Vetted Engineering Professionals in the Bay Area

“Series C (Sigma Computing) full-stack engineer/intern who shipped production features across React/TypeScript and GraphQL, including a Recents/workbook activity reliability improvement that handled unsaved “exploration” events via deterministic backend updates. Emphasizes production quality through Jest/Cypress coverage and feature-flagged staged rollouts, and is recognized for UX-focused improvements (fast, accurate filtering at scale) and proactive cross-functional ownership.”

Muhan Zhang

Screened

Junior AI Software Engineer specializing in LLM pipelines, OCR, and RAG

Palo Alto, USA2y exp

“Built and shipped a production LLM pipeline for nursing home Medicare reimbursement (PDF OCR + fact extraction + keyword RAG + QA) that reportedly increased payouts by ~$1K/month per patient. Strong in LLM ops/benchmarking (ground truth, LLM-as-judge, cost/I-O tracking) and pragmatic optimization—swapped retrieval approaches, fine-tuned a small model to cut OCR cost 90%, and migrated workloads to Azure/Temporal to scale nightly processing 10x.”

Zheng Wu

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and cloud messaging

Mountain View, CA1y exp

“Data/ML engineer who has owned end-to-end systems across email deliverability/segmentation and production LLM apps. Built a Spark+Airflow segmentation engine that materially improved deliverability (99.9%) and open rates (>50%), and shipped a PDF-to-quiz RAG product using LangChain/Vertex AI/Chroma with strong guardrails and an eval loop that cut hallucinations to <5%.”

Jehanzeb Khan

Screened

Director-level Engineering Manager specializing in large-scale data and compute platforms

Sunnyvale, CA20y exp

“Platform and distributed-systems leader (player-coach) who owned architecture and reliability for an Amazon analytics/data platform serving ~100K internal users at exabyte scale. Built an ML-driven “Lakeflow” optimization layer that cut pipeline completion times ~20–25% and reduced compute waste >15%, and led major incident response/redesign efforts (e.g., deletion storm) with strong rollout/observability/rollback practices.”

Sri Charan Reddy Mallu

Screened

Mid-Level Software Development Engineer specializing in GenAI and full-stack cloud systems

Redwood City, CA5y exp

“Full-stack engineer with experience across Magna, C3.ai, and Amazon, building GenAI-enabled products and finance transaction systems. Has shipped Next.js (App Router) + TypeScript features backed by Go/Python RAG pipelines, and emphasizes production quality via load testing, Selenium regression coverage, LLM-aware integration testing, and Azure observability. Also built LangGraph-orchestrated multi-step content generation workflows with robust retry/idempotency strategies.”

KARTHIKBABU VADLOORI

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in Spring Boot, React, and cloud microservices

San Francisco, CA5y exp

“Backend engineer with experience at Meta and Accenture building regulated-data systems (healthcare/financial) using Python/Flask and Postgres. Has scaled high-throughput services to millions of daily requests, delivering measurable latency wins (~40% API latency reduction; ~35% faster DB-backed endpoints), and has productionized ML inference services using Docker/Kubernetes and AWS (ECS/SageMaker).”

“Unity/C# gameplay engineer from Roku who led and shipped a cross-platform real-time multiplayer system spanning Meta Quest VR and iOS/Android, including AI/LLM-driven NPC behavior. Reported strong post-launch outcomes (+40% VR retention, +25% engagement) with stable networking (server-authoritative, delta compression/prediction) and robust debugging/observability via logging and replay tools.”

“Seed-stage startup engineer owning features end-to-end across full-stack development, DevOps, rollout, and post-launch maintenance. Built data ingestion and evaluation workflows for an LLM data-quality platform using Next.js, MongoDB, Postgres, and GCP Pub/Sub, with a strong focus on reliability, caching, and pragmatic performance improvements.”

“Technical lead who shipped a production GPT-4-powered customer support agent for Square, serving a large fintech customer base through a React chat interface with tool-using orchestration, guardrails, and live handoff paths. Brings strong real-world experience in agent reliability, evaluation, observability, and workflow orchestration using Temporal, Sidekiq, Pinecone, Datadog, and Snowflake.”

“Spatial computing software engineer focused on making Apple Vision Pro/visionOS accessible, including building VoiceOver and Live Captions features. Debugged a complex Live Captions issue involving dual audio inputs during FaceTime screen sharing by leveraging iOS implementation docs and creating concurrent audio sources; also has safety-critical testing experience from train control systems and is interested in pivoting into robotics.”

“Built a production LLM-driven archival assistant that turns large, low-quality scanned handwritten files (120+ pages) into structured datasets, overcoming context-window and hierarchy challenges with a two-phase LLM + rules pipeline and reaching 98.1% accuracy (Gemini-2.5 Flash). Also orchestrated a large human-in-the-loop effort with 78 archivists, producing 2,400 high-quality annotations in 4 days via detailed rubrics and support.”

