Vetted Engineering Professionals in California

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.”

“Software engineering capstone contributor who helped kickstart an ambiguous, real-client project ("The Virtual Cowboy") by designing the initial relational database and CRUD foundation, then prioritized and shipped simulation/event functionality that satisfied the client. Also building a personal full-stack Book Notes web app (Node/Express/Postgres) with Google OAuth via Passport and a books API ingestion flow focused on data quality and reliability; has deployment experience with Heroku and PythonAnywhere and is ramping up on AWS.”

“Product-focused full-stack engineer with strong performance and reliability instincts: improved production page responsiveness by 15% via lazy loading and render optimization, and built a polished React+TypeScript filtering dashboard with URL-synced state for shareable views. Also designed and operated a Django REST backend with versioning, token auth, structured logging, and API tests, and has handled real production scaling issues through PostgreSQL query-plan analysis and indexing.”

Thota Rajkumar

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Junior Cloud & AI Infrastructure Engineer specializing in Agentic AI and AWS

San Jose, CA2y exp

“Built and deployed a production AI career-advice agent designed to combat unreliable/generic LLM guidance by grounding outputs in retrieval-first RAG over resumes/job/hiring data, with multi-step reasoning, structured memory, and evidence-only prompting to reduce hallucinations. Implemented the system with LangChain/Python and deployed on AWS as scalable microservices orchestrated via REST and asynchronous calls, iterating closely with career coaches and students.”

Zaid Kamil

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Mid-level XR Software Engineer specializing in real-time AR/VR digital twins

Los Angeles, CA8y exp

“Built and owned an end-to-end real-time IoT telemetry backend that powers a digital twin experience on a Meta Quest headset, integrating Cisco LoRaWAN sensors and external REST data sources. Migrated from Azure Functions to a FastAPI service to overcome firewall constraints, add caching/fallback reliability, and significantly reduce operating cost while improving performance and evolvability.”

Asad Abdul

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Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in AI-driven cloud-native applications

Laguna Niguel, CA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with healthcare/ops analytics experience at PatientXpress, shipping a real-time operational dashboard end-to-end (React/TypeScript + Node/Postgres on AWS) that cut manual reporting by 50%. Strong in performance and reliability work—pagination/caching, Postgres indexing/partitioning, Terraform-based AWS provisioning, CI/CD with GitHub Actions, and production incident response with improved monitoring (CloudWatch/Prometheus).”

Bryant Conti

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Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in React/Node.js and backend APIs

Los Angeles, CA4y exp

“Built and deployed a production Incident Tracking System using Next.js (App Router) + TypeScript with Postgres (Neon) and Prisma, including RBAC (User/Support/Admin), tickets/comments, and audit logging. Uses Zod for schema/type validation and relies on Chrome/React DevTools to debug and refine UI/UX and performance.”

Zoe Meng

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Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in React, Node.js, GraphQL, and TypeScript

Richmond, CA6y exp

“Full-stack engineer experienced in high-growth (seed to Series B/C) SaaS environments, with strong production ownership across performance, observability, and reliability. Has shipped Next.js App Router/TypeScript features and improved real-world UX metrics (e.g., virtualization boosting scroll from 30→60 FPS and reducing mobile bounce), optimized Postgres with indexing/EXPLAIN ANALYZE, and built idempotent payment/provisioning workflows using Temporal.”

“Led a government smart city deployment where success depended less on pure engineering and more on navigating policy, budget, and operational constraints. Built phased, cost-conscious systems combining data pipelines, on-prem AI, OCR, and human-in-the-loop workflows to deliver stable production outcomes and make ambiguous real-world data more controllable at scale.”

“Full-stack engineer who built WordCon, an AI-powered vocabulary learning platform, end-to-end across React/Next.js, Python, AWS, and GenAI services. Particularly strong at turning ambiguous AI product ideas into structured, scalable systems by combining deterministic learning logic with LLM-powered personalization, and has additional experience modernizing legacy PHP systems into React/Node architectures.”

“Master's student who built and owned a recruiter-focused full-stack dashboard with real-time updates, large candidate datasets, and performance-sensitive React UI workflows. Stands out for practical front-end optimization work using Chrome DevTools, CSS/rendering fixes, and TypeScript to improve speed, usability, and maintainability.”