Vetted Engineering Professionals in California

KUSHWANTH MUTHYALA

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in FinTech

Irvine, CA6y exp

“Engineer with hands-on experience building and deploying end-to-end ML inference pipelines using SageMaker, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, and Kafka-backed real-time data systems. Brings a strong distributed-systems mindset and has already operated in a tech lead capacity through architecture decisions, code reviews, and cross-functional coordination. Especially compelling for teams building production AI/ML platforms that need both practical execution and sound engineering judgment.”

Mounika Ravali Vundemodalu

Screened

Junior Front-End Developer specializing in insurance web applications

San Jose, USA3y exp

“Full-stack developer who uses AI selectively for refactoring, regex, API typing, and test scaffolding while maintaining strict manual review for security, correctness, and architectural fit. Recently shipped insurance-related features such as policy issuance and reinstatement, and demonstrated hands-on debugging of async React issues by identifying duplicate fetches in DevTools and fixing them with AbortController.”

“Entry-level software engineer who built an agentic AI backend in Python/FastAPI, including APIs for conversation history retrieval and user data storage, and worked through async/concurrency challenges for multiple agents querying simultaneously. Also has practical AWS experience using S3 for static hosting with Lambda and RDS for backend/data access.”

“Software engineer with BitSight experience owning and revitalizing a critical internal Entity Management Portal (Django/React), clearing 30+ backlog items and boosting internal workflow efficiency ~40% through performance re-architecture (Redis caching) and disciplined testing. Also built a collaborative chore management platform (React/FastAPI) emphasizing responsiveness (optimistic UI) and scalability (connection pooling, Docker), and improved microservices security by centralizing secrets management with AWS Secrets Manager across multi-cloud environments.”

“Built a college AI chatbot during a master’s program, owning the full Python/Flask backend plus Google Gemini integration and a Postgres persistence layer (course info + conversation history), including caching/performance tuning. Also deployed and migrated ETL/ELT workloads from AWS Lambda into Kubernetes/EKS with GitHub Actions-based GitOps CI/CD, IRSA permissions, and Secrets Manager/S3/Postgres connectivity.”

“QA automation engineer who owned an end-to-end automated regression suite for a PlayStation digital store flow (login through checkout/payment), building a hybrid POM/data-driven framework from scratch with Selenium/TestNG/Cucumber and also using Playwright/TypeScript and Cypress. Integrated the suite into Jenkins CI/CD with nightly runs and reporting, improved coverage (happy + negative paths), and reduced release risk by catching critical issues like session timeout and transaction/payment defects before production.”

“Early engineer at a fast-growing startup who owned an AI-powered portfolio/site generation workflow end-to-end (frontend in Next.js App Router/TypeScript through backend orchestration). Emphasizes server-first security/performance (Server Components/Actions, revalidation), and production hardening with validation, caching, observability, retries/idempotency, and CI/E2E testing.”

“Full-stack engineer who built an AI-driven document analysis and processing workflow end-to-end, including large-document ingestion, queued async processing, and low-latency retrieval for user-facing flows. Demonstrated practical performance tuning (moving heavy work off request path, polling, caching) and Postgres optimization validated with EXPLAIN ANALYZE, plus durable workflow resilience via retries and dead-letter queues.”

keerthana s

Screened

Mid-level Backend Software Engineer specializing in Python/FastAPI on AWS

Los Angeles, California4y exp

“Backend engineer with healthcare domain experience building AI-driven radiology workflow systems. Evolved tightly coupled APIs into secure, reliable FastAPI-based services by moving heavy imaging/data processing into idempotent asynchronous pipelines with retries, feature-flagged incremental rollout, and strong data-integrity controls (constraints, backfills, validation). Strong focus on defense-in-depth security for sensitive patient data (OAuth2/JWT, RBAC, and database-level protections).”

WAYNE WILLIAMS

Screened

Senior Game QA Analyst specializing in functional testing and dev tracking

Foster City, CA22y exp

“Embedded QA analyst at Sledgehammer Games on Call of Duty titles (Modern Warfare 3 and shipped Call of Duty: Vanguard), owning deep testing for campaign maps and Zombies systems. Coordinated cross-studio testing with Treyarch and global QA teams, using JIRA/TestRail dashboards and daily reporting to manage regressions, crashes, and high-risk gameplay features, including platform-specific cert-impacting issues.”

“Full-stack engineer and ML assistant in UC Irvine’s CS department who deployed a lab project showcase platform and integrated on-demand execution of computational projects using Docker for isolation. Also built and optimized Linux cloud/cluster test automation for research, diagnosing RAM and network sync bottlenecks, and later led development of a Python-based predictive analytics tool for musicians using probabilistic graphical models and flexible data pipelines.”

“Robotics engineer who led core autonomy stack development at Spacer Robotics (Isaac ROS/ROS2) spanning sensor integration, SLAM/mapping, navigation, and validation. In a research lab thesis, built three mobile robots from scratch and created a distributed multi-agent collaboration framework with blockchain-based incentive models, demonstrating depth in both hands-on robotics and distributed systems.”

