Vetted Software Engineers in the Bay Area

“Built and shipped a map-embedding SDK (published to npm) for Walmart apps, solving key performance issues with real-time streaming (WebSockets) and Canvas rendering while prioritizing developer experience. Also applies LLM/agentic patterns in production workflows—using diagnostic agents and human-in-the-loop escalation to detect and resolve issues (e.g., voice agent loops caused by RAG API failures). Has sales-engineering experience supporting enterprise renewals, including a million-dollar contract renewal while at Siemens working with Ford stakeholders.”

“Engineer who uses AI in a disciplined, practical way—leveraging it to speed debugging, generate edge-case tests, and improve coverage while retaining ownership of system design and production validation. Has experimented with chained AI tools but prefers simpler workflows when they reduce noise and review overhead.”

“Engineer with a notably mature AI-native development process: uses Claude/Claude Code in a test-first, iterative workflow and has led multi-agent builds across frontend, backend, and testing. Most notably, they led development of an AI voice agent platform, creating custom agent skills and enforcing clear architectural boundaries to deliver a stable, scalable system.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer (5+ years) with Shopify experience integrating LLM/RAG workflows into production APIs. Owned a Python TensorFlow Serving inference pipeline connected to Java microservices via gRPC, optimizing tail latency at ~10k concurrent load and improving retrieval relevance with embedding and evaluation work. Strong Kubernetes/EKS + GitOps/CI/CD background, including monolith-to-microservices migrations and event-driven streaming patterns.”

“UX/product designer with deep healthcare and mission-critical software experience across 3M Healthcare, GE Healthcare, and Motorola. Has designed complex lab automation and radiology workflows end-to-end, combining rigorous field research with hands-on engineering (HTML/CSS/TypeScript/React, Storybook) and even building live prototypes (Firebase + Angular) and production-ready UI control libraries to ship.”

“Sole engineer on a large-scale authentication migration moving 350+ tenants from password-based auth to OAuth 2.0 client credentials, delivering zero downtime, full adoption, and no support tickets. Also has early hands-on experience with agentic LLM proof-of-concepts and has built structured workflow tooling to reduce ambiguity in customer-to-engineering handoffs.”

Kaochoy Saetern

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Senior Unity VR/AR Developer specializing in XR platforms and immersive applications

San Francisco, CA8y exp

“Unity/C# gameplay engineer with hands-on ownership of a full VR combat system at Bad Honey Bun Games, spanning movement, combat, health, audio, lighting, and branching level flow. Shipped a Meta Quest demo that reached 10k downloads in its first month while sustaining 72+ FPS, and also brings Photon PUN2 multiplayer experience from simulation work in the oil and gas sector.”

Yash Jain

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Director-level engineering leader specializing in identity, authentication, and AI security

Mountain View, CA12y exp

“Engineering leader at Intuit focused on identity, authentication, and security infrastructure for AI integrations in highly sensitive financial workflows. Led a 10-person Tier 1 team, built an AgentIdentity framework across 3 organizations, and helped launch TurboTax/QBO integrations with ChatGPT and Claude while maintaining strict reliability and security standards.”

“Backend/data engineer from ASML who modernized a legacy SAS-based statistical processing system into a cloud-native AWS platform (Lambda/FastAPI, Step Functions/EventBridge, Glue, S3/RDS) with strong reliability and data-quality practices. Demonstrated measurable performance wins (RDS query reduced from 90+ seconds to <5 seconds) and hands-on incident ownership for production ETL pipelines.”

“Senior Engineering Manager with a player-coach style who stays technically engaged through heavy code reviews and pair programming. Led prioritization and stakeholder alignment for a scalable, resilient feature-flag evaluation service with strict sub-50ms latency goals, including a major caching-strategy redesign and incremental rollout approach. Experienced in incident response/retrospectives and in coaching engineers toward improved performance and promotions.”

Nilesh Dixit

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Executive AI engineering leader specializing in agentic AI and enterprise platforms

San Francisco, CA24y exp

“Bay Area engineering leader and startup co-founder with a rare mix of deep hands-on architecture experience, large-scale people leadership, and cross-functional product ownership. He helped launch GE Digital's industrial IoT efforts, holds multiple patents in the space, has scaled teams to 60-70 people, and has led both enterprise platform modernization and AI startup product development.”

“Software engineer at Paradigm who is deeply hands-on with agentic development workflows and AI-assisted coding. He built an in-house OAuth layer to replace a third-party service and reduce projected integration costs, and also created an "ambient agent" that proactively responds to user behavior on the website. He stands out for combining full-stack architecture thinking with a disciplined, model-aware workflow for designing, implementing, and reviewing AI-generated code.”

“Senior engineering leader from IBM who has built and scaled enterprise AI/GenAI platforms across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, combining executive-level org leadership with hands-on debugging of production distributed systems. Particularly compelling for Director/VP roles needing someone who can unify architecture, platform strategy, and engineering execution across multiple teams.”

Rediet Gesesse

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Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and full-stack platforms

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Built a kitchen capacity management system for merchants, owning deployment through stabilization and continuously tuning capacity based on fulfillment and cancellation outcomes. Also designed customer-support decision workflows for refunds/credits with a focus on fraud cost reduction, and has hands-on experience with Kafka, Flink, relational databases, and production incident mitigation via feature-flag rollbacks.”

Jyothi Kumar

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack enterprise SaaS and digital marketing

Mountain View, CA10y exp

“Atlassian engineer who grew from frontend into full-stack ownership, spanning React/TypeScript UI architecture, backend data pipelines, observability, and Kotlin/Spring Boot integrations. They describe owning Confluence profile-service integration tied to signup growth, plus building a marketing analytics platform with caching, reusable components, and data-quality tooling that increased stakeholder adoption by 30%.”

“Frontend-leaning product engineer who has owned complex, data-heavy interfaces across Stitch Fix, Amplitude, Salesforce, and C3Drone. Stands out for modernizing legacy UIs into React, improving performance for large and real-time datasets, and stepping beyond frontend into backend sync logic, middleware, and query/parser work to ship collaborative product features.”