Vetted Founders in Remote

“Operations-focused leader specializing in rebuilding and scaling marketing/product/commercial operating models during rapid growth and leadership change. Known for implementing integrated quarterly planning, intake/resourcing, and KPI reporting systems that de-silo teams (including B2B enterprise, sales, and marketing) and create predictable execution, clearer decision rights, and scalable operating rhythms.”

“Co-founded academic-index (10,000+ users) and built a full-stack Next.js 14 document upload + client-side OCR + Gemini-powered analysis pipeline with strong production reliability (custom monitoring, retries, quality gates) and measurable gains (accuracy ~94%→98.5%, failures down ~60%). Also owns end-to-end biometric data visualization and a data-driven brand/UX overhaul at pre-seed health/performance startup Absolute Rest, with a background running a multi-client dev studio (Zen Digital).”

Ryan Crabbe

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Junior Full-Stack/Mobile Engineer specializing in React Native and NestJS

Remote1y exp

“Built an AI-powered restaurant menu rewriting app that generates diet-constrained menus from photos, with a backend designed around bounded contexts and a lightweight CQRS approach. Demonstrates strong multi-tenant PostgreSQL design (RLS, tenant-scoped queries) and performance tuning (partitioning, keyset pagination, composite/partial indexes), plus AI workflow orchestration using Redis/BullMQ and Vercel AI SDK with structured outputs and evals; reduced p95 latency ~35–50% via racing LLM requests and caching.”

Robert Davis

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Staff Software Engineer specializing in backend and distributed systems

Remote, US19y exp

“Backend engineer who co-launched SkyKick’s Office 365 SharePoint/Exchange backup product, built the MVP, and then architected and led its design for 9 years. Stands out for high-scale systems expertise, including an algorithmic redesign that cut cloud costs by an order of magnitude, plus earlier experience integrating speech recognition systems in noisy real-world customer environments.”

Changhee Lee

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Mid-level Software Engineer and Product Manager specializing in AI and financial data platforms

Remote4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with deep Next.js App Router + TypeScript experience who has shipped and owned production features in a fashion/wardrobe/resale domain. Demonstrated measurable impact across the stack: +25% engagement, 30% faster load times, 40% fewer errors, plus durable Temporal workflows and Postgres analytics/query tuning for real-time dashboards.”

“Game designer on Madden NFL (incl. Madden NFL 26) who contributed to Superstar Showdown mode rules and weekly Game Day Beats objectives, focusing on playtest-driven tuning to keep challenges fun and achievable. Also owned the Superstar storefront experience, coordinating with art/design under tight timelines and adapting live-service merchandising based on what players responded to.”

Samantha Pinheiro

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Mid-level Growth & Business Development Operator in Financial Services and Defense Tech

Remote3y exp

“Sales/business development operator who has repeatedly built outbound motions from scratch—most recently launching a B2B recruiting GTM at Pinnacle Private Credit, generating 50+ relationships, a $50K+ pipeline in 5 weeks, and closing 7 enterprise agreements with C-suite financial services stakeholders. Also co-founded a defense tech startup (multi-sensor aerial threat detection), led investor outreach to 100+ investors, and applies AI/ML both for outreach personalization (ChatGPT/Claude) and product work (sensor fusion/threat detection).”

“Sole founder of Bazaaro who built the company’s operations across product, hiring, GTM, finance, and investor relations—securing initial investment by effectively spanning multiple functions. Also drove a high-stakes operational turnaround at Ciena by process-mapping end-to-end workflows, correcting cost mis-modeling, and building Excel dashboards to recover $60K+ while improving margin visibility.”

Andre Kuznetcov

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Staff Front-End Engineer specializing in high-performance web apps and AI products

Remote, US4y exp

“Frontend engineer who built uichallenges.design end-to-end in Next.js, delivering hourly AI-generated challenges across timezones and a CDN-backed gallery of 1k+ items while staying fast for 100s of weekly active users. Also led a full replacement of Zenhub’s kanban board, forking DnD tooling and adding custom virtualization + Redux to support thousands of items with real-time socket updates, shipped safely via gradual rollout with Sentry/Mixpanel and A/B testing.”

“Unity gameplay engineer with 10 years in game development who has shipped dozens of mobile titles and built high-impact shared systems, including a custom touch framework still used across 100+ ABC Mouse mini games. At Battle Creek Games, they paired strong Unity engineering with AI-assisted workflow automation, cutting a 4-day car setup process to 30 minutes and delivering a partnership update that drove over $1M in a single weekend.”