“Backend/platform engineer who owned a Python-based smart finance assistant backend, building async FastAPI microservices with PostgreSQL/Redis and deploying to AWS EKS via Docker/Helm and CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins). Strong in production reliability and migrations—implemented observability (Prometheus/Grafana), security (JWT RBAC), and executed a low-downtime monolith-to-microservices migration plus Kafka-based event streaming with ordering/retry/idempotency patterns.”

“Engineering/IT leader with 12+ years of people management and deep ERP ecosystem experience, including SAP S/4HANA and large-scale integrations (APIs/EDI/e-commerce). Managed an 11-person cross-functional team supporting multiple business domains and led process improvements like support-cycle/ticketing and documentation, plus regression test automation strategy driven by business-critical prioritization.”

“Software engineer who has built both internal developer productivity tooling (a backend API supporting repeatable UI test data/mocking for Dapper) and a personal Go-based LLM workout coach using Gemini and structured logs/config. Emphasizes maintainability and reliability via scalable UI component tagging (Telerik), audit logs, and reproducible Dockerized environments; targeting $160k base.”

“System Engineer with Panasonic Avionics and DIRECTV experience who functions as a software integration focal point, owning system-level QA from requirements and ATP verification through regression and release readiness. Brings rigorous, compliance-driven testing (FAA/ISO) plus strong RCA skills, including reproducing critical UI freezes under high memory conditions and supplying logs/memory dumps to drive engineering fixes.”

“Full-stack engineer from HPE GreenLake who built and owned a cloud/hypervisor resource management experience end-to-end, including Postgres modeling, typed REST/GraphQL integrations, and resilient provisioning workflows. Drove a centralized Redux-based UI architecture that boosted dev velocity by 50% across 30+ teams, and continued post-launch ownership with DR integrations (AWS/GCP/Azure) plus expanded Cypress testing and observability.”

“Security-focused engineering leader working with an MSP and internal teams to tighten tenant security (least privilege/global admin reduction, conditional access, MFA) while maintaining operational responsiveness. Has implemented and operated Rapid7, Expel, Microsoft Defender/Entra, and Cisco Umbrella, and led a challenging Microsoft Copilot rollout integrating SharePoint and Salesforce with strong Jira/KB/postmortem practices.”

Hiya Kothari

Screened

Intern Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and cloud

San Francisco, CA3y exp

“Built a Python-based geospatial machine learning backend for PFAS contamination risk mapping, including reproducible feature pipelines, ensemble modeling, and a FastAPI layer for visualization/analysis. Emphasizes data integrity and robustness (CRS/coverage checks, fail-fast validation) and has led safe backend refactors using feature flags, idempotent backfills, and Postgres RLS for secure, queryable results delivery.”

Saniya Athani

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native DevOps and GenAI

San Francisco Bay Area, CA2y exp

“Cloud-focused engineer with hands-on experience deploying production cloud-native REST APIs on AWS using Pulumi IaC, containerization, and CI/CD, with strong emphasis on secure credential management and operational monitoring via CloudWatch. Also has IoT troubleshooting experience across edge hardware constraints and networking (TLS handshake failures), plus Python-based configurable data-processing tools and customer-facing requirements translation.”

Yash De

Screened

Intern Full-Stack Developer specializing in AI/LLM applications

San Jose, CA3y exp

“Backend-focused intern who built and refactored the backend for an LLM-driven gifting mobile app using FastAPI, tackling high-latency LLM + product-API workflows. Implemented async worker-pool/queue processing with Redis caching plus retries/fallbacks, cutting end-to-end suggestion latency from ~4–5 seconds to ~1 second while improving reliability and rollout safety via staged migrations and testing.”

Brian Mar

Screened

Senior Data Engineer specializing in data infrastructure and marketing/CRM analytics

San Mateo, CA8y exp

“Salesforce-focused implementation/solutions engineer from Full Circle Insights who owned end-to-end campaign attribution and reporting deployments for multiple customers at once (3–5 concurrently), including sandbox testing, KPI monitoring, and rollback-safe migrations from legacy reporting. Also builds personal multi-agent workflows and uses Claude Code to rapidly scaffold data/analytics scripts like an advertising optimization parser over CSV/XLSX inputs.”

Ioannis Gregos-Mourginakis

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in blockchain, data pipelines, and functional programming

Los Angeles, CA3y exp

“Built an LLM-powered production agent that scraped X.com data to categorize and profile accounts, deployed in Docker with automatic relaunch for high uptime. Interview details were limited, but the candidate does have hands-on experience shipping an AI automation workflow.”

“AI-native software developer who has built a highly structured workflow around Claude, Cursor, design agents, and SpecKit to plan, design, implement, and test features end to end. They also use multi-agent setups with sub-agents and git worktrees, and have experience acting as a tech lead for AI agents by assigning roles, guiding execution, and reviewing outputs.”