Vetted Engineering Professionals in the Los Angeles Metro

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).”

“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.”

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.”

“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.”

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.”

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.”

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.”

Nandini Patel

Screened

Junior Mobile App Developer specializing in cross-platform sports fan engagement

Los Angeles, CA3y exp

“Front-end engineer with hands-on experience building analytics-heavy React dashboards and performance-sensitive browser UIs across marketing and live-broadcast products. Stands out for combining deep browser fundamentals, analytics-driven UX improvements, and strong TypeScript discipline to ship interfaces that are both measurable and reliable.”

“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.”

“AI/LLM engineer with crypto/social-data domain experience who built an end-to-end AI trading signals and analysis backend using Next.js, Inngest, Gemini, and Supabase, including real-time progress UX and robust rate-limit/reliability handling. Also published an MCP SDK on NPM for authenticated agent tool access and built autonomous Twitter-based AI agents; strengthened reliability at LunarCrush by adding CI-gated E2E testing across web and mobile (Cypress/Maestro).”