Vetted Engineering Professionals in the Bay Area

“Built and productionized an LLM-enabled system visualization web app at Longshot, designed modularly to pivot quickly to a mobile-friendly interface as customer needs changed. Experienced in diagnosing LLM/agentic workflow failures using observability, deterministic replay, and fault-tree root cause analysis. Also delivers developer-focused demos and trainings (including robotics deployment/mapping at Meta) and partners with sales as a technical closer, including for government clients by demonstrating failure modes and system modularity.”

“Zero Trust security product lead focused on UI/API delivery, stability, and customer adoption at enterprise scale, including deployments serving 1200 customers. Stands out for hands-on production debugging across the full stack, customer-facing incident ownership, and a pragmatic approach to turning failures into automated regression coverage.”

“Backend-focused engineer building customer support/order-tracking platforms with Java 17/Spring Boot microservices and a React/TypeScript frontend. Deep experience running event-driven systems on Kubernetes (Kafka, Redis, MySQL) with strong observability (Prometheus/Grafana/Splunk), SLOs, and safe deployment practices (feature flags, canaries). Also built an internal monitoring/debugging dashboard that consolidated metrics and logs for on-call engineers and was adopted by other teams to speed incident response.”

“Robotics software engineer who has built full ROS 2 stacks for both a semi-automated robotic ultrasound system (UR5e + depth camera) and a quadrotor planning/MPC pipeline in Gazebo. Strong in integrating major ROS 2 frameworks (MoveIt/Nav2/RTAB-Map), writing custom packages (URDF, ACADOS-based MPC, laser landmark detection), and optimizing real-time behavior via GPU parallelization and distributed multi-threaded ROS 2 architectures; also contributes to ROS 2 core (structured parameters).”

Akashleena Sarkar

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in robotics and real-time distributed systems

Mountain View, CA2y exp

“Robotics software engineer focused on low-compute navigation/SLAM: built a 6-DOF SLAM validation pipeline (IMU + 2D LiDAR + ultrasonic) producing ~1cm OctoMap accuracy and deployed it on an Intel Atom by optimizing particle-filter SLAM with a greedy max-likelihood update. Deep ROS 2 experience (executors, composable/lifecycle nodes, QoS, timestamping) plus simulation and deployment tooling (Gazebo C++ plugins, Docker, CI/CD, ROS 2 build farm) and drone navigation work with MAVROS/PX4.”

Syed Daim Ali

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Intern Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and AI platforms

Sunnyvale, CA0y exp

“Systems-focused engineer who built an OS kernel with multithreading, priority scheduling, system calls, and synchronization primitives, and debugged race conditions end-to-end. While not yet hands-on with ROS/SLAM, they clearly connect low-level concurrency and scheduling decisions to deterministic, reliable robotics-style real-time workloads.”

Sarthak Chauhan

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI-powered backend and full-stack systems

San Francisco Bay Area, CA2y exp

“Built production AI agents at HubSpot for sales teams, including Next Best Action, Deal Risks, and Deal Plans. Combines frontend React/TypeScript implementation with backend prompt engineering, evaluation in Braintrust, caching, and generation pipeline work, and has experience shipping fast with beta feedback and gated rollouts.”

“Full-stack/product-minded engineer with recent experience in both an early-stage AI startup and a B2B payments marketplace. Stands out for building a pgvector-based semantic cache that reduced LLM latency by 35% and for shipping audit-heavy payment infrastructure with Stripe/Plaid, idempotent webhook handling, and major reconciliation query optimizations.”

CHIRAG ARORA

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Senior Backend Software Engineer specializing in microservices and cloud platforms

San Jose, CA9y exp

“Backend engineer with PayPal experience building a high-reliability onboarding API platform (Java/Spring Boot) integrating KYC/compliance and serving 1M+ users annually. Also shipped an internal LLM-driven developer tool that automates PR review insights and OpenAPI documentation with rigorous evaluation, schema-bound guardrails, and production observability.”