San Francisco, CA

Hi, I'm Helen šŸ‘‹

Full-stack engineer building production AI systems and data infrastructure end-to-end.

Helen Kochetkova

About

I’m looking for a small, highly technical team where engineers have meaningful ownership over what they build. I do my best work when I understand the customer need and broader product context, then have the autonomy to work through the architecture, implementation, and tradeoffs and take the solution all the way into production. I like collaborating closely on important product and technical decisions, while having the freedom to own my work end to end.

Selected projects

5 projects

FinDoc AI

July 2024 - Nov 2024

Developed an AI tool that generates automated equity research reports by analyzing SEC filings, financial metrics, and market news.

  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Stripe
  • Inngest

Experience

Rescope

Feb 2025 – Sep 2026

Co-founder & CTO

San Francisco, CA

  • Built and shipped a product that determines whether a proposed construction project can physically and legally be built on a property, owning the product from industry research and customer discovery through architecture, engineering, and deployment.
  • Designed data pipelines that reconcile heterogeneous GIS, assessor, imagery, and government data into a shared property model, handling inconsistent schemas, incomplete records, conflicting values, and source provenance.
  • Built a regulatory processing system that converts zoning code into structured logic, links legal references to underlying property and spatial data, and deterministically resolves which requirements apply to a project.
  • Built durable job orchestration for long-running data and AI workflows, with persistent state, dependency tracking, retries, staleness, and selective recomputation; processes hundreds of gigabytes of geospatial data.
  • Built evaluation infrastructure that turns reviewed production AI outputs into regression tests for prompt and model changes.

Demeter AI, Inc.

Jan 2025 – Apr 2025

Software Engineer

San Francisco, CA

  • Built an AI assistant with routing, planning, RAG, and citations, including email-triggered workflows for generating reports and answering user questions.
  • Led the migration from GraphQL and Prisma to Supabase, tRPC, Drizzle, and Clerk.

Scale AI, Inc.

Jan 2024 – Dec 2024

Prompt Engineer

San Francisco, CA

  • Optimized prompts and evaluated model responses on coding tasks for OpenAI.
  • Designed adversarial vision-language tasks to identify gaps in fine-grained image understanding.

Terraval Inc.

Aug 2022 – Dec 2023

Software Engineer

Atlanta, GA

  • Built and deployed a full-stack real estate platform, scaling to 1,300+ listings within five months.

Bond Software Inc.

Sep 2022 – Mar 2023

CTO

San Francisco, CA

  • Built and launched a fixed-income securities trading platform, reaching 2,000+ users.
  • Reduced trade-processing latency by 30% through backend optimizations.

Reali Inc.

Jun 2020 – May 2022

Software Engineer

San Mateo, CA

  • Implemented NLU models using TensorFlow and BERT, increasing intent classification accuracy from 81% to 93%.
  • Integrated an AI chatbot with the internal CRM and led development of a new analytics dashboard.

Education

University of California, Berkeley

May 2022

Bachelor's of Arts, Computer Science, Psychology

Berkeley, CA

Skills

Languages

  • TypeScript/JavaScript
  • Python
  • SQL
  • C/C++
  • Java

Frontend

  • React
  • Next.js
  • Svelte

Backend & Data

  • PostgreSQL
  • PostGIS
  • Supabase
  • Drizzle
  • FastAPI
  • Hono
  • Inngest

Infrastructure

  • AWS
  • Docker

Contact

Let's talk.

Reach me at helkochetkova@gmail.com
or connect on LinkedIn .