Vetted Apache Kafka Professionals

Rambabu Dhanavath

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend and cloud-native microservices

United States5y exp

“Backend/cloud engineer with 5 years of experience who has shipped a production internal ops LLM assistant end-to-end using Spring Boot microservices on AWS. Stands out for designing controlled, safety-first agent orchestration with deterministic tool access, Redis/DB-backed recoverable state, and strong observability/evaluation practices to improve reliability in production.”

Ramya Sree Kanijam

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems, cloud, and AI pipelines

Remote, USA3y exp

“Built and owned an end-to-end AI-driven content enrichment pipeline for a news workflow, using n8n, LLM agents, and external APIs to automate ingestion, deduplication, categorization, and approval routing. Stands out for production-minded AI systems work: they improved reliability with schema validation, retries, idempotency, and monitoring, while automating 90% of processing and cutting duplication errors by 95%+.”

Raj Kale

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack systems and FinTech

Los Angeles, CA3y exp

“Full-stack engineer with experience building financial and hiring-product systems, spanning React/TypeScript dashboards, Flask/Kafka/Postgres backends, and multi-tenant configuration for 3,000+ clients. Stands out for combining deep technical debugging and performance work with product-minded UX improvements, including a 41% lift in resume matching accuracy and ~40% latency reduction through batching and query tuning.”

“Built a semantic search portal for a fellowship department and an AI-driven PR review pipeline, using AI selectively for boilerplate while retaining full ownership of architecture, security review, testing, and deployment. Has hands-on experience with multi-agent systems, monitoring, and security validation, with a notably disciplined approach to catching false positives and rewriting weak AI output.”

Nidhip Patel

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and full-stack development

United States3y exp

“Backend Java engineer with strong platform/DevOps experience: modernized an insurance claims legacy monolith into DDD-aligned microservices, deployed containerized services on Kubernetes with Jenkins CI/CD and static analysis gates, and implemented GitOps using ArgoCD. Also led major AWS migration planning with dependency mapping and network monitoring to uncover hidden dependencies, and built Kafka-based real-time event streaming with schema-registry-driven evolution.”

Sairam Prasad

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI-powered web platforms

United States4y exp

“Fullstack engineer focused on AI-powered customer-facing products, with hands-on experience building semantic search, document intelligence, and story-analysis platforms from scratch. Stands out for owning architecture and implementation across React/Next.js frontends, GraphQL/FastAPI backends, and async AI pipelines, while also shaping product direction through direct customer feedback in ambiguous startup environments.”

Julia Vavrinyuk

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud, GenAI, and SaaS solutions

Remote, USA9y exp

“Candidate combines B2B SaaS sales experience with hands-on technical delivery, spanning full-cycle selling at Consensus Cloud Solutions and GenAI POC leadership at Capgemini. Particularly interesting for Solutions Engineering roles that need someone comfortable with enterprise demos, AWS-based AI architectures, regulated-industry customers, and translating technical trade-offs into business decisions.”

“Full-stack Java developer from Cognizant who built a real-time transaction monitoring and tracking platform for operations and customer visibility. Stands out for combining Spring Boot, React/TypeScript, Kafka, and CI/CD tooling to ship near real-time dashboards, while also working directly with users to refine requirements and improve performance in high-volume transaction environments.”

“Frontend engineer with hands-on experience building AI-powered document search and analytics products, including RAG-based knowledge retrieval interfaces with citations, filters, and document previews. Stands out for combining React/TypeScript architecture with production performance tuning using profiling tools, memoization, lazy loading, and debounced data flows to keep complex, document-heavy UIs responsive.”

Julian Thong

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in FinTech platforms

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Senior software engineer with deep experience in private markets platforms, spanning full-stack product development and complex backend modernization. Notably helped migrate a core IOI processing system from a Rails monolith to .NET microservices with Kafka-based event sequencing, and contributed to an Offerings platform that drove 50% faster transactions for investors and operations teams.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with deep Go expertise who has operated from two-person startup environments to enterprise-facing analytics platforms. He has owned major rewrites and real-time systems, including a Go migration for a profitable automation startup, a WebSocket service that cut server load 38% for 2,000+ subscribers, and B2B analytics products used by Fortune 500 event sponsors.”

“Lead full-stack engineer with strong Python backend depth and hands-on React/TypeScript experience, working in startup-like B2B SaaS environments serving enterprise software customers such as CrowdStrike, HashiCorp, and VMware. Stands out for redesigning tightly coupled systems into modular AWS-based microservices and building configurable integration platforms that improved enterprise customer onboarding and marketplace workflow scalability.”

