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Vetted Apache Kafka Professionals
Pre-screened and vetted.
Sudhan Louis
Director of Enterprise Architecture specializing in digital transformation, AI, and API strategy
“Hands-on architect/technology leader who builds prototypes (including Agentic AI wellness/biomarkers) and then scales teams to execute. Led a ~$400M global e-commerce transformation spanning 95 countries with active-active US/EU multi-region resilience, microservices/MFE (MACH), and strong security patterns (service mesh + API gateway + Ping Identity), plus modern data foundations (customer hub/MDM/Snowflake, data fabric/medallion).”
Sachin Reddy Kunta
Mid-Level Backend Software Engineer specializing in payments, fraud systems, and AI agent infrastructure
“Early-career engineer who owned an end-to-end objective assessment/coding contest platform at an edtech startup, using Postgres + S3 and Redis (queues + ZSET) to decouple and scale code submission processing with worker sandboxes. Also implemented idempotency controls and set up monitoring and CI/CD while the rest of the team focused on curriculum.”
Eduardo Diaz
Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Python, FastAPI/Django, and Azure
“Backend/data engineer with production experience building real-time IoT telemetry pipelines for wind/solar assets at Siemens (FastAPI on Azure Event Hubs/Service Bus, Cosmos DB + SQL Server) and deploying GPS/fleet telematics microservices on AWS ECS Fargate with Terraform and blue/green CI/CD. Demonstrated strong reliability and performance chops, including a 30s-to-<100ms SQL optimization and owning a Kafka pipeline incident resolved in ~20 minutes.”
Qice Sun
Junior GenAI Software Engineer specializing in multimodal RAG and agentic workflows
“AI/LLM engineer with production experience building a multimodal RAG agent for Walmart driver support, combining hybrid retrieval (dense+BM25) and fine-tuned Llama 3 served via vLLM on Azure AKS to reach sub-second latency. Drove measurable impact (25% fewer escalations, 60% lower token costs, 33% lower storage costs) and also built Kafka-based microservices that cut batch runtime from 2 hours to 15 minutes and reduced DB load by 80%.”
Krishna Kodur
Mid-level Robotics & AI Researcher specializing in human-robot interaction and reinforcement learning
“Robotics software engineer who built an end-to-end mobile manipulation platform (Franka Panda on a Clearpath Ridgeback) for a simulated-kitchen human-robot interaction study with natural speech commands, implemented in Python/ROS. Has hands-on experience integrating diverse sensors (RealSense, LiDAR, biosignals) with deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, Hugging Face) and fine-tuning GPT-Neo, plus simulation (Gazebo) and modern deployment practices (Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD).”
Abhay Ravi Kumar
Junior Software Engineer specializing in backend, cloud DevOps, and ML/NLP
“DevOps/data-automation professional with HPE experience who has deployed containerized microservices to AWS EKS and built an end-to-end observability stack (Prometheus/Grafana/CloudWatch via Terraform), reporting zero-downtime deployments and ~40% faster incident response. Also extends Python ETL automation for procurement/operations teams (rules engine, validation, performance tuning) and bridges SAP ERP data into Power BI/Qlik dashboards through close on-site user collaboration.”
Pandari G
Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in Generative AI and RAG systems
“GenAI/LLM engineer with production deployments in both fintech and retail: built an AI-powered mortgage document analysis/automated underwriting pipeline at Fannie Mae (OCR + custom LLM) cutting underwriting review from 3–4 hours to under an hour with privacy-by-design controls. Also helped build Sephora’s GenAI product advisory bot using LangChain-orchestrated RAG (Azure GPT-4, Azure AI Search, MySQL HeatWave vector search), focusing on grounding, evaluation, and compliance-aware architecture choices.”
Sanat Ahuja
Senior Engineering Manager specializing in platform, data/ML, and identity/access systems
“Senior engineering leader from Goodyear’s AndGo startup-like division who scaled the org from 12 to 30+ across pod-based teams and introduced an Architect Guild/ARD governance model. Led a 4-month Europe launch requiring AWS regional infrastructure, GDPR compliance, i18n/l10n, and new EMEA reporting pipelines, and has hands-on depth in API performance, incident response, and GraphQL/Hasura adoption to boost product velocity.”
Ravi Ada
Executive CTO specializing in digital health platforms, cloud & AI, and FHIR/HL7 interoperability
“Healthcare diagnostics/health tech founder building Casandra.ai, an API-driven lab test catalog and ordering platform designed to standardize fragmented test catalogs and integrate into provider workflows via FHIR. Bootstrapped and built a deploy-ready product, drawing on prior startup experience and accelerator participation (Health Box, DreamIt Ventures).”
Biswajit Dash
Senior Platform/DevOps Engineer specializing in CI/CD and Observability
“DevOps engineer focused on CI/CD who built and productionized LLM/MCP-based chat agents integrated into Cisco Webex to help developers troubleshoot PRs and pipelines via GitHub/Jenkins data. Strong in operationalizing agentic systems with observability (OpenTelemetry/Grafana), user-scoped rate limiting, and Kubernetes-based scaling, and has presented demos on agent SDK capabilities and DORA metrics dashboards.”
Shram Kadia
Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems, cloud-native apps, and AI platforms
“Backend/full-stack engineer who has owned production systems end-to-end, including a Dockerized Node.js/TypeScript probabilistic fault-tree analysis service for nuclear safety research deployed on AWS. Also built and operated a FastAPI-based RAG pipeline over 200+ PDFs using FAISS, focusing on low-latency, idempotent workflows and strong observability; experienced with API design and Playwright E2E automation across React/Angular projects.”
