Vetted Apache Kafka Professionals

“Data Engineer (TCS) who owned an end-to-end CRM analytics pipeline for Bayer’s eSalesWeb integration, ingesting from Salesforce APIs/databases/S3 and serving analytics-ready datasets via PostgreSQL/S3 for Tableau. Drove measurable outcomes: ~60% reduction in manual data-quality effort, ~30% lower latency through SQL optimization, and ~35% improved stability via monitoring, retries, and idempotent processing.”

Robert Wheeler

Screened

Executive Technology Leader (CTO) specializing in cloud, AI/ML, and scalable product platforms

Manhattan, USA25y exp

“Technical leader and hands-on engineer with 20+ years of experience who has previously raised funding and exited a venture. Currently bootstrapping a new AI-direction startup with personal and family capital, leveraging structured financial planning and a relationship-driven approach to investor outreach.”

“Product-minded full-stack engineer focused on internal operations tooling, with hands-on ownership across React/TypeScript, serverless APIs, and Postgres. They combine UX simplification with deep performance and reliability work, citing a transaction-exception workflow redesign that cut task completion time by roughly 25%, and they’ve also built multi-tenant configurable systems with strong guardrails.”

“Healthcare AI engineer with hands-on ownership of production ML and LLM systems at McKesson, spanning clinical risk prediction and RAG-based documentation tools. Stands out for combining deep clinical-data experience, HIPAA-aware deployment practices, and measurable impact through reduced readmissions, clinician workflow gains, and 20% to 30% faster ML delivery for engineering teams.”

“AI/ML engineer at MRI Software focused on taking LLM and RAG systems from prototype to reliable production. Notable work includes an AI automation system for migrating 1200+ legacy pages with 75-80% manual effort reduction, plus enterprise document-querying and reusable Python LLM infrastructure that cut lookup time by 70% and improved team velocity by 30-40%.”

Phani K

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI, NLP, and healthcare-financial ML

Terre Haute, IN4y exp

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on experience shipping healthcare AI systems, including an oncology risk prediction platform and RAG-based clinical decision support tools. Stands out for combining clinical domain context with strong production engineering across Spark, FastAPI, AWS SageMaker, monitoring, evaluation, and safety guardrails.”

Apoorv Bankey

Screened

Mid-level Backend Engineer specializing in distributed systems and FinTech

New York City, NY6y exp

“Engineer who uses AI and multi-agent workflows as a force multiplier while keeping architecture, security, scalability, and production quality under human control. Shared a concrete example of accelerating a backend-heavy SaaS email ingestion platform with authentication, role-based APIs, database models, and deployment setup using agent-style development and review.”

“Full-stack engineer with end-to-end ownership of a production customer plan activation and account management flow at T-Mobile, spanning Java/Spring Boot APIs, React frontend, and Docker-based CI/CD deployments. Demonstrated performance/scalability work (query optimization, indexing, caching) and measured success via improved retrieval speed and reduced support tickets.”

Harika M

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in FinTech and enterprise platforms

Plano, TX6y exp

“Engineer with a pragmatic, production-focused approach to AI-assisted development, using tools like Copilot and ChatGPT to accelerate coding while maintaining strict validation for correctness, security, and performance. Particularly notable for building a multi-agent incident-resolution workflow for a financial platform, with specialized agents for log analysis, root cause identification, fix suggestions, and test generation.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience spanning React/TypeScript frontends, Cloudflare serverless RAG systems, SQL-heavy backend redesigns, and computer vision workflows. He has shipped practical automation and reliability improvements with measurable impact, including cutting a video-validation reporting process from a week to 2 days and fixing a memory-heavy shipment system before Black Friday to support 30K+ orders successfully.”

KUSHWANTH MUTHYALA

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in FinTech

Irvine, CA6y exp

“Engineer with hands-on experience building and deploying end-to-end ML inference pipelines using SageMaker, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, and Kafka-backed real-time data systems. Brings a strong distributed-systems mindset and has already operated in a tech lead capacity through architecture decisions, code reviews, and cross-functional coordination. Especially compelling for teams building production AI/ML platforms that need both practical execution and sound engineering judgment.”

Yogita Adari

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in generative and multimodal systems

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Built and productionized an agentic LLM automation system for an insurance client to determine medication eligibility, using prompt-chaining plus a RAG pipeline over policy rules and deploying on AWS (Lambda/Step Functions, Bedrock) with a serverless architecture. Addressed major data/schema mismatch issues via a semantic matching pipeline and validated performance through human agreement scoring, A/B testing, KPI monitoring, and confidence-based human-in-the-loop review.”

