Vetted Engineering Professionals in the Los Angeles Metro

“Full-stack engineer who built and iterated a CRM dashboard at ReplyQuick by sitting with end users, prioritizing blockers, and shipping frequent updates—improving usability and performance enough to replace a spreadsheet workflow within ~2 months. Demonstrates strong security fundamentals (OAuth2/JWT + RBAC) and practical microservices experience (decoupling a CRM API from a PDF-processing service via async processing and status tracking).”

“Backend/data platform engineer who owned an enterprise Django REST + PostgreSQL reporting backend and built Python ETL pipelines to normalize 3M+ legacy customer records, improving data reliability by 85%. Strong Kubernetes/GitOps practitioner (Helm, ArgoCD, Jenkins/GitHub Actions) with real-world production debugging experience, plus Kafka streaming at 5M events/day and a zero-downtime monolith-to-event-driven microservices migration on AWS that cut infra costs by 42%.”

“Backend engineer who owned and shipped a campaign analytics API (FastAPI/Postgres/Redis/Celery) with ingestion from Instagram/YouTube, JWT auth, tests, and Docker deployment; improved performance from >1s to <150ms using precomputed aggregates and composite indexes. Experienced with Kubernetes GitOps using GitHub Actions + ArgoCD (zero-downtime rollouts, one-click rollbacks), Prometheus/Grafana observability, hybrid cloud-to-on-prem migrations, and real-time notification streaming via Redis Pub/Sub + WebSockets.”

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.”

“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.”

“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).”