Coastal Recruiting - Weekly Engineering Spotlight, Jan 5

Happy Friday, and happy new year! For those new, Coastal Recruiting’s weekly candidate spotlight highlights top technical talent actively interviewing searching for a startup opportunity. We work with a healthy blend of experienced Full-Stack, Front-End, Applied AI/ML, Back-End and Smart Contract candidates.

Starting the new year HOT with 9 HIGH CALIBER candidate profiles 🔥 – all looking for their next opportunity. While you’re here, hear from the CTO of Cedar about how we helped land a Lead Engineer:

“David & Evan at Coastal are incredibly easy to work with – their communication, ability to bring us A+ candidates, and help with each step of the interview process is first-class. From candidate calibration to negotiation and closing, they were with us each step of the way closing a rock-star Founding Engineer who will be critical during the next phase of our business, I look forward to working with them again in the future”

Nate Peters, Cedar Co-Founder & CTO

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 Engineer 

• She was class Valedictorian @ Dartmouth, started her own YC company, prev SWE @ Meta for 4 years and exp @ Stripe

• Currently Sr SWE @ Anima overseeing US engineering efforts for a UK-based startup

• Full-stack her entire career, most proficient in TypeScript

• BS, CS & Economics from Dartmouth

• Based in Seattle, open to SF relocation

AI/ML Engineer

• Deep Learning Systems Researcher @ Netflix, w/previous experience @ Apple

• Youngest-ever PHD from UCSD (graduating at 20); Meta Research Fellowship Recipient; Leading papers at top venues 

• Built & deployed on-device models for the Apple watch (>30M invokes per week)

• Designed models for user intent prediction in recommendations, image generation for studio, and foundation model for recs at Netflix

• Built the large-model training & selection system used by Meta, working with LLaMA team & their software/hardware co-design group

• PHD, UCSD; BS in CS, UCSD, MS in CS, UCSD 

• Based in LA, open to SF relocation

Smart Contract/ Full-Stack Engineer

• Currently Technical Lead @ Protocol Labs, Prev Founder Experience, Sr. SWE @ Microsoft, SWE @ Amazon

• 10+ years SWE experience, currently developing and maintaining core products and libraries at Protocol Labs that enable peer-to-peer data exchange and storage

• Founded Decentralized Storage, a startup that leverages the IPFS and Filecoin networks to provide secure, reliable and affordable cloud storage services

• MS, CS and Mechanical Engineering from Columbia University

• Based in Seattle

Full-Stack Engineer

• She’s currently a Sr SWE @ Cloud Kitchens with prev 0-1 experience 

• Created system to automate website creation for 3 business units across 10+ countries using prismic databases, deploying via netlify

• BS, CS from Cornell 

• Based in LA 

Front-End / Smart Contract Engineer 

• 1st Engineer hired @ Magic Link, helped scale team to 60

• From 0-1 he built their Landing pages, developer dashboards, SDK (helped bring that to open source), productionized Key Management with more features. Took them from Pre-PMF, launching, to getting first 10 customers and working closely with their customers. 

• Full Stack Javascript Engineer strongest on the Front End with React, Typescript, Node.js, and Next.js

• BS, CS from University of Waterloo

• Based in SF

AI/ML + Full Stack Engineer

• She’s currently Sr SWE @ Arena AI, previously co-founded a music-discovery application, prev SWE @ Amazon

• Designed and built entire music discovery cross-platform and mobile application, gaining over 30K+ users and 125 countries in 3 months

• Strong Python/React experience 

• BS, CS from University of Waterloo 

• Based in NYC

FE / Full-Stack Engineer 

• Currently Sr. SWE @ Roblox, concentrating on Frontend/Full Stack infrastructure

• At Roblox, he’s led multiple project and built 0-1

• Previously spent 3 years @ Yelp as a SWE

• BS, CS from Berkley  

• Based in SF

Director Level Engineering Leader (Open to IC roles)

• Currently Director of Engineering for Meituan’s Autonomous Driving Business Unit, overseeing a global team of 50, globally

• Prev Tech Lead Manager (Staff SWE, SWE committee member) @ Waymo, VP of Eng @ Allride.ai, Platform Director @ WeRide, and R&D Lead @ Baidu USA (to name a few)

• Currently managing teams of onboard compute, sensors, software platform, cloud teleoperation and mobile apps, security, and HW product

• MS in CS from Leighigh and BE in CS from Beijing Institute of Technology

• Based in Seattle

Senior Engineering Manager (Open to IC Roles)

• Currently Head of Engineering @ Snorkel AI, Prev SWE Managing experience at Meta, Samsung Electronics, Immedia Semiconductor and Broadcom

• Experience in ML Frameworks, low-level firmware for custom silicon hardware as well as system software

• Currently leading Snorkel AI’s ML Backend team, having scaled Snorkel’s SaaS (hosted & on-prem) product for multi-modal data (text + images)

• MS, Information and CS from UC Irvine, BS in CS and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi 

• Based in SF 

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

Until next time 🫡

David