Vetted Software Developers in the Bay Area

“Silicon Valley operator with ~30 years of experience as a board member, advisor, VC, founder, and turnaround executive, claiming 50+ venture-backed turnarounds. Has driven outsized outcomes including a $1B Nokia spinout and a 9-figure Jaspersoft exit to TIBCO, and is known for pragmatic, people-and-financials-first operational diagnosis (including CRM forensics) and rapid team scaling via structured hiring pipelines.”

“Backend engineer who built a high-stakes, privacy-first platform at be Still Analytics for survivors of domestic violence, emphasizing anonymity, security, and reliability. Experienced with GenAI backends (LangChain + AWS Bedrock) including RAG to prevent hallucinations, plus cloud-native scaling (Docker/Kubernetes) and cost-saving migrations from legacy VMs to serverless (30% reduction).”

“Robotics software engineer who built the perception-to-planning pipeline for an autonomous bipedal robot: synchronized and fused 3D LiDAR + multiple depth cameras in ROS1 (tf2/message_filters) to produce combined point clouds and 2.5D maps, then implemented and benchmarked A*/D*/RRT plus hybrid A* footstep planning in simulation. Also founded a software company and personally owned CI/CD, security checks (CodeQL), and release automation (custom release bot + Slack notifications).”

“Frontend-leaning engineer with strong React/Next.js (App Router + TypeScript) experience who has handled complex migrations (Pages to App Router) and performance-focused SSR work in a real estate inventory product. Also built regulated banking workflows (credit card disputes) using XState for correctness and implemented BullMQ/Redis queueing plus observability dashboards; background spans banking, academia, and NGOs, emphasizing scrappy delivery under constraints.”

“Backend engineer from FoodSupply.ai who built and evolved a scalable restaurant/supplier product and order management platform using Node.js and REST APIs. Implemented a hybrid MySQL+MongoDB data architecture, optimized performance with Redis/Prisma, and led a phased migration with feature flags and a temporary sync layer to maintain data consistency. Strong focus on production security (OAuth2, RBAC, row-level security, AWS IAM) and reliability practices (testing with Pytest, Docker/AWS pipelines).”

“Backend engineer who owned the API layer for an AI trust/analytics dashboard (trust scores, stability checks, public verification endpoints) using Python/FastAPI and Postgres. Has hands-on DevOps experience deploying FastAPI and Node.js services to AWS Kubernetes with GitHub Actions + ArgoCD GitOps, plus Kafka-based real-time event streaming and careful staged migration practices (shadow traffic/dual writes, rollback planning).”

“Software engineer with hands-on production experience deploying Spring Boot services to AWS using Docker and Jenkins CI/CD, focused on stable releases, easy rollback, and performance improvements through monitoring/logging and query optimization. Has proven cross-layer troubleshooting skills (identified packet loss causing intermittent timeouts via network traces) and experience collaborating on-site with operators in industrial/IoT-style environments, including working alongside robotics/PLC teams.”