Vetted on a call by a Wave consultant, not scraped. £110,000 to £140,000.
Principal frontend architect and founding engineer at a 30 person education technology business, which they took from prototype through to acquisition. React and TypeScript at a depth a lot of people claim and few have, with Node, some Rust and Python around it. The last couple of years they have been wiring LLM work into how the team delivers, using LangChain, LangGraph and Claude Code.
Looking forAfter 10 years working remotely they are not going back to an office, and the acquisition has made their employer bureaucratic. Wants product-focused work with real technical autonomy on something worth building.
How they came acrossMore technical than managerial by their own account. They mentor, pair and present happily, but would rather own the architecture than run the people.
TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js · Python, Rust · LangChain, LangGraph, Claude Code · AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, Docker
14 employers over 21 years, from advertising and agency work into banking contracts and then 6 years at a venture backed education technology startup. Average tenure 1 year 7 months, longest stint 6 years 11 months.
Fully remote is the line they won't cross. They are leaving partly over a return to office push after a decade without one.
Bachelors in information technology.
Built the AI function at a listed gambling operator from one person to a team of 4, and it paid for itself. Over £1m of cost savings delivered so far with £2.5m a year projected. Still 50% hands-on in Python, LangChain, RAG, fine-tuning and diffusion models for content, email and image generation, on top of a decade delivering machine learning into insurance, telecoms and the public sector.
Looking forGambling tax changes have wiped out the bonus they were promised, so they are moving. Wants hands-on AI leadership somewhere the product means something.
How they came acrossGave us the numbers behind their work without being asked, which not everyone does. Ten years of consulting shows in how comfortable they are in front of stakeholders.
Python, SQL, PySpark · PyTorch, XGBoost · LangChain, RAG, LoRA, Stable Diffusion · Azure, AWS, MLflow
5 employers over 12 years, a decade of it consulting at two analytics and strategy firms before going in-house at a listed gaming operator. Average tenure 1 year 6 months, longest stint 3 years 11 months.
On a skilled worker visa and 6 months from settled status in July 2026, so hiring them before then needs a sponsor licence. They were open that the timing is driving the search.
Bachelors in engineering.
Six years inside Samsung's research division, currently on AI agents that control devices using vision and language models, plus LLM fine-tuning and the Python and Flask around it. The deeper specialism is privacy-preserving machine learning and federated learning, and it has produced published papers, granted patents and shipped commercial product rather than only a thesis.
Looking forNo push factor at all. They are curious about applying the same skills somewhere other than consumer electronics, and founding engineer roles came up by name. Hybrid or remote either way.
How they came acrossUnderstated about the patents and the papers, which took some drawing out. Leads technically without needing the title on it, and is comfortable keeping stakeholders aligned.
Python, C++, PyTorch, Hugging Face, TensorFlow · Federated learning, model distillation, NLP, computer vision · Flask, Docker, Linux
5 employers over 9 years including early internships, with 6 of those years at Samsung's research division. Average tenure 1 year 3 months, longest stint 4 years 6 months.
Three month notice and no reason to leave, so they have to be sold rather than caught. Nothing else on file that gets in the way.
Masters in electrical and electronic engineering with management from a Russell Group university.
Tell me which came closest and I recalibrate, then come back with 10 to 15 more inside 24 hours.
Show me the wider bank