Vetted Apache Kafka Professionals

“Software engineer with payments-domain experience (Visa) building real-time transaction monitoring and analytics systems. Strong end-to-end ownership across Spring Boot/Kafka microservices, PostgreSQL modeling, and AWS/Kubernetes operations, plus React+TypeScript dashboards—focused on low-latency processing, secure APIs, and zero-downtime production releases.”

“Full-stack engineer (~2.6 years) with strong Java/Spring Boot backend experience and React/Angular frontend exposure, who has worked on enterprise-scale systems at Dell processing ~1.8M daily transactions/events. Built secure, partner/internal-facing APIs (OAuth2/JWT) across 14 integrations and implemented Kafka-based order/payment workflows with idempotency and sub-700ms processing targets, plus CI/CD and Selenium-based release validation.”

“Internship at ActiveVM where they tackled large-scale Spring Boot 2→3/library migrations across hundreds of downstream products by combining OpenRewrite (AST-based recipes) with an LLM/RAG-based classifier that routed risky files to human experts. Reported ~70% reduction in manual effort and 90%+ accuracy after testing across multiple branches and cutovers; also built a CTR-driven book recommendation capstone showcased at the Google office in Cambridge.”

“Full-stack engineer who built and supported production features in a productivity/task-tracking app using Next.js App Router + TypeScript (server components for initial render, client components for interactivity, API route handlers for mutations). Also designed and optimized Postgres data models/queries and implemented resilient, event-driven payment processing with idempotency, retries, audit logs, and strong testing/observability practices.”

“Data engineer with hands-on experience migrating a legacy/mainframe-fed loader onto GCP, orchestrating daily SFTP-to-GCS ingestion, Spark/Scala transformations, and loading into Cassandra/Solr/OpenSearch with API- and BigQuery-based validation. Also built a Java Spring Boot service that extracts from Hive and produces Excel outputs, emphasizing testing, logging/alerts, and CI setup.”

“Backend/platform engineer who has built and scaled production Java/Spring Boot + Kafka services on AWS/Kubernetes (1M+ msgs/day) and led reliability/performance fixes that restored SLAs (25–30% latency improvement; 99.9% uptime). Also shipped an AI customer-support chatbot end-to-end using retrieval + guardrails and rigorous evaluation/observability, improving resolution time 40% and satisfaction 25%, with a strong plan/execute/verify approach to agentic workflow reliability.”

“Backend-focused engineer at Wells Fargo owning production payments features end-to-end, including Spring Boot REST services, CI/CD + containerized AWS deployments, and CloudWatch-based observability. Has hands-on experience stabilizing high-traffic transaction workflows and building reliable ingestion/integration flows using idempotency, retries/backoff, and reconciliation.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across Python REST APIs and PostgreSQL, plus AWS containerized deployments using CloudFormation, Jenkins CI/CD, and CloudWatch monitoring/autoscaling. Has built data validation/ETL-style workflows with schema/version checks and targeted reprocessing, modernized legacy batch processing into Java services with phased parallel migrations, and delivered measurable SQL performance gains (~50% query runtime reduction).”

“Backend engineer with experience at Razorpay and Groww, focused on hardening high-throughput financial systems for reliability and low tail latency through incremental improvements (SQL/index tuning, Redis caching, timeouts, idempotency). Also built/refactored a commodity risk tracker using Supabase Auth + Postgres RLS for strict per-user isolation, with a strong emphasis on API contracts, observability, and safe migrations.”

“Software engineer with a CS/Computer Engineering background who has worked on ML/NLP (Hugging Face, clinical NLP, text generation and structured extraction) and has a school robotics project integrating a trained ML model with microprocessor-controlled hardware to drive motor movement and writing. Currently focused on building and deploying applications and ML models to AWS/Azure using Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD; targeting ~$150K compensation.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on ROS 2 localization/SLAM: built a particle-filter (Monte Carlo) localization system in Python with likelihood-field modeling to handle noisy LiDAR and dynamic environments. Strong in debugging ROS 2 integration issues (tf2 frame sync, DDS/QoS message reliability) and in profiling/optimizing pipelines to reach real-time performance (~10 Hz) using precomputation and KD-trees.”

“Backend engineer with experience evolving a real-time transaction and rewards processing platform from a tightly coupled architecture into domain-based microservices. Uses REST plus Kafka for synchronous vs. asynchronous workflows, and builds Python/FastAPI APIs with Pydantic contracts, Docker/Kubernetes deployments, and JWT/OAuth-based security; has also supported analytics/dashboard use cases (Power BI).”

