Vetted Engineering Professionals in the Bay Area

“Robotics software engineer with semiconductor wafer-handling automation experience at Mattson Technology, building C++ control software for ATM and vacuum robots coordinating through a load-lock (pressure/door/pump sequencing). Implemented multi-vendor communications with auto-detection across SECS serial and TCP/IP, and validated behavior using simulation + GUI animation, logging/sniffers, and hardware-in-the-loop testing; currently self-studying ROS 2.”

“Backend/platform engineer who owned a real-time customer analytics microservice stack in Python/FastAPI with Kafka streaming into PostgreSQL, including schema enforcement (Avro) and high-throughput optimizations. Strong Kubernetes + GitOps practitioner (EKS/GKE, Helm, Argo CD) who has handled CI/CD reliability issues with automated pre-deploy checks and rollbacks, and supported major migrations (on-prem to AWS; VM to EKS) with blue-green cutover planning.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on manufacturing/production-systems experience at Wallbox, improving the Supernova charger rework process by streamlining part-number/component updates. Strong in building modular Python/Flask services with clean integration layers (Cosmos DB, NetSuite, traceability/label printing), plus deep SQLAlchemy/Postgres performance tuning. Also brings scalable AI/ML integration and deployment experience (OpenAI/Hugging Face/TensorFlow Serving, Docker/FastAPI/Nginx) and multi-tenant schema isolation with RBAC.”

“Full-stack developer who built an end-to-end Hotel Management System using React and Spring Boot with MongoDB and AWS. Has hands-on experience debugging API/data-fetching issues with Postman and validating results against the database, plus exposure to handling large data workloads with chunking and monitoring via Grafana/Tabula.”

“ML practitioner with hands-on experience in healthcare time-series modeling (CGM-based blood glucose prediction) including a novel ICA-based blind source separation approach and robust data-cleaning for noisy, missing sensor data. Also built an embeddings + LLM-powered podcast recommendation workflow using YouTube transcript scraping and Vellum AI document indexing, with a strong emphasis on production-grade engineering practices (TDD, monitoring) and realistic rolling validation for forecasting.”

Raviteja Kambhampati

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Mid-level Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in cloud-native microservices and React

San Francisco, CA5y exp

“Full-stack engineer who has owned customer-facing analytics and dashboard products end-to-end using TypeScript/React with Spring Boot microservices. Strong in scaling and stabilizing distributed systems (RabbitMQ, DLQs/retries, observability with correlation IDs) and in building internal tooling that consolidates ELK/CloudWatch signals to speed up support and operations; reported ~30% performance improvement on a recent dashboard.”

Luis Aragon

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in data infrastructure and distributed systems

San Francisco, CA6y exp

“Software engineer working on agentic AI SMS customer engagement flows and a Customer Data Profile service that unifies journey data across SMS/web/calls while enforcing precise consent management. Has hands-on production operations experience, including recovering a reporting-critical Elasticsearch outage by standing up a new cluster in Kubernetes, restoring from snapshots, and rewinding Kafka consumers to reprocess missed data.”

Weston Carpenter

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Mid-level Backend Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems

San Francisco, CA6y exp

“Technical/presales engineer with experience at Grubhub and Appen, spanning LLM-adjacent data labeling workflows and production AI troubleshooting. Built an integrations platform at Grubhub and has hands-on experience diagnosing prompt-related AI failures via Splunk, adding JUnit tests and logging to prevent recurrence. Known for shipping customer-specific workflow adaptations (e.g., OCR annotation coordinate transformations for crop/rotation) while keeping timelines intact through iterative delivery and parallelization.”

Shashank Nawathe

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Senior Front-End Engineer specializing in React, micro frontends, and GraphQL

Sunnyvale, CA8y exp

“Frontend engineer with Walmart Labs experience who contributed to the React Query (TanStack) open-source ecosystem by reproducing and helping fix a tricky cache invalidation edge case via a detailed GitHub issue and merged PR. Led measurable runtime performance improvements on a large B2B dashboard (D3.js), using memoization, component refactors, web workers, and virtualization to cut render time ~60% and eliminate UI freezes, and standardized data-fetching patterns to reduce data-related bugs ~30%.”

