Vetted Software Engineers in California

Malyadri Peruru

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in backend, cloud, and IoT automation

Greater San Francisco, CA13y exp

“Software engineer with strong systems design experience spanning both core product infrastructure and AI-enabled support workflows. Co-led a from-scratch B2B SaaS billing platform for complex customer pricing models, and also improved an orchestrated agent system by tightening context, metadata, and human-review safeguards for misrouted support tickets.”

“Software engineer with hands-on embedded/robotics coursework experience (Arduino sensor integration and input handling built from scratch without external libraries) and strong DevOps/engineering productivity impact at work, including leading a CI/CD enhancement that runs only impacted tests to catch issues before PR approval.”

“Robotics software engineer with autonomous driving lab experience at UCSD, building and optimizing ROS2 perception and control pipelines (camera-based real-time object detection) with a strong focus on low-latency performance and robust message interfaces. Also brings production deployment experience from Hewlett Packard Enterprise, using Docker and Kubernetes for containerized environments and deployment pipelines.”

“Founder/builder of an EdTech startup (robograde.io) who personally conducted on-site classroom discovery with teachers and rapidly iterated the product based on real-world feedback. Implemented a Canvas LMS integration and refined it through weeks of in-person testing, and handled a live production grading failure by quickly debugging and deploying a fix, then adding fault-tolerant/backup API design.”

“Built and deployed custom AI chatbots at LivePerson, translating customer service pain points (e.g., MTTR reduction and fragmented information) into production RAG-based solutions with stakeholder-facing metrics dashboards. Experienced in real-time troubleshooting using Elastic logs, leading POCs, and integrating customer APIs to automate workflows as part of sales-driven solutioning.”

“UE5 UI engineer who built a production-ready, modular training/procedure framework with editor tooling so curriculum designers and technical trainers could author content without Unreal expertise. Deep hands-on ownership across C++/Slate/UMG/CommonUI, including MVVM architecture, cross-platform input/navigation, and rigorous UI profiling/debug tooling that can be stripped from shipping builds.”

Ajay Madhusudhan Thumala

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in data engineering and LLM applications

Irvine, CA1y exp

“Computer science engineer and master’s graduate who independently built a mechatronics-heavy capstone prototype: a smartphone concept for deafblind users using micro-actuator arrays for braille reading. Also has platform engineering experience at Quantiphi, deploying webhooks to Kubernetes and implementing GitOps-based CI/CD using AWS CodeCommit/CodeBuild and ECR.”

Poojitha MaheshShyla

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Mid-level Java Backend Developer specializing in cloud-native microservices

Sunnyvale, CA5y exp

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with Walmart experience building and operating high-volume media upload and processing systems. Strong in Java/Spring Boot, Postgres performance tuning (EXPLAIN/ANALYZE), and durable workflows using Kafka/Spring Batch with retries and idempotency, plus production ownership via monitoring and optimization; familiar with Next.js/TypeScript and modern React performance patterns.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience shipping production features in both networking (Cisco: ACL object groups, 3G/4G) and fintech/online banking (PLAID, Auto Pay, OLB, membership qualification). Works primarily with React/Java/Hibernate and REST/JSON, emphasizing caching/memoization for UI performance and strong testing/XP practices to maintain quality under faster release cycles.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong enterprise delivery experience across manufacturing and semiconductor use cases, owning deployments from discovery through post-launch support. Stands out for combining traditional product engineering with applied GenAI workflows and data pipeline reliability work, including a manufacturing app that reportedly saved a Fortune 500 customer about $6M and an AI chat panel adopted by 70% of pricing analysts.”

“Candidate takes a disciplined, developer-in-the-loop approach to AI-assisted coding, using AI primarily for brainstorming, suggestions, and optimization while retaining full ownership of architecture and final code decisions. They also actively stay current on AI developments through research papers, communities, and emerging tools.”

“Built and stabilized an AI-assisted document processing workflow for Possible Finance that supported underwriting without automating final loan decisions. Stands out for combining practical LLM integration skills with strong guardrails, validation, and fallback design in a financial workflow, delivering roughly a 35% reduction in document processing time.”

