Vetted Apache Kafka Professionals

“Data engineer focused on AWS + Spark/Databricks pipelines, including an end-to-end nightly loan-data ingestion flow (~2.2M records) from Postgres/S3 through Glue and Databricks into a DWH with layered validation and alerting. Also built real-time streaming with Kafka + Spark Structured Streaming and a master’s project streaming Reddit data for sentiment analysis under ambiguous requirements and tight budget constraints.”

Ramcharan Reddy

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in FinTech platforms and cloud-native microservices

Texas, USA6y exp

“Backend engineer focused on AI-enabled systems, having built a production-style RAG pipeline (vector search + LLM) exposed via Python/Flask endpoints with strong observability and hallucination-reduction techniques. Demonstrates deep performance work in PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy (5x faster analytics queries) and high-throughput optimization using Celery + Redis (800ms to 120ms latency, 3x throughput), plus schema-per-tenant multi-tenancy with tenant-aware middleware and logging.”

Siddhartha Alapati

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in Java/Spring microservices and full-stack web apps

Denton, TX4y exp

“Software/full-stack engineer focused on deploying and integrating microservice applications into production AWS and hybrid cloud/on-prem industrial environments. Demonstrated end-to-end troubleshooting by tracing intermittent user failures to network routing/packet loss caused by load balancer and NIC misconfiguration, then adding monitoring to prevent recurrence. Also delivers customer-specific Python extensions with strong validation, testing, and backward compatibility.”

Harideep Balusa

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in FinTech risk, fraud detection, and GenAI/RAG systems

USA6y exp

“Built and productionized Azure-based LLM/RAG systems for regulatory/compliance use cases, including automating analyst research and compliance report generation across large unstructured document sets. Demonstrates strong practical depth in hallucination mitigation, hybrid retrieval tuning (BM25 + embeddings), and production MLOps (Databricks, Cognitive Search, AKS, Airflow/MLflow), plus proven ability to deliver auditable, explainable solutions with non-technical compliance teams.”

Shivani Sharma

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in Cloud, DevOps, and MLOps

Boston, MA3y exp

“Built and productionized a recommendation system from notebook prototype into a low-latency, scalable Cloud Run service using Docker, FastAPI, Terraform, CI/CD (GitHub Actions), and MLOps tooling (Vertex AI, MLflow). Experienced diagnosing real-time workflow issues using structured logging/ELK and GCP metrics, including resolving intermittent 504s by fixing unbounded SQL and adding caching. Also partners with sales/customer teams (Wasabi) to deliver tailored demos, troubleshoot, and drive onboarding/adoption.”

keerthana s

Screened

Mid-level Backend Software Engineer specializing in Python/FastAPI on AWS

Los Angeles, California4y exp

“Backend engineer with healthcare domain experience building AI-driven radiology workflow systems. Evolved tightly coupled APIs into secure, reliable FastAPI-based services by moving heavy imaging/data processing into idempotent asynchronous pipelines with retries, feature-flagged incremental rollout, and strong data-integrity controls (constraints, backfills, validation). Strong focus on defense-in-depth security for sensitive patient data (OAuth2/JWT, RBAC, and database-level protections).”

Naga Chandra mouli Thammineni

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in React and Spring Boot

Hyderabad, Telangana, India2y exp

“Software engineer who built and owned a centralized Asset Management platform at Hyundai Mobis used daily by multiple internal teams, delivering everything from UI/TypeScript React frontend to Spring Boot services, databases, deployment, and post-release support. Experienced in scaling microservices with Kafka-based async workflows, improving data consistency/real-time updates, and implementing reliability patterns like standardized API contracts, retries, DLQs, and targeted caching.”

Nagaveda Sai Kumar Reddy Gajjala

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud integrations

Richardson, TX4y exp

“Backend engineer with enterprise SaaS experience (Zoho) who owned an end-to-end cloud integration between Endpoint Central and ServiceDesk Plus, redesigning device onboarding across 64+ scenarios and building a fault-tolerant sync engine that recovered 100% failed transactions. Also built and operated production systems across the stack—FastAPI services with strong testing/observability, React+TypeScript portals, PostgreSQL performance tuning, and AWS deployments with real incident response (RDS CPU saturation resolved with zero downtime).”

Ram Usarty

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native distributed systems

USA4y exp

“Backend/platform-focused engineer who has shipped production LLM agents for messy research dataset submissions, turning manual validation into an automated, reliable ingestion pipeline. Strong on production hardening (streaming large uploads, strict schema/function-calling outputs, idempotency, RBAC) plus eval/monitoring loops that improved data quality, reduced support burden, and increased adoption.”

Srilekha Jakkula

Screened

Senior Data Engineer specializing in scalable data pipelines and API-driven data services

Chicago, IL5y exp

“Data engineer focused on building scalable, reliable end-to-end data pipelines and backend REST data services, spanning API ingestion plus batch/stream processing with Airflow, Kafka, Spark/PySpark, and SQL. Emphasizes strong data quality validation, monitoring/fault tolerance, and performance tuning for large datasets, with experience deploying in cloud environments using containerization and CI/CD.”

