Coastal Current - Weekly Candidate Spotlight

HAPPY FRIDAY!

Hiring is 📈 across the board.. Know what that means?

Now is the perfect time to get in front of top engineering candidates as they hit the market looking for their next gig.

This week’s Candidate Spotlight highlights 6 rockstars who started interviewing with Coastal last week.

Interested in chatting with them or exploring our talent network? Respond to this email or check out our website for the deets 👀

• Founding / Early Engineer (Fullstack)

  • Engineer #2 and full-stack tech lead at Fieldguide, delivering multiple 0-1 features and helped them go from Seed through Series A funding

  • Tech: typescript, javascript, node, react, python, AWS, & GraphQL

• Founding ML Eng

  • Lead ML Eng at top VC

  • Lead AI Eng at Paige.AI

• AI Researcher @ Imbue

  • PhD - Berkeley / BS - Stanford

  • OpenAI residency

• Staff Blockchain Eng @ Gemini

  • Tech Lead @ Coinbase

  • Founder - Crypto Wallet service

  • BS - CMU

• Xiaosu Guan* Senior UX/UI Designer @ BondIT

  • Senior UX Researcher & Design Sprint Expert (portfolio here)

  • EU based

  • approved sharing her profile

• Backend Eng (L5) - Google (Female Candidate)

  • 8+ years of experience - former founder

  • LA Based - looking for startup opportunity

Know anyone in your networking scaling their technical team? Would greatly appreciate you forwarding this along to see how we can help 🙏

Will leave you with this… the medium pre-money valuation for seed rounds has increased by 55% since Q1 2021 and Series A has increased by 10%, with B, C & D declining drastically..

Until next time 🫡

The Coastal Team