Vetted Apache Kafka Professionals

“Full Stack Developer (recently at Cisco Systems) building end-to-end web applications with Angular frontends and Spring Boot microservices backed by MySQL/JPA, including JWT + role-based access. Has hands-on experience with high-volume, real-time data processing/visualization and has solved complex UI state consistency issues using RxJS BehaviorSubjects; also applies layered state patterns in React with Redux Toolkit and uses AI dev tools (Cursor/Claude) strategically.”

“Full-stack engineer who owned end-to-end delivery of a customer-facing financial services web platform and built internal tooling for engineering teams. Strong in microservices and event-driven systems (Kafka/RabbitMQ), distributed transaction management (saga), and production performance/observability—achieving ~40% backend response-time improvement through database and query optimization.”

“Full-stack engineer with enterprise experience at Metasystems Inc. (and Qualcomm) building high-traffic, security-sensitive systems—owned a secure transaction processing module end-to-end using Java/Spring Boot, Python/Django, and React. Strong AWS production operations (EKS/ECS/Lambda/RDS/DynamoDB) with IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), observability, and reliability patterns; also delivered resilient ETL/integration pipelines with idempotency/retries/backfills and achieved a 50% deployment-time reduction through CI/CD and modular refactoring.”

“IBM engineer who built and deployed a production RAG-based LLM assistant using LangChain/FAISS with a fine-tuned LLaMA model, served via FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes, achieving 99%+ uptime. Demonstrates strong practical expertise in reducing hallucinations (semantic chunking + metadata-driven retrieval) and managing latency, plus mature MLOps practices (Airflow/dbt pipelines, MLflow tracking, monitoring, A/B and shadow deployments) and effective collaboration with non-technical stakeholders.”

“Robotics/AI candidate who built an AI-driven landmark location tool during a summer internship at Mobile Drive, combining YOLOv5 object detection with OpenStreetMap-based geolocation to handle dense, cluttered urban environments. Also researched deploying LLM-based agents on constrained hardware using quantization plus LoRA/continuous learning, improving accuracy from ~80% to ~92%, with an emphasis on production logging for reliability.”

“At CVS Health, the candidate productionized a RAG-based LLM solution in a regulated healthcare setting, emphasizing reliable data pipelines, LoRA fine-tuning, monitoring, safety guardrails, and A/B testing. They have hands-on experience troubleshooting real-time RAG failures (e.g., chunking/embedding issues) and regularly lead developer-focused demos/workshops while translating technical architecture into business value for stakeholders.”

“Backend engineer with experience building Spring Boot microservices for financial workflows at Fizzle (thousands of requests/minute) and shipping healthcare data validation automation at CVS Health. Demonstrates strong production reliability/performance skills—deep in database tuning (query plans, indexing, caching, denormalization), observability (Prometheus/Grafana), and resilient multi-step workflow design with retries and human-in-the-loop escalation.”

“Infrastructure engineer with hands-on ownership of a scaled IBM Power/AIX estate (AIX 7.x, VIOS, HMC; 2 frames/20+ LPARs) supporting critical middleware and database workloads, including live DLPAR changes and VIOS/SAN outage recovery. Also brings modern DevOps/IaC experience building GitHub Actions pipelines for Docker/Kubernetes deployments and provisioning AWS environments with Terraform (EKS/RDS/VPC/IAM) using modular, review-driven workflows.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience at Capital One and Prime Softech owning production systems end-to-end: secure authentication (Java/Spring Security + React/Redux) through AWS ECS deployments with Terraform and CI/CD. Strong reliability/observability focus (Prometheus/Grafana/ELK/CloudWatch) with quantified improvements (15% reliability gain, 30% fewer post-release defects). Also led legacy monolith-to-microservices refactors and built real-time Kafka/Spark ingestion pipelines for analytics/fraud detection.”

“Data engineer (~4 years) with full-stack delivery experience (Next.js App Router/TypeScript + React) building a real-time operations monitoring dashboard backed by Kafka and orchestrated data pipelines. Strong production focus: Airflow + CloudWatch monitoring, automated Python/SQL validation (99.5% accuracy), and CI/CD with Jenkins/Docker; has delivered measurable improvements in latency, pipeline reliability, and query performance (Postgres/Redshift).”

“Full-stack engineer experienced shipping production SaaS dashboards with Next.js App Router + TypeScript, combining Server Components for initial data loads with interactive client-side analytics. Strong performance/operability focus (reported ~40% UI latency reduction) and deep backend fundamentals across Postgres schema/query optimization and Kafka-based event-driven microservices with idempotency, retries, and DLQs.”

“Research Assistant at the University of Houston who built and live-deployed a production RAG system for 1000+ research documents, using hybrid retrieval (dense+BM25+RRF) with cross-encoder reranking and RAGAS-based evaluation; reported 66% MRR, 0.85+ faithfulness, and 68% lower LLM inference costs. Also built a deployed LangGraph multi-agent research system (Researcher/Critic/Writer) with tool integrations (Tavily, arXiv) and dual memory (ChromaDB + Neo4j), plus freelance automation work delivering a WhatsApp chatbot and n8n workflows for a wholesale clothing business.”

“Full-stack engineer currently at Southern Glazer’s who built and owned a real-time commercial finance expense analytics dashboard end-to-end (Next.js App Router + TypeScript), including post-launch monitoring, data quality checks, and stakeholder-driven iteration. Strong data/analytics backend experience (Postgres modeling and Databricks Delta Lake pipelines) with demonstrated performance wins—e.g., cutting a key reconciliation query from 8–12s to <400ms and improving frontend load time ~40% with a 25% bounce-rate drop at Verizon.”

