Vetted Apache Kafka Professionals

Sakshi Patel

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in e-commerce and supply chain platforms

Remote, USA3y exp

“AI-focused developer who has built several practical AI products, including EchoMate, a voice-agent system designed to act as a proxy for doctors and support patients when physicians are unavailable. Also has experience with multi-agent/API-based workflows in a solar suitability project, showing interest in applying AI across both healthcare and climate-related use cases.”

George Platon

Screened

Principal Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI, DevOps, and cloud platforms

Romania, Romania16y exp

“Built a production end-to-end AI video-to-reels clip extraction system using a multi-agent architecture with transcription, captioning, effects generation, and centralized orchestration. Demonstrates unusually strong systems thinking around reliability, observability, evaluation, and production tradeoffs for LLM-powered workflows, including Kubernetes/Kafka-based deployment and regression-driven prompt governance.”

“Engineer with hands-on experience owning customer deployments for ordering and billing systems at Amdocs, including performance tuning, CI/CD improvements, and post-launch stabilization that delivered about 50% faster execution time. Also built and debugged an LLM-powered task prioritization app using Gemini, Streamlit, Python, and MongoDB, with a strong focus on prompt reliability, validation, and handling inconsistent real-world inputs.”

“Engineer with a mature, agent-oriented approach to AI-driven software development, using structured planning, TDD, and verification loops rather than ad hoc prompting. Has hands-on experience acting as a tech lead for multiple AI agents in an LLM intelligent routing project, coordinating implementation, testing, debugging, and edge-case review with strong attention to system tradeoffs.”

“Data engineering/software development candidate who built a stock market pipeline and uses that project to demonstrate strong architectural thinking across Kafka, Spark, and Airflow. They stand out for a pragmatic approach to AI: using tools like Copilot, ChatGPT, LangChain, and AutoGen to accelerate development while maintaining human oversight, testing, and system-level decision making.”

“Candidate has hands-on experience using AI-assisted development in a pragmatic, controlled way, including shipping a more user-friendly student feedback form by redesigning text-heavy inputs into checkboxes and dropdowns. They stand out for disciplined review habits: line-by-line validation of AI-generated code, strong edge-case testing, and thoughtful use of structured prompts and staged workflows instead of over-relying on autonomous agent frameworks.”

“Full-stack AI engineer who built HireMate end to end using FastAPI, React, and TypeScript to automate resume-to-job matching and tailoring with LLMs. Demonstrates strong practical judgment around grounding, validation, hallucination prevention, and human-in-the-loop design, and has also shipped an early-stage multi-agent rental research workflow that processed 200-300 listings in parallel.”

Lenny Lin

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI and distributed systems

Champaign, IL3y exp

“Built and owned a hackathon project (Gritto) with a Python/FastAPI backend that routes user text through a sequence of Gemini agents to produce structured JSON outputs. Has hands-on production deployment experience using Docker/Docker Compose, GitHub Actions CI/CD, AWS App Runner, MongoDB, and secrets management (Doppler + migration to AWS Secrets Manager), plus implemented a chat-like experience via multiple HTTP requests when SSE wasn’t viable.”

“Software engineer using AI pragmatically to accelerate development while keeping human review central to quality. Has hands-on experience applying AI and lightweight multi-agent workflows in a microservices environment spanning Java Spring Boot APIs, React modules, and Kafka event flows, with strong emphasis on architecture validation and production safeguards.”

Prabhav Karve

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in data engineering and AI applications

Rochester, NY4y exp

“Data engineer/automation builder with experience at Rochester Regional Health and Accenture, focused on replacing fragile manual reporting with production-grade Azure, Python, and Snowflake pipelines. Stands out for combining strong systems thinking, rigorous validation, and practical AI/LLM usage to drive measurable outcomes, including a 34% throughput improvement and support for regulatory reporting that helped avoid €150M in penalties.”

“Backend/data engineer who helped evolve Bitnimbus LLC’s Kafka-as-a-service MVP from a monolith into an event-driven distributed system, using careful design, parallel rollouts, and idempotent event handling to maintain correctness. Also built production-grade API and database security (JWT scopes, rate limiting, explicit Postgres policies/RLS-style controls) and improved Prometheus monitoring by eliminating false outages via heartbeat metrics and windowed aggregation.”

“LLM/agentic-systems practitioner who has repeatedly taken LLM-driven pricing/decision services from prototype to production using pilots, guardrails, observability, and staged rollouts. Demonstrates strong real-time incident troubleshooting (dependency timeouts, cached fallbacks) and post-incident hardening (isolation/async/alerts), and also supports go-to-market via developer workshops, technical demos, and sales-aligned POCs.”

