Vetted Apache Kafka Professionals

Navya Sureddy

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in Angular/React and Spring Boot

Columbus, IN5y exp

“Full-stack engineer with experience at Cummins owning production features end-to-end (React/TypeScript + Node + Postgres) and operating them in AWS (EC2/RDS/S3/IAM) with CloudWatch-based observability. Also built resilient ETL and third-party integrations, including an AWS Glue–S3–Redshift pipeline hardened with validation, idempotent UPSERTs, retries/backfills, and quarantine handling to prevent bad or duplicate data.”

“Data engineer focused on large-scale financial data platforms, with hands-on ownership of an AWS + Databricks + Snowflake pipeline processing ~2TB/day. Strong in data quality (Great Expectations), schema drift automation, and production reliability (99.9%), plus measurable performance/cost wins (4h→1.2h, ~25% cost reduction). Also built an async Python crawling/ingestion framework with anti-bot mitigation, retries, and Airflow-driven backfills.”

Sravya Chunduri

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM, NLP, and MLOps

Virginia, USA4y exp

“AI/ML Engineer with 3+ years of experience spanning RAG pipelines, MLOps, large-scale data workflow automation, and resilient Playwright-based UI automation. At Black Hawk Network and Wipro, they describe shipping production systems with strong observability and compliance controls, including reducing flaky automation failures from 30% to under 2% and automating 3+ TB/day reconciliation workflows.”

“Full-stack product engineer with hands-on experience shipping React/TypeScript applications on AWS serverless infrastructure with Postgres. Stands out for combining measurable performance optimization (~30% faster APIs), UX improvements that lifted activation by 25%, and pragmatic platform thinking through reusable hooks and safe multi-tenant dashboard customization.”

Varun Sharma

Screened

Mid-level AI Builder and Data Engineer specializing in GenAI and data pipelines

Remote, USA4y exp

“Full-stack AI product engineer who personally built ViGenAir, a multimodal system that turns long-form video into ads using FastAPI, React, and agentic scoring. Stands out for handling complex 50GB+ media pipelines, re-architecting systems to eliminate OOM failures, and making opaque AI workflows usable through interactive visual UX that improved trust, speed, and retention.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on production Python and AWS: built FastAPI REST services and a containerized ECS Fargate + Lambda architecture deployed via Terraform/CI-CD. Strong in data engineering (Glue/S3/Parquet/RDS) and operational reliability (CloudWatch/SNS, retries, schema-evolution handling), with experience modernizing legacy SAS reporting into Python microservices using feature flags and parity validation.”

“Full-stack/AI engineer who has shipped production systems spanning real-time analytics dashboards and an internal LLM-powered knowledge assistant. Experienced with RAG pipelines (embeddings/vector DB, semantic retrieval, query rewriting) plus evaluation loops and guardrails, and builds observable Kafka-based data pipelines monitored with Prometheus/Grafana.”

Harshitha Ayenugula

Screened

Mid Software Engineer specializing in backend and FinTech systems

New Jersey, USA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong ownership of complex web products, including building a real-time collaborative editor end-to-end using React, Spring Boot, WebSockets, Yjs CRDT, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Docker. Stands out for combining product delivery with production reliability and performance work, including reducing QA defects by ~25%, improving internal tool load times to under 2 seconds, and resolving latency issues in live systems.”

Surya Padmini Konjula

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend, cloud, and AI for FinTech

San Jose, CA6y exp

“Senior full-stack engineer focused on AI-powered workflow automation and customer support products, with hands-on ownership from React/TypeScript UI through FastAPI microservices, retrieval pipelines, and Kubernetes deployment on GCP. Particularly strong in turning ambiguous zero-to-one AI initiatives into production systems that reduce manual operations, improve turnaround time, and remain reliable through strong orchestration and monitoring practices.”

“Full-stack engineer with a strong builder mentality who has designed greenfield cloud-native ingestion platforms, customer-facing CAD/configuration tools for manufacturing automation, and self-service forecasting products. Particularly compelling is their ability to translate ambiguous workflows into robust systems spanning React, Node.js, shared TypeScript/Zod schemas, cloud queues, and even proprietary hardware runtimes.”

“Backend and distributed-systems engineer with experience integrating LLM capabilities into clinical data workflows at CVS. Stands out for treating AI as an engineering accelerator rather than a shortcut, with strong emphasis on validation, observability, Kafka-based async pipelines, and safe multi-agent orchestration for production systems.”

