design Engineer
~4 years
  • Architected and shipped a Design System documentation site with headless CMS integration, enabling codeless content editing for non-technical contributors at a top-tier AI lab
  • Designed UX flows and built interactive UI assets in real-time 3D and animation tooling for a large-scale immersive entertainment experience prototype
  • Bridged design and engineering across both web product systems and interactive 3D environments, demonstrating range across multiple rendering paradigms
  • Delivered production-ready design infrastructure adopted by cross-functional teams, reducing friction between design and development workflows
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Defense & intelligence tech leader Open
Senior Product Designer
~4 years
  • Sole UX designer embedded in a defense-sector engineering team, architecting and shipping a complete design system for a classified Digital Twin application within a single contract engagement
  • Built a scalable component library of hundreds of reusable UI elements with design tokens and variables, reducing design-to-development handoff time by roughly 40%
  • Delivered dozens of large-scale brand microsites pixel-perfect to design specs across multiple responsive breakpoints for Fortune 500 clients
  • Demonstrated range across embedded product teams and agency environments, owning end-to-end design systems work as the sole designer on multiple high-stakes engagements
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Top-tier AI lab Open
Staff Machine Learning Engineer
~10 years
  • Staff researcher at a leading AI infrastructure company serving millions of developers worldwide.
  • Deep expertise in large-scale model training, distributed systems, and frontier ML research.
  • Published work shaping how the industry thinks about efficient inference and open model deployment.
  • One of the rare scientists who ships production systems and advances research at the same time.
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Industry-defining infrastructure Open
Staff Full-Stack Engineer
10+ years
  • Spearheaded a full modernization of a frontend stack at a prior company, introducing component-based architecture, modern build tooling, and hot module reloading across the engineering organization
  • Designed and built the JSON API backend powering both mobile web and native iOS experiences for a platform serving millions of members
  • Demonstrated repeated ownership of cross-functional technical uplift, driving adoption of emerging frontend standards before they became industry defaults
  • Track record spanning API design, mobile-facing services, and frontend infrastructure across multiple product-stage companies
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Senior AI Artist / Filmmaker
~6 years
  • One of three inaugural filmmakers chosen to shape generative AI tools now shipped inside a major creative platform used by millions.
  • Directing AI-driven performance workflows for narrative series at a studio building on acquired IP, promoted from contractor to full-time at speed.
  • Feedback and prototypes directly informed a live feature in one of the most widely adopted creative suites in the industry.
  • Bridges agentic AI systems and human storytelling in ways most filmmakers are still theorizing about.
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Director Engineering Management
10+ years
  • Led engineering at a FAANG-class social platform used by hundreds of millions daily.
  • Scaled and shipped features that redefined how the world shares visual content.
  • Built and mentored high-performing teams across multiple product surfaces at massive scale.
  • Operated at the intersection of consumer growth, reliability, and platform-level infrastructure.
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Top-tier fintech and payments Open
Senior Design Engineer
~7 years
  • Built an internal AI-powered rapid prototyping platform at a top-tier payments company that became a primary tool for design and engineering teams across the organization
  • Led engineering efforts to publicly launch a large company's design system, including building an icon discovery experience using modern static-site and component frameworks
  • Co-founded an AI-driven travel planning app with a cross-platform mobile frontend, a Node-based backend, and AI-generated itinerary features
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Pioneering deep-tech & hardware Open
Manager Engineering Management
10+ years
  • Led penetration and adoption of advanced ALD/CVD deposition processes for next-generation sub-2nm semiconductor nodes at a leading capital equipment manufacturer
  • Drove process demonstration projects at sub-2nm and 1nm technology nodes for major logic customers, while managing critical process escalations at established nodes
  • Won a formal customer appreciation award at a top semiconductor equipment company for successful RTP process transfer and development at mature technology nodes
  • Operates at the intersection of key account management and deep process engineering, bridging customer technical requirements with equipment solutions across multiple leading-edge chipmakers
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Defense & intelligence tech leader Open
Staff Infrastructure / Platform Engineer
~7 years
  • Early infrastructure engineer on an LLM and RAG platform built for deployment on secure government networks, scaling from zero to production
  • Designed and shipped AI research agents as a forward-deployed engineer embedded with government customers
  • Served as a military innovation officer advising on technology adoption for advanced programs
  • Spans the full stack of defense AI: embedded field deployment, agent systems, and secure government infrastructure
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Scaled a unicorn through hypergrowth Open
Senior Full-Stack Engineer
~4 years
  • Built serverless cloud integrations to unlock new customer verticals on a high-growth product platform
  • Delivered full-stack features across a real-estate analytics platform, spanning data pipelines in Python and customer-facing React/TypeScript applications
  • Worked across cloud infrastructure and frontend layers, bridging backend event-driven architecture with polished user-facing experiences
  • Contributed to a product used by large numbers of customers in a regulated industry, balancing velocity with reliability
Request intro →
Pioneering deep-tech & hardware Open
Senior Design Engineer
~7 years
  • Applied DOE-driven process development for advanced memory device architectures, improving fab throughput by over 20%
  • Reduced reflection loss by more than 25% through development of photolithography and plasma dry etch processes for nanophotonic devices
  • Achieved nearly an order-of-magnitude improvement in etch depth on nanostructures via cleanroom process optimization
  • Experienced across both high-volume semiconductor manufacturing and academic cleanroom environments spanning memory and photonic device technologies
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World-class quant & trading Open
VP Full-Stack Engineer
10+ years
  • Builds real-time front-office trading dashboards at a top-tier automated trading firm, delivering low-latency data pipelines for live market operations.
