Vetted Software Engineers in the Bay Area

Akshay Danthi

Screened

Senior AI Engineer specializing in production GenAI systems

San Francisco, CA8y exp

“AI engineer who has shipped production LLM systems end-to-end, including a natural-language-to-SQL analytics copilot for career advisors that achieved ~95% query success through schema grounding, access controls, and automated regression testing with golden queries. Also builds LangGraph-orchestrated multi-step agents (resume analysis, recommendations) and RAG pipelines (PDF ingestion + FAISS) and partners closely with non-technical users to drive adoption and trust.”

Edward Yu

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in FinTech, payments, and authentication

Sunnyvale, CA8y exp

“Software engineer with experience at Dollar Shave Club and Mudflap, focused on user-driven product delivery and cross-team alignment. Built an Okta SSO-based internal portal (React/Node) centralizing access to org services, and has hands-on experience diagnosing LLM/agent workflow issues via instrumentation and systematic triage. Known for translating between product/customer needs and engineering tradeoffs to ship quickly while planning stabilization and scalability.”

“Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer who built internal product capabilities at Mercedes-Benz R&D, including a vehicle exploration platform, test drive booking flow, and a 0→1 vehicle comparison feature. Stands out for combining strong React architecture and performance optimization with practical backend/API ownership in Node/Express and MongoDB.”

“Full-stack and AI product engineer focused on data instrumentation and tracking-plan automation. They built an end-to-end publish architecture plus an MCP/agent workflow that turns PRDs, Figma files, and meeting transcripts into tracking plans and implementation-ready code, reportedly shrinking work from 4-5 days to minutes. They also show strong judgment around productionizing LLM systems, with tool-centric prompt design, backend guardrails, and human-in-the-loop controls for high-risk actions.”

Yuanmu Li

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack web applications

Sunnyvale, CA2y exp

“Full-stack product engineer in the health and wellness space who has owned prescription workflow features end to end, including React/TypeScript frontend work and GraphQL-backed API aggregation across messy downstream systems. Also shipped an internal OpenAI-powered support assistant with grounded context, structured outputs, validation, and human-in-the-loop safeguards—showing strong practical judgment at the intersection of healthcare workflows and applied AI.”

“LLM/RAG engineer who took a PDF-heavy agent from prototype to production for an Africa-based client, combining Pinecone retrieval with robust PDF parsing (unstructured.io, OCR, structured table extraction). Demonstrates strong production mindset (eval metrics, prompt hardening, security/scalability) and measurable optimization impact (30% efficiency gain, 2x faster responses), and has helped close deals by building security-focused POCs for skeptical IT stakeholders.”

bikramjit ganguly

Screened

Staff Full-Stack Engineer specializing in API-driven web platforms and distributed systems

San Jose, CA24y exp

“Highly agent-centric builder who uses Codex daily to generate and manage full application repos, including Next.js CRUD apps, GitHub automation, and AWS lifecycle scripts to avoid long-lived cloud artifacts. They also experiment with multi-agent workflows for parallel development and correctness checking, showing strong practical fluency with emerging AI-native software development patterns.”

Rutuja Sanjay Risbood

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in enterprise web and mobile applications

San Jose, CA8y exp

“Front-end engineer with unusually deep browser-systems knowledge, having built and owned a real-time merchant analytics platform for financial analysts handling millions of live transactions. Stands out for combining low-level performance engineering, typed React architecture, and expert-user UX polish, with strong measurable outcomes across speed, usability, and maintainability.”

Mahima Mannava

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI, LLM systems, and full-stack development

San Jose, CA3y exp

“AI/full-stack engineer who built a computer-usage agent end to end, including a split local/cloud architecture that used a vision LLM to drive real Chrome workflows while avoiding bot detection. Stands out for combining product-minded systems design, rigorous evals, and prompt iteration to achieve sub-2-second latency and a 20% reduction in automation failures in an early-stage environment.”

“Built and shipped an AI-powered support assistant at PNC Bank, owning both the React/TypeScript frontend and Python/FastAPI + LangChain/OpenAI backend. Stands out for applying RAG in a regulated banking environment with measurable impact: 34% better knowledge retrieval accuracy and 27% faster support lookup time.”

“Backend engineer with TaskRabbit experience building and operating payment/booking services in Python/Django on AWS (ECS + Lambda) with Kafka/SQS eventing. Demonstrates strong production reliability and incident ownership in high-stakes payment flows (idempotency, strict timeouts, retries, monitoring/alerting) plus data/ETL work in AWS Glue and measurable SQL performance wins.”