Zubair Shaik

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in AI-driven FinTech platforms

Remote, USA4y exp

“Built and productionized an LLM-powered loan decisioning agent at Bank of America, integrating RAG with microservices to automate creditworthiness assessment and recommendations. Emphasizes real-world reliability and governance (EKS autoscaling, observability, SOC2/PCI security controls), and drove measurable outcomes including 20% faster loan decisions and a reduction in agent failures/fallbacks to under 2% through schema enforcement and confidence-based routing.”

SreeHarsha Kelam

Screened

Senior DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure

Atlanta, GA5y exp

“GCP-focused database/platform engineer with hands-on production experience operating Cloud SQL at scale, especially around performance tuning, reliability, and day-2 operations. Has supported migration from a single-instance database setup to a more scalable GCP architecture and built Terraform/Python automation for provisioning and recovery workflows.”

“Healthcare analytics candidate with hands-on experience turning messy EHR, billing, and operational data into validated SQL datasets and automated Python/Airflow pipelines. They appear strongest in hospital KPI reporting—especially length of stay, readmissions, retention, and bed utilization—and have owned projects from metric definition through Power BI delivery and impact measurement.”

Tara Worrell

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in backend systems, AI/LLM integration, and cloud infrastructure

Brooklyn, NY6y exp

“Backend engineer with experience in highly regulated and high-stakes systems, including an airline crew messaging platform requiring near-zero-error real-time operations and a HIPAA-compliant mental health application built from an early-stage concept. They also show strong operational maturity, having owned a GoDaddy production incident through resolution and then led deployment pipeline improvements that reduced build failures by 40% and doubled deployment frequency.”

“Entrepreneur building an AI-driven outbound growth and automation startup, currently self-funding development through consulting while validating market demand. Stands out for combining technical workflow automation with practical go-to-market experimentation, including deliverability-focused outbound systems and webinar partnerships with local experts to drive trust and conversion.”

“Senior data scientist with ~5 years’ experience building production ML/NLP systems in finance (Wells Fargo) and deep learning for sensor analytics in connected vehicles (Medtronic). Has delivered end-to-end platforms combining time-series forecasting with transformer-based NLP, including automated drift monitoring/retraining (MLflow + Airflow) and standardized Docker/CI/CD deployments; achieved a reported 22% precision improvement after domain fine-tuning.”

“Engineer with hands-on experience designing and leading multi-agent AI development workflows, including a LangGraph-based system that automated parts of a RAG pipeline and significantly reduced development time. Stands out for treating AI agents like an engineering team, with clear architecture, handoff schemas, validation, and supervisor-driven conflict resolution.”

“Lead full stack Java developer with deep experience building compliance-sensitive government financial systems, including payment distribution, escrow hold management, reallocations, and disbursement workflows. Stands out for combining Angular/React frontend work with Spring Boot, Oracle SQL/PL-SQL, and batch/JMS architecture to stabilize high-volume transaction systems, automate manual workflows, and reduce production support issues.”

“Backend/ML systems engineer who built a Flask + PostgreSQL internal ticketing platform and demonstrates strong database/ORM performance depth (indexes, partitioning, RLS multi-tenancy). Notably optimized a high-throughput attachment OCR/embedding pipeline with batching, deduplication, and Redis caching, cutting median latency from 45s to 10s and reducing worker cost by 35% while increasing throughput 4x.”

“AI/full-stack product engineer currently owning Fleck Intelligent Survey Chatbot at E15, a production RAG analytics assistant embedded in Compass Group dashboards for 300+ field operators. Stands out for combining LLM orchestration, analytics engineering, and strong systems thinking—cutting hallucinated numeric answers from 14% to 2%, reducing backlog 62%, and previously delivering a low-level protocol redesign at Amadeus that cut P99 latency by 56%.”

Manoj Manjunatha

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack systems and applied AI

Remote, USA4y exp

“Built the backend for “codeGuard,” an AI-powered static code analysis platform, using FastAPI and Docker. Structured the system into API/service/execution layers and addressed heavy-workload container resource/cleanup issues via strict CPU/memory limits and a queued execution model.”

“Full-stack engineer with deep production experience across healthcare, e-commerce, and financial systems, including early-stage startup architecture work and large-scale enterprise platforms. Stands out for driving a Spring Boot/RabbitMQ microservices migration that stabilized healthcare claims processing and for leading React modernization work supporting 50M+ weekly e-commerce transactions.”

“Backend-focused engineer with strong Go and database optimization experience who improved a high-traffic API by about 30% and helped stabilize peak-load performance for an event reservation platform. Brings hands-on production experience across PostgreSQL, Redis, Rails/Go services, and B2B SaaS integrations with Slack, Hubstaff, and RingCentral, with a clear pattern of owning performance bottlenecks end to end.”

“Front-end engineer with strong ownership of complex browser-based trading platforms for portfolio managers and traders. Stands out for building high-performance React/Redux UIs that handle real-time market data and large datasets, while also improving expert-user workflows through thoughtful usability enhancements.”