Vetted Engineering Professionals in California

Trace Hernandez

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Mid-level Software Automation Engineer specializing in AI and healthcare IT

Santa Rosa, CA5y exp

“Built production automation systems spanning Python integrations, analytics sync pipelines, and internal workflow apps. Notably automated an architectural site inspection process end-to-end with an app, database, and letter generation engine that reduced workload by 20%, and improved reliability of a Botpress/Supabase/Airtable cron integration by eliminating recurring rate-limit failures through batching.”

“Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer who owned end-to-end delivery for a high-traffic e-commerce web app (millions of monthly users), spanning UI enhancements, performance work, and third-party recommendation API integrations. Built a NestJS microservice integrated with Shopify to tag products (e.g., low stock/sale) and used queuing to handle high-volume order processing, plus created an internal CI/GitHub tool to surface test failures quickly.”

“Backend engineer at PlatePost who built an AI-driven food pairing/recommendation feature for restaurants using Google Gemini, shipping quickly by caching results with a 24-hour refresh and manual override. Emphasizes practical reliability/security patterns (logging, error handling, tenant-scoped queries) and proactively caught an accessibility issue via screen reader testing.”

“Software engineering capstone contributor who helped kickstart an ambiguous, real-client project ("The Virtual Cowboy") by designing the initial relational database and CRUD foundation, then prioritized and shipped simulation/event functionality that satisfied the client. Also building a personal full-stack Book Notes web app (Node/Express/Postgres) with Google OAuth via Passport and a books API ingestion flow focused on data quality and reliability; has deployment experience with Heroku and PythonAnywhere and is ramping up on AWS.”

“Product-focused full-stack engineer with strong performance and reliability instincts: improved production page responsiveness by 15% via lazy loading and render optimization, and built a polished React+TypeScript filtering dashboard with URL-synced state for shareable views. Also designed and operated a Django REST backend with versioning, token auth, structured logging, and API tests, and has handled real production scaling issues through PostgreSQL query-plan analysis and indexing.”

Thota Rajkumar

Screened

Junior Cloud & AI Infrastructure Engineer specializing in Agentic AI and AWS

San Jose, CA2y exp

“Built and deployed a production AI career-advice agent designed to combat unreliable/generic LLM guidance by grounding outputs in retrieval-first RAG over resumes/job/hiring data, with multi-step reasoning, structured memory, and evidence-only prompting to reduce hallucinations. Implemented the system with LangChain/Python and deployed on AWS as scalable microservices orchestrated via REST and asynchronous calls, iterating closely with career coaches and students.”

Zaid Kamil

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Mid-level XR Software Engineer specializing in real-time AR/VR digital twins

Los Angeles, CA8y exp

“Built and owned an end-to-end real-time IoT telemetry backend that powers a digital twin experience on a Meta Quest headset, integrating Cisco LoRaWAN sensors and external REST data sources. Migrated from Azure Functions to a FastAPI service to overcome firewall constraints, add caching/fallback reliability, and significantly reduce operating cost while improving performance and evolvability.”

Asad Abdul

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Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in AI-driven cloud-native applications

Laguna Niguel, CA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with healthcare/ops analytics experience at PatientXpress, shipping a real-time operational dashboard end-to-end (React/TypeScript + Node/Postgres on AWS) that cut manual reporting by 50%. Strong in performance and reliability work—pagination/caching, Postgres indexing/partitioning, Terraform-based AWS provisioning, CI/CD with GitHub Actions, and production incident response with improved monitoring (CloudWatch/Prometheus).”

Bryant Conti

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Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in React/Node.js and backend APIs

Los Angeles, CA4y exp

“Built and deployed a production Incident Tracking System using Next.js (App Router) + TypeScript with Postgres (Neon) and Prisma, including RBAC (User/Support/Admin), tickets/comments, and audit logging. Uses Zod for schema/type validation and relies on Chrome/React DevTools to debug and refine UI/UX and performance.”

Zoe Meng

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Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in React, Node.js, GraphQL, and TypeScript

Richmond, CA6y exp

“Full-stack engineer experienced in high-growth (seed to Series B/C) SaaS environments, with strong production ownership across performance, observability, and reliability. Has shipped Next.js App Router/TypeScript features and improved real-world UX metrics (e.g., virtualization boosting scroll from 30→60 FPS and reducing mobile bounce), optimized Postgres with indexing/EXPLAIN ANALYZE, and built idempotent payment/provisioning workflows using Temporal.”

“Led a government smart city deployment where success depended less on pure engineering and more on navigating policy, budget, and operational constraints. Built phased, cost-conscious systems combining data pipelines, on-prem AI, OCR, and human-in-the-loop workflows to deliver stable production outcomes and make ambiguous real-world data more controllable at scale.”