Vetted Software Developers in California

“Zero Trust security product lead focused on UI/API delivery, stability, and customer adoption at enterprise scale, including deployments serving 1200 customers. Stands out for hands-on production debugging across the full stack, customer-facing incident ownership, and a pragmatic approach to turning failures into automated regression coverage.”

“Backend-focused engineer building customer support/order-tracking platforms with Java 17/Spring Boot microservices and a React/TypeScript frontend. Deep experience running event-driven systems on Kubernetes (Kafka, Redis, MySQL) with strong observability (Prometheus/Grafana/Splunk), SLOs, and safe deployment practices (feature flags, canaries). Also built an internal monitoring/debugging dashboard that consolidated metrics and logs for on-call engineers and was adopted by other teams to speed incident response.”

“Full-stack/product-minded engineer with recent experience in both an early-stage AI startup and a B2B payments marketplace. Stands out for building a pgvector-based semantic cache that reduced LLM latency by 35% and for shipping audit-heavy payment infrastructure with Stripe/Plaid, idempotent webhook handling, and major reconciliation query optimizations.”

Prateek Patil

Screened

Engineering Leader specializing in Digital Health, AI, and Cloud Platforms

Santa Clara, CA16y exp

“Senior Engineering Manager at Roche leading two Scrum teams building internally shared (“inner-sourced”) tools and libraries for a healthcare enterprise. Has led security/compliance-first architecture decisions (e.g., Python AI modules running inside a Java container) and front-end modularization (Angular monorepo to module federation), with a strong focus on developer experience via automated Swagger/OpenAPI documentation and robust testing/versioning practices.”

“Built and owned an end-to-end AV operations automation and dashboarding platform for USC event operations, used daily to coordinate hundreds of live events. Delivered a React/TypeScript full-stack system integrating Smartsheet APIs with strong reliability practices (typed contracts, validation/fallbacks, safe rollouts) and experience with queue-based microservice patterns (idempotency, retries, DLQs, monitoring).”

“Candidate has hands-on experience delivering production data and AI systems, including an AWS-based real-time data platform for a financial client at Deloitte and a production RAG workflow that cut manual search time by 40%. They stand out for combining strong data engineering depth with practical LLM governance, incident debugging, and stakeholder management across business and risk/compliance teams.”

“Frontend-focused product engineer from TrialTrace who owned features end-to-end across product decisions, architecture, implementation, and testing. Strong in TypeScript/React applications with complex data visualization and dashboarding, including refactoring core coordinate logic, building filter-state architecture, and shipping fast user-driven features.”

Melissa Bennett

Screened

Executive engineering and AI leader specializing in healthcare AI and startup scaling

Los Angeles, CA21y exp

“Engineering leader who has built teams and products from scratch in both healthcare AI and consumer tech. Most notably, they grew Thrive AI Health’s engineering org from 0 to 20 and led delivery of a multimodal, multi-agent AI health coach—including a real-time voice experience piloted with Eli Lilly—while previously scaling Sweetgreen’s mobile ordering platform into a major revenue channel.”

“Biopharma R&D product leader with 6-8 years building enterprise data, analytics, and AI products for drug discovery and biologics research. Notably led a multi-site biosample discovery platform that became an enterprise-wide capability at Bristol Myers Squibb and also drove an AI-powered scientific insight platform using RAG/LLM approaches to reduce time-to-insight for researchers.”

Poojitha MaheshShyla

Screened

Mid-level Java Backend Developer specializing in cloud-native microservices

Sunnyvale, CA5y exp

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with Walmart experience building and operating high-volume media upload and processing systems. Strong in Java/Spring Boot, Postgres performance tuning (EXPLAIN/ANALYZE), and durable workflows using Kafka/Spring Batch with retries and idempotency, plus production ownership via monitoring and optimization; familiar with Next.js/TypeScript and modern React performance patterns.”