Vetted Front-End Development Professionals

“Backend engineer who helped redesign and refactor Forma’s backend during an app rewrite, emphasizing modularity, maintainability, and A/B testing support while delivering feature parity on a quarter-long timeline. Led a careful database migration using parallel databases with schema differences, validating integrity via staging and SQL checks, and has experience debugging subtle computer-vision overflow edge cases.”

Timothy Mazenge

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in Ads frontend and high-scale web platforms

Kirkland, WA6y exp

“Backend engineer with ad-tech experience who improved advertiser dashboard accuracy by exempting 1% of traffic from ML-based dropping in a ~1B-requests/day pipeline, trading storage for higher customer satisfaction and reduced debugging load. Demonstrates strong migration discipline (phased rollouts, compatibility layers, rollback/change-history recovery) and production API/security practices in Python/FastAPI (async, caching, throttling, RBAC/RLS, monitoring).”

David Gross

Screened

Entry AI Software Engineer specializing in LLM workflows and ML pipelines

Redmond, WA2y exp

“Built an autonomous-agent document indexing concept in a hackathon with Microsoft and The Seattle Times, architecting an Azure-based system (Azure AI Foundry, Cosmos DB, Azure indexing, Copilot Studio) and coordinating closely with the customer team. Also created and pitched a sports matchmaking app (Ludicon), combining user studies, feature implementation, and technical support on sales/investor calls.”

“Entrepreneurial builder and former founding CTO of a Y Combinator startup that was acquired. Now in the planning stage for a new venture (considering edtech, media creation, and food/"intelligent servicing"), emphasizing early design partners, rapid testing, and iteration to validate ideas.”

Brett Potter

Screened

Director-level Blockchain Engineer specializing in smart contracts and Web3 infrastructure

Miami, FL15y exp

“Technical leader with startup and venture experience who recently had a modest exit from a crypto protocol called Buck. Previously served as Technology Director at Launch Code Capital and has worked across multiple startups, bringing both operator and VC-side perspective.”

“Hands-on engineering manager on a large web product who built an AI-driven navigation search and led a major post-acquisition unification effort across 3 companies and 5–7 teams, including front-end architecture for 60+ developers. Also owns a high-scale BFF (800 endpoints) and drove a deep reliability fix involving Kubernetes/Envoy/Redis session bloat, adding monitoring and preventative controls.”

Rom Manzano

Screened

Executive technical founder and full-stack engineer specializing in AI, SaaS, and FinTech

New York, NY15y exp

“Engineer coming out of a venture studio as it winds down, now seeking another zero-to-one environment with strong studio support and go-to-market playbooks. They show a thoughtful founder mindset centered on rapid shipping, design-partner validation, lean execution, and testing whether users will actually pay for a workflow-specific solution.”