Vetted Apache Kafka Professionals

“Full-stack engineer with fintech payments experience who shipped an end-to-end guest invoice payment flow emphasizing reliability under retries/failures (idempotency via DynamoDB, async processing with Lambda/EventBridge/SQS + DLQ). Also built a FastAPI backend with Cognito/JWT + scoped guest tokens and a polished React/TypeScript checkout UX, and has performance-focused Postgres/Redis design experience for flash-sale e-commerce workloads.”

“Data science professional who has built a production RAG-based LLM question-answering system ("Flash Query") to deliver fast, accurate answers over large document collections, focusing on retrieval quality and grounded responses. Also collaborates with non-technical retail/jewelry stakeholders to turn business questions into predictive models and dashboards for decision-making.”

Homak Patel

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in Agentic AI and Data Systems

2y exp

“Forward Deployed Engineer at EasyBee AI who productionized a self-storage customer’s multi-agent LLM system end-to-end—rebuilding it with LangGraph/CrewAI, integrating with real property management + CRM systems via an MCP server, and adding observability/guardrails for reliable daily use. Experienced in live troubleshooting of agentic workflows, developer demos/workshops (including an open-source project, MerryQuery), and partnering with sales to close deals through customer-specific technical demos and fast integration feedback loops.”

Annie Suzan Edwin Arokiaraj Caroline

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and data pipelines

Tempe, AZ1y exp

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience building distributed data and API platforms (Kafka + Neo4j on Kubernetes), including processing 3M+ NYC taxi trip records and achieving sub-second graph analytics queries. Strong focus on reliability and performance in Python/FastAPI systems—async refactors, caching, timeouts/retries, feature-flagged rollouts, and JWT/RBAC security for production services.”

Abhinav Malkoochi

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI and automation

Dallas, TX1y exp

“Startup-focused builder who created and iterated an MVP for Enky, a two-sided marketplace connecting music artists and creators, informed by hundreds of customer interviews. Implemented CI/CD, monitoring (PostHog/Sentry), and a complex payout pipeline involving scraping social platforms and routing escrow payments via Stripe, and has a track record of quickly debugging production issues (e.g., iOS-specific OAuth cookie failures).”

Himanshu Shivkumar Garg

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in Healthcare IT and FinTech

Florida, USA4y exp

“Built and owned an end-to-end HIPAA-compliant Next.js/TypeScript portal at Casedok using a microservices, event-driven architecture with Temporal-orchestrated SAGA workflows. Emphasizes production-grade quality (strict typing, Jest integration tests, CI + mandatory PR reviews) and operational reliability/observability (circuit breakers, idempotency, Prometheus alerts), plus experience designing external-facing APIs with Swagger, JWT, and backward-compatible versioning.”

Sanskar Pandey

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in FinTech microservices

OH, USA3y exp

“Full-stack engineer with production experience building a real-time order tracking system using React + Firebase/Firestore, emphasizing audit-friendly data modeling, state-machine-based status transitions, and strong post-launch ownership (performance, security rules, reliability). Demonstrated measurable frontend performance gains by isolating real-time updates to dynamic components and applying memoization, plus backend reliability patterns (idempotency, retries) and SQL query/index optimization validated with EXPLAIN ANALYZE.”

“Built and deployed real-world systems end-to-end across security and healthcare contexts: led a 3-person team delivering a university vehicle tracking system with 30% cost savings and 1-year post-launch monitoring. Also implemented a healthcare RAG chatbot with adaptive query routing that cut LLM costs by 40% while maintaining answer accuracy, and has experience debugging non-deterministic LLM behavior in DevOps pipeline automation.”

“Built DocMind, an end-to-end PDF chat assistant using React/TypeScript, FastAPI, and Postgres/pgvector, showing full-stack ownership plus practical performance tuning and AWS debugging skills. At Social Tech Labs, improved onboarding, shipped lean under ambiguity, and created a reusable low-latency feature serving layer that reduced duplicated infrastructure work across models.”

“Software developer who actively integrates AI coding tools like ClaudeCode, Codex, and ChatGPT into day-to-day development for brainstorming, planning, and reducing boilerplate work. They show thoughtful awareness of agent limitations such as hallucinations and use markdown-based project context files to improve output quality.”

“Software engineer with a pragmatic, production-oriented approach to AI-driven development, using AI to accelerate coding while keeping human oversight on correctness, architecture, and final decisions. Has hands-on experience with agent-style AI workflows and has led the design and coordination of AI-agent systems with a strong emphasis on reliability, performance, and end-to-end execution.”

Meghkumar Patel

Screened

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

Vadodara, India1y exp

“MS Software Engineering candidate at SJSU with hands-on full-stack and applied AI experience, including building DataTrust, a secure enterprise RAG assistant with ABAC-style access control, audit logging, and grounded-answer evaluation. Also built CareerPilot, an AI interview-prep product that turns LLM and speech-to-text outputs into structured, user-friendly feedback for students and job seekers.”