“Backend/platform engineer who has built and run production Python/Flask + Kafka microservices processing RFID and camera/RFID fusion streams for near-real-time retail cart updates at ~4–5M events/day. Strong in reliability/performance debugging (p99 latency, Kafka lag, Cosmos DB RU hot partitions) with measurable impact including ~30% database cost reduction, and has also shipped an end-to-end vulnerability scanning workflow with DynamoDB-backed state, idempotency, and robust retry/verification guardrails.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on GPU/CUDA vision work (solo-built a 4-fisheye panorama stitcher using camera intrinsics/extrinsics) and mapping/localization expertise, including radar-driven pose-graph mapping optimized with Ceres. Strong ROS background (Cartographer, AMCL, TEB) and demonstrated localization improvements by biasing AMCL with Cartographer to reduce drift; experience shipping modules deployed across large robot/vehicle fleets (e.g., retail scanning robots and automotive).”

“UX/product designer in a medical laboratory B2B portal context who prototypes beyond Figma—built a GPT-based settings chatbot to address findability and low settings adoption, iterating through 11 tested versions with regression safeguards and structured prompts to mitigate instruction truncation/hallucinations. Also redesigned clinic order management by separating doctor vs assistant experiences and introducing step-based status views for a long, multi-stage lab order lifecycle; former full-stack engineer who improves design-to-dev handoffs via templates and readiness rituals.”

“AI/software engineer with experience at Visa building a real-time transaction fraud/risk scoring microservice in the card authorization path (Python, Kafka, Kubernetes on AWS) with strict 120–150ms latency constraints and reason-code outputs for downstream decisioning. Owns ML backend end-to-end (data/feature engineering, model training, deployment) and has demonstrated production reliability work including latency spike mitigation, SLO-based observability, drift monitoring, and safe fallbacks to rule-based decisions.”

Shangyi Chen

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Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Java and Angular web applications

San Francisco, CA5y exp

“Full-stack engineer who has owned end-to-end delivery of an internal, customer-facing data visualization product and helped build a data modification pipeline used across the organization for data integrity/governance. Demonstrates pragmatic MVP-driven delivery within sprints and makes performance-oriented architectural decisions (e.g., batching API calls to reduce frontend request volume) in TypeScript/React systems.”

Kanaka Chalam Volety

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Staff DevOps/SRE Engineer specializing in AWS, Kubernetes, and GitOps

San Jose, CA24y exp

“Infrastructure-focused engineer with Vonage experience modernizing early-stage cloud architecture (Terraform modularization, blue-green deployments, containerization, and zero-downtime database migration planning to Aurora). Also built a local end-to-end side project, Vastu AI, combining a custom-trained YOLO model (Roboflow-labeled data) with a locally hosted LLM via Ollama to generate a vastu compliance report from floor-plan images.”

“Built Laborate.app, a full-stack lab notebook and inventory product for scientists, largely solo using Next.js App Router, TypeScript, Postgres, Prisma, and AWS S3. Stands out for combining product ownership with practical concerns like encrypted data storage, autosave reliability, caching, tenant isolation, and scalability planning.”

“Built a production Python microservice around Grafana Loki focused on reliability, with checkpointing, idempotency, replay tooling, tracing, and alerting to prevent data loss and silent lag. Also has hands-on experience hardening brittle Playwright automations against dynamic UIs, auth expiry, rate limits, MFA, and bot-detection constraints, plus turning tribal-knowledge SOPs into explicit state-machine-driven workflows.”

“AI/ML engineer who has built a production text-to-image generation system in PyTorch with an AWS-backed inference setup, focusing on GPU-efficient training and embedding-space architectural choices inspired by recent research (e.g., Meta VL-JEPA). Uses both metric-based evaluation (FID) and human testing to validate real-world visual quality, and can translate technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.”

“Robotics software engineer with UC Irvine capstone experience building an autonomous rover end-to-end: ROS 2 navigation (slam_toolbox + Nav2) on Jetson Xavier, depth point-cloud integration for obstacle avoidance, and an on-device speech-to-action interface that converts natural language into Nav2 goals. Also has prior full-time experience integrating a safety assurance decision engine into distributed autonomous drones over secured mesh networks, emphasizing reliable communication under real-world network constraints.”

“Firmware architect/lead engineer for automotive LiDAR sensors, designing RTOS-based, layered firmware and solving high-throughput real-time constraints using DMA and lock-free buffering. Built ROS nodes to bridge embedded sensor output to higher-level perception (point clouds, diagnostics, configuration) while isolating real-time logic in firmware. Established an end-to-end CI/CD pipeline with GTest unit tests plus SIL/HIL automation and Dockerized build/test environments.”