Vetted Software Engineers in California

Ashutosh Talwalkar

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Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in frontend and full-stack SaaS platforms

Santa Clara, CA7y exp

“Frontend-focused product engineer who owned the Quickwork automation platform’s architecture from 0 to 1, including a major migration from a monolithic frontend to microfrontends with Module Federation. Particularly strong in complex operational UX: real-time execution monitoring, analytics dashboards, API contract design, and performance-sensitive React/TypeScript systems for B2B SaaS workflows.”

SAUD SALEEM

Screened

Senior Python Engineer specializing in scalable backend and distributed systems

Stockton, CA6y exp

“Senior Software Engineer who has operated in a functional implementation capacity on B2B SaaS projects, especially identity verification and infrastructure intelligence platforms. Stands out for translating stakeholder and compliance requirements into APIs, workflow logic, data mappings, and UAT processes, with experience supporting utility-focused asset risk and maintenance decision platforms at scale.”

“Backend/cloud engineer from Resilient Tech with hands-on experience deploying REST APIs and database migrations into a live ERP used by real customers while maintaining 99% uptime. Has debugged intermittent AWS container timeouts down to security group/load balancer misconfigurations, and has extended Python in an ERPNext system to meet GST/e-invoicing compliance requirements with strong customer collaboration.”

“Backend engineer who owned the API layer for an AI trust/analytics dashboard (trust scores, stability checks, public verification endpoints) using Python/FastAPI and Postgres. Has hands-on DevOps experience deploying FastAPI and Node.js services to AWS Kubernetes with GitHub Actions + ArgoCD GitOps, plus Kafka-based real-time event streaming and careful staged migration practices (shadow traffic/dual writes, rollback planning).”

“Software engineer with experience across edtech, live gaming, and an AI document intelligence platform, delivering end-to-end customer-facing features and production backends. Built secure, automated live-session scheduling integrating Zoom and TalentLMS (JWT/RBAC, idempotency, transactions) cutting setup time from ~3 minutes to under 1 minute, and optimized real-time gaming dashboards/APIs with query tuning, caching, and CDN improvements (~60% latency reduction under peak load) on AWS.”

“Software engineer who built an AI marketing/outreach agent end-to-end: Next.js (App Router + TypeScript) frontend integrated with a Python/Django REST backend using LLMs (Gemini, ChatGPT-4o) and SQL databases. Demonstrated measurable performance wins—improved a 100k-record UI by 15% (Lighthouse) and cut a Postgres-backed search API from ~3s to ~1ms via indexing—while also owning post-launch monitoring (webhooks/cron, New Relic/CloudWatch) and customer support.”

Haider Zahoor

Screened

Mid-level Game/Software Engineer specializing in Unity & Unreal cross-platform development

San Jose, California6y exp

“Unity/VR developer who has shipped on Meta Quest (SideQuest) and built standalone PCVR medical applications used with real patients. Built a fully solo roguelike twin-stick shooter with a highly modular ScriptableObject/state-machine architecture, including custom build-time tooling to overcome Unity runtime constraints. Uses AI selectively (e.g., Claude) to generate editor tooling like a match-3 level designer to speed up level production.”

Amr Elkordy

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Mid-level Sales Engineer specializing in GNSS/RTK and technical pre-sales

Santa Clara, CA3y exp

“GEODNET engineer specializing in edge-to-cloud, real-time GNSS data pipelines at global scale (thousands of heterogeneous base stations). Built deterministic-latency ingestion with RTCM/MSM normalization, jitter buffering, and firmware-aware parsing, and shipped production hotfixes using canary rollouts and deep observability. Also delivers customer-specific GNSS/RTK outputs via tested Python tooling (CLI/API) and collaborates on-site with operators to resolve firmware and network-driven issues.”

“Software engineer with hands-on experience spanning backend APIs, streaming data systems, and cloud/infrastructure automation, who is already using agentic AI workflows in a disciplined way. Stands out for combining practical systems work in Spring Boot, Kafka/Spark/ClickHouse, and Terraform/Kubernetes with a thoughtful approach to AI oversight, architecture, and multi-agent orchestration.”

Maksym Polinka

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Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in modern frontend web applications

San Francisco, CA5y exp

“Frontend-focused product engineer with strong depth in observability and real-time systems, spanning Kloudfuse and PipeIQ. They’ve built high-performance latency heatmaps and data-dense operational dashboards for large-scale telemetry, while also shaping WebSocket streaming contracts, integration architecture, and even AWS infrastructure decisions beyond a traditional frontend scope.”

Shuchi Shah

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in Applied AI and FinTech

San Jose, CA12y exp

“Backend engineer with experience building an end-to-end civic tech AI platform that ingests city council meeting videos, transcribes them with Whisper, and enables natural-language Q&A via a LangChain/FAISS RAG pipeline. Demonstrated strong systems thinking by tuning retrieval for accuracy/latency/memory (cutting response time ~3s→1s and memory ~500MB→25MB) and by safely migrating an ERP from monolith toward services using dual writes, reconciliation, and idempotency to protect financial workflows.”

