Vetted Engineering Professionals in California

Pre-screened and vetted in California.

Srushti Milind Jamsandekar - Mid-Level Software Developer specializing in backend, cloud, and GenAI in CA, USA

Mid-Level Software Developer specializing in backend, cloud, and GenAI

CA, USA5y exp
Azul ArcCalifornia State University

Full-stack engineer with fintech and AI feature experience who shipped an AI-powered project summary module in Next.js (App Router + TypeScript) with secure server-side fetching and route handlers to a FastAPI backend, then owned monitoring and performance fixes in production. Demonstrated measurable UX wins (30% faster dashboard loads) and strong backend fundamentals (Postgres indexing/EXPLAIN ANALYZE, SQS-orchestrated idempotent reconciliation workflows with DLQs and retries).

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Aditya Jaiswal - Intern Software Engineer specializing in cloud, DevOps, and applied AI in Carlsbad, CA

Intern Software Engineer specializing in cloud, DevOps, and applied AI

Carlsbad, CA1y exp
ViasatUSC

Full-stack engineer with startup ownership experience (Aiir) building 15+ TypeScript/Go microservice APIs on GCP Cloud Run with Kafka-based async event streaming and React CRM integrations for billing/analytics. Strong post-launch operator who tuned Oracle performance (partitioning/indexing/query optimization) and validated a 23% retrieval-time reduction via AWR, and has a quality/DevSecOps mindset (94% Pytest coverage, GitHub Actions, SonarQube, Twistlock, CloudWatch) including migrating 18+ production CI/CD pipelines.

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Prasannakumar B Vardi - Senior Software Engineer specializing in low-latency ad targeting and distributed backend systems in Santa Clara, CA

Senior Software Engineer specializing in low-latency ad targeting and distributed backend systems

Santa Clara, CA9y exp
CardlyticsStony Brook University

Backend/platform engineer who built a high-scale audience segmentation and real-time targeting system using Spark/Glue + S3/Hudi and low-latency API services backed by Redis/relational stores. Demonstrates strong production rigor: Spark performance tuning to eliminate OOM failures, API idempotency/caching to cut p95 latency ~40%, and careful dual-run/feature-flag migrations with reconciliation and rollback runbooks. Experienced implementing layered security with JWT/OAuth, RBAC/ABAC, and database row-level security to prevent privilege escalation.

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Atharva Bhide - Entry Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and multimodal systems in Los Angeles, CA

Atharva Bhide

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Entry Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and multimodal systems

Los Angeles, CA1y exp
Sigma HealthsenseUSC

Built and shipped a production healthcare AI platform for a clinic in Brea, LA that combined LLM-based clinical report generation, voice agents for appointment workflows, and camera-based patient monitoring. Stands out for pairing multimodal AI architecture with production-grade reliability and compliance practices, while delivering concrete business results including 90% workflow automation, 200 hours saved per month, and a 60% improvement in customer retention.

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Daniel Huang

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Junior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in lab software and internal tools

Sunnyvale, CA2y exp
LaborateLoyola University

Built Laborate.app, a full-stack lab notebook and inventory product for scientists, largely solo using Next.js App Router, TypeScript, Postgres, Prisma, and AWS S3. Stands out for combining product ownership with practical concerns like encrypted data storage, autosave reliability, caching, tenant isolation, and scalability planning.

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Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and AI automation

San Francisco, CA5y exp
For Women’s HealthUC Santa Cruz

Built a production Python microservice around Grafana Loki focused on reliability, with checkpointing, idempotency, replay tooling, tracing, and alerting to prevent data loss and silent lag. Also has hands-on experience hardening brittle Playwright automations against dynamic UIs, auth expiry, rate limits, MFA, and bot-detection constraints, plus turning tribal-knowledge SOPs into explicit state-machine-driven workflows.

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Intern Robotics & Security Engineer specializing in autonomous systems and edge network security

Irvine, CA2y exp
Panasonic AvionicsUC Irvine

Robotics software engineer with UC Irvine capstone experience building an autonomous rover end-to-end: ROS 2 navigation (slam_toolbox + Nav2) on Jetson Xavier, depth point-cloud integration for obstacle avoidance, and an on-device speech-to-action interface that converts natural language into Nav2 goals. Also has prior full-time experience integrating a safety assurance decision engine into distributed autonomous drones over secured mesh networks, emphasizing reliable communication under real-world network constraints.

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Yujie Zhang

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Mid-level Embedded Software Engineer specializing in LiDAR firmware and SoC systems

San Jose, CA4y exp
CeptonUSC

Firmware architect/lead engineer for automotive LiDAR sensors, designing RTOS-based, layered firmware and solving high-throughput real-time constraints using DMA and lock-free buffering. Built ROS nodes to bridge embedded sensor output to higher-level perception (point clouds, diagnostics, configuration) while isolating real-time logic in firmware. Established an end-to-end CI/CD pipeline with GTest unit tests plus SIL/HIL automation and Dockerized build/test environments.

