Vetted Engineering Professionals in California

“Two-time founder and former CTO/CPO who has shipped and operated full-stack products solo, including a real-time community platform (Twitter/Slack-like) with Next.js/TypeScript, WebSockets, Redis, and strong post-launch analytics (PostHog/Sentry). Also built durable multi-step AI-agent workflows using Inngest with state machines, checkpointing, and validation gates, and has hands-on Postgres performance tuning experience validated via EXPLAIN ANALYZE.”

“Full-stack product engineer in a high-growth startup environment who led a revenue- and retention-driving Loyalty Pass feature end-to-end using Next.js App Router, TypeScript, and Postgres. They pair strong frontend performance instincts with backend reliability work, including Stripe-based onboarding/billing refactors, idempotent workflows, and production observability.”

“Unity/C# engineer with hands-on ownership of a server-backed resource loading pipeline that kept build size small, preserved UI responsiveness via parallel services, and handled dynamic asset replacement with ghost objects and memory cleanup. Also brings a pragmatic, architecture-first approach to AI/LLM integration, emphasizing provider abstraction, testing, cost control, and guardrails for hallucinations.”

“Full-stack engineer at an early-stage startup (AirKitchenz) who owned the hourly booking/availability and first paid booking flow end-to-end—React/TypeScript frontend, Node backend, Postgres modeling, and Stripe payments/webhooks. Experienced operating production on AWS (EC2/Elastic Beanstalk, Docker, RDS, CloudWatch) and building reliable, idempotent integrations while iterating quickly in a pre-PMF environment through direct host/renter feedback.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across Python/Flask microservices and AWS serverless/data platforms (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Glue/PySpark). Demonstrated strong reliability and operations mindset (JWT/RBAC, retries/timeouts/circuit breakers, CloudWatch/SNS alerting) and measurable performance wins (SQL report runtime cut from 10 minutes to 30 seconds). Seeking ~$150k base and cannot travel for onsite meetings for the next 5–6 months due to family medical constraints.”

“Backend engineer who built a Node.js + SQL service integrating with the Google Ads API to periodically upload online and offline conversions via Azure Logic Apps, persisting upload records for ROI reporting. Implemented PII hashing, token validation, redundancy, and detailed failure/status logging for reliability and debuggability. Currently scoping an LLM/agent workflow (likely LangChain) to let marketing bulk-update e-commerce product data using SEO keywords without developer involvement.”

Sangat Shah

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AWS serverless and React/Node.js

Los Angeles, CA5y exp

“Backend engineer who built and evolved a serverless AWS platform for large-scale live screening events with real-time chat/feedback and streaming (API Gateway/Lambda/DynamoDB/WebSockets/IVS, IaC via Pulumi). Led production refactors and phased migrations using feature flags and dual-write strategies, and has hands-on experience implementing JWT auth, RBAC, and database-enforced row-level security for multi-tenant systems.”

Vishesh Kumar

Screened

Intern Software & AI Engineer specializing in distributed systems and LLM applications

Palo Alto, CA1y exp

“Stony Brook Fall 2024 capstone contributor who built a ROS2-based warehouse mobile robot prototype, owning perception and SLAM integration end-to-end. Strong in real-time robotics optimization on Jetson Orin (TensorRT/CUDA, ROS2 tracing/Nsight) and in distributed ROS2 communications (DDS discovery/QoS, MAVLink-to-ROS2 bridging), with a full simulation/testing/deployment toolchain (Gazebo, CI tests, Docker/K3s).”

Yash Prakashbhai Shah

Screened

Senior Backend Software Engineer specializing in Java, microservices, and cloud infrastructure

Santa Clara, CA6y exp

“Backend/platform engineer at Aryaka Networks who built a centralized resiliency and security Spring Boot library to standardize Keycloak RBAC and fault-tolerance across 25+ Kubernetes-migrated microservices. Uses profiling and observability (Prometheus/Grafana) to drive measurable performance and reliability gains (25% faster APIs, 70% faster environment setup) and accelerates adoption via golden-path starter repos and Swagger/OpenAPI live docs.”

Purva Chakravarti

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in scalable web apps, cloud, and blockchain/AI

Chino, California11y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong production ownership across React/TypeScript, Node.js, and AWS (EC2/ECS/RDS/CloudWatch), including CI/CD, observability, and incident response. Delivered a secure RBAC workflow module end-to-end and achieved measurable gains (~30–40% latency reduction, ~50% error reduction) that lowered infra/ops costs. Comfortable in high-ambiguity startup environments—shipped a payment module within 2 days of joining with no documentation.”

Michelle Gurovith

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in iOS (Swift/SwiftUI) and distributed systems

Danville, CA1y exp

“Built a fault-tolerant distributed IoT sensor network on Raspberry Pi using a token-ring protocol, implementing leader election, timeout-based failure detection, and dynamic reconfiguration when nodes drop mid-round. Focused on reliability and data integrity, including exactly-once processing semantics backed by a MySQL backend and socket-level instrumentation to debug real-time coordination issues.”

Katy Repa

Screened

Junior Product Engineer specializing in sporting goods and athlete performance

Thousand Oaks, CA3y exp

“Former D1 softball player at Stephen F. Austin and the University of Houston who turned her own recruiting, injury, transfer, and scholarship journey into a career advising athletes. She now runs the Easton/Rawlings Fastpitch ambassador program, growing it to 250 players in six months and helping drive major brand launch visibility, while also coaching and mentoring young athletes on recruiting, NIL, and long-term fit decisions.”

