Vetted Research Assistants in the Los Angeles Metro

“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.”

“Built and shipped a production RAG system (“TROJAN KNOWLEDGE”) for answering questions over technical PDFs, using a 3-stage retrieval stack (BM25 + FAISS + cross-encoder) to lift F1 from 71% to 84%. Drove major performance gains with a 3-level cache (memory/Redis/disk) cutting latency from ~200ms to ~10ms, and added Prometheus/Grafana monitoring plus LangChain-based fallback logic to handle OpenAI rate limits under load.”

Raj Kale

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack systems and FinTech

Los Angeles, CA3y exp

“Full-stack engineer with experience building financial and hiring-product systems, spanning React/TypeScript dashboards, Flask/Kafka/Postgres backends, and multi-tenant configuration for 3,000+ clients. Stands out for combining deep technical debugging and performance work with product-minded UX improvements, including a 41% lift in resume matching accuracy and ~40% latency reduction through batching and query tuning.”

“Built and deployed real-world systems end-to-end across security and healthcare contexts: led a 3-person team delivering a university vehicle tracking system with 30% cost savings and 1-year post-launch monitoring. Also implemented a healthcare RAG chatbot with adaptive query routing that cut LLM costs by 40% while maintaining answer accuracy, and has experience debugging non-deterministic LLM behavior in DevOps pipeline automation.”

Jookwang Jung

Screened

Staff Software Engineer specializing in AI-native platforms and full-stack systems

Los Angeles, CA20y exp

“Founding engineering lead and player-coach who built a small cross-functional team around an AI-first development model, increasing execution speed by more than 3x through hands-on coaching and human-in-the-loop practices. Has led architecture for a multi-tenant platform and built an AI system for fashion businesses that generates content, imagery, and operational recommendations, combining technical depth with product and UX judgment.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience shipping multiple AI-powered products, including donor recommendation systems, RAG-based document Q&A, and cybersecurity threat analysis tools. Stands out for combining TypeScript/React and backend API development with practical LLM evaluation, grounding, and production optimization—driving measurable outcomes like 30% higher donor engagement and 87% answer accuracy under 2-second latency.”

“New grad who shipped an LLM-powered writing app (“Write-it”) to production on Azure with CI/CD (GitHub Actions + JFrog) and implemented an unconventional RAG pipeline to prevent repetitive prompts using embeddings and cosine similarity. Also participated in a Luma AI image/video generation hackathon, iterating with artist feedback and improving usability by rewriting non-technical prompts via an LLM.”