Vetted Engineering Professionals in the Bay Area

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered grading platform that automates rubric-aligned scoring and feedback, with strong guardrails (RAG grounding, structured JSON, validation/retries) and operational rigor (metrics, drift monitoring). Experienced using CrewAI to orchestrate multi-agent workflows end-to-end and validating quality via gold-set benchmarking against human graders with regression testing on every prompt/model change.”

“Built a production SQL chatbot for access-log analytics that replaced manual custom report requests with natural-language querying, using LangGraph and a ChromaDB-backed RAG pipeline for grounded, consistent answers. Implemented a privacy-preserving design where the LLM never sees raw customer data (only query metadata) and has experience building multi-agent/tool-calling systems with LangGraph (DeepAgents), including solving sub-agent communication drift via self-reflection.”

“Backend-focused JavaScript/Node.js engineer with e-commerce domain depth from Decathlon, working on foundational microservices for order management, inventory, and fulfillment integrations. Led an infrastructure redesign and shipped a Shopify-based persistent cart experience, diagnosing early production issues via monitoring/log analysis and improving reliability through stronger session persistence and fault-tolerant architecture.”

“Robotics engineer with hands-on experience scaling a multi-vendor heterogeneous warehouse robot fleet, building a distributed “traffic manager” for collision avoidance and real-time rerouting using CBS/MAPF and DCOP-style negotiation. Strong real-time/safety-critical systems background (RTOS, deterministic lock-free multithreading) plus modern perception and simulation tooling (CNN-LSTM/transformers, CARLA/Isaac Sim, VIO/GTSAM, camera-IMU calibration). Startup-oriented and comfortable moving quickly from prototype to production.”

Tina Nguyen

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in iOS and full-stack development

Sunnyvale, CA3y exp

“Cross-platform (web + mobile) product engineer working on coupon clipping experiences. Built and shipped category-based filtering informed by external market data (Rakuten/Honey) and internal user-journey analytics, validated via A/B testing and resulting in a 30% traffic lift. Experienced handling on-call production incidents, including rapid root-cause analysis and hotfixing a mobile crash that was blocking a release.”

Ali Taquie

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI and FinTech payments

Santa Cruz, CA2y exp

“Forward-deployed software engineer at PayStand who uses LLM prototyping tools (e.g., Cursor, Lovable) to rapidly build customer-specific demo environments and drive sales outcomes—citing ~$100K in technical buy-in before production development. Experienced supporting an enterprise expense management product (Teampay) with agentic AI workflows, emphasizing observability (Grafana/Loki/Tempo) and cross-functional communication with sales, product, developers, and customers.”

Mounika Ravali Vundemodalu

Screened

Junior Front-End Developer specializing in insurance web applications

San Jose, USA3y exp

“Full-stack developer who uses AI selectively for refactoring, regex, API typing, and test scaffolding while maintaining strict manual review for security, correctness, and architectural fit. Recently shipped insurance-related features such as policy issuance and reinstatement, and demonstrated hands-on debugging of async React issues by identifying duplicate fetches in DevTools and fixing them with AbortController.”

“Full-stack and AI product engineer who has shipped both operational SaaS and LLM-powered research tools to production. Built a dispatch optimization system at Quickflora that cut manual effort by ~50%, and also developed grounded RAG and agentic systems using tools like LlamaIndex, Gemini, pgvector, and FastAPI with a strong emphasis on citations, reliability, and practical user workflows.”

“Full-stack engineer who shipped a production "Financial Insight" assistant dashboard in Next.js App Router/TypeScript, integrating a RAG pipeline (embeddings + ChromaDB + LLM) via route handlers and owning post-launch performance (latency, token cost, retrieval relevance). Also built/optimized Postgres-backed workflows for an outbound dialer and callback routing engine handling ~10,000 daily contacts, validating query performance with EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS).”

“Entry-level software engineer who built an agentic AI backend in Python/FastAPI, including APIs for conversation history retrieval and user data storage, and worked through async/concurrency challenges for multiple agents querying simultaneously. Also has practical AWS experience using S3 for static hosting with Lambda and RDS for backend/data access.”

“Built a college AI chatbot during a master’s program, owning the full Python/Flask backend plus Google Gemini integration and a Postgres persistence layer (course info + conversation history), including caching/performance tuning. Also deployed and migrated ETL/ELT workloads from AWS Lambda into Kubernetes/EKS with GitHub Actions-based GitOps CI/CD, IRSA permissions, and Secrets Manager/S3/Postgres connectivity.”

“Early engineer at a fast-growing startup who owned an AI-powered portfolio/site generation workflow end-to-end (frontend in Next.js App Router/TypeScript through backend orchestration). Emphasizes server-first security/performance (Server Components/Actions, revalidation), and production hardening with validation, caching, observability, retries/idempotency, and CI/E2E testing.”

“Full-stack engineer who built an AI-driven document analysis and processing workflow end-to-end, including large-document ingestion, queued async processing, and low-latency retrieval for user-facing flows. Demonstrated practical performance tuning (moving heavy work off request path, polling, caching) and Postgres optimization validated with EXPLAIN ANALYZE, plus durable workflow resilience via retries and dead-letter queues.”

WAYNE WILLIAMS

Screened

Senior Game QA Analyst specializing in functional testing and dev tracking

Foster City, CA22y exp

“Embedded QA analyst at Sledgehammer Games on Call of Duty titles (Modern Warfare 3 and shipped Call of Duty: Vanguard), owning deep testing for campaign maps and Zombies systems. Coordinated cross-studio testing with Treyarch and global QA teams, using JIRA/TestRail dashboards and daily reporting to manage regressions, crashes, and high-risk gameplay features, including platform-specific cert-impacting issues.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer with deep experience building weather and geospatial data systems at WindBorne, spanning Next.js/TypeScript frontends through PostgreSQL, Redis, Sidekiq, Rails, Rust, and object-storage-backed forecast pipelines. Particularly strong in production reliability work—self-healing jobs, zero-downtime migrations, query/index optimization, and event-driven ingestion architectures that reduce latency and operational waste.”

“Robotics engineer who led core autonomy stack development at Spacer Robotics (Isaac ROS/ROS2) spanning sensor integration, SLAM/mapping, navigation, and validation. In a research lab thesis, built three mobile robots from scratch and created a distributed multi-agent collaboration framework with blockchain-based incentive models, demonstrating depth in both hands-on robotics and distributed systems.”

“Full-stack engineer from HPE GreenLake who built and owned a cloud/hypervisor resource management experience end-to-end, including Postgres modeling, typed REST/GraphQL integrations, and resilient provisioning workflows. Drove a centralized Redux-based UI architecture that boosted dev velocity by 50% across 30+ teams, and continued post-launch ownership with DR integrations (AWS/GCP/Azure) plus expanded Cypress testing and observability.”

“Security-focused engineering leader working with an MSP and internal teams to tighten tenant security (least privilege/global admin reduction, conditional access, MFA) while maintaining operational responsiveness. Has implemented and operated Rapid7, Expel, Microsoft Defender/Entra, and Cisco Umbrella, and led a challenging Microsoft Copilot rollout integrating SharePoint and Salesforce with strong Jira/KB/postmortem practices.”