DAWABBIT // LABS
This is not a talent roster. It is a working directory of every engineer eligible to staff your next sprint — every GitHub handle, last shipped at, primary stack, and vetting percentile. Filterable. Inspectable. Publicly accountable. The same 140 names backing the first-sprint-or-free guarantee, now legible in plain English.
Pick your engineer before you book the call. The roster updates within an hour of any new contract.
Each card is a printed spec sheet, not a marketing blurb. We list what they shipped last, where, and on what commit cadence — because the founders hiring from this bench have already read enough polished resumes to know the difference.
Filter the directory below by stack, by last shipped at, by vetting percentile, by availability window, or by the YC / a16z / Sequoia companies they came from. The cards update live.
“Top 4.7% of applicants” means a candidate cleared a four-stage funnel — application (1,200 words, no templates), paid 6-hour take-home on a real client-shaped problem, a live pairing session with a DaWabbit staff engineer, and a reference audit with two prior shipping leads. Of the 3,041 applicants we received in 2024, 143 cleared all four. The current bench holds the top 140.
Sorted by vetting percentile, then by most recent shipping activity. Filter chips above narrow the visible set. Featured card is a lead engineer — the first name you'd book for a greenfield sprint.
Staff Backend Engineer · Go / Postgres / Distributed systems
Full-stack TypeScript · Next.js / tRPC / Prisma
ML Engineer · PyTorch / JAX / Eval harnesses
DevOps / SRE · Kubernetes · Terraform · On-call
Mobile lead · Swift / Kotlin / React Native
Frontend specialist · React / Design systems / a11y
Backend engineer · Ruby / Rails / Postgres
Data engineer · Airflow / dbt / Snowflake
Systems engineer · Rust / WebAssembly / Edge
Security engineer · AppSec / Pentest / SOC2 prep
Full-stack · Elixir / Phoenix / LiveView
Platform engineer · Go / gRPC / Observability
Showing 12 of 140 active bench members. Request the full roster PDF or filter the live directory on the booking call.
No “world-class” claims. Four stages, four acceptance rates, four auditable numbers.
“We don't take resumes. We take commit graphs. If your last three years of public repos don't show a sustained cadence of merged work — reviewable, refactored, and reverted when wrong — you don't get past the first stage, no matter what you shipped for whom.
We reject three kinds of candidates on sight: the rockstar who can't explain their last outage, the architect who hasn't typed a PR in eighteen months, and the consultant who ships decks instead of artifacts. The bench is small on purpose. We make more money scaling the 140 than we would scaling to 1,400.
What we keep is the engineer who writes the postmortem, ships the rollback, and stays on Slack until the customer's customer is unblocked. The directory above is those people. No aliases, no stock photos, no padding.”
You just scrolled twelve of the 140. On a 30-minute scoping call we'll match your stack, your deadline, and your timezone to two or three specific bench members — by name, by GitHub handle, by last shipped at. You pick. They sprint. You ship by day fourteen.