Ruslan Labza

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in modern web applications

San Francisco, CA6y exp

“Built and launched a production AI chat assistant inside a data processing platform, focused on helping users understand large table outputs and job results faster. Brings strong end-to-end product engineering across React/TypeScript frontend, backend APIs, and LLM integration, with a clear emphasis on reliability, safe behavior, and iterative quality improvements after launch.”

“CloudData engineer who productionized an LLM assistant for a warehouse/logistics customer by wrapping it as a versioned, containerized API with guardrails, deterministic post-processing, and full observability. Experienced diagnosing real-time RAG/agentic incidents (latency spikes and confident-wrong answers) using trace-based isolation, replay in staging, retrieval tuning, and canary releases. Regularly runs technical demos/workshops and partners with sales on security/IAM, SLAs, and pilot rollouts to drive adoption.”

“Security-focused engineer/customer-facing technical lead with SaaS platform experience at Ipsilon Lab, advising customers on API security and secure SDLC improvements. Has implemented production AppSec tooling (SAST/SCA), designed AWS least-privilege agent/scanning deployments, and led Kubernetes CI/CD security-agent integrations with Secrets Manager and PR gating. Strong track record troubleshooting complex customer integrations end-to-end (logs/metrics/traces through DB execution plans) and driving measurable stability/security posture improvements.”

Nidhi Sura

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI platforms, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure

Dublin, CA1y exp

“Software engineer with limited robotics background but deep experience building end-to-end document ingestion and image understanding systems, including a CAD-specific pipeline using a custom model to extract components and bounding boxes for user-facing visualization and Q&A. Also brings strong infrastructure/DevOps skills (Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Terraform) with emphasis on reliability, cost optimization, and uptime.”

Ashay Panchal

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI-driven distributed systems

San Jose, CA4y exp

“Backend engineer who built a high-stakes, privacy-first platform at be Still Analytics for survivors of domestic violence, emphasizing anonymity, security, and reliability. Experienced with GenAI backends (LangChain + AWS Bedrock) including RAG to prevent hallucinations, plus cloud-native scaling (Docker/Kubernetes) and cost-saving migrations from legacy VMs to serverless (30% reduction).”

“Unity mobile game developer (10+ years) who has shipped 15+ iOS/Android titles (including Word Collect, Trivia Start, Word Nut, Hot Las Vegas Slots). Built a large-scale adventure/quest progression feature with 1000+ quests using procedural map generation, UI virtualization for mobile memory constraints, and a server-driven, spreadsheet-importable configuration system that became a reusable standard across games. Based in San Diego (PST) and targeting $155k USD; open to contract or full-time.”

“Early-career engineer who built a self-directed production-grade security scanning/analysis pipeline that normalizes multi-scanner results, correlates CVEs, and uses an LLM to generate exploit hypotheses—then hardened it for real-world reliability (timeouts, confidence scoring, feature flags, graceful degradation). Also integrated a real-time audio ML model into Discord/Zoom and debugged intermittent latency/dropouts across Python inference, virtual audio drivers, and network jitter; experienced with IAM integrations (Entra ID/Salesforce) and cloud tooling (AWS/Docker/Kubernetes).”

Shiyan Tang

Screened

Mid-level Software Developer specializing in indie game development and full-stack apps

San Jose, CA3y exp

“Robotics software engineer who built the perception-to-planning pipeline for an autonomous bipedal robot: synchronized and fused 3D LiDAR + multiple depth cameras in ROS1 (tf2/message_filters) to produce combined point clouds and 2.5D maps, then implemented and benchmarked A*/D*/RRT plus hybrid A* footstep planning in simulation. Also founded a software company and personally owned CI/CD, security checks (CodeQL), and release automation (custom release bot + Slack notifications).”

Jayanth Amol Ergola

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack development and data engineering

Milpitas, California4y exp

“Backend engineer with production experience at KeyBank building high-volume Java/Spring Boot services on Azure with PostgreSQL/Oracle, including async job ingestion and tracking. Demonstrates strong reliability/performance debugging (HikariCP pool exhaustion, DB contention) and has shipped an LLM-powered data analysis/summarization feature with robust production guardrails (validation, shadow testing, deterministic fallbacks, audit logs).”

RAUNAQ BEDI

Screened

Entry-level Software Engineer specializing in AI, data engineering, and cloud DevOps

San Francisco, CA1y exp

“Product-minded full-stack engineer with strong React/TypeScript, serverless AWS, and Postgres depth, highlighted by owning real-time personalization and onboarding experiences at mParticle. Stands out for combining deep performance debugging with measurable product impact—improving activation by 28%, reducing time-to-insights by 35%, and building reusable internal platform primitives adopted by 12 teams.”

“Built and owned enterprise data/integration deployments and production AI workflows, including a Python-based migration pipeline that moved 2M records with major improvements in onboarding speed, error rate, latency, and uptime. Also shipped a financial RAG assistant over 50K documents with sub-second p95 latency, showing a strong blend of customer-facing deployment ownership, data engineering, and LLM systems expertise.”