Vetted Engineering Professionals in the Bay Area

Hiya Kothari

Screened

Intern Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and cloud

San Francisco, CA3y exp

“Built a Python-based geospatial machine learning backend for PFAS contamination risk mapping, including reproducible feature pipelines, ensemble modeling, and a FastAPI layer for visualization/analysis. Emphasizes data integrity and robustness (CRS/coverage checks, fail-fast validation) and has led safe backend refactors using feature flags, idempotent backfills, and Postgres RLS for secure, queryable results delivery.”

Saniya Athani

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native DevOps and GenAI

San Francisco Bay Area, CA2y exp

“Cloud-focused engineer with hands-on experience deploying production cloud-native REST APIs on AWS using Pulumi IaC, containerization, and CI/CD, with strong emphasis on secure credential management and operational monitoring via CloudWatch. Also has IoT troubleshooting experience across edge hardware constraints and networking (TLS handshake failures), plus Python-based configurable data-processing tools and customer-facing requirements translation.”

Yash De

Screened

Intern Full-Stack Developer specializing in AI/LLM applications

San Jose, CA3y exp

“Backend-focused intern who built and refactored the backend for an LLM-driven gifting mobile app using FastAPI, tackling high-latency LLM + product-API workflows. Implemented async worker-pool/queue processing with Redis caching plus retries/fallbacks, cutting end-to-end suggestion latency from ~4–5 seconds to ~1 second while improving reliability and rollout safety via staged migrations and testing.”

Brian Mar

Screened

Senior Data Engineer specializing in data infrastructure and marketing/CRM analytics

San Mateo, CA8y exp

“Salesforce-focused implementation/solutions engineer from Full Circle Insights who owned end-to-end campaign attribution and reporting deployments for multiple customers at once (3–5 concurrently), including sandbox testing, KPI monitoring, and rollback-safe migrations from legacy reporting. Also builds personal multi-agent workflows and uses Claude Code to rapidly scaffold data/analytics scripts like an advertising optimization parser over CSV/XLSX inputs.”

Tyler Moon

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in medical device and embedded systems

Sunnyvale, CA5y exp

“Software engineer from Abbott with hands-on experience building internal medical device engineering tools in MFC/C++/C#, including a reusable Trim Converter that automated manual workflows. Strong in modular architecture, asynchronous device communication, and iterating with users to improve reliability and workflow fit, now targeting fullstack engineering roles despite limited React/TypeScript production experience.”

“Yogesh is an AI/full-stack engineer from LangChain who says he was the sole developer and core maintainer of OpenSWE/OpenSpeed, an asynchronous coding agent in LangSmith Cloud that turns requests from Slack, Linear, and GitHub into reviewable PRs. He emphasizes production-grade agent infrastructure: event-driven workflow design, typed run states, observability, retries, and latency improvements via pre-warmed sandboxes.”

“Cloud/Kubernetes-focused engineer with production ownership in multi-account AWS environments (GE) and EKS-based platforms (Lumeus.ai). Strong in incident response and reliability—diagnosed IAM-driven serverless failures (SQS/Lambda) and Kubernetes deployment issues (CrashLoopBackOff, memory pressure) with rollbacks, policy fixes, and improved monitoring. Built secure Jenkins CI/CD and delivered infrastructure via CloudFormation and Terraform for serverless and EKS stacks.”

Michael Chaves

Screened

Senior Creative Technologist & Full-Stack UX Engineer specializing in Generative AI and XR

Los Altos, CA12y exp

“Design engineer/product designer who built an end-to-end creator + review/moderation system for a UGC platform, spanning automated checks, human QA, final review, and creator feedback. Comfortable working directly with HTML/CSS/TypeScript and component systems, using prototyping and field observation to reduce reviewer hesitation, improve consistency, and prevent creator errors upstream.”

Smriti Rai

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in backend APIs and distributed systems

Sunnyvale, CA4y exp

“JavaScript engineer with Walmart experience contributing to the Yup validation library—reproduced a nested-object validation bug, fixed merge logic, and added test coverage. Strong in systematic debugging/performance isolation (DevTools + timing logs), plus end-to-end ownership including documentation, monitoring, and issue triage.”

William Goff

Screened

Principal Software Engineer specializing in MongoDB and Java platforms

San Mateo, CA10y exp

“Government and defense software architect with a track record of building mission-critical systems from prototype to long-lived production. Most notably designed Banyan at Fort Meade, a federated SOA platform that achieved 99.9999 uptime and handled 3.2 million daily queries, and later built SBOM automation at Lockheed Martin that was contributed back to the CycloneDX open source ecosystem.”

“Software engineer who recently shipped an authentication and role-based access feature for a web app, using AI selectively for boilerplate, debugging, and test suggestions while retaining ownership of architecture, security, testing, and final review. Stands out for a disciplined, security-first approach to AI-assisted development and a pragmatic preference for lightweight API-driven solutions over unnecessary framework complexity.”

