Vetted Software Engineers in the Los Angeles Metro

John Juszczak

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in C++ tooling, CI/CD, and Unreal Engine pipelines

Los Angeles, CA10y exp

“Gameplay programmer with hands-on Unreal Engine multiplayer shooter experience, notably overhauling aiming/ADS using Enhanced Input and curve-table-driven response curves plus subtle aim assist. Demonstrates strong networking judgment (client-side prediction vs server authority for anti-cheat) and a systems mindset, adding automation/analytics to speed iteration and improve decision-making.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong production ownership across SDK tooling, APIs, and operations. At Statsig, built real-time SDK diagnostics spanning 16 SDKs and improved incident response (40% faster mitigation) with Datadog SLOs/alerting; also shipped an enterprise Console API + interactive OpenAPI-based docs with robust versioning/migration practices. Has early-stage startup experience at Layup Parts, translating AS-9100 compliance needs into production workflows under rapidly changing requirements.”

“Software engineer with experience across TCS, Rakuten, and USC who has owned production integrations and data pipelines end-to-end. Notably improved a trading platform payment flow by replacing fragile polling with a webhook-driven status system with robust fallbacks, and has shipped LLM-assisted design-to-webpage automation plus evaluation-driven prompt iteration (NYT Connections).”

Michael Zhu

Screened

Mid-level Frontend Software Engineer specializing in React and e-commerce UI

West Hollywood, CA5y exp

“Frontend engineer with strong React/TypeScript depth who has shipped reusable CMS-driven UI architecture and improved production performance by eliminating inefficient per-component API calls. Particularly strong in maintainable component design, pagination/state management, and practical UX optimization using tools like Chrome DevTools and Theme UI.”

“Built and operated a real-time multiplayer card game end to end, with hands-on ownership of frontend, backend, persistence, and production stability. Demonstrates strong systems thinking around concurrency, idempotency, and extensible architecture, including refactoring a tightly coupled PvP game into a modular engine that could also support bot players.”

“JavaScript/TypeScript engineer with proven open-source impact: delivered a major reliability upgrade to a retry/error-handling library (standardized typed errors, added exponential backoff, expanded Jest tests, and implemented GitHub Actions CI) that was merged and released. Demonstrates strong performance engineering and debugging skills (profiling-driven optimization; diagnosed a race condition causing inconsistent retries) plus a documentation-first approach to developer experience.”

“Founder of Business Online Strategic Solutions Digital Marketing, a 5-year bootstrapped digital marketing and web solutions startup serving small-to-mid-sized and enterprise clients. Focused on building scalable, performance-driven web experiences (web dev, UX/UI, CRO, marketing strategy) and is actively scaling capabilities in modern front-end development and AI-assisted workflows.”

“Backend/AI infrastructure engineer focused on production-ready LLM systems and distributed workflows. They described building a RAG-based multi-step agent with strong reliability controls, evaluation loops, and graceful degradation that improved latency by 30%, retrieval accuracy by 15%, and reduced support workload by 40%.”

“Backend/AI workflow engineer with experience at AirKitchenz, Uber, and Vivma Software, building production systems on AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, Step Functions). Has a track record of major performance wins (DynamoDB latency 2s to <150ms; Postgres query 2s to ~180ms) and shipping LLM-powered onboarding and ticket-routing workflows with strong guardrails (schema validation, confidence thresholds, human-in-the-loop escalation).”

“Built production AI systems in high-stakes domains, including a medical RAG chatbot focused on reducing hallucinations and a document-processing workflow that automated manual PDF extraction. Demonstrates strong end-to-end ownership across backend services, APIs, LLM integration, and iterative reliability improvements based on real usage and failure analysis.”

“Built and owns the full ProteinMenus AI pipeline end-to-end, spanning the iOS client, FastAPI backend, Gemini integration, Firestore, and Cloud Run deployment. Strongest signal is full-stack product ownership in an AI-driven consumer workflow, including monetization logic via an atomic credit system and architecture choices optimized for fast iteration after launch.”

“Frontend-focused engineer with experience delivering a major licensing-model migration, moving customers from legacy key-based licensing to a dynamic renewal experience. Strongest signals are in React/TypeScript architecture, reusable component design, micro frontends, and frontend quality/performance practices.”

“Technical director and Unity engineer with 7+ years shipping products, including Symphoni, a mixed reality rhythm game launched across Meta Quest and Pico headsets. Particularly compelling for teams needing someone who can architect complex gameplay-adjacent systems end-to-end—such as a robust UGC level editor shipped on a 3-4 week timeline—while also bringing VR optimization, multiplayer networking, and emerging AI-assisted development workflow expertise.”

“Backend engineer who built an async FastAPI data pipeline at GHN Career Academy to replace a manual Excel-based workflow, migrating 30k+ contact records into Airtable with validation/deduplication and best-effort GPT-based enrichment. Emphasizes reliability under messy real-world data and partial failures via structured logging, retries, and resumable processing, unlocking downstream automations (e.g., Zapier and chatbots).”

Sai Sreenath Kalva

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI and Healthcare IT

Rosemead, CA5y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong AI architecture experience in regulated healthcare environments, including a HIPAA-compliant conversational reporting assistant for LA County Department of Public Health and clinical workflow features for Oracle Health/Cerner PowerChart. Stands out for combining LLM/RAG system design, healthcare compliance, and production-grade reliability practices across Azure, AWS, and Kubernetes.”