Vetted Apache Kafka Professionals

“Full-stack engineer who built a cloud-native customer servicing platform at Synchrony using React 18/Next.js (SSR) and Spring Boot microservices on AWS. Experienced with high-volume, event-driven systems (Lambda/SNS/SQS) and strong distributed-systems rigor around data integrity (idempotency, DynamoDB conditional writes) plus production-grade security/observability (JWT/OAuth2, WAF, Actuator, Splunk).”

“Software engineer with enterprise, customer-facing delivery experience across Outlier AI and Wipro—builds and productionizes workflow and integration solutions with a strong focus on real-world performance and reliability. Delivered a Firestore/Redis-backed real-time pipeline that cut page load times by 20% and held consistent performance across 10,000+ sessions, and has hands-on production incident experience stabilizing high-traffic microservices via caching, indexing, and safe canary deployments.”

“LLM/RAG-focused engineer who repeatedly takes agentic workflows from impressive demos to dependable production using rigorous evals, SLOs, and deep observability. Has led high-impact incident mitigation (22-minute MTTR during a major sale) and developer enablement workshops, and partnered with sales to close a $410k ARR enterprise deal with a tailored RAG pilot (FastAPI/pgvector/Okta/InfoSec-ready).”

“Built a production AI pipeline at EyCrowd to automatically grade shaky outdoor user-submitted brand videos using CV + CLIP/BLIP and a LangChain RAG layer per brand, with GPT-4 generating structured JSON explanations and grades. Optimized for latency and cost (batch PyTorch inference, caching), cutting review time from ~8 minutes to <2 minutes while reaching ~90% alignment with human graders and supporting thousands of videos/day.”

“ML/NLP engineer with banking domain experience who built a GenAI-powered fraud detection and risk intelligence system at Origin Bank, combining RAG (LangChain + FAISS), fine-tuned BERT NER, and GPT-4/Sentence-BERT embeddings. Delivered measurable impact (25% higher fraud detection accuracy, 40% less manual review) and emphasizes production-grade pipelines on AWS SageMaker/Airflow with strong data validation and scalable PySpark processing.”

“Technology leader with experience driving multi-year transformations at Jewelry Supply, including migrating a legacy custom e-commerce platform to SaaS and leading a 3-year ERP program from requirements through implementation and training. Also led a major architecture shift from self-hosted virtualized infrastructure to cloud Kubernetes with a strong DevOps/DevEx focus, emphasizing stakeholder buy-in and scalable processes for distributed engineering teams.”

“Backend developer (recent co-op at Ticker) building and architecting financial backend services with near real-time data needs, including third-party API integrations. Improved performance and reliability via Redis caching (tiered refresh + TTL) and PostgreSQL query tuning (EXPLAIN ANALYZE + composite indexes), and has exposure to AI-agent/RAG concepts for validating stock-market information against trusted sources.”

“Backend-focused TypeScript/Node.js engineer who owned a production microservice for transactional workflows in a React + microservices platform, integrating REST and Kafka event processing. Emphasizes operability and correctness (idempotency keys, exponential backoff retries, DLQs, centralized logging/metrics/alerts) plus strong API DX via versioning and Swagger/OpenAPI with improved error contracts based on developer feedback.”

“Backend/AI engineer who has shipped production LLM systems end-to-end, including an AI request-routing service (FastAPI + BART MNLI + OpenAI/Gemini) that improved accuracy ~25% after launch via eval-driven prompt/category iteration. Also built an enterprise document intelligence/RAG platform on Azure (Blob/SharePoint/Teams ingestion, OCR/NLP chunking, embeddings in Azure Cognitive Search) with PII guardrails (Presidio), confidence gating, and scalable event-driven pipelines handling millions of documents.”

“Full-stack engineer with healthcare/AI platform experience (Humana), owning an end-to-end high-risk patient prediction feature from React dashboards through FastAPI/TensorFlow real-time inference to AWS EKS operations. Emphasizes production reliability and contract-driven APIs (OpenAPI + generated TS types), plus strong data integration patterns (Kafka, idempotency, DLQs, backfills) in regulated, high-traffic environments.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong production ownership across React/TypeScript, Node.js, and AWS (EC2/ECS/RDS/CloudWatch), including CI/CD, observability, and incident response. Delivered a secure RBAC workflow module end-to-end and achieved measurable gains (~30–40% latency reduction, ~50% error reduction) that lowered infra/ops costs. Comfortable in high-ambiguity startup environments—shipped a payment module within 2 days of joining with no documentation.”

