Coastal Current - Weekly Engineering Spotlight, Dec 11

HAPPY FRIDAY.. Coastal Recruiting’s weekly candidate spotlight dropping in your inbox bright + early (for us west-coasters). Hear from the CEO of Grandstand about how we’ve helped build their eng team:

“I've worked with numerous recruitment firms, and Coastal Recruitment is as top-notch as they come. They were instrumental in helping us hire a Senior Full-Stack engineer; from kickoff to closing our candidate in a matter of weeks, they provided a seamless client experience through effective communication, deeply understanding our eng and business needs, and vetting high-caliber engineers. Most importantly, they provided an exceptional candidate experience for everyone we interviewed. I'd gladly work with the Coastal team again in the future”

Sandeep Rajan, Grandstand Founder & CEO

Give us a shout if any of your portfolio companies, founder friends, or own engineering orgs need assistance on early-engineering hiring!

AI/ML Engineer

• Founding engineer & primary system architect of Google Cloud’s Vertex AI Vision

• Joined Apple’s Special Projects Group out of his PHD program

• Core contributor to a distributed deep neural net training system (as an example)

• BS, PhD in Physics from Caltech

BE-Leaning Full-Stack Engineer

• Principal software engineer @ Tenstorrent, prev Sr software engineer @ Apple SPG 

• Loves building 0-1; specialty in control plane/backend distributed systems, data center networking, etc

• While at Apple, led multiple greenfield/experimental projects into production. One being a groundbreaking edge compute project to interact with several thousand experimental hardware units

• BS CS from North Carolina State University

Full-Stack Engineer:

• Founding Engineer @ Typemagic, prev Sr software engineer @ Salesforce (Automation Cloud)

• 8+ yrs as a full-stack engineer in addition to building Typemagic, an AI toolkit that aims to help users bring their AI agents to life. 

• 0-1 builder looking for early engineering opportunities at Seed & Series A companies

• BS, Electrical & Computer Engineering from University of Texas at Austin

Carta’s breakdown on how much cash is actually raised at each stage caught our attention this week.. especially seed-stage investments holding up shockingly well - $3.5M raised in 2021 vs $3.2M in 2023:

Interested in learning more? Reply to this email or grab time HERE to dive in. 

Until next time 🫡

David