Bhagyashree Patil

Screened

Intern Applied AI Engineer specializing in LLM systems and data engineering

Los Angeles, CA1y exp

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on production experience across both traditional SaaS and LLM-powered support tooling. They owned a real-time ecommerce order tracking dashboard that improved support response times by 40%, and helped ship an AI support assistant using the OpenAI GPT API that cut ticket handling time by 30% through strong prompt design, retrieval grounding, validation, and human-in-the-loop safeguards.”

“Built an AI-powered document extraction system at Copart that moved from initial POC to rollout across multiple yards, with customer-driven iteration including batch processing. Has hands-on full-stack experience spanning Java/Spring Boot backends, React frontends, and LLM-based workflows, with attention to reliability through multi-LLM fallback, retries, and post-processing.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who has shipped both enterprise workflow software and AI-powered document intelligence products. Stands out for combining practical product judgment with strong production debugging skills across Spring Boot, GraphQL, FastAPI, vector search, and RAG systems, and for improving adoption by making AI search experiences intuitive for non-technical users.”

Kinjal Patel

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and FinTech

Austin, TX7y exp

“Backend/full-stack engineer with hands-on experience building a core consent management service for an open banking platform using Spring Boot microservices, Kafka, Redis, and secure REST APIs. Stands out for combining domain knowledge in financial data sharing and consent controls with practical system design that improved customer self-service and reduced support dependency.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong banking/financial-platform experience, spanning React/Angular frontends, Spring Boot microservices, Kafka, and secure API design. They’ve built high-volume transaction systems handling 40,000+ daily requests and also owned an AI-driven search/recommendation feature that improved search relevance by 20% and adoption by 12%.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership of a production telemedicine dashboard at Cleveland Clinic, spanning React/TypeScript frontend, Spring Boot and Node.js backend services, and AWS/Kubernetes infrastructure. Stands out for real-time systems expertise, measurable performance improvements in a healthcare setting, and a clear interest in applying that backend/cloud foundation to AI agent systems.”

Rodolfo Spier

Screened

Senior Frontend Engineer specializing in React, Angular, and enterprise web platforms

Remote, USA8y exp

“Engineer with experience at smaller companies building internal tools and modernizing legacy systems. Most notably contributed to a "one click" demo tool for internal marketing teams, working across Angular/Nx front-end and backend microservice integrations while making pragmatic tradeoffs to simplify UX and hit deadlines.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience building real-time analytics and logistics platforms across modern JavaScript and Java stacks. They combine strong production ownership and database optimization skills with architectural leadership, including redesigning bottlenecks with SQS/Lambda and driving a monolith-to-microservices migration on Kubernetes that cut deployment time by 50%.”

“Backend engineer who built and launched a warehouse locations/inventory microservice for Walmart, supporting a new product rollout with on-call war-room ownership and now running across all US distribution centers. Emphasizes reliability and correctness (background syncs, 2PC concepts, alerting) plus design-first API development in Python/FastAPI with OAuth/JWT and RBAC, and has led staged legacy-to-microservice migrations with continuous data integrity verification.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience modernizing high-volume transactional systems by decomposing monoliths into Spring Boot microservices on AWS, using Kafka for async workflows and Redis/SQL tuning for latency. Has built Python/FastAPI services with strong API contracts and production-grade security (OAuth2/JWT, RBAC, row-level security), and proactively hardened payment flows against race conditions and double-charging via idempotency.”

“Backend/data platform engineer who has built and operated a cloud-native media ingestion/processing platform in Python (Django/DRF, FastAPI) with Kafka, Postgres, and Redis, emphasizing multi-tenant security and reliability. Delivered AWS production systems combining EKS and Lambda with Terraform + GitHub Actions/Helm, and built Glue-based ETL pipelines with strong schema-evolution and data-quality practices; also modernized SAS analytics into Python on AWS. Seeking fully remote roles with a $120K–$140K base range.”

“Backend/data platform engineer who owned end-to-end production services for a fleet analytics/GenAI platform, spanning FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes and AWS (EKS + Lambda) event-driven workloads. Strong in reliability/observability (OpenTelemetry, circuit breakers, idempotency), data pipelines (Glue/Airflow/Snowflake), and measurable performance/cost wins (SQL 10s to <800ms P95; ~30% compute cost reduction).”