Vetted Apache Kafka Professionals

“Built a production AI stylist agent for retail store associates that pulls customer loyalty, address, and purchase-history data to generate in-store product recommendations. Demonstrates hands-on experience across agent orchestration, MCP-based tool integration, Vertex AI/GCP deployment, observability, resilience patterns, and pragmatic production tradeoffs like using PostgreSQL with pgvector instead of a standalone vector database.”

Raj Shrinivasan

Screened

Principal AI Engineer specializing in agentic systems and cloud-native platforms

Cleveland, OH23y exp

“Built a production RAG-powered analytics copilot at Aya Healthcare for operations leaders and analysts on a large healthcare staffing platform processing over a billion telemetry records annually. Stands out for strong production-minded agent engineering: deterministic orchestration, grounding-first design, deep observability, and data-driven workflow changes such as confidence-based human review for a PR review agent.”

“Built an AI-driven trading mentor/analytics system combining a React frontend, Spring Boot backend, and FastAPI ML service for stock risk and indicator analysis. Stands out for a pragmatic approach to AI-assisted development: uses AI for acceleration, but manually reviews code line by line, validates outputs against real market behavior, and adds safeguards for unreliable financial data.”

“Fullstack engineer with strong backend depth who has owned complex digital banking modernization work end-to-end, spanning React UI workflows, Spring Boot microservices, API design, and event-driven integrations. Stands out for balancing technical architecture with user clarity, especially in ambiguous environments where stakeholder feedback reshaped workflows after launch.”

Bhanu Akepogu

Screened

Mid Software Engineer specializing in backend, full-stack, and AI systems

USA3y exp

“Full-stack engineer with 3+ years of backend and frontend experience who has built production AI products for enterprise document and policy workflows. Stands out for owning end-to-end systems that combine React, FastAPI, RAG, vector search, and AWS deployment, with measurable impact including 65% less manual review time and significantly faster knowledge-query resolution.”

“Enterprise front-end engineer with strong Angular ownership across high-stakes products in healthcare, finance, and manufacturing, including a hospital kiosk app, Bank of America portfolio reporting, and a CMS-driven marketing site that has run smoothly for 5 years with no IT support. Stands out for combining UI architecture, measurable performance gains, and production-safe delivery strategies like AWS-based canary releases.”

“Frontend engineer with experience building data-intensive, near real-time React/TypeScript applications in credit reporting and logistics tracking. Stands out for performance-focused architecture across dashboards and map-based products, including large dataset optimization, profiling, and Mapbox visualizations with live asset tracking.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across FastAPI microservices and AWS (Lambda, ECS, SQS, RDS, S3), plus Glue/Athena analytics pipelines. Demonstrates strong reliability and operations focus (timeouts/retries, centralized errors, CloudWatch monitoring) and measurable SQL optimization impact (25s to under 2s). Seeking fully remote senior developer role at ~$150k base.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on AWS data platform work (S3 + Glue + Lambda/Step Functions) and Kubernetes GitOps delivery (Argo CD + GitHub Actions). Has led ingestion and transformation of semi-structured event data, built internal APIs for ETL operations/monitoring, and implemented Kafka-based near-real-time streaming with enrichment and Elasticsearch for search/analytics, plus experience supporting an on-prem ERP migration to AWS.”

“Entrepreneurial product builder who created chaintrigger.com in response to early Web3 demand for real-time on-chain event reactions, offering an alternative to The Graph Protocol and achieving adoption among games and other Web3 projects. Currently developing new tools, dogfooding internally, and building distribution via personal network and a niche Twitter/X following to gather feedback and iterate quickly.”

Baliram Maurya

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in Java microservices and Healthcare IT

USA11y exp

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience modernizing healthcare platforms in a startup-like team of 8-12 across engineering, QA, DevOps, and product. They personally drove scalable Java/Spring Boot microservices for healthcare workflows, including FHIR integrations, real-time data pipelines, and resilient integrations with legacy and third-party systems.”

Luke Evers

Screened

Director-level engineering leader specializing in full-stack product and e-commerce systems

Remote12y exp

“Candidate is an aspiring founder currently exploring startup ideas and potential collaborators, with firsthand experience as an early employee at VC-backed companies, including joining a current company shortly after seed funding. They have not raised capital themselves but bring early-stage operating exposure and a strong desire to build something they own with a high-trust team.”