Vetted Engineering Professionals in the Bay Area

“Full-stack engineer who has owned end-to-end delivery of an internal, customer-facing data visualization product and helped build a data modification pipeline used across the organization for data integrity/governance. Demonstrates pragmatic MVP-driven delivery within sprints and makes performance-oriented architectural decisions (e.g., batching API calls to reduce frontend request volume) in TypeScript/React systems.”

“Infrastructure-focused engineer with Vonage experience modernizing early-stage cloud architecture (Terraform modularization, blue-green deployments, containerization, and zero-downtime database migration planning to Aurora). Also built a local end-to-end side project, Vastu AI, combining a custom-trained YOLO model (Roboflow-labeled data) with a locally hosted LLM via Ollama to generate a vastu compliance report from floor-plan images.”

“Software Engineer at Armstrong Robotics building multithreaded C++ perception/planning/control software for robotic arms running commercial dishwashers deployed across multiple restaurant sites (up to ~2,000 dishes/day per installation). Strong in production operations: on-call debugging with deep logging/video analysis, rapid hotfixes, Datadog-based monitoring, and a Three.js calibration tool plus large regression test suite to de-risk live deployments.”

“Firmware architect/lead engineer for automotive LiDAR sensors, designing RTOS-based, layered firmware and solving high-throughput real-time constraints using DMA and lock-free buffering. Built ROS nodes to bridge embedded sensor output to higher-level perception (point clouds, diagnostics, configuration) while isolating real-time logic in firmware. Established an end-to-end CI/CD pipeline with GTest unit tests plus SIL/HIL automation and Dockerized build/test environments.”

“AI/LLM engineer with production experience building a multimodal RAG agent for Walmart driver support, combining hybrid retrieval (dense+BM25) and fine-tuned Llama 3 served via vLLM on Azure AKS to reach sub-second latency. Drove measurable impact (25% fewer escalations, 60% lower token costs, 33% lower storage costs) and also built Kafka-based microservices that cut batch runtime from 2 hours to 15 minutes and reduced DB load by 80%.”

“Interned at Rivian where they built and deployed a production Whisper-based ASR + LLM real-time event labeling pipeline to help autonomous-vehicle engineers diagnose failures and route issues to triage teams. Also built a stateful multi-agent "Code Partner" developer assistant using LangGraph/LangChain (planner/router/coder/critique/tester) with evaluation, adversarial testing, and stakeholder-friendly communication practices.”

“Software engineer whose recent work includes co-designing and building a "Shared Profile" feature for a social event-planning app (Again, Sometime). Previously at Pure Storage, set up Docker-standardized Ubuntu/Python environments to simulate hardware testbeds and support workload/performance regression testing for other engineering teams; no robotics/ROS experience.”

“Early-career engineer who owned an end-to-end objective assessment/coding contest platform at an edtech startup, using Postgres + S3 and Redis (queues + ZSET) to decouple and scale code submission processing with worker sandboxes. Also implemented idempotency controls and set up monitoring and CI/CD while the rest of the team focused on curriculum.”

“Development manager focused on developer productivity and platform enablement in a polyglot microservices environment. Drove ~50% productivity gains by evaluating and rolling out AI coding copilots with team training and cross-team demos, and designed a Disaster Recovery framework adopted by 50+ microservice teams. Also led edge-focused Python runtime optimization and relies on heavy test automation to safely execute large refactors during major platform upgrades.”

“Open-source maintainer of KafkaJSUI, a Vue.js-based Kafka browser UI, focused on making large-topic exploration fast and responsive. Delivered major performance wins (incremental fetching, virtualized lists, WebSocket streaming, backpressure, Web Worker offloading) cutting load times to sub-200ms, and also strengthened CI and developer documentation while handling community-reported issues end-to-end.”

“Head of Robotics at Orbital Composites who built the full ROS-based software stack ("OrbOS") for multi-robot KUKA-arm 3D printing of carbon-fiber composite geometries. Deep in motion planning and real-time control—created a pipeline to turn underconstrained toolpaths into optimal joint trajectories at massive command scale, plus redundant safety gatekeeping and a 250Hz synchronized robot+extruder controller. Has operated in a technical-founder capacity for ~6 years and values an engineering culture of openness, honesty, accountability, and high ownership.”

“Engineering manager leading a 15-person team at FBN on the Gridbull platform, shipping a self-serve pricing/quoting tool for structured commodity products using real-time futures market data. Owns architecture and reliability for third-party data integrations (WebSocket + REST fallback), including resolving a day-one production incident caused by undocumented vendor connection resets. Introduced lightweight Technical Implementation Plans to improve cross-functional alignment and delivery speed in a high-growth environment.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong real-time and applied AI experience: built an internal AI “virtual subject matter expert” platform at Shell Energy serving ~1,800 employees with sub-200ms response streaming. Diagnosed AWS load balancer WebSocket disconnects and shipped reliability fixes (heartbeats, reconnect/backoff, session resume), and implemented AI production guardrails (eval suite, drift monitoring, confidence thresholds, citations, human-in-the-loop) that reportedly cut hallucinations by ~90%.”

“DevOps engineer focused on CI/CD who built and productionized LLM/MCP-based chat agents integrated into Cisco Webex to help developers troubleshoot PRs and pipelines via GitHub/Jenkins data. Strong in operationalizing agentic systems with observability (OpenTelemetry/Grafana), user-scoped rate limiting, and Kubernetes-based scaling, and has presented demos on agent SDK capabilities and DORA metrics dashboards.”

“Forward-deployed engineer/tech lead who built an end-to-end demand planning and forecasting application for a major US steel manufacturer, integrating Snowflake data into the C3 platform with batch/MapReduce workflows, monitoring, and a React/TypeScript UI. Also productionized an enterprise LLM integration with structured outputs and authorization guardrails, reporting +30% stakeholder engagement and broad adoption across customer deployments.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer who has owned production systems end-to-end, including a Dockerized Node.js/TypeScript probabilistic fault-tree analysis service for nuclear safety research deployed on AWS. Also built and operated a FastAPI-based RAG pipeline over 200+ PDFs using FAISS, focusing on low-latency, idempotent workflows and strong observability; experienced with API design and Playwright E2E automation across React/Angular projects.”

“Backend-focused engineer with strong .NET/Angular experience building enterprise financial and healthcare systems, including microservice APIs deployed with Docker/Kubernetes and AWS ECS. Demonstrates production reliability skills across secrets management (Secrets Manager/IAM), incident response (CloudWatch + Kafka failover), and data engineering patterns from SSIS ETL (data quality, incremental recovery), plus proven SQL tuning with a 10-minute report reduced to under 30 seconds.”

“Built a production Medicare Q&A chatbot using OCR (pytesseract), LangChain chunking, ChromaDB embeddings/retrieval, and an Ollama LLM. Thinks in terms of practical tradeoffs (cost, model selection, static vs frequently-updated corpora) and emphasizes deterministic testing plus observability for reliable LLM workflows; also has experience automating non-technical teams' pain points (e.g., recruiting event integration).”