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Built two production data pipelines (12 TB/day)
Reviewed
Writeup + redacted dashboards · rubric
pipeline-reliability-v2 - Led incident recovery and wrote the runbook Source linked Postmortem, co-authored with 2 collaborators
- Kubernetes operations Self-reported No evidence attached yet · agent suggests a short proof-of-work
- AWS Solutions Architect, Professional Externally verified Issuer confirmed · valid to Mar 2028
Your skills travel with you. Your agent works for you.
TalentFlex AI is a career platform for people who will change jobs, roles and skills many times. Build an evidence-backed record of what you can do once, decide who sees it, and let your own agent bring you a few well-explained opportunities instead of endless applications.
Free for people. Employers pay for workflow, never for a hidden ranking.
This role fits your pipeline reliability work and the pay range overlaps yours. One conflict: you prefer no on-call, and this role includes it. Want me to ask about the rotation before you decide?
The one-company career ended a while ago. AI is speeding up what comes next.
People now move through many employers, formats and skill sets in one working life. A résumé rebuilt from scratch at each move loses the evidence of what you did. TalentFlex AI keeps it.
How it works
Two sides, one rule: nothing consequential happens without the person it affects saying yes.
For talent
- Build your Capability PassportUpload a résumé or start from scratch. Every claim gets a source and a status, from self-reported to externally verified.
- Set who can see whatPrivate workspace, discoverable card, blinded card, or full identity for one employer at a time. Block your current employer.
- Your agent watches the marketIt reads published briefs, explains the fit and the conflicts, and never applies without you.
- Mutual interest firstYou signal interest, the employer reciprocates, and only then do you approve what gets revealed.
- Talk, decide, keep the recordInterviews, offers and finished work become new evidence you own and take with you.
For employers
- Write a Work Brief, not a job adStart with what needs to get done: 30/60/90-day outcomes, essential versus learnable skills, pay range, hours, process.
- Your recruiting agent organises evidenceIt builds a short list from opted-in people, cites the evidence behind each match and names what is still unknown.
- Invite, don't spamRate-limited, on-platform invitations. A decline closes the door; the person decides whether it reopens.
- Introductions with consentIdentity and contact details appear only after the candidate approves that specific disclosure.
- Run the pipelineInterviews, offers and closure with visible response commitments. People can pause or withdraw without penalty.
Five things the platform is built around
Capability Passport
Portable claims with provenance, visibility controls and attached evidence. Yours, exportable, correctable.
Career Agent
A private, persistent advocate. Its memory belongs to you and no employer agent can read it.
Work Brief
An employer's real outcomes, conditions and commitments, versioned so you know what you agreed to.
Mutual Match
Two-sided compatibility with the uncertainties shown, never a single employability score.
Trust Ledger
Consent, verification provenance, agent actions and corrections, all recorded and reviewable.
An agent that explains itself and waits for you
Your agent starts in Draft mode. It can prepare, compare and propose. Sending, revealing, booking and accepting always take your explicit approval, and approval is tied to the exact message and recipient you saw.
| Permission level | What the agent may do |
|---|---|
| Observe | Read your authorised data and make private suggestions |
| Draft default | Prepare messages, applications, profile updates and scheduling proposals |
| Approved action | Carry out the exact payload you approved, for the recipient you approved |
| Bounded automation | Later: low-risk actions you configure, with limits, expiry, notifications and one-click revocation |
You built two production data pipelines and documented incident recovery. That supports this role's first-quarter reliability goal. Compensation ranges overlap. Your Kubernetes claim is self-reported, and your required working hours are not yet confirmed. You prefer no on-call; this role includes it.
What changes when evidence replaces performance
No feed to feed. No followers to collect. The product measures worthwhile conversations and working relationships, not time on site.
| The familiar pattern | TalentFlex AI |
|---|---|
| A static résumé and a list of titles | A living passport with evidence, freshness and provenance |
| Search results, then cold messages | Mutual interest before any introduction |
| Keyword matching | Work outcomes, constraints and written explanations |
| You alone, managing applications | Your agent managing a pipeline you consented to |
| Employers writing ads and sorting résumés | An agent that helps define outcomes and organise evidence |
| Public performance for an audience | Private planning, optional human stories, useful communities |
| Engagement as the goal | Attended conversations and finished work as the goal |
What we will not build
These are product rules, written down so you can hold us to them.
- No mass-application machine and no fabricated résumés.
- No single employability score and no automatic rejection.
- No inference of personality, culture fit, health, age or any protected trait.
- No charging people for visibility and no paid ranking for employers.
- No scraping behind sign-in walls and no shadow profiles of people who never joined.
- No training shared models on your private work, messages or deliverables.
- No résumé-gap penalty. Missing evidence is uncertainty, not a verdict.
- No unpaid production work disguised as an interview.
Every claim is correctable and every decision has a human appeal route. Automated hiring tools carry legal duties in some places, including bias audits and notices; we design for those from the start rather than retrofitting them.
After the first job: a platform for the whole working life
The pilot is about hiring done well. These come next, each gated on real demand and the right partners.
Legacy & Lore
An optional narrative portfolio: transformations, lessons, failures, career breaks and reinvention. Never used for matching.
Teams and project rooms
Assemble complementary people for a bounded project, each of whom approves their inclusion. One contract, one escrow, split payouts.
Mentorship and office hours
Paid, scheduled help from people with real evidence in the skill you want, measured by what you can do afterwards.
Growth plans
Map a target role to your current evidence and get achievable learning projects. Courses never boost your ranking.
Portfolio and gig planning
Weekly capacity, time zones, overlapping commitments and income concentration in one view for fractional work.
Creator attribution
License templates, playbooks and exercises with your name on them and clear payout rules.
Pilot pricing
Test prices for the pilot cohort. People never pay to be seen; employers pay for workflow within the consent people give.
Talent
For everyone, always.
- Capability Passport and evidence
- Privacy and visibility controls
- Your agent in Draft mode
- Introductions, export and corrections
Talent Pro
Optional, when you want more help.
- Deeper interview preparation
- Offer comparison
- Career and learning planning
Employer Starter
Small teams with a few open roles.
- Up to 3 active Work Briefs
- Recruiting agent and evidence packets
- Consented pipeline and messaging
Employer Growth
Hiring teams and agencies.
- Team roles and client scopes
- Higher activity limits
- Reporting and audit export
Enterprise, internal mobility and SSO are available by conversation. No placement fees during the pilot.
Join the pilot
We are starting with experienced software, data and applied-AI professionals in the US, and with companies hiring for those roles. Ten design-partner employers, one hundred professionals, real vacancies, honest feedback.
Design partners get the pilot free, direct access to the founding team, and a say in what ships.
pilot@talentflex.ai