Vetted Apache Kafka Professionals

“Full stack Java developer (5 years Java/Spring Boot) building a mortgage-focused rule engine platform used by business users and developers. Experienced scaling data-intensive microservices on AWS (RDS/S3/SQS) and optimizing high-volume rule processing with SQL tuning, caching (KIE container), and asynchronous task decoupling; also delivers modern UIs in Angular and React (Redux/Toolkit).”

“Built and deployed an LLM-powered claims-document summarization system (insurance domain) that cut agent review time from 4–5 minutes to under 2 minutes and saved 1,200+ hours per quarter. Hands-on across orchestration and production infrastructure (Airflow retraining DAGs, Kubernetes, SageMaker endpoints, FastAPI) and recent RAG workflows using n8n + Pinecone, with a strong focus on reliability, cost, and explainability for non-technical stakeholders.”

“AI/LLM engineer with production experience in legal tech: built a GPT-4 + LangChain RAG summarization system at Govpanel that reduced legal case-file review time by 50%+. Previously at LexisNexis, orchestrated end-to-end Airflow data/AI pipelines processing 5M+ legal documents daily, improving ETL runtime by 35% with robust validation, monitoring, and SLAs.”

“AI/ML Engineer with 4+ years of experience (Capital One, Odin Technologies) and a master’s in Data Analytics (4.0 GPA) who has deployed LLM/RAG systems to production for compliance/risk and document review. Strong in orchestration and MLOps (Airflow, Kubernetes, MLflow, GitHub Actions) and in tackling real-world LLM constraints like latency, context limits, and data privacy, with measurable impact (20%+ manual review reduction; 33% faster release cycles).”

“Customer-facing data engineering professional who builds and deploys real-time reporting/dashboard solutions, gathering reporting and compliance requirements through direct stakeholder engagement. Experienced with Google Cloud IAM governance, secure integrations (encryption, audit logging), and fast production troubleshooting of ETL/pipeline failures with follow-on monitoring and automated recovery improvements; motivated by hands-on, travel-oriented customer work.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with logistics domain experience (DHL) who shipped a real-time shipment status update system using Spring Boot + Kafka and a performance-tuned PostgreSQL tracking schema. Also has AWS production operations experience (ECS/Kubernetes, Jenkins CI/CD, Terraform/Ansible) and has handled peak-load incidents end-to-end by tracing Kafka lag to database bottlenecks and resolving via query/index optimization plus scaling.”

“Full-stack/backend engineer with deep insurance claims domain experience who built and operated a microservices + ETL platform (Java/Spring Boot + Python + Kafka/Databricks) processing 1M+ daily transactions. Combines production-grade reliability (99.7% uptime, zero-downtime blue/green releases, strong observability) with customer-facing UI delivery (AngularJS/React+TS dashboards and a hackathon-winning research chatbot).”

“Full-stack engineer with healthcare domain experience (UnitedHealthcare) delivering real-time claims/eligibility dashboards using Spring Boot microservices and React/TypeScript, with strong AWS/Kubernetes DevOps. Demonstrated measurable impact through performance tuning (33% faster retrieval; 45% faster responses during a 60% traffic spike) and HIPAA-aligned security practices. Also built production FastAPI services for high-volume financial transactions with strong testing and observability (95%+ coverage; Prometheus/Grafana).”

“Full-stack .NET engineer with cloud and applied GenAI experience who shipped a real-time policy status tracking module at Lincoln Financial using ASP.NET Core/.NET 8, Kafka, Angular, SQL Server, Redis, and AKS autoscaling. Also delivered a production internal LLM+RAG support assistant at Honeywell with strong security/guardrails (PII masking, RBAC) and a rigorous eval/regression loop built on a 200-question gold set.”

“Full-stack engineer (4+ years) with Citigroup experience building a modular banking dashboard using React/TypeScript/Redux and a Java Spring Boot microservices backend (12+ services) integrated with Kafka. Strong in reliability/observability and cloud operations on AWS (EC2/S3/Lambda, CloudWatch, Prometheus, ELK, IaC with Terraform/CloudFormation), with quantified improvements in latency, development speed, and data pipeline correctness.”

“Built a production, real-time clinical documentation system at HCA that converts doctor–patient conversations into structured clinical summaries using speech-to-text, LLM summarization, and RAG. Demonstrated measurable gains from medical-domain fine-tuning (clinical concept recall +18%, ROUGE-L 0.62 to 0.74) while meeting HIPAA constraints via PHI anonymization and encryption, and deployed via Docker/FastAPI with CI/CD and monitoring.”

