Vetted Engineering Professionals in California

Hemanth Katikala Muniraj

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Intern Robotics Software Engineer specializing in ROS2 autonomy and LiDAR localization

Cerritos, CA1y exp

“Robotics software engineer focused on production-grade autonomous mobile robot (AMR) navigation in warehouse-style environments, with deep hands-on ROS2/ROS Noetic experience across SLAM, AMCL/NDT LiDAR localization, and Nav2 integration. Strong in real-time debugging and performance tuning using rosbag-driven regression workflows, plus containerized deployment (Docker/Compose) and distributed robot/edge-device communication via MQTT/REST.”

Danny Beck

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive Technology Leader (CTO/Head of Engineering) specializing in platform rebuilds, AI, and Web3

California, USA11y exp

“Startup leader with 15+ years of experience, including lead engineer and founding CTO roles across 5 companies from pre-seed to Series A. Actively develops personal venture ideas by creating product specs/SLAs/business plans and engaging in investor pitch sessions and incubators, with a strong focus on early product-market fit via validated learning and data-driven pivots.”

varsha viswanathan

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Entry-Level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and FinTech

Fremont, CA1y exp

“Software engineering intern experience at Zoho Corp and Zeus Desk building and deploying customer-facing systems. Delivered a real-time booking platform backend that stayed stable for 1,000+ users by optimizing MySQL queries/indexing and shipping hotfixes during production latency incidents. Also integrated financial operations APIs across 50+ small-bank partners by creating a normalization/validation layer to handle inconsistent partner data and prevent integration breakages.”

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped production systems end-to-end, including a note-taking product (Notey) combining audio/image capture, ASR, summarization, and a semantic chat agent over past notes. Also has applied ML experience in healthcare, collaborating directly with doctors to validate an EEG seizure-detection pipeline, and uses Kubernetes to optimize GPU usage for LLM training.”

“Robotics software contributor on an SJSU Robotics Mars rover hub, where they built a C++ camera gimbal driver using the Libhal open-source library and implemented/tuned PI/PID control to achieve stable servo behavior.”

“Built and deployed a production AI document Q&A (RAG) platform that lets non-technical users query hundreds of PDFs/Word files, cutting search time from hours to seconds. Experienced with scaling retrieval pipelines (chunking, embeddings, vector search, batching/caching) and orchestrating reliable workflows using AWS Step Functions/Airflow with robust retries, monitoring, and fallbacks.”

“LLM/AI practitioner focused on productionizing LLM assistants for customers, with emphasis on reliability, security, and data privacy (RAG architecture, guardrails, RBAC, data masking, monitoring and automated evals). Experienced in hands-on developer workshops and in partnering with sales to run tailored demos/pilots that drive broad customer adoption.”

“Full-stack engineer who built an email/SMS marketing platform from the ground up using PHP (Yii2/Laravel) and JS (jQuery/Vue components), including campaign reporting, A/B testing, and extensive ESP/SMS integrations (Mailgun/Mailjet/Twilio plus AWS SES/SNS). Notably scaled the system for very large contact ingestion by migrating from MySQL to ClickHouse and implemented reliability measures like retries, logging, and rate limiting.”

Andrew Park

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in QA automation and full-stack web development

Los Angeles, CA7y exp

“Automation and customer-facing technical specialist with experience at QA Wolf and Kalmar, taking Playwright E2E testing from prototype scripts into CI-gated production pipelines (80%+ automated coverage). Also trained both software teams and industrial operations audiences (Fleet View for automated straddle carriers) and partnered with sales/customer teams to translate technical results (e.g., Siemens PLC updates, QA ROI) into adoption and faster closes.”

Francisco Irazaba

Screened

Junior Embedded Firmware Developer specializing in microcontrollers and wireless protocols

San Luis Obispo, CA1y exp

“Cal Poly student with embedded + networking + robotics project experience, including an E4E summer research internship building an acoustic collar on an STM32 and collaborating weekly with the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. Built a hobby ESP32-based Spotify “now playing” display and demonstrated strong cross-domain debugging by tracing failures to router behavior rather than code.”

Antonio Alcala

Screened

Mid-level Systems Integration & Test Engineer specializing in embedded robotics and automation

San Diego, CA3y exp

“Senior engineering student leading a robotics capstone using a Jetson Nano + Yahboom DOFBOT to play whiteboard games (Tic-Tac-Toe, Hangman) via computer vision and ML. Owns the inverse kinematics and OpenCV pipeline, uses Gazebo/URDF for simulation, and is planning C++/multithreading/Pybind11 optimizations to meet real-time constraints on limited embedded hardware.”

Shivaram Srikanth

Screened

Junior Robotics Engineer specializing in computer vision and sensor fusion

Mountain View, CA2y exp

“Robotics software engineer with ~3 years of ROS experience spanning drone autonomy and perception. Recently improved drone barcode scanning by shifting to segmentation and deploying an optimized instance-seg model to edge hardware (FP16 quantization, convex-hull masks), while also building ROS drivers/parameters for field-tunable behavior. Has hands-on experience integrating LegoLOAM and calibration/TF systems, including creating RViz visualization tools to validate transforms and debugging real-world drift issues caused by lighting/glare.”

