Vetted AJAX Professionals

Prakash Bhanu

Screened

Director of Software Engineering specializing in cloud, platform, and FinTech systems

Sunnyvale, CA22y exp

“Senior software engineering leader with broad 0-to-1 product experience spanning web apps, microservices, monoliths, messaging platforms, ML/AI products, and large-scale distributed systems. Notable examples include building a payroll/finance product for cast and crew, a distributed messaging platform, and a Walmart application deployed across multiple CDNs and clouds handling hundreds of TPS, with personal ownership across architecture, design, coding, and support.”

“Backend-focused engineer with experience at AWS building a global alarm processing platform (Python, Lambda/SQS/DynamoDB) handling traffic spikes and reliability issues; resolved duplicate alerts and latency under load by fixing hot partitions and enforcing idempotency. Previously at Cognizant, built Java/PostgreSQL backend workflows for healthcare dashboards using pre-aggregated summary tables, strong SQL optimization, and state-driven job orchestration with ELK-based observability and production guardrails.”

“Brazil-based startup CTO who raised $3M and spent 5 years building an agri-fintech credit origination tool for farmers, including going through Y Combinator and fundraising via Demo Day and Brazilian VCs. Ultimately shut the company down due to market shifts (rising interest rates and farmer delinquency), demonstrating pragmatic judgment and deep exposure to credit-market dynamics.”

“LLM/agent engineer who has shipped multiple autonomous, multi-step agents to production (document-to-SOP conversion, test generation, code generation) using a custom Python DAG orchestrator with persistent state, tool-calling permissions, and structured outputs (Pydantic/JSON Schema). Demonstrates strong production hardening practices—semantic contracts, golden-dataset prompt regression tests, circuit breakers, and multi-level monitoring—and delivered large productivity wins (34 hours of manual writing reduced to ~20 minutes review; ~15–20 engineering hours/week saved).”

Vasudha Prerepa

Screened

Mid-Level Java Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud-native microservices

5y exp

“QA/validation-focused engineer with experience at Meta testing an ML+LLM content classification/summarization system, including production-vs-test behavior gaps. Built automated E2E validation and drift monitoring (PSI, KL divergence, embedding cosine similarity) run daily/multiple times per day and gated via CI. Also implemented Jenkins-orchestrated Selenium/API test suites in Docker at Capgemini and partnered with a business analyst to convert business rules into automated AI-driven validation checks.”

Kiran Kumar

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in Java microservices and GenAI automation

USA4y exp

“Software engineer (4+ years) with hands-on production GenAI experience: built an AI incident triage assistant that summarizes production logs for on-call engineers and iterated it using real incident metrics (time-to-signal, triage duration). Also shipped a RAG-based customer support knowledge assistant using embeddings + vector retrieval with strong guardrails (relevance thresholds/abstain, sanitization, auditing) and a formal eval loop (500-query gold set) that drove measurable retrieval improvements.”

Lavanya Chilakalapudi

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud-native web apps and APIs

Tampa, FL5y exp

“Backend engineer with experience building microservice-based systems that integrate LLM workflows (code review suggestions, documentation generation, test scaffolding) using REST APIs, Celery/Redis, and OpenTelemetry for observability. Demonstrates hands-on database and performance optimization in PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy (bulk inserts, lock mitigation, cursor-based pagination) plus multi-tenant data isolation via tenant-aware models, middleware scoping, and schema/row-level strategies.”

“Engineering leader focused on multi-cloud platform modernization, combining deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, and DevSecOps with management of 18-person DevOps/SRE/software teams. Particularly strong in building secure, scalable enterprise SaaS infrastructure and Spark/Databricks data platforms while driving cross-functional standardization, reliability, and faster release cycles.”