“Software engineer with a strong builder mindset who has worked across ML, backend, and frontend systems. Notably built an AI-driven predictive autoscaler for Kubernetes from scratch using Prometheus, TensorFlow, Flask, and Spring Boot, and also delivered customer-facing automation features in financial document processing by working directly with auditors to translate domain rules into product logic.”

Hashim Kalam

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and applied AI

Colombo, Sri Lanka3y exp

“Full-stack and backend-oriented engineer with experience spanning customer-facing web products, LLM-based multi-agent systems, and enterprise Go microservices. They’ve worked on a ticketing/payments platform with Stripe, an NLP-to-2D-CAD MVP, and AI orchestration using LangChain, OpenAI, and Gemini, showing a mix of product thinking, backend architecture, and applied AI experimentation.”

SAUD SALEEM

Screened

Senior Python Engineer specializing in scalable backend and distributed systems

Stockton, CA6y exp

“Startup-oriented full-stack engineer who has worked across distributed systems, data, and compliance-heavy B2B SaaS products. They led an incremental migration from a monolith to an event-driven microservices architecture and also built high-volume healthcare ETL pipelines, giving them a strong mix of product engineering, platform modernization, and data-intensive backend experience.”

“Full-stack engineer who has shipped and operated generative-AI chat/QA features end-to-end, including a RAG-based pipeline with guardrails and cost/latency monitoring in production. Experienced with React/TypeScript + Node/Postgres architectures, Dockerized deployments to AWS (EC2) via GitHub Actions CI/CD, and building reliable ingestion/ETL systems with idempotency, backfills, and reconciliation.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based multilingual analytics assistant for healthcare operations, enabling non-technical teams to query claims/EHR and risk metrics with grounded explanations. Demonstrates strong end-to-end LLM system engineering (retrieval tuning, re-ranking, hallucination controls, verification layers) plus workflow orchestration (Airflow/Composer/Step Functions) and stakeholder-driven iteration via prototypes and dashboards.”

“Software/product engineer who owns customer-facing internal platforms end-to-end, with deep experience building data pipeline health and data quality tooling (near-real-time alerting and ops dashboards). Strong in React/TypeScript + Python REST architectures and microservices with RabbitMQ, emphasizing reliability patterns (idempotency, DLQs, correlation IDs) and fast, safe iteration via feature flags, testing, and observability.”

“Backend engineer who owned the API layer for an AI trust/analytics dashboard (trust scores, stability checks, public verification endpoints) using Python/FastAPI and Postgres. Has hands-on DevOps experience deploying FastAPI and Node.js services to AWS Kubernetes with GitHub Actions + ArgoCD GitOps, plus Kafka-based real-time event streaming and careful staged migration practices (shadow traffic/dual writes, rollback planning).”

“LLM/agent systems builder who deployed a production hybrid router for immerso.ai that dynamically selects retrieval vs reasoning vs generative pathways, achieving an 82% factual-accuracy lift. Deep hands-on experience optimizing local Mistral 7B inference (4–5 bit GGUF quantization, KV-cache reuse) and building reliable RAG/agent workflows with LangChain/LangGraph/AutoGen across GCP Cloud Run and AWS (ECS/Lambda).”

“Built and deployed a production generative-AI copilot at Tungsten that automates invoice/form extraction template creation, reducing weeks of manual model-building work. Combines fine-tuned LLMs (PyTorch/HuggingFace) with OpenCV layout grounding to reduce hallucinations, and runs an end-to-end Kubeflow-based MLOps pipeline with drift monitoring, canary releases, and automated retraining.”

“Software engineer who built an AI marketing/outreach agent end-to-end: Next.js (App Router + TypeScript) frontend integrated with a Python/Django REST backend using LLMs (Gemini, ChatGPT-4o) and SQL databases. Demonstrated measurable performance wins—improved a 100k-record UI by 15% (Lighthouse) and cut a Postgres-backed search API from ~3s to ~1ms via indexing—while also owning post-launch monitoring (webhooks/cron, New Relic/CloudWatch) and customer support.”

Pranav Mishra

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLM agents, RAG, and MLOps

Charlotte, NC2y exp

“AI/ML engineer who has shipped production systems across computer vision and conversational agents: built a YOLOv8-based wheel fitment pipeline at a Techstars-backed automotive startup, focusing on sub-second latency, monitoring, and robust fallback mechanisms that drove 2–3x page view growth and +5–6k users. Also built a voice-based interview platform orchestrating Deepgram + GPT-4 Mini + OpenAI TTS with FSM-driven reliability, and has hands-on RAG experience (LangChain, hybrid retrieval, cross-encoder reranking, custom pseudo-query generation).”

Binaya Sharma

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack systems, big data, and applied AI

Baton Rouge, LA6y exp

“Built and deployed ForensicLLM, a local domain-specific LLaMA-3.1-8B model for digital forensic investigators using RAFT + RAG over 1000+ curated research papers, with citation-aware responses and rigorous evaluation (BERTScore/G-Eval). Deployed via vLLM and Docker and validated through a chatbot survey with 80+ participants; published at DFRWS EU 2025.”