Vetted Software Engineers in California

David McGrouther

Screened

Senior Solutions Engineer specializing in SaaS demos, technical validation, and customer-facing engineering

San Francisco Bay Area, CA10y exp

“Solutions Associate / technical support professional with experience assessing and fixing multi-script JavaScript issues, providing timelines, and managing scope changes with customers. Has supported customers by diagnosing recurring campaign issues, running technical demos with stakeholder feedback loops, and enabling self-service so customers can resolve problems independently.”

“Full-stack engineer with payments/settlement domain experience who modernized a payment tracking workflow from REST to GraphQL and delivered a production payment status dashboard using Next.js App Router + TypeScript. Strong in performance and reliability work (Postgres indexing/Explain Analyze, Redis caching, Datadog observability) and in durable event-driven processing with Kafka (DLQs, idempotency, reconciliation, event replay).”

“Full-stack developer who has built portfolio products from scratch in healthcare and recruiting, including a clinic appointment system and a dual-role job platform. Stands out for combining ASP.NET Core, Angular, SQL Server, and JWT-based authorization with strong architectural thinking around role isolation, relational modeling, and maintainable service-layer design.”

Xinyu Li

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and AI/LLM RAG platforms

San Jose, CA2y exp

“Full-stack engineer who built and operated a data-driven analytics platform using Next.js App Router/Server Components and TypeScript, owning post-launch monitoring and performance/stability work. Demonstrated measurable wins in analytics performance (e.g., cutting query latency from ~1s to ~200ms) through indexing, query-plan analysis, and precomputation/caching, and has experience designing durable multi-step backend workflows with retries, idempotency, DLQ, and time-correct ordering.”

“Full-stack engineer who built and iterated a CRM dashboard at ReplyQuick by sitting with end users, prioritizing blockers, and shipping frequent updates—improving usability and performance enough to replace a spreadsheet workflow within ~2 months. Demonstrates strong security fundamentals (OAuth2/JWT + RBAC) and practical microservices experience (decoupling a CRM API from a PDF-processing service via async processing and status tracking).”

“Backend/data platform engineer who owned an enterprise Django REST + PostgreSQL reporting backend and built Python ETL pipelines to normalize 3M+ legacy customer records, improving data reliability by 85%. Strong Kubernetes/GitOps practitioner (Helm, ArgoCD, Jenkins/GitHub Actions) with real-world production debugging experience, plus Kafka streaming at 5M events/day and a zero-downtime monolith-to-event-driven microservices migration on AWS that cut infra costs by 42%.”