Vetted Engineering Professionals in California

Edward Yu

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in FinTech, payments, and authentication

Sunnyvale, CA8y exp

“Software engineer with experience at Dollar Shave Club and Mudflap, focused on user-driven product delivery and cross-team alignment. Built an Okta SSO-based internal portal (React/Node) centralizing access to org services, and has hands-on experience diagnosing LLM/agent workflow issues via instrumentation and systematic triage. Known for translating between product/customer needs and engineering tradeoffs to ship quickly while planning stabilization and scalability.”

Ashley Borges

Screened

Senior Solutions Engineer specializing in mobile SDK integrations and AdTech

Alameda, CA13y exp

“Customer-facing technical professional with hands-on ad tech experience enabling a non-SDK header-bidding integration by analyzing APIs/SDK behavior, documenting end-to-end requirements, and guiding the customer through release. Strong at tailoring technical demos for mixed executive/engineering audiences and partnering with sales on metrics-driven launches and beta rollouts. No direct on-the-job LLM/agentic systems experience yet, but interested in moving into that space.”

“Built a production LLM-powered diagnostic agent at Supermicro that automated triage of NVIDIA H100/H200 GPU cluster failures by parsing BMC/Redfish logs and recommending fixes from historical RMA data. Their work combined agent architecture, reliability engineering, and backend optimization, delivering a 30% reduction in resolution time and 50% lower database load.”

“Backend engineer with experience at Visa and Ansel, owning cloud-native, event-driven microservices end-to-end in high-volume and business-critical environments. Stands out for combining scalable Java/Spring/Kafka architecture with strong production rigor, incident ownership, and a pragmatic approach to AI workflow integration that emphasizes guardrails over blind model trust.”

“Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer who built internal product capabilities at Mercedes-Benz R&D, including a vehicle exploration platform, test drive booking flow, and a 0→1 vehicle comparison feature. Stands out for combining strong React architecture and performance optimization with practical backend/API ownership in Node/Express and MongoDB.”

Aditya Rao

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend, AI, and distributed systems

San Jose, CA5y exp

“Software engineer with 4.5 years of startup experience across programmatic advertising, health tech e-commerce, and automobile diagnostics, plus both bachelor's and master's degrees in CSE. Built an agentic global supply chain platform in a hackathon using a highly structured AI-first workflow, and has hands-on experience designing multi-agent debate systems, rollout safeguards, and observability-driven production fixes.”

“Software engineer with a CS/Computer Engineering background who has worked on ML/NLP (Hugging Face, clinical NLP, text generation and structured extraction) and has a school robotics project integrating a trained ML model with microprocessor-controlled hardware to drive motor movement and writing. Currently focused on building and deploying applications and ML models to AWS/Azure using Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD; targeting ~$150K compensation.”

“LLM/RAG engineer who took a PDF-heavy agent from prototype to production for an Africa-based client, combining Pinecone retrieval with robust PDF parsing (unstructured.io, OCR, structured table extraction). Demonstrates strong production mindset (eval metrics, prompt hardening, security/scalability) and measurable optimization impact (30% efficiency gain, 2x faster responses), and has helped close deals by building security-focused POCs for skeptical IT stakeholders.”

“JavaScript/TypeScript engineer with proven open-source impact: delivered a major reliability upgrade to a retry/error-handling library (standardized typed errors, added exponential backoff, expanded Jest tests, and implemented GitHub Actions CI) that was merged and released. Demonstrates strong performance engineering and debugging skills (profiling-driven optimization; diagnosed a race condition causing inconsistent retries) plus a documentation-first approach to developer experience.”

“Backend engineer with experience at Roche and Jarsy focused on API and data-layer performance. Re-architected slow generalized endpoints into more efficient APIs (30% faster lookups) and led a schema refactor/migration with feature-flag rollout, dual writes, rollback scripts, and automated integrity checks; also addressed pipeline duplicate-entry issues via deduplication.”

“LLM-focused customer-facing technical leader with experience productionizing LLM workflows in financial services (State Street), including guardrails, retrieval tuning, and reliability improvements. Also partners closely with sales and executives—at Payoneer helped drive enterprise-wide adoption for a $10M ARR global account through technical discovery, demos, and pilots.”

“AI engineer with hands-on production experience building an end-to-end RAG system that reduced document-answering time from hours to minutes, improving accuracy through chunk overlap and hybrid BM25+semantic retrieval. Also built a LangGraph-based agent that researches company financial news via web search (Google Serper), using Pydantic structured outputs and checkpointing for reliability; experienced collaborating with non-technical stakeholders at JPMC and communicating ROI.”

“Full-stack engineer who built and owned a generative-AI pipeline end-to-end inside the Vibecut video editor using Next.js App Router/TypeScript, Gemini-based prompt routing, and Zustand state management, including concurrency-safe requests. Also integrated Python services to access newly released AI tooling, optimized Postgres/S3 data flows for thumbnails, and built Modal-to-Amplitude workflows for Reddit-driven sentiment/metrics in a pre-seed environment while also handling marketing.”

