Vetted Apache Kafka Professionals

“Backend engineer with hands-on ownership of Python/Flask microservices and recommendation systems across edtech and telecom. Deployed and operated real-time personalization/recommendation platforms on AWS EKS with Jenkins-based CI/CD, GitOps-style declarative configs, and strong observability practices. Has migration experience moving legacy mixed environments to modern containerized Kubernetes and built Kafka pipelines feeding ML services while managing schema evolution.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience spanning real-time AI products, large-scale payments migration, internal research infrastructure, and open-source ML tooling. Particularly compelling is the mix of low-latency React/Node/TypeScript systems work, zero-downtime migration of 50,000 accounts across 12 regions, and proactive contributions to Kubeflow build and security reliability.”

“Backend/data platform engineer with production experience at Walmart and Molina Healthcare, building Python microservices on AWS (EKS + Lambda) for real-time inventory and recommendation systems. Strong in reliability/observability and incident leadership, plus modernizing legacy healthcare workflows and building resilient AWS Glue/PySpark pipelines with schema evolution and data quality controls.”

“Worked on onboarding a Middle East logistics client processing thousands of invoices/month, building a production-ready pipeline that routes known vendor PDFs to deterministic regex parsers via Tax ID matching and falls back to LlamaParse for unknown layouts. Added financial consistency validation plus human-in-the-loop review and logging/metrics to continuously reduce LLM usage and improve template coverage.”

“Software engineer with recent hands-on production work across Go, Python, and React/TypeScript, spanning healthcare APIs, compliance systems, and data engineering. Stands out for delivering under ambiguity: replaced a legacy SOAP eligibility service, built a Kafka-based compliance pipeline handling 14,000 events per second, and created a modular banking data pipeline that cut month-end work by 30%.”

“Built and owned an end-to-end agentic RAG chatbot platform for Baptist Health that helped clinicians access policy and clinical documents faster, reducing manual lookup by 80% and delivering about $2M in annual savings. Brings strong healthcare GenAI production experience, including HIPAA-aligned governance, PHI redaction, observability, evaluation, and scalable Python/Kubernetes deployment practices.”

Praneeth Regonda

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in FinTech and AI platforms

New York, NY4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with 3 years of AI/ML experience who has shipped production LLM workflows, including a Bloomberg triage dashboard that cut manual processing by 35%. Combines React/TypeScript product sense with AWS/Spring/Lambda backend architecture and unusually strong practical judgment around evals, trust, retrieval, latency, and UX for real-world AI systems.”

“Solutions architect/technical consultant with experience across Intuit, Deloitte, and CodeNest Solutions, focused on enterprise data modernization, AI adoption, and real-time streaming in B2B environments. Particularly strong in regulated financial use cases, where they combine hands-on POC building, security/compliance diligence, and modern data stack expertise to help clients modernize legacy systems and close complex enterprise deals.”

“Backend-focused engineer building customer support/order-tracking platforms with Java 17/Spring Boot microservices and a React/TypeScript frontend. Deep experience running event-driven systems on Kubernetes (Kafka, Redis, MySQL) with strong observability (Prometheus/Grafana/Splunk), SLOs, and safe deployment practices (feature flags, canaries). Also built an internal monitoring/debugging dashboard that consolidated metrics and logs for on-call engineers and was adopted by other teams to speed incident response.”

“AI engineer building and deploying deep-learning-based optimization/control systems for petrochemical plants, with a focus on maintaining operational stability under real-world constraints. Core contributor to model and inference design; introduced a stability-focused non-linear objective and sped up second-layer optimization via on-the-fly first-order approximations. Experienced using Kubernetes for end-to-end testing and effective in translating customer expectations into measurable evaluation plots for non-technical stakeholders.”

Michael Prospero

Screened

Executive product leader specializing in AI/ML and data products

Remote15y exp

“GenAI product owner and longtime financial-services product professional who helped stand up a new AI function at Royal Caribbean Group as one of its earliest hires. They combined enterprise intake, governance, and rapid prototyping with hands-on product leadership, including a fraud detection initiative projected to save $16M annually and AI solutions shaped across highly regulated environments.”

