The vetting bar
Anyone can claim "vetted engineers." Here's our bar, in public, so both sides of the marketplace know exactly what the label costs: screening, a deep technical interview with a practicing architect, a paid trial engagement on real work, and ratings that never stop.
The four stages
Every expert — engineer or architect — clears the same four stages in the same order. No exceptions, no fast lanes.
A human reads your profile, your intro, and your work history — looking for evidence of shipped production systems, not keyword density.
A working session with a practicing architect — architecture discussion and live problem-solving in your domain, not trivia.
Scoped, real project work — compensated. We evaluate how you actually work: code quality, communication, and delivery against a deadline.
Vetting doesn't end at admission. Every engagement produces a structured rating — and ratings drive future matching priority.
The standard
It's a maintained standard, not a badge.
A vetted expert has demonstrated — on real work, in front of practitioners — that they can design, build, and deliver in their domain, communicate clearly, and be trusted inside a client's team. The label is re-earned on every engagement through continuous ratings.
For clients, it means the shortlist you meet has already survived technical scrutiny and a paid working trial. Your interview is the final confirmation, not the first filter.
For engineers, it means the label is worth carrying: it was earned against a published bar, and it compounds with every engagement you deliver.
Engagement models
Three models, matched to what the client actually needs. Every engagement is scoped by an architect before an expert is introduced.
Dedicated
A vetted engineer joins the client's team full-time for the engagement — standups, code review, on-call rotation, the works. Best for roadmap delivery.
Squad
A small pod of vetted engineers — e.g., two data engineers and an architect — owns a bounded outcome like a migration wave or a platform rebuild.
Fractional
A vetted architect a few days a week: design reviews, technical direction, unblocking teams that need judgment more than headcount.
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Roles
We describe the roles we vet for, not the people. You'll meet the actual shortlisted engineers — with their real backgrounds — when a match is made.
Lakehouse pipelines with contracts, tests, and lineage — engineers who treat data quality as a feature, not a phase.
Retrieval-grounded systems and agent workflows with eval harnesses — engineers who know the difference between a demo and a deployment.
Landing zones, IaC, and platform paved roads — engineers who've carried the pager and design like it.
PostgreSQL internals, performance tuning, and migration execution — the people you want near a cutover weekend.
Blueprint-first architects who whiteboard the system and then help ship it — fractional or dedicated.
Questions
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