Vetted Amazon EKS Professionals

“Software engineer/product-focused builder who has delivered customer-facing dashboards (React/TypeScript + Spring Boot) and microservices using RabbitMQ, emphasizing safe, fast iteration with CI/CD, feature flags, and monitoring. Also built an internal monitoring/reporting tool adopted by ops/support by involving users early and iterating based on feedback.”

“Built and owned major parts of a real-time distributed AI fraud-detection pipeline (ingestion, inference microservice integration, and automated action layer), optimizing latency and observability and reducing false positives by ~35%. Understands ROS/ROS2 concepts (nodes/topics/services) and planned hands-on ramp-up via ROS2 pub/sub exercises and Gazebo simulation, but has not worked on physical robots or ROS in production.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG knowledge assistant integrating internal docs, wikis, and ticket histories to reduce tribal-knowledge dependency and repetitive questions. Emphasizes reliability via grounding + a validation layer, and achieved major latency gains (>50%) through vector index optimization, caching, quantization, and selective re-validation. Comfortable orchestrating end-to-end LLM/data workflows with Airflow, Prefect, and Dagster, including monitoring and alerting.”

“Platform-focused engineer experienced in productionizing ML/LLM systems: containerized a local prototype, implemented CI/CD, deployed to Kubernetes with scaling controls, and added monitoring/logging. Comfortable diagnosing real-time issues in LLM/agent workflows using logs/metrics and incident stabilization tactics, and supports sales calls by clearly explaining production scalability to unblock customer decisions.”

“Infrastructure reliability/capacity-focused engineer with hands-on IBM Power/AIX (LPAR/DLPAR, HMC, VIOS) performance troubleshooting and modern cloud-native delivery experience. Built production CI/CD and Terraform-managed AWS/EKS environments, and has led real incident recoveries spanning Kubernetes autoscaling and AWS quota constraints with concrete RCA and prevention improvements.”

Mahesh Kumar Duvvuri

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in microservices and cloud-native systems

New York City, NY4y exp

“Backend/infra engineer with experience across Nestle, J.P. Morgan, and Capgemini, combining ML systems work (YOLOv8/PyTorch object detection with TFLite edge deployment) with production-grade cloud/Kubernetes operations. Has delivered measurable impact via AWS migrations (25% cost reduction, 99.9% availability), microservice modernization (35% faster processing), and low-latency Kafka streaming for financial dashboards (<100ms) using DLQs and idempotent consumers.”

Harrishkumar Loganathan

Screened

Mid AI/Machine Learning Engineer specializing in FinTech and Generative AI

Remote, USA3y exp

“AI/ML engineer with hands-on ownership of enterprise LLM deployments at Freshworks, including a large-scale RAG chatbot serving 15,000+ users across six departments. Stands out for combining deep production engineering skills—AWS microservices, Kubernetes, observability, retrieval quality, and faithfulness evaluation—with strong cross-functional stakeholder leadership and prior large-scale fraud data pipeline experience at Socure.”

“Candidate brings practical GenAI engineering experience with a disciplined approach to AI-assisted development. They have designed lightweight multi-agent workflows for a RAG-based support copilot, including retrieval, relevance validation, response generation, and groundedness checks to reduce hallucinations.”

“Backend engineer with end-to-end ownership experience on a real-time AI-driven payment authorization/orchestration platform at PayPal. They describe strong fintech systems depth across Java/Spring/Kafka microservices, database and latency optimization, and reliability engineering, with concrete impact including 35% fewer processing failures, latency reduced from 420ms to 140ms, 1,200+ weekly manual reviews eliminated, and 40% faster incident response.”

“Engineer with banking and industrial/IoT experience who has deployed a payment-processing microservice with zero downtime, handling Protobuf schema evolution and sensitive data migration via dual-write/checksum techniques. Demonstrates strong cross-stack troubleshooting (pinpointed intermittent distributed timeouts to a failing ToR switch port) and customer-facing Python ETL customization using plugin-based parsers and Pydantic validation, plus hands-on monitoring/alerting improvements with operators.”

“Full-stack engineer with primary depth in .NET Core and Python who has built and deployed end-to-end AWS applications (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudFront) and supported them in production. Experienced in scaling large, data-driven workloads using queues/background workers, batching, and database tuning, with strong focus on API contracts, observability, and resilience patterns; also has hands-on React/TypeScript and some Spring Boot exposure.”

“Engineering leader/CTO-type with deep experience building and scaling a vehicle routing platform at Transdev On Demand, including a nationwide rollout to 22 US airports ahead of schedule. Drove engineering best practices (CI/CD, high test coverage, pair programming, automated deployments) and led a multi-tenant architectural upgrade to expand the routing engine to additional business lines and external customers.”

“Backend engineer who built and owned an AI-powered SMS survey platform for a nonprofit serving at-risk communities (internet-limited users), using Cloudflare Workers + Twilio and a state-machine survey engine. Scaled it to ~10k active users with near-zero downtime, added English/Spanish support, and iteratively improved LLM behavior (Claude 3.7 Sonnet) to handle nuanced, real-world SMS responses reliably.”

