Coastal Current - Weekly Candidate Spotlight in 60 seconds

HAPPY FRIDAY!

In the spirit of consistency, clarity and brevity - check out the 3 top candidates from this week. All actively interviewing, all vying to join early-stage startups.

Founding Full-Stack Engineer:

• YC Founder

• Full-Stack Engineer - worked in 3 early stage vc backed companies as founding/early engineer

• Kleiner Perkins fellow

• CS - Cal Berkeley

Blockchain-Native Engineer

• Staff FE at Yuga Labs - lead architect

• Early engineer at VC backed web3 startup

• 10+ years of professional experience

• CS - Carnegie Mellon

ML/AI Engineer:

• Founding ML Engineer - a16z backed start-up

• Built out ML models from scratch

• 5+ years of experience at Google in ML/AI role

• CS - Stanford

Reply to this email or grab time HERE to dive in.

Separately, is your fund evaluating AI/ML investments and looking for a partner to run AI technical due diligence?

If so, I HIGHLY recommend Irina Kukuyeva (a close friend of Coastal), who helps funds with AI/ML due diligence. Few bullets on Irina below:

• Overview of Irina’s AI due diligence approach here

• Mentored 150+ start-ups

• Trained 80+ UCLA graduate students on how to develop real-time AI/ML algorithms

• Fun fact: Irina invented a novel image compression algorithm for her PhD thesis -- and found similarities between two storms on Jupiter, a finding confirmed by NASA Juno's mission 6 years later.

• Schedule time with Irina here

Until next time ✌️

The Coastal Team