“Built and deployed a fine-tuned Qwen 2.5 14B model into production at Dextr.ai as the backbone for hotel-operations agentic workflows, running on AWS EKS with Triton and TensorRT-LLM. Demonstrates strong cost-aware LLM engineering (QLoRA, FP8/BF16 on H100) plus rigorous benchmarking/observability (Prometheus, LangSmith) with reported sub-30ms TTNT. Previously handled long-running ETL orchestration with Airflow at GE Healthcare and Lowe's.”

“LLM/RAG engineer with production deployments in highly regulated domains (Frost Bank and GE Healthcare). Built secure, explainable document-grounded Q&A systems using LoRA fine-tuning, strict RAG with confidence thresholds, and citation-based responses; also established evaluation/monitoring (golden QA sets, hallucination tracking, drift) and achieved ~40% latency reduction through retrieval/prompt tuning.”

“Software engineer who built internal operations/monitoring dashboards for real-time trading and money-movement systems, emphasizing auditability and rapid iteration. Deep experience with microservices on Azure using Kafka/RabbitMQ, plus strong testing discipline (JUnit/Mockito/Testcontainers, contract/E2E) and observability patterns (correlation IDs, centralized logging, distributed tracing) to reduce incident triage time and improve resilience.”

“Full-stack engineer (5+ years with Java/Spring Boot and React) who has built and deployed AWS-based microservices platforms using Kafka for real-time rewards/promotions and large-scale telemetry analytics. Demonstrates hands-on scalability expertise (partitioning, consumer groups, durability/acks, idempotency) and production-minded delivery practices (CI/CD, Docker, testing, Swagger, monitoring).”

“Open-source JavaScript contributor focused on data visualization, extending Chart.js/React with custom plugins for real-time streaming dashboards. Designed an end-to-end telemetry pipeline using Apache Kafka and Azure Cosmos DB, optimizing partitioning, batching, caching, and client throttling to keep latency low and support thousands of concurrent users. Demonstrates strong ownership in fast-changing environments, including building full-stack AI applications and ingestion/ETL pipelines at Robotics Technologies LLC.”

“Full-stack engineer focused on enterprise, cloud-native microservices—building Spring Boot backends and React/Angular front ends with strong security (OAuth/JWT), AWS infrastructure (RDS/S3), and containerized deployments (Docker/Kubernetes). Has delivered data-heavy order/account/transaction platforms and healthcare solutions including EHR integrations for secure patient data exchange, with emphasis on testing, performance tuning, and reliability (load testing).”

“Built a production AI-driven contract/document extraction system combining OCR, normalization, and LLM schema-guided extraction, orchestrated with PySpark and Azure Data Factory and loaded into PostgreSQL for analytics. Emphasizes reliability at scale—using strict JSON schemas, confidence scoring, targeted retries, and multi-layer validation to control hallucinations while processing thousands of PDFs per hour—and partners closely with non-technical business teams to refine fields and deliver usable dashboards.”

“Frontend-focused engineer who built a reusable React component library (documented in Storybook) to standardize and speed up UI development across teams at Ikea, including a configurable, high-performance order list component. Also demonstrated end-to-end ownership in an unstructured environment at First Citizens Bank by defining API contracts and delivering backend services with caching and monitoring.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience building secure Python/Flask services (sessions, JWT, RBAC) and optimizing PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy performance, including custom SQL using CTEs/window functions profiled via EXPLAIN ANALYZE. Also integrates LLM features via OpenAI/Azure into backend systems and improves scalability with RabbitMQ-driven async processing, caching, and multi-tenant data isolation patterns.”

“Backend/DevOps-focused engineer with hands-on ownership of Java Spring Boot microservices on AWS, including Kubernetes deployments, Jenkins-based CI/CD, and GitOps-driven infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/Helm). Delivered measurable performance gains (25% faster APIs) and built a Kafka real-time streaming pipeline with strong observability (Prometheus/Grafana/CloudWatch) and rapid rollback practices that cut production downtime from hours to minutes.”

“AI/ML engineer focused on real-time, production-grade LLM systems, with a robotics-adjacent mindset around latency/accuracy tradeoffs and modular pipelines. Built a scalable RAG-based assistant orchestrated as microservices on Kubernetes with Kafka async messaging, ONNX/quantization optimizations, and monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana), citing a ~35% hallucination reduction; has also experimented with ROS Noetic/Gazebo to understand ROS concepts.”

“Backend/microservices engineer who built a Python (Flask/MySQL) data-processing microservice for an internal analytics platform and improved slow responses via query optimization and caching. Has hands-on Kubernetes experience on AWS EKS with GitLab CI/CD, plus GitOps workflows using Helm and ArgoCD. Also built a real-time Kafka order-event pipeline and supported a cloud-to-on-prem migration with standardized, containerized configuration and gradual traffic cutover.”