Vetted Software Developers in California

Ali Taquie

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI and FinTech payments

Santa Cruz, CA2y exp

“Forward-deployed software engineer at PayStand who uses LLM prototyping tools (e.g., Cursor, Lovable) to rapidly build customer-specific demo environments and drive sales outcomes—citing ~$100K in technical buy-in before production development. Experienced supporting an enterprise expense management product (Teampay) with agentic AI workflows, emphasizing observability (Grafana/Loki/Tempo) and cross-functional communication with sales, product, developers, and customers.”

“Implementation/CS professional with enterprise account ownership in fintech/payments and ERP-integrated workflows (NetSuite, QuickBooks), including complex hybrid AP/mass pay setups and bidirectional sync challenges. Partners closely with Product/Engineering on integration plans and sandbox validation, and has driven expansion by upselling REST API automation beyond initial iFrame/ERP scope.”

“Built an end-to-end automated trading system for Polymarket, including Go/Python execution services, Terraform-scheduled ETL/feature pipelines, and monitoring on modest hardware. Also shipped a production LLM+RAG signal verifier/explainer that grounds trade decisions in external context (news/social) with vector DB retrieval and guardrails, plus a lightweight RAGAS-style eval loop on ~50 resolved markets that improved signal faithfulness by ~15%.”

“Frontend/product engineer with strong Angular and TypeScript experience who has owned internal products like a configuration-driven reporting platform and bulk-operation workflows end to end. Stands out for combining product ownership, backend/API collaboration, and AI-powered analytics work, including a Gemini-based sentiment dashboard that helps the business mine user feedback for retention and subscription insights.”

Manaliben Ajudiya

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud, .NET, and distributed systems

Mountain View, CA11y exp

“Unity developer with unusually broad applied experience spanning real-time face recognition, AR geospatial systems enhanced with LLM-driven interactions, multiplayer networking, and cross-platform VR/mobile delivery. Also owned Honeywell Guided Work Solutions end-to-end, building server and client applications across web, Windows, and mobile for frontline worker workflows.”

“Founding/solo engineer who rebuilt an early-stage product from the ground up: Ask NETA, an AI assistant for electricians to answer complex electrical code questions. Delivered a full-stack TypeScript system (React web + React Native iOS/Android, Express API, Postgres on AWS) with CI/CD, observability, and a Vertex AI RAG pipeline, reaching 3,000 MAUs in the first month; also built a real-time distributed scoring system handling unreliable hardware data with sequencing and retries.”

Kyle Vo

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in web, mobile, and embedded systems

Davis, CA1y exp

“Software/IoT-focused candidate with startup internship experience building a planner AI service integrating Google Calendar (OAuth/token handling) and connecting AI, backend, frontend, and database. Also has embedded systems + AWS networking troubleshooting experience and has implemented TCP networking projects optimized for throughput and low jitter/latency; collaborates with clients via weekly meetings using Trello/Slack.”

Pranita Agrawal

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in Java microservices and AWS

California, USA5y exp

“TypeScript backend/full-stack engineer who owned an internal business workflow platform end-to-end in production, including API/data design, relational DB integration, and enterprise integrations. Has hands-on experience operating workflow processing services with Kafka-style event-driven patterns, idempotency, exponential backoff retries, dead-letter queues, and strong observability, plus API design with OpenAPI/Swagger and token-based auth.”