Human Capital Stealth Networking Event (_)

Agora (Ryan Gibson)

San Francisco, https://www.helloagora.com/

• Construction industry - 10T/year, employing over 200 million a year
  • Productivity has remained flat over the last 20 years (big opportunity)
• Construction materials operation is broken

Challenges

1. Product: A. Building 0 to 1 tools for a complex legacy industry B. Transformation of the industry Looking for focused, product- and customer- driven engineers

Kanishk is working on revamping underlying data with new ETL, Faceted Search, Relevancy, Custom Items Infra: ElasticSearch revamp

Vise (Nikki Kang)

New York, https://vise.com/

• Want to become the central nervous system of the modern financial advisor’s practice.
• Platform for portfolio management, that financial advisors can use, so they can focus on client relationships

Technical challenges

• Building the portfolio construction engine
• Data visualizations; organization and presentation of dense information
• Integrating with custodians and other external data
• Foundational architecture across the stack

Q/A

• New grad recruitment
  • Recruiting lead
  • 1-2 phone screens
  • Onsite
• Role of the financial/quant engineer
  • Quant engineers are working on RPC (portfolio construction engine)
• How did your role scale as the engineering team grew?
  • Lots of opportunities, product design, recruiting, etc
• What does a typical day look like?
  • Every day standup, sometimes there’s a few meetings about product-decisions, drawing up tech specs with the eng teams
  • Every week, there’s a sprint
• Team dynamic
  • Everyone’s celebrating being back in the office, working side by side
  • Everyone on the team is great, excited about the way the team is growing
• Are they hiring applied AI engineers
  • Yes
• Greatest learning experience
  • Growing a startup, things are a lot faster compared to Airbnb, have to be more careful/accountable with what you’re shipping
• Do Vise employees abide by FINRA regulations
  • No
• New grad, mentorship
  • Great team, learn a lot from them (not a formal mentorship program), everyone’s willing to teach people things
• What responsibilities can you expect as a new grad
  • Depends on what the role is, parts of the product that people are trying to fix ASAP

Observe (Jacob)

San Mateo, https://www.observeinc.com/, Jacob Leverich jacob@observeinc.com

• Want to become market leader in observability
• One platform for all of a company’s machine data
• Frontend (Typescript/React), Backend (Go)
• Heavy management is done in Snowflake

Q/A

• Still have to work on alerts
• 32 people
• Still early days, reaching out to people

Qualia (Joel Gottsegen)

Qualia, San Francisco (https://www.qualia.com/)

• 100M raised, 200-300 employees
• Make it easy to buy and sell homes
• Core software - Workflow software for title companies, mortgage lenders (backend of real estate transaction)
• There is also some front-end software, used for buyers and sellers of a house
• Use Meteor
• Pretty huge industry

Q/A

• Qualia open-source stuff https://github.com/qualialabs/reval
https://github.com/qualialabs/web-shell
• Front-end — semantic UI
• Also pretty much own Meteor (stack is mostly open-source, and closely related with the business)
• Miguel@qualia.com

Dandy

• Dental practice
• Want to provide an integrated suite of products and tools that don’t directly provide patient value (insurance, etc)
• Engineering team of about 5, team size is about 20
• $30M in total

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