Vetted Apache Kafka Professionals

“Backend engineer with deep Kafka/FastAPI microservices experience who redesigned a notification pipeline to cut end-to-end latency from ~5s to ~3s (including custom partition assignment and consumer tuning). Led a high-stakes ClickUp-to-Oracle migration of 1M+ records using idempotent ETL, reconciliation, and shadow deployment to achieve >99% integrity with zero downtime, and has hands-on production security implementation with Django/DRF (JWT + RBAC).”

“Backend engineer who rebuilt and refactored high-traffic systems at Phenom using Java/Spring Boot/Play and also designs Python/FastAPI services. Focused on measurable reliability and performance gains through DB/query optimization, async processing, and strong observability, with disciplined rollout practices (feature flags, parallel runs, rollback) and security patterns including token auth and row-level security.”

“Built a production-grade LLM evaluation and regression system that stress-tests models across hundreds of iterations, combining LLM-as-judge, semantic similarity, statistical metrics, and rule-based checks, with results delivered via stakeholder-friendly HTML reports and dashboards. Experienced orchestrating multi-agent RAG workflows using LangChain/LangGraph and event-driven GenAI pipelines in n8n integrating OCR, speech-to-text, and external APIs, with strong emphasis on reliability, observability, and explainable failures.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-enhanced version of the WeDAA platform to auto-generate microservice architecture diagrams and support code generation from user prompts, including a practical solution for non-overlapping canvas object placement via coordinate templates. Experienced in diagnosing agentic workflow failures using AWS Strands agents with feature-flagged debug logging, and frequently supports sales through tailored demos and POCs to drive adoption.”

“Software engineer who deployed and stabilized a real-time analytics platform at Senecio Software, focusing on production reliability, observability, and performance under load. Experienced debugging issues spanning distributed services and networking (e.g., tracing timeouts to packet loss from misconfiguration) and extending Python (FastAPI/Django) APIs for customer-specific analytics features in a configurable, maintainable way.”

“Backend Java developer who built an end-to-end upcoming payments feature: Spring Boot/Hibernate microservices with MySQL query/index optimization and Kafka event publishing, plus a web UI timeline component enabling users to view, skip, and edit scheduled payments with clear status indicators.”

“Full-stack/product-leaning engineer in logistics and high-traffic portals who ships production AI features: built an AI-assisted shipment status Q&A system using Pinecone + GPT-4 and a high-volume Python ingestion pipeline (500K+ records/day), delivering 35% fewer support tickets and cutting resolution time from 11 to 4 minutes. Also led a legacy Angular-to-React/TypeScript rebuild that boosted Lighthouse performance from 60 to 90, and has hands-on AWS EKS operations experience including resolving a 3x traffic scaling incident.”

“Full-stack engineer who has delivered production customer analytics/dashboard features using Next.js App Router + TypeScript on the frontend and Java Spring Boot microservices on the backend. Demonstrates strong production ownership (monitoring latency/error rates/adoption) plus hands-on performance work across React rendering and Postgres query/index optimization, and has implemented Temporal-like durable workflows with retries and idempotency.”

“Software engineer with enterprise CPQ/CRM/ERP integration experience (Argano) who owned an end-to-end pricing preview capability deployed on AWS Kubernetes with Jenkins CI/CD and full observability (Prometheus/Grafana). Also built an AI-native research agent using LangChain + Chroma to filter academic papers, reporting ~15 hours/week saved for a professor.”

“Data/ML platform engineer with ~6 years in financial services and enterprise data platforms, building regulated fraud/credit-risk pipelines on AWS (Airflow, EMR/Spark, MLflow) and an Azure lakehouse ingesting 50+ sources and serving ~100M records/day. Also led an early-stage deployment of a RAG-based internal AI search tool using AWS Bedrock and LangChain with automated evaluation to validate LLM accuracy.”

Sneha Sridhar

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native backend and distributed systems

Remote, USA4y exp

“Backend/full-stack engineer with experience building customer-facing contact-center automation (agent assignment) and internal editorial/data operations APIs for life-sciences ontology management. Strong in microservices and event-driven systems (Spring Boot + Kafka), third-party integrations (Genesys/Five9), and pragmatic iteration via MVP scoping, tight stakeholder demos, and observability-focused reliability.”

Gautam Agrawal

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems, cloud, and applied LLM/NLP

IN, USA4y exp

“Applied LLMs to classify long nonprofit mission statements into 8 segments without labeled data, using an ensemble of clustering/embedding methods plus zero-shot RoBERTa/BART and a Tree-of-Thought prompting pipeline with LLM-as-judge evaluation (Gemma). Also built LangChain/LlamaIndex agentic RAG workflows including a text-to-SQL data analysis assistant grounded on DB schema with retries and performance optimizations on an HPC cluster.”

