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Vetted Apache Kafka Professionals
Pre-screened and vetted.
Mayur Komaravelly
Senior Data Analyst specializing in data pipelines, web scraping, and legal data enrichment
“Data engineer focused on reliable, scalable analytics pipelines and external data collection. Has owned end-to-end pipelines processing 5–10M records/day, serving Snowflake data marts to Power BI/Tableau, and reports ~99% reliability through strong validation/monitoring. Also shipped versioned REST APIs for curated data with query optimization and caching.”
SNEHA KUSUMA
Mid-level Java Full-Stack Developer specializing in banking and telecom platforms
“Frontend-focused engineer with experience at T-Mobile and U.S. Bank who maintained a TypeScript utility library (types, tests, build pipeline, and docs) adopted by multiple teams, and improved React workflow performance by refactoring components and optimizing data fetching. Known for pragmatic cross-team support—reproducing issues quickly, shipping well-tested fixes, and managing changes carefully to avoid breaking downstream apps.”
Rishitha reddy katamareddy
Mid-level Generative AI & Machine Learning Engineer specializing in agentic LLM systems
“Built and deployed a production agentic LLM knowledge assistant that answers complex questions over internal documents, APIs, and databases using a RAG architecture (FAISS/Pinecone) and LangChain/LangGraph orchestration. Emphasizes production-grade reliability and hallucination control through grounding, confidence thresholds, validation, retries/fallbacks, and full observability (logging/metrics/traces) with continuous evaluation and feedback loops.”
Sanket Dumbare
Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and FinTech platforms
“Backend/platform engineer who led an end-to-end Python (FastAPI) transaction analytics microservice for real-time financial monitoring, including SQS ingestion, scoring/aggregation, and low-latency APIs. Strong AWS + Kubernetes/GitOps background (EKS, ArgoCD, Jenkins, ECS/ECR, CloudWatch) with hands-on experience scaling event-driven systems and executing phased on-prem to AWS migrations.”
Sai Nekkanti
Mid-level Data Scientist / ML Engineer specializing in secure GenAI and financial compliance
“Built a production "sentinel insight engine" to tame information overload from millions of product reviews and support transcripts, combining Azure OpenAI (GPT-3.5) zero-shot classification with a fine-tuned T5 summarizer to generate weekly actionable product insights. Demonstrated strong MLOps/production engineering by adding drift monitoring with embedding-based detection, integrating REST with legacy SOAP/queue-based CRM via FastAPI middleware, and scaling reliably on Kubernetes with HPA.”
Navindu Jayatilake
DevOps Technical Lead specializing in Kubernetes, AWS, and platform engineering
“Sri Lanka–based DevOps/Platform engineer focused on Kubernetes and AWS who has led real production incidents and recoveries (network-policy-induced asymmetric routing; node pool failure due to CNI upgrade). Built production CI/CD with GitHub Actions (ephemeral self-hosted runners on EKS), ArgoCD, Vault, and Terraform, and led a phased ECS-to-EKS migration including Kafka consumers and MongoDB Atlas private endpoints.”
Deeresh Gajjala
Senior Software Engineer specializing in Java/Spring Boot microservices and AWS payments systems
“Senior software engineer with Amazon experience who owned end-to-end improvements to a real-time payment authorization service, rebuilding it as a reactive Spring WebFlux microservice with saga orchestration and Kafka event streaming, deployed on AWS EKS with strong observability. Also built React+TypeScript and Node/Express full-stack workflow apps (onboarding, campaign management, admin review) and has experience shipping quickly in ambiguous startup environments while maintaining reliability and data correctness.”
Revanth Goli
Senior Data & Backend Engineer specializing in cloud data pipelines and LLM/RAG systems
“Data engineer with end-to-end ownership of large-scale retail and clinical data ingestion/processing on AWS, including real-time streaming and batch pipelines. Delivered measurable outcomes: 20M daily transactions processed, latency cut from 4 hours to 5 minutes, ~70% fewer failures, and 120+ pipelines running at 99.8% reliability with full audit compliance.”
Nishad Kane
Mid-level Data Scientist & AI Engineer specializing in RAG, agentic AI, and production ML
“AI/data engineer who built a production LLM-powered schema drift detection system (LangChain/LangGraph) to catch semantic data changes before they break downstream analytics/ML. Deployed on AWS with Docker/S3 and implemented an LLM-as-a-judge evaluation framework to improve trust, reduce hallucinations, and control false positives/alert fatigue. Collaborated with non-technical risk/business analytics stakeholders at EY by delivering human-readable drift explanations that improved confidence in financial analytics dashboards.”
Sreelekha Vuppala
Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in Generative AI, MLOps, and cloud data platforms
“GenAI/ML engineer (CitiusTech) who has deployed production RAG systems for compliance/operations document Q&A, using Pinecone + FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes with strong monitoring and guardrails. Also built a GenAI-powered incident triage/routing solution in collaboration with non-technical stakeholders, achieving 35% faster response times and 40% fewer misclassified tickets, and has hands-on orchestration experience with Airflow and AutoSys.”