“Backend engineer with experience at Cigna evolving REST API services backed by PostgreSQL, emphasizing reliability/correctness, scalability, and observability. Has hands-on production experience with FastAPI (contract-first design, Pydantic schemas), performance tuning (indexes, caching), and secure auth patterns (OAuth/JWT, RBAC, row-level security via Supabase), plus low-risk incremental rollouts using feature flags and dual writes.”

“Backend/data engineer from ALDI Tech Hub who modernized legacy analytics (Excel/SAS) into production-grade Python services on AWS serverless (FastAPI on Lambda behind API Gateway with Step Functions). Strong in reliability and operations (Cognito auth, retries/timeouts, structured logging, CloudWatch alarms) and data pipelines (Glue ETL with schema evolution); delivered measurable SQL tuning gains (30s to 2s, 70% CPU reduction).”

“Backend engineer from Emphasis who modernized legacy, tightly coupled workflow systems into observable, event-driven microservices using Kafka. Led a monolith-to-microservices refactor with shadow traffic, feature flags, canary rollout, dual writes, and reconciliation, and strengthened reliability with idempotent consumers, DLQ/replay, and an outbox pattern to prevent DB/event inconsistency. Strong focus on secure multi-tenant APIs (OIDC/JWT, RBAC/ABAC, Supabase-style RLS) and frontend enablement via OpenAPI and typed client generation.”

“Healthcare-focused LLM engineer who deployed a production triage and clinical knowledge retrieval assistant using RAG and LangGraph-orchestrated multi-agent workflows. Emphasizes clinical safety and compliance with robust hallucination controls, HIPAA/PHI protections (tokenization, encryption, audit logging, zero-retention), and human-in-the-loop escalation; reports a 75% latency reduction in a healthcare agent system.”

“Built an agentic, multi-step LLM system that generates full-stack code for API integrations using LangChain orchestration, Pinecone/SentenceBERT RAG, and a human-in-the-loop feedback loop for iterative code refinement. Also collaborated with non-technical content writers and PMs during a Contentstack internship to deliver a Slack-based AI workflow that generates and brand-checks articles with one-click approvals.”

“Software engineer/product-focused builder who delivered real-time supply chain inventory dashboards to replace a legacy system, integrating directly with ERP/WMS/TMS to eliminate manual reporting. Uses TypeScript/React with Redux Toolkit on the frontend and microservices + REST APIs on the backend, with performance improvements via Redis caching and a strong focus on user-feedback-driven prioritization and observability in distributed systems.”

“Telecom (Verizon) AI/ML practitioner who built a production multimodal system that ingests messy customer issue reports (calls, chats, emails, screenshots, videos) and turns them into confidence-scored incident summaries with reproducible steps and evidence links. Also built KPI/alarm-to-ticket correlation to rank likely root-cause domains (RAN/Core/Transport), cutting triage from hours to minutes and improving MTTR.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience at Wells Fargo and Salesforce building regulated, customer-facing financial systems and internal DevOps tooling. Deep in microservices and event-driven architectures (Spring Boot, Kafka/RabbitMQ) with strong CI/CD automation, contract testing, and observability; delivered measurable impact including 60% faster deployments and 40% fewer support tickets.”

“Full Stack Developer (recently at Cisco Systems) building end-to-end web applications with Angular frontends and Spring Boot microservices backed by MySQL/JPA, including JWT + role-based access. Has hands-on experience with high-volume, real-time data processing/visualization and has solved complex UI state consistency issues using RxJS BehaviorSubjects; also applies layered state patterns in React with Redux Toolkit and uses AI dev tools (Cursor/Claude) strategically.”

“Frontend/platform-leaning engineer who owned a shared React component library (design-system style) adopted across multiple SPAs, with strong discipline around SemVer, deprecation strategy, and developer documentation. Also has backend/distributed-systems experience diagnosing and fixing a Kafka microservice race condition and has led prioritization/migration planning in an unstructured monolith-to-microservices environment (Centene).”

“Full-stack engineer who owned end-to-end delivery of a customer-facing financial services web platform and built internal tooling for engineering teams. Strong in microservices and event-driven systems (Kafka/RabbitMQ), distributed transaction management (saga), and production performance/observability—achieving ~40% backend response-time improvement through database and query optimization.”