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.”

“Full-stack and applied AI candidate who has shipped both a shift-management workflow product and an LLM-powered business insights system using Athena, S3, and Bedrock. They show strong grounding in prompt design, retrieval-based AI architecture, and practical human-in-the-loop product judgment, while also working in an early-stage university research project focused on accessibility for hard-of-hearing users.”

Ashay Panchal

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI-driven distributed systems

San Jose, CA4y exp

“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).”

Shiyan Tang

Screened

Mid-level Software Developer specializing in indie game development and full-stack apps

San Jose, CA3y exp

“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).”

“Graduate-level candidate who uses AI as a disciplined engineering assistant rather than an autonomous replacement, with hands-on experience coordinating manual multi-agent coding workflows across planning, implementation, and testing. They emphasize scoped execution, clear constraints, and human ownership of final merges, suggesting a thoughtful and practical approach to AI-augmented software development.”