Sushma Mangalampati
Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in lakehouse ETL and analytics engineering
“Data engineer with strong end-to-end ownership of production lakehouse pipelines (Snowflake + Databricks + Airflow + dbt + Great Expectations), handling 8M+ records/month and 500K+ daily CDC updates. Delivered measurable reliability and efficiency gains (41% cost reduction, freshness improved from 4h to 30m, 35% fewer downstream incidents) and has experience building a lakehouse platform from scratch across 12 source systems.”
Yash Rangucha
Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend microservices and real-time streaming
“Built and owned an end-to-end LLM-powered enterprise retrieval pipeline at ServiceNow, spanning ingestion of structured/semi-structured sources through vector retrieval and real-time API serving. Focused heavily on reliability and quality (multi-stage validation, monitoring, evaluation pipelines) while also driving performance improvements (~35% faster responses) via caching, async processing, and SQL/query optimization.”
Adam Safran
Engineering Director specializing in platform modernization, microservices, and cloud reliability
“Former founder (ran a custom web development shop in Los Angeles) with extensive startup experience and a solid working understanding of the VC ecosystem. Helped build and scale a team at Turo from founding member to ~10 people, and is motivated by ownership, impact, and originating ideas—interested in the venture studio model and disciplined about rapid validation and execution.”
Kishore Koduri
Director-level Enterprise Architecture leader specializing in AI and platform transformation
“Entrepreneurial candidate with deep technology expertise who has already acted as a founder/principal across a real estate venture and early-stage tech startups. Most notably, they raised approximately $1-2M for a real estate project and describe hands-on ownership from ideation and business case development through ROI validation and investor commitment.”
Yeshwanth Vudugu
Mid-level Data Analyst specializing in banking and product analytics
“Analytics engineer/data analyst with Bank of America experience turning fragmented financial data across SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Kafka, and flat files into trusted Snowflake/dbt reporting models. Stands out for unifying disputed business definitions like churn and payment success rate, automating manual analysis in Python, and pairing strong data quality rigor with stakeholder adoption through self-service dashboards.”
Jamie Cook
Senior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in AI search and recommendation systems
“Built internal production LLM tools for engineering and support, including a customer-health assistant and a RAG-based incident explainer grounded in logs, metrics, and deploy data. Stands out for combining strong GenAI safety/evaluation practices with pragmatic backend engineering, delivering measurable impact like a 40% drop in data-help requests and answers in seconds instead of minutes or hours.”
Venkata Revanth Vardineni
Entry-level Software Developer specializing in full-stack and AI systems
“Currently at Berryble AI, this candidate is building an LLM-based real-time interview analysis engine using FastAPI, WebSockets, fine-tuned models, and GCP/Cloud Run. They stand out for using AI and agent workflows pragmatically to accelerate development while keeping human ownership over architecture, security, reliability, and maintainability, and they are also pursuing a master's in applied machine learning.”
Hari Shankar Raghuraman
Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in scalable ML, NLP, and MLOps
“ML/AI engineer with strong production depth across classical ML, MLOps, LLM/RAG, and scalable Python data platforms, with experience at Cisco and Accenture. Stands out for tying technical decisions to measurable business outcomes, including $1.2M annual savings, 40% faster support resolution, and broad internal adoption of shared engineering frameworks.”
Akhil Nakka
Mid-level Software Developer specializing in FinTech and cloud-native microservices
“Full Stack Engineer in fintech (JPMorgan) who owns products end-to-end across React UIs and Spring Boot/Kafka backends, with a strong track record of shipping quickly while maintaining reliability via testing, monitoring, and feature flags. Has hands-on experience scaling microservices for high-volume transactions and debugging production latency using ELK/CloudWatch, plus built an internal Python/Flask automation tool adopted by backend engineers to speed API validation and debugging.”
sri venkata naga jahnavi Bandla
Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in cybersecurity and fraud analytics
“AI/ML engineer with production experience across both classical ML and Generative AI, including a real-time banking fraud detection platform at Deloitte and a RAG-based cybersecurity threat analysis feature at Accenture. Stands out for owning systems end-to-end—from feature pipelines and model tuning through deployment, monitoring, retraining, and API/platform reliability—with measurable impact on fraud accuracy, false positives, and SOC analyst efficiency.”
Shreyas Bhoyar
Junior Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and AI-powered platforms
“Built production-scale dashboards and real-time data systems across fintech and autonomous driving, with hands-on ownership from React frontend architecture through Python/Kafka/Elasticsearch backend pipelines. At Zoox, led development of an automated safety signal attribution platform that replaced manual engineering calculations and surfaced trends through dashboards.”
Saumya Pailwan
Junior Software Engineer specializing in applied AI and audio ML
“Engineer with unusually mature experience leading AI-assisted development, including orchestrating multiple coding agents across a data pipeline feature as if managing a small engineering team. Stands out for balancing aggressive adoption of AI tools with disciplined judgment around architecture, security, and merge quality, and for translating that experience into stronger tech leadership.”
Wilson Arockiasamy
Principal Software Engineer specializing in real-time streaming and cloud-native data platforms
“Built and shipped a production LLM feature that converts natural-language search requests into Lucene queries for OpenSearch-backed device event data, improving usability for non-technical users. Brings hands-on experience across the full stack of agentic systems: model training, FastAPI/React integration, Kubernetes deployment on AWS, event-driven orchestration with NATS/Kafka, and production-grade evaluation/observability.”