Vetted Apache Kafka Professionals

“ML/LLM engineer with production experience building a RAG-based LLM support assistant (FastAPI, Redis, Kafka) with multi-layer validation and human-in-the-loop feedback loops to improve accuracy over time. Has orchestration and MLOps depth using Airflow and Kubeflow on Kubernetes (autoscaling, alerting, monitoring) and delivered measurable ops impact (40% ticket efficiency improvement) by partnering closely with customer support teams.”

“Backend/ML platform engineer who owns end-to-end delivery of ML-serving APIs (FastAPI + TensorFlow) and runs them reliably on Kubernetes using ArgoCD GitOps. Has hands-on experience solving production-only issues (probe tuning for model warm-up, resource profiling) and building scalable Kafka streaming pipelines, plus supporting phased on-prem to AWS migrations with dependency discovery and recreation of hidden jobs/workflows.”

“Built and deployed an AI agent to help patients navigate complex housing information by scraping and normalizing unstructured data across all 50 U.S. states, then layering a LangChain RAG system with MMR re-ranking to reduce hallucinations. Experienced in orchestrating multi-agent workflows (LangGraph/CrewAI) and production reliability practices (Pydantic-validated outputs, LLM-as-judge evals, tracing). Also delivered stakeholder-facing explainability via SHAP dashboards for a loan-approval predictive model at Welspot.”

“ML engineer/data scientist who deployed a production credit risk + insurance claims triage platform at Hartford Financial, combining XGBoost default prediction with BERT-based document classification. Demonstrated strong MLOps by cutting inference latency to sub-500ms and building drift monitoring plus automated retraining/deployment pipelines (MLflow, CloudWatch, GitHub Actions, SageMaker) with human-in-the-loop review and SHAP-based explainability for underwriting adoption.”

“NLP/ML engineer with hands-on healthcare and support-ticket text experience, building clinical-note structuring and semantic linking systems using spaCy, BERT clinical embeddings, and FAISS. Emphasizes production-grade delivery (Airflow/Databricks, PySpark, Docker, AWS/FastAPI/Lambda) and rigorous validation via clinician-labeled datasets, retrieval metrics, and user feedback.”

“Robotics/perception engineer focused on production-grade, real-time systems—optimized self-supervised segmentation on Jetson Nano from ~6–10 FPS to ~20–25 FPS and scaled experimentation/deployment by unifying 15+ edge models in a modular PyTorch Lightning framework. Experienced integrating distributed LiDAR-camera fusion via gRPC/protobuf into mission planning, migrating ROS1→ROS2 Foxy for multi-drone perception, and adding Prometheus-based observability for long-running deployments.”

“ML/NLP practitioner with healthcare payer experience at HCSC, focused on connecting messy unstructured clinical notes to structured claims/provider data to improve fraud-analytics workflows. Has hands-on experience fine-tuning transformers in AWS SageMaker, building large-scale embedding search with FAISS, and implementing robust entity resolution using golden datasets, precision/recall calibration, and production monitoring for drift.”

“Built and shipped an AI-powered driver ranking/assignment system at AffirmoAI using LLM intent classification + RAG over pgvector/Postgres, served via FastAPI with a React UI that explains scores. Drove measurable improvements through optimization and iteration (latency down to <800ms, adoption 60%→90%+) and implemented rigorous eval loops with dispatcher ground truth plus cold-start handling for new drivers.”

Teja Babu Mandaloju

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist/MLOps Engineer specializing in NLP, GenAI, and cloud ML platforms

Chicago, USA5y exp

“AI/ML engineer who led production deployment of a multimodal (text/video/image) RAG system on GCP using Gemini 2.5 + Vertex AI Vector Search, scaling to 10M+ documents with sub-second latency and +40% retrieval accuracy. Strong MLOps/orchestration background (Kubernetes, CI/CD, Airflow, MLflow) with proven impact on reliability (75% fewer incidents) and deployment speed (92% faster), plus experience delivering explainable ML (XGBoost + SHAP + Tableau) to non-technical retail stakeholders.”

Mohana pavan Vankayala

Screened

Mid-level Java Full-Stack Developer specializing in microservices and AWS

Overland Park, KS4y exp

“Full-stack engineer (HCL Tech) with 4 years building enterprise, high-throughput microservices on AWS/Azure using Java/Spring Boot and React. Demonstrated measurable performance gains (40% throughput) through Redis caching, deep SQL/query tuning, and Kafka-based async refactors, plus strong DevOps/observability practices with Jenkins/CloudFormation and Datadog/Splunk.”

sai Pavan

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in MLOps, NLP, and real-time ML pipelines

5y exp

“Built a production, real-time insurance claims document-understanding and fraud-detection pipeline using TensorFlow + fine-tuned BERT, deployed on AWS (SageMaker/Lambda/API Gateway) with automated retraining via MLflow and Jenkins. Addressed noisy documents and latency using augmentation and model distillation (3x faster), cutting claims ops manual review by ~50% and reducing fraudulent payouts.”

Harshini Jonnala

Screened

Senior Backend Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud microservices

Hyderabad, India2y exp

“Backend engineer with NTT Data experience building Java/Spring Boot services for product-data ingestion, including Kafka-based asynchronous pipelines and Redis read-through caching. Also built a personal RAG system deployed on Google Kubernetes Service using FastAPI, LangChain, and Pinecone with multi-tenant data isolation; holds a Master’s background in Machine Learning.”

