Vetted Engineering Professionals in California

Peter Gluck

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Principal Software Engineer specializing in scalable, secure multi-platform systems

La Crescenta, CA14y exp

“Engineering leader and former CTO/Disney|ABC engineering manager who built white-label mobile app architecture that supported a branded app and successful exit, and later scaled Disney Channel brand app teams across iOS/Android/web and major OTT platforms. Led kid-safety architecture for DisneyNOW (“Junior mode” with PIN) and partnered with product/legal on COPPA compliance, emphasizing maintainable tech choices and strong execution processes.”

Bocheng Wan

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in consumer robotics and machine learning

Sunnyvale, CA4y exp

“Developer with a structured AI-assisted coding workflow centered on algorithmic rigor, type-safe scaffolding, and spec-driven modular design. Used Claude Code to help build an Android SDK for IPC, quickly ramping up on AIDL and compressing delivery including unit tests from several weeks to two weeks.”

“AWS Software Development Manager leading globally deployed, production-critical DDoS protection (L3/L4) across AWS. Known for scaling teams and driving cross-org tiger-team initiatives from concept through worldwide rollout, including performance-focused Python architecture changes and a major JDK 8→21 migration while maintaining strict backward compatibility. Also led an internal SDK-like integration framework improving APIs, documentation, and onboarding for major AWS service teams.”

“Player-coach engineering leader focused on scalable data security scanning and risk detection in hybrid cloud, owning architecture and core implementation of an incremental/parallel DSPM scanning engine. Shipped production improvements including 60% lower scan latency and 30% fewer false positives, with strong emphasis on correctness under concurrency, multi-tenant observability (SLOs/burn-rate alerts), and disciplined rollout practices (feature flags, shadow scans, canaries).”

Sujit Singh

Screened

Engineering Director specializing in backend & data platforms for enterprise SaaS and cybersecurity

San Jose, CA21y exp

“Backend/data engineering player-coach on a UEBA cloud security analytics platform who standardized MLOps and detection development for 180+ detections, cutting ship time from 6–7 weeks to ~3 weeks while reducing false positives. Proven at operating large-scale streaming + Spark systems (200K+ events/sec, 100+ TB/day), driving major reliability/cost improvements, and leading incident response and team execution through GA.”

“Senior engineering executive-level leader with deep hands-on systems expertise across Amazon devices, Alexa, Echo, and FireTV/VegaOS. Unusually combines VP-level org leadership at 120+ scale with direct production debugging and architecture ownership, including hybrid edge-AI/cloud systems, partner platforms for 9000+ apps, and shipping long-horizon platform bets under aggressive release cadences.”

Sanket Patel

Screened

Director-level Front-End Engineering Leader specializing in scalable web and mobile apps

Palo Alto, CA17y exp

“Amazon engineer/leader who drove a major modernization of the AWS Database Migration Service Console, migrating a monolithic UI to a micro-frontend architecture while improving performance, reliability, and engineering standards. Operates as a player-coach (80/20 hands-on/management), with demonstrated incident ownership and process improvements across Amazon and Walmart Labs.”

Jun Ouyang

Screened

Principal Software Engineer / Tech Lead specializing in distributed systems, payments, and reliability

San Francisco, CA20y exp

“Backend engineer with DoorDash experience building production-critical systems spanning LLM-based real-time safety moderation (SendBird callbacks + ChatGPT risk scoring with automated actions) and large-scale payments data pipelines (Kafka to CockroachDB with aggregation APIs). Also led cross-team reliability work to standardize SLOs and drove an incident redesign from batch pull to real-time push callbacks to eliminate critical-event latency.”