Janki Mehta

Screened

Senior Frontend React Developer specializing in scalable web applications

Fremont, CA10y exp

“Frontend-focused product engineer in healthcare who has owned patient/provider scheduling experiences end-to-end, from product requirements and API design through React implementation, deployment, and post-launch measurement. Particularly strong in real-time operational dashboards, performance optimization, and cross-functional work with backend and product teams on complex scheduling workflows.”

“Frontend/product engineer with strong Angular and TypeScript experience who has owned internal products like a configuration-driven reporting platform and bulk-operation workflows end to end. Stands out for combining product ownership, backend/API collaboration, and AI-powered analytics work, including a Gemini-based sentiment dashboard that helps the business mine user feedback for retention and subscription insights.”

Shreya Kamath

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI-powered web platforms

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“Full-stack engineer with a strong blend of fintech and applied AI experience, having built a Stripe-based payments platform end to end and shipped an AI meeting intelligence system using LiveKit, Deepgram, and OpenAI. Particularly compelling for teams needing someone who can design reliable backend systems, productionize LLM features, and operate effectively in early-stage, ambiguous environments.”

“Paystand engineer/intern who built a multi-agent LLM orchestration system (with logging/feedback loops) that became part of the team workflow and reportedly cut development time ~70%. Partnered with sales/product on enterprise demos and implemented a dynamic RBAC system that helped drive adoption of an intern-built product to multiple enterprise clients, contributing to seven-figure ARR. Also founded and pitched a student-entrepreneur business management/payments project (HustleHub) and won a university startup competition.”

“Backend engineer from Optum who built and optimized a real-time, Kafka-driven healthcare claims processing platform handling 1M+ claims/month. Strong in reliability, state management, and observability for distributed systems, plus production deployment automation with Docker/Kubernetes and CI/CD; no direct ROS/robotics simulator experience yet but frames work in robotics-adjacent real-time principles.”

“AppSec-focused engineer from Kaiser Permanente who advises on authentication/API security, performs lightweight threat modeling, and integrates SAST + dependency scanning into CI/CD while actively reducing false positives to improve release speed. Demonstrated strong troubleshooting using logs/traces/metrics (e.g., diagnosing auth failures caused by clock skew) and communicates security tradeoffs differently for engineering vs product stakeholders.”

“QA/project leader with ~19 years experience running high-profile, multi-million-dollar software initiatives and driving quality through disciplined milestone gates (Alpha/Beta/FC/GM), regression planning, and weekly bug scrubs. JIRA-centric practitioner (Zephyr/Confluence) who partners closely with engineering, automation, documentation, marketing, and sustaining teams—including offshore collaboration—to unblock testers and improve diagnostics for difficult issues like memory leaks.”

“QA/automation engineer with hands-on experience spanning web UI automation (Cypress/JavaScript) and hardware/firmware validation (BIOS/BMC, FPGA). Has delivered high-impact reliability and throughput improvements in server/HPC environments, including automation that enabled booting across ~250 servers and requirement clarification that unblocked firmware work for ~550 servers.”

Tejas Kolpek

Screened

Mid-level Solutions Architect/Engineer specializing in AI and data integrations

Mountain View, CA5y exp

“Solutions Engineer specializing in taking LLM copilots from demo to production, with a strong emphasis on enterprise security (RBAC/OAuth), grounded RAG behavior (cite-or-refuse), and operational readiness (eval loops, logging, runbooks). Experienced in real-time diagnosis of agentic/LLM workflow failures and in partnering with Sales/CS to run integration-first POCs that clear security and reliability concerns and accelerate rollout.”

Rajesh Sivakumar

Screened

Senior Software Engineering Manager specializing in cloud-native distributed systems (FinTech & Healthcare)

San Francisco, CA26y exp

“Engineering leader/player-coach who has led 40+ developers across multiple teams on large financial services web applications (Wells Fargo) and previously delivered a banking mobile app MVP in 6 months with a junior team by setting patterns and CI/CD foundations. Strong in production reliability practices (Splunk monitoring, feature flags, throttled rollouts) and has driven measurable quality/velocity wins, including a 60% faster E2E test framework and a rapid 2-day hotfix during a React 16→18 migration.”

“Full-stack engineer who has owned an operations/reporting dashboard end-to-end, spanning React/TypeScript frontend architecture, ASP.NET Core APIs, and SQL data access. Stands out for combining strong UI performance optimization with pragmatic backend decisions, post-launch monitoring, and 0→1 startup platform building that improved API speed by 35% while supporting 2,000+ transactions per hour.”

“Frontend-focused engineer who built an expense management solution inside Microsoft Teams using React and Formily, modernizing reimbursement workflows that handle ~20,000 approvals per year. Demonstrated practical debugging and reliability improvements (stabilized multi-attachment uploads via event-binding investigation and hash-map-based targeting) and delivered ~30% performance gains by changing data structures, while coordinating stakeholders and team resources during quarter-end pressure.”

“Game-studio QA tester with full lifecycle experience (feature kickoff through release/live updates), strong in structured test planning, edge-case discovery, and disciplined defect tracking. Partners closely with engineers via Jira/standups, providing detailed repro steps, logs, and evidence, and builds regression coverage to prevent recurring UI/data-loss issues.”