Vetted Software Engineers in California

“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.”

“JavaScript/TypeScript engineer with proven open-source impact: delivered a major reliability upgrade to a retry/error-handling library (standardized typed errors, added exponential backoff, expanded Jest tests, and implemented GitHub Actions CI) that was merged and released. Demonstrates strong performance engineering and debugging skills (profiling-driven optimization; diagnosed a race condition causing inconsistent retries) plus a documentation-first approach to developer experience.”

“Founder of Business Online Strategic Solutions Digital Marketing, a 5-year bootstrapped digital marketing and web solutions startup serving small-to-mid-sized and enterprise clients. Focused on building scalable, performance-driven web experiences (web dev, UX/UI, CRO, marketing strategy) and is actively scaling capabilities in modern front-end development and AI-assisted workflows.”

“Backend/AI infrastructure engineer focused on production-ready LLM systems and distributed workflows. They described building a RAG-based multi-step agent with strong reliability controls, evaluation loops, and graceful degradation that improved latency by 30%, retrieval accuracy by 15%, and reduced support workload by 40%.”

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.”

“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).”

“Backend/AI workflow engineer with experience at AirKitchenz, Uber, and Vivma Software, building production systems on AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, Step Functions). Has a track record of major performance wins (DynamoDB latency 2s to <150ms; Postgres query 2s to ~180ms) and shipping LLM-powered onboarding and ticket-routing workflows with strong guardrails (schema validation, confidence thresholds, human-in-the-loop escalation).”

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.”

“Built production AI systems in high-stakes domains, including a medical RAG chatbot focused on reducing hallucinations and a document-processing workflow that automated manual PDF extraction. Demonstrates strong end-to-end ownership across backend services, APIs, LLM integration, and iterative reliability improvements based on real usage and failure analysis.”

“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.”

“Built and owns the full ProteinMenus AI pipeline end-to-end, spanning the iOS client, FastAPI backend, Gemini integration, Firestore, and Cloud Run deployment. Strongest signal is full-stack product ownership in an AI-driven consumer workflow, including monetization logic via an atomic credit system and architecture choices optimized for fast iteration after launch.”

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%.”

“Frontend-focused engineer with experience delivering a major licensing-model migration, moving customers from legacy key-based licensing to a dynamic renewal experience. Strongest signals are in React/TypeScript architecture, reusable component design, micro frontends, and frontend quality/performance practices.”

Sanket Mungikar

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in distributed backend and AI analytics platforms

California, USA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer at BigCommerce who combines customer-facing deployment ownership with hands-on AI/LLM systems work. Built and launched merchant analytics and predictive inventory workflows using React, TypeScript, FastAPI, Kafka, AWS, and RAG-style architectures, and has real production experience debugging non-deterministic AI issues caused by data pipeline freshness and event-ordering problems.”

“Backend engineer who built an async FastAPI data pipeline at GHN Career Academy to replace a manual Excel-based workflow, migrating 30k+ contact records into Airtable with validation/deduplication and best-effort GPT-based enrichment. Emphasizes reliability under messy real-world data and partial failures via structured logging, retries, and resumable processing, unlocking downstream automations (e.g., Zapier and chatbots).”

“Backend/platform engineer who owned a real-time customer analytics microservice stack in Python/FastAPI with Kafka streaming into PostgreSQL, including schema enforcement (Avro) and high-throughput optimizations. Strong Kubernetes + GitOps practitioner (EKS/GKE, Helm, Argo CD) who has handled CI/CD reliability issues with automated pre-deploy checks and rollbacks, and supported major migrations (on-prem to AWS; VM to EKS) with blue-green cutover planning.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on manufacturing/production-systems experience at Wallbox, improving the Supernova charger rework process by streamlining part-number/component updates. Strong in building modular Python/Flask services with clean integration layers (Cosmos DB, NetSuite, traceability/label printing), plus deep SQLAlchemy/Postgres performance tuning. Also brings scalable AI/ML integration and deployment experience (OpenAI/Hugging Face/TensorFlow Serving, Docker/FastAPI/Nginx) and multi-tenant schema isolation with RBAC.”

“Full-stack developer who built an end-to-end Hotel Management System using React and Spring Boot with MongoDB and AWS. Has hands-on experience debugging API/data-fetching issues with Postman and validating results against the database, plus exposure to handling large data workloads with chunking and monitoring via Grafana/Tabula.”