Founding Engineer | Joshua Fields
I work best where the product is still being discovered, the architecture has to become real quickly, and the first production users cannot be treated like a demo.
Best fit
- Early-stage teams that need one engineer who can cross frontend, backend, AI, infrastructure, and product decisions.
- Founders who need prototypes that can evolve into production systems instead of being thrown away.
- Teams building with ambiguity: agent orchestration, API design, data models, internal tools, and customer-facing workflows.
Proof
- First engineering hire at Emma AI, shipping React/Next.js and FastAPI systems on Google Cloud.
- Founding Lead Engineer at Venaglass, designing production agentic AI systems with the CTO.
- Shipped MVP epics at Monstro across role-based access, configurable permissions, book management, and Vault holdings.
- Built and maintained systems across six repositories while unblocking teammates through reviews and cross-cutting fixes.
Stack: React, Next.js, FastAPI, Go, Python, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenAI, LiveKit, PostgreSQL
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