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Vetted Apache Kafka Professionals
Pre-screened and vetted.
Kavita Tamire
Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in AWS cloud data platforms
“Data engineer with Charter Communications experience modernizing large-scale AWS data lake pipelines: ingesting S3 data, validating against legacy systems, transforming with PySpark/Spark SQL, and serving via Iceberg/Delta tables. Worked at 50M–300M record scale, delivered >99.5% data match, and built monitoring/alerting (CloudWatch/SNS) plus retry orchestration (Step Functions) and data quality gates (Great Expectations).”
DEDEEPYA PALAKURTHI
Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and enterprise MLOps
“Backend engineer who built an AI-driven "Smart Feedback Analyzer" API (Flask → FastAPI) that processes user feedback with NLP (Hugging Face + OpenAI) and returns structured insights. Demonstrates strong production-minded architecture: stateless services, Cloud Run + Docker deployment, Redis/Celery background processing, and Postgres/SQLAlchemy performance tuning (EXPLAIN ANALYZE, indexing, N+1 fixes), plus multi-tenant data isolation via JWT/API-key derived tenant IDs.”
PRAJU KUMAR
Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in Java/Spring microservices and React/Angular
“Full-stack engineer with hands-on production experience building real-time customer-facing features (order tracking + push notifications) across React/React Native and Node/Spring Boot with Postgres/MySQL. Demonstrates strong reliability patterns (transactional outbox, background workers, idempotent webhook ingestion) and has deployed/operated systems on AWS (ECS/Fargate/ALB, CloudWatch, CodePipeline) with structured observability and environment separation.”
Meenakshi Gurrala
Mid-level Java Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud-native microservices and React
“Full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership of real-time, Kafka-driven systems in production, spanning React/TypeScript frontends, Spring Boot/Node backends, and AWS (EKS/ECS/EC2) operations. Notable for modernizing legacy batch workflows into event-driven architectures with measurable impact (35% faster risk calculations, 30% better accuracy) and scaling to 2x volume using reliability patterns like idempotency, retries, and staged rollouts.”
Ramcharan SreenivasaReddy
Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in FinTech platforms and cloud-native microservices
“Backend/platform-focused Python engineer who has owned FastAPI services with Postgres/SQLAlchemy and production-grade auth (JWT + RBAC). Experienced deploying and operating microservices on Kubernetes with GitOps (ArgoCD), HPA tuning, and Prometheus/Grafana monitoring, plus hands-on cloud-to-on-prem migrations and Kafka-based real-time streaming pipelines.”
Arunkumar Gangula
Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud microservices
“Product-minded full-stack engineer from CouponDunia who owned end-to-end notification and recommendation services at million-user scale. Built internal admin/analytics and operations dashboards in React/TypeScript with typed contracts and scalable Node.js REST APIs, and has deep microservices experience with Kafka/RabbitMQ (idempotency, retries/DLQs, partitioning, consumer tuning, and observability).”
Manikanta Kopparapu
Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native web applications
“Full-stack engineer who has owned customer-facing and internal web portals end-to-end (API, database, React UI, and deployment). Experienced designing multi-service architectures with Node/Express and Java/Spring Boot plus RabbitMQ/Kafka messaging, emphasizing contract/versioning discipline, observability, and operational tooling that measurably reduces support load and manual work.”
Nisarg Shah
Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in geospatial analytics and computer vision
“Built and evolved a geospatial ETL + API platform that processes pixel-wise satellite imagery in PostgreSQL/PostGIS into low-latency farm-level time-series metrics for an interactive dashboard, using precomputed hotspot analysis to reduce latency by 75–80%. Experienced in FastAPI-style API contract design (OpenAPI), caching, server-side filtering/compression, and production-minded security patterns (RBAC, session-derived authorization, password hashing) with disciplined rollback/versioning practices.”
Harikiran Jangam
Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in NLP, LLMs, and RAG systems
“Backend engineer who built and evolved a PHI-compliant RAG system (FastAPI + LangChain + embeddings/FAISS) for internal document search and summarization, delivering <400ms p95 latency at ~2,500 daily requests and measurable impact (30% faster investigations, +17% retrieval relevance). Demonstrates strong security and rollout discipline (RBAC/RLS/JWT, redaction/audits, shadow mode, dual writes, canaries) and a focus on reducing hallucination risk via grounded guardrails and confidence-based fallbacks.”
Surya Vamshi Sriperambudooru
Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in healthcare claims analytics and RAG copilots
“Built a production "appeals co-pilot" for a healthcare claims appeals team, combining an XGBoost/logistic ranking model with a Python/LangChain RAG stack (FAISS + Mistral 7B) to surface high-probability appeal wins and speed policy-grounded drafting. Emphasizes reliability and trust: hybrid retrieval with metadata routing, citation/eval scripts, guardrails, and an explainability layer that non-technical stakeholders could understand and override.”
Pranita Agrawal
Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in Java microservices and AWS
“TypeScript backend/full-stack engineer who owned an internal business workflow platform end-to-end in production, including API/data design, relational DB integration, and enterprise integrations. Has hands-on experience operating workflow processing services with Kafka-style event-driven patterns, idempotency, exponential backoff retries, dead-letter queues, and strong observability, plus API design with OpenAPI/Swagger and token-based auth.”