Sowmya Kasu

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in Healthcare IT and cloud-native microservices

Northridge, CA6y exp

“Backend/ML engineer with healthcare experience at Kaiser Permanente building HIPAA-compliant Java/Spring Boot + GraphQL APIs integrated with Epic HealthConnect, including hands-on reliability/performance debugging using Prometheus/Grafana and resolver-level N+1 elimination. Also built an end-to-end malaria parasite detection ML feature (CNN/R-CNN) with evaluation, guardrails, and workflow integration, and has experience designing robust state-machine-based automation with retries, DLQs, and alerting.”

Sai Erramada

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in microservices and cloud-native systems

Wisconsin, USA6y exp

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience building real-time, event-driven systems at Walgreens, including a Kafka-based prescription status notification service and scalable pipelines for messy prescription/inventory data. Strong focus on reliability patterns (retries, idempotency, DLQs) and iterating based on pharmacist feedback to improve usability.”

Phanideep P

Screened

Senior Data Engineer specializing in cloud lakehouse and streaming data platforms

5y exp

“Data platform/data engineer with cross-industry experience in banking and healthcare, building cloud-native lakehouse architectures across AWS/Azure/GCP. Has owned high-volume (millions of records; TB/day) pipelines with strong data quality automation (dbt/Great Expectations), observability (Grafana/Prometheus), and real-time streaming (Kafka/Spark) for fraud monitoring; also delivered an early-stage migration from SQL Server to BigQuery with 40% batch latency reduction.”

Rahul Ganesan

Screened

Intern AI Engineer specializing in LLM systems, RAG, and cloud data pipelines

Washington, PA0y exp

“Built and deployed a production Dockerized multimodal (voice+text) LLM agent for knowledge management that retrieves from Notion and documents and falls back to Tavily-powered web search with citations when internal notes are missing. Emphasizes production reliability via model-switching fallbacks, caching, strict structured outputs (Pydantic/JSON schema), and MCP-based orchestration with state-aware gating and monitoring to reduce redundant tool calls and improve success rates.”

Aniruddha Chakravarty

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure, observability, and full-stack systems

Remote2y exp

“Built and productionized a predictive maintenance system (predictEngineLife) estimating Remaining Useful Life for PW4000 turbofan engines from large-scale, noisy telemetry—emphasizing modular pipeline design, deterministic preprocessing, and strong observability/guardrails. Also has hands-on experience diagnosing multi-agent LLM customer-support workflows (schema/state issues, fallback paths, regression tests) and has led developer workshops (GDG Pune) while partnering with sales teams on technical discovery and POCs.”

Sai Bandaru

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in fraud detection and LLM systems

Boston, MA6y exp

“At FiVerity, built and deployed a production LLM/RAG-based Information Gathering Tool for credit union fraud analysts that generates auditable investigation summaries from verified evidence. Focused on high-stakes constraints—hallucination prevention, cross-entity leakage controls, compliance/PII-safe monitoring, and latency—while also shipping customer-facing agentic workflows using CrewAI and LangGraph in close partnership with fraud and compliance stakeholders.”

Srinandh Reddy

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in backend, cloud, and event-driven systems

Aurora, Illinois5y exp

“Robotics software engineer focused on backend and distributed systems for real-time robot operations, including sensor ingestion, robot state management, and robot-to-cloud communication. Hands-on with ROS/ROS2 integration and real-time navigation debugging, plus production-grade monitoring, CI/CD, and containerized deployments (Docker/Kubernetes) to improve stability and performance.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on fintech payments and fraud systems, owning real-time Kafka-based reconciliation pipelines end-to-end (~13k tx/day). Built audit-friendly validation/reconciliation (SQL + Python), kept lag to seconds, and cut errors ~20%, while also shipping Spring Boot APIs with Redis caching and strong idempotency/versioning. Has early-stage startup experience standing up payment services on AWS with Docker + GitHub Actions and production monitoring/incident handling.”

“Built and shipped LLM-enabled decision systems focused on real production reliability rather than chatbot demos, including a multimodal radiology retrieval platform with 28% relevance gains and 35% lower latency. Also architected a 4-agent employee analytics workflow with structured outputs, traceable orchestration, and strong safeguards for messy real-world data.”

Kush Shah

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in web apps and automation

Remote, USA3y exp

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience building an AI-powered document processing pipeline for insurance workflows from design through deployment and production support. They combine LLM-based extraction with rule-based validation, retries, and observability, showing a pragmatic approach to making AI systems reliable in high-stakes environments.”

“Built production AI agents that convert natural-language requests into structured workflows using LangChain, tool calling, and a Kafka/Kubernetes backend, with strong emphasis on tracing, validation, and self-correcting failure handling. Also drove a zero-to-one Research Day judging platform spanning React, Flask, RAG, and ILP-based assignment optimization for ~100 live posters, achieving 99% uptime and winning Best Web App.”

“Built and shipped production AI features for Aiden, including a natural-language agent and a Knowledge Hub ingestion/retrieval system. Stands out for hands-on debugging of real LLM production issues across providers like OpenAI and AWS Bedrock, improving reliability and achieving 90% response/retrieval consistency through direct LiteLLM integration, validation, monitoring, and async system design.”