Vetted Apache Kafka Professionals

“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.”

SIVA RAMAKRISHNA PALADI

Screened

Mid-level AI/Full-Stack Engineer specializing in agentic AI and RAG systems

Santa Clara, CA5y exp

“Solo builder who shipped two ambitious AI products from scratch: Zoly, a healthcare/pharmacy automation platform with voice agents, RAG, clinician dashboard, and patient app live in 4 months, and Breeth, a contextual memory system for AI agents deployed on AWS. Particularly compelling for teams needing a hands-on full-stack/AI engineer who can operate in ambiguity, design for safety and compliance, and turn complex agent workflows into production products.”

“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.”

Ankit Gupta

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and AI applications

India2y exp

“Engineer who independently shipped pagination for a global financing platform handling large financial datasets, including accounts with roughly 25,000 securities. Stands out for using AI pragmatically—accelerating boilerplate while rigorously reviewing data contracts, ordering assumptions, access control, and production reliability in a financial domain.”

“Full-stack engineer who built WordCon, an AI-powered vocabulary learning platform, end-to-end across React/Next.js, Python, AWS, and GenAI services. Particularly strong at turning ambiguous AI product ideas into structured, scalable systems by combining deterministic learning logic with LLM-powered personalization, and has additional experience modernizing legacy PHP systems into React/Node architectures.”

“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.”