Vetted Engineering Professionals in California

“Software engineer with experience across edtech, live gaming, and an AI document intelligence platform, delivering end-to-end customer-facing features and production backends. Built secure, automated live-session scheduling integrating Zoom and TalentLMS (JWT/RBAC, idempotency, transactions) cutting setup time from ~3 minutes to under 1 minute, and optimized real-time gaming dashboards/APIs with query tuning, caching, and CDN improvements (~60% latency reduction under peak load) on AWS.”

“Software engineer who built an AI marketing/outreach agent end-to-end: Next.js (App Router + TypeScript) frontend integrated with a Python/Django REST backend using LLMs (Gemini, ChatGPT-4o) and SQL databases. Demonstrated measurable performance wins—improved a 100k-record UI by 15% (Lighthouse) and cut a Postgres-backed search API from ~3s to ~1ms via indexing—while also owning post-launch monitoring (webhooks/cron, New Relic/CloudWatch) and customer support.”

Ram Abhinav Vedant Madabushi

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Junior Full-Stack/AI Engineer specializing in web platforms and LLM applications

Palo Alto, CA2y exp

“Backend engineer from FoodSupply.ai who built and evolved a scalable restaurant/supplier product and order management platform using Node.js and REST APIs. Implemented a hybrid MySQL+MongoDB data architecture, optimized performance with Redis/Prisma, and led a phased migration with feature flags and a temporary sync layer to maintain data consistency. Strong focus on production security (OAuth2, RBAC, row-level security, AWS IAM) and reliability practices (testing with Pytest, Docker/AWS pipelines).”

Victoria Magaziner

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Senior QA Automation Engineer specializing in end-to-end test automation for FinTech and automotive platforms

Los Angeles, CA9y exp

“QA Engineer with 8 years owning end-to-end quality on high-traffic, live fintech and automotive platforms (Fuse Autotech), specializing in critical financial and e-signing workflows. Combines API testing (Postman), log observability (Kibana/Logz.io), and disciplined Jira/Xray processes to accelerate triage and shorten release cycles (1 week to 3 days) while reducing production issues and integration/regression defects with measurable impact.”

Haider Zahoor

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Mid-level Game/Software Engineer specializing in Unity & Unreal cross-platform development

San Jose, California6y exp

“Unity/VR developer who has shipped on Meta Quest (SideQuest) and built standalone PCVR medical applications used with real patients. Built a fully solo roguelike twin-stick shooter with a highly modular ScriptableObject/state-machine architecture, including custom build-time tooling to overcome Unity runtime constraints. Uses AI selectively (e.g., Claude) to generate editor tooling like a match-3 level designer to speed up level production.”

“Software engineer with hands-on experience spanning backend APIs, streaming data systems, and cloud/infrastructure automation, who is already using agentic AI workflows in a disciplined way. Stands out for combining practical systems work in Spring Boot, Kafka/Spark/ClickHouse, and Terraform/Kubernetes with a thoughtful approach to AI oversight, architecture, and multi-agent orchestration.”

Maksym Polinka

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Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in modern frontend web applications

San Francisco, CA5y exp

“Frontend-focused product engineer with strong depth in observability and real-time systems, spanning Kloudfuse and PipeIQ. They’ve built high-performance latency heatmaps and data-dense operational dashboards for large-scale telemetry, while also shaping WebSocket streaming contracts, integration architecture, and even AWS infrastructure decisions beyond a traditional frontend scope.”

Shuchi Shah

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in Applied AI and FinTech

San Jose, CA12y exp

“Backend engineer with experience building an end-to-end civic tech AI platform that ingests city council meeting videos, transcribes them with Whisper, and enables natural-language Q&A via a LangChain/FAISS RAG pipeline. Demonstrated strong systems thinking by tuning retrieval for accuracy/latency/memory (cutting response time ~3s→1s and memory ~500MB→25MB) and by safely migrating an ERP from monolith toward services using dual writes, reconciliation, and idempotency to protect financial workflows.”

“Backend-focused engineer with 7+ years of experience building cloud-native, distributed SaaS systems in startup-like environments, including healthcare and enterprise automation platforms. Strong in Go/Python microservices, event-driven architectures, and production AI/LLM integration, with hands-on experience scaling Kubernetes-based systems on AWS while balancing speed, reliability, and evolving product requirements.”

“Full-stack/backend-heavy engineer with strong healthcare domain expertise, focused on modernizing regulated platforms for payroll, billing, and caregiver operations. Notably led a legacy Express.js billing platform migration to modular NestJS services that enabled same-day deployments and unblocked enterprise customer onboarding, while bringing deep experience in compliance, auditability, and production reliability.”

Hannah Aron

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Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in Python web and cloud applications

Hayward, CA8y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong Python/React experience who has built systems from scratch, including a custom POS platform as the sole initial engineer. They also bring applied experience across IoT reward platforms, HR matching/search systems, and LLM-powered automation products, with a track record of improving reliability and speed through thoughtful architecture decisions.”