“Unreal Engine UI engineer focused on scalable, production-ready UI architecture (C++/Slate/UMG/CommonUI) with strong designer enablement via decoupled, interface-driven patterns and MVVM. Demonstrated measurable performance wins: replaced 200+ per-frame Blueprint bindings to cut UI prepass/paint from 4.2ms to 0.5ms and reduced VRAM by ~120MB using texture streaming proxies.”

Srinivas Matta

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in cloud-native web platforms

Paducah, KY4y exp

“Software engineer at Capital One who owned and shipped AI-driven personalization and internal insights dashboards end-to-end, emphasizing fast iteration with feature flags and tight user feedback loops. Built a TypeScript/React + Spring Boot/Python document automation platform with compute-heavy NLP microservices, async workflows, and production-scale reliability/performance practices (Kafka/RabbitMQ-style queues, Redis caching, tracing).”

SAI RAKAM

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in backend microservices and FinTech payments

Remote, USA3y exp

“Capital One engineer focused on fraud and payments platforms, owning end-to-end services and internal tools used by fraud analysts. Built high-traffic Kafka/REST systems and real-time React/TypeScript dashboards (WebSockets, Redis), with strong emphasis on observability, idempotency, and scalable microservices. Successfully drove adoption of AI-assisted fraud classification by pairing transparency and manual overrides with measurable workflow improvements.”

Akshit Modi

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in healthcare NLP and MLOps

Remote, USA5y exp

“Healthcare/clinical ML practitioner who built and productionized ClinicalBERT-based pipelines to extract and standardize oncology EHR data, improving downstream model F1 from 0.81 to 0.92 while controlling training cost via LoRA/QLoRA. Experienced orchestrating real-time AWS ETL/ML workflows (Glue, Lambda, SageMaker) and partnering with clinicians using SHAP-based interpretability, contributing to an 18% reduction in readmissions and full adoption.”

Kanaka Chalam Volety

Screened

Staff DevOps/SRE Engineer specializing in AWS, Kubernetes, and GitOps

San Jose, CA24y exp

“Infrastructure-focused engineer with Vonage experience modernizing early-stage cloud architecture (Terraform modularization, blue-green deployments, containerization, and zero-downtime database migration planning to Aurora). Also built a local end-to-end side project, Vastu AI, combining a custom-trained YOLO model (Roboflow-labeled data) with a locally hosted LLM via Ollama to generate a vastu compliance report from floor-plan images.”

Aditya Jaiswal

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in cloud, DevOps, and applied AI

Carlsbad, CA1y exp

“Full-stack engineer with startup ownership experience (Aiir) building 15+ TypeScript/Go microservice APIs on GCP Cloud Run with Kafka-based async event streaming and React CRM integrations for billing/analytics. Strong post-launch operator who tuned Oracle performance (partitioning/indexing/query optimization) and validated a 23% retrieval-time reduction via AWR, and has a quality/DevSecOps mindset (94% Pytest coverage, GitHub Actions, SonarQube, Twistlock, CloudWatch) including migrating 18+ production CI/CD pipelines.”

Prasannakumar B Vardi

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in low-latency ad targeting and distributed backend systems

Santa Clara, CA9y exp

“Backend/platform engineer who built a high-scale audience segmentation and real-time targeting system using Spark/Glue + S3/Hudi and low-latency API services backed by Redis/relational stores. Demonstrates strong production rigor: Spark performance tuning to eliminate OOM failures, API idempotency/caching to cut p95 latency ~40%, and careful dual-run/feature-flag migrations with reconciliation and rollback runbooks. Experienced implementing layered security with JWT/OAuth, RBAC/ABAC, and database row-level security to prevent privilege escalation.”

Amit Dharam

Screened

Junior AI/ML Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and cloud deployment

Tempe, AZ3y exp

“Built multiple end-to-end automation and data systems, including an Accio RAG pipeline combining PDF parsing, FastAPI, Neo4j, and vector search, plus Selenium-based scraping for a virtual try-on product. Stands out for reliability-minded engineering: automated testing, structured logging, validation layers, and a data-driven approach to debugging flaky automation that improved CI pass rates to over 98%.”

“Product-minded full-stack engineer with experience shipping engagement features and core communication systems at DribbleUp and Expys. Stands out for combining rapid MVP execution with rigorous iteration: delivered a leaderboard feature that lifted engagement by 8% initially and 20% overall, built a chat MVP in 3 days, and has hands-on experience deploying LangChain-based concierge agents with evals and human review.”

“Built a production internal RAG-based Q&A assistant at Huawei for ~4,000 engineers over a 12M-document Elasticsearch corpus, replacing link-only search with synthesized answers and achieving 87% user acceptance while keeping hallucinations under 0.4%. Pairs rigorous offline benchmarking (RAGAS, PR-gated F1 improvements) with human A/B testing and OpenTelemetry-based production monitoring, and also has strong Kubernetes/SRE experience orchestrating 50+ gRPC services with major MTTR and pager-fatigue reductions.”

“ML/NLP engineer with experience at Flatiron Health building a production NLP platform that processed millions of clinical notes, using BERT/BiLSTM-CRF and spaCy to extract and normalize entities from noisy EMR text with oncologist-in-the-loop validation. Also built scalable retail ML workflows (Spark + Kubernetes + feature store caching) and applied vector databases plus contrastive-learning fine-tuning to improve retrieval relevance and recommendations.”