Jaxon Repp

Screened

Executive Technology Leader specializing in distributed systems and multi-cloud infrastructure

Denver, Colorado, United States9y exp

“Early-stage builder who blends deep technical product work with go-to-market execution: created developer-focused platform tooling (Rust/Node/React) and at Harper moved from customer success into sales/partnerships, leading an Akamai partnership that ultimately helped close Walmart. Currently building a distributed application platform in Rust and iterating on macro-based abstractions to make Rust feel as approachable as Node.js; has not yet closed a seed round and is seeking a trusted operator counterpart.”

“Independent builder of production-grade systems: shipped an end-to-end URL shortener with JWT auth, Redis rate limiting/caching, Postgres, Docker, and real-time analytics, and separately architected a Redis-backed distributed task queue handling 1000+ tasks/min. Demonstrates strong distributed-systems instincts (atomicity, retries/DLQ, idempotency, heartbeats) plus a focus on maintainable code and self-documenting APIs (FastAPI/OpenAPI, versioned routes).”

“Backend/AI engineer who built production-grade intelligence systems in high-stakes domains including tax/legal document analysis and brain tumor MRI workflows. Stands out for combining LLM/RAG product delivery with strong engineering rigor around retrieval evaluation, grounding, validation, observability, and safe fallbacks—turning impressive demos into systems users could actually trust.”

“Built GynAI, an end-to-end maternal clinical decision support platform for OB/GYN practices and hospitals in North America, combining predictive ML with RAG-based LLM explainability. The candidate emphasizes real production ownership across experimentation, deployment, monitoring, and iteration, with reported impact including fewer delayed interventions in high-risk pregnancies and a 15-20% reduction in false positives.”

“Production-focused ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership across classical ML and GenAI systems, from CV/NLP services to enterprise RAG. Stands out for combining research-to-production execution with measurable business impact: 40% processing-efficiency gains, 35% fewer support tickets, 5x latency improvement, and 3x throughput gains while maintaining safety and quality.”

Venkatasai Vorsu

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Java microservices and cloud platforms

Houston, TX5y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong React/TypeScript and Spring Boot experience in banking and financial systems, focused on real-time transaction monitoring and payment tracking products. Stands out for scaling high-volume dashboards, solving rendering bottlenecks in live data UIs, and owning features end-to-end from frontend through APIs, Oracle data layer, cloud deployment, and production monitoring.”

Victor Iagnov

Screened

Executive engineering leader specializing in SaaS platforms and AI-enabled architecture

Windermere, FL9y exp

“Engineering executive and former CTO of 3DWORLD who helped scale the business through roughly 22x revenue growth and 15x customer growth over four years while building a 20+ remote cross-functional org. Unusually for a senior leader, they remain hands-on in architecture and production debugging, with recent depth in AI-powered support systems, retrieval-based knowledge workflows, and scalable full-stack platform design.”

Baljinnyam Puntsagnorov

Screened

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

Bellevue, WA3y exp

“Full-stack and AI systems engineer with a strong track record in high-stakes workflow automation and payments reliability. They’ve built production LLM systems with retrieval, validation, evals, and human-in-the-loop controls, while also shipping payment infrastructure that eliminated duplicate payouts/charges and supported 8,000+ daily transactions at 99.95% uptime.”

Mohamed Risaldar Uppil Thodi

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in real-time systems and backend platforms

San Francisco Bay Area, CA10y exp

“Fullstack engineer with strong experience building real-time, customer-facing products across e-commerce personalization and enterprise monitoring dashboards. Stands out for combining hands-on React/Node/GraphQL development with cloud-edge/WebRTC/WebSocket architecture, while working directly with customers to shape MVPs that achieved strong adoption.”

“Built a full-stack dependency impact analysis product ('Blast Radius') that mapped runtime service relationships and reportedly reduced deployment incidents by 40%. Also developed AI evaluation and security benchmarking systems, including WebSEC Arena and a lyric-generation tool fine-tuned on 300,000 song lyrics, with academic interest strong enough to spur a research paper effort.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience spanning enterprise document platforms and AI-powered clinical education products. Built secure TypeScript/Next.js features end to end, designed multi-model LLM workflows with validation and monitoring in production, and modernized a legacy PHP monolith through blue-green deployment and incremental migration without outages.”