What's on the bench.
Rust Engineer
Writes, reviews, and debugs idiomatic Rust code with memory safety and zero-cost abstractions. Implements ownership patterns, manages lifetimes, designs trait hierarchies, builds async applications with tokio, and structures error handling with Result/Option. Use when building Rust applications, solving ownership or borrowing issues, designing trait-based APIs, implementing async/await concurrency, creating FFI bindings, or optimizing for performance and memory safety. Invoke for Rust, Cargo, ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, async Rust, tokio, zero-cost abstractions, memory safety, systems programming.
React Native Expert
Builds, optimizes, and debugs cross-platform mobile applications with React Native and Expo. Implements navigation hierarchies (tabs, stacks, drawers), configures native modules, optimizes FlatList rendering with memo and useCallback, and handles platform-specific code for iOS and Android. Use when building a React Native or Expo mobile app, setting up navigation, integrating native modules, improving scroll performance, handling SafeArea or keyboard input, or configuring Expo SDK projects.
React Expert
Use when building React 18+ applications in .jsx or .tsx files, Next.js App Router projects, or create-react-app setups. Creates components, implements custom hooks, debugs rendering issues, migrates class components to functional, and implements state management. Invoke for Server Components, Suspense boundaries, useActionState forms, performance optimization, or React 19 features.
Rails Expert
Rails 7+ specialist that optimizes Active Record queries with includes/eager_load, implements Turbo Frames and Turbo Streams for partial page updates, configures Action Cable for WebSocket connections, sets up Sidekiq workers for background job processing, and writes comprehensive RSpec test suites. Use when building Rails 7+ web applications with Hotwire, real-time features, or background job processing. Invoke for Active Record optimization, Turbo Frames/Streams, Action Cable, Sidekiq, RSpec Rails.
Rag Architect
Designs and implements production-grade RAG systems by chunking documents, generating embeddings, configuring vector stores, building hybrid search pipelines, applying reranking, and evaluating retrieval quality. Use when building RAG systems, vector databases, or knowledge-grounded AI applications requiring semantic search, document retrieval, context augmentation, similarity search, or embedding-based indexing.
Python Pro
Use when building Python 3.11+ applications requiring type safety, async programming, or robust error handling. Generates type-annotated Python code, configures mypy in strict mode, writes pytest test suites with fixtures and mocking, and validates code with black and ruff. Invoke for type hints, async/await patterns, dataclasses, dependency injection, logging configuration, and structured error handling.
Postgres Pro
Use when optimizing PostgreSQL queries, configuring replication, or implementing advanced database features. Invoke for EXPLAIN analysis, JSONB operations, extension usage, VACUUM tuning, performance monitoring.
Playwright Expert
Use when writing E2E tests with Playwright, setting up test infrastructure, or debugging flaky browser tests. Invoke to write test scripts, create page objects, configure test fixtures, set up reporters, add CI integration, implement API mocking, or perform visual regression testing. Trigger terms: Playwright, E2E test, end-to-end, browser testing, automation, UI testing, visual testing, Page Object Model, test flakiness.
Php Pro
Use when building PHP applications with modern PHP 8.3+ features, Laravel, or Symfony frameworks. Invokes strict typing, PHPStan level 9, async patterns with Swoole, and PSR standards. Creates controllers, configures middleware, generates migrations, writes PHPUnit/Pest tests, defines typed DTOs and value objects, sets up dependency injection, and scaffolds REST/GraphQL APIs. Use when working with Eloquent, Doctrine, Composer, Psalm, ReactPHP, or any PHP API development.
Pandas Pro
Performs pandas DataFrame operations for data analysis, manipulation, and transformation. Use when working with pandas DataFrames, data cleaning, aggregation, merging, or time series analysis. Invoke for data manipulation tasks such as joining DataFrames on multiple keys, pivoting tables, resampling time series, handling NaN values with interpolation or forward-fill, groupby aggregations, type conversion, or performance optimization of large datasets.
Nextjs Developer
Use when building Next.js 14+ applications with App Router, server components, or server actions. Invoke to configure route handlers, implement middleware, set up API routes, add streaming SSR, write generateMetadata for SEO, scaffold loading.tsx/error.tsx boundaries, or deploy to Vercel. Triggers on: Next.js, Next.js 14, App Router, RSC, use server, Server Components, Server Actions, React Server Components, generateMetadata, loading.tsx, Next.js deployment, Vercel, Next.js performance.
Nestjs Expert
Creates and configures NestJS modules, controllers, services, DTOs, guards, and interceptors for enterprise-grade TypeScript backend applications. Use when building NestJS REST APIs or GraphQL services, implementing dependency injection, scaffolding modular architecture, adding JWT/Passport authentication, integrating TypeORM or Prisma, or working with .module.ts, .controller.ts, and .service.ts files. Invoke for guards, interceptors, pipes, validation, Swagger documentation, and unit/E2E testing in NestJS projects.