“Product-focused full-stack engineer (70/30 app vs infra) with Accenture experience and recent AI workflow work, shipping end-to-end systems from React/TypeScript UIs through FastAPI backends to Postgres. Built an AI-driven data extraction platform with async job APIs, strict schema validation, and strong observability, and has operated AWS ECS-based deployments with real incident mitigation (DB connection exhaustion/latency under traffic spikes).”

Joshua Hewitt

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in Generative AI product development

San Francisco, USA9y exp

“AI product builder at Padlet who shipped multiple production LLM features for education workflows, including an AI document generator (AI Recipes) and a RAG-enabled in-product chat assistant. Built an AI microservice layer (LangChain) to swap model providers easily and created automated + human-in-the-loop evaluation systems (including ~100-test runs) to iterate on prompts and quality.”

Farzam Ebadypour

Screened

Senior Security Sales Engineer specializing in AI security and edge WAF/API protection

San Jose, CA34y exp

“Enterprise customer success / technical sales professional with strong security and fintech account experience, owning onboarding through renewal for a ~5k-employee rollout. Demonstrated measurable outcomes including 80%+ adoption, 3-year renewal with expansion, CSAT 9/10 and NPS 69, plus a reported 60%+ reduction in security analyst review time; experienced driving SIEM/ticketing integrations and influencing product roadmap from customer feedback.”

Kavya Aitagoni

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in web platforms and live events

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“Full-stack product engineer with experience shipping user-facing web products end-to-end, including an event analytics dashboard and checkout improvements at Eventbrite. Stands out for combining frontend polish, backend reliability, and production-minded practices like idempotent APIs, query optimization, CI/CD, logging, and monitoring to improve conversion and reduce engineering dependency.”

Ashok Canchi

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and AdTech systems

Sunnyvale, CA4y exp

“Front-end engineer with nearly 2 years of React experience who independently owned a revamp of an internal ad tech platform as the sole front-end engineer. Stands out for handling complex conditional UI flows, collaborating across product/design/backend, and proactively improving usability and performance through techniques like debouncing, virtualization, and TypeScript.”

“Software engineer with hands-on AWS operations experience who owned an end-to-end manufacturing image ingestion pipeline (on-prem to AWS S3) integrated with MES/WMS. In an early-stage SaaS internship, diagnosed a load bottleneck using K6/New Relic and shipped an NGINX least-connection load-balancing solution that scaled to ~4000 RPS while reducing latency. Also improved maintainability and performance in a React/Node e-commerce codebase, cutting page load time from ~10s to 2.8s.”

“Engineering Manager/player-coach leading Data Infrastructure, ML/DS, and AI Engineering pods who recently shipped multiple production agentic GenAI features. Built privacy-preserving LLM workflows (PII redaction via Microsoft Presidio) and drove an AI expense-approval agent from ambiguous ask to GA, cutting approval time from ~2.5 days to <4 hours with >85% accuracy. Also owned a major LLM cost overrun incident and implemented cost observability plus circuit breakers to prevent runaway agent loops.”

Supreet Purthpli

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native MLOps and FinTech

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Software engineer with JPMorgan Chase experience delivering end-to-end fintech features (Next.js/React/Node/Postgres on AWS) and measurable performance gains. Built and productionized an AI-native credit decisioning workflow combining LLMs, vector retrieval, and a rules engine with strong governance (bias checks, auditability, human-in-loop), improving precision and cutting underwriting turnaround time by 40%.”

“Full-stack product engineer who has built both operational systems and enterprise AI copilots in production. They owned an AI-powered inventory platform end-to-end, driving a 45% drop in stock issues, and also shipped a Microsoft Teams-based HR/IT copilot using RAG and workflow automation that reduced repetitive support queries by roughly 30%.”

PrabhjyotKaur Bamrah

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in enterprise apps and AI integration

Redwood City, CA4y exp

“Engineer with experience scaling enterprise AI products in production, including a C3 AI deployment expanded from 2 to 4 sites across the US and Canada. Also built a GPT-4o-powered RAG assistant for plant operators, combining structured and unstructured data with human-in-the-loop safeguards and iterative evals to improve answer quality.”

“Frontend-leaning full-stack developer with hands-on experience building a proof-of-concept customer service application at Florida Blue using React/Redux Saga, Node/Express, and MongoDB. Also contributed at Yahoo via Wipro on a metrics dashboard, where their UI changes became the basis for additional team features.”