Name: Chief Nerd Ned

Role: Head of Engineering at Series A startup

Age: 35

Education: BSc in Computer Science, MSc in Machine Learning, Startup veteran

Location: lives in an urban Western city

Overview

Bio 🤳

Startup Stuart is head of engineering / head of research / CPO / CTO of a GenAI Series A startup. He went through YC in 2021 and is building a RAG application for customer support agents. He has hundreds of users from ~30 B2B customers using his AI product per week. He spends most of his time helping to resolve technical problems with engineers, planning and coordinating with team members, reviewing and writing code to fix bugs and add new features, and hiring devs.

Responsibilities 💼

• Remove bottlenecks for progress of devs
• Sets tech strategy and roadmap
• Coordinates with team to run effective sprints, prioritize features
• Reviews and writes code
• Oversees maintenance of a secure and scalable infra
• Read GenAI blogs, papers to stay at the bleeding edge
• Hiring developers

Pain points 📌

• Being made responsible for hallucinations in LLM responses
• Meeting data privacy requirements from customers