  • Full-stack ownership across trading UIs and backend data infrastructure in high-stakes financial environments.
  • Experienced delivering end-to-end engineering in regulated, performance-critical fintech and trading contexts.
  • VP-level technical contributor with a track record spanning both product-facing interfaces and core data engineering.
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Defense & intelligence tech leader Open
Senior Infrastructure / Platform Engineer
~4 years
  • Engineered packet-acceleration infrastructure at a large-scale networking platform
  • Built and deployed a market-making system for a financial exchange
  • Joined a crypto venture as a founding engineer from day one, turning down a competing new-grad offer from a major exchange to own the zero-to-one build
  • Completed a competitive engineering residency program, shipping production infrastructure during the batch
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Pioneering deep-tech & hardware Open
Senior Design Engineer
10+ years
  • Drove semiconductor fab process development at a leading capital equipment company, contributing to next-generation wafer manufacturing workflows
  • Managed strategic accounts across a major regional market for a top-tier semiconductor equipment supplier, spanning multiple large-scale fab customers
  • Cross-functional experience bridging deep process engineering and commercial account management within the global semiconductor supply chain
  • Sustained senior technical staff tenure across hardware-intensive environments, with applied expertise in advanced fabrication processes
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FAANG-class big tech Open
Staff Full-Stack Engineer
~7 years
  • Architected and led a platform consolidation from micro-frontends to a unified config-driven React + TypeScript system, now powering hundreds of distinct cloud services at scale
  • Delivered a customer-facing logistics tracking portal rolled out across thousands of retail locations nationwide
  • Proven ownership of frontend platform decisions with org-wide impact, spanning architecture, developer tooling, and multi-team adoption
  • Experienced across enterprise-scale big tech and global IT services, contributing to products used by millions of end users
Request intro →
Top-tier AI lab Open
Staff Design Engineer
~7 years
  • Led UX design and front-end engineering for advertising products at a scaled consumer platform
  • Shipped voice visualization and multimodal UI features for a flagship AI assistant, driving significant daily active user growth
  • Delivered AI-powered video generation capabilities within a consumer mobile app, taking the feature from concept to production
  • Operates at the intersection of design and engineering at staff level, owning full product surfaces across both disciplines
Request intro →
Top-tier AI lab Open
Senior Design Engineer
~4 years
  • Architected and shipped a Design System documentation site with headless CMS integration, enabling codeless content editing for non-technical contributors at a top-tier AI lab
  • Designed UX flows and built interactive UI assets in real-time 3D and animation tooling for a large-scale immersive entertainment experience prototype
  • Bridged design and engineering across both web product systems and interactive 3D environments, demonstrating range across multiple rendering paradigms
  • Delivered production-ready design infrastructure adopted by cross-functional teams, reducing friction between design and development workflows
Request intro →
Defense & intelligence tech leader Open
Senior Product Designer
~4 years
  • Sole UX designer embedded in a defense-sector engineering team, architecting and shipping a complete design system for a classified Digital Twin application within a single contract engagement
  • Built a scalable component library of hundreds of reusable UI elements with design tokens and variables, reducing design-to-development handoff time by roughly 40%
  • Delivered dozens of large-scale brand microsites pixel-perfect to design specs across multiple responsive breakpoints for Fortune 500 clients
  • Demonstrated range across embedded product teams and agency environments, owning end-to-end design systems work as the sole designer on multiple high-stakes engagements
Request intro →
Top-tier AI lab Open
Staff Machine Learning Engineer
~10 years
  • Staff researcher at a leading AI infrastructure company serving millions of developers worldwide.
  • Deep expertise in large-scale model training, distributed systems, and frontier ML research.
  • Published work shaping how the industry thinks about efficient inference and open model deployment.
  • One of the rare scientists who ships production systems and advances research at the same time.
Request intro →
Industry-defining infrastructure Open
Staff Full-Stack Engineer
10+ years
  • Spearheaded a full modernization of a frontend stack at a prior company, introducing component-based architecture, modern build tooling, and hot module reloading across the engineering organization
  • Designed and built the JSON API backend powering both mobile web and native iOS experiences for a platform serving millions of members
  • Demonstrated repeated ownership of cross-functional technical uplift, driving adoption of emerging frontend standards before they became industry defaults
  • Track record spanning API design, mobile-facing services, and frontend infrastructure across multiple product-stage companies
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Shaped a product used by millions Open
Senior AI Artist / Filmmaker
~6 years
  • One of three inaugural filmmakers chosen to shape generative AI tools now shipped inside a major creative platform used by millions.
  • Directing AI-driven performance workflows for narrative series at a studio building on acquired IP, promoted from contractor to full-time at speed.
  • Feedback and prototypes directly informed a live feature in one of the most widely adopted creative suites in the industry.
  • Bridges agentic AI systems and human storytelling in ways most filmmakers are still theorizing about.
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Shaped a product used by millions Open
Director Engineering Management
10+ years
  • Led engineering at a FAANG-class social platform used by hundreds of millions daily.
  • Scaled and shipped features that redefined how the world shares visual content.
  • Built and mentored high-performing teams across multiple product surfaces at massive scale.
  • Operated at the intersection of consumer growth, reliability, and platform-level infrastructure.
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The track record behind the grid
540+
Engineers placed
$165M+
Cash & equity deployed
91%
Offer acceptance
< 4 wks
Average time to close
2x
Google Best Partner award