Vetted Engineering Professionals in California

Kirill Aristarkhov

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack, AI/ML systems, and game development

Santa Barbara, CA3y exp

“Full-stack engineer (React/TypeScript + Bun/Node-like backend) who recently rebuilt a terminal-based chat UI, implementing custom Markdown lex/parse/render and a typewriter-style streaming renderer while optimizing React DOM growth for ~50% faster performance. Has startup experience making high-ownership decisions under ambiguity and rapidly integrating multiple external AI/tooling services (5–6 in a week) with fallback strategies for flaky dependencies.”

Dishank Kailash Oza

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Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure

Santa Clara, CA4y exp

“Engineer with a thoughtful, production-oriented approach to AI-assisted development, including multi-agent workflows for planning, coding, review, testing, and debugging. Stands out for treating AI systems like distributed pipelines with explicit interfaces, validation layers, and guardrails to improve reliability and reduce hallucinations.”

“Built a semantic search portal for a fellowship department and an AI-driven PR review pipeline, using AI selectively for boilerplate while retaining full ownership of architecture, security review, testing, and deployment. Has hands-on experience with multi-agent systems, monitoring, and security validation, with a notably disciplined approach to catching false positives and rewriting weak AI output.”

“Hands-on AI/LLM practitioner who built a RAG-based customer support chatbot and tackled production issues like data chunking complexity and response-time lag. Uses techniques such as overlapping chunks, semantic search, context engineering, and query routing, and has experience presenting technical demos/workshops to developer audiences.”

“Field Application Engineer with a unique background as a former primary school teacher (6 years), leveraging strong communication to translate complex networking/AI concepts for customers. Has supported network analytics/ML platforms with LLM-powered recommendations, using sandbox reproduction and Kibana log analysis to troubleshoot issues. Experienced partnering with sales/CPM and third-party vendors to resolve data center deployment blockers (AI servers and cooling systems).”

“UE5 UI/tools-focused developer who emphasizes production-ready, designer-friendly workflows: built a C++ enemy-spawn timeline actor with Slate-driven editor customization and memory-efficient event storage. Implemented an Enhanced Input keybinds menu (two keys per action) using MVVM-style separation and event dispatchers for low coupling and testability, and uses Unreal Insights to drive performance fixes (including refactoring tick-heavy plugin work and batching data queries to prevent UI hitches).”

Vidit Naik

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Junior AI/ML & Full-Stack Engineer specializing in LLMs and RAG systems

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“Forward-deployed engineer who built a production AI drone-control chatbot that lets users fly a drone via natural language while viewing a real-time feed. Implemented RAG over drone SDK documentation (vector DB + top-k retrieval) and LoRA fine-tuning, with a focus on latency, token efficiency, and cost reduction, and regularly works with non-technical clients to integrate and explain AI system architecture.”

Utkarsh Aman

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Senior Frontend Engineer specializing in scalable consumer apps and micro frontends

San Francisco, California7y exp

“Frontend engineer focused on React/TypeScript dashboards for manufacturing-cycle analytics (downtime/wait time/cycle time). Has hands-on experience building reusable charting components (JSON-to-graph) with React ECharts, scaling data flows with Redux/RTK Query, and refactoring monolithic UI code into modular components while shipping on a ~3-week release cadence.”

Tejasri Alla

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Mid-level Full-Stack Python Developer specializing in banking microservices

Northridge, CA5y exp

“Built and led production LLM-agent systems in enterprise environments (Simmons Bank, Mindtree), automating support ticket triage end-to-end with strong reliability engineering (99.9% uptime, Prometheus/Grafana, ECS autoscaling, CI/CD rollback). Demonstrated clear business impact (55% faster handling, SLA compliance 72%→96%, 800+ hours saved/month, +18% CSAT) and mature eval/feedback loops that improved extraction accuracy by 21%.”

Naveen K

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Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI agents and RAG workflows

San Francisco, CA3y exp

“Candidate is highly focused on AI-native software development, using tools like GitHub Copilot and OpenAI models within structured plan-code-review-test workflows. They stand out for designing multi-agent coding systems with planner, coder, and tester roles, and for applying tech-lead style governance through constraints, quality gates, and validation-first practices.”

“Backend-focused engineer with hands-on experience deploying AI-driven document processing and RAG-based workflows using Python, LangChain, FAISS, and REST APIs. Has owned projects from requirements through post-launch monitoring, including debugging production retrieval issues and building reliable pipelines for messy PDFs/scans and compliance-oriented document analysis.”

