Vetted Engineering Professionals in the Bay Area

Aidan O'Hare

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Junior Robotics & Controls Engineer specializing in SLAM and multi-robot systems

Santa Clara, CA3y exp

“Robotics software engineer with deep ROS/ROS 2 experience spanning both simulation and real hardware. Led a Master’s thesis building a decentralized multi-robot control stack in ROS 2 (Isaac Sim + Nova Carter), implementing nonlinear MPC (casADI) and RRT* planning with SLAM/3D LiDAR, and tackled tricky frame-convention integration issues. Previously built an autonomous quadruped for first responders (PACRR), integrating LiDAR/RGB-D/IMU sensors and tuning navigation behavior through iterative field testing.”

“Full-stack developer who uses AI deliberately rather than blindly, keeping generated code to a minority of core feature work so they retain full understanding of data flow. Built a React/TypeScript + Supabase task management app and shows strong judgment around debugging hallucinated schema/query output, refactoring for maintainability, and prioritizing security and logic over boilerplate speed.”

“Engineer focused on real-time collaborative canvas products and AI-assisted design workflows, with hands-on ownership of both multiplayer infrastructure and LLM-powered generation systems. They combine strong TypeScript/full-stack architecture with production-grade AI evals and observability, and cite meaningful outcomes including zero sync-conflict bugs, rollout to 50,000+ DAUs, and major gains in onboarding speed and engagement.”

“Built a production-grade LLM evaluation and regression system that stress-tests models across hundreds of iterations, combining LLM-as-judge, semantic similarity, statistical metrics, and rule-based checks, with results delivered via stakeholder-friendly HTML reports and dashboards. Experienced orchestrating multi-agent RAG workflows using LangChain/LangGraph and event-driven GenAI pipelines in n8n integrating OCR, speech-to-text, and external APIs, with strong emphasis on reliability, observability, and explainable failures.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-based appointment management agent, implementing RAG with Redis and LangGraph plus multi-agent intent handling and rule-based conflict guardrails to prevent double-booking under high load. Experienced in real-time diagnosis of agentic workflow failures using logs/traces and state inspection, and in driving adoption via interactive developer demos and sales-aligned custom customer scenarios.”

“Backend engineer who built a production retrieval-augmented narrative analysis platform for 100-page screenplays using a Node/Express orchestrator and a Python/FastAPI AI engine, including a key redesign from disk-based uploads to in-memory streaming to eliminate Windows file-lock failures. Also led a refactor of a municipal vehicle tracking system into a C-based distributed engine handling 4M+ daily packets with 99.99% data integrity and automation that reduced manual ops by 50%.”

“Built Python-based data workflow integrations for a Huntsman Cancer Institute research project, focusing on reliable upload, validation, processing, and retrieval of messy research data. Demonstrates strong practical instincts around automation hardening, observability, and translating ambiguous manual processes into structured workflows, including Selenium automation when APIs were unavailable.”

Mohamed Risaldar Uppil Thodi

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Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in real-time systems and backend platforms

San Francisco Bay Area, CA10y exp

“Fullstack engineer with strong experience building real-time, customer-facing products across e-commerce personalization and enterprise monitoring dashboards. Stands out for combining hands-on React/Node/GraphQL development with cloud-edge/WebRTC/WebSocket architecture, while working directly with customers to shape MVPs that achieved strong adoption.”

“Founding engineer at an early-stage agent marketplace who built the core job lifecycle, live run viewer, and LLM-based verification/settlement flow that gated escrow release. Also worked on a multi-agent diagnostic system using a blackboard architecture with specialized models, structured outputs, and human-in-the-loop review—showing unusual depth in both product engineering and applied AI systems.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on production ROS 2 (Humble) systems for warehouse AMRs, with strong architecture and integration chops. Built a ROS 2 Lifecycle-based hardware abstraction layer to decouple autonomy from sensors (including mid-production LiDAR vendor swap), enabling mixed fleets and cutting bring-up/integration time dramatically. Also develops Nav2 plugins, MPPI tuning workflows, and scalable simulation/CI tooling (Gazebo, Docker, GitHub Actions) for high-throughput testing.”

“Built a real-time AI meeting assistant using a Chrome extension that streams audio to a backend LLM workflow with transcription and RAG, then hardened it for production with queue-based streaming, async pipelines, security controls, and full observability. Also has hands-on startup sales experience, partnering with customers to define measurable technical win conditions (latency/accuracy) to close deals and drive adoption.”

“Full-stack engineer operating in early-stage, high-velocity environments (OpGov.AI/UST Calibrate) who ships production Next.js App Router features end-to-end (RSC, Server Actions, SEO, RBAC, caching) and owns performance post-launch. Demonstrates strong data/infra depth—designed Postgres JSONB-based event models for DevOps/DORA analytics and tuned queries from ~2s to <50ms, plus built durable ingestion workflows with retries and idempotency on Azure.”

Ashutosh Talwalkar

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in frontend and full-stack SaaS platforms

Santa Clara, CA7y exp

“Frontend-focused product engineer who owned the Quickwork automation platform’s architecture from 0 to 1, including a major migration from a monolithic frontend to microfrontends with Module Federation. Particularly strong in complex operational UX: real-time execution monitoring, analytics dashboards, API contract design, and performance-sensitive React/TypeScript systems for B2B SaaS workflows.”