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.”

Divya Patel

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in .NET and CMS platforms

Fremont, CA6y exp

“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.”

Nechar KC

Screened

Entry-level AI Engineer specializing in full-stack LLM applications

Hayward, CA1y exp

“Built an AI-powered lecture-to-notes web app from personal pain at university, combining Spring Boot, React, PostgreSQL, and Python AI services for transcription and summarization. Also led architecture for FishBowl, a multi-agent Shark Tank-style pitch practice tool using GPT-4o, Perplexity, and ElevenLabs that won 1st place in the AI & Entrepreneurship track at HackHayward.”

“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.”

“Hands-on builder who has shipped multiple self-directed Python automations, including a PySide6 desktop app that uses LLMs for job search and resume matching, plus AWS-hosted notification workflows and Chromium-based browser automation. Particularly interesting for roles involving AI integrations, automation, and reliability work because they speak concretely about schema drift, hallucination mitigation, observability, threading, and flaky auth/session handling.”