“LLM/RAG practitioner building clinician-facing AI search and Q&A inside EHR workflows, focused on trust, latency, and safety (grounded answers with citations, PHI controls, encryption/audit logs). Demonstrated real-time incident response for production LLM systems (e.g., fixing a metadata-filter deployment regression to prevent irrelevant results/cross-patient leakage) and strong demo/enablement skills for mixed technical and clinical stakeholders; also shipped a multi-model RAG tool at OrbeX Labs with upload/search/audit features for day-to-day adoption.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience building customer-facing fintech mobile features end-to-end (loan estimate comparison) and scaling event-driven microservices in enterprise environments (Verizon). Has designed TypeScript/React/Node systems with queues/caching and built an internal rule-engine for bulk Excel ingestion that reduced data errors and manual rework through automated validation.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who led a legacy monolith-to-microservices migration (OAuth, Redis, ActiveMQ) while shipping incrementally via CI/CD to avoid user disruption. Strong in search/filter experiences and performance tuning (Solr schema + relevance boosting) with measurable impact (login reduced to ~5s), plus React/TypeScript UI work including configuration-driven filters and shareable URL state.”

“Backend/platform engineer with State Farm experience modernizing and scaling an enterprise consolidated payment data platform and event-driven pipelines. Built cloud-native payment architecture (ECS->EKS) handling millions of financial transactions/day and high-volume telemetry (~100M events/day), with strong schema governance (Avro + schema registry) and production operations/incident mitigation driven by observability.”

Darshan Togadiya

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Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud-native web apps

Rancho Cucamonga, CA5y exp

“Full-stack engineer in an early-stage startup who built an EV charger monitoring and payments dashboard from scratch, owning UI/UX (Figma), React frontend, Node/Postgres APIs, and production deployment/ops (Firebase + AWS). Demonstrated measurable impact (40% fewer reconciliation errors) and strong reliability chops through multi-source energy/payment ingestion, idempotent pipelines, and CloudWatch-driven incident resolution.”

Manali Patil

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Senior Software Engineer & Engineering Manager specializing in cloud backend and manufacturing MES

Santa Clara, CA9y exp

“Customer-facing engineer who led recurring midnight ERP data-feed/B2B integrations from prototype to production, building reusable APIs and using Hangfire for job scheduling. Known for tight weekly customer iteration, strong documentation and test coverage (80%+), and cross-functional problem-solving with Operations/Quality/NPI to resolve data-collection and manufacturing-process constraints; has 2 customers live on the integration.”

Hrishi Kamal Earla

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Senior Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in cloud-native FinTech microservices

Remote, CA7y exp

“JavaScript/React engineer with hands-on open-source library contribution experience, including thoughtful PRs that improved error handling, API flexibility, and added features backed by tests and documentation. Demonstrates a profiling-first approach to UI/runtime performance (memoization, component splitting, render-path optimization) and strong community support skills—reproducing edge cases, delivering sustainable fixes, and communicating workarounds and releases.”

Henry Li

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in mobile, full-stack, and game development

California, USA2y exp

“Engineer with hands-on experience shipping production-critical AI-assisted workflows, including an internationalization system for a React Native/Expo mobile game that expanded from English-only to 15 languages. Stands out for pragmatic, safety-first use of AI: they design deterministic validation layers, constrain model scope, and prioritize architecture, QA, and maintainability over hype-driven agent complexity.”

“QA professional with live production testing experience in an Agile pipeline, using risk-based coverage, smoke + automated regression (Postman), and strong defect/triage practices in JIRA. Emphasizes requirements traceability in TestRail and uses SQL/API/database evidence to isolate unclear repro issues and speed developer triage.”

“Dedicated engineer supporting the T-Mobile enterprise account at Gigamon, leading annual large-scale device upgrade initiatives (2000+ devices in 1–2 months) with an emphasis on zero production traffic disruption and strong stakeholder communication. Known for consistently high CSAT (4.8+) and for driving operational improvements in Salesforce that cut support Time to Close by 50%.”

“QA engineer with 12 years of experience in SaaS/platform releases (not AAA games), partnering closely with developers and product through standups, 1:1s, and Three Amigos. Owned high-risk areas like payment data integrity and critical user journeys, running CI-based full regression to support go/no-go decisions. Notably caught a production EV charging receipt defect (zero charge shown) and drove it to resolution with strong Jira documentation and cross-functional escalation.”

“Unity VR developer who has shipped on Meta Quest, including Metro Awakening (Steam Awards 2024 VR Game of the Year) as an AI Programmer, focusing on performance-critical multi-agent AI optimization (EQS/HTN) for Quest 2. Also shipped Final Fury, taking ownership across gameplay, UI, networking (sync mechanics), and AI on a small team, and built a data-driven gesture/move system for VR fighting prototypes.”

Abhiram Yakkali

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Entry-Level Embedded Firmware Engineer specializing in real-time systems

San Jose, CA0y exp

“Embedded/bare-metal engineer with hands-on sensor performance work: built a real-time profiler for a LiDAR system that tracked CPU/core usage and pixel buffer metrics to quickly identify and validate fixes for bright-light performance issues. Also has Ethernet/UDP device communication experience plus Docker and CI test-suite overhaul work to run sensor functionality tests on every commit.”