“Senior engineering leader in the Bay Area with experience spanning VMware, Hortonworks/Cloudera, Barracuda, and Palo Alto Networks, including leading open-source work (Apache Knox) and architecting large-scale security platforms. Has driven disaster recovery and cloud security products, designed Python microservices for Microsoft 365 security, and scaled teams (3x) while formalizing enterprise readiness practices with automated documentation using Notebook LLM.”

“Architect/engineering leader who built a multi-tenant AI platform end-to-end, including a secure FastAPI orchestrator (JWT, RBAC, tenant isolation, auditing) and an extensible MCP tool-routing layer, then productionized it via fully containerized microservices (Docker, Postgres/pgvector, Redis). Also has strong governance and compliance experience (ARB with security/privacy/SOX) and has owned high-severity incidents through mitigation and RCA/RCCA, plus prior high-volume payments/accounting data pipeline design with audit-grade integrity checks.”

“AppSec/customer security specialist with Atlassian enterprise cloud migration experience, advising on SSO and API token hardening and driving adoption through phased rollouts. Implemented Snyk (SCA) and SonarQube (SAST) in Bitbucket Pipelines with Jira-based vuln workflows, cutting critical vuln MTTR from 30 to 7 days for financial services customers. Strong in SSO troubleshooting (Okta/SAML) and secure AWS/EKS-based agent integrations with secrets management and Datadog observability.”

“Engineering lead/player-coach at Sam's Club who drove major React Native Member Desk Returns changes (including Vision Center insurance refund flows) by coordinating Product/UX, QA, and API teams and leading a 3-engineer squad. Also led an e-commerce mobile OAuth migration, evolving a login experience from vanilla JS to a React SPA as security requirements (MFA, reCAPTCHA) emerged, and improved production reliability via better request flagging and analytics/log instrumentation.”

Chris Du

Screened

Intern Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in web apps and AI systems

Mountain View, CA0y exp

“Product/UX designer who builds end-to-end systems across both consumer wellness and industrial/technical domains. Designed BloomPath (mental-wellness platform for therapists and young professionals) using research-driven, emotionally safe interaction patterns, and also simplified a Bosch autonomous parking vision-language mapping pipeline into a developer-facing real-time UI with layered debug tooling. Comfortable collaborating deeply with engineers and contributing in React/JS.”

Tejaswini Manjunatha

Screened

Mid-level Reliability Engineer specializing in incident response and LLM-driven support automation

Palo Alto, USA4y exp

“Customer Success Services / Support professional working on Palantir Foundry who productionizes customer integrations (secure OAuth2, scheduled pipelines) and builds LLM-driven support automation (runbook matching) with monitoring and evaluation suites. Also leads developer workshops/demos on Foundry packaging/installation workflows, using live debugging techniques to make concepts concrete.”

Yongyan Cao

Screened

Principal Vehicle Dynamics & Control Systems Engineer specializing in autonomous driving and hybrid powertrains

Fremont, CA25y exp

“Robotics controls engineer with experience spanning an RV/trailer automatic hitching and towing robot (vision + EKF sensor fusion, anti-jackknife/anti-sway, multi-loop torque assistance control) and 3 years on a ROS-based RoboTaxi autonomous driving stack at Pegasus Technology. Improved MPC trajectory generation robustness by converting hard constraints to soft constraints with slack variables, and built an AI-powered PR review agent (Claude-code) integrated into CI/CD to reduce bugs.”

“Machine learning software engineer intern experience at Amazon, where they built a production testing framework to inject frames/videos onto devices to measure embedded CV model inference and ensure broad model compatibility via automatic NNA metadata handling. Also built side projects spanning LLM/RAG orchestration (LangChain/LangGraph with reranking and citations) and applied CV/healthcare work (nail disease detection, medical retrieval chatbot).”

Sandeep Rohilla

Screened

Principal Platform Engineer specializing in AI-driven document automation

San Francisco, CA20y exp

“Backend engineer who built an event-driven, multi-service resume review system integrating AI/ML workflows. Demonstrated strong performance engineering (e.g., composite indexing dropping latency from ~600ms to ~35ms and major P95 gains) and high-throughput pipeline optimization via caching, batching, and worker concurrency tuning, with multi-tenant isolation implemented across DB and Redis.”

“Senior software engineer candidate who uses AI and multi-agent workflows thoughtfully to speed up development while preserving engineering rigor for production-critical decisions. Stands out for a clear risk-based framework: leveraging agents for boilerplate, refactoring, testing, and debugging, while relying on fundamentals, metrics, and human review for system design and scalability.”

“Built and deployed PIKA, an internal multi-agent platform for FDA-regulated software development, owning it from concept through production. The candidate combines strong full-stack engineering with rigorous LLM orchestration, human-in-the-loop controls, and production eval systems, delivering measurable impact: 3x more design issues caught, ~90% fewer false positives, and ~40% efficiency gains on documentation-heavy workflows.”