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Vetted Apache Kafka Professionals
Pre-screened and vetted.
Maggie vonEbers
Mid-level Research Engineer specializing in machine learning and computational neuroscience
“Master’s-level ML researcher with hands-on embodied/edge deployment experience: built a Google Glass motion-tracking system at Sandia using MobileNetV1 + LSTM trained in TensorFlow and deployed via TensorFlow Lite. Has reimplemented transformer-based research for a thesis and demonstrated strong judgment adapting quickly when upstream assumptions changed, and stays current through active reading groups and a JEPA collaboration.”
Mithilesh Gaurihar
Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in Java microservices and cloud-native systems
“Full-stack engineer (SAP Labs experience) who built an end-to-end, real-time fraud detection system on Java 11/Spring Boot microservices with Kafka event streaming and a React/Redux analytics dashboard with WebSocket updates. Demonstrated strong production ownership by diagnosing a critical memory leak with Prometheus/CloudWatch + heap dumps and improving performance with Redis caching (40% faster queries), while also modernizing deployments via Kubernetes, Jenkins CI/CD, and Terraform.”
Advitha Bawgi
Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices
“Backend engineer with hands-on IoT and AI product work: built a decoupled Raspberry Pi + AWS IoT Core weather monitoring backend and a Dockerized FastAPI LLM service on AWS ECS using OpenAI/HuggingFace with an emerging RAG layer. Also delivered measurable performance gains at DAZN by redesigning event-driven/serverless ingestion (SNS, S3->Lambda->DynamoDB), cutting latency ~30% and boosting throughput ~25% while automating ~90% of manual sync work.”
Niteesh Ganipisetty
Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI, NLP, and Computer Vision
“Built an LLM-powered learning assistant (EduQuizPro/EduCrest Pro) that uses RAG over URLs and PDFs to generate quizzes, notes, and explanations for students/professors. Emphasizes production robustness—implemented dependency fallbacks (FAISS/Sentence Transformers/Gradio), CLI-safe mode, and NumPy-based indexing—along with a custom orchestration layer to keep multi-step AI workflows reliable.”
Prateek Patil
Engineering Leader specializing in Digital Health, AI, and Cloud Platforms
“Senior Engineering Manager at Roche leading two Scrum teams building internally shared (“inner-sourced”) tools and libraries for a healthcare enterprise. Has led security/compliance-first architecture decisions (e.g., Python AI modules running inside a Java container) and front-end modularization (Angular monorepo to module federation), with a strong focus on developer experience via automated Swagger/OpenAPI documentation and robust testing/versioning practices.”
Mounika Gunturu
Senior Python Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud-native microservices and data platforms
“Backend/data engineer from Oliver Wyman who built and ran production Python (FastAPI) services on AWS (ECS/Lambda/API Gateway) supporting risk modeling and regulatory reporting. Strong in reliability/observability, Glue-based ETL with data quality controls, and legacy SAS-to-Python modernization with rigorous parity validation; also demonstrated measurable SQL performance wins and cost-control improvements in serverless scaling. Based in Raleigh, NC and can travel onsite for important Bethesda-area meetings.”
Swathi Sankaran
Senior Python Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud, data engineering, and ML/GenAI
“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building FastAPI services on AWS and implementing strong reliability/observability (CloudWatch, ELK, correlation IDs, alarms). Has delivered serverless + container solutions with IaC (CloudFormation/Terraform) and Jenkins CI/CD, and built AWS Glue/PySpark pipelines into S3/Redshift with schema-evolution and data-quality safeguards; demonstrated large-scale SQL tuning (45 min to 3 min on a 500M-row workload).”
Charlotte Yu
Junior Full-Stack AI Engineer specializing in LLM apps and RAG systems
“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered “Vet agent” that automates pet symptom intake across multimodal inputs (images/files/text/speech) and provides analysis/home-care guidance, reaching thousands of daily active users within two months. Demonstrates strong agent engineering fundamentals: state-machine orchestration with structured JSON, tool/schema validation, high-availability routing/failover, and rigorous offline/online evaluation loops with trace-driven reliability improvements.”
Adrian Alvarez
Principal Cloud & Infrastructure Engineer specializing in reliability and regulated data platforms
“Founder/CTO-type startup leader who has built cloud-native data and AI platforms from scratch while owning both technical vision and product direction. Brings rare end-to-end startup experience spanning zero-to-one building, growth-stage execution, and fundraising from early stage through exit, with a strong ability to translate technical complexity into clear investor narratives.”
Fatim Majumder
Junior ML research engineer specializing in evaluation platforms and applied machine learning
“ML/LLM infrastructure engineer who built and shipped a production internal evaluation + failure-analysis agent (Arthur AI / R3AI context) that orchestrated end-to-end benchmarks with deterministic lineage, regression detection, and root-cause reporting at 5,000+ benchmarks/week. Also built backend observability and data validation systems for analytics pipelines at FullStory processing ~3.4B weekly events, emphasizing schema validation, quarantine fallbacks, and idempotent operations.”
