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{
  "answers": [
    {
      "question": "Current Company",
      "answer": "Streamio AI / Fintellect AI (Founder & CEO)"
    },
    {
      "question": "How did you hear about us?",
      "answer": "LinkedIn"
    },
    {
      "question": "If you chose \"search engine\", \"conference\", \"current employee\", or \"other\", please specify here:",
      "answer": "N/A \u2014 heard about the role via LinkedIn."
    },
    {
      "question": "Will you need sponsorship to work in the U.S. now or anytime in the future?",
      "answer": "No \u2014 I am a U.S. citizen and do not require sponsorship."
    },
    {
      "question": "Are you open to being in-office 5 days a week in Sunnyvale?",
      "answer": "Yes \u2014 I am based in the Bay Area and am fully open to working in-office five days a week in Sunnyvale."
    },
    {
      "question": "Have you ever worked at an early stage start up (within 0 to 5 years of founding)?",
      "answer": "Yes \u2014 I founded Streamio AI and Fintellect AI in 2024, taking both from zero to production-shipped products, and previously operated in early-stage environments where I owned strategy, engineering direction, and go-to-market simultaneously."
    },
    {
      "question": "Why Applied Intuition?",
      "answer": "Applied Intuition is doing something genuinely rare: building the infrastructure layer that makes autonomous physical systems reliable enough to deploy in the real world, and now extending that rigor into contested defense environments with DroneStack. That specific challenge \u2014 transitioning from bespoke program deliveries to a scalable, multi-customer product line for autonomous drone swarms \u2014 maps directly to work I've done before. At Intuit, I led exactly that kind of programs-to-products transition with the ICE platform: identifying patterns across dozens of product teams, defining the abstractions and configurations that turned one-off integrations into a repeatable developer platform, and scaling it to 675M+ engagements. I also hold an FAA Commercial Drone License and a Private Pilot License, which gives me a concrete foundation for understanding airspace operations, flight systems, and operator workflows that most PMs in this space don't have. The DroneStack role sits at the intersection of real-time autonomous systems, operator-facing UX, and defense program complexity \u2014 and I'm energized by exactly that kind of technically deep, high-stakes product work. I want to be part of a team that is shipping technology that matters in the field, not just in simulation."
    },
    {
      "question": "What's the hardest thing you've ever done (professionally or personally)?",
      "answer": "Building two production AI companies simultaneously from scratch \u2014 Streamio AI and Fintellect AI \u2014 while teaching adjunct computer science courses at De Anza College and completing a full rewrite of my NeurIPS protein structure prediction system into a modern PyTorch platform spanning 413 parameters to 8 billion. The hardest part wasn't any single technical problem; it was maintaining clarity about what to build and what to cut when I was simultaneously the researcher, engineer, product manager, and sole decision-maker across multiple domains. For Streamio, that meant hand-building a production Electron + React desktop application with a real-time HLS livestreaming pipeline, a multi-agent orchestration framework, native macOS ScreenCaptureKit integration via Swift, and an end-to-end payments and auth pipeline \u2014 all while conducting customer discovery and iterating on product direction based on real feedback. The discipline of ruthless prioritization under resource constraints, and the willingness to kill features I had already built when the evidence pointed elsewhere, is what I took away from that period. It sharpened my instinct for what actually matters in a product versus what just feels important in the moment."
    }
  ],
  "skipped": [
    "First Name",
    "Last Name",
    "Email",
    "Phone",
    "Resume/CV",
    "Cover Letter",
    "LinkedIn Profile"
  ]
}