Vetted Apache Kafka Professionals

“Full-stack engineer who has owned React/TypeScript + Spring Boot dashboard products end-to-end, including real-time performance/alerts and data aggregation across services. Strong in shipping MVPs quickly with feature flags, automated testing and CI/CD, and using monitoring/click-path analytics to prioritize work—achieved a 40% page-load reduction. Experienced operating microservices with RabbitMQ at scale, addressing retries/idempotency/observability and fixing duplicate-processing incidents with idempotent consumer patterns and DLQs.”

“Backend engineer who built an AI RAG quoting system for the fastener industry, reducing quote turnaround from weeks to ~30 minutes and raising retrieval accuracy to ~90% by solving a semantic-collision issue with a parent-document retrieval design. Strong in production AWS integrations (Cognito auth, S3 pre-signed uploads), performance optimization (multithreading/out-of-core), and real-time streaming (Kafka/Spark Kappa architecture achieving sub-second latency), plus Kubernetes logging and GitHub Actions CI/CD to ECR.”

“Backend/DevX engineer with startup experience who built internal JavaScript SDKs for POS integrations, including a daily GMV calculation feature standardized across multiple POS providers. Strong in performance debugging (used Jaeger to resolve legacy WebSocket bottlenecks) and developer enablement—built a cronjob migration tool (ArgoWorkflow to internal platform) with documentation that let teams migrate in ~30 seconds, plus handled on-call and internal support.”

“Built and deployed an enterprise RAG application at Centene to help clinical teams retrieve insights from large internal policy document sets, cutting manual research by 30–40%. Implemented custom domain-adapted embeddings (SageMaker + BERT transfer learning) and hybrid retrieval (BM25 + Pinecone) to drive a 22% relevance lift, and ran the system in production on AWS EKS with CI/CD, MLflow, and Prometheus monitoring (99% uptime, ~40% latency reduction).”

“Python backend engineer who owned an end-to-end Django/DRF authentication and account-management module (JWT, RBAC, email verification) and optimized token validation performance. Has hands-on Kubernetes + Helm delivery with GitOps via ArgoCD (multi-environment app-of-apps, drift detection/rollback) and has supported a cloud-to-on-prem migration using staged testing and phased cutover. Also built and scaled a Kafka-based real-time user activity tracking pipeline with reliability and backpressure controls.”

“AI/ML engineer (Merkle) with hands-on experience deploying RAG-based LLM applications and real-time recommendation engines into production. Strong in cloud/on-prem architectures, GPU autoscaling, caching, and network optimization—delivered measurable latency reductions (40–70%) and improved retrieval relevance by systematically benchmarking chunking/embedding configurations and validating pipelines via CI/CD.”

“Software engineer with healthcare domain experience (patient monitoring and provider systems) who improves reliability and performance in complex React/Flask applications. Led API standardization for shared internal React utilities using an RFC + deprecation strategy, and optimized a live WebSocket dashboard to handle 3000+ concurrent clinics while reducing client CPU usage. Strong in production debugging, data ingestion validation, and operational improvements like structured logging and alerting.”

“Data professional with ~4 years of experience, most recently at AIG (insurance), building ML/NLP systems for fraud detection and policy automation using transformers, CNNs, and clustering/anomaly detection. Also developed a RAG-based knowledge retrieval system, iterating across embedding models and moving to production based on precision and latency SLAs, then containerizing and deploying with SageMaker and CI/CD.”

“Backend engineer with airline operations domain experience who modernized flight-ops systems from batch updates to real-time streaming on AWS (Kafka + Spring Boot microservices), improving latency and stability through metric-driven tuning and idempotency. Also shipped a production LLM decision-support component using RAG over operational logs and internal procedures, with strong guardrails and an evaluation/regression loop to reduce hallucinations and enforce grounding.”

Shrinivas Bhusannavar

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in agentic LLM systems and RAG platforms

San Jose, CA5y exp

“Built and shipped Serrano AI, a multi-tenant SaaS conversational AI platform that automates Odoo ERP workflows and lets ops/finance/supply-chain teams query ERP data in natural language. Implemented a multi-agent architecture (LangChain/LangGraph/CrewAI) with hybrid RAG over ERP schemas, deployed on Heroku/Vercel with production observability, cutting reporting time by ~80% while addressing hallucinations, latency, and schema complexity.”

Vivekananda Reddy

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Java, React, and AWS

Dallas, TX4y exp

“Backend engineer focused on cloud-native microservices on AWS, owning Python/Flask ingestion services integrated with S3/Lambda and deployed via Docker/Kubernetes with CI/CD. Has led phased migrations from manually managed EC2 setups to automated CloudFormation + pipeline-driven releases, and designed event-driven near-real-time pipelines with idempotency, retry/backoff, and strong observability.”

“Data engineer with healthcare/clinical trial domain experience who owned a 100TB+/month AWS pipeline end-to-end (Glue/S3/Redshift/Airflow) and drove measurable outcomes (20% lower latency, 99.9% reliability, 40% less manual reporting). Also built production data services and API-based ingestion on GCP (Cloud Run/Functions/BigQuery) with strong validation, versioning, and safe migration practices, and launched an early-stage RAG solution (LangChain + GPT-4) for researchers.”

