Vetted Technical Leads in California

Rajesh Sivakumar

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Senior Software Engineering Manager specializing in cloud-native distributed systems (FinTech & Healthcare)

San Francisco, CA26y exp

“Engineering leader/player-coach who has led 40+ developers across multiple teams on large financial services web applications (Wells Fargo) and previously delivered a banking mobile app MVP in 6 months with a junior team by setting patterns and CI/CD foundations. Strong in production reliability practices (Splunk monitoring, feature flags, throttled rollouts) and has driven measurable quality/velocity wins, including a 60% faster E2E test framework and a rapid 2-day hotfix during a React 16→18 migration.”

“Gameplay engineer with hands-on ownership of a computer-vision body-tracking system that powered Dance Break, a full-body dance game shipped across Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android and used at large live events like EDC Las Vegas and Alibaba CoCreate. Particularly strong in performance-sensitive Unity systems, cross-platform optimization, and multiplayer architecture decisions, with experience spanning mobile, VR, and deterministic networking.”

Nehemiah Dias

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Senior Frontend Engineer specializing in design systems and real-time SaaS platforms

San Francisco, CA11y exp

“Full-stack product builder who has repeatedly taken end-to-end ownership in startup environments, including building PromoFlow solo and architecting the entire software backbone for Hard Drive. Particularly strong at turning ambiguous product needs into scalable systems, from real-time Firebase apps to shared component libraries and redesigned Postgres architectures, while also bridging non-technical founders, design, and engineering.”

Rathi Anand

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Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Insurance, FinTech, and AI/ML applications

Dublin, CA17y exp

“AI/backend engineer who fine-tuned and deployed a production LLM chatbot using a LangChain + FAISS RAG pipeline, improving latency with PEFT/LoRA and driving strong business impact (40% customer adoption; 92% satisfaction). Also served as technical lead on a data aggregation system for underwriting/quoting, introducing GraphQL for more efficient, maintainable querying and applying CDC to keep cached ranking data fresh at scale.”

“Lead full-stack engineer with strong Python backend depth and hands-on React/TypeScript experience, working in startup-like B2B SaaS environments serving enterprise software customers such as CrowdStrike, HashiCorp, and VMware. Stands out for redesigning tightly coupled systems into modular AWS-based microservices and building configurable integration platforms that improved enterprise customer onboarding and marketplace workflow scalability.”

Shivashankar Galla

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Senior Technical Lead specializing in front-end architecture and micro frontends

Fremont, CA12y exp

“Frontend-leaning product engineer who describes leading the end-to-end architecture of Albertsons' partner portal, consolidating fragmented vendor and merchant workflows into a single micro-frontend platform. He highlights significant business impact through a reported $20M/year savings, plus hands-on ownership across observability dashboards, BFF/GraphQL API design, and cross-functional architecture decisions.”

Andrés Minaya

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Senior Unity Engineer specializing in game development and interactive UI systems

California, USA8y exp

“Unity engineer with unusually broad hands-on depth across procedural systems, VR, multiplayer networking, and AI/LLM integrations. They’ve built production-facing pipelines that connect APIs, JSON, Photoshop assets, and Unity runtime systems, and have shipped cross-platform experiences including Quest 2, Vive, and WebGL. Particularly notable is their mix of gameplay engineering and workflow automation, from procedural map generation to PSD-to-Unity import tooling that improved collaboration with design.”