Vetted Apache Kafka Professionals

Nikhil Soni

Screened

Junior AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM systems and retrieval-augmented generation

New York, NY2y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered market intelligence and decision-support platform for noisy, real-time financial data, using a high-throughput embedding + vector DB RAG architecture to reduce hallucinations while keeping latency and cost low. Operated it at scale with GPU-backed inference (continuous batching/quantization), FastAPI on Kubernetes, and Airflow-orchestrated ingestion/embedding/retraining workflows, with strong schema-based reliability and monitoring.”

Aditya Jhaveri

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI, big data, and distributed systems

Jersey City, NJ3y exp

“Software Developer at NYU (GEMSS) focused on scaling and optimizing a data-heavy asset management web app, including migrating/optimizing data access via Google Sheets API and Firestore. Previously an SDE at Sainapse working on Spring Boot microservices POCs (Kafka, Hadoop at 2B+ record scale). Built an end-to-end Apple Wallet coupon generation/redemption system using PassKit + Google Apps Script with measurable ops impact (40% efficiency gain).”

Sanjana Duvva

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI, LLMOps, and MLOps

5y exp

“Built and deployed an AWS-based LLM/RAG ticket triage and knowledge retrieval system (Pinecone/FAISS + Step Functions + MLflow) that cut support resolution time by 20%. Demonstrates strong production focus on hallucination reduction, PII security, and low-latency orchestration, with measurable evaluation improvements (e.g., ~25% grounding accuracy gain via re-ranking) and proven collaboration with support operations stakeholders.”

Venkata Phaneendra

Screened

Mid-Level Java Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud-native microservices

United States6y exp

“Full-stack engineer with production ownership across React/TypeScript, Node/Express, and Postgres, including zero-downtime releases and rollbackable migrations. Demonstrated measurable performance wins (20% response-time reduction) through DB query profiling and batching, plus hands-on AWS operations (ECS/Lambda/CloudWatch) and reliability patterns for ETL (retries, DLQs, idempotency). Experience shipping microservices quickly in ambiguous, fast-paced environments (Deloitte).”

Jhansi Bendi

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and event-driven systems

Antioch, CA18y exp

“Senior engineer/tech lead with 18+ years building large-scale distributed applications, specializing in performance and reliability improvements. Recently owned multiple apps on an email personalization team, shipping major optimizations (including a push-update feature and audience-count architecture redesign) that reportedly lifted system performance from ~50% to ~99% while also leading code standards, reviews, and mentoring.”

Poojitha MaheshShyla

Screened

Mid-level Java Backend Developer specializing in cloud-native microservices

Sunnyvale, CA5y exp

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with Walmart experience building and operating high-volume media upload and processing systems. Strong in Java/Spring Boot, Postgres performance tuning (EXPLAIN/ANALYZE), and durable workflows using Kafka/Spring Batch with retries and idempotency, plus production ownership via monitoring and optimization; familiar with Next.js/TypeScript and modern React performance patterns.”

Manasa Mangipudi

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Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP and computer vision

3y exp

“AI/ML engineer with production experience building an LLM-powered resume-to-job matching and feedback product using RAG, with a strong focus on latency, hallucination control, and scalable deployment. Experienced orchestrating ML inference and backend services on Kubernetes and applying rigorous evaluation/guardrail practices; also partnered with business/product stakeholders at Walmart to improve an NLP-based supplier support system.”

“Data platform engineer focused on large-scale, real-time fraud systems, with hands-on ownership of streaming architectures using Kafka, Spark, Snowflake, and Databricks. Stands out for combining performance tuning and platform automation with LLM/RAG-based enrichment, delivering measurable gains in latency, fraud accuracy, false positives, and analyst decision speed.”

