Vetted Software Engineers in the Bay Area

Shreya Kamath

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI-powered web platforms

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“Full-stack engineer with a strong blend of fintech and applied AI experience, having built a Stripe-based payments platform end to end and shipped an AI meeting intelligence system using LiveKit, Deepgram, and OpenAI. Particularly compelling for teams needing someone who can design reliable backend systems, productionize LLM features, and operate effectively in early-stage, ambiguous environments.”

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.”

“Full-stack and AI engineer with Capital One experience spanning real-time customer dashboards and production fraud-analysis systems. They combine TypeScript/Next.js/Node.js product engineering with LangChain-based RAG architecture over a 400 GB credit-report corpus, delivering measurable impact including 35% lower frontend latency and 45% faster analyst workflows.”

“Paystand engineer/intern who built a multi-agent LLM orchestration system (with logging/feedback loops) that became part of the team workflow and reportedly cut development time ~70%. Partnered with sales/product on enterprise demos and implemented a dynamic RBAC system that helped drive adoption of an intern-built product to multiple enterprise clients, contributing to seven-figure ARR. Also founded and pitched a student-entrepreneur business management/payments project (HustleHub) and won a university startup competition.”

“Backend engineer from Optum who built and optimized a real-time, Kafka-driven healthcare claims processing platform handling 1M+ claims/month. Strong in reliability, state management, and observability for distributed systems, plus production deployment automation with Docker/Kubernetes and CI/CD; no direct ROS/robotics simulator experience yet but frames work in robotics-adjacent real-time principles.”

“AppSec-focused engineer from Kaiser Permanente who advises on authentication/API security, performs lightweight threat modeling, and integrates SAST + dependency scanning into CI/CD while actively reducing false positives to improve release speed. Demonstrated strong troubleshooting using logs/traces/metrics (e.g., diagnosing auth failures caused by clock skew) and communicates security tradeoffs differently for engineering vs product stakeholders.”

“QA/project leader with ~19 years experience running high-profile, multi-million-dollar software initiatives and driving quality through disciplined milestone gates (Alpha/Beta/FC/GM), regression planning, and weekly bug scrubs. JIRA-centric practitioner (Zephyr/Confluence) who partners closely with engineering, automation, documentation, marketing, and sustaining teams—including offshore collaboration—to unblock testers and improve diagnostics for difficult issues like memory leaks.”

“QA/automation engineer with hands-on experience spanning web UI automation (Cypress/JavaScript) and hardware/firmware validation (BIOS/BMC, FPGA). Has delivered high-impact reliability and throughput improvements in server/HPC environments, including automation that enabled booting across ~250 servers and requirement clarification that unblocked firmware work for ~550 servers.”

Shashwat Negi

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Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and full-stack systems

San Jose, CA3y exp

“Data Scientist (2–3 years) at ZS Associates who has built and productionized agentic LLM systems, including a LangGraph-based multi-LLM prompt-optimization pipeline for entity extraction deployed as a Spring Boot microservice via Jenkins. Also built an Insightmate.ai chatbot and improved its RAG accuracy by diagnosing vector retrieval issues and implementing HyDE query expansion, while partnering with sales and pharma stakeholders to drive adoption (e.g., Zimmer Biomet platform migration into a multi-year partnership).”

Arunkumar Chockaiyan

Screened

Principal Software Architect specializing in enterprise platforms across FinTech, healthcare, and biotech

Burlingame, CA28y exp

“Senior full-stack product engineer with a track record of turning complex enterprise requirements into scalable platforms, including inventing a configurable multi-variable bidding system that expanded a B2B auction product from inventory liquidation into strategic sourcing for Fortune 100 clients. Also brings recent hands-on AI agent work, plus experience translating scientific software into usable web products and more efficient backend services in the gene-editing domain.”

“Frontend-focused engineer who built an expense management solution inside Microsoft Teams using React and Formily, modernizing reimbursement workflows that handle ~20,000 approvals per year. Demonstrated practical debugging and reliability improvements (stabilized multi-attachment uploads via event-binding investigation and hash-map-based targeting) and delivered ~30% performance gains by changing data structures, while coordinating stakeholders and team resources during quarter-end pressure.”