Vetted Apache Kafka Professionals

Akhila Kannegari

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in FinTech and retail ML systems

Alabama, USA4y exp

“ML-focused candidate with strong Wells Fargo experience building production fraud systems and internal GenAI tools for fraud analysts. Stands out for measurable impact in fraud detection—raising recall from 71% to 88%—while also demonstrating hands-on depth across streaming infrastructure, MLOps, LLM/RAG implementation, and Python service architecture.”

Ravindrareddy B

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in enterprise web applications

Ames, IA2y exp

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience building an internal telecom order-tracking/dashboard platform at T-Mobile across React, Spring Boot, and PostgreSQL. Stands out for owning features end-to-end, from scalable frontend architecture and TypeScript patterns to API design, query optimization, CI/CD, and post-launch monitoring in AWS CloudWatch.”

“Software developer who uses AI pragmatically across the full stack to accelerate coding, testing, debugging, and documentation while maintaining strong human oversight. Stands out for treating AI output like any other code source—reviewing for architecture fit, security risks, performance, and standards before integration—and for coordinating multiple AI tools across backend, frontend, and test workflows.”

“Data engineer/backend engineer with healthcare domain experience at Centene, where they owned an end-to-end claims processing pipeline handling over 1 million monthly records. They combine Python/SQL pipeline work with API and event-driven service development, and cite a measurable 35% reduction in incident detection time through automated monitoring and validation.”

Jaya Rathi

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud platforms

Ottawa, Canada15y exp

“Software professional with 13 years of experience across Canada and India, now seeking a first US role in California. Has practical experience applying LLMs and IDE agents like Cursor, ChatGPT, and Gemini to streamline engineering documentation workflows, especially automating Jira/Confluence process work to reduce manual effort and errors.”

Jessy Kattupalli

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in enterprise web applications

West Haven, CT4y exp

“Backend/full-stack engineer with hands-on experience building enterprise-scale real-time log analysis platforms using Spring Boot, Kafka, React, and observability tooling. Stands out for using AI tools heavily but responsibly—treating them as accelerators while relying on rigorous testing, architectural review, retry/DLQ patterns, and monitoring to ensure production reliability.”

“Engineering leader with 11 years at Nokia/Janus International scaling an engineering organization from 3 to roughly 50 people, plus recent startup experience building an AI-powered virtual property manager platform. Particularly compelling for roles needing a rare mix of hands-on architecture depth, people leadership, and cross-functional execution across backend, web, mobile, QA, and even hardware-integrated products.”

Sharath Amula

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI and FinTech

Dallas, TX2y exp

“Frontend engineer with experience in both healthcare and financial services, building high-stakes production interfaces such as AI-powered clinician care planning workflows and real-time fraud investigation dashboards. Stands out for combining React/TypeScript performance optimization with strong UX thinking in regulated, data-dense environments.”

“Built and iterated an end-to-end virtual waiting room for a real-time ticketing prototype, making concrete architecture tradeoffs (polling + Redis Pub/Sub) and improving performance post-launch with Redis caching (+30% throughput, -15% p99 latency). Also has hands-on experience building Spark/HDFS ETL pipelines with strong reliability/observability patterns and running disciplined NLP model evaluation loops on review-rating classification.”

“Database/platform engineer with hands-on ownership of large-scale GCP data systems in financial services, including customer-facing SaaS investment products with strict SLAs. Stands out for leading an on-prem-to-GCP modernization using Spanner, AlloyDB, Bigtable, and BigQuery, and for building Terraform/Python automation that cut provisioning time by ~70% while improving reliability and self-service.”

“Full-stack/backend-leaning engineer with experience spanning fintech platforms, internal AI/RAG assistants, real-time analytics systems, and a zero-to-one academic web platform. Stands out for combining hands-on backend and infrastructure work with product ownership, team guidance, and measurable impact like cutting troubleshooting lookup time from 30 minutes to under 8 minutes and creating reusable UI components adopted across multiple projects.”

“Full-stack/product-minded engineer with strong distributed systems depth, spanning Spring Boot/Kafka microservices, Kubernetes observability, and large-scale React/TypeScript frontends. Particularly compelling for teams building real-time operational products: they describe owning payment/inventory services, designing telemetry dashboards for 150+ services, and helping move claims tracking from polling to event-driven architecture.”

