McKenna Reale

“Full-stack engineer at Vanguard who architected and shipped a production AI onboarding chatbot using React, Python, LangChain, RAG, and AWS Bedrock, reaching 50,000+ prospects in two months and reducing drop-off by 26%. Particularly compelling for teams building regulated AI products: they combine hands-on full-stack delivery with guardrails, observability, and experimentation, and also build consumer AI products on the side in endurance coaching.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience spanning a lean startup at AppLovin and production financial systems at Vanguard. They’ve built core user-facing platforms from scratch, including a B2B advertiser/publisher dashboard and a resilient client onboarding system using Spring Boot, NestJS, Postgres, Kafka, Redis, and AWS. Particularly strong in ambiguous environments where they work directly with stakeholders and own delivery end to end.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong AI systems and B2B SaaS experience across BrightOps, Zapier, Nordstrom, and Calendly. They’ve owned architecture for an AI-powered tutoring platform, improved retrieval quality with a hybrid vector-plus-keyword approach, and built Go services processing over 1 million student events per day. Particularly compelling for teams building data-intensive, reliability-critical products with LLM, workflow automation, or compliance-oriented use cases.”