Sasi Kanduri

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and workflow platforms

Sacramento, CA7y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong React and Python backend depth who has owned complex analytical products end-to-end, from performant UIs to FastAPI services, SQLAlchemy data models, Redis caching, and production observability. Particularly compelling is their 0→1 automation work in the water systems domain, where they built Airflow- and LLM-powered workflows that reduced manual notification and correction work by 90%.”

“AI engineer focused on production-grade LLM systems rather than prompt-only solutions, with hands-on experience building citation-grounded RAG products and multi-agent workflows. Most notably built a financial document intelligence system for SEC filings and contracts that achieved ~92% recall@5, cut latency below 2 seconds, reduced hallucinations, and turned analyst research from hours into seconds.”

“Full-stack software engineer who shipped production systems in academic and e-commerce contexts, including a UC Irvine course recommendation platform with async Kafka-based OCR processing (Tesseract) and LangChain-driven recommendations. Strong in building polished React/TypeScript dashboards (Figma-to-implementation) and owning Python backends (FastAPI/Flask) with solid API design, caching, and AWS EKS deployments; delivered measurable impact (tripled engagement, ~50% faster processing).”

“Backend engineer who has designed and evolved high-traffic event/activity management systems using Node/Express and PostgreSQL, prioritizing scalability and reliability with a layered architecture. Has led zero-downtime refactors/migrations using parallel runs, dual writes, and rigorous validation/monitoring, and brings a security-focused API approach (JWT, RBAC/ABAC, rate limiting, DB-enforced tenant/RLS filters).”

“Backend Python engineer who architected an event-driven order integration engine connecting EDI vendors to ERP/WMS/3PL systems, including a canonical order model and adapter framework to eliminate per-customer hardcoding. Has hands-on Kubernetes production experience (microservices, Celery workers, CronJobs, HPAs) and implemented GitOps/CI-CD using GitHub Actions, Docker, and ArgoCD, including moving deployments from on-prem to Azure.”

“Founding engineer with strong end-to-end product delivery across IoT + mobile + serverless cloud: built firmware for a Bluetooth-connected device (ESP32), a native Swift iOS app, and an AWS serverless backend (API Gateway/Lambda/SQS/SNS/DynamoDB) including payments via Stripe. Also shipped a separate startup product in 6 months: a React visual tool that generated HTTP/REST APIs with a Django backend, admin panel, and a code-generating CLI.”

“QA automation-focused candidate with hands-on ownership of unit and integration test suites, including CI/CD integration in GitLab. Caught a database-query regression that would have shipped incomplete API data by relying on automated integration tests, and has practical Cypress experience stabilizing flaky tests using cy.intercept()/cy.wait() and stable selectors.”

“Engineering leader/player-coach who redesigned A/B testing and observability infrastructure for real-time audio/video features at 90M+ DAU scale, using Kafka-based ingestion and horizontally scalable aggregation for near real-time metrics. Managed 10–15 engineers, drove >20% infrastructure cost reduction without user-experience regressions, and led major peak-traffic incident response with lasting reliability improvements (load testing, capacity planning, alerting, pre-mortems).”

Raghavendra Dubey

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in Java microservices and cloud-native systems

CA, USA5y exp

“Enterprise workflow/product engineer (DXC) who owned a customer-facing workflow application for 500+ users and improved performance ~30% through API/SQL optimization, caching, and CI/CD-backed iteration. Experienced designing React/TypeScript + Java/Spring Boot systems and operating microservices with RabbitMQ/Kafka-style messaging, emphasizing reliability via DLQs, backpressure, and strong observability. Also built an internal automation dashboard adopted by support/ops teams to cut manual work and reduce SLA misses.”

Sam Fish

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in web platforms, cloud infrastructure, and data systems

Culver City, CA5y exp

“Full-stack/product-leaning engineer who owned an end-to-end AI Tutor feature (Claude-powered) shipped simultaneously to iOS/Android/web via Expo, with Cloudflare Workers backend and PostHog analytics. Built the company’s GitHub-based CI/CD to coordinate app store releases with backend blue/green deployments. Also has significant data engineering experience (including ~8TB/day workloads) using dbt/Fivetran plus sharding and hashing-based diffing for correctness.”

Eric Vuu

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and web applications

Huntington Beach, CA5y exp

“Software engineer turned solutions/technical support engineer with 5+ years of experience supporting and migrating a custom CRM used by U.S. House of Representatives offices. Has hands-on ownership of database export/import scripting, API key-based integrations, and production troubleshooting, and also consults government customers on procurement/CLM workflows while partnering with sales/marketing on demos and adoption use cases.”

Vedant Singh

Screened

Junior Cloud Platform Software Engineer specializing in AWS, Kubernetes, and CI/CD

Concord, CA2y exp

“Cloud/platform engineer with hands-on delivery across Azure and AWS, including standing up a CIS-compliant Azure environment and integrating Azure OpenAI Foundry to automate finance invoicing. Has scaled platform capabilities across large org footprints (dynamic CI/CD pipelines for ~94 teams across 200+ repos) and replaced a $1M/year vulnerability patching vendor by building an internal AWS-based patching and monitoring solution for ~1000 servers.”