Vetted Software Engineers in California

“Backend/platform engineer who owned an end-to-end financial data ingestion and validation system (Python/Django/FastAPI, Postgres, AWS), including large-file performance tuning, auditability, and CI/CD. Strong Kubernetes/EKS + ArgoCD GitOps practitioner and has delivered both Kafka-based real-time transaction streaming and a legacy on-prem stack migration to AWS (ECS Fargate, RDS, S3, Secrets Manager) with controlled cutovers and data consistency validation.”

Tarang Nair

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native APIs and AI apps

Oakland, CA5y exp

“Early-stage startup full-stack engineer who built an inventory and billing management product for retail shop owners in India, iterating quickly based on customer feedback. Has hands-on experience designing scalable cloud infrastructure on GCP with Kubernetes and applying clean architecture for testable, modular systems; also built internal monitoring dashboards for error and performance visibility.”

“Full-stack engineer from Vagaro who owned an end-to-end rebuild of a sluggish WordPress sales site into a Next.js 15 app hosted on Azure, adding Hygraph headless CMS, SSR, i18n, and a reusable component library. Instrumented Amplitude + A/B testing/heatmaps and reports a 10% sales lift post-launch; also has AWS ops experience (S3/IAM/CloudWatch) and has built ingestion pipelines including LLM-powered unstructured data processing with dead-letter handling.”

“Backend-focused Python engineer who has owned production FastAPI services deployed on Kubernetes, including CI/CD (GitLab CI to ECR) and GitOps delivery via ArgoCD/Helm. Has hands-on experience with complex reliability and infrastructure work—solving data inconsistency with validation/partial-data paths, fixing K8s liveness issues via lazy loading, and supporting a phased cloud-to-on-prem migration with dual-writes and monitoring. Also built Kafka-based real-time ingestion consumers handling bursty, high-throughput traffic with async processing and topic/retention tuning.”

“Software engineer (Yellow.ai) who built and productionized an AI-driven resume tailoring system using embeddings + Chroma RAG + QLoRA fine-tuning, deployed via Docker/Kubernetes with CI/CD on a CPU-only Oracle VM. Demonstrates strong reliability/evaluation rigor (custom hallucination/coverage/relevance metrics) and measurable business impact, including a 60% user satisfaction lift from improving chatbot intent accuracy with product and support teams.”

“Full-stack engineer from seed-stage Violet Labs who owned an end-to-end production "compare push results" feature for external integrations, including solving tricky false-positive success cases by validating against internal entity hashes and confirmed integration events. Experienced building React/TypeScript SPAs with a Node + Postgres backend, deploying via AWS/Kubernetes, and setting up CloudWatch logging/metrics/alarms with SNS paging.”

Austin Near

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and backend systems

Santa Clara, CA3y exp

“Full-stack JavaScript developer in small-company environments building PCB manufacturing web tooling. Owned and delivered blob-storage upload/download infrastructure (including an internal developer library) and a training/compliance tracking tool. Implemented secure, broadly compatible SSO for a customer portal under a <1 month deadline tied to an 8-figure customer deal, despite having no prior authentication experience.”