Vetted Research Assistants in the Bay Area

“Backend/full-stack engineer with deep experience building weather and geospatial data systems at WindBorne, spanning Next.js/TypeScript frontends through PostgreSQL, Redis, Sidekiq, Rails, Rust, and object-storage-backed forecast pipelines. Particularly strong in production reliability work—self-healing jobs, zero-downtime migrations, query/index optimization, and event-driven ingestion architectures that reduce latency and operational waste.”

“Yogesh is an AI/full-stack engineer from LangChain who says he was the sole developer and core maintainer of OpenSWE/OpenSpeed, an asynchronous coding agent in LangSmith Cloud that turns requests from Slack, Linear, and GitHub into reviewable PRs. He emphasizes production-grade agent infrastructure: event-driven workflow design, typed run states, observability, retries, and latency improvements via pre-warmed sandboxes.”

Sai Venkata Sathwik Golla

Screened

Mid-level Backend & Applied ML Engineer specializing in LLM systems and scalable APIs

Palo Alto, CA3y exp

“Backend engineer who significantly evolved an internal analytics/reporting platform (Python API + Postgres) powering self-service dashboards for product/business teams, focusing on reliability under heavy concurrent load and fast query performance. Demonstrates strong production engineering practices across API design (FastAPI), observability, incremental rollouts with feature flags, and data security using JWT/RBAC plus Postgres row-level security.”

Tiffany Utvaer Gasser

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Mid-level Software Developer specializing in FinTech

Foster City, CA4y exp

“Software engineer with experience in a large financial institution, including ownership of an internal queue-based service and upgrades to an online credit dispute flow. Stands out for combining backend reliability work, stakeholder collaboration with bank operations staff, and a pragmatic focus on validation, monitoring, and developer experience.”

Manali Patil

Screened

Senior Software Engineer & Engineering Manager specializing in cloud backend and manufacturing MES

Santa Clara, CA9y exp

“Customer-facing engineer who led recurring midnight ERP data-feed/B2B integrations from prototype to production, building reusable APIs and using Hangfire for job scheduling. Known for tight weekly customer iteration, strong documentation and test coverage (80%+), and cross-functional problem-solving with Operations/Quality/NPI to resolve data-collection and manufacturing-process constraints; has 2 customers live on the integration.”

“Enterprise customer success/implementation leader focused on AI-driven operational intelligence deployments in complex environments (e.g., large international airports). Has led end-to-end rollouts across 1200+ camera feeds and multiple airport systems, driving adoption stabilization within 90 days, influencing product roadmap (configurable alerts), and partnering with Sales to expand from initial congestion monitoring into additional operational modules.”

Jarin Tasnim

Screened

Staff/Lead Software Engineer specializing in distributed data and ML platforms

Mountain View, CA6y exp

“Defense-domain AI engineer who built a production ReAct-style RAG system for military training data/material generation, scaling to ~1000 users and cutting generation time by 50%. Also has experience designing GPU-cluster parallel computation with PyTorch and handling production incidents involving database performance and schema design.”