Vetted Engineering Professionals in the Bay Area

“University Rover Competition autonomous-systems lead who architects and debugs a full ROS 2 autonomy stack (Nav2, vSLAM, EKF fusion) and backs it with strong engineering hygiene (Docker + GitHub Actions CI running headless Gazebo and colcon tests). Also has industry-facing ROS 2 hardware integration experience, building a ros2_control plugin for a Unitree G1 arm using CycloneDDS and optimizing real-time behavior via QoS tuning.”

Tiffany Utvaer Gasser

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Mid-level Software Developer specializing in FinTech

Foster City, CA4y exp

“Software engineer with experience in a large financial institution, including ownership of an internal queue-based service and upgrades to an online credit dispute flow. Stands out for combining backend reliability work, stakeholder collaboration with bank operations staff, and a pragmatic focus on validation, monitoring, and developer experience.”

“Backend Python engineer who built core services for a telecom automation engine monitoring thousands of routers in real time and auto-generating support tickets. As the sole Intelygenz engineer on the project, they diagnosed a costly Terraform/GitLab CI/CD resource-leak issue in AWS and implemented a cleanup redesign that eliminated orphaned resources and reduced client cloud spend. Also shipped applied-AI ticket triage suggestions via API integration and built an end-to-end Gmail-to-ticket ingestion workflow.”

“Full-stack engineer from Vagaro who owned an end-to-end rebuild of a sluggish WordPress sales site into a Next.js 15 app hosted on Azure, adding Hygraph headless CMS, SSR, i18n, and a reusable component library. Instrumented Amplitude + A/B testing/heatmaps and reports a 10% sales lift post-launch; also has AWS ops experience (S3/IAM/CloudWatch) and has built ingestion pipelines including LLM-powered unstructured data processing with dead-letter handling.”

“Backend-focused Python engineer who has owned production FastAPI services deployed on Kubernetes, including CI/CD (GitLab CI to ECR) and GitOps delivery via ArgoCD/Helm. Has hands-on experience with complex reliability and infrastructure work—solving data inconsistency with validation/partial-data paths, fixing K8s liveness issues via lazy loading, and supporting a phased cloud-to-on-prem migration with dual-writes and monitoring. Also built Kafka-based real-time ingestion consumers handling bursty, high-throughput traffic with async processing and topic/retention tuning.”

Austin Near

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and backend systems

Santa Clara, CA3y exp

“Full-stack JavaScript developer in small-company environments building PCB manufacturing web tooling. Owned and delivered blob-storage upload/download infrastructure (including an internal developer library) and a training/compliance tracking tool. Implemented secure, broadly compatible SSO for a customer portal under a <1 month deadline tied to an 8-figure customer deal, despite having no prior authentication experience.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered email automation agent for procurement that ingests emails/attachments, classifies requests via rules+embeddings+LLM fallback, enriches responses with SAP inventory data, and generates templated replies. Architected it as an event-driven, idempotent Azure Functions/Queues pipeline with schema-constrained outputs, confidence gating, retries/circuit breakers, and Application Insights monitoring—cutting turnaround time from 4–7 days to near real-time while maintaining zero downtime.”

Shady Alzayat

Screened

Executive engineering leader and full-stack builder specializing in platforms, payments, and healthcare

San Francisco, CA20y exp

“Serial entrepreneur building appetier.com, an agentic restaurant marketing and ecommerce automation platform for restaurants. Previously raised for Atlas Mental Health and brings thoughtful fundraising perspective centered on investor alignment, GTM partnership, and vertical SaaS/SMB infrastructure expertise.”

“Engineer with a mature, agent-oriented approach to AI-driven software development, using structured planning, TDD, and verification loops rather than ad hoc prompting. Has hands-on experience acting as a tech lead for multiple AI agents in an LLM intelligent routing project, coordinating implementation, testing, debugging, and edge-case review with strong attention to system tradeoffs.”

“Full-stack developer who has built and shipped both traditional web products and AI-powered applications, including a Spotify playlist-combining app, a recruiter-facing RAG chatbot embedded in a portfolio, and a fine-tuned GPT-2 art review generator. Stands out for combining privacy-conscious engineering, practical LLM guardrails, and scrappy production problem-solving—from queue-based inference systems to newsroom digital transformation with multi-tenant WordPress.”

“JavaScript engineer and open-source contributor focused on runtime performance, reliability, and developer experience—refactored a widely used client-side API/state library to improve concurrent request handling, error consistency, and UI performance while adding tests and documentation. Also owned improvements to a core microservice at Velsa integrating multiple hospital systems, bringing structure to ambiguous priorities and delivering stability and performance gains from design through deployment.”

