Vetted Engineering Professionals in the Bay Area

Vineeth Reddy Vallapureddy

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in backend microservices and enterprise AI tools

Redwood City, California5y exp

“Backend/platform engineer with experience across C3.ai (supply chain demand planning) and Amdocs (telecom), working on large-scale data systems and microservices. Has driven first-time adoption experiments of Snowflake + Spark to handle billion-record workloads, built Jenkins-to-Kubernetes delivery pipelines with Nexus artifact management, and implemented Kafka streaming between microservices with HA and retry/error-handling patterns.”

Thomas To

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI/ML data platforms for biotech and FinTech

Emeryville, CA6y exp

“AI/ML full-stack practitioner in a small-scale manufacturing/lab operations environment who deployed a production ML system to improve blood cell order fulfillment by predicting yield/success from donor characteristics. Experienced building custom multi-agent orchestration (Python, LangChain/LangGraph, MCP) and balancing reliability, data quality constraints, and token/ROI economics while communicating tradeoffs to VP-level business stakeholders.”

Allison MacMillan

Screened

Engineering Manager specializing in programmatic advertising and large-scale backend systems

San Francisco, CA7y exp

“Engineering manager with recent hands-on technical leadership in vendor-based geo augmentation, including making a key pivot from a broken vendor SDK to an internal data ingestion approach. Previously shipped impactful Python microservice refactors that reduced unnecessary data processing/storage and improved runtime payload efficiency, and has owned on-call incidents through mitigation (scaling pods) and prevention process changes.”

Bernie Miao

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in EdTech and AI-powered learning tools

Berkeley, CA2y exp

“Edtech/education-focused engineer who took an accessibility-critical LLM/vision feature from concept to production: built an OpenCV-gated whiteboard capture pipeline feeding Gemini Vision for handwriting-to-LaTeX, improving math transcription 80% while cutting inference costs 60%. Also built RAG observability and retrieval fixes that stabilized inconsistent answers, and partnered directly with sales to reshape demos and open a new K-12 revenue pipeline aligned to California Digital Divide grant requirements.”

Gilbert Martin

Screened

Executive Cloud Operations & DevSecOps Leader specializing in multi-cloud platforms and compliance

Pleasanton, CA9y exp

“Former founder who built a revenue-generating DevOps GTM service from zero, using milestone-based revenue targets and multi-channel selling (relationships, channel partners, and major conferences like AWS events and Dreamforce). Also led a cross-functional FedRAMP Moderate readiness strategy to enable selling into regulated environments, coordinating engineering/product/finance/sales/security/support and third-party partners under a tight timeline.”

“Game developer with experience on DreamCraft and KartRider Rush+, focused on Unity/C# gameplay systems, AI behavior, and multiplayer synchronization. Stands out for building a modular character customization system shared across teams and for tuning AI karts to feel more human while supporting different player skill levels.”

Malyadri Peruru

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in backend, cloud, and IoT automation

Greater San Francisco, CA13y exp

“Software engineer with strong systems design experience spanning both core product infrastructure and AI-enabled support workflows. Co-led a from-scratch B2B SaaS billing platform for complex customer pricing models, and also improved an orchestrated agent system by tightening context, metadata, and human-review safeguards for misrouted support tickets.”

“Frontend-focused product engineer from TrialTrace who owned features end-to-end across product decisions, architecture, implementation, and testing. Strong in TypeScript/React applications with complex data visualization and dashboarding, including refactoring core coordinate logic, building filter-state architecture, and shipping fast user-driven features.”

Pujan Parikh

Screened

Staff Front-End Engineer specializing in enterprise cloud and AI-driven applications

Redwood City, CA8y exp

“Frontend-leaning architect with deep React/TypeScript expertise who has repeatedly owned platform-level problems across Oracle Health, Oracle Cloud, and Veritas. Stands out for building cross-plugin routing standards for a next-gen EHR, high-scale real-time observability dashboards, and even stepping into backend/AI infrastructure design with Kafka- and RAG-based systems.”

“Software engineer with hands-on embedded/robotics coursework experience (Arduino sensor integration and input handling built from scratch without external libraries) and strong DevOps/engineering productivity impact at work, including leading a CI/CD enhancement that runs only impacted tests to catch issues before PR approval.”

“Backend/data engineer with strong AWS production experience across containers (ECS) and serverless (API Gateway/Lambda/SQS), plus Glue-based ETL to Parquet for Athena/Redshift. Demonstrates hands-on reliability and security depth (Cognito OAuth2/JWT with JWKS rotation, idempotency/DLQs, monitoring) and measurable performance wins (Redis caching + query tuning), along with legacy-to-services modernization using parallel-run parity and feature-flagged cutovers.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on medical robotics experience on an automated CT-guided lung biopsy robot, building a CT-voxel-to-mesh pipeline that generates and visualizes up to 1000 collision-safe needle insertion points and ports them into robot space for IK execution. Strong ROS2 background spanning AprilTag perception, Kalman-filter state estimation, visual SLAM, and Voronoi-based motion planning, plus deployment work containerizing ORB-SLAM on ROS2 Humble and CI/CD automation at Siemens EDA using Perforce.”

