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Access engineers with hands-on startup experience—experts in building MVPs and scaling infrastructure from zero to one.

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Engineers with a builder’s mindset

Our founding engineers have shipped products, owned critical codebases, and navigated tough tradeoffs in resource-constrained environments.

Comfortable navigating ambiguity

They thrive in chaos, move fast, wear many hats, and deliver clarity through code.

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Contrario found us a great match for our Founding ML engineer in just 7 candidates
Lucas Tao
Co-Founder, Tessel
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Contrario's platform placed a Founding Engineer expert for me in less than 2 weeks.
Bernhard Hausleitner
Co-Founder, Soff (YC S24)
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Contrario closed us a world-class ex-Stanford, ex-Amazon engineer in under 10 days—off just 8 profiles.
Franklyn Wang
Founder, LiquidMax
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Contrario found us a great match for our Founding ML engineer in just 7 candidates
Lucas Tao
Co-Founder, Tessel
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Contrario's platform placed a Founding Engineer expert for me in less than 2 weeks.
Bernhard Hausleitner
Co-Founder, Soff (YC S24)
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Contrario closed us a world-class ex-Stanford, ex-Amazon engineer in under 10 days—off just 8 profiles.
Franklyn Wang
Founder, LiquidMax
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Contrario found us a great match for our Founding ML engineer in just 7 candidates
Lucas Tao
Co-Founder, Tessel
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Contrario's platform placed a Founding Engineer expert for me in less than 2 weeks.
Bernhard Hausleitner
Co-Founder, Soff (YC S24)
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Contrario closed us a world-class ex-Stanford, ex-Amazon engineer in under 10 days—off just 8 profiles.
Franklyn Wang
Founder, LiquidMax
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Contrario found us a great match for our Founding ML engineer in just 7 candidates
Lucas Tao
Co-Founder, Tessel
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Contrario's platform placed a Founding Engineer expert for me in less than 2 weeks.
Bernhard Hausleitner
Co-Founder, Soff (YC S24)
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Contrario closed us a world-class ex-Stanford, ex-Amazon engineer in under 10 days—off just 8 profiles.
Franklyn Wang
Founder, LiquidMax

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Contrario found us a great match for our Founding ML engineer in just 7 candidates
Lucas Tao
Co-Founder, Tessel
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Contrario's platform placed a Founding Engineer expert for me in less than 2 weeks.
Bernhard Hausleitner
Co-Founder, Soff (YC S24)
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Contrario closed us a world-class ex-Stanford, ex-Amazon engineer in under 10 days—off just 8 profiles.
Franklyn Wang
Founder, LiquidMax
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Contrario found us a great match for our Founding ML engineer in just 7 candidates
Lucas Tao
Co-Founder, Tessel
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Contrario's platform placed a Founding Engineer expert for me in less than 2 weeks.
Bernhard Hausleitner
Co-Founder, Soff (YC S24)
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Contrario closed us a world-class ex-Stanford, ex-Amazon engineer in under 10 days—off just 8 profiles.
Franklyn Wang
Founder, LiquidMax
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Contrario found us a great match for our Founding ML engineer in just 7 candidates
Lucas Tao
Co-Founder, Tessel
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Contrario's platform placed a Founding Engineer expert for me in less than 2 weeks.
Bernhard Hausleitner
Co-Founder, Soff (YC S24)
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Contrario closed us a world-class ex-Stanford, ex-Amazon engineer in under 10 days—off just 8 profiles.
Franklyn Wang
Founder, LiquidMax
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Contrario found us a great match for our Founding ML engineer in just 7 candidates
Lucas Tao
Co-Founder, Tessel
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Contrario's platform placed a Founding Engineer expert for me in less than 2 weeks.
Bernhard Hausleitner
Co-Founder, Soff (YC S24)
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Contrario closed us a world-class ex-Stanford, ex-Amazon engineer in under 10 days—off just 8 profiles.
Franklyn Wang
Founder, LiquidMax

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Contrario found us a great match for our Founding ML engineer in just 7 candidates
Lucas Tao
Co-Founder, Tessel
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Contrario's platform placed a Founding Engineer expert for me in less than 2 weeks.
Bernhard Hausleitner
Co-Founder, Soff (YC S24)
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Contrario closed us a world-class ex-Stanford, ex-Amazon engineer in under 10 days—off just 8 profiles.
Franklyn Wang
Founder, LiquidMax
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Contrario found us a great match for our Founding ML engineer in just 7 candidates
Lucas Tao
Co-Founder, Tessel
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Contrario's platform placed a Founding Engineer expert for me in less than 2 weeks.
Bernhard Hausleitner
Co-Founder, Soff (YC S24)
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Contrario closed us a world-class ex-Stanford, ex-Amazon engineer in under 10 days—off just 8 profiles.
Franklyn Wang
Founder, LiquidMax
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Contrario found us a great match for our Founding ML engineer in just 7 candidates
Lucas Tao
Co-Founder, Tessel
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“
Contrario's platform placed a Founding Engineer expert for me in less than 2 weeks.
Bernhard Hausleitner
Co-Founder, Soff (YC S24)
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Contrario closed us a world-class ex-Stanford, ex-Amazon engineer in under 10 days—off just 8 profiles.
Franklyn Wang
Founder, LiquidMax
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Contrario found us a great match for our Founding ML engineer in just 7 candidates
Lucas Tao
Co-Founder, Tessel
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“
Contrario's platform placed a Founding Engineer expert for me in less than 2 weeks.
Bernhard Hausleitner
Co-Founder, Soff (YC S24)
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Contrario closed us a world-class ex-Stanford, ex-Amazon engineer in under 10 days—off just 8 profiles.
Franklyn Wang
Founder, LiquidMax