“Backend/platform engineer who owned high-volume Java/Spring Boot microservices on AWS (Kafka + RDS/DynamoDB) and has hands-on experience debugging complex production latency incidents across DB, JVM/GC, and async consumers. Also shipped applied AI features for ops, including an LLM-powered log analysis assistant and an incident-response agent with strong safety guardrails (schema-validated tool use, retries/backoff, and human-in-the-loop escalation).”

“FinTech/AI engineer who has shipped an end-to-end discrepancy-detection product for financial managers using Next.js, FastAPI/GraphQL, Pinecone, and AWS (with dev/staging/prod, observability, A/B testing, and documentation). Also built an AI-native “AI Genesis” system with agentic cyclic workflows, routing, and tool use, and has experience modernizing legacy systems via the strangler fig pattern while coordinating with senior stakeholders on a 5G autonomous simulation platform.”

Hongxi Chen

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and backend infrastructure

Beijing, China0y exp

“Backend engineer with deep experience building event-driven logistics systems (orders, warehouse execution, real-time delivery tracking) using Spring Boot/PostgreSQL/Redis and strong observability (Prometheus/Grafana). Led a zero-downtime migration from monolithic MySQL to a sharded architecture for ~2M users with dual-write, checksum validation, and fast auto-rollback, and has strong security expertise including PostgreSQL RLS for multi-tenant SaaS and robust OAuth/JWT handling.”

Rahul Kushwaha

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and scalable microservices

Texas, USA5y exp

“Backend/platform engineer focused on high-traffic financial systems, owning real-time event-driven ingestion and Kafka streaming pipelines using Python/FastAPI, Avro schemas, and AWS services. Has hands-on Kubernetes (EKS) and GitOps/CI-CD experience (ArgoCD/Jenkins) and supported large-scale migrations from legacy VMs to containerized microservices with zero/low-downtime cutovers.”

“ML engineer with production experience across healthcare and fraud domains, including end-to-end ownership of a telecare patient deterioration system at Oracle Health and a GPT-4/RAG fraud reporting solution at Cognizant. Stands out for combining scalable data/ML infrastructure, clinical NLP, and GenAI delivery with measurable gains in model quality and workflow efficiency.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered internal developer tool that accelerated code reviews by about 30% while maintaining reliability through modular orchestration, validation, and monitoring. Demonstrates strong practical depth in agent architecture, backend workflow orchestration, and observability for non-deterministic AI systems, with concrete examples of reducing agent errors by 60%.”

Tianxiang Yang

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in MERN and FinTech

Arkansas, AR4y exp

“Frontend/full-stack engineer with Walmart experience building browser-based user features end to end, including an email mention notification system and performance improvements on e-commerce tooling. Strongest themes are React-based UI development, optimization, and refactoring legacy codebases toward more maintainable functional-component architecture.”

“Frontend-focused JavaScript engineer who built Collabsync with real-time chat and file sharing using Socket.io, emphasizing reusable components, clear event contracts, and performance (minimizing React re-renders). Has experience at PwC building internal React/Angular dashboards and documenting insurance APIs, plus a contract role at Capital One delivering in fast-changing, loosely defined environments.”

“Applied LLMs and a graph-RAG architecture in Neo4j to automate an accounting firm's cross-checking of transactional books against tax regulations, indexing 1,000+ pages into a knowledge graph with vector search. Combines agentic LLM workflows with classical NER (Hugging Face/NLTK) and validates using expert-labeled held-out data plus precision/recall and measured accountant time savings after deployment.”

“20-year technology builder with ~8 years in healthcare AI, currently at Keycentrix modernizing a legacy pharmacy solutions business. Shipped an OCR MVP within days and delivered a rebate-based product generating ~$50K/month, leveraging Claude/LangGraph agentic automation to replace work typically requiring a much larger engineering team. Developing a "Longevity AI Copilot" B2B platform that synthesizes research, labs, and wearable data into personalized longevity protocols for HNW and corporate wellness markets; concept validated but not yet incorporated or funded.”

“Interned at Paycom and shipped a productionized ML/AI system that automatically regenerates XPath selectors to self-heal Selenium UI tests when the DOM changes. The pipeline handled 1,000+ failing tests/hour with ~90–95% auto-fix accuracy, using confidence thresholds, human-in-the-loop fallbacks, logging/dashboards, and retraining loops to manage distribution shift and maintain reliability.”