Shaun Ames

Screened

Senior Unreal Engine Game Developer specializing in multiplayer systems and VR

California, United States9y exp

“Gameplay/network systems developer with shipped experience at Narsun Studios and Volition, including end-to-end ownership of a custom multiplayer session system for a VR title built on Unreal Online Subsystem with dedicated servers on AWS GameLift and PlayFab backend. Strong in profiling-driven optimization, scalability/load testing, and data-driven progression/balance (GAS), with telemetry-led changes that improved retention by ~20%.”

ESHWANTH D. G

Screened

Mid-level Robotics Software Engineer specializing in autonomous perception and sensor fusion

CA, USA4y exp

“Robotics engineer with Honeywell and Tata Motors experience deploying ROS/ROS2 autonomous mobile robot fleets into live factory environments, integrating sensors, safety PLCs, and on-prem services. Known for solving end-to-end latency and stability issues (including network spikes under load) using gRPC, Docker, and improved diagnostics—cutting diagnosis time from hours to minutes and achieving sub-150 ms control response.”

Sahachel Flores

Screened

Mid-Level Backend Software Engineer specializing in enterprise systems and applied AI/ML

Mountain View, CA6y exp

“Support engineer with IBM DFSMS OAM experience who restored a production TS7770 environment during a TS7760→TS7700 migration by using logs, SLIP traps, and dump analysis to pinpoint an SMS configuration (SCDS) issue, then partnering with the customer to redo the migration successfully. Also built a personal agentic news selector system and emphasizes documentation improvements and customer education to prevent recurring incidents.”

Preetham Reddy Konuganti

Screened

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

San Jose, CA2y exp

“Full-stack engineer with customer-facing delivery experience who built and deployed a multi-platform social media automation product (Next.js/Node/MongoDB) and optimized it using BullMQ/Redis background jobs, retries, and rate limiting for reliable posting at scale. Also delivered an AI-powered false-positive analysis service in a cybersecurity context, resolving production pipeline stalls via log-driven debugging, parallelization, caching, and LLM guardrails.”

Mike Khorrami

Screened

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in enterprise SaaS and cloud-native platforms

Woodland Hills, CA25y exp

“Engineering leader/player-coach who modernized a legacy C#/SQL Server system to Snowflake + Python on GCP, enabling ~30x scale and supporting hundreds of millions of transactions per day per customer. Strong in architecture tradeoffs (Snowflake vs Databricks), production reliability (New Relic, logging/alerting), and lightweight process improvements like a rigorous Definition of Done and structured PR reviews.”

“Founder of Business Online Strategic Solutions Digital Marketing, a 5-year bootstrapped digital marketing and web solutions startup serving small-to-mid-sized and enterprise clients. Focused on building scalable, performance-driven web experiences (web dev, UX/UI, CRO, marketing strategy) and is actively scaling capabilities in modern front-end development and AI-assisted workflows.”

“Backend/AI infrastructure engineer focused on production-ready LLM systems and distributed workflows. They described building a RAG-based multi-step agent with strong reliability controls, evaluation loops, and graceful degradation that improved latency by 30%, retrieval accuracy by 15%, and reduced support workload by 40%.”

bikramjit ganguly

Screened

Staff Full-Stack Engineer specializing in API-driven web platforms and distributed systems

San Jose, CA24y exp

“Highly agent-centric builder who uses Codex daily to generate and manage full application repos, including Next.js CRUD apps, GitHub automation, and AWS lifecycle scripts to avoid long-lived cloud artifacts. They also experiment with multi-agent workflows for parallel development and correctness checking, showing strong practical fluency with emerging AI-native software development patterns.”

“Backend engineer with TaskRabbit experience building and operating payment/booking services in Python/Django on AWS (ECS + Lambda) with Kafka/SQS eventing. Demonstrates strong production reliability and incident ownership in high-stakes payment flows (idempotency, strict timeouts, retries, monitoring/alerting) plus data/ETL work in AWS Glue and measurable SQL performance wins.”

“Built and shipped a production multi-agent conversational AI platform (Monitor agent + RAG + 4 additional agents) with enterprise REST APIs, using ChromaDB-grounded WCAG knowledge to keep responses accurate while varying tone via personality modes and conversation memory. Has experience at LinkedIn delivering technical demos and pre-sales guidance to both engineering teams and C-level stakeholders, acting as a translator between sales and technical teams to drive adoption.”

“Product-focused full-stack engineer (70/30 app vs infra) with Accenture experience and recent AI workflow work, shipping end-to-end systems from React/TypeScript UIs through FastAPI backends to Postgres. Built an AI-driven data extraction platform with async job APIs, strict schema validation, and strong observability, and has operated AWS ECS-based deployments with real incident mitigation (DB connection exhaustion/latency under traffic spikes).”