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Director-level Software Engineering Leader specializing in cloud, microservices, and AI/ML

San Jose, CA20y exp
CiscoIllinois Institute of Technology

Development manager focused on developer productivity and platform enablement in a polyglot microservices environment. Drove ~50% productivity gains by evaluating and rolling out AI coding copilots with team training and cross-team demos, and designed a Disaster Recovery framework adopted by 50+ microservice teams. Also led edge-focused Python runtime optimization and relies on heavy test automation to safely execute large refactors during major platform upgrades.

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Director-level Robotics Engineer specializing in robotic additive manufacturing and digital twins

Campbell, CA7y exp
Orbital CompositesUniversity of South Carolina

Head of Robotics at Orbital Composites who built the full ROS-based software stack ("OrbOS") for multi-robot KUKA-arm 3D printing of carbon-fiber composite geometries. Deep in motion planning and real-time control—created a pipeline to turn underconstrained toolpaths into optimal joint trajectories at massive command scale, plus redundant safety gatekeeping and a 250Hz synchronized robot+extruder controller. Has operated in a technical-founder capacity for ~6 years and values an engineering culture of openness, honesty, accountability, and high ownership.

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Arun Kumar

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Senior Engineering Manager specializing in data-intensive SaaS, FinTech, and AgTech products

San Francisco, CA13y exp
Farmers Business NetworkJohns Hopkins University

Engineering manager leading a 15-person team at FBN on the Gridbull platform, shipping a self-serve pricing/quoting tool for structured commodity products using real-time futures market data. Owns architecture and reliability for third-party data integrations (WebSocket + REST fallback), including resolving a day-one production incident caused by undocumented vendor connection resets. Introduced lightweight Technical Implementation Plans to improve cross-functional alignment and delivery speed in a high-growth environment.

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Ryan Bautista

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Senior QA Analyst specializing in AR/VR, mobile, web, and console testing

Culver City, California11y exp
Dreamscape LearnLos Angeles Film School

Game QA professional with live production experience owning QA strategy for a cross-platform seasonal loadout system in a live server shooter. Works in Agile/Scrum with CI/CD, using Jira + TestRail (including two-way sync) to drive traceable test coverage and fast triage via evidence-rich bug reports. Emphasizes risk-based coverage, regression discipline across builds, and converting gameplay feel into actionable design/engineering feedback.

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Saloni Fnu

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and distributed services

California, USA2y exp
Tringapps, Inc.USC

Built and operated a production TypeScript backend for a stateful conversational quoting chatbot at Tringapps, orchestrating multi-step workflows and session state while integrating with Salesforce and NetSuite. Implemented validation/retry logic, modular architecture, and strong logging/observability to handle real-world edge cases and external API failures.

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Hangquan Zhao - Senior Software Engineer specializing in connected vehicle platforms and real-time data systems in Mountain View, CA

Hangquan Zhao

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in connected vehicle platforms and real-time data systems

Mountain View, CA4y exp
Toyota InfoTech LabsUC San Diego

Open-source maintainer of KafkaJSUI, a Vue.js-based Kafka browser UI, focused on making large-topic exploration fast and responsive. Delivered major performance wins (incremental fetching, virtualized lists, WebSocket streaming, backpressure, Web Worker offloading) cutting load times to sub-200ms, and also strengthened CI and developer documentation while handling community-reported issues end-to-end.

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Anishkumar Mahalingam Iyer - Intern Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML infrastructure and applied machine learning in Palo Alto, CA

Intern Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML infrastructure and applied machine learning

Palo Alto, CA2y exp
RivianUSC

Interned at Rivian where they built and deployed a production Whisper-based ASR + LLM real-time event labeling pipeline to help autonomous-vehicle engineers diagnose failures and route issues to triage teams. Also built a stateful multi-agent "Code Partner" developer assistant using LangGraph/LangChain (planner/router/coder/critique/tester) with evaluation, adversarial testing, and stakeholder-friendly communication practices.

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Sudhan Louis - Director of Enterprise Architecture specializing in digital transformation, AI, and API strategy in Rolling Hills Estates, CA

Sudhan Louis

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Director of Enterprise Architecture specializing in digital transformation, AI, and API strategy

Rolling Hills Estates, CA26y exp
HerbalifeBoston University

Hands-on architect/technology leader who builds prototypes (including Agentic AI wellness/biomarkers) and then scales teams to execute. Led a ~$400M global e-commerce transformation spanning 95 countries with active-active US/EU multi-region resilience, microservices/MFE (MACH), and strong security patterns (service mesh + API gateway + Ping Identity), plus modern data foundations (customer hub/MDM/Snowflake, data fabric/medallion).