Dishank Kailash Oza

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in distributed cloud systems

Santa Clara, CA3y exp

“Engineer with a thoughtful, production-oriented approach to AI-assisted development, including multi-agent workflows for planning, coding, review, testing, and debugging. Stands out for treating AI systems like distributed pipelines with explicit interfaces, validation layers, and guardrails to improve reliability and reduce hallucinations.”

Dinesh Guguloth

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack cloud-native applications

New York, NY4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with cloud and GenAI experience who has owned production features end-to-end, including a reporting dashboard optimized from 14s to 5s using query/API refactoring and monitored via AWS CloudWatch. Also productionized an OpenAI-powered chatbot using LangChain with prompt design, guardrails, and evaluation via production logs and user feedback, and has led incremental legacy-to-microservices modernization with parallel run to avoid regressions.”

“Backend/data engineer who built a production booking platform on FastAPI microservices (Postgres/Redis/gRPC) and delivered AWS infrastructure spanning Lambda, ECS, SQS, and Glue-to-Redshift analytics. Demonstrated measurable SQL optimization (10 minutes to <40 seconds) and strong operational ownership through monitoring, incident response, and schema-evolution hardening.”

“Built and deployed an LLM/applied-ML system enabling efficient extraction of useful information from large unstructured multimodal datasets, owning the full pipeline from ingestion to inference and APIs with a strong emphasis on production reliability, latency, and monitoring. Also delivered a voice-based AI workflow for Hindi policy document access for the Election Commission of India by translating non-technical usability needs into iterative demos and a successful implementation.”

“GenAI/LLM engineer who built and deployed a production RAG system for enterprise document search and decision support, cutting manual lookup time by 40%+. Experienced with LangChain/LangGraph agent orchestration plus Airflow/Prefect for ingestion and incremental reindexing, with a strong focus on reliability (testing, observability) and stakeholder-driven metrics.”

“Built and owned UPS tracking/reporting and operations workflow dashboards, delivering customer-facing APIs and real-time React/TypeScript UIs backed by .NET Core. Experienced in high-volume microservices using IBM MQ/Azure Service Bus with strong reliability patterns (idempotency, retries, DLQ) and Azure-based observability, plus performance tuning across frontend and SQL-backed services.”

“Backend/platform engineer who built real-time connected-vehicle telemetry analytics at Subaru, spanning Kafka streaming, Python/FastAPI ETL, and low-latency WebSocket delivery (minutes to <2s). Strong Kubernetes + GitOps practitioner across AWS EKS and Azure AKS (Helm, ArgoCD, Jenkins/GitLab) and has led major on-prem-to-cloud migrations for financial microservices using Terraform and AWS DMS with measurable cost and reliability gains.”

“LLM/MLOps engineer who has shipped a production RAG-based technical documentation assistant (FastAPI) cutting manual review by 45%, with deep hands-on retrieval optimization in Pinecone/LangChain (HNSW, hybrid + multi-query search, caching). Also brings healthcare domain experience—building Airflow-orchestrated EHR pipelines and delivering FDA-auditability-friendly predictive maintenance solutions using SHAP/LIME explainability surfaced in Power BI.”

“Backend/data engineer who builds Python (FastAPI) data-processing API services for internal analytics/reporting, emphasizing modular architecture, async performance tuning, and reliability patterns (health checks, retries, observability). Also migrated legacy on-prem ETL pipelines to Azure using ADF/Data Lake/Functions and implemented a near-real-time ingestion flow with Event Hubs plus watermarking to handle late events and deduplication.”

“Backend engineer who has owned end-to-end delivery of Python/FastAPI microservices for real-time data processing and alerting, including performance tuning (Postgres optimization, caching, async processing). Strong DevOps/GitOps background: Docker + Kubernetes deployments with GitHub Actions CI/CD and ArgoCD-driven GitOps, plus experience supporting phased on-prem to AWS migrations and building Kafka-based streaming pipelines.”

“AI Engineer Co-Op at Northeastern University who built a production Patient Persona Chat Bot to help nursing students practice clinical interactions, fine-tuning Llama 3 and integrating a LangChain + Pinecone RAG pipeline deployed on Amazon Bedrock. Emphasizes clinical accuracy and reliability with guardrails, retrieval filtering, and continuous evaluation, and also brings strong data engineering/orchestration experience (Airflow, EMR/PySpark, ADF, dbt, Databricks, Snowflake).”

“Full-stack Java developer (~4 years) who built a telecom asset management system end-to-end with React and Spring Boot, and led/participated heavily in migrating it from a monolith to Spring Cloud-based microservices. Experienced with high-volume, data-driven workloads using Kafka (partitioning, batching, resilient consumers) and production observability via centralized logging with ELK and Splunk.”