Vetted Apache Kafka Professionals

“Full-stack developer who uses AI thoughtfully as a productivity multiplier rather than a substitute for engineering judgment. Built a stock search platform with React, Node.js, and MongoDB, and has experimented with multi-agent workflows across frontend, backend, debugging, and documentation while keeping rigorous human review over logic, testing, and maintainability.”

“Full stack Python developer who actively integrates AI coding assistants into day-to-day engineering work, including code generation, debugging, testing, and documentation. Has also coordinated multi-agent workflows across backend, frontend, testing, and code review, showing an applied, productivity-focused approach to AI-enabled software delivery.”

“Engineer focused on AI-assisted and multi-agent software development, with hands-on experience designing structured agent workflows for implementation, testing, validation, and architectural review. Stands out for treating AI as an accelerator rather than a replacement, combining practical experimentation with strong attention to engineering fundamentals and operational concerns like observability, latency, and cost.”

Dikshith Pulakanti

Screened

Intern AI Engineer specializing in agentic LLM systems

Singapore, Singapore0y exp

“Built multiple AI-heavy backend systems from scratch, including FORESIGHT, a personal financial intelligence platform running daily on live bank accounts with zero manual intervention, and JobPilot, an autonomous job application agent spanning Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, and custom forms. Stands out for combining strong systems design with applied ML pragmatism, reproducibility, and unusually candid reflection on security, scalability, and observability tradeoffs.”

“Front-end engineer with experience building high-stakes internal products in financial services at Visa and Wells Fargo. They combine deep browser-performance knowledge with pragmatic typed architecture and close user observation, delivering measurable outcomes like cutting AML case resolution from 12 days to 4 and improving trader alert response through data-driven UI changes.”

“Full-stack engineer with deep experience building enterprise compliance and certification systems at Paycom, including complex approval workflows, live migrations, and large-scale assignment processing. Particularly strong at turning ambiguous business rules into reliable backend workflow logic and at designing trustworthy GraphQL/AI-assisted user experiences backed by real-time system data.”

Sanket Mungikar

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in distributed backend and AI analytics platforms

California, USA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer at BigCommerce who combines customer-facing deployment ownership with hands-on AI/LLM systems work. Built and launched merchant analytics and predictive inventory workflows using React, TypeScript, FastAPI, Kafka, AWS, and RAG-style architectures, and has real production experience debugging non-deterministic AI issues caused by data pipeline freshness and event-ordering problems.”

Sai Divya Mulukala

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and distributed systems

USA5y exp

“Full-stack engineer with experience building operational dashboards at Walmart and improving digital banking experiences at Bank of America. Stands out for tracing performance issues across frontend, APIs, and backend services, including cutting response times from 1.2s to 700ms and resolving duplicate event-processing problems in distributed systems.”

“Fullstack engineer from Prudential who built a workflow automation platform for internal service reps, combining Angular/React frontends with NestJS, GraphQL, Kafka, MongoDB, and Redis. Stands out for translating ambiguous business problems into scalable metadata-driven systems, validating architecture through hands-on POCs, and delivering a measurable 40% reduction in transaction handling time.”

Murali Marupudi

Screened

Mid-level Backend Engineer specializing in Python microservices and scalable cloud systems

Jersey City, NJ4y exp

“Backend engineer focused on high-throughput Python/Flask systems on AWS, with strong scaling and performance tuning experience (e.g., PostgreSQL join reduced from ~3s to <200ms; background aggregation cut from 10 minutes to <90 seconds with 8x throughput). Has also integrated ML model serving into production APIs (churn prediction) using Celery/Redis batching and AWS Lambda/S3, and designed secure multi-tenant architectures with PostgreSQL schema isolation and row-level security.”

“Built and owned Citigroup's ASTRA AI-powered test case generation platform end to end, from full-stack product experience to multi-agent LLM orchestration and RAG infrastructure. Drove test coverage from 40% to 95%, cut generation time from hours to minutes, and scaled the feature to 300+ daily users across 32 enterprise projects with sponsorship from Citi's CIO and Head of Engineering Excellence.”

“Built an internal AI-powered document search and Q&A platform at BNY that let employees query company documents in natural language and get grounded answers in seconds. Brings practical full-stack and LLM systems experience across React/TypeScript, FastAPI, Pinecone, OpenAI, and Claude, with clear emphasis on retrieval quality, hallucination reduction, and production monitoring.”