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Mason Acevedo - Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in data pipelines, APIs, and ML in San Francisco, CA

Mason Acevedo

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Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in data pipelines, APIs, and ML

San Francisco, CA3y exp
DreamDAIHarvey Mudd College

Software engineer whose recent work includes co-designing and building a "Shared Profile" feature for a social event-planning app (Again, Sometime). Previously at Pure Storage, set up Docker-standardized Ubuntu/Python environments to simulate hardware testbeds and support workload/performance regression testing for other engineering teams; no robotics/ROS experience.

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Sachin Reddy Kunta - Mid-Level Backend Software Engineer specializing in payments, fraud systems, and AI agent infrastructure in San Francisco, CA

Mid-Level Backend Software Engineer specializing in payments, fraud systems, and AI agent infrastructure

San Francisco, CA3y exp
Saayam for AllNYU

Early-career engineer who owned an end-to-end objective assessment/coding contest platform at an edtech startup, using Postgres + S3 and Redis (queues + ZSET) to decouple and scale code submission processing with worker sandboxes. Also implemented idempotency controls and set up monitoring and CI/CD while the rest of the team focused on curriculum.

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Qice Sun - Junior GenAI Software Engineer specializing in multimodal RAG and agentic workflows in Sunnyvale, CA

Qice Sun

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Junior GenAI Software Engineer specializing in multimodal RAG and agentic workflows

Sunnyvale, CA2y exp
WalmartCalifornia State University, Fullerton

AI/LLM engineer with production experience building a multimodal RAG agent for Walmart driver support, combining hybrid retrieval (dense+BM25) and fine-tuned Llama 3 served via vLLM on Azure AKS to reach sub-second latency. Drove measurable impact (25% fewer escalations, 60% lower token costs, 33% lower storage costs) and also built Kafka-based microservices that cut batch runtime from 2 hours to 15 minutes and reduced DB load by 80%.

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Leo Kim - Junior Software Engineer specializing in robotics and full-stack development in San Francisco, CA

Leo Kim

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in robotics and full-stack development

San Francisco, CA1y exp
Armstrong RoboticsTufts University

Software Engineer at Armstrong Robotics building multithreaded C++ perception/planning/control software for robotic arms running commercial dishwashers deployed across multiple restaurant sites (up to ~2,000 dishes/day per installation). Strong in production operations: on-call debugging with deep logging/video analysis, rapid hotfixes, Datadog-based monitoring, and a Three.js calibration tool plus large regression test suite to de-risk live deployments.

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Sanat Ahuja - Senior Engineering Manager specializing in platform, data/ML, and identity/access systems in Los Angeles, CA

Sanat Ahuja

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Senior Engineering Manager specializing in platform, data/ML, and identity/access systems

Los Angeles, CA16y exp
GoodyearUSC

Senior engineering leader from Goodyear’s AndGo startup-like division who scaled the org from 12 to 30+ across pod-based teams and introduced an Architect Guild/ARD governance model. Led a 4-month Europe launch requiring AWS regional infrastructure, GDPR compliance, i18n/l10n, and new EMEA reporting pipelines, and has hands-on depth in API performance, incident response, and GraphQL/Hasura adoption to boost product velocity.

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Biswajit Dash - Senior Platform/DevOps Engineer specializing in CI/CD and Observability in Milpitas, CA

Biswajit Dash

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Senior Platform/DevOps Engineer specializing in CI/CD and Observability

Milpitas, CA25y exp
CiscoUniversity of Madras

DevOps engineer focused on CI/CD who built and productionized LLM/MCP-based chat agents integrated into Cisco Webex to help developers troubleshoot PRs and pipelines via GitHub/Jenkins data. Strong in operationalizing agentic systems with observability (OpenTelemetry/Grafana), user-scoped rate limiting, and Kubernetes-based scaling, and has presented demos on agent SDK capabilities and DORA metrics dashboards.

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Sarthak Vinayaka - Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in enterprise AI, data pipelines, and scalable APIs in Redwood City, CA

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in enterprise AI, data pipelines, and scalable APIs

Redwood City, CA3y exp
C3 AIVirginia Tech

Forward-deployed engineer/tech lead who built an end-to-end demand planning and forecasting application for a major US steel manufacturer, integrating Snowflake data into the C3 platform with batch/MapReduce workflows, monitoring, and a React/TypeScript UI. Also productionized an enterprise LLM integration with structured outputs and authorization guardrails, reporting +30% stakeholder engagement and broad adoption across customer deployments.

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Shram Kadia - Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems, cloud-native apps, and AI platforms in Santa Clara, CA

Shram Kadia

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Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems, cloud-native apps, and AI platforms

Santa Clara, CA4y exp
ServiceNowNorth Carolina State University

Backend/full-stack engineer who has owned production systems end-to-end, including a Dockerized Node.js/TypeScript probabilistic fault-tree analysis service for nuclear safety research deployed on AWS. Also built and operated a FastAPI-based RAG pipeline over 200+ PDFs using FAISS, focusing on low-latency, idempotent workflows and strong observability; experienced with API design and Playwright E2E automation across React/Angular projects.

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