“Backend/data engineer in healthcare who built an AWS-based clinical analytics platform from scratch (DynamoDB/S3/Airflow/dbt) with sub-second clinician query goals, 99.9% uptime, and HIPAA-grade controls (KMS encryption, IAM RBAC, audit trails). Also modernized ML delivery by replacing a manual 4-hour deployment with a 30-minute Docker/GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline using parallel runs, parity testing, and rollback, and caught critical EHR data edge cases (date formats/timezones) that could have impacted patient care.”

“Co-op engineer at EnFi who built and maintained a multi-tenant prompt library and LLM workflow tooling used by internal teams and external enterprise clients. Led TypeScript/React package design and standardized a typed workflow abstraction across disparate implementations (React, Go, JSON), improving reliability and developer adoption. Delivered measurable performance gains (~25% latency reduction) and owned end-to-end execution including docs, demos, debugging, and deployment.”

“Backend-focused software engineer building distributed, event-driven Java/Spring Boot microservices with Kafka for low-latency, high-frequency processing. Has hands-on experience modernizing a legacy Java system into containerized microservices deployed on Kubernetes with GitHub Actions CI/CD, and has integrated retrieval-based AI components into production workflows; no ROS/robot hardware experience yet.”

“Backend engineer who has built end-to-end data and platform systems across domains: a Scala/Java media data warehouse with a custom query language and Elasticsearch search, plus production security patterns (RBAC, RLS, audit trails) including a telehealth platform. Also demonstrated strong operational rigor by using feature-flagged side-by-side migrations and by catching ecommerce checkout edge cases that were dropping revenue.”

“JavaScript engineer and open-source contributor focused on runtime performance, reliability, and developer experience—refactored a widely used client-side API/state library to improve concurrent request handling, error consistency, and UI performance while adding tests and documentation. Also owned improvements to a core microservice at Velsa integrating multiple hospital systems, bringing structure to ambiguous priorities and delivering stability and performance gains from design through deployment.”

“Accenture engineer who built real-time smart mobility products (Verra Mobility) used by both consumers and government agencies, spanning React/TypeScript frontends and Node.js/GraphQL microservices with Kafka. Demonstrated strong delivery and reliability practices (CI/CD, feature flags, automated testing, CloudWatch observability) and achieved a ~20% GraphQL performance improvement supporting 50,000+ daily transactions, plus built an internal ops/support dashboard adopted into daily workflows.”

“Backend/platform engineer with hands-on ownership of Kubernetes GitOps delivery (GitHub Actions + Argo CD) on AWS EKS, including progressive rollouts and reliable rollback across interdependent microservices. Built a Python/FastAPI ML-driven document-processing service (PostgreSQL + S3) to complement existing Spring Boot systems, and implemented Kafka streaming pipelines with Schema Registry plus Prometheus/Grafana observability. Also supported a hybrid cloud-to-on-prem migration for compliance/latency with phased rollout and incremental PostgreSQL migration.”

“Built and operated an end-to-end customer-facing "Record Platform" web product as both engineer and primary user, focusing on reliability and correctness in core flows like search and checkout. Implemented a TypeScript/React frontend with a multi-service backend and Kafka-based event-driven architecture, and created internal tooling to automate risky ops like Kubernetes TLS certificate rotation with k6 load/chaos testing (including HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 validation).”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based enterprise document intelligence platform for financial/compliance/operational documents on AWS (Spark/Glue ingestion, embeddings + vector DB, LangChain orchestration, REST APIs on Docker/Kubernetes). Deep hands-on experience orchestrating multi-step and multi-agent LLM workflows (LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI) with strong focus on grounding, evaluation, observability, and cost/latency optimization, and has partnered closely with non-technical finance/compliance teams to drive adoption.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG system at CVS to automate clinical documents, addressing PHI compliance, retrieval accuracy, and latency; achieved a 35–40% reduction in review effort through chunking and FP16/INT8 optimization. Also has experience translating AI outputs into actionable insights for non-technical stakeholders (sports analysts).”

“Backend-focused engineer with experience owning a production e-commerce platform end-to-end (TypeScript/Node/Express, React, MongoDB, Redis) including RBAC and contract-based API development. Also worked at Infosys on a large healthcare management system built with Spring Boot microservices, using Kafka for messaging/retries, circuit breakers for resilience, and OpenTelemetry/Swagger for observability and API documentation.”

“Backend/data platform engineer who owned a FastAPI + Kafka microservice in Verizon’s billing pipeline, handling high-volume usage ingestion/validation/enrichment with strong observability and CI/CD on AWS EKS. Demonstrated measurable performance gains (latency down to ~120–150ms; Kafka throughput +30–40%; DB CPU -25%) and led an on-prem ETL-to-AWS migration using Terraform, parallel validation, and phased cutover with zero downtime.”