Vetted Apache Kafka Professionals

“Built an employee payroll and leave management system end to end at Northwest Missouri State University, owning stakeholder discovery, UI design, frontend implementation, backend APIs, and payroll business logic. Also has experience modernizing legacy transaction processing with an incremental migration approach from COBOL-based batch systems to Spring Boot services.”

Chuangyu Xu

Screened

Entry-Level Software Engineer specializing in Java backend and distributed systems

New York, NY

“Built and shipped a production AI mock-interview platform where an LLM “interviewer” generates role-specific questions, runs multi-turn follow-ups, and outputs structured scoring/feedback using RAG. Demonstrates strong production-readiness practices (Prometheus/Grafana monitoring, retries/timeouts, fallback models/templates, schema validation, replay-based debugging) and achieved 99%+ availability with ~40% higher session completion. Also has experience integrating agents with messy SAP/ERP-style data sources using a data middleware layer, cleaning/validation, and idempotent write safeguards.”

Janvitha Mandyam

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and NLP

Chicago, IL4y exp

“GenAI/LLMOps practitioner who deployed a production RAG-based customer service and knowledge retrieval system for a global bank using LangChain, FAISS/Azure Cognitive Search, GPT-4/Claude, and Guardrails—driving a reported 35% Q&A accuracy lift while reducing handle time and escalations. Also partnered with non-technical leaders at CVS Health to deliver ML-driven supply chain risk and inventory insights via anomaly detection, NLG summaries, and stakeholder-friendly dashboards.”

Andrew Sheehan

Screened

Executive engineering leader specializing in enterprise architecture and digital transformation

27y exp

“Candidate has spent years working with startups across various industries and has been involved in multiple stages of company building, including hiring, technology choices, and budgeting. They appear especially oriented toward operational discipline, cost control, and evaluating ideas through structured cost, time, and value analysis.”

“GenAI/RAG engineer who has deployed a production policy/regulatory search assistant for a financial client using LangChain + Vertex AI, FastAPI, Docker/Kubernetes, and Airflow-orchestrated data pipelines. Demonstrated measurable impact with 50–60% latency reduction and 70% fewer pipeline failures, plus KPI-driven grounding evaluation (90%+ target) and strong cross-functional collaboration with compliance/business teams.”

“Software engineer/QA automation leader with Lowe’s experience owning automation quality strategy for a customer-facing platform supporting large contractor orders. Built TypeScript/React dashboards backed by Spring Boot microservices (MongoDB) and RabbitMQ async messaging, with strong CI/CD test automation and production monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana). Also created an internal automated test reporting dashboard that improved QA workflow through training-led adoption and iterative refinement.”

“Engineering leader focused on developer platforms and open-source frameworks/SDKs, with strong community and release-engineering chops. Drove major reliability and DX improvements (30–50% faster release cycles; 2–3x repeat contributors; ~50% faster onboarding) and led an incremental Python monolith to TypeScript event-driven migration using Protobuf contracts, feature flags, and a plugin architecture to preserve backward compatibility.”

“Backend engineer with banking-domain experience building production microservices and Kafka-based transaction processing systems. While they have not yet shipped a full LLM agent, they bring relevant distributed-systems expertise in reliability, observability, idempotency, and event-driven workflow design, including a reported 15-20% performance improvement.”