Haast
2023 - Present · Sydney, Australia - Remote
Joined as the founding frontend engineer at Pre-Seed for a B2B AI-native marketing & legal compliance platform used by enterprises. Built and owned the majority of the frontend for the core product. Scaled through Seed (Airtree $6M) and into Series A (Peak XV $12M) during rapid growth (4.5x YoY revenue), now used by Fortune 500 companies
- Built and scaled core product systems (workflows, reviews, asset management, rule pipelines) and document workflows (PDF comparison, annotations, commenting), contributing to 80% reduction in manual review effort and 2–3x faster time-to-market
- Led frontend foundation: migrated and optimized build system from Rollup → Vite, reducing local dev build times from 30s to 500ms (50x faster, instant HMR); upgraded Svelte v3 → v4 (+ contributions toward v5); and introduced Tailwind + DaisyUI
- Delivered audit-ready review and collaboration UX (annotations, commenting, workflow states) providing complete audit trails and a single source of truth for regulated enterprise approvals
- Stabilized complex state-heavy workflows and resolved production reactivity issues, improving reliability and scalability of critical user flows
- Established engineering standards (TypeScript, linting, CI, pre-commit) and contributed to in-house design system and frontend scalability across the product
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