Vetted Apache Cassandra Professionals

Vignesh Shanmugasundaram

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack development and applied ML

New York, NY2y exp

“Full-stack engineer with experience at Zoho and Amazon who has owned production systems end-to-end, including a monolith-to-microservices migration using Kafka and Cassandra that improved search latency ~25% and increased throughput without data loss. Also built a hackathon project (Buildwise) into a sold product for a construction company (AI-driven document compliance checks) and shipped an IoT-based parking availability MVP in 3 weeks.”

“Backend engineer with experience at JPMorgan Chase and Walgreens, owning transaction-processing and prescription data flow systems in regulated environments. Brings strong hands-on depth in Spring Boot microservices, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, observability, and production incident resolution, plus practical experience integrating OpenAI-powered workflows with validation and fallback safeguards.”

William Elderton

Screened

Executive technology leader specializing in FinTech, cloud platforms, and digital transformation

Austin, TX26y exp

“Seasoned operator with 30 years of experience at multiple startup companies, primarily in venture-backed environments, plus some exposure to private equity-backed firms. The candidate is highly familiar with the VC and accelerator ecosystem, though they clarified they were pursuing a CTO role rather than actively planning to found a startup.”

Darsh Sharma

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in ML systems and microservices

Madison, WI2y exp

“Teradata Text Security intern who built a production LLM-powered planner agent that decomposes complex tasks into dependency-aware subtasks (DAG/topological graph) and executes them via a custom orchestrator with parallelism, status tracking, and error handling. Also contributed to an HR-facing internal document chatbot concept to streamline onboarding, showing cross-functional collaboration.”

“Infrastructure/operations engineer with hands-on IBM Power/AIX administration (LPAR/DLPAR, HMC, RMC) and PowerHA cluster failover experience, plus modern DevOps tooling across CI/CD, Kubernetes/Helm, and IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation/Ansible). Emphasizes controlled change management, drift prevention via Git-as-source-of-truth, and observability practices using Prometheus/Grafana.”

“Product-minded software engineer with experience shipping AI-powered financial insights (spend forecasting, cashflow, credit optimization) and building real-time analytics systems using React/TypeScript and FastAPI. Has designed microservices with RabbitMQ/gRPC and strong observability (Prometheus/Grafana/OpenTelemetry), and also built an internal Figma plugin adopted by designers that reduced export time by 50%.”

“Entrepreneur building a bootstrapped AI-based personal agent (inspired by Claude desktop) aimed at making AI assistance accessible to non-technical users. Motivated by improving individuals' daily lives by helping them organize their day and offload simple, repeatable tasks; plans to explore VC/accelerator options but has not raised capital yet.”

Vindhya Naidu

Screened

Mid-level Backend Software Engineer specializing in Java/Spring microservices and FinTech

Austin, TX5y exp

“Backend engineer with Apple experience who owned production platform improvements end-to-end, including a Redis caching layer that cut API latency ~35–40% and reduced DB load. Has hands-on on-call/incident response and observability (CloudWatch), plus experience scaling Docker/Kubernetes microservices and operating Kafka-based telemetry pipelines with schema evolution, deduplication, and replay/backfill handling.”