Abhishek Adinarayanappa
Junior Software Engineer specializing in backend, cloud, and machine learning systems
“Built Digipulse, a university project that ingested and clustered Bluesky tweet data at scale and used Gemini to generate near-real-time topic summaries, processing 1M+ tweets per day. Also brings Intel experience with Prometheus and Kubernetes, including production monitoring and incident troubleshooting.”
Zahra Shergadwala
Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in AI, computer vision, and data systems
“Built and owned an end-to-end AV operations automation and dashboarding platform for USC event operations, used daily to coordinate hundreds of live events. Delivered a React/TypeScript full-stack system integrating Smartsheet APIs with strong reliability practices (typed contracts, validation/fallbacks, safe rollouts) and experience with queue-based microservice patterns (idempotency, retries, DLQs, monitoring).”
Vidhi Chhatbar
Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud microservices and FinTech
“Software engineer with experience across enterprise (AIG, MSCI) and an early-stage startup (Job Map), owning production systems end-to-end. Built secure insurance microservices on Spring Boot with JWT/RBAC and AWS-based CI/CD/observability, plus Kafka streaming pipelines for financial data. Also shipped a GenAI personalization MVP using FastAPI and LLM APIs in a high-ambiguity startup environment.”
Ansh Bajaj
Senior Data Engineer specializing in cloud analytics and data modernization
“Candidate has hands-on experience delivering production data and AI systems, including an AWS-based real-time data platform for a financial client at Deloitte and a production RAG workflow that cut manual search time by 40%. They stand out for combining strong data engineering depth with practical LLM governance, incident debugging, and stakeholder management across business and risk/compliance teams.”
Aditi Garg
Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and AI-powered platforms
“Software engineer with experience spanning an SEL internship and Walmart, combining backend/data pipeline work (Python, Kafka, relational DBs) with DevOps practices (Docker, Grafana, GitHub/Jenkins CI/CD, GitOps). Notably contributed to a REST-to-GraphQL migration aimed at reducing cloud utilization and implemented testing strategies to validate the transition.”
Omkar Bhambure
Mid-level Software Developer specializing in backend microservices for healthcare and FinTech
“Built and deployed an AI-powered insurance claims fraud platform end-to-end using Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, OpenAI, pgvector, and AWS EKS. Stands out for combining LLM/RAG architecture with production-grade scalability and observability, delivering measurable impact including 62% less manual review, 40% better fraud precision, 37% higher throughput, and 99.95% uptime.”
Naveen Tammisetti
Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems for FinTech
“Senior software engineer with hands-on experience leading multi-agent AI workflows in financial trading infrastructure. Most notably, they applied a specialized agent setup on a high-frequency trading backend to cut delivery time from three weeks to ten days while improving validation against risk, performance, and compliance requirements.”
Neeshma Narahari
Mid-level Software Developer specializing in backend microservices and cloud platforms
“Full-stack product engineer with strong React and TypeScript depth who has owned dashboard features end-to-end, from UI architecture and rendering optimization through Spring Boot APIs and database query tuning. Particularly compelling for startup or high-growth teams: they’ve shipped 0→1 internal operations platforms, prioritized MVP workflows effectively, and iterated post-launch using user feedback, logs, and usage metrics.”
“Built end-to-end financial workflow platforms at Citi spanning React frontends, Spring Boot microservices, Kafka, Redis, and Oracle. Particularly compelling for teams needing someone who can modernize legacy systems into real-time architectures—the candidate cites a 48x throughput improvement from a batch-to-Kafka modernization effort.”
Ming Wang
Entry-level Software Engineer specializing in AI and FinTech
“Recent college graduate and software engineer who relies heavily on AI-assisted development, reporting that roughly 85% of code in a recent initiative was AI-generated and then manually reviewed. Has built customer-facing AI features including personalized recommendations and an internship chatbot tied to product advertising, with exposure to API communication, database checks, and conversation monitoring.”
Satya K
Mid-level Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in enterprise cloud applications
“Backend engineer with hands-on experience building event-driven Java/Spring Boot and Kafka systems, plus AI-assisted document-classification workflows in enterprise environments. Stands out for a thoughtful, risk-aware approach to AI: uses it to accelerate delivery, but emphasizes validation layers, confidence thresholds, observability, and human review before AI can affect downstream business actions.”
Justin Emsoff
Director-level Solutions Architect specializing in AI, integrations, and enterprise SaaS
“Player-coach engineering leader currently running a Solution Architecture/FDE team responsible for both presales and postsales delivery. Stands out for combining enterprise systems thinking with hands-on AI product work: they built configurable tooling that sped delivery by ~30%, drove a Kafka-to-Pulsar architecture shift for scale, and spent the last two years building LLM-based document extraction and RAG inference pipelines shaped directly by user feedback.”
Navneet Parab
Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in financial risk and LLM systems
“AI/ML engineer in financial services who has built both LLM-powered compliance tools and production fraud/credit risk systems at Ally Financial. Particularly strong in regulated, high-stakes environments: combines RAG/LLM architecture, rigorous evaluation, and human-in-the-loop governance, and also helped stand up a unified ML platform from scratch.”