Vetted Apache Kafka Professionals

“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.”

“Built a university campus assistant chatbot (BabyJ/WWJ) using RAG and agentic routing with a FastAPI + React stack and JWT auth, focusing heavily on production concerns like latency and reliability. Uses techniques like speculative prefetching, smart intent routing, and rigorous eval/testing (golden sets, regression, edge cases) while collaborating closely with campus admin/advising teams to iterate based on real user feedback.”

Dhairya Gajjar

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in Healthcare Data Platforms

Remote2y exp

“Backend/ML engineer with healthcare domain experience building secure Medicare/Medicaid data APIs and real-time patient risk scoring. Shipped an end-to-end ML pipeline (scikit-learn/XGBoost) served via SageMaker and integrated into Flask APIs, with strong production reliability practices (Kafka schema validation, regression replay, observability, drift monitoring, and human-in-the-loop guardrails).”

“Internship-built full-stack systems spanning HR employee-record portals and internal data-quality dashboards (Flask + SQL + React), emphasizing data integrity and rapid MVP iteration. Also implemented Flask microservices with RabbitMQ for distributed task processing, addressing duplication/ordering issues with idempotency, durable queues, and correlation-ID logging; delivered quantified productivity gains for HR teams.”

John Kenny

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in Web3 and FinTech

Global, Remote6y exp

“Full-stack engineer with deep startup experience (pre-seed through IPO/SPAC) currently building a Next.js/TypeScript SaaS sports analytics platform with a complex Postgres-based entitlement/ACL system. Has delivered measurable UX/business impact (35% retention lift, 40% volume increase) and built production-grade daily ETL + model training/inference workflows with validation and checkpointing for reliability.”

“Full-stack product engineer who has built both a production-grade React/Next.js analytics platform and a Stripe-based subscription system end to end, with measurable business impact including churn reduction, reporting automation, and cost savings. Also stands out for 0-to-1 work in the digital art space, where they built an AI-powered cataloguing and delivery pipeline over 30TB of assets using computer vision, Shopify, and cloud infrastructure.”