Vetted Apache Kafka Professionals

“Engineer at Morgan Stanley working on AI-enabled trade surveillance and compliance routing systems. They’ve built and monitored chained agent workflows for retrieval, risk classification, and alert routing, with strong emphasis on auditability, hallucination prevention, and regulated-environment reliability.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience spanning React/TypeScript frontend architecture, .NET/Entity Framework backend services, and database optimization. Has owned end-to-end features like payment processing flows and also helped ship a 0→1 AI developer productivity capability, showing a mix of product sense, startup speed, and practical performance engineering.”

Arunkumar Chockaiyan

Screened

Principal Software Architect specializing in enterprise platforms across FinTech, healthcare, and biotech

Burlingame, CA28y exp

“Senior full-stack product engineer with a track record of turning complex enterprise requirements into scalable platforms, including inventing a configurable multi-variable bidding system that expanded a B2B auction product from inventory liquidation into strategic sourcing for Fortune 100 clients. Also brings recent hands-on AI agent work, plus experience translating scientific software into usable web products and more efficient backend services in the gene-editing domain.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer who has owned production retail and order/inventory systems end-to-end, using Spring Boot microservices with Kafka event-driven workflows. Strong in production correctness patterns (idempotency, retries/DLQs, schema versioning) plus observability (Prometheus/Grafana) and developer-facing API design (Swagger, OAuth2/JWT, versioning/deprecation). Also built TypeScript/React SPAs and cited ~40% UI performance improvement.”

Muhammad Ali

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud-native FinTech and AI systems

Virginia, USA9y exp

“DevOps-focused engineer with 8 years of hands-on experience in early-stage startup environments, working on small teams to modernize CI/CD and Kubernetes deployments. They report reducing release times from hours to minutes, improving reliability and production recovery, and building backend APIs and automation for an internal SaaS platform shaped by security, scale, and compliance requirements.”

Mac Tichner

Screened

Principal Software Engineer specializing in full-stack platforms and AI integration

Miami, FL14y exp

“Serial entrepreneur and software engineer currently ideating a B2B vertical AI SaaS company with seed funding secured, using a custom-built AI agent to generate and vet startup ideas. Previously sold a software product (AskDiagnostic) into physician offices and spun an observed workflow gap into an in-house compounding solution, including a <3-minute dispensing process and supporting software for inventory, compliance, labeling, reorders, billing, and reporting.”