“Built and deployed a live production LLM document Q&A platform (DocumindAI) with an adaptive RAG pipeline (Claude + Cohere embeddings + pgvector), source-cited structured outputs, and engineered fallbacks for reliability and sub-2s latency. Also has enterprise integration experience at Tech Mahindra working with messy IFS ERP XML integrations, using validation/normalization and JTA transactions to prevent partial writes and data corruption.”

Ishaan Umesh Mandliya

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and cloud-native systems

Los Angeles, CA3y exp

“At BondiTech, built and deployed customer-facing backend improvements for enterprise dashboards handling 1M+ records, redesigning a .NET/Entity Framework API with server-side pagination/filtering and feature-flagged rollout to cut latency from ~15s to ~2s. Experienced integrating customer systems into existing APIs, including stabilizing a legacy CRM sync by normalizing inconsistent IDs, handling strict rate limits with batching, and adding DLQs plus reconciliation reporting.”

“Data engineer focused on sales/marketing analytics pipelines, owning ingestion from CRMs/ad platforms through warehouse serving and dashboards at ~hundreds of thousands of records/day. Built reliability-focused systems including dbt/SQL/Python data quality gates with alerting, a resilient web-scraping pipeline (retries/backoff, anti-bot tactics, schema-change detection, backfills), and a versioned internal REST API with caching and strong developer usability.”

“Data engineer with Wells Fargo experience owning an end-to-end lakehouse ETL pipeline on Databricks/Azure Data Factory, processing ~480GB daily and implementing robust data quality/reconciliation across 40+ tables to reach ~99.3% reliability. Strong in performance optimization (cut runtime 5.5h→3.8h), CI/CD and monitoring, and resilient external/API ingestion with retries, schema validation, and backfills.”

Bhakti Patel

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in .NET, Python, and cloud-native systems

Worcester, MA11y exp

“Full-stack engineer who owned an end-to-end production feature for a Piraeus Bank stock exchange module, spanning React/TypeScript, backend services, and cloud operations with Docker + CI/CD, delivering reported 90% faster API responses and improved uptime. Also built a Smartwound research MVP on AWS, creating a Python image-processing/scoring pipeline to ship despite unclear image-analysis specs.”

Shashank Venkataramana

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AWS cloud infrastructure and data platforms

Scottsdale, AZ4y exp

“Backend/infra-focused software engineer who built an autonomous Python API-orchestration agent using asyncio with strong reliability and observability (trace IDs, structured logs, retries/timeouts) and containerized dev workflow. Experienced deploying Python services to Kubernetes with Helm and running GitOps CI/CD via ArgoCD, plus leading an AWS IAM-to-Identity Center migration using CloudTrail-driven least-privilege role design. Also built and debugged a Kafka/SnapLogic bidirectional pipeline syncing Redshift and HBase, resolving missing-record issues via Kibana-driven investigation.”

Smriti Rai

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in backend APIs and distributed systems

Sunnyvale, CA4y exp

“JavaScript engineer with Walmart experience contributing to the Yup validation library—reproduced a nested-object validation bug, fixed merge logic, and added test coverage. Strong in systematic debugging/performance isolation (DevTools + timing logs), plus end-to-end ownership including documentation, monitoring, and issue triage.”

Bandla Sai Giridhar

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and cloud-native microservices

Dallas, TX4y exp

“Backend engineer who built a Python/Flask system for high-volume healthcare claims processing, using PostgreSQL as the source of truth and RabbitMQ workers for scalable async processing. Experienced in SQLAlchemy/Postgres performance tuning, multi-tenant data isolation (including Postgres RLS), and integrating/versioning ML model services (scikit-learn/PyTorch/Hugging Face) with controlled rollouts. Drove measurable performance gains by batching background jobs and adding Redis caching (40% less workload; response times cut from ~10s to 2–3s).”

Sai Swetha Bodlapati

Screened

Senior Data Engineer specializing in Spark, Kafka, and Databricks Lakehouse platforms

Dallas, TX5y exp

“Data engineer at Fidelity who built and operated a real-time financial transactions lakehouse on AWS/Databricks, processing millions of records daily with Kafka streaming. Demonstrated strong reliability and data quality practices (watermarking, idempotent Delta writes, validation/reconciliation, observability) and delivered measurable improvements (~30% faster jobs and ~30% fewer data issues) while enabling trusted gold-layer analytics for downstream teams.”

Aishwarya Thorat

Screened

Intern Data Scientist specializing in ML engineering and LLM agentic workflows

San Francisco, CA6y exp

“Built an agentic, multi-step LLM system that generates full-stack code for API integrations using LangChain orchestration, Pinecone/SentenceBERT RAG, and a human-in-the-loop feedback loop for iterative code refinement. Also collaborated with non-technical content writers and PMs during a Contentstack internship to deliver a Slack-based AI workflow that generates and brand-checks articles with one-click approvals.”

Jorge Mendoza

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Developer specializing in Python, AWS serverless, and data workflows

Remote11y exp

“Backend/data engineer from ALDI Tech Hub who modernized legacy analytics (Excel/SAS) into production-grade Python services on AWS serverless (FastAPI on Lambda behind API Gateway with Step Functions). Strong in reliability and operations (Cognito auth, retries/timeouts, structured logging, CloudWatch alarms) and data pipelines (Glue ETL with schema evolution); delivered measurable SQL tuning gains (30s to 2s, 70% CPU reduction).”