Vetted Software Engineers in California

Pre-screened and vetted in California.

Aditya Gupta - Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native distributed systems and AI in San Francisco, CA

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native distributed systems and AI

San Francisco, CA13y exp
GoogleStanford University
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Vinh Ly

Screened

Staff Software Engineer specializing in scalable full-stack FinTech systems

Palo Alto, CA18y exp
YouTubeVirginia Tech

Full-stack/backend engineer with recent hands-on experience building an AI-powered AML/KYC platform for financial institutions, spanning Go/Python backend services, real-time risk pipelines, and React/TypeScript analyst dashboards. Stands out for measurable compliance-tech impact: 94% fewer false positives, review times reduced from days to hours, and microservices processing 10,000+ transactions per second.

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Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in applied AI and scalable backend systems

Palo Alto, CA14y exp
WaymoHarvard University
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Fan Wang - Staff-level Software Engineer specializing in LLM inference infrastructure and scalable model serving in San Pablo, California

Staff-level Software Engineer specializing in LLM inference infrastructure and scalable model serving

San Pablo, California11y exp
OpenAINorthwestern University
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Staff Software Engineer specializing in distributed infrastructure and reliability

Menlo Park, CA13y exp
MetaUC Berkeley
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Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI/ML platforms and cloud-native systems

Redwood City, CA12y exp
Fireworks AIUC Berkeley
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Russell Wong

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Software Engineer specializing in large-scale backend reliability and media platforms

San Bruno, California6y exp
GoogleSan Francisco State University

Backend/data engineer with experience on large-scale consumer platforms (Google and Meta), building high-traffic Python microservices (REST/gRPC) on Kubernetes with strong reliability/observability practices. Delivered AWS container-based deployments with CI/CD and IaC, and built AWS Glue ETL pipelines on S3 with schema evolution and data quality controls; also has demonstrated SQL tuning impact (15% latency reduction) and incident ownership for batch pipelines.

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Max Zhu

Screened

Staff Software Engineer specializing in Cloud Healthcare Data Platforms

Redding, CA13y exp
GoogleUSC

Backend/data engineer with deep healthcare data experience (FHIR, de-identification) across both GCP and AWS. Has built and operated production microservices and ETL pipelines (FastAPI, Dataflow, Glue) with strong reliability practices, and led modernization of a legacy SAS compliance reporting system to cloud services with validated parity and stakeholder-facing Looker comparisons.

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Staff Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and AI infrastructure

Los Angeles, CA7y exp
GoogleCaltech
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Senior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems, AI/ML, and healthcare platforms

Mountain View, CA10y exp
AmazonGeorgia Tech
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Stephane Maes

Screened

Executive CTO/CPO specializing in AI, cloud, telecom, and enterprise software

California, USA31y exp
IFSUCLouvain

Chief AI Strategy at startup Zenera with 30 years in technology strategy/design, experienced in building business plans across startups and large enterprises (projects, new products, and M&A). Deeply familiar with enterprise AI go-to-market challenges (slow procurement/pilot cycles) and preparing for VC expectations (e.g., targeting a16z) by emphasizing unique tech and paying customers.

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Austin Ha

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AR/VR and real-time interactive systems

Irvine, CA7y exp
AndurilSchool of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Pennsylvania

Senior engineer (8 years) with experience at Facebook/Meta and Apple, spanning design tooling and XR/enterprise device experiences. Built the Origami component marketplace end-to-end (packaging node logic + metadata, SQL/JSON storage, filtering/search, local caching) with versioning and forward-compatibility decisions, and has a strong track record of UX-focused robustness improvements and safe rollouts via feature flags and telemetry.

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Hassaan Khan

Screened

Executive Technology Leader specializing in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and AI/ML

San Francisco, CA21y exp
QuartechCarnegie Mellon University

Engineering leader/player-coach who built and validated a preference-based recommendation engine using clustering, including generating test data to evaluate how clusters evolve over time. Has SRE/DevOps experience and has owned production incidents end-to-end (logging-driven RCA and refactoring patterns that failed at large data scale). Emphasizes quality and platform stability via unit, integration, and load testing, and has managed performance via regular 1:1s and PIPs.

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Nagarjuna Kanamarlapudi - Director-level Data Platform Engineering Leader specializing in data governance and quality in Sunnyvale, CA

Director-level Data Platform Engineering Leader specializing in data governance and quality

Sunnyvale, CA15y exp
LinkedInBITS Pilani
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BW

Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud platforms and healthcare AI

San Jose, CA12y exp
GoogleBrown University
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JL

Staff Software Engineer specializing in AI platforms and FinTech infrastructure

San Francisco, CA10y exp
AirbnbDuke University
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Jordan shaw - Staff Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and distributed systems in San Francisco, CA

Staff Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and distributed systems

San Francisco, CA10y exp
GoogleBrown University
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KZ

Senior Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and data infrastructure

San Francisco, CA11y exp
MetaUniversity of Michigan
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Senior AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and production ML systems

San Francisco, CA11y exp
OpenAIUniversity of North Texas
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IJ

Staff AI Systems Engineer specializing in LLM platforms and distributed systems

San Jose, CA10y exp
AdobeUC Berkeley
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AT

Staff Software Engineer specializing in AI platforms and backend systems

Fremont, CA7y exp
PinterestUC Berkeley
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