Vetted Apache Kafka Professionals

Vishnu Priyan Sellam Shanmugavel

Screened

Mid-Level Applied AI Engineer specializing in LLM services, RAG, and OCR/NLP extraction

Arlington, VA4y exp

“Backend/platform engineer who built and evolved a large-scale healthcare document processing system (OCR + LLM orchestration) in Python/FastAPI on Google Cloud (Cloud Run, GCS, Firestore), processing ~1.5M files per batch and tens of millions overall. Emphasizes reliability and operational safety via deterministic IDs, idempotent state machines, strong observability, and self-healing reconciliation, plus disciplined migrations using dual-run validation and incremental rollouts.”

Nischit Patel

Screened

Mid-level Software Development Engineer specializing in Python, APIs, and AWS

NC, US5y exp

“Backend engineer with experience modernizing legacy systems and building modular Python/Flask services, including a REST-to-GraphQL migration for an e-commerce platform that improved API response time by 45%. Strong in performance and scalability work across PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy (indexing, JSONB, N+1 fixes, connection pooling) and high-throughput systems (Celery + Redis), plus integrating ML microservices with TorchServe, Kafka streaming, feature stores, and Prometheus/Grafana monitoring.”

Pallavi Deshmukh

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in React, Node.js, and Android media SDKs

USA5y exp

“Backend/data engineer who built an end-to-end real-time stock analytics platform: ingesting multi-source market data via Kafka/APIs, transforming it into dashboard metrics (e.g., Bollinger Bands), and storing in BigQuery/MySQL. Strong DevOps/GitOps experience deploying Python/Node microservices on Kubernetes with Docker/Helm, CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins), and ArgoCD, plus hands-on troubleshooting and migration work.”

Tanvi Kulkarni

Screened

Intern Full-Stack Engineer specializing in Java, React, and cloud-native backend systems

Santa Clara, CA1y exp

“Frontend-focused engineer with startup experience (SmartPath, OPC AI) who owned and evolved an internal React/TypeScript component library treated like OSS—refactoring core form and API wrapper modules for stability, type safety, and smaller bundles. Comfortable diagnosing production issues via logs/API traces and shipping end-to-end fixes with tests and documentation, including internal workshops to drive adoption.”

“Backend/AI engineer with deep healthcare experience building production Python microservices that turn raw clinical audio into structured notes and insights. They owned systems end-to-end across architecture, launch, monitoring, and incident response, with measurable impact including 40% lower operating costs, 22% better latency, and 99.9% uptime in a regulated environment.”

“Built an end-to-end agentic population health strategy copilot for healthcare leadership, turning broad chronic disease questions into structured, evidence-backed strategy briefs. Stands out for combining healthcare domain knowledge with production-grade GenAI implementation, including LangGraph orchestration, Databricks/MLflow deployment, human review, and quality gates focused on citations, metrics, risks, and safety.”

“Backend/AI engineer who built an enterprise RAG chatbot over 40,000+ technical documents, owning the system from ingestion and retrieval design through launch, optimization, and incident prevention. Stands out for treating LLM reliability as a data, retrieval, and observability problem—delivering 90%+ benchmark accuracy, ~50% fewer hallucinations, and major gains in lookup speed and latency.”

Nikita Sipeikin

Screened

Mid Backend Java Developer specializing in high-load FinTech systems

Bali, Indonesia5y exp

“Java developer with hands-on experience using AI coding tools heavily in day-to-day development, estimating roughly 60% AI-generated output in a recent shipped feature. Brings practical debugging and testing experience, including performance testing and resolving Spring Boot circular dependency issues through architectural changes.”

“Built a production multi-agent RAG assistant using LangChain/LangGraph with OpenAI embeddings and FAISS, focusing on retrieval quality and latency (Redis caching, parallel retrieval, precomputed embeddings). Experienced orchestrating ETL/ML pipelines with Airflow and Databricks Workflows, and has delivered an AI assistant for business ops to extract insights from policy/compliance documents through close non-technical stakeholder collaboration.”

“Product-minded full-stack engineer with hospitality tech experience who owned and scaled a multi-region guest verification/check-in workflow (ID/passport scanning, OCR, and government submissions) and built internal tools that cut manual entry up to 80%. Also built a React/TypeScript + FastAPI RAG “second brain” with async ingestion workers and an event-driven e-folio email microservice hardened with idempotency and retries.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack developer (Java/Spring Boot, Angular, MySQL) who emphasizes rapid iteration with quality via clean code, validation, and API testing. Built a web application to help women connect directly with NGOs, focusing on an intuitive dashboard and user walkthroughs to support adoption, and designed flexible REST APIs to handle frequent requirement changes.”

“Co-op engineer who owned and shipped a Python/Flask backend for automating architecture reviews and system metadata processing, including ingestion from multiple internal APIs, RBAC, testing, and deployment. Has hands-on Kubernetes + GitOps (ArgoCD) experience, built Kafka-based real-time ingestion, and supported a cloud-to-on-prem migration with phased cutover, smoke tests, and performance tuning.”

Kishan Kumar Reddy Konreddy

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud platforms

2y exp

“Software engineer (Lance Soft Engineering) who built a Java/gRPC real-time request tracking system supporting ~20K simultaneous requests, using Kafka event streaming and PostgreSQL to improve transparency and cut support requests by 35%. Demonstrates strong production operations skills—resolved live latency spikes with Kafka async messaging (+48% throughput) and executed safe migrations using parallel runs, staging validation, and blue-green deployments.”

Asad Abdul

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in AI-driven cloud-native applications

Laguna Niguel, CA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with healthcare/ops analytics experience at PatientXpress, shipping a real-time operational dashboard end-to-end (React/TypeScript + Node/Postgres on AWS) that cut manual reporting by 50%. Strong in performance and reliability work—pagination/caching, Postgres indexing/partitioning, Terraform-based AWS provisioning, CI/CD with GitHub Actions, and production incident response with improved monitoring (CloudWatch/Prometheus).”

Charmi Dharmendrakumar Parmar

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and cloud-native systems

Alpharetta, GA4y exp

“Backend/full-stack engineer who owned a cloud-native, AWS-based microservices backend for an HRIS product used by ~10,000 users, including onboarding and workflow orchestration. Strong production focus on event-driven architecture, idempotency/retries, observability, and developer-friendly API design (OpenAPI, versioning, JWT), plus hands-on Selenium automation for resilient checkout-style flows.”

“AI/ML engineer with 9+ years of experience building production recommendation and LLM systems end-to-end, from experimentation through deployment, monitoring, and retraining. Stands out for combining strong MLOps discipline with practical GenAI/RAG implementation, including measurable impact such as ~25% higher engagement on an e-commerce recommender and nearly 30% faster knowledge retrieval from internal documents.”

“Built a production-grade clinical and insurance document AI system in a HIPAA/PHI-regulated environment, taking it from experimentation through Azure deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement. Stands out for translating RAG/LLM research into reliable microservices with strong safety controls, drift monitoring, and human-in-the-loop workflows that cut manual review time by 60-70%.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on experience building healthcare and fraud-detection systems from experimentation through deployment, monitoring, and retraining. Stands out for combining real-time IoT pipelines, cloud-native MLOps, and GenAI/RAG in regulated healthcare settings, with reported impact including reduced emergency response times and a 25% reduction in manual diagnosis time.”