Vetted Apache Kafka Professionals

“Backend engineer who replaced an Excel-heavy forecasting workflow with a secure, auditable FastAPI system (React UI + relational model + async workers), emphasizing deterministic processing, idempotency, and versioned ledger-style ingestion. Led a monolith-to-FastAPI migration at Bounteous using a strangler approach, feature-flagged incremental rollout, and data reconciliation/shadow-compare to protect integrity while scaling onboarding workflows.”

“Built and deployed an AI Copilot for Healthful Telehealth that helps dietitians generate personalized meal plans using patient data and real-time clinical context. Stands out for owning the full lifecycle—from workflow discovery and ETL/RAG architecture to production incident response and post-launch stabilization—while delivering roughly 30% gains in retrieval accuracy and latency.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on experience shipping production computer vision and GenAI systems, including a fabric defect detection platform that combined vision models with agentic LLM workflows to reach 89% human-inspector agreement at 200 ms latency. Also built a RAG-based code QA tool for developers and emphasizes production monitoring, evaluation, caching, and reusable Python service design.”

“Built and launched an internal AI troubleshooting assistant focused on safe, retrieval-first root cause analysis for enterprise systems, with strong attention to monitoring, fallback behavior, and post-launch iteration. Also owns full-stack product work across React and Java/Spring Boot, including high-volume financial operations workflows, and reports measurable LLM improvements such as ~30-40% latency reduction.”

“Backend engineer currently at Citigroup working on real-time transaction processing systems with Kafka. Stands out for using AI tools pragmatically in a regulated banking environment to improve debugging, testing, and developer productivity while keeping human control over architecture, security, and performance decisions.”

“Backend/ML engineer who has shipped high-scale real-time systems across e-commerce and healthcare: built a PharmEasy real-time recommendation engine for ~2M monthly users (cut feature latency 5 min→30 sec; +15% cross-sell) and architected a HIPAA-compliant multimodal clinical diagnostic workflow (DICOM+EHR) with XAI, MLOps (MLflow/Airflow/K8s), and drift/monitoring guardrails supporting 10k+ daily predictions.”

Manasa Pantra

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI, LLM systems, and full-stack development

Stony Brook, NY2y exp

“Product-focused full-stack engineer at startup (Zippy) who shipped a production multi-agent AI system for restaurant operations plus payments workflows. Built end-to-end: RAG grounded on a Notion knowledge base, structured function-calling task routing, FastAPI/JWT multi-tenant backend, and a polished React+TypeScript owner dashboard. Has real production incident experience (duplicate Stripe webhooks) and reports ~94% task-routing accuracy under load.”

“Backend engineer with experience building and modernizing high-volume healthcare transaction systems, including migrating Java services to Spring Boot microservices and adopting Kafka-based event-driven architectures. Strong focus on production reliability and operability (observability, CI/CD, standardized patterns) plus security (OAuth/JWT, RBAC, Postgres/Supabase RLS) and resilient stream processing (idempotency, DLQs).”

“ML/AI practitioner in healthcare (Syneos Health) who has deployed production clinical NLP and risk models. Built a BERT-based physician-note information extraction system on Docker + AWS SageMaker (reported ~42% retrieval improvement) and automated retraining/deployment with Airflow and drift detection, while partnering closely with clinicians to drive adoption (reported ~18% readmission reduction).”

“Software engineer with strong full-stack and platform experience (TypeScript/React/Node.js) who has built real-time analytics dashboards and microservices using RabbitMQ. Demonstrates production-minded decision-making under launch pressure (manual fallback for payment-impacting third-party API issues) and has delivered internal DevOps tooling that automates compliance checks via GitHub/Jira integrations.”

“Full-stack engineer/product owner who built and scaled a customer-facing job application portal (Skillbridge) using TypeScript/React and Spring Boot/MongoDB, optimizing search performance with indexing, caching (Redis), and payload/lazy-loading improvements. Also built an internal AI-driven analytics dashboard for Salesforce operations using OpenAI sentiment analysis, achieving 70% reduction in manual analysis and driving adoption through demos and iterative feedback.”

“LLM/agentic systems practitioner focused on taking customer prototypes to production by hardening reliability (APIs, monitoring, security) and adding guardrails, evals, and incremental rollouts. Experienced diagnosing RAG/agent failures via structured tracing and fixing retrieval-quality issues (freshness checks, filters, schema enforcement). Also supports pre-sales by leading developer demos/workshops and building targeted POCs to address scalability/reliability objections and drive adoption.”

“Backend engineer with Walmart experience owning Python data-processing/integration services alongside ASP.NET Core. Has deployed containerized services to Kubernetes via OpenShift with Jenkins CI/CD and GitOps-style config management, and has led phased migrations modernizing VB6/classic ASP apps to ASP.NET Core on OpenShift/Azure. Also implemented Kafka-based real-time pipelines with a focus on reliability, idempotency, and observability.”

“Built a production real-time anomaly detection platform for high-frequency trading at HSBC, using a streaming stack (Pulsar + Spark Structured Streaming + AWS Lambda) and a transformer-based model combining time-series and numerical signals. Experienced in MLOps and safe deployment (Kubernetes, canary releases, MLflow/Grafana monitoring) and in aligning model performance with risk/compliance expectations through SLA-driven tuning and stakeholder-friendly dashboards.”

“Backend engineer at Cerebrone.ai building cloud-native Flask microservices for an AI-driven automation platform on GCP (Cloud Run/App Engine), including dedicated inference services integrating OpenAI and internal ML pipelines. Demonstrated strong performance and scalability wins across Postgres/SQLAlchemy optimization, multi-tenant (healthcare/HIPAA-grade) data isolation, and high-throughput background processing with Celery/Redis/RabbitMQ, with multiple quantified latency/CPU/throughput improvements.”

“ML/NLP engineer who built a RAG-based technical assistant for Caterpillar field engineers, transforming PDF keyword search into intent-based semantic retrieval across manuals, logs, sensor reports, and technician notes. Strong in productionizing data/ML systems (Airflow, PySpark) with rigorous preprocessing, entity resolution, and evaluation—delivering measurable gains in accuracy, relevance, and duplicate reduction.”