Vetted Research Assistants in California

“Unreal Engine 5 gameplay/systems developer who led major core features for the Early Access Steam city builder Geopogo Cities: Windsor Detroit, including an end-to-end building placement system tightly integrated with economy, AI pedestrians (Mass AI/Zone Graph/State Trees), and procedural city block generation. Also built a third-person exploration layer with character customization, stamina, and animation retargeting on top of the City Sample Crowd framework, plus shipped player-driven UX improvements based on live Early Access feedback.”

“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.”

“Founding member of Tausight, building AI systems to detect and protect PHI for healthcare organizations; helped take the company through post–Series A funding and exited after ~6 years. Drove a strategic collaboration with Intel’s OpenVINO team—becoming the first to deploy it in a real production system and improving model performance by ~30% on customer Intel-CPU machines.”

“Full-stack engineer and ML assistant in UC Irvine’s CS department who deployed a lab project showcase platform and integrated on-demand execution of computational projects using Docker for isolation. Also built and optimized Linux cloud/cluster test automation for research, diagnosing RAM and network sync bottlenecks, and later led development of a Python-based predictive analytics tool for musicians using probabilistic graphical models and flexible data pipelines.”

“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.”

“Outbound-focused candidate with experience spanning EV charging/business development and e-commerce agency outreach. They combine cold calling, digital marketing, and message testing to generate qualified conversations, including booking local business owners to speak with a CEO about EV charger installation and app-host partnerships.”

“Full-stack JavaScript engineer (React/Node/Vue) who has operated like a maintainer by owning an internal component library with Storybook-style examples, documentation, and non-breaking versioning. Demonstrated strong performance engineering on a source code review service—profiling bottlenecks, fixing N+1 queries, adding caching, and trimming payloads to cut latency (e.g., ~100ms to <50ms) while rolling out incremental, test-backed improvements.”