San Francisco, CA
Hi, I'm Helen š
Full-stack engineer building production AI systems and data infrastructure end-to-end.

Iām 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.
Zoning feasibility platform
I built a product that determines whether a proposed construction project can physically and legally be built on a property. I owned it from industry research and customer discovery through product design, architecture, engineering, and deployment.
The data layer reconciles fragmented GIS, assessor, satellite, and other government sources into a shared property model while preserving provenance and conflicting values. On the regulatory side, the system links concepts in legal code to the corresponding property and spatial data, converts regulations into structured logic, and deterministically evaluates which requirements apply to a specific project.
I also developed persistent job orchestration for long-running data and AI workflows, processing hundreds of gigabytes of geospatial data, along with evaluation tooling that turns reviewed production AI outputs into regression tests for prompt and model changes.
Built with
Finflow AI
Nov 2024 - Dec 2024Developed a Zapier for finance. Intuitive drag-n-drop interface to build financial analysis and modeling pipelines.
FinDoc AI
July 2024 - Nov 2024Developed an AI tool that generates automated equity research reports by analyzing SEC filings, financial metrics, and market news.

CaseScope
Dec 2024An open-source tool helping legal aid organizations support tenants by analyzing historical hearing records.


Rescope
Feb 2025 ā Sep 2026Co-founder & CTO
San Francisco, CA
Rescope
Feb 2025 ā Sep 2026Co-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 ā Apr 2025Software Engineer
San Francisco, CA
Demeter AI, Inc.
Jan 2025 ā Apr 2025Software 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 ā Dec 2024Prompt Engineer
San Francisco, CA
Scale AI, Inc.
Jan 2024 ā Dec 2024Prompt 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 ā Dec 2023Software Engineer
Atlanta, GA
Terraval Inc.
Aug 2022 ā Dec 2023Software 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 ā Mar 2023CTO
San Francisco, CA
Bond Software Inc.
Sep 2022 ā Mar 2023CTO
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 ā May 2022Software Engineer
San Mateo, CA
Reali Inc.
Jun 2020 ā May 2022Software 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.
University of California, Berkeley
May 2022Bachelor's of Arts, Computer Science, Psychology
Berkeley, CA
Languages
Frontend
Backend & Data
Infrastructure
Let's talk.
Reach me at helkochetkova@gmail.com
or connect on LinkedIn .