Vetted Software Developers in the Bay Area

Sandeep Gandhi

Screened

Executive technology leader specializing in FinTech, identity, and AI-native platforms

San Ramon, CA26y exp

“Current CTO of Idmission leading a 150+ person engineering organization, with deep experience scaling delivery, CI/CD, and architecture modernization. Combines executive leadership with hands-on technical depth across microservices, Kubernetes, and AI systems, including a RAG support platform that reduced resolution time by 50% and passive liveness technology that improved client acquisition by 20%.”

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.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered email automation agent for procurement that ingests emails/attachments, classifies requests via rules+embeddings+LLM fallback, enriches responses with SAP inventory data, and generates templated replies. Architected it as an event-driven, idempotent Azure Functions/Queues pipeline with schema-constrained outputs, confidence gating, retries/circuit breakers, and Application Insights monitoring—cutting turnaround time from 4–7 days to near real-time while maintaining zero downtime.”

“Built and shipped production AI features for Aiden, including a natural-language agent and a Knowledge Hub ingestion/retrieval system. Stands out for hands-on debugging of real LLM production issues across providers like OpenAI and AWS Bedrock, improving reliability and achieving 90% response/retrieval consistency through direct LiteLLM integration, validation, monitoring, and async system design.”

“Built a semantic search portal for a fellowship department and an AI-driven PR review pipeline, using AI selectively for boilerplate while retaining full ownership of architecture, security review, testing, and deployment. Has hands-on experience with multi-agent systems, monitoring, and security validation, with a notably disciplined approach to catching false positives and rewriting weak AI output.”

Utkarsh Aman

Screened

Senior Frontend Engineer specializing in scalable consumer apps and micro frontends

San Francisco, California7y exp

“Frontend engineer focused on React/TypeScript dashboards for manufacturing-cycle analytics (downtime/wait time/cycle time). Has hands-on experience building reusable charting components (JSON-to-graph) with React ECharts, scaling data flows with Redux/RTK Query, and refactoring monolithic UI code into modular components while shipping on a ~3-week release cadence.”

Umair Khokhar

Screened

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in AI Platforms for Enterprise B2B SaaS

San Francisco, CA15y exp

“Technical leader/player-coach who architected and shipped an end-to-end computer vision pricing system for a major North American auto seller, using Go + Ray + AWS SageMaker in a low-latency distributed inference architecture. Strong in production governance (logs/tracing/guardrails/AppSec), reliability incident ownership (DNS limits affecting 20% traffic), and measurable delivery acceleration (deployment cycle 16→4 days; delivery speed 5→2 days) through process optimization and AI-assisted enablement.”

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.”