Vetted Software Engineers in the Bay Area

“Robotics software engineer at Tesla who led end-to-end development of a distributed real-time control and orchestration platform for autonomous systems. Deep production ROS 2 experience (nav2, slam_toolbox), with demonstrated wins reducing end-to-end latency 25–30%+ via profiling, multithreaded executors, and QoS tuning, plus simulation and deployment at scale using Gazebo/Webots, Docker/Kubernetes, and CI/CD.”

“LLM engineer who has deployed privacy-preserving, real-time workplace risk monitoring over massive enterprise chat/email streams, tackling latency, hallucinations, and extreme class imbalance with model benchmarking, RAG + fine-tuning, and a pre-filter alerting layer. Also built an agentic legal contract drafting system (Jurisagent) using LangGraph/LangChain with deterministic multi-agent control flow, structured outputs, and reliability-focused evaluation/telemetry.”

“Software engineer with experience at PayPal and JPMC building large-scale onboarding/account setup systems using React/TypeScript with Spring Boot/Node microservices and Kafka. Also built an Ignition-based SCADA monitoring tool at Mainspring Energy that became the default for manufacturing/test engineers by aggregating real-time telemetry and historical test data.”

“Backend engineer from VMware focused on proprietary enterprise systems (monitoring tools, data pipelines, and APIs). Drove a ClickHouse migration POC (local to remote host) using a dual-write/cutover approach and source-level debugging across Node/driver differences during a Node 12→20 upgrade, and delivered measurable performance gains (~20% CPU/memory improvement) through batching and streaming ingestion.”

“Engineering player-coach who recently shipped an agent-based workflow to extract key info from unstructured web data (browser agents + CDP) and populate daily digests/calendars, owning architecture through testing. Also built a Flask-based LLM evaluation and regression testing system using G-Eval/Confident AI dashboards, and applies a rigorous, research-driven approach to selecting third-party tools with stakeholder buy-in; has healthcare ops/onboarding workflow experience at Vivio Health.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience at Apple, Walmart, and a healthcare startup (Legacy), building customer-facing PWAs and internal platforms. Delivered HIPAA-compliant clinician/patient workflows with rapid weekly releases and measurable engagement gains, and built scalable automation/testing and real-time analytics systems using Next.js/React/TypeScript, Node/FastAPI, Redis, and PostgreSQL.”

“Product-focused full-stack engineer building a GenAI-powered case summarization workflow for a telemetry dashboard, spanning React/TypeScript UI (confidence indicators, reasoning traces) and Python/FastAPI backend with caching to control LLM latency/cost. Has operated services on AWS (ECS Fargate, RDS Postgres, S3) and Kubernetes, and has hands-on experience resolving real production latency incidents through query/index optimization and caching.”

“Backend-focused Python engineer who built an end-to-end personalized chatbot service integrating Amazon Redshift context retrieval with Amazon Bedrock, including prompt construction and production-grade reliability controls. Strong platform experience deploying containerized services to Kubernetes with GitOps/ArgoCD, plus hands-on Kafka streaming and phased infrastructure migration execution.”

“Search/backend engineer with hands-on experience improving Apache Solr-based search systems end-to-end (indexing strategy changes, ETL updates, and Java/Spring Boot Search API work). Demonstrated production rigor with QA partnership, A/B testing, and rollback-safe kill switches, plus measurable product impact (e.g., +1.5% add-to-cart) and operational troubleshooting including traffic/security mitigation.”

“Fintech product engineer working on a large-scale credit monitoring platform (tens of millions of users) with deep experience in regulated banking integrations, PII security, and step-up/MFA flows. Has shipped customer-facing React/TypeScript experiences driven by Optimizely experimentation and built reliable partner-facing microservices/SDKs on AWS, including resolving production traffic loss caused by edge security (DataDome/CAPTCHA) conflicts with payment providers.”

“Backend/AI workflow engineer at a startup building production AI services for fashion workflows, including an AI-powered techpack generation API in Go (Gin) with MongoDB handling ~1k+ daily requests. Recently implementing an image-to-3D dress generation feature end-to-end, integrating a Python FastAPI AI service with ComfyUI + Hunyuan, with strong emphasis on async orchestration, webhooks, and observability (OpenTelemetry + SigNoz).”

“Backend/AI workflow engineer with PayPal experience building workflow-driven financial compliance systems (Python/Java, Postgres, AWS/EKS) at thousands of executions/day. Has shipped production LLM-powered document extraction with strict schema/rule validation, auditability, and human-in-the-loop fallbacks, and has deep expertise in reliability (idempotency, locking, state machines) and Postgres performance tuning.”

“Backend/platform engineer with experience across edtech, logistics, and AWS internal systems—owned a production course recommender end-to-end (model serving + APIs + caching/observability), delivering +30% CTR and -20% latency. Has scaled real-time delivery visibility/rerouting on Kubernetes/EKS to sub-200ms P95 during demand spikes and built billion-events/day telemetry pipelines on AWS (Kinesis Firehose, Lambda, S3, Redshift) with schema evolution, dedupe, and replay support.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on compliance and statistical processing systems on AWS, building containerized FastAPI services plus event-driven async workflows (Step Functions/EventBridge) with strong reliability patterns (JWT auth, idempotency, structured logging). Has modernized SAS-based batch pipelines into modular Python/AWS services with parallel-run parity validation, and has demonstrated measurable SQL performance wins (40+ min to <10 min) and hands-on incident ownership using CloudWatch-driven detection and prevention.”

“Full-stack/platform engineer who has owned real-time analytics products end-to-end and built scalable TypeScript/React + Node.js systems using event-driven and microservices architectures (Kafka/RabbitMQ). Also created a widely adopted Go CLI that standardized AWS/Terraform provisioning across multiple teams, cutting environment setup from days to minutes through opinionated defaults, documentation, and cross-org partnerships.”

“Generalist software engineer with recent contract work at Vertex Pharmaceuticals shipping a desktop-integrated RAG assistant for lab scientists (2000+ pages ingested; ~40% support-ticket reduction in pilot). Previously owned Python/AWS financial automation services at Amazon operating at multi-billion-dollar scale, with strong strengths in API design, observability, and database/performance tuning; also built a React/TypeScript AI contract analysis product (ContractsGuy).”

“Game engineering leader/player-coach who recently shipped Netflix/Boss Fight’s mobile hit Squid Games Unleashed, owning live ops scheduling (XML/JSON to C# in Unity) and storefront integrations while reviewing 6–8 engineers’ code. Experienced in client-server reliability work (The Sims 4 time-sync incident) and in speeding delivery via process redesign (gated approvals), with a coaching style informed by 6 years teaching improv theater.”

“Engineering leader (player-coach) recently at Autodesk driving a major sales-motion transformation spanning account hierarchy, commissions/quotas, and downstream financial/sales forecasting impacts. Led cross-functional design with enterprise architects and shipped the end-to-end release, using POCs and Anaplan what-if modeling to validate a risky hierarchy change while coordinating delivery across India/Singapore teams and instituting structured Jira-based tech debt/support tracking and automation (dbt, GitHub Copilot).”