“Data/analytics engineer focused on finance and e-commerce integrations, building end-to-end pipelines and services across Odoo, QuickBooks, Snowflake, and Tableau. Replaced a costly third-party Walmart connector with a serverless AWS Lambda pipeline deployed via Terraform/GitHub and monitored with CloudWatch/Datadog, and shipped a bi-directional Odoo↔QuickBooks invoice sync with distributed locking plus Slack-based finance approvals.”

“Data engineer in healthcare/clinical data platforms (HarmonCare) who built and operated an end-to-end lakehouse pipeline ingesting HL7/FHIR at ~2–3M records/day on AWS (Glue/Lambda/S3/Spark) and serving trusted datasets in Snowflake. Implemented strong validation/reconciliation gates and a data quality framework that reduced discrepancies ~40%, plus CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Terraform) and monitoring (Airflow/CloudWatch).”

Sai Nikhil Kanchukatla

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in Golang microservices and IAM/SSO

Dallas, TX6y exp

“Backend engineer with experience at DigitalOcean and BNY Mellon, specializing in secure, highly available authentication and API platforms. Built an enterprise SSO system integrating Okta via OIDC with resilience patterns (gRPC contracts, circuit breakers, Kafka) and strong encryption, and led a careful monolith-to-Golang microservices migration using shadow traffic, dual writes, and feature flags to preserve data integrity.”

Xin Li

Screened

Staff Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and high-concurrency APIs

Santa Clara, CA17y exp

“Full-stack engineer in an insurance + telematics org who built a 0→1 multi-agent, AI-driven mobile regression execution system integrating Jira and n8n, emphasizing determinism (schema-validated outputs), traceability (state-machine style step archives), and scalable device scheduling. Also designed an event-driven microservices architecture using Kafka with standardized API/event contracts and has hands-on incident response experience improving resilience via rate limiting, circuit breaking, caching, and idempotency.”

Arunima Mishra

Screened

Senior Technical Product Lead specializing in Data Governance and MDM SaaS platforms

Bengaluru, India7y exp

“Technical/product lead at Albanero (acquired by Infor in 2024; now at Infor) who built a Data Mesh-focused “Governance as a Product” module from early persona-based policies through a highly configurable multi-ERP governance platform (MDM, multi-source mastering, match/merge, automated review workflows). Also troubleshoots agentic/LLM workflows in production using auditability, guardrails, monitoring, and real-time validation—fixing a P0 false-positive security flagging issue and contributing to significant deal/adoption growth (~50%) after V2 launch.”

Jarin Tasnim

Screened

Staff/Lead Software Engineer specializing in distributed data and ML platforms

Mountain View, CA6y exp

“Defense-domain AI engineer who built a production ReAct-style RAG system for military training data/material generation, scaling to ~1000 users and cutting generation time by 50%. Also has experience designing GPU-cluster parallel computation with PyTorch and handling production incidents involving database performance and schema design.”

Sachin Dulla

Screened

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

Kentwood, MI3y exp

“Built and deployed a domain-specific LLM chatbot for research/support, cutting manual effort by ~50%. Demonstrates strong applied LLM engineering: RAG, prompt grounding with citations and fallbacks, embedding/top-k tuning, and production monitoring (confidence, latency, feedback loops). Experienced orchestrating agent workflows with LangChain-style pipelines and continuous evaluation to maintain reliability.”

Umair Khokhar

Screened

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in AI Platforms for Enterprise B2B SaaS

San Francisco, CA15y exp

“Technical leader/player-coach who architected and shipped an end-to-end computer vision pricing system for a major North American auto seller, using Go + Ray + AWS SageMaker in a low-latency distributed inference architecture. Strong in production governance (logs/tracing/guardrails/AppSec), reliability incident ownership (DNS limits affecting 20% traffic), and measurable delivery acceleration (deployment cycle 16→4 days; delivery speed 5→2 days) through process optimization and AI-assisted enablement.”

SaiSindhu Beeravolu

Screened

Mid AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and healthcare AI

Illinois, USA4y exp

“Healthcare ML/AI engineer with production experience at UnitedHealth Group, including an end-to-end readmission prediction system built on 50M+ patient records that improved accuracy by 18% and reduced preventable readmissions by 12%. Also shipped a clinically grounded LLM/RAG referral generator with human-in-the-loop safety controls, showing strong depth in regulated, high-stakes AI systems.”

Almas Fathimah

Screened

Senior AI Engineer specializing in Generative AI and ML platforms

USA7y exp

“Built and owned a production RAG-based conversational AI system at Entera for real estate analysis, taking it from experimentation through AWS deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement. Demonstrates strong practical judgment in retrieval design, LLM safety, and scalable Python service architecture, with measurable impact including 30-40% reduction in manual analysis time and roughly 30% better response accuracy.”

“Backend/infrastructure-focused engineer building AI-agent products for small businesses, including a customer-service agent platform with intent routing, RAG over Pinecone, and external booking API integration. Has shipped Python/FastAPI services with JWT auth, versioned APIs, Docker deployments to AWS EC2 via GitHub Actions, and production monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana.”