Alex Johnson

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Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in observability and developer tools

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Product-leaning full-stack engineer (65% product / 35% infra) who built core components of the LightFoot feature flag platform: end-to-end client/server SDKs with OpenTelemetry-based observability and a React+TypeScript UI for flag management and metrics dashboards. Strong focus on performance (memoization/lazy loading/caching), reliable API design, and Postgres modeling for read-heavy flag evaluation workloads, with AWS production experience (EC2/ECS/Lambda/API Gateway/VPC).”

Nikhitha santhoshi Maroju

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Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Java/Spring microservices on AWS

Redwood, CA4y exp

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered fraud investigation agent using RAG to generate transaction explanations and draft analyst reports. Emphasizes production robustness (fallbacks, strict structured outputs, async orchestration, monitoring/evals) and reports measurable impact: ~12% precision lift and ~80 high-priority alerts per week with reduced manual effort.”

Eric James

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Senior Game Developer specializing in Unity, gameplay systems, and blockchain features

San Jose, CA11y exp

“Unity/C# gameplay engineer who has owned and shipped modular progression/rewards/inventory systems, including a separated blockchain integration layer that drove higher engagement while keeping performance stable at scale. Also implemented AI behaviors with Unity ML-Agents using a training/inference separation approach, and has hands-on experience debugging platform-specific state issues during console certification across multiple shipped platforms (mobile/console/PC/WebGL).”

Vishal Kodakanchi

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Director of AI Platforms & Architecture specializing in enterprise GenAI and AI Centers of Excellence

Mountain View, CA20y exp

“Software industry veteran (20 years) pursuing entrepreneurship; currently building an MVP software product aimed at solving specific finance and accounting problems for nano, micro, and small enterprises. Plans to run a metrics-driven pilot to validate demand before refining the product and raising capital; leveraging Google for Startups and exploring AWS for Startups.”

Michael Yeung

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Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in FinTech trading platforms

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Built and deployed internal trading tools at Wells Fargo that reduced manual production-support dependency for trader configuration workflows. Brings hands-on experience in financial systems, data quality, and production incident resolution, including building 400+ SQL validation rules and designing an internal RAG assistant for engineering documentation.”

Paavani Karuturi

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Junior Backend and ML Engineer specializing in distributed systems and LLM infrastructure

San Jose, CA2y exp

“Backend engineer with strong ownership across authentication, API infrastructure, and AI-powered document workflows. They built and operated a production auth microservice supporting 10,000+ users with measurable latency and security improvements, and also shipped hackathon and applied-AI systems including legal document and medical document retrieval/Q&A products.”

“Software engineer with unusually mature AI-native development practices, using Claude/GPT/Copilot across requirements, implementation, testing, and documentation. At Anzenna, they effectively acted as a tech lead for a multi-agent setup spanning four repos, creating specialized agent workflows and maintaining top-level cross-repo documentation to coordinate complex work.”

Candida Shaima D'souza

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Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in frontend and EV charging platforms

San Jose, CA7y exp

“Built end-to-end operational experiences for Siemens' Depotfinity EV Charging Management System, spanning web, mobile, backend coordination, and cloud-integrated real-time telemetry. Particularly strong in high-frequency React/TypeScript dashboard performance, WebSocket-driven operational products, and cross-functional ownership of fleet-scale EV charging workflows.”

“Frontend engineer with strong ownership in regulated healthcare/patient-facing products, including redesigning legal/privacy document workflows so non-engineering teams could safely publish updates without release cycles. Has also built frontend architecture from scratch, optimized large internal data-grid experiences, and recently worked in a forward deploy role directly with clients to shape product solutions.”