Hey [Co-Founder and CPTO], [Co-Founder and CRO], and the team at Hiive, I'm Liam[1]. I'm a hands-on SWE with 14 YOE and a track record of impact. I'm interested in applying to the open Principal Engineer role at Hiive[2] I made a project to apply to Hiive instead of sending a traditional application. I completed this project in about 7 hours by leveraging Agentic LLM development workflows. I recorded a five minute demo, linked below, but here is the quick summary: 1. AI Market Sentiment Analyzer that addresses a critical challenge in private markets: information asymmetry. News articles are processed for sentiment, and then shared with Hiive's market participants. 2. Tech: Typescript, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, API Gateway, Vite + Typescript + React 3. Focus on solving a real problem rapidly and not getting caught on technical perfectionism 4. I chose a project that centers customer-oriented and growth-oriented thinking, accelerating the Hiive flywheel maximally 5. I'm drawn to Hiive because of the overlap between our goals. Particularly, I believe that I can accomplish my major learning goal at Hiive (improving my product-oriented thinking), and I believe that I can ship real features that meaningfully accelerate Hiive's growth at the same time. 5 Minute AI Market Sentiment Analyzer Demo Video As I mention in the video, you can actually use the demo application here. Even though I don't mention it, you can find the source code here. If you're interested in seeing more, I have a lot more pieces of relevant experience to Hiive, focusing on domains such as conflict resolution, team culture, crawl-to-run projects, teaching, outbound sales, empathetic communication, intentionality, etc. I can also do Leetcode, if you insist. But I'll save that for a future discussion. Thank you for your consideration, and I look forward to hearing back. Thanks, Liam Zdenek P.S. I previously worked with your Principal Engineer [Name] at [Company] as equals under different orgs. We worked together on a project where I had to deliver features in a UX he owned. I am optimistic that he will give you an honest and net-positive review of me. [1] [LinkedIn Link] [2] [Job Listing Link]

Hey [Co-Founder and CPTO] and [Co-Founder and CRO], In the meantime, I've been doing one of these projects every day to put together a portfolio of 10 from-scratch projects in 10 days. If you're interested in chatting, let me know. If not, I'd appreciate some feedback on why it's not a fit. Thanks. - Liam