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Location: San Francisco, CA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No, staying in Bay Area

Technologies: 15 years full stack - react and ruby, etc. -- but very broad bleeding edge. Build 0-1 products with Founders for 10+ years. Built geosite.io first year beta/foundation before entering Y-Combinator in 2019. Building AI in 2025 - competed and won Hacking Agents Hackathon put on by Datastax (Langflow) at Cloudflare in March 1st 2025. Spent 4 months in 2025 building an POC AI marketplace, https://goodbruce.com

Building startups (based in San Francisco) @ http://sharedfounders.com/ (helping founders take their ideas built on platforms like v0.dev, lovable.com, replit.com, bolt.new, base44.com from AI generated scaffolding to Production)

More: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/markavaldez_ai-activity-73922...

Résumé/CV: https://valdezm.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/markavaldez/

Email: hello@valdezm.com


Location: San Francisco, CA Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No, staying in Bay Area

Technologies: 15 years full stack - react and ruby, etc. -- but very broad bleeding edge. Build 0-1 products with Founders for 10+ years. Built geosite.io first year beta/foundation before entering Y-Combinator in 2019. Building AI in 2025 - competed and won Hacking Agents Hackathon put on by Datastax (Langflow) at Cloudflare in March 1st 2025. Spent 4 months in 2025 building an POC AI marketplace, https://goodbruce.com

Building startups (based in San Francisco) @ http://sharedfounders.com/ (helping founders take their ideas built on platforms like v0.dev, lovable.com, replit.com, bolt.new, base44.com from AI generated scaffolding to Production)

More: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/markavaldez_ai-activity-73922...

Résumé/CV: https://valdezm.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/markavaldez/

Email: hello@valdezm.com


AND now it is back online, 4 minute downtime -- forced break.


Location: San Francisco, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No, staying in Bay Area

Technologies: 15 years full stack - react and ruby, etc. -- but very broad bleeding edge. Build 0-1 products with Founders for 10+ years. Built geosite.io first year beta/foundation before entering Y-Combinator in 2019. Building AI in 2025 - competed and won Hacking Agents Hackathon put on by Datastax (Langflow) at Cloudflare in March 1st 2025. Spent 4 months in 2025 building an POC AI marketplace, https://goodbruce.com

Building startups @ http://sharedfounders.com/ (helping founders take their ideas built on platforms like v0.dev, lovable.com, replit.com, bolt.new, base44.com from AI generated scaffolding to Production)

More: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/markavaldez_ai-activity-73922...

Résumé/CV: https://valdezm.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/markavaldez/

Email: hello@valdezm.com


Location: San Francisco, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No, staying in Bay Area

Technologies: 15 years full stack - react and ruby -- but very broad bleeding edge. Build 0-1 products with Founders for 10+ years. Built geosite.io first year beta/foundation before entering Y-Combinator in 2019. Building AI in 2025 - competed and won Hacking Agents Hackathon put on by Datastax (Langflow) at Cloudflare in March 1st 2025. Spent the last 4 months building an POC AI marketplace, https://goodbruce.com Open to contract roles @ http://sharedfounders.com/ Open to FTE Founding Engineering roles

Résumé/CV: https://valdezm.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/markavaldez/

Email: hello@valdezm.com


Location: San Francisco, CA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No, staying in Bay Area

Technologies: 15 years full stack - react and ruby -- but very broad bleeding edge. Build 0-1 products with Founders for 10+ years. Built geosite.io first year beta/foundation before entering Y-Combinator in 2019. Building AI in 2025 - competed and won Hacking Agents Hackathon put on by Datastax (Langflow) at Cloudflare in March 1st 2025. Spent the last 4 months building an POC AI marketplace, https://goodbruce.com Open to contract roles @ http://sharedfounders.com/ Open to FTE Founding Engineering roles

Résumé/CV: https://valdezm.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/markavaldez/

Email: hello@valdezm.com


This is very buggy!! it trys to run a command in powershell then the chat goes away!

THIS SUCKS!


“Our product will have succeeded once we can shut it down, when leetcode interviews are a thing of the past,” De Vries said.

I personally would never use any sort of cheating software, cheating goes against my personal ethics. But as a Engineer with 15 years of experience(valdezm.com) being gated by AI and "technical screens" and whatever magic / dark secrets is going on in ATS(applicant tracking systems).. I do wonder about what companies are thinking, what they are going to do with the weaponization of reductionist ideologies that is this AI approach to interviews. Perhaps we need nee some sort of reciprocity of "Tethics"- I will not cheat, if you do not reduce me to knapsack/dining philosopher problem I learned 20 years ago. If you do not rank me through an ATS, if you provide me with qualitative, real hard-earned time commitment responses, founded in logical reason-based attempts to accept/deny my efforts and the opportunity we are mutually perusing(which I am equally submitting to you).

Yeah, I am a dreamer.


If you are interested in the real flows of using AI LLMs in ATS for ranking candidates, watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAEqP9VEhe8 (Generative AI's Greatest Flaw)


Hi I sent you a linkedin request as I think we have common interest that I would love to chat about! Are you seeking a new opportunity? It sounds like your employed at Zillow based on what you said above? Thanks! -Mark


Location: San Francisco, CA

  Remote: Sure

  Willing to relocate: No, staying in Bay Area

  Technologies: 15 years full stack - react and ruby -- but very broad bleeding edge. Build 0-1 products with Founders for 10+ years. Built geosite.io first year beta/foundation before entering Y-Combinator in 2019. Building AI in 2025 - competed and won Hacking Agents Hackathon put on by Datastax (Langflow) at Cloudflare two days ago, March 1st 2025.

  Résumé/CV: https://valdezm.com 
https://www.linkedin.com/in/markavaldez/

  Email: hello@valdezm.com


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