“Customer-facing technical specialist with experience spanning regulated Class II/III medical devices (FDA compliance, firmware vulnerability escalation) and large-scale industrial/energy deployments. Known for rigorous troubleshooting using logs/network traces and tight documentation/escalation in Salesforce, plus repeatable onboarding and integration practices (API into CI/CD, secrets via env vars, container standardization).”

“Software engineer who shipped an end-to-end internal workforce dashboard at Northwestern Mutual, spanning Spring Boot APIs, PostgreSQL schema/query optimization, and a React + TypeScript UI with role-based access and filtering. Has hands-on production experience deploying via GitHub Actions CI/CD to AWS (Docker, EC2, RDS) and resolving performance incidents by tuning database queries and indexes.”

prashansa chaudhary

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native data platforms and AI apps

Redwood City, CA4y exp

“Software engineer who has owned customer-facing/internal platforms end-to-end, emphasizing fast iteration through small releases backed by monitoring and rollback safety. Built SurveyAI with reusable React/TypeScript components and a stateless Node.js REST backend with clear API contracts/validation, and created an internal Airflow + AWS Lambda automation tool integrated with Slack alerts to reduce manual work and improve response time.”

Ron Lei

Screened

Junior QA Automation Engineer specializing in Playwright E2E and API testing

San Francisco, CA3y exp

“QA automation-focused engineer who hardens production CI/CD by integrating and stabilizing end-to-end automated tests (tackling async UI flakiness, resilient assertions/selectors, and controlled test data). Demonstrates strong cross-layer troubleshooting by correlating logs and system metrics to resolve intermittent service reachability, then adding monitoring/alerts and documentation. Also partners directly with operators to improve real-world workflows by enhancing validation logic and error messaging.”

“Built a semantic search portal for a fellowship department and an AI-driven PR review pipeline, using AI selectively for boilerplate while retaining full ownership of architecture, security review, testing, and deployment. Has hands-on experience with multi-agent systems, monitoring, and security validation, with a notably disciplined approach to catching false positives and rewriting weak AI output.”

Julian Thong

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in FinTech platforms

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Senior software engineer with deep experience in private markets platforms, spanning full-stack product development and complex backend modernization. Notably helped migrate a core IOI processing system from a Rails monolith to .NET microservices with Kafka-based event sequencing, and contributed to an Offerings platform that drove 50% faster transactions for investors and operations teams.”

Dishank Kailash Oza

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in distributed cloud systems

Santa Clara, CA3y exp

“Engineer with a thoughtful, production-oriented approach to AI-assisted development, including multi-agent workflows for planning, coding, review, testing, and debugging. Stands out for treating AI systems like distributed pipelines with explicit interfaces, validation layers, and guardrails to improve reliability and reduce hallucinations.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience spanning React/TypeScript frontends, Node.js backend services, and production systems on AWS. They’ve built real-time, event-driven inventory workflows using PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, and Keycloak, and also drove a multi-agent LangGraph architecture for a self-healing systems project evaluated on simulated Kubernetes outages.”

“Hands-on AI/LLM practitioner who built a RAG-based customer support chatbot and tackled production issues like data chunking complexity and response-time lag. Uses techniques such as overlapping chunks, semantic search, context engineering, and query routing, and has experience presenting technical demos/workshops to developer audiences.”

“Field Application Engineer with a unique background as a former primary school teacher (6 years), leveraging strong communication to translate complex networking/AI concepts for customers. Has supported network analytics/ML platforms with LLM-powered recommendations, using sandbox reproduction and Kibana log analysis to troubleshoot issues. Experienced partnering with sales/CPM and third-party vendors to resolve data center deployment blockers (AI servers and cooling systems).”

Vidit Naik

Screened

Junior AI/ML & Full-Stack Engineer specializing in LLMs and RAG systems

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“Forward-deployed engineer who built a production AI drone-control chatbot that lets users fly a drone via natural language while viewing a real-time feed. Implemented RAG over drone SDK documentation (vector DB + top-k retrieval) and LoRA fine-tuning, with a focus on latency, token efficiency, and cost reduction, and regularly works with non-technical clients to integrate and explain AI system architecture.”

Utkarsh Aman

Screened

Senior Frontend Engineer specializing in scalable consumer apps and micro frontends

San Francisco, California7y exp

“Frontend engineer focused on React/TypeScript dashboards for manufacturing-cycle analytics (downtime/wait time/cycle time). Has hands-on experience building reusable charting components (JSON-to-graph) with React ECharts, scaling data flows with Redux/RTK Query, and refactoring monolithic UI code into modular components while shipping on a ~3-week release cadence.”