“Software engineer with hands-on production experience deploying Spring Boot services to AWS using Docker and Jenkins CI/CD, focused on stable releases, easy rollback, and performance improvements through monitoring/logging and query optimization. Has proven cross-layer troubleshooting skills (identified packet loss causing intermittent timeouts via network traces) and experience collaborating on-site with operators in industrial/IoT-style environments, including working alongside robotics/PLC teams.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-powered customer support system using a RAG architecture with structured document ingestion, embedding retrieval, and prompt templates for product-specific grounding. Experienced diagnosing live agent/workflow failures (e.g., retrieval regressions after new docs) by refactoring ingestion/chunking and adding grounding constraints plus evaluation benchmarks. Also supports go-to-market by joining discovery calls, shaping MVP workflows into demos/prototypes, and creating post-launch documentation to drive adoption.”

“Software engineer (internship experience) who built and owned an AWS serverless multi-user “challenge” feature end-to-end (UI + REST APIs + DynamoDB + deployment), delivering measurable gains in latency (-30%), debugging time (-50%), and join drop-offs (~-30%). Also productionized a multilingual RAG-based QA system with vector retrieval and guardrails, improving accuracy to ~85% and driving ~20% DAU growth.”

Dhruv Bansal

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Intern Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and distributed data pipelines

San Francisco, CA1y exp

“LLM engineer with production experience building end-to-end document processing workflows that unify layout analysis, OCR, and downstream LLM reasoning. Has implemented reliability features (retries, robust error handling, OpenTelemetry logging) and built agentic systems using LangChain/CrewAI, including a student research-paper assistant, while collaborating closely with PMs and non-technical end users to reduce technical debt and simplify architectures.”

Vinicius Leite

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Staff/Lead Game Engineer specializing in gameplay systems and VR

Los Angeles, USA22y exp

“Unity gameplay programmer with hands-on multiplayer networking experience (Photon Fusion, Mirror, SmartFox, Unity networking), including client-side prediction and rollback to smooth networked movement under lag/packet loss. Recently improved a fast-paced 2D platformer’s feel by adding momentum/velocity “gears,” validated through internal cohorts and volunteer/friends-and-family playtests. Comfortable in both startup and large-company environments and currently seeking a high-impact, intensive project.”

Tanvi Kulkarni

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Intern Full-Stack Engineer specializing in Java, React, and cloud-native backend systems

Santa Clara, CA1y exp

“Frontend-focused engineer with startup experience (SmartPath, OPC AI) who owned and evolved an internal React/TypeScript component library treated like OSS—refactoring core form and API wrapper modules for stability, type safety, and smaller bundles. Comfortable diagnosing production issues via logs/API traces and shipping end-to-end fixes with tests and documentation, including internal workshops to drive adoption.”

Revanth P

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Mid-level DevOps Engineer specializing in AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and GenAI infrastructure

Walnut Creek, CA4y exp

“Database/platform engineer with stronger hands-on experience in AWS and Azure than GCP, but able to speak credibly about cloud database architecture, automation, and reliability engineering. They led an on-prem MySQL to RDS/DynamoDB migration, built Terraform/Python-based zero-touch database operations, and described a performance incident where latency dropped from 2s to under 300ms while supporting 2x traffic.”

Trace Hernandez

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Mid-level Software Automation Engineer specializing in AI and healthcare IT

Santa Rosa, CA5y exp

“Built production automation systems spanning Python integrations, analytics sync pipelines, and internal workflow apps. Notably automated an architectural site inspection process end-to-end with an app, database, and letter generation engine that reduced workload by 20%, and improved reliability of a Botpress/Supabase/Airtable cron integration by eliminating recurring rate-limit failures through batching.”

Antonio Walker

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Senior Technical Lead and Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud, AI, and enterprise platforms

Irvine, CA13y exp

“Engineering leader and player-coach who says he joined Freeing Returns during a transition from sales-led services to SaaS, architected the platform from the ground up, and helped hire a 10+ person team across engineering, product, and delivery. He also describes leading an AI-based fraud detection system on Salesforce with data lake and pipeline architecture, combining startup build-from-scratch execution with hands-on technical leadership.”

SIVA RAMAKRISHNA PALADI

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Mid-level AI/Full-Stack Engineer specializing in agentic AI and RAG systems

Santa Clara, CA5y exp

“Solo builder who shipped two ambitious AI products from scratch: Zoly, a healthcare/pharmacy automation platform with voice agents, RAG, clinician dashboard, and patient app live in 4 months, and Breeth, a contextual memory system for AI agents deployed on AWS. Particularly compelling for teams needing a hands-on full-stack/AI engineer who can operate in ambiguity, design for safety and compliance, and turn complex agent workflows into production products.”

“Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer who owned end-to-end delivery for a high-traffic e-commerce web app (millions of monthly users), spanning UI enhancements, performance work, and third-party recommendation API integrations. Built a NestJS microservice integrated with Shopify to tag products (e.g., low stock/sale) and used queuing to handle high-volume order processing, plus created an internal CI/GitHub tool to surface test failures quickly.”

“Backend engineer at PlatePost who built an AI-driven food pairing/recommendation feature for restaurants using Google Gemini, shipping quickly by caching results with a 24-hour refresh and manual override. Emphasizes practical reliability/security patterns (logging, error handling, tenant-scoped queries) and proactively caught an accessibility issue via screen reader testing.”