“Founder/builder of an EdTech startup (robograde.io) who personally conducted on-site classroom discovery with teachers and rapidly iterated the product based on real-world feedback. Implemented a Canvas LMS integration and refined it through weeks of in-person testing, and handled a live production grading failure by quickly debugging and deploying a fix, then adding fault-tolerant/backup API design.”

“Built and deployed custom AI chatbots at LivePerson, translating customer service pain points (e.g., MTTR reduction and fragmented information) into production RAG-based solutions with stakeholder-facing metrics dashboards. Experienced in real-time troubleshooting using Elastic logs, leading POCs, and integrating customer APIs to automate workflows as part of sales-driven solutioning.”

Subbu Paravatareddy

Screened

Engineering Leader specializing in cloud modernization and AI/ML integration

Emeryville, CA21y exp

“Player-coach engineering leader focused on buyer/distribution product lines, building scalable purchasing/planning frameworks and modernizing workflows. Drove performance and reliability improvements via queue-based async architectures, external API redundancy, and CI/CD automation, and has led production incident response (cache-related) with follow-up playbooks and monitoring. Experienced in high-growth/startup environments, combining hands-on delivery with mentoring, 1:1s, and performance coaching.”

Jhansi Bendi

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and event-driven systems

Antioch, CA18y exp

“Senior engineer/tech lead with 18+ years building large-scale distributed applications, specializing in performance and reliability improvements. Recently owned multiple apps on an email personalization team, shipping major optimizations (including a push-update feature and audience-count architecture redesign) that reportedly lifted system performance from ~50% to ~99% while also leading code standards, reviews, and mentoring.”

Poojitha MaheshShyla

Screened

Mid-level Java Backend Developer specializing in cloud-native microservices

Sunnyvale, CA5y exp

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with Walmart experience building and operating high-volume media upload and processing systems. Strong in Java/Spring Boot, Postgres performance tuning (EXPLAIN/ANALYZE), and durable workflows using Kafka/Spring Batch with retries and idempotency, plus production ownership via monitoring and optimization; familiar with Next.js/TypeScript and modern React performance patterns.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience shipping production features in both networking (Cisco: ACL object groups, 3G/4G) and fintech/online banking (PLAID, Auto Pay, OLB, membership qualification). Works primarily with React/Java/Hibernate and REST/JSON, emphasizing caching/memoization for UI performance and strong testing/XP practices to maintain quality under faster release cycles.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong enterprise delivery experience across manufacturing and semiconductor use cases, owning deployments from discovery through post-launch support. Stands out for combining traditional product engineering with applied GenAI workflows and data pipeline reliability work, including a manufacturing app that reportedly saved a Fortune 500 customer about $6M and an AI chat panel adopted by 70% of pricing analysts.”

“Built and shipped an end-to-end autonomous telemetry and log-triage product that combined LLM-based anomaly analysis, strict typed validation, and a React observability UI. Particularly compelling is their focus on making non-deterministic AI reliable in production at scale—500,000 daily requests and 99.9% uptime—while also translating complex AI output into a usable experience for non-technical teams during live outages.”

Wei-Hsien Wang

Screened

Entry-level AI Engineer specializing in full-stack generative AI systems

San Jose, CA1y exp

“AI/full-stack product engineer who has shipped both user-facing and internal LLM products, from a photo-to-music recommendation app to an experimentation agent at Azazie. Stands out for combining modern app development with production-grade agent and GraphRAG systems, including a 500k+ email analysis platform and measurable impact like 3x experiment velocity, 75% setup-time reduction, and 65% faster task discovery.”

Cassandra Pizarro

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in frontend and integrations

Mountain View, CA7y exp

“Frontend-leaning product engineer with strong ownership in fintech integrations, including leading the first global PayPal integration on QuickBooks and enabling 20,000+ non-U.S. users across UK, Canada, and Australia. Brings a mix of React/TypeScript architecture, API collaboration, and domain depth in accounting workflows like VAT and Chart of Accounts mapping.”

Zack Pagano

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and data platforms

San Francisco, CA3y exp

“Engineer in a highly regulated banking environment who has built both a full-stack digest product that cut notification volume 40% and an internal LLM-powered on-call assistant that reduced triage time by 30%+. Stands out for combining strong AWS/serverless and TypeScript architecture skills with careful AI safety, observability, and compliance-minded design.”

Manoj Shinde

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud-native AI and FinTech systems

San Francisco, CA9y exp

“Full-stack engineer who has owned customer-facing reporting products end to end and also helped ship MemberGPT, an AI assistant for financial users. Brings a practical mix of React/TypeScript and Java/Spring Boot experience, plus hands-on LLM integration, retrieval grounding, evaluation, and production monitoring in a higher-trust financial context.”