Coastal Recruiting - Weekly Engineering Spotlight, Jan 19

Happy Friday! For those new - every Friday, we share the top candidates we’re working with at Coastal Recruiting. We’re constantly working with a healthy mix of experienced Full-Stack, Front-End, Applied AI/ML, Back-End and Smart Contract candidates – all have a blend of big tech + 0-1 experience, looking for their next role.

Before digging into this week’s spotlight, we wanted to shout-out one of our clients, Rabbit, who made big waves at CES last week with their r1:

• The Rabbit R1 is an AI-powered gadget that can use your apps for you (The Verge)

• Introducing r1 (2.1M views)

• Rabbit r1: $199, no subscription (3.8M views)

• Fresh off a Series A round led by Khosla, Rabbit has been moving at lightning speed with their LAM (Large Action Model), selling out each pre-order window in a matter of minutes... been a blast helping them build their team! 

Now… to the good stuff with the rockstars below. Give us a shout if any of your portfolio companies, founder friends, or own engineering orgs need assistance on early-engineering hiring!

Sr Full-Stack AI/ML Engineer 

• Currently Sr SWE @ Google Bard and Assistant, he has 6+ yrs of full-stack and AI/ML experience 

• Oversaw NLP Projects for Google Assistant, including User Profile Platform, Grounding Ranking, Entity Matching and Speech Biasins

• Looking to join early-stage startup / team innovating in AI/ML

• MS, CS from Rice University

Sr Back-End Engineer

• Currently Sr Staff SWE @ Discord, Prev 5 yrs @ Lyft

• At Lyft, led the Dispatch team and rewrote the whole dispatch algorithm multiple times. Par of the performance frameworks team, tasked with building out a fake Lyft behind Lyft which ran all of Lyft’s behaviors behind the scenes.

• At Discord, on the safety team where he worked on visual safety and making sure everything was in compliance.

• BS, CS from Berkley

Sr Full-Stack & Smart Contract Engineer

• Currently Sr SWE @ Alloy, she has 5+ yrs of Fullstack experience 

• At Alloy, led numerous projects - including overhauling the design and integration of their API endpoints

• Passionate about web3, placing as a finalize at multiple hackathons (EthNYC 2023 + 2022, Datapalooza, UNL 3-2-1 Quick Pitch Competition, HACKU)

• MS, CS from Georgia Tech

Sr Full-Stack Engineer 

• Currently a Lead SWE @ Google, she has 6+ years full-stack experience 

• At Google, ‘player-coach’ to 10+ engineers overseeing Google data center monitoring and deployments

• Motivated to join an early-stage startup as a founding engineer, ideally in NYC or SF

• BS, CS from UC Davis

Sr Full-Stack Engineer 

• Currently Sr SWE @ Wombi AI, prev @ Google

• At Wombo, Led 0-1 creation of the ML interface and wrote/setup all of their cloud infrastructure. Worked across GPU and ECS along with other API services 

• At Google, worked on Google search assistant and YouTube music team where he contributed on the backend, focused on integrating Assistant into the Android messaging app

• On the side, hacks on several AI and web3 projects, including art generation, Stable Diffusion design, etc

• Wants to join a startup where he believes in the founders, their vision, and work with other great engineers

• BS, CS Carleton University

Sr Backend Engineer

• Currently Sr. SWE @ Airtable with 10+ year SWE experience

• Prior to Airtable, was a Sr. SWE @ Slack, where he worked on Slack Connect; Sr Member of Technical Staff @ Salesforce, and Sr Quality Engineer @ Github

• Strong background in test automation, web development, and cloud computing (fun fact, while at Microsoft, he was an early bug tester for TypeScript)

• After consulting a few startups on technical initiatives, he’s keen to join an early startup where he can have full ownership, ship quickly, and work on challenging problems

• BS, CS from California Polytechnic State-University-San Luis Obispo 

Sr Backend Engineer

• Currently Sr SWE @ Discord, with a focus in Back-End infrastructure and architecture

• He was an early engineer at a seed-stage startup that was acquired by Discord – he’s ready to get in on the ground floor of an early-stage startup and re-join the 0-1 journey again 

• BS, CS from Berkley 

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

Until next time 🫡

David