“Backend engineer focused on Java/Spring Boot microservices, workforce scheduling APIs, and event-driven systems. He uses AI tools pragmatically—roughly 25-30% assistance for scaffolding and optimization—while keeping architecture, debugging, testing, and final decisions under tight manual control. Strong on reliability and observability, with hands-on experience in Kafka-based workflows, distributed tracing, and evaluating agent frameworks like LangChain against production needs.”

“Built and owned an AI-powered real-time financial fraud detection and monitoring platform end-to-end, spanning product decisions, backend architecture, frontend dashboards, deployment, and production support. Their work scaled to 120M transactions/day and materially improved fraud detection accuracy from 78% to 94%, showing rare breadth across distributed systems, observability, and React-based operational analytics.”

“Backend/data engineer who builds production FastAPI microservices and AWS serverless/Glue pipelines for SMS analytics and marketing segmentation. Led a legacy batch modernization into modular services (FastAPI + Glue/Athena + ClickHouse) using shadow-mode parity checks, feature flags, and incremental rollout. Demonstrated measurable performance wins (12s to sub-second SQL; ~40% CPU reduction) and strong incident ownership with proactive schema-drift prevention.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered calorie-counting chatbot that turns plain-English meal descriptions into normalized food entities, quantities, and calorie estimates using a hybrid transformer + rule-engine pipeline. Emphasizes reliability with schema/constraint guardrails, confidence-based routing (including embedding similarity search fallbacks), and strong observability/metrics (hallucination rate, calibration, latency, cost). Partnered closely with nutritionists to encode domain standards into mappings and validation logic.”

“Candidate indicated they live in New York but did not provide substantive details about their experience; they declined to discuss at least one topic as restricted and did not answer role-related questions with concrete examples.”

“Built a web-based online Sudoku game in JavaScript (multiplayer format supporting up to 6 teams with up to 5 players each) and demonstrates strong product/analytics orientation. Uses a KPI-driven approach (DAU/WAU, ARPU, session duration, LTV) and structured prioritization methods (MoSCoW, story mapping, cost of delay, DFV) to iterate toward targets; seeking a remote role around $70k/year.”

“Backend engineer who has built high-throughput analytics and fraud-detection systems, combining Python/Flask + Celery/RabbitMQ with strong PostgreSQL performance tuning (indexing, partitioning, EXPLAIN ANALYZE). Has production experience integrating ML inference (scikit-learn/TensorFlow → TensorFlow Lite) into Spring Boot microservices with caching and model versioning, plus designing secure multi-tenant architectures using JWT-based tenant routing and PostgreSQL RBAC/RLS.”

“Backend/platform engineer who owned a real-time customer analytics microservice stack in Python/FastAPI with Kafka streaming into PostgreSQL, including schema enforcement (Avro) and high-throughput optimizations. Strong Kubernetes + GitOps practitioner (EKS/GKE, Helm, Argo CD) who has handled CI/CD reliability issues with automated pre-deploy checks and rollbacks, and supported major migrations (on-prem to AWS; VM to EKS) with blue-green cutover planning.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on manufacturing/production-systems experience at Wallbox, improving the Supernova charger rework process by streamlining part-number/component updates. Strong in building modular Python/Flask services with clean integration layers (Cosmos DB, NetSuite, traceability/label printing), plus deep SQLAlchemy/Postgres performance tuning. Also brings scalable AI/ML integration and deployment experience (OpenAI/Hugging Face/TensorFlow Serving, Docker/FastAPI/Nginx) and multi-tenant schema isolation with RBAC.”

“Designed and deployed an enterprise LLM-powered clinical/pharmacy policy knowledge assistant at CVS Health, replacing manual searches across PDFs/Word/SharePoint with a HIPAA-compliant RAG system. Built end-to-end ingestion and orchestration (Airflow + Azure ML/Data Lake + vector index) with PHI masking, versioned re-embedding, and production monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana), and partnered closely with clinicians/compliance to ensure policy-grounded, auditable answers.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered clinical note summarization system used by care managers to speed review of 5–20 page unstructured medical records. Implemented safety-focused validation (prompt constraints, rule-based and section-level checks, human-in-the-loop) to reduce hallucinations while maintaining low latency and meeting privacy/regulatory constraints, integrating via APIs into existing clinical tools.”

“AI/LLM engineer with production experience building secure, scalable compliance-focused generative AI systems (GPT-3/4, BERT) including RAG over internal regulatory document bases. Has delivered end-to-end pipelines on AWS with PySpark/Airflow/Kubernetes/FastAPI, emphasizing privacy controls, monitoring, and iterative evaluation (A/B testing). Also partnered closely with bank compliance officers using prototypes to refine NLP summarization/classification and reduce document review time.”