Harrishkumar Loganathan

Screened

Mid AI/Machine Learning Engineer specializing in FinTech and Generative AI

Remote, USA3y exp

“AI/ML engineer with hands-on ownership of enterprise LLM deployments at Freshworks, including a large-scale RAG chatbot serving 15,000+ users across six departments. Stands out for combining deep production engineering skills—AWS microservices, Kubernetes, observability, retrieval quality, and faithfulness evaluation—with strong cross-functional stakeholder leadership and prior large-scale fraud data pipeline experience at Socure.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of production GenAI and computer vision systems, spanning experimentation, deployment, monitoring, and iterative optimization. Stands out for shipping an enterprise RAG platform that cut manual review by 50% and a defect detection pipeline that reduced report generation from 15 minutes to under 1 second while maintaining high uptime and strong operational discipline.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong enterprise delivery experience across manufacturing and semiconductor use cases, owning deployments from discovery through post-launch support. Stands out for combining traditional product engineering with applied GenAI workflows and data pipeline reliability work, including a manufacturing app that reportedly saved a Fortune 500 customer about $6M and an AI chat panel adopted by 70% of pricing analysts.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of production computer vision, speech, and legal RAG systems. Notably improved a key-duplication CV pipeline enough to unblock commercial launch and remove specialist manual measurement, and also shipped a live Quran recitation detection feature for a product with 1M+ users.”

“Built a production AI-powered insights platform for marketing teams analyzing large-scale social and news data, combining Java microservices, Kafka, Spark, React, and LLM-based retrieval workflows. Stands out for shipping customer-facing AI features with measurable gains in accuracy and latency, plus solid reliability practices for high-volume backend systems.”

“Candidate takes a disciplined, developer-in-the-loop approach to AI-assisted coding, using AI primarily for brainstorming, suggestions, and optimization while retaining full ownership of architecture and final code decisions. They also actively stay current on AI developments through research papers, communities, and emerging tools.”

“State Street engineer who identifies operational pain points and turns them into high-impact internal platforms, including a service-health monitoring system and a Databricks log standardization pipeline used by 200+ users. Also experiments with practical LLM workflows, having built a Claude-based AI host that dramatically reduced facilitation time for a growing book club.”

“Founding engineer who has built web products end-to-end in startup settings, spanning FastAPI/React application development, auth, cloud deployment, and Kubernetes-based scaling. Particularly notable for designing custom GPU autoscaling for an AI-style recommendation product and later shipping workflow-driven healthcare support tooling using Temporal, Postgres, and modular backend logic.”

“Candidate brings practical GenAI engineering experience with a disciplined approach to AI-assisted development. They have designed lightweight multi-agent workflows for a RAG-based support copilot, including retrieval, relevance validation, response generation, and groundedness checks to reduce hallucinations.”

“Senior engineering leader with deep hands-on experience scaling and stabilizing complex SaaS platforms, including leading the OneLogin identity platform and managing globally distributed teams of up to 105 people. Particularly strong in reliability engineering, infrastructure modernization, and cross-functional execution, with a track record spanning platform unification, enterprise product delivery, and tailored Agile transformations.”

“Engineering leader with hands-on AI/ML systems experience spanning production inference infrastructure and consumer-facing LLM products. At Jio, they led a 17-person AI features team and delivered measurable execution gains, including 40% faster deployments and 35% lower prediction latency, while also building an end-to-end RAG-based meal recommendation product using OpenAI and Gemini.”

“Senior product and technology leader with 23+ years of experience driving modernization in complex enterprise finance and operations environments. He stands out for turning legacy, paper-based or fragmented systems into scalable digital products—cutting a warranty claims process from 30 days to near-instant and using AI to improve service efficiency and reduce testing effort by 30%+. Strong C-suite-facing operator who bridges strategy, architecture, UX, and organizational change.”

“Full-stack engineer who has built both a TypeScript-based HR/payroll platform and a production agentic AI support system end to end. Stands out for combining strong product judgment with deep LLM systems thinking: RAG architecture, confidence-based routing, evals, observability, and human-in-the-loop design in a greenfield environment.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with PayPal experience building payment orchestration, settlement, and merchant risk systems at production scale. Stands out for combining cloud-native AWS delivery, database/query performance tuning, and reliability work in event-driven microservices, including a monolith-to-microservices migration that doubled deployment frequency and cut incident response time by 40%.”

Manoj Shinde

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud-native AI and FinTech systems

San Francisco, CA9y exp

“Full-stack engineer who has owned customer-facing reporting products end to end and also helped ship MemberGPT, an AI assistant for financial users. Brings a practical mix of React/TypeScript and Java/Spring Boot experience, plus hands-on LLM integration, retrieval grounding, evaluation, and production monitoring in a higher-trust financial context.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-based PDF extraction pipeline for Medicaid policy documents by fine-tuning Gemini Flash 2.0 and deploying via Vertex AI, adding validation/guardrails to improve trust and reliability. Also built and scaled a SaaS platform (cnotes) for cable operators and regularly partners with customers and sales teams through interactive demos, rapid iteration, and real-time workflow debugging.”