Vetted on a call by a Wave consultant, not scraped. £120,000 and above.
Four years in, and almost all of it on the data and API plumbing behind systematic trading. Took the platform at an early stage AI company from its first customers to more than 20 enterprise clients, in Python on AWS with Kafka, Airflow, Spark and Iceberg underneath. Also runs the ML inference side on Ray and KubeRay, and writes the TypeScript and Next.js front when it needs writing.
Looking forWants a small, new team and a genuinely harder problem than a four person company can hand them. Salary is the only open item, and a counter offer from the current employer is unlikely to land.
How they came acrossCame through our vetting well and engaged properly with the technical detail, even where their own AI exposure is thin. Straightforward about process and about what an offer would need to look like.
Python, Rust, FastAPI, PostgreSQL · TypeScript, React, Next.js · AWS, Pulumi, Docker, Kafka, Airflow, MLflow
Four employers since a year in industry and a summer in banking, the bulk of it at an early stage AI company and before that the graduate side of a large UK retail and commercial bank. 4 employers, average tenure 1 year 4 months.
Three months notice, and their current AI exposure is limited by the size of the company rather than by interest, so probe depth there.
Masters in mechanical engineering from a UK university.
Python and C++ at the hard end. Twelve years covering a global financial data and media business, the systematic trading arm of a large hedge fund, and a robotics startup, with SLAM work that sits behind the robotics interest. Has also co-founded once, through an Antler cohort, and worked inside a YC backed company.
Looking forNot on the market in any active sense. What moves them is early stage robotics or deep tech with a mission attached, and they have said no to back office automation and consulting process tooling outright.
How they came acrossMeasured and unhurried. Prioritised stability and pay for years and is candid that the calculation has changed, which is the whole reason they are talking to anyone.
Python, C++, C, Java · SLAM, computer vision, robotics · MySQL, Linux, Matlab
Eleven employers over twelve years, from a global financial data business and a hedge fund through to their own Antler backed venture and a YC company. 11 employers, average tenure 3 years 8 months.
Total compensation today is around £300,000, so a £120,000 base only works if equity carries the rest, and they have ruled out paid trials of any length and any company planning to move to the US.
Degree in computer engineering from a globally ranked university.
Builds AI agent systems end to end and has done it three times now. Current work is self improving agent optimisation, before that technical lead on sovereign AI at a Series A, before that co-founder and CTO of a YC backed health company. Comfortable from ML pipelines and fine tuning through to the TypeScript, React and Next.js the customer actually touches.
Looking forLooking quietly rather than urgently, prompted by the CTO leaving and the fallout from that. The line they drew is clear, agents built for people rather than agents built for other agents, and equity matters to them.
How they came acrossBlunt about the current situation, which they described as muddy and not much fun. Has opinions about what AI is for and holds them, which reads as conviction rather than awkwardness.
TypeScript, Python, Go, Node.js · React, Next.js, React Native, Tauri · AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Postgres
Nine employers over nine years, mostly early stage and YC adjacent, with a CTO stint and a tech lead role among them. 9 employers, average tenure 1 year 5 months.
Needs visa sponsorship, and has an existing consulting relationship that would have to be unwound before a full time start.
Masters in electronics and electrical communications engineering.
Tell me which came closest and I recalibrate, then come back with 10 to 15 more inside 24 hours.
Show me the wider bank