Vetted Apache Kafka Professionals

“Backend-focused engineer with experience spanning research and healthcare: owned a Python/SQL data pipeline that transformed vulnerability-fix code data from SQLite into model-ready JSON for LLM analysis. Also deployed Dockerized Spring Boot microservices to Kubernetes with Jenkins CI/CD and built Kafka-based real-time event streaming (appointment/report events) with idempotent consumers to avoid duplicate processing.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership of production systems, including a Kafka-based notification/alerting platform (Node.js + React) deployed on AWS with Docker/GitHub Actions, achieving ~95% email delivery reliability. Demonstrates strong operational maturity (observability, CI/CD, zero-downtime migrations) and experience shipping in ambiguous environments (SJSU project) with evolving requirements.”

Prasad Sadineni

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in LLM fine-tuning, RAG, and agentic systems

Nashville, TN6y exp

“Building and deploying production in-house, domain-specific LLM chatbots for enterprises that cannot use third-party GPT tools due to internal policies. Focused on reducing latency and improving domain awareness using fine-tuning, continual learning, and advanced RAG/agent retrieval strategies, with experience orchestrating multi-agent workflows via LangChain/LlamaIndex and vector DBs (FAISS, Weaviate, Chroma).”

Kevin Thomas

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in AI, cloud, and backend systems

Torrance, CA1y exp

“Candidate has internship and graduate-project experience building AI agents, including a production log-analysis assistant using a lightweight agentic/RAG-style workflow with local GPT training and validation against historical logs. They also worked on Android/iOS game build and release processes in a Unity-based robot racing game environment, and highlight measurable LLM outcomes including 80% analysis accuracy, 2-5 second latency, and 50% cost reduction.”

“IBM Power/AIX engineer who has owned a large production estate (20+ Power9/Power10 frames and 400+ LPARs) with vHMC and dual-VIOS HA. Has hands-on incident recovery experience (NPIV/RMC issues, LPM restores) and PowerHA failovers, plus modern DevOps exposure using Terraform on AWS and CI/CD with GitHub Actions/Jenkins (including deploying AI/RAG and vision workloads).”

“Data engineer focused on building reliable, production-grade pipelines and data services end-to-end, including a 50+ GB/day pipeline ingesting from APIs/files into Snowflake with PySpark/SQL transformations. Emphasizes strong data quality controls, monitoring/retries, and performance optimization, and has also shipped a Python data API with caching and backward-compatible versioning.”

srikanth tulluru

Screened

Mid-level Product Designer & Design Technologist specializing in design systems and GenAI UX

Remote, USA3y exp

“Enterprise/industrial UX designer focused on making complex, real-time automated systems feel trustworthy and predictable. Has hands-on experience observing operators in logistics/automation environments, building shared interaction models to unify fragmented products, and collaborating tightly with engineers using component-system thinking (HTML/CSS/TypeScript) to ship resilient UIs that handle partial failures.”

“Backend engineer with production ERP experience deploying microservices and improving performance/reliability using a metrics-driven approach (logs, latency, error rates). Has hands-on cloud/hybrid operations across AWS and Azure with Docker/Kubernetes, and has resolved real-world mobile sync issues by tuning timeouts/retries and reducing payload sizes. Builds configurable Python services to deliver customer-specific behavior without destabilizing the core codebase.”

“Backend Python engineer who owned a real-time manufacturing insights streaming service, building FastAPI async microservices with Kafka-style queue buffering, batching/backpressure, and a low-latency snapshot store. Led a serverless-to-Kubernetes (EKS) migration at UGenomeAi using GitOps-style GitHub Actions pipelines, standardized config/secrets, and improved deployment consistency with pinned dependencies and multi-stage Docker builds.”

“ML/NLP engineer who has built production systems end-to-end: a real-time recommendation platform (100k+ profiles) using BERTopic-style clustering and a RAG-based news summarization/recommendation stack with ChromaDB. Strong focus on scaling and reliability (GPU batching, Redis caching, Kafka ingestion, Docker/Kubernetes, Prometheus/Grafana) and on maintaining model quality over time via drift monitoring and retraining triggers.”

SaiDheerajReddy Gadikota

Screened

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

USA, USA4y exp

“Current AI engineer at a startup who has spent the last year architecting multi-agent systems for software development workflows. Stands out for combining LLM speed with engineering discipline—using tools like Pydantic, LangGraph, and LangChain to build reliable, production-ready agent workflows with validation, routing, and retry logic.”