“Full-stack/backend-heavy engineer with strong healthcare domain expertise, focused on modernizing regulated platforms for payroll, billing, and caregiver operations. Notably led a legacy Express.js billing platform migration to modular NestJS services that enabled same-day deployments and unblocked enterprise customer onboarding, while bringing deep experience in compliance, auditability, and production reliability.”

Hannah Aron

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Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in Python web and cloud applications

Hayward, CA8y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong Python/React experience who has built systems from scratch, including a custom POS platform as the sole initial engineer. They also bring applied experience across IoT reward platforms, HR matching/search systems, and LLM-powered automation products, with a track record of improving reliability and speed through thoughtful architecture decisions.”

Kyle Kelly

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack platforms and distributed systems

Laguna Beach, CA9y exp

“Engineer with boutique startup-style experience on small teams, owning full vertical slices in ambiguous client environments. Particularly strong in NetSuite-based B2B SaaS-style automation for finance and operations, where they reverse-engineered undocumented workflows and rebuilt them into modular, audit-ready systems. Also actively coding across Go, Python, and React/TypeScript, making them a rare blend of integration architect and hands-on full-stack builder.”

“Startup-focused full-stack engineer who has worked across fintech and digital health, including Pivotxy and Cybele Health. They combine backend/API development with AI integration, including GPT-powered financial reporting and a finance agent benchmark, and have helped turn manual report workflows that took weeks into outputs generated in minutes.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience shipping multiple AI-powered products, including donor recommendation systems, RAG-based document Q&A, and cybersecurity threat analysis tools. Stands out for combining TypeScript/React and backend API development with practical LLM evaluation, grounding, and production optimization—driving measurable outcomes like 30% higher donor engagement and 87% answer accuracy under 2-second latency.”

Anastasiia Sierbaieva

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in frontend data-driven web applications

Los Angeles, CA5y exp

“Frontend-leaning product engineer who has shipped manufacturing-focused web features end to end, spanning Figma-to-React implementation, API/data-shaping work, and production feedback loops. Stands out for translating complex CNC and reporting workflows into usable interfaces, and for improving signup performance by automating precomputed sample data across databases and Amazon S3.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered incident response agent for a microservices platform, automating alert triage and safe remediation recommendations with strong guardrails (RAG grounding, structured JSON outputs, rule-based validation, and human-in-the-loop). Implemented state-machine orchestration (Redis/Kafka), comprehensive eval/monitoring, and an error categorization pipeline that cut hallucination errors ~40% and reduced MTTR ~30%.”

Vinicius Leite

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Staff/Lead Game Engineer specializing in gameplay systems and VR

Los Angeles, USA22y exp

“Unity gameplay programmer with hands-on multiplayer networking experience (Photon Fusion, Mirror, SmartFox, Unity networking), including client-side prediction and rollback to smooth networked movement under lag/packet loss. Recently improved a fast-paced 2D platformer’s feel by adding momentum/velocity “gears,” validated through internal cohorts and volunteer/friends-and-family playtests. Comfortable in both startup and large-company environments and currently seeking a high-impact, intensive project.”

“Software engineering capstone contributor who helped kickstart an ambiguous, real-client project ("The Virtual Cowboy") by designing the initial relational database and CRUD foundation, then prioritized and shipped simulation/event functionality that satisfied the client. Also building a personal full-stack Book Notes web app (Node/Express/Postgres) with Google OAuth via Passport and a books API ingestion flow focused on data quality and reliability; has deployment experience with Heroku and PythonAnywhere and is ramping up on AWS.”

“Product-focused full-stack engineer with strong performance and reliability instincts: improved production page responsiveness by 15% via lazy loading and render optimization, and built a polished React+TypeScript filtering dashboard with URL-synced state for shareable views. Also designed and operated a Django REST backend with versioning, token auth, structured logging, and API tests, and has handled real production scaling issues through PostgreSQL query-plan analysis and indexing.”

Zaid Kamil

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Mid-level XR Software Engineer specializing in real-time AR/VR digital twins

Los Angeles, CA8y exp

“Built and owned an end-to-end real-time IoT telemetry backend that powers a digital twin experience on a Meta Quest headset, integrating Cisco LoRaWAN sensors and external REST data sources. Migrated from Azure Functions to a FastAPI service to overcome firewall constraints, add caching/fallback reliability, and significantly reduce operating cost while improving performance and evolvability.”

Bryant Conti

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Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in React/Node.js and backend APIs

Los Angeles, CA4y exp

“Built and deployed a production Incident Tracking System using Next.js (App Router) + TypeScript with Postgres (Neon) and Prisma, including RBAC (User/Support/Admin), tickets/comments, and audit logging. Uses Zod for schema/type validation and relies on Chrome/React DevTools to debug and refine UI/UX and performance.”

“Full-stack engineer who built WordCon, an AI-powered vocabulary learning platform, end-to-end across React/Next.js, Python, AWS, and GenAI services. Particularly strong at turning ambiguous AI product ideas into structured, scalable systems by combining deterministic learning logic with LLM-powered personalization, and has additional experience modernizing legacy PHP systems into React/Node architectures.”