“Frontend engineer with 3 years of professional experience and a Master's degree who has built a React/TypeScript interface for a two-sided marketplace with role-based dashboards and Stripe escrow flows. Stands out for combining security-conscious UI architecture, measurable browser performance optimization, and polished workflow design for demanding users across desktop and mobile.”

“Senior product leader who helped transform Submittable from a single-program grant tool into a multi-program impact platform, driving ARR from $20M to $70M+ while improving retention and margins. Particularly strong in enterprise platform strategy and human-centered AI, with a clear philosophy of using AI to augment expert judgment rather than replace it.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered agent for supply chain operations that integrates ERP data and automates multi-step decision-making with tool calling, state management, and structured JSON outputs. Emphasizes production reliability (guardrails, fallbacks, monitoring, idempotency) and reports strong business impact: 40% faster decisions, 30% higher throughput, and 25% efficiency gains.”

“Engineer with a solutions-engineering profile who has operated at the intersection of enterprise SaaS architecture, customer-facing technical discovery, and implementation in logistics and fintech environments. He has supported high-scale warehouse management systems processing 500,000+ daily transactions, led integration and security discussions, and improved release efficiency by 50% through CI/CD automation.”

Sai Chinthalapudi

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack .NET Developer specializing in cloud and microservices

United States4y exp

“Software engineer with healthcare platform experience at CVS Health, focused on APIs, SQL performance, and distributed systems. Worked on a 5-6 engineer team building a healthcare simulation platform and drove API/query tuning and caching improvements that cut response times by 50% for real-time, high-volume telemetry workflows.”

“Senior full-stack engineer with strong healthcare domain experience who has shipped an Azure OpenAI RAG-based patient medication support chatbot to production, driving ~10K queries/month and a reported 38% reduction in call center volume. Also builds polished real-time React/TypeScript pharmacy tooling and operates large-scale Python/Spark ETL pipelines (~12M records/day) with strong API design, observability, and cloud deployment experience across Azure/Kubernetes and AWS.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience building real-time sensor telemetry platforms: FastAPI + PostgreSQL services with strong observability, plus AWS serverless and Glue-based ETL into Redshift. Has modernized legacy SAS pipelines into Python microservices and delivered measurable performance wins (Postgres query latency cut to <1 minute and ~60% DB CPU reduction) while owning incident response and reliability improvements.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience scaling a CVE processing platform by re-architecting it into a Kafka-based distributed system, boosting throughput to 200k+ records/min while designing for HA, deduplication, and fault tolerance. Also led a Flyway-driven migration affecting 15M+ records with staged dev→stage→prod rollout, and has implemented production security patterns (Auth0, OAuth2/HTTPS, AWS IAM RBAC) including least-privilege hardening.”

“AI/ML engineer with experience at Northern Trust and Persistent Systems building production LLM + RAG systems for regulated financial use cases, including liquidity forecasting, anomaly detection, and credit scoring. Emphasizes compliance-first design with explainability (SHAP), traceability (MLflow), and hallucination controls (FAISS + citation-grounded prompting), and has delivered drift-triggered retraining pipelines using Airflow and Kubernetes while translating model outputs into business-ready marketing segments.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG clinical document understanding and summarization system for healthcare, focused on reducing manual review time while meeting strict accuracy, latency, and compliance needs. Demonstrates strong MLOps/orchestration depth (Airflow, Kubernetes, Azure ML Pipelines) and a rigorous approach to hallucination mitigation through layered, source-grounded safeguards and stakeholder-driven requirements with physicians/compliance teams.”

“Hands-on engineer focused on productionizing LLM-powered assistants: builds RAG pipelines with guardrails, response schemas, and citation-grounded outputs, then hardens them with explicit NFRs (latency, uptime, security, cost). Experienced diagnosing agentic/LLM workflow issues in real time using observability and stepwise isolation, and supports go-to-market via developer demos, workshops, and pre-sales technical evaluations in microservices/Spring Boot environments.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who has built and operated event-driven microservices platforms (FastAPI/React/TypeScript, Kafka, Kubernetes) and internal DevOps tooling. Delivered measurable impact through user-feedback-driven iteration (WebSockets update mechanism cutting redundant API calls ~30%) and operational improvements (deployment monitoring dashboard reducing rollback time ~40%), with strong focus on reliability, observability, and data consistency at scale.”

“Software engineer and University of Chicago graduate teaching assistant who built a full-stack internal analytics dashboard (React/TypeScript + Node/Express) and worked in RabbitMQ-based microservices with Prometheus/Grafana observability. Also created an AI-powered ERD diagram generator (React + MermaidJS + OpenAI) adopted by students to save hours on database assignments, using validation loops to ensure valid Mermaid output.”