Vetted Engineering Professionals in the Los Angeles Metro

“Backend/AI engineer with production experience in legal tech: built a high-scale licensing/subscription API (FastAPI/Postgres/Stripe) and shipped a RAG-based chatbot for an eDiscovery platform. Designed a robust legal document ingestion workflow that processes thousands of documents into a searchable vector index with clear retry/escalation logic, and has demonstrated measurable Postgres performance wins (200ms to 10ms) using EXPLAIN ANALYZE and composite indexing.”

Kevin Thomas

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in AI, cloud, and backend systems

Torrance, CA1y exp

“Candidate has internship and graduate-project experience building AI agents, including a production log-analysis assistant using a lightweight agentic/RAG-style workflow with local GPT training and validation against historical logs. They also worked on Android/iOS game build and release processes in a Unity-based robot racing game environment, and highlight measurable LLM outcomes including 80% analysis accuracy, 2-5 second latency, and 50% cost reduction.”

“Backend-focused engineer who built a time-sensitive data retrieval system for a source with no public API, using an AWS EC2-hosted persistent browser session plus a PostgreSQL TTL caching layer—cutting manual retrieval by 99% and achieving sub-10-second average retrieval. Emphasizes production security (Secrets Manager, encryption, IP allowlisting, rate limiting) and robustness via testing and edge-case handling (atomic file operations).”

“Machine learning lab assistant at Eastern Illinois University who productionized a voice-enabled conversational AI system: redesigned it with RAG, LoRA fine-tuning (including text-to-SQL), and safety guardrails, then deployed a scalable API supporting ~1,000 daily queries. Also partnered with customer-facing teams during a BlueFi internship by building demos/APIs and accelerating releases via Terraform + AWS CI/CD automation.”

Citlalli Trejo

Screened

Entry-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in web, iOS, and ML applications

Buena Park, CA1y exp

“Builder-minded software engineer who has shipped a live iOS budgeting app and a solo full-stack web app, with strong evidence of production discipline in both ML and fintech-style integrations. Particularly compelling for roles involving ambiguous product problems, third-party API reliability, and end-to-end ownership from backend logic through user-facing recovery flows.”

“Full-stack product engineer who has built both a production-grade React/Next.js analytics platform and a Stripe-based subscription system end to end, with measurable business impact including churn reduction, reporting automation, and cost savings. Also stands out for 0-to-1 work in the digital art space, where they built an AI-powered cataloguing and delivery pipeline over 30TB of assets using computer vision, Shopify, and cloud infrastructure.”