Vetted Software Engineers in California

“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.”

“Game/tools-focused QA professional with experience at Playable Worlds, Disney, and Metaplace, emphasizing CI-driven quality (Jenkins PR gating, unit tests, Slack/JIRA visibility) in live production environments. Has hands-on defect isolation experience using developer tools to diagnose hard-to-repro player issues and improve turnaround by providing reliable repro steps and clear QA workflows.”

Gary Chang

Screened

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

Los Angeles, CA9y exp

“End-to-end engineer who has productionized AI automation and RAG capabilities, building full-stack systems (React/Node/Redis/Postgres + vector DB) with evaluation-driven quality gates and monitoring. Reported ~60% reduction in manual ops time and major turnaround improvements, and has experience modernizing legacy systems safely via feature flags and parallel runs while working across product, data, and ops teams (System1).”

Pranita Agrawal

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in Java microservices and AWS

California, USA5y exp

“TypeScript backend/full-stack engineer who owned an internal business workflow platform end-to-end in production, including API/data design, relational DB integration, and enterprise integrations. Has hands-on experience operating workflow processing services with Kafka-style event-driven patterns, idempotency, exponential backoff retries, dead-letter queues, and strong observability, plus API design with OpenAPI/Swagger and token-based auth.”

Sadiya Bhawania

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI and full-stack web platforms

Bay Area, CA6y exp

“Full-stack TypeScript engineer with early-stage startup experience (HomePulse; sole US engineer) who ships and owns production features end-to-end—routing/state design, API contracts, caching/pagination, and post-launch monitoring/optimization. Has delivered performance-sensitive React UIs (virtualized large datasets, React Query caching, Suspense loading patterns) and built durable job-queue workflows with idempotency/retries, plus SQL Server relational modeling for internal ticketing and knowledge-retrieval workflows.”

Shashwat Negi

Screened

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.”