Puvio
Staff Software Engineer · ex-Robinhood · Austin. Nine portal applications, zero humans. One Quick Message to a ranked contact changed that.
Before Puvio
James Park spent four years at Robinhood on ledger and payments infrastructure. Staff-level scope, on-call rotation, two launches that cut settlement failures measurably. He is not bad at interviews. He could not get one.
In February he applied to nine companies through Greenhouse and Workday. Nine confirmations. Not one email from someone who owned the requisition. Recruiters later told him off the record: the queue was hundreds deep before a human opened it.
He knew ATS keyword filters were part of it. The bigger gap was simpler: he never knew who to ask for a referral or intro before he became row #312.
Stripe platform role
He pasted a Stripe Platform Engineering Staff role into Puvio on a Tuesday morning. Company research on the same card pulled an eng blog on ledger migration. Detail not repeated in the JD.
Contacts loaded ranked. First: someone on the platform team whose title matched the posting’s scope. Second: a recruiter on the req. Third: a Robinhood alum now at Stripe. Surfaced automatically.
About eight seconds from paste to a ranked list of who to ask. He did not open seventeen LinkedIn tabs or guess from org charts. Puvio does not promise the exact hiring manager. It ranks alumni and people at the company you can actually message.
One note
The Quick Message draft led with the migration post. Specific, recent, easy to verify. One line from his record tied his Robinhood ledger cutover to their problem framing. He edited until it sounded like him, then sent Wednesday morning.
Friday afternoon they replied: “Happy to chat next week.” No referral code. No insider. He still submitted through the Stripe portal afterward. Compliance. But the calendar invite came from the note.
“Greenhouse told me they received it. It never told me who to ask.”
James was always qualified for the interview. He was not stuck guessing who to message. Once ranked contacts were on the card, one researched note got a human reply.