Vetted Apache Kafka Professionals

“AI/ML engineer who shipped a production blood-test report understanding and personalized supplement recommendation product, using a LangGraph multi-agent pipeline on AWS serverless with OCR via Bedrock and RAG over vetted clinical research. Also built end-to-end recommender system pipelines at ASANTe using Airflow (ingestion, embeddings/features, training, registry, batch scoring/monitoring) with KPI reporting to Tableau, with a strong focus on safety, evaluation, and measurable reliability.”

“Backend engineer who built an agentic LLM system for private equity/finance that answers questions over enterprise contracts and documents using a vector-db RAG pipeline. Differentiator is a trust-focused citation framework (with highlighted source text) to reduce hallucinations in high-stakes workflows, plus strong DevOps experience deploying microservices on Kubernetes with Helm/GitOps and building Kafka real-time pipelines.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building Python (FastAPI/Flask) data enrichment services secured with Okta OAuth2 and monitored via Splunk/Dynatrace. Has delivered AWS event-driven and data-migration solutions (Lambda + Kafka to EKS; Glue from on-prem Oracle to S3/data lake) and modernized Informatica match/merge logic to cloud services using parallel-run parity validation and stakeholder sign-off.”

“Backend engineer (IpserLab) who owned Python services for a production quiz/analytics platform, focusing on reliability and low-latency behavior under peak load. Hands-on with Kubernetes + Docker deployments and GitHub Actions CI/CD in a GitOps-style workflow, including solving configuration drift and enabling fast rollbacks. Also implemented Kafka-based event streaming with idempotent consumers and strong observability (lag tracking, structured logging, alerting).”

“Cloud/SRE-style engineer at TDS supporting revenue-critical transportation SaaS platforms on AWS/GCP with Kubernetes. Has hands-on experience leading high-impact production work including DDoS mitigation, zero-downtime MSSQL→PostgreSQL migration using CDC, and building secure GitHub Actions + ArgoCD delivery pipelines and Terraform-based GKE infrastructure.”

“Startup-focused engineering leader applying for a CTO role; previously served as founding CTO of a tech startup and held engineering/architecture roles across several others. Evaluates new ventures through market research and market demand, and emphasizes building from the ground up with strong teams (has not personally participated in fundraising).”

“DevSecOps/AWS infrastructure engineer at Madison Logic who owns a 15-account AWS footprint and treats nearly all AWS resources as code (Terraform/CloudFormation). Led a CI/CD platform migration (Bitbucket → GitLab + GitHub Actions) supporting WordPress and containerized microservices, improving release frequency to weekly/daily, and has hands-on production incident response experience on ECS Fargate using Datadog with fast rollback via immutable ECR tags and task definition revisions.”

“Student building a production trip-planning LLM agent (LangChain + Streamlit) that routes user queries across multiple tools (maps/places/Wikipedia). Implemented zero-shot multi-label intent detection with priority rules to handle multi-intent requests, and collaborates with a startup product manager to shape tone, features, and user experience.”