Vetted Engineering Professionals in California

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on experience building autonomy features across perception, planning, and systems integration—most notably for an autonomous lunar rover that detects and geometrically models craters to plan terrain manipulation. Also owned development of an autonomous stair-climbing module for a quadruped robot as an intern, and has real-time motion-planning/IK debugging experience on a Franka Panda using RGB-D (RealSense).”

“Built and productionized an LLM-enabled system visualization web app at Longshot, designed modularly to pivot quickly to a mobile-friendly interface as customer needs changed. Experienced in diagnosing LLM/agentic workflow failures using observability, deterministic replay, and fault-tree root cause analysis. Also delivers developer-focused demos and trainings (including robotics deployment/mapping at Meta) and partners with sales as a technical closer, including for government clients by demonstrating failure modes and system modularity.”

“Backend/event-driven systems engineer who built an end-to-end “software robot” for AI-driven invoice processing: FastAPI ingestion + OCR integration + classification mapping, with strong emphasis on reliability (idempotency, retries) and scalability (background workers, event-driven architecture). Experienced in production-grade distributed systems tooling (Kafka, Docker/Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD) and real-time debugging via tracing/telemetry, and expects $10k–$12k/month.”

“Systems-focused engineer who built an OS kernel with multithreading, priority scheduling, system calls, and synchronization primitives, and debugged race conditions end-to-end. While not yet hands-on with ROS/SLAM, they clearly connect low-level concurrency and scheduling decisions to deterministic, reliable robotics-style real-time workloads.”

“At Esri, the candidate is building a production LLM-powered WebGIS AI framework that embeds an AI assistant into web maps and routes natural-language requests into ArcGIS JavaScript SDK functions via a LangGraph-orchestrated, multi-agent system. They emphasize production reliability and scale (strict tool calling/JSON, live schema validation, query guardrails) and rigorous evaluation/observability using LangSmith, offline prompt datasets, and latency/tool-call accuracy tracking.”

“Backend-focused engineer building customer support/order-tracking platforms with Java 17/Spring Boot microservices and a React/TypeScript frontend. Deep experience running event-driven systems on Kubernetes (Kafka, Redis, MySQL) with strong observability (Prometheus/Grafana/Splunk), SLOs, and safe deployment practices (feature flags, canaries). Also built an internal monitoring/debugging dashboard that consolidated metrics and logs for on-call engineers and was adopted by other teams to speed incident response.”

“Robotics software engineer who has built full ROS 2 stacks for both a semi-automated robotic ultrasound system (UR5e + depth camera) and a quadrotor planning/MPC pipeline in Gazebo. Strong in integrating major ROS 2 frameworks (MoveIt/Nav2/RTAB-Map), writing custom packages (URDF, ACADOS-based MPC, laser landmark detection), and optimizing real-time behavior via GPU parallelization and distributed multi-threaded ROS 2 architectures; also contributes to ROS 2 core (structured parameters).”

“Robotics software engineer focused on low-compute navigation/SLAM: built a 6-DOF SLAM validation pipeline (IMU + 2D LiDAR + ultrasonic) producing ~1cm OctoMap accuracy and deployed it on an Intel Atom by optimizing particle-filter SLAM with a greedy max-likelihood update. Deep ROS 2 experience (executors, composable/lifecycle nodes, QoS, timestamping) plus simulation and deployment tooling (Gazebo C++ plugins, Docker, CI/CD, ROS 2 build farm) and drone navigation work with MAVROS/PX4.”

“FinTech/AI engineer who has shipped an end-to-end discrepancy-detection product for financial managers using Next.js, FastAPI/GraphQL, Pinecone, and AWS (with dev/staging/prod, observability, A/B testing, and documentation). Also built an AI-native “AI Genesis” system with agentic cyclic workflows, routing, and tool use, and has experience modernizing legacy systems via the strangler fig pattern while coordinating with senior stakeholders on a 5G autonomous simulation platform.”

“Backend/ML systems engineer with experience at SDSC, UCSD, and Media.net, building production semantic dataset/model discovery using embeddings + Solr KNN and LLM-based intent/reranking at 5M+ dataset scale. Emphasizes offline/online separation for predictable serving, has delivered measurable gains (23% retrieval accuracy, 38% latency reduction) and helped secure a $3M+ NSF grant.”

“Open-source contributor to a JavaScript visualization library who focused on runtime/rendering performance—eliminating unnecessary full redraws via memoization and diff-based updates validated with Chrome profiling. Also strengthened the project’s developer experience by adding TypeScript definitions, writing practical documentation, building minimal example apps, and handling community issues with reproducible debugging and public fixes.”

“Built a production LLM-driven personalization microservice for realtor.com using LangChain/LangSmith with an MCP tool layer and RAG to generate schema-constrained ranked listings in real time, replacing a rule-based engine and improving engagement/lead conversion. Also owned an ambiguous cross-channel identity initiative, implementing an identity graph via Twilio Unify with required SDK and data-warehouse integration.”

“Backend engineer with PayPal experience building a high-reliability onboarding API platform (Java/Spring Boot) integrating KYC/compliance and serving 1M+ users annually. Also shipped an internal LLM-driven developer tool that automates PR review insights and OpenAPI documentation with rigorous evaluation, schema-bound guardrails, and production observability.”