Vetted Engineering Professionals in the Bay Area

“Engineering manager/player-coach in the Alexa media ecosystem who led delivery of a Tier-1 gateway service enabling third-party providers (e.g., Spotify/Pandora) to control playback across users’ Echo devices, driving 10–15% lifts in engagement metrics. Deep in API design, AWS infrastructure choices (EC2 vs Fargate), OAuth/LWA auth flows, and production rigor (security reviews, load testing, feature-gated dial-ups), with demonstrated incident ownership and operational automation wins.”

Kyle Warneck

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Director-level Frontend Engineer specializing in high-scale web platforms

Alameda, CA13y exp

“Former Epic Games engineering leader who built the web foundation of the Fortnite creator ecosystem, joining as the first web developer and scaling the team to 21 engineers as the platform grew to tens of thousands of creators and tens of millions of players. Combines deep frontend architecture expertise with backend/infrastructure ownership, observability, and product leadership across publishing, trust and safety, economy, analytics, and public APIs.”

Vernon Quan

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Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in TypeScript, React, and Node.js

Menlo Park, CA7y exp

“Meta engineer who owned a heavily used internal goals/performance management feature end-to-end, driving major responsiveness improvements by restructuring frontend data loading and adding backend caching (Memcached), cache warmups, and query/index tuning. Strong focus on production quality: observability, error monitoring, and improving test coverage to prevent regressions during peak review cycles.”

“Early-career full-stack engineer with internship experience at Bloomberg and Capital One, shipping both data-heavy product features and AI-powered internal tools. Stands out for owning end-to-end user-facing systems, from spreadsheet-to-dashboard automation that cut workflows from hours to seconds to a BERT-based support chatbot that improved reliability by ~25%.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience at Uber building a near real-time driver rewards service on AWS (FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Redis) with strong reliability and concurrency controls. Also delivered AWS Lambda/ECS containerized deployments with GitHub Actions CI/CD and cost governance, built AWS Glue ETL with schema-evolution handling, and drove a ~10x SQL performance improvement while owning incident response via CloudWatch.”

Jonathan Goenadibrata

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Mid-level Robotics & Automation Engineer specializing in PLC controls and ROS 2 systems

San Jose, CA4y exp

“Masters capstone lead for a search-and-rescue rover that maps earthquake-affected environments using ROS2, SLAM (Cartographer), Nav2, and computer vision (OpenCV/ArUco). Served as both project manager and systems/architecture integrator, debugging IMU-driven navigation issues via RViz and implementing an A*-based planning workaround; also designed a supervisor/robot-side architecture to scale toward multi-robot coordination.”

Chang Qian

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Senior Backend/Infrastructure Engineer specializing in large-scale integrity and content systems

Menlo Park, CA10y exp

“Backend/platform engineer who built Bilibili’s "Avalon" content moderation platform from a vague CEO mandate into a company-wide service (Go, gRPC, Kafka), including on-call, metrics, transparency tools, and multi-site resiliency work. More recently at Meta, scaled a high-traffic mistake-prevention platform by introducing capacity levers (prefiltering, caching, log sampling, fanout limits) and navigating org-wide constraints, including debugging a rule-engine threading bottleneck.”

Sahitya Thota

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Staff/Tech Lead Software Engineer specializing in identity, data platforms, and cloud systems

Fremont, CA20y exp

“Engineering leader/player-coach who built and owned end-to-end sales-facing data products, including a 360° advertiser insights platform and a sales AI agent for natural-language access to insights. Demonstrated strong architecture and reliability chops (event-driven redesign to eliminate Hive-query throttling; batching/caching to reduce fan-out) plus incident ownership around ads attribution consistency. Also has 0→1 experience building graph-based recommendation/matching systems with explainability and tight user feedback loops.”

Diego Leyton

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in AR/VR, metaverse, and game development

Menlo Park, CA14y exp

“Unity/C# gameplay engineer from Horizon Worlds with deep experience shipping multiplayer VR and mobile features, especially scalable real-time animation and object interaction systems. Stands out for redesigning a high-overhead RPC-based animation pipeline into a deterministic client-side playback architecture that reduced network load, improved stability in complex worlds, and enabled previously unpublishable worlds to ship.”