Vetted AI Engineers in the Bay Area

Jonathan McGrath

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Senior Full-Stack/AI Engineer specializing in mobile and web product development

San Francisco, CA14y exp

“Built an end-to-end mobile + web Q&A marketplace connecting users with professionals, including real-time chat and Stripe-based monetization (products/subscriptions). Hands-on with scaling Firebase/Firestore (subcollections, composite indexing, pagination) and mobile caching/sync challenges. Also created an internal AI-driven report generator that turned chatbot outputs into curated graphs and PDFs for marketing, iterating based on stakeholder feedback.”

Drashti Magia

Screened

Junior AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, multimodal ML, and applied machine learning

San Jose, CA3y exp

“Software engineer with a disciplined, production-minded approach to AI-driven development: uses ChatGPT, Claude, GitHub Copilot, and scoped coding agents to accelerate delivery without giving up architectural judgment. Notably applied a multi-agent workflow on ClinicOps Copilot, using agents for planning, Bedrock/RAG scaffolding, and failure testing while personally owning architecture, grounding quality, and end-to-end review.”

“New grad focused on AI systems and agent-based development, with hands-on experience using LLMs as a coding partner and building RAG-based document processing workflows. Stands out for practical experimentation with semantic chunking, retrieval optimization, and multi-agent architectures, including redesigning a RAG workflow by adding a reasoning agent to improve response accuracy and reliability.”

“Healthcare-focused ML/AI engineer who has built production voice agents and clinical question-answering systems end-to-end, from experimentation through deployment, observability, and iteration. Particularly strong in making LLM systems reliable in real workflows via RAG, fine-tuning, guardrails, evaluation pipelines, and shared Python tooling; cites ~20% clinical QA accuracy gains and ~40% faster physician decision turnaround.”

“At ReferU.AI, designed and deployed an agentic RAG pipeline that automates multi-jurisdiction legal document drafting, emphasizing hallucination reduction through hybrid retrieval, validation agents, guardrails, and iterative regeneration. Experienced with orchestration frameworks (especially CrewAI) and rigorous testing/evaluation practices including human-in-the-loop review, adversarial testing, and production metrics/logging.”

“Cloud/distributed-systems engineer who has shipped real-time, offline-capable ledger/expense infrastructure and solved tricky cross-layer production bugs (carrier handoff retries causing duplicate writes) using packet captures and device logs. Also built modular Python ETL/catalog pipelines for e-commerce with config-toggled plugins for customer-specific pricing/SKU rules, and iterated product changes directly with on-site fulfillment operators using feature flags.”

“Built a production-grade LLM evaluation and regression system that stress-tests models across hundreds of iterations, combining LLM-as-judge, semantic similarity, statistical metrics, and rule-based checks, with results delivered via stakeholder-friendly HTML reports and dashboards. Experienced orchestrating multi-agent RAG workflows using LangChain/LangGraph and event-driven GenAI pipelines in n8n integrating OCR, speech-to-text, and external APIs, with strong emphasis on reliability, observability, and explainable failures.”

“Built and shipped a production AI/LLM agent-based, event-driven credit underwriting/decisioning workflow that automated document understanding, retrieval, risk scoring, and compliance checks—cutting turnaround from ~90 days to ~5 minutes while boosting throughput 200x+ and approvals ~50%. Experienced with Airflow/Prefect orchestration, Redis/RabbitMQ queues, rigorous eval/monitoring, and close collaboration with non-technical underwriting teams.”

“Startup-focused full-stack engineer who has worked across fintech and digital health, including Pivotxy and Cybele Health. They combine backend/API development with AI integration, including GPT-powered financial reporting and a finance agent benchmark, and have helped turn manual report workflows that took weeks into outputs generated in minutes.”