Harini Vinu
Intern Software Engineer specializing in cloud, big data, and test automation
“Internship experience at Qualitest building and deploying an LLM-powered test automation system that reduced manual test creation and improved efficiency (~40%). Demonstrates strong production engineering for LLM systems (timeouts/retries/monitoring/caching, prompt optimization, batching) and has scaled workflows to 100+ concurrent jobs; also has orchestration experience with AWS Step Functions and Kubernetes.”
Prashant Salunke
Mid-Level Software Development Engineer specializing in full-stack and cloud-native systems
“Backend engineer who has shipped production LLM-powered features, including an AI-assisted developer tool on AWS (Spring Boot) and a blog platform capability using embeddings + Elasticsearch for semantic retrieval and LLM-generated summaries/recommendations. Demonstrates practical tradeoff management (quality/latency/cost), guardrails to reduce hallucinations, and evaluation-driven iteration using real user queries and observability via ELK.”
“Unity/gameplay engineer (Playtika) who built a state-machine/ECS-driven slot/bonus engine in a client-server setup, focusing on consistent outcomes under latency and highly engaging reward sequences. Also implemented server-authoritative real-time challenges/contests via an event-driven messaging system (SignalR-like) across iOS/Android/WebGL/UWP, and validates impact through retention/session/engagement analytics.”
Bhargavi Kondaveeti
Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in big data pipelines and real-time streaming
“Data engineer who has owned end-to-end production pipelines processing a few million records/day, using Python/Airflow/SQL/PySpark with Snowflake serving to BI (Power BI). Built resilient external web data collection systems (anti-bot, schema-change detection, backfills) and shipped versioned REST APIs for internal consumers, improving pipeline success rates to 99% through monitoring, retries, and idempotent design.”
Sai Vardhan Reddy
Mid-Level Data Engineer specializing in cloud data platforms and governed analytics
“Data engineer with Optum experience building end-to-end healthcare data pipelines for HL7/FHIR, processing millions of records daily across Kafka streaming and Databricks/Spark batch. Strong focus on data quality (schema enforcement/validations), reliability (Airflow monitoring/alerts), and analytics-ready serving in Snowflake powering Power BI/Tableau, with CI/CD via Git and Jenkins.”
Tanvi Dasaripally
Mid-level Cloud Data Engineer specializing in Azure/AWS pipelines and medallion architecture
“Data engineer focused on reliability and data quality, owning end-to-end pipelines processing ~100k–300k records/day. Implemented robust validation and monitoring that cut reporting issues by ~30%, and built stable external data collection with anti-bot measures, backfills, and schema-change detection while maintaining backward-compatible internal data services.”
Jaskirat Singh
Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and data platforms
“Infrastructure/data platform engineer with hands-on GCP production experience, especially Bigtable, who led a migration from Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API to Bigtable that removed throttling and cut costs by 50%+. Stands out for combining distributed data architecture, zero-downtime Kafka migration strategy, and Terraform/Python automation for deterministic multi-region GKE operations.”
Pramathesh Shukla
Senior Data Analyst specializing in marketing, BI, and financial analytics
“Marketing analytics candidate with experience at WPP and on a global Coca-Cola campaign, focused on turning messy multi-platform media data into trusted reporting and decision systems. They combine hands-on SQL/Python pipeline building with stakeholder KPI alignment, and cite a 22% improvement in media effectiveness plus faster budget reallocation through daily automated reporting.”
Nihar Turlapati
Intern-level Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML systems
“Built production LLM/RAG systems during a UPS internship, including a shipment knowledge agent used across 15+ hubs worldwide and a multi-agent PDF RAG workflow. Stands out for combining hands-on enterprise integration with rigorous evaluation, hallucination reduction, and efficient fine-tuning techniques like LoRA.”
Dhruv Pandoh
Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI, FinTech, and e-commerce
“Built both traditional internal tooling and LLM-powered systems during an internship, including a React/Python/AWS calculator onboarding platform and a production-style ROS2 RAG assistant over 10K+ documents. Stands out for combining full-stack delivery, stakeholder coordination, and practical AI reliability work like retrieval tuning, source-grounded answers, and low-confidence fallbacks.”
Polam Srija
Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and FinTech
“AI Engineer with hands-on ownership of a production multi-agent RAG platform in financial services, spanning experimentation, architecture, deployment, monitoring, and iterative optimization. Stands out for measurable impact: 35% retrieval relevance improvement and nearly 50% reduction in manual operational analysis effort, plus strong experience making enterprise LLM systems safer and more reliable in production.”
Sai Krishna Devarasetti
Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in FinTech and AI-powered web platforms
“Full-stack engineer with 6+ years of experience building high-scale internal products and AI-powered workflows, including a U.S. Bank payment operations dashboard handling 500k+ transactions and real-time analyst collaboration. Stands out for true end-to-end ownership—from React/TypeScript frontend architecture to Node/Spring services, PostgreSQL/Redis optimization, Kubernetes deployment, and Datadog monitoring—plus measurable impact on adoption, latency, and analyst efficiency.”
Supreet Purthpli
Mid-level AI/ML Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native MLOps and FinTech
“Software engineer with JPMorgan Chase experience delivering end-to-end fintech features (Next.js/React/Node/Postgres on AWS) and measurable performance gains. Built and productionized an AI-native credit decisioning workflow combining LLMs, vector retrieval, and a rules engine with strong governance (bias checks, auditability, human-in-loop), improving precision and cutting underwriting turnaround time by 40%.”