Vetted Engineering Professionals in the Los Angeles Metro

“JavaScript/TypeScript engineer with proven open-source impact: delivered a major reliability upgrade to a retry/error-handling library (standardized typed errors, added exponential backoff, expanded Jest tests, and implemented GitHub Actions CI) that was merged and released. Demonstrates strong performance engineering and debugging skills (profiling-driven optimization; diagnosed a race condition causing inconsistent retries) plus a documentation-first approach to developer experience.”

Mike Khorrami

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Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in enterprise SaaS and cloud-native platforms

Woodland Hills, CA25y exp

“Engineering leader/player-coach who modernized a legacy C#/SQL Server system to Snowflake + Python on GCP, enabling ~30x scale and supporting hundreds of millions of transactions per day per customer. Strong in architecture tradeoffs (Snowflake vs Databricks), production reliability (New Relic, logging/alerting), and lightweight process improvements like a rigorous Definition of Done and structured PR reviews.”

“Founder of Business Online Strategic Solutions Digital Marketing, a 5-year bootstrapped digital marketing and web solutions startup serving small-to-mid-sized and enterprise clients. Focused on building scalable, performance-driven web experiences (web dev, UX/UI, CRO, marketing strategy) and is actively scaling capabilities in modern front-end development and AI-assisted workflows.”

“Backend/AI infrastructure engineer focused on production-ready LLM systems and distributed workflows. They described building a RAG-based multi-step agent with strong reliability controls, evaluation loops, and graceful degradation that improved latency by 30%, retrieval accuracy by 15%, and reduced support workload by 40%.”

“Backend/AI workflow engineer with experience at AirKitchenz, Uber, and Vivma Software, building production systems on AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, Step Functions). Has a track record of major performance wins (DynamoDB latency 2s to <150ms; Postgres query 2s to ~180ms) and shipping LLM-powered onboarding and ticket-routing workflows with strong guardrails (schema validation, confidence thresholds, human-in-the-loop escalation).”

“Built production AI systems in high-stakes domains, including a medical RAG chatbot focused on reducing hallucinations and a document-processing workflow that automated manual PDF extraction. Demonstrates strong end-to-end ownership across backend services, APIs, LLM integration, and iterative reliability improvements based on real usage and failure analysis.”

Dallas Grimm

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Mid-level QA Tester specializing in video game testing and bug management

Woodland Hills, CA4y exp

“Game designer with shipped experience on MLB The Show 20 (Road to the Show mode) and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (2019) campaign NVG feature, with a focus on progression tuning and realism/authenticity constraints. Currently building an Unreal Engine 5 game using Blueprints for level/VFX/interactions and C++ for scripting, iterating on exploration features like entering buildings.”

Qichen Zhao

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Intern Software Engineer specializing in Applied AI and LLM systems

Los Angeles, CA0y exp

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based conversational "Yelp for AI tools" at Search-AI Inc., focused on personalized, explainable AI tool recommendations from thousands of options. Emphasizes production-grade reliability and performance (hybrid retrieval, async two-stage pipelines) and is also building a multi-agent orchestration layer (MAgIc) with typed memory and controlled coordination policies.”

Matthew Eis

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Mid-level QA Tester specializing in video game testing and localization

Los Angeles, CA4y exp

“Game QA professional with live production experience at Nexon America owning localization verification for new MapleStory questlines (quests, VO, subtitles) and managing issues through Jira-based regression. Previously identified and documented a hard-to-repro main-quest progression blocker on Horizon Zero Dawn: Forbidden West, providing video-backed repro steps that enabled a fix before the next build shipped.”

“Built and owns the full ProteinMenus AI pipeline end-to-end, spanning the iOS client, FastAPI backend, Gemini integration, Firestore, and Cloud Run deployment. Strongest signal is full-stack product ownership in an AI-driven consumer workflow, including monetization logic via an atomic credit system and architecture choices optimized for fast iteration after launch.”

“Frontend-focused engineer with experience delivering a major licensing-model migration, moving customers from legacy key-based licensing to a dynamic renewal experience. Strongest signals are in React/TypeScript architecture, reusable component design, micro frontends, and frontend quality/performance practices.”

“Entry-level software engineer with strong full-stack experience building React/TypeScript and Node.js analytics products, especially around performance optimization for large datasets. Stands out for combining hands-on engineering with user discovery, and for delivering measurable wins like 40% fewer API calls, page load improvements from 3.2s to 1.1s, and 70% faster PostgreSQL queries during an internship at Tapastry.”

“Backend engineer who built an async FastAPI data pipeline at GHN Career Academy to replace a manual Excel-based workflow, migrating 30k+ contact records into Airtable with validation/deduplication and best-effort GPT-based enrichment. Emphasizes reliability under messy real-world data and partial failures via structured logging, retries, and resumable processing, unlocking downstream automations (e.g., Zapier and chatbots).”

Sai Sreenath Kalva

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Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI and Healthcare IT

Rosemead, CA5y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong AI architecture experience in regulated healthcare environments, including a HIPAA-compliant conversational reporting assistant for LA County Department of Public Health and clinical workflow features for Oracle Health/Cerner PowerChart. Stands out for combining LLM/RAG system design, healthcare compliance, and production-grade reliability practices across Azure, AWS, and Kubernetes.”

“Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer with experience building real-time, high-stakes operational software for airport gate management and billing/analytics systems. Stands out for combining strong React/TypeScript architecture with backend and data-layer ownership, including WebSockets, SQL optimization, and analytics feature delivery in production.”