Vetted Founders in California

“AI-native software developer who has built a highly structured workflow around Claude, Cursor, design agents, and SpecKit to plan, design, implement, and test features end to end. They also use multi-agent setups with sub-agents and git worktrees, and have experience acting as a tech lead for AI agents by assigning roles, guiding execution, and reviewing outputs.”

“Front-end/product engineer who has built an AI-assisted browser discussion platform combining vector-search-backed LLM responses with real-time chat, plus high-scale analytics interfaces for business users. Stands out for blending modern UI engineering with browser internals knowledge, including cross-browser extension behavior and tricky iOS Safari viewport/rendering issues.”

Nehemiah Dias

Screened

Senior Frontend Engineer specializing in design systems and real-time SaaS platforms

San Francisco, CA11y exp

“Full-stack product builder who has repeatedly taken end-to-end ownership in startup environments, including building PromoFlow solo and architecting the entire software backbone for Hard Drive. Particularly strong at turning ambiguous product needs into scalable systems, from real-time Firebase apps to shared component libraries and redesigned Postgres architectures, while also bridging non-technical founders, design, and engineering.”

William Armstrong

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Junior Product Engineer specializing in AI and SaaS

San Francisco, CA1y exp

“Product intern at an AI startup (AdvisorGPT) who helped turn an LLM-based prototype into a production SEO blog-generation workflow that matched a firm’s tone/voice and targeted specific search phrases. Strong at bridging technical and non-technical teams, rapidly learning new AI tooling, and driving adoption through customer calls, UX improvements, and customer-facing demos/workshops.”

Antoine Andre

Screened

Senior Account Executive specializing in AI/SaaS and technical B2B sales

Sacramento, CA17y exp

“Founding recruiter/seller at Remax who built the entire outbound engine from zero—cadences, CRM workflows, automations, Chrome extensions, discovery framework, and ROI templates—without SDRs, inbound, or an existing playbook. Combines consultative selling with technical process-building, and turned a cold-sourced broker into a 5-person team producing $14M in annual volume while reducing meeting conversion timelines by 40%.”

“Finance professional with IPO, capital raising, and PE-adjacent transaction experience who is also building Lungkindred, a caregiver matching platform inspired by her own experience as a lung cancer caregiver. She has shown early founder traction by sourcing users through niche patient communities and converting them into onboarded matches while navigating trust in a highly sensitive healthcare context.”

Nathan Sisler

Screened

Senior Technical Artist and Gameplay Developer specializing in Unity games

California, USA7y exp

“Gameplay-focused Unity/Unreal developer who built a sophisticated voxel vehicle creator with greedy mesh optimization, JSON/compression storage, and Supabase-backed upload/download reconstruction at runtime. They also integrated AI-generated character assets into a Spine for Unity pipeline and have experience optimizing for early mobile VR and building multiplayer/social interaction features.”

“Backend engineer who has built end-to-end data and platform systems across domains: a Scala/Java media data warehouse with a custom query language and Elasticsearch search, plus production security patterns (RBAC, RLS, audit trails) including a telehealth platform. Also demonstrated strong operational rigor by using feature-flagged side-by-side migrations and by catching ecommerce checkout edge cases that were dropping revenue.”

“Beauty category/program manager with experience running end-to-end brand campaigns across subscription/assortment and eCommerce, including line planning, inventory pacing, and demand generation. Has negotiated directly with a global beauty conglomerate using pricing tests and scale-based proposals, sustaining the partnership through regular reporting/insights and helping drive onboarding of additional brands.”

Alexander Churchill

Screened

Executive Talent Acquisition & Workforce Operations Leader specializing in global hiring

San Francisco / Denver, US23y exp

“Talent/Recruiting Operations leader who ran a 450–600 person multi-region org (USA/MX/Colombia) with end-to-end ownership of SLAs, capacity planning, funnel metrics, ATS/CRM, compliance, bench, and renewals. Known for high-impact operational redesigns—revamped sales comp to lift EBIT and built a CX function that improved renewals by 10% in 12 months (~$7M). Also drove a Slack-first AI workflow strategy that cut complex RFP turnaround from weeks to minutes.”