Nithish Nelagal
Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in data engineering and cloud platforms
“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who has shipped production-critical data/reporting features at Walmart and built an end-to-end workflow automation product (FastAPI + React/TypeScript + PostgreSQL) deployed on AWS. Strong in performance/reliability engineering (parallel ETL, batch DB operations, indexing via EXPLAIN ANALYZE), secure API design (JWT/RBAC), and pragmatic incident-driven scaling (separating workers from API layer).”
Mahesh Kota
Mid-level Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in cloud-native FinTech and Healthcare platforms
“Backend engineer with production experience building and scaling a Java/Spring Boot payment processing API on AWS (PostgreSQL/Redis) handling a few thousand RPS, including deep performance debugging (connection exhaustion) and observability (CloudWatch, Actuator, Zipkin). Also shipped application-layer AI features (OpenAI email summarizer with feedback loop, ~40% faster agent response times) and designed reliable multi-step workflow orchestration with retries and manual escalation, plus strong SQL tuning and Python engineering practices.”
Ganesh Pittala
Senior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud-native platforms
“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with experience at Walmart, Qualtrics, and American Express, shipping secure partner-facing API platforms and internal monitoring dashboards. Strong in AWS production operations (ECS/Fargate, RDS/Postgres, CloudWatch) plus rigorous testing/security practices, with measurable delivery and performance improvements (35% faster releases; ~30–40% latency reductions).”
Prasanth Sai
Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in cloud lakehouse/warehouse pipelines
“Data engineer with HCA Healthcare experience building and operating end-to-end AWS-based pipelines for clinical and operational reporting (50–100 GB/day), serving curated data into Redshift/Snowflake for Power BI/Tableau. Emphasizes production reliability (Airflow SLAs/retries/alerting, logging/observability) and strong data quality controls (reconciliations, schema/null/duplicate checks), and has shipped versioned REST APIs to expose warehouse data to downstream systems.”
Nithya Nagaraj
Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and FinTech platforms
“Software developer with hands-on experience refactoring a legacy .NET CMS into a newer API-driven application (ASP.NET MVC, JavaScript/HTML), including dynamic asset migration and resolving team merge conflicts in Bitbucket. Built automated tests with PyTest and used Postman for API validation, and leveraged Splunk for production issue detection; also worked on an end-to-end ticketing/workflow management project with prioritization and verification steps.”
Shashank R
Senior Data Engineer specializing in cloud data platforms and real-time analytics
“Data engineer (Credit One) who built and owned real-time financial transaction and credit risk/fraud data systems end-to-end on AWS + Snowflake. Delivered high-scale pipelines (150k events/hour; ~2TB/week), raised data accuracy to 99%, and cut Snowflake costs 42% while adding strong observability, schema-drift handling, and production-grade APIs/documentation.”
Medi Val
Executive technology leader specializing in AI, digital strategy, and business transformation
“Candidate reports being highly familiar with the venture capital and accelerator landscape, citing past experience working with VC-related environments at WINR Games and BioSymetrics. The interview ended early when the candidate withdrew their application, so detail is limited.”
Ashutosh Singh
Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and distributed platforms
“Built from scratch a social media analytics MVP featuring an LLM-powered semantic search agent that became a core part of the product experience within a 6-week deadline. Stands out for focusing on production readiness early—retrieval-first design, explicit tool constraints, structured outputs, idempotent services, and practical eval/monitoring loops rather than demo-only AI.”
Meet Vyas
Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack systems and AI applications
“Software engineer with 3 years at Gap Inc. who led a major modernization from monolith/legacy frontend to a React and Spring Boot microservices architecture, delivering 25% cost savings, 30% faster releases, and 50% performance gains. Also built a 0→1 startup product, MealShare AI, using managed cloud services to rapidly launch a real-time food redistribution platform.”
Chandana G
Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud microservices and AI-powered platforms
“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience building real-time operational products across banking, insurance, and startup e-commerce environments. They’ve owned features end-to-end—from React/TypeScript dashboards and Redux performance tuning to Spring Boot, Kafka, AWS Lambda, and production monitoring—and have also shipped 0→1 capabilities where business impact was immediate, such as reducing overselling through inventory visibility.”
Lokesh Jain
Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in supply chain and healthcare systems
“Built and deployed AcademiQ Ai, a production LLM-based teaching assistant using GPT/BERT with RAG (LangChain + Pinecone) to handle large student notes and generate adaptive explanations/quizzes. Demonstrated measurable retrieval-quality gains (18% precision improvement, 22% less irrelevant context) by tuning similarity thresholds and chunking based on user satisfaction signals. Also orchestrated terabyte-scale, real-time demand forecasting pipelines using Airflow and Kubeflow on GCP with strong monitoring, shadow deployment, and feedback-loop practices.”
Amit Verma
Mid-level Java Full-Stack Engineer specializing in healthcare and enterprise microservices
“Developer who actively integrates AI tools like Copilot, ChatGPT, and Cursor into day-to-day coding, testing, debugging, and framework learning to improve delivery speed. They also organize multi-agent workflows across code generation, review, testing, and documentation while retaining final ownership of quality and architecture decisions.”
Trishal Mudunuri
Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in healthcare platforms and cloud-native systems
“Built both a React/Supabase kanban product and CodeVoyage, a multi-agent platform for navigating large TypeScript/Node.js codebases. Stands out for being unusually rigorous about AI-assisted development: they quantify AI usage, manually verify generated code, and have firsthand experience debugging failures in persistence layers, retrieval quality, and long-context agent orchestration.”