“Engineer with experience in small, high-pressure innovation environments and enterprise healthcare platforms, spanning distributed systems, search, and database optimization. At RJ Lee Group, he helped pivot an Air Force document-processing platform from Pig/MapReduce to Apache Storm, enabling near-real-time results, and also built a full-stack natural-language search application that cut analyst investigations from months to weeks or days.”

“Candidate brings a pragmatic, production-focused approach to AI-assisted software development, using AI as a pair programmer and conceptually applying multi-agent workflows across coding, testing, and review. They stand out for putting strong guardrails around AI usage—manual review, testing, SonarQube, peer review, and keeping critical logic manual—to improve speed without compromising security or code quality.”

“Backend/platform engineer from Dune Security with strong experience turning messy, fragmented workflows into reusable production systems. They’ve built a shared database abstraction layer, integrated multiple enterprise security platforms into a unified workflow, and shipped AWS Bedrock-powered security insight features with guardrails and human review.”

“Backend/AI engineer who has shipped an LLM-powered enterprise support-ticket agent at Comcast, building a production-grade microservices pipeline (FastAPI, SQS, Redis) with strong observability (OpenTelemetry/Splunk/Prometheus/Grafana) and reliability patterns (async, caching, circuit breakers, idempotency). Demonstrated quantified impact at scale—processing 10k+ tickets/day while improving response SLAs and routing accuracy through evaluation and human feedback loops.”

“Built and owned full-stack features for a real-time pricing and inventory management platform at PDR Technologies, spanning React/TypeScript frontend architecture, Node.js APIs, and PostgreSQL-backed data flows. Stands out for driving a shift to micro-frontends with Nx and Webpack Module Federation, improving team independence and release speed while also delivering measurable frontend performance gains.”

“Data/analytics-focused engineer who builds end-to-end KPI reporting and validation products used daily by plant leads and leadership to track yield, downtime, and defects. Combines Python/SQL + Power BI data pipelines with strong data-quality practices (automated validation, monitoring/alerts) and has experience designing scalable frontend architecture in TypeScript/React and working in distributed/microservices-style data systems.”

“Backend engineer with TaskRabbit experience building and operating payment/booking services in Python/Django on AWS (ECS + Lambda) with Kafka/SQS eventing. Demonstrates strong production reliability and incident ownership in high-stakes payment flows (idempotency, strict timeouts, retries, monitoring/alerting) plus data/ETL work in AWS Glue and measurable SQL performance wins.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across GCP and AWS: built FastAPI microservices on Cloud Run and delivered AWS Lambda + ECS Fargate systems with Terraform/GitHub Actions. Strong in data engineering (Glue/Spark, S3/Redshift) and modernization (SAS to Python/SQL), with proven reliability and incident ownership—including cutting a 20+ minute reporting query to under 2 minutes.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience building secure Django/DRF APIs (JWT RS256 + rotating refresh tokens), background processing with Celery, and strong reliability practices (timeouts, retries/backoff, structured logging, audit trails). Has delivered AWS solutions spanning Lambda + ECS with IaC/CI-CD and built Glue/PySpark ETL pipelines with schema evolution and data-quality quarantine patterns; also modernized a legacy SAS pipeline to Python/PySpark with parallel-run parity validation and phased rollout.”

“AI/LLM engineer who built a production content-generation system for nursing education, combining multimodal RAG over proprietary PDFs (including images) with structured Cosmos DB data and external sources. Strong focus on production reliability—prompt-chaining with LangChain, validation/guardrails, and Azure-based monitoring/observability—plus experience designing Azure AI agents with tool integrations like Bing Search.”

“Built and deployed a production long-form article summarization system using BART/T5/PEGASUS, tackling real-world constraints like token limits, latency/quality tradeoffs, and factual drift via chunking/merge logic and constrained decoding. Uses pragmatic Python-based pipeline orchestration (scheduled jobs, modular scripts, logging/retries) and iterates with stakeholder feedback to make outputs genuinely useful for content workflows.”

“LLM/ML platform engineer with hands-on experience taking an LLM document summarization prototype into a production-grade service on AWS EKS, emphasizing low-latency inference, drift monitoring, and safe CI/CD rollouts (canary + rollback). Strong in real-time debugging of agentic/RAG systems (tracing, retrieval/index drift fixes) and in developer enablement through practical workshops (Docker/Kubernetes/FastAPI) plus pre-sales support via demos and benchmarks to close pilots.”