Vetted on a call by a Wave consultant, not scraped. £90,000 to £100,000.
Rebuilt an entire recruitment platform from scratch over 18 months, then moved onto AI feature work with LangGraph and LangChain. A rewrite of the email system took error rates from 30% to 2%. The AI side is retrieval-shaped, hybrid retrieval, vector search, embeddings and semantic ranking, with observability and evaluation layered on top.
Looking forMoney is the honest driver. They think they sit below market and want to find out. Happy otherwise, so there is no urgency.
How they came acrossAn early adopter of AI tooling who is deliberately careful not to lean on any single tool, which is a more interesting position than either extreme. Wants respect, autonomy, and a vertical they own end to end.
TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js · Python, MongoDB, AWS Lambda, SQS · LangGraph, LangChain, Playwright, Posthog
Twelve years across 5 employers, from freelance web development and a bar partnership into consultancy, an insurtech and now recruitment technology. Average tenure 2 years 6 months with a longest stint of 7 years 9 months.
Notice period unconfirmed, and pay is the driver, so the number will decide this one. Won't take fully remote with no human contact.
Degree in marine biology. Certified Scrum Master.
Full stack TypeScript and React with GCP underneath, on Cloud Run, AlloyDB, Pub/Sub and Cloud SQL, with Terraform and GitHub Actions around it. Owned the whole product lifecycle at a health tech platform for lab notebooks and regulatory compliance, from architecture and CI/CD through to customer delivery. Python, Rust and FastAPI alongside, carried over from research engineering.
Looking forWants real technical leadership, high ownership and people worth learning from, at a post Series A or B company. On gardening leave and available now.
How they came acrossLeft over a specific disagreement rather than a vague one. Management wanted immutability removed from a regulated compliance platform without a clear reason and they wouldn't sign it off. Watched senior people leave for much the same reason.
TypeScript, React, Node.js, Bun · Python, Rust, FastAPI, PostgreSQL · GCP, Cloud Run, Terraform, GitHub Actions
Four years across 7 employers including internships and research posts, the substantive record being research engineering at a university and a health tech startup. Average tenure 9 months with a longest stint of 2 years 8 months.
Average tenure of 9 months, though most of that is internships and research placements. Rules out very early stage companies, and asked us to work around a trip to Malaysia when scheduling.
Masters in engineering from a top ranked UK university.
Built the first internal AI chatbot at a global exchange group and now runs cross-functional AI initiatives there end to end. Production LLM systems with LangChain, Langfuse, Bedrock, SageMaker and RAGAs for evaluation, with AI observability and tracing built in. Cloud and DevOps foundations underneath, on AWS with Terraform, Ansible and GitLab CI.
Looking forWants faster pace, more responsibility and a leadership step. Not actively hunting, just ready. Won't relocate to Dubai.
How they came acrossStarted on a graduate programme and turned the role into something much larger through sheer ownership, which is the clearest signal on the file. Wants smart, driven people around them and finds the current industry slow.
Python, AWS, Terraform, Ansible · LangChain, Langfuse, Bedrock, SageMaker, RAGAs · Snowflake, Talend, GitLab CI
Twelve years on file, though the commercial engineering career is 4 years across an exchange group and a media placement, the rest freelance photography alongside study. Average tenure 2 years 11 months with a longest stint of 12 years 2 months on the freelance record.
Six weeks notice. The 12 years on file includes a long freelance photography record, so the engineering track is shorter than the headline suggests.
First class degree in IT management from a Russell Group university. AWS AI Practitioner and Cloud Practitioner.
Tell me which came closest and I recalibrate, then come back with 10 to 15 more inside 24 hours.
Show me the wider bank