Coastal Recruiting - Weekly Engineering Spotlight, Feb 16

Happy Friday! Welcome to Coastal Recruiting’s weekly candidate spotlight. Reminding everyone we work with a healthy mix of experienced Full-Stack, Front-End, Applied AI/ML, Back-End, PM, and Smart Contract candidates – all have a blend of big tech + 0-1 experience, looking for their next role at an early-stage startup.

Feel free to forward this to any founder/hiring manager you know hiring talented engineers across the stack. Without further ado, candidates from the past week:

Sr Applied AI/ML Engineer

• Currently a Senior ML Engineer @ Apple - focused on building product features & ML fundamental technology for Siri/Spotlight/Entity Experience within Vision intelligence (AIML org)

• Previously Sr/Staff SWE @ Google as a Data Engineer

• With a focus on ML Infrastructure and Distributed Systems, he’s looking to join an early stage AI/ML startup where he can have ownership and work with founders on the roadmap 

• MS, CS from Northwestern 

Sr/Staff Full-Stack Engineer (blockchain focus)

• Staff-level engineer who has been in crypto for long time; joined Coinbase in 2014 and built most of their initial BE and infrastructure systems

• He then joined Polychain Labs, focused on their cold storage and staking business and now is a Sr Tech Lead @ Unit 410

• As a true full-stack engineer with expertise across infra, backend and data with a ‘get shit done’ mindset, he’s looking to join an early-stage blockchain team with exceptional founders - ideally in DeFi

Sr/Staff Full-Stack Engineer (AI/ML focus)

• Currently Sr/Staff engineer @ Google - working on Google TV

• Within Google TV he’s worked as a backend engineer building the recommendation platform for Google TV and the data intensive ML pipeline for Google TV recommendations

• Ranked within the top 50 Indian competitive programmers on various programming platforms like Hackerrank and Codeforces and regularly writes on Quora 

• Main motivation is to join an innovative AI/ML startup that is well-funded and he’s a meaningful contributor to the business and tech roadmap 

Sr Protocol Engineer 

• Prev a founding engineer @ Orb labs and founding engineer @ GenieLabs (which was acquired by Uniswap)

• At Orb Labs, he built their web3 interoperability solutions that enable seamless and secure cross-chain transactions and data exchange. At Uniswap Labs, he contributed to the development of the NFT trading platform and the ERC20 token data platform. He joined Uniswap Labs through the acquisition of Genie Labs, where he was part of the team that built the first decentralized marketplace for digital assets.

• He's looking to join a team / founders / company that closely resonates with his own in the DeFi / web3 space 

Sr Product Manager - Fintech / Digital Assets

• Currently Sr. Product Manager @ Robinhood where he led launch strategy for their Cash Card - defining target market, value props, and responsible for financial regulatory requirements. 

• Oversaw risk compliance for their rewards program that dealt with numerous separate regulatory entities dealing with moving cash to stock options.

• Previously as Senior Product Manager at Earnin, where he was a lead for revenue, increasing annualized revenue by $36MM in 2 months.

Executive AI/ML Lead (CTO/VP)

• Currently and Engineering Leader @ Apple, focused on Applied AI/ML

• Developed AI and Machine Learning product features with a focus on domain-specific Large Language Models, Computer Vision, Knowledge Graph, and privacy-preserving technologies

• Serve as a co-chair of the Recommendation & Personalization Track of Apple's Machine Learning Summit. Help previous AI/ML leadership roles (VP+) at organizations like Stats Perform, Cogito Corp and Atlassian 

• Actively looking for CTO/VP level opportunities at Series A+ AI/ML startups
  

Reply to this email if you’re interested in any of these candidates - or would like to learn more about working with Coastal

Have a great weekend,

David

PS - Check out This LI post about starting a company, work remote culture, and how the environment you put yourself in drastically affects your happiness. Coming off a week of skiing and working in Big Sky, MT (and being just as productive, work wise, while getting in insane powder days) hits home for me….big time.