Coastal Recruiting - Eng Candidate Spotlight, Dec 3

0-1 engineers in SF + NYC

Author

David Friedman
December 03, 2024

Welcome to Coastal Recruiting’s weekly candidate spotlight - where we highlight candidates in SF and NYC, who are looking for their next startup opportunity. As reminder, we’re a boutique startup recruitment agency representing stellar engineering talent in SF + NYC, across the stack.

In addition to working with stellar engineering talent, we’re also fortunate to work with exceptional founders - and this week, wanted to highlight one of them - Factory - a leader in Autonomous Software Engineering. We’ve been helping Factory build their engineering team since their Seed round last year - and have had a blast doing so. Check out what the CEO/Co-Founder has to say about their experience with Coastal:

“Coastal has been with us from the start; they're best in business when it comes to early-stage engineering and have been a strong partner to Factory during a period of hyper-growth. Coastal helped us land critical hires across Machine Learning, Infrastructure, and Full-Stack engineers - while never sacrificing our talent bar. Strongly recommend them to any founder building their engineering team.”

Without further ado, if any of the below profiles catch your eye, don’t hesitate to reply directly to this email.

  1. ML Infra/Full Stack Engineer (NYC)

    • He holds a top Computer Science degree from the University of Illinois and began his career at Oracle, where he worked on low-level kernel design, driver development, and feature development.

    • At an early-stage AI Healthtech startup, he has played a pivotal role in various 0-1 projects across frontend, backend, infrastructure, DevOps, and data/ML pipelining. Recently, he focused on ML infrastructure, developing tooling to enhance team efficiency. Notably, he built a data analytics pipeline from scratch, utilizing AWS Glue for ETL ingestion, Kinesis for real-time streaming, and Redshift and Retool for analytics. He has also worked with large language models (LLMs).

  2. Front End/ Full Stack Engineer (NYC) 

    • He earned his Computer Science degree from Berkeley, where he participated in a program that paired students with young startups for engineering work, igniting his passion for building from 0-1 in a startup environment. He also interned at Twitter and Apple before joining an early-stage cyber startup.

    • As a Full-Stack Engineer with a focus on the frontend, he is part of the fastest-growing team at his company, working on the foundation of the company’s core products. He collaborates closely with design and product teams and has taken numerous initiatives, showcasing his strong skills in UI, UX, and frontend systems.

  3.  Back End/Full Stack Engineer (NYC)

    • He completed his undergraduate degree at Georgia Institute of Technology and is currently pursuing a master’s degree at Johns Hopkins University.

    • He is one of three backend engineers at a leading architectural design AI startup, where he has contributed to the development of their new system, Carbon, an automated tool for operational carbon estimation. Additionally, he has worked on a chatbot, AI-powered summarization, and code of ordinances.

  4.  Back End/Product/Full Stack Engineer (SF)

    • After graduating with a Computer Science degree from the University of Michigan in just 3 years, he started his career at Carta, where he has experienced significant learning and growth, recently earning a promotion.

    • He has worked on multiple teams at Carta, including VC Fund, Public Markets, and Liquidity. Most recently, he served as a Tech Lead, developing a product for one of the largest VC firms signed by Carta, which provided real-time insights into public assets and fund performance.

  5. Front End/Product/Full Stack Engineer (SF)

    • He graduated from the University of Illinois and is currently the Lead Frontend Engineer at a health-tech startup, where he works on a small team consisting of a backend engineer and an infrastructure engineer. 

    • He is a full-stack and frontend/UX expert with extensive experience in HIPAA-compliant web, desktop, and mobile development. He has experience with database systems like BigQuery, SQL Server, Postgres, and MySQL, all deployed on AWS with multi-region failure tolerance and zero-downtime updates.

  6. Product/Back End Engineer (SF/NYC)

    • A graduate of Berkeley, she most recently worked at Verkada on the events team, focusing on building and maintaining an alert system that processes all Verkada products to determine customer notifications. She collaborates with customers to set up event alerts based on their preferences.

    • Her work involves maintaining the alert system and minimizing latency, utilizing technologies such as Golang, Python, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform. She is product-focused with a backend leaning.

P.S. Coastal Recruiting helps the top 1% of founders hire 0-1 engineers in SF + NYC