Vetted Apache Kafka Professionals

“Full-stack/backend-heavy engineer with strong healthcare domain expertise, focused on modernizing regulated platforms for payroll, billing, and caregiver operations. Notably led a legacy Express.js billing platform migration to modular NestJS services that enabled same-day deployments and unblocked enterprise customer onboarding, while bringing deep experience in compliance, auditability, and production reliability.”

“Frontend-focused engineer with experience in healthcare and fintech dashboards, especially around real-time data delivery and performance. In a growth-stage startup environment, improved dashboard architecture by replacing polling with React Query and GraphQL, leading to more responsive and reliable user experiences and fewer stale-data complaints.”

Ned Ned Zaidi

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Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in Python, Go, and cloud-native systems

Dumfries, VA9y exp

“Full-stack/backend-leaning engineer with hands-on experience spanning Python, Go, React, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, and Kubernetes. They stand out for building real-time analytics and decisioning systems, plus a healthcare-focused B2B SaaS compliance/data integration platform that combined high-throughput event processing, dashboarding, and third-party integrations in a startup-style, high-ambiguity environment.”

“Backend-focused engineer with deep healthcare interoperability experience, building Go-based distributed systems for live clinical data exchange across hospital systems. Stands out for combining startup-style ownership with HIPAA/compliance rigor, including creating a reusable Go microservice template and improving reliability across Kafka, PostgreSQL, and Kubernetes-based production platforms.”

“Full-stack engineer with deep startup experience building products from scratch under ambiguous requirements. Delivered a scalable, admin-configurable notification platform (Spring Boot/Java/Kafka) supporting 50+ notification types across 3 channels for 10k+ users, cutting new notification setup to ~5 minutes. Also built a Tinder-meets-LinkedIn job-swiping app (React/TS + Node/Prisma) and has hands-on AWS production ops (ECS/EKS, RDS, CloudWatch) plus multiple third-party integrations (Stripe, QuickBooks, Twilio).”

“Senior backend/data engineer who has built and maintained HIPAA-compliant, real-time clinical FastAPI services on AWS, orchestrating ML/LLM and vector DB calls with strong reliability patterns (auth, timeouts/retries, graceful degradation, idempotency). Also delivered AWS IaC/CI-CD (Terraform/Helm/GitHub Actions) across EKS/Lambda/SageMaker and built Glue/Spark ETL with schema evolution and data quality controls, plus demonstrated large SQL performance wins (15 min to <9 sec) and hands-on incident ownership.”

“Owned and stabilized Decathlon e-commerce payment services, taking a prototype reliability effort to production by implementing failure detection/retries, load testing, and DB performance optimizations—reducing payment failures and cart abandonment. Also demonstrates an LLM/agentic workflow support mindset with strong observability, rapid incident diagnosis, and durable prevention via RCA, safeguards, and regression/replay testing, plus experience supporting sales/support with technical reassurance.”

“Built and deployed a production AI accessibility platform that turns chart and image-based graphs into real-time audio narratives for visually impaired users. Implemented a ResNet-based CV + OCR + NLP + TTS pipeline and improved performance through preprocessing, Redis caching, and Kubernetes autoscaling/rolling updates on AWS to handle traffic spikes with no downtime.”

“Backend Python engineer who owned the full backend build of an AI-driven platform for UK golf clubs, including FastAPI microservices, vector search, and a tuned LangChain+Pinecone RAG pipeline focused on cost and hallucination reduction. Experienced deploying Django/FastAPI/Flask stacks on AWS-backed Kubernetes with GitOps/ArgoCD-style delivery, plus executing legacy-to-AWS migrations and building Kafka-based real-time analytics pipelines.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered incident response agent for a microservices platform, automating alert triage and safe remediation recommendations with strong guardrails (RAG grounding, structured JSON outputs, rule-based validation, and human-in-the-loop). Implemented state-machine orchestration (Redis/Kafka), comprehensive eval/monitoring, and an error categorization pipeline that cut hallucination errors ~40% and reduced MTTR ~30%.”

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.”

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.”

“Software engineering intern who built and deployed a full-stack telemedicine platform (React/Node/MongoDB) used daily in a pediatric clinic, incorporating PyTorch-based predictive features. Demonstrated strong customer-facing iteration and production performance debugging—resolved a live slowdown by indexing/optimizing MongoDB queries and adding caching, improving response times by ~50%.”

“Backend/distributed-systems engineer with 9 years of Go experience, focused on financial-services platforms where performance, reliability, and regulatory auditability are critical. He has built low-latency market data infrastructure (p99 under 8ms) and optimized compliance/reporting systems used by finance and audit teams, combining strong systems design with practical production operations.”

“Built AI-powered products across both healthcare and financial services, including a privacy-conscious assistant for elderly health check-ins and a production RAG system for high-stakes financial document analysis. Stands out for combining full-stack engineering with strong LLM reliability practices—grounding, structured outputs, fallback handling, monitoring, and human-in-the-loop controls—while delivering measurable impact on accuracy, speed, and system performance.”

“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.”