Vetted Engineering Professionals in the Bay Area

“Built and shipped an AI-powered journaling app feature that analyzes user text for emotions in real time, owning everything from React/TypeScript UX (dynamic theming + Framer Motion) to a FastAPI backend integrating Hugging Face. Has hands-on production experience deploying Dockerized services on AWS (EC2/RDS/S3/CloudWatch) with GitHub Actions CI/CD, and resolved a real latency/scaling incident by converting blocking external API calls to async with retries/timeouts.”

“Software engineer with hands-on hardware/software crossover work: led an EMG circuit project using PSpice simulation and MATLAB-based data processing. Also contributed to an agriculture research computer-vision effort (hens/eggs tracking), building a PyTorch inference program and boosting model accuracy by ~10–20%, plus limited ROS 2 Humble exposure on an autonomous EV model with LiDAR/camera detection.”

“Built and owned end-to-end systems for the Department of Water Resources and NAHC, including a debt infrastructure management system and a TypeScript/React + .NET 6 CMS. Strong in shipping quickly with quality (CI/CD, automated testing), optimizing SQL Server performance for large datasets, and implementing microservices-style async processing with reliability patterns (retries/idempotency/monitoring). Also delivered widely adopted internal workflow automation and reporting using Power Automate and Power BI.”

“IT helpdesk/support professional in an education environment with strong experience deploying software via MDM to faculty/staff and students, validating installs, and recommending practical workflow solutions (e.g., iPad PDF annotation to Google Drive). Comfortable troubleshooting live operational issues like A/V failures and copier outages, and motivated by improving real-world usability over flashy but poorly designed tools.”

“Application security engineer/advisor with hands-on experience securing AWS-based, containerized services and embedding SAST/DAST/SCA and container scanning into GitHub/GitLab CI/CD. Drove measurable outcomes (50% faster vuln triage, 40% fewer misconfigs) and has deep operational troubleshooting experience in Kubernetes (agent failures due to CPU throttling/network policies), plus pragmatic strategies to reduce developer friction and handle API rate limits.”

“Built and deployed an AI customer representative for iCore used at the IEE convention (2025), serving 100+ users in a day; implemented RAG with a vector database and scaled reliability via Docker and Google Cloud. Also has hands-on experience with multiple agent orchestration stacks (LangChain/LangGraph, Google AI Agent Development Kit, OpenAI SDK, Composio) and has delivered stakeholder-driven apps using prototyping and MVP scoping.”

“LLM/AI backend engineer with hands-on experience taking customer LLM prototypes into production using FastAPI, containerization, CI/CD, and OpenTelemetry-based observability. Demonstrated measurable impact by cutting LLM costs ~40% and reducing workflow errors ~50% through schema-enforced outputs, better tool definitions, retries, and prompt/model optimization; also supports pre-sales via technical discovery and rapid integration demos.”