“Full-stack engineer at an early-stage startup (AirKitchenz) who owned the hourly booking/availability and first paid booking flow end-to-end—React/TypeScript frontend, Node backend, Postgres modeling, and Stripe payments/webhooks. Experienced operating production on AWS (EC2/Elastic Beanstalk, Docker, RDS, CloudWatch) and building reliable, idempotent integrations while iterating quickly in a pre-PMF environment through direct host/renter feedback.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience in financial payroll, tax, and compensation platforms, building Python microservices and AWS-based data pipelines for high-volume, peak-driven workloads. Strong reliability focus (OAuth2 auth, retries/timeouts, structured logging, incident response) and proven performance wins, including cutting complex report queries from ~8 minutes to under 30 seconds.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building a real-time notification API on Flask/Celery/Postgres and scaling it on AWS with Docker, Redis queuing, and SQLAlchemy query optimization. Also delivered AWS serverless deployments (Lambda) using Terraform + GitHub Actions and built AWS Glue ETL pipelines from S3 to Redshift with CloudWatch monitoring and DataBrew data quality checks.”

“New-grad backend engineer who built a real-time genome analysis pipeline, replacing a slow batch system with an event-driven distributed architecture in Python/Redis and a React progress dashboard. Reports ~6x improvement and cutting analysis time from days to hours with zero data loss under peak load, emphasizing reliability patterns like retries and idempotency plus API security (JWT/RBAC/HTTPS).”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across Python/Flask microservices and AWS serverless/data platforms (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Glue/PySpark). Demonstrated strong reliability and operations mindset (JWT/RBAC, retries/timeouts/circuit breakers, CloudWatch/SNS alerting) and measurable performance wins (SQL report runtime cut from 10 minutes to 30 seconds). Seeking ~$150k base and cannot travel for onsite meetings for the next 5–6 months due to family medical constraints.”

“Stony Brook Fall 2024 capstone contributor who built a ROS2-based warehouse mobile robot prototype, owning perception and SLAM integration end-to-end. Strong in real-time robotics optimization on Jetson Orin (TensorRT/CUDA, ROS2 tracing/Nsight) and in distributed ROS2 communications (DDS discovery/QoS, MAVLink-to-ROS2 bridging), with a full simulation/testing/deployment toolchain (Gazebo, CI tests, Docker/K3s).”

“Backend/AI engineer with internship experience building an AI-powered financial insights platform (FastAPI, Redis, BigQuery) and prior HCL experience leading a monolith-to-microservices refactor (Flask, Kafka) using blue-green deployments. Demonstrates strong performance/security focus (OAuth/JWT/RBAC, encryption) and measurable impact on latency, downtime, and ML model reliability; MVP was submitted to Google’s accelerator program.”

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped production RAG chatbots using LangChain/OpenAI with FAISS and FastAPI, focusing on real-world constraints like context windows, concurrency, and latency (reported ~40% latency reduction and <2s average response). Experienced orchestrating AI pipelines with Celery and fault-tolerant long-running workflows with Temporal, and has applied NLP model tradeoff testing (Word2Vec vs BERT) to drive measurable accuracy gains.”

“Frontend engineer focused on high-scale React + TypeScript dashboards, including an internal Instagram creator/agency analytics dashboard handling extremely large datasets (1–2TB) with virtualization and performance profiling to maintain ~60fps UX. Experienced in modern state management (Redux Toolkit/RTK Query), modularizing legacy codebases into shared component libraries (Storybook), and shipping fast with feature flags plus automated QA (Playwright/Selenium).”

“AI/LLM engineer with production experience building an LLM-powered investment recommendation system using RAG and chatbots, deployed via Docker/CI/CD and scaled on Kubernetes. Demonstrated measurable performance wins (sub-200ms latency) through QLoRA fine-tuning and TensorRT INT8/INT4 quantization, plus strong MLOps/orchestration background (Airflow ETL + scoring, MLflow monitoring) and stakeholder-facing delivery using demos and Tableau dashboards.”