Vetted Software Developers in California

“Backend engineer who owned and shipped a campaign analytics API (FastAPI/Postgres/Redis/Celery) with ingestion from Instagram/YouTube, JWT auth, tests, and Docker deployment; improved performance from >1s to <150ms using precomputed aggregates and composite indexes. Experienced with Kubernetes GitOps using GitHub Actions + ArgoCD (zero-downtime rollouts, one-click rollbacks), Prometheus/Grafana observability, hybrid cloud-to-on-prem migrations, and real-time notification streaming via Redis Pub/Sub + WebSockets.”

“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.”

“Engineering leader with hands-on architecture depth who has improved team delivery cadence to weekly releases by redesigning SDLC ownership and validation workflows. Currently leading AI/LLM product work around meeting-transcript intelligence for sales use cases, with a strong emphasis on observability, prompt tuning, and iterative UX refinement.”

Purva Chakravarti

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in scalable web apps, cloud, and blockchain/AI

Chino, California11y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong production ownership across React/TypeScript, Node.js, and AWS (EC2/ECS/RDS/CloudWatch), including CI/CD, observability, and incident response. Delivered a secure RBAC workflow module end-to-end and achieved measurable gains (~30–40% latency reduction, ~50% error reduction) that lowered infra/ops costs. Comfortable in high-ambiguity startup environments—shipped a payment module within 2 days of joining with no documentation.”

“Full-stack/AI engineer with very recent startup experience building creator and CRM AI platforms. They combine React/TypeScript frontend work with Python-based LangChain/LangGraph AI workflows and Go microservices, and have practical experience hardening third-party integrations through abstraction layers, versioning, monitoring, and alerts.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across Python/Flask microservices and AWS serverless/data platforms (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Glue/PySpark). Demonstrated strong reliability and operations mindset (JWT/RBAC, retries/timeouts/circuit breakers, CloudWatch/SNS alerting) and measurable performance wins (SQL report runtime cut from 10 minutes to 30 seconds). Seeking ~$150k base and cannot travel for onsite meetings for the next 5–6 months due to family medical constraints.”

“CloudData engineer who productionized an LLM assistant for a warehouse/logistics customer by wrapping it as a versioned, containerized API with guardrails, deterministic post-processing, and full observability. Experienced diagnosing real-time RAG/agentic incidents (latency spikes and confident-wrong answers) using trace-based isolation, replay in staging, retrieval tuning, and canary releases. Regularly runs technical demos/workshops and partners with sales on security/IAM, SLAs, and pilot rollouts to drive adoption.”

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).”

“Full-stack product engineer at AllCheer who has shipped production AI workflow systems in a compliance-sensitive healthcare operations context. They built React/FastAPI products with LangChain and OpenAI to automate release-of-information and note-extraction workflows, delivering measurable impact including ~60% faster processing, ~$20K annual savings, and ~92% extraction accuracy.”

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.”