7+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering Experience leading technical decisions and mentoring engineers Hands-on experience building with LLMs (fine-tuning, voice APIs, eval frameworks) Opinions on LLM observability, prompt engineering, and reliable AI systems Extremely product-minded Comfortable shipping MVPs and iterating Embraced AI in workflow (e.g., Cursor, Claude Code) Experience building something 0 to 1 Worked in cross-functional teams Values diversity and inclusion