Vetted Software Engineers in California

“Backend/platform engineer who built an LLM-driven QA automation system (“mockmouse”) using a Flask orchestration microservice, Socket.IO real-time updates, Redis caching, and strict Pydantic schemas to turn prompts into reliable action graphs and automated browser tests. Has hands-on Kubernetes delivery experience (Docker/Helm/Jenkins) and has supported large migration programs, validating ETL cutovers with 1M+ synthetic records and rigorous output comparisons; also built event-driven monitoring/anomaly detection streaming into Grafana.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership of production systems, including a Kafka-based notification/alerting platform (Node.js + React) deployed on AWS with Docker/GitHub Actions, achieving ~95% email delivery reliability. Demonstrates strong operational maturity (observability, CI/CD, zero-downtime migrations) and experience shipping in ambiguous environments (SJSU project) with evolving requirements.”

“Backend/AI engineer with production experience in legal tech: built a high-scale licensing/subscription API (FastAPI/Postgres/Stripe) and shipped a RAG-based chatbot for an eDiscovery platform. Designed a robust legal document ingestion workflow that processes thousands of documents into a searchable vector index with clear retry/escalation logic, and has demonstrated measurable Postgres performance wins (200ms to 10ms) using EXPLAIN ANALYZE and composite indexing.”

Krystal Galdamez

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI-powered web applications

San Francisco, CA1y exp

“Startup-focused engineer who has shipped Python backend features, AI integrations, and Playwright automation for products including an AI coaching platform and hiring workflow tools. Stands out for working through ambiguous zero-spec environments, hardening flaky Firebase-authenticated test flows, and designing practical fallback paths when AI outputs are unreliable.”

Hamna Anwar

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in Go backend systems

Hayward, CA8y exp

“Full-stack/backend engineer with startup-style experience spanning healthcare and B2B infrastructure SaaS. Has worked across Python, Go, and React/TypeScript, including migrating services from Node.js to Go, building microservices and dashboards, and delivering measurable API performance gains through database tuning and Redis caching.”

“Backend-focused engineer who built a time-sensitive data retrieval system for a source with no public API, using an AWS EC2-hosted persistent browser session plus a PostgreSQL TTL caching layer—cutting manual retrieval by 99% and achieving sub-10-second average retrieval. Emphasizes production security (Secrets Manager, encryption, IP allowlisting, rate limiting) and robustness via testing and edge-case handling (atomic file operations).”

“Full-stack software engineer with a strong React Native focus who is independently building RapidJob, a two-sided mobile app for local gig work and extra income opportunities. He owns the entire stack—React Native frontend, Node/Express backend, MongoDB, AWS S3, and real-time updates via Socket.io—and has already launched a beta with early user feedback driving product changes like social login and navigation updates.”

Ekta Mulkalwar

Screened

Junior Machine Learning & Full-Stack Engineer specializing in applied AI systems

Los Angeles, CA2y exp

“Master’s thesis focused on building and deploying a gait-based biometric authentication system using mobile accelerometer time-series data as an alternative to passwords/2FA. Emphasized real-world robustness by addressing sensor noise and variability (phone placement, walking speed, footwear) and improving safety using biometric metrics like FAR/FRR and EER, while collaborating closely with a non-ML thesis advisor.”

Maheswari Thokala

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud microservices and REST APIs

CA, USA4y exp

“Backend engineer building an AI-powered social media platform on AWS, with hands-on experience shipping LLM-backed application features and improving production performance under high traffic. Strong focus on reliability/observability (CloudWatch, structured logs, health checks) and database optimization (MongoDB explain/slow logs, indexing, caching, connection pooling).”

“Early-stage product engineer who built an AI persona chat system end to end at Super Intro, spanning Next.js frontend, GraphQL/real-time backend, retrieval memory, and LLM-based matching. They combine strong TypeScript rigor with practical AI systems design, and cite measurable impact including ~40% engagement growth, ~30% recall improvement, and lower LLM costs in production.”

Ibrahim Cheena

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and AI platforms

San Jose, CA3y exp

“Built ContextIQ, an end-to-end full-stack RAG document assistant using Next.js, TypeScript, OpenAI embeddings, Supabase/pgvector, and streaming responses to create a real-time research experience. Also built DevWatch, a GitHub analytics and QA dashboard with Java Spring Boot and PostgreSQL, and demonstrated strong production ownership by solving cloud networking, cold start, CORS, and data deduplication issues after launch.”

“Engineer with growth-stage startup experience on a 6-7 person cross-functional team, working across backend, data, and frontend systems. They’ve driven concrete improvements to high-volume data ingestion pipelines through batch processing and database optimization, and have built B2B SaaS data platforms for enterprise customers with multi-tenant support, integrations, and scalable backend services in Python and Go.”