Monitoring Expert
Configures monitoring systems, implements structured logging pipelines, creates Prometheus/Grafana dashboards, defines alerting rules, and instruments distributed tracing. Implements Prometheus/Grafana stacks, conducts load testing, performs application profiling, and plans infrastructure capacity. Use when setting up application monitoring, adding observability to services, debugging production issues with logs/metrics/traces, running load tests with k6 or Artillery, profiling CPU/memory bottlenecks, or forecasting capacity needs.
ML Pipeline
Designs and implements production-grade ML pipeline infrastructure: configures experiment tracking with MLflow or Weights & Biases, creates Kubeflow or Airflow DAGs for training orchestration, builds feature store schemas with Feast, deploys model registries, and automates retraining and validation workflows. Use when building ML pipelines, orchestrating training workflows, automating model lifecycle, implementing feature stores, managing experiment tracking systems, setting up DVC for data versioning, tuning hyperparameters, or configuring MLOps tooling like Kubeflow, Airflow, MLflow, or Prefect.
Microservices Architect
Designs distributed system architectures, decomposes monoliths into bounded-context services, recommends communication patterns, and produces service boundary diagrams and resilience strategies. Use when designing distributed systems, decomposing monoliths, or implementing microservices patterns — including service boundaries, DDD, saga patterns, event sourcing, CQRS, service mesh, or distributed tracing.
MCP Developer
Use when building, debugging, or extending MCP servers or clients that connect AI systems with external tools and data sources. Invoke to implement tool handlers, configure resource providers, set up stdio/HTTP/SSE transport layers, validate schemas with Zod or Pydantic, debug protocol compliance issues, or scaffold complete MCP server/client projects using TypeScript or Python SDKs.
Legacy Modernizer
Designs incremental migration strategies, identifies service boundaries, produces dependency maps and migration roadmaps, and generates API facade designs for aging codebases. Use when modernizing legacy systems, implementing strangler fig pattern or branch by abstraction, decomposing monoliths, upgrading frameworks or languages, or reducing technical debt without disrupting business operations.
Laravel Specialist
Build and configure Laravel 10+ applications, including creating Eloquent models and relationships, implementing Sanctum authentication, configuring Horizon queues, designing RESTful APIs with API resources, and building reactive interfaces with Livewire. Use when creating Laravel models, setting up queue workers, implementing Sanctum auth flows, building Livewire components, optimising Eloquent queries, or writing Pest/PHPUnit tests for Laravel features.
Kubernetes Specialist
Use when deploying or managing Kubernetes workloads. Invoke to create deployment manifests, configure pod security policies, set up service accounts, define network isolation rules, debug pod crashes, analyze resource limits, inspect container logs, or right-size workloads. Use for Helm charts, RBAC policies, NetworkPolicies, storage configuration, performance optimization, GitOps pipelines, and multi-cluster management.
Kotlin Specialist
Provides idiomatic Kotlin implementation patterns including coroutine concurrency, Flow stream handling, multiplatform architecture, Compose UI construction, Ktor server setup, and type-safe DSL design. Use when building Kotlin applications requiring coroutines, multiplatform development, or Android with Compose. Invoke for Flow API, KMP projects, Ktor servers, DSL design, sealed classes, suspend function, Android Kotlin, Kotlin Multiplatform.
JavaScript Pro
Writes, debugs, and refactors JavaScript code using modern ES2023+ features, async/await patterns, ESM module systems, and Node.js APIs. Use when building vanilla JavaScript applications, implementing Promise-based async flows, optimising browser or Node.js performance, working with Web Workers or Fetch API, or reviewing .js/.mjs/.cjs files for correctness and best practices.
Java Architect
Use when building, configuring, or debugging enterprise Java applications with Spring Boot 3.x, microservices, or reactive programming. Invoke to implement WebFlux endpoints, optimize JPA queries and database performance, configure Spring Security with OAuth2/JWT, or resolve authentication issues and async processing challenges in cloud-native Spring applications.
GraphQL Architect
Use when designing GraphQL schemas, implementing Apollo Federation, or building real-time subscriptions. Invoke for schema design, resolvers with DataLoader, query optimization, federation directives.
Golang Pro
Implements concurrent Go patterns using goroutines and channels, designs and builds microservices with gRPC or REST, optimizes Go application performance with pprof, and enforces idiomatic Go with generics, interfaces, and robust error handling. Use when building Go applications requiring concurrent programming, microservices architecture, or high-performance systems. Invoke for goroutines, channels, Go generics, gRPC integration, CLI tools, benchmarks, or table-driven testing.