Vetted Authentication Professionals

Stephen Koo

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in LLM infrastructure and AI inference platforms

New York, NY8y exp

“Google Workspace AI engineer who owned major AI assistant infrastructure end-to-end: React/TypeScript UI, a Node.js context-aggregation gateway on Cloud Run, and a Go inference layer on GKE serving Gemini. Built and productionized Gmail RAG + agentic workflows with rigorous evals and guardrails, and has a strong track record of measurable impact (latency, engagement, acceptance-rate lifts) and zero-incident migrations using feature flags/strangler patterns across multiple ML teams.”

Kaiqi Zhang

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud-native SaaS and AI applications

Bellevue, WA13y exp

“ML/LLM engineer with hands-on experience shipping production RAG systems at Google Clinical Search and GenAI recommendation/summarization features in Meta Ads. Stands out for combining research-to-production execution with rigorous grounding, evaluation, safety checks, and reusable Python platform components that improved both reliability and team velocity.”

Christopher McLean

Screened

Executive engineering leader specializing in security, privacy, and high-scale infrastructure

Brookline, MA18y exp

“Veteran operator from top-tier tech companies including PayPal, LinkedIn, Stripe, Facebook, and Merge, now seeking the right startup idea to found. Brings hands-on angel investing experience across 5 startups in the EU and US plus additional exposure through X-Stripe Angels, giving them both operator and investor perspective.”

“Engineer with startup experience building AI-powered internal knowledge and support products from ambiguous early-stage concepts into production systems used by multiple teams. Particularly strong in end-to-end LLM product delivery across backend orchestration, retrieval, observability, security, and full-stack user experience, with clear impact on productivity and self-service adoption.”

Daozheng Chen

Screened

Staff Full-Stack AI Engineer specializing in FinTech and Enterprise SaaS

San Jose, CA12y exp

“Full-stack engineer with Yahoo Finance experience building AI-powered investment and analytics features. They combine modern TypeScript/React/NestJS development with strong backend systems skills in PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, and Kubernetes, and have driven architectural improvements from synchronous workflows to event-driven microservices in a high-traffic financial environment.”

“Security-oriented software engineer with experience building high-impact internal and platform features at TikTok and Reddit, including session hijacking prevention, an internal password manager, and a reusable Android passkey SDK. Stands out for combining backend/API ownership, user-driven product improvements, and deep attention to security, performance, and cross-platform compatibility.”