Vetted Apache Maven Professionals

Petrus Breedt

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and telecom platforms

Lake Forest, IL17y exp

“Engineer with deep telecom and platform experience who helped build a startup product from a 10-person company through growth to acquisition, contributing architecture, coding, and Docker-based scaling. Strong in Go, Java, TypeScript/React, and event-driven systems, with hands-on experience building high-throughput mobile operator platforms and healthcare claims integrations under real production load.”

Naveen Chokkakula

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Senior Golang Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud-native microservices

Texas, USA5y exp

“Software engineer with experience at UWorld and Infosys, focused on full-stack product delivery and backend reliability. Stands out for owning analytics/onboarding experiences end-to-end while also building resilient distributed systems, reusable service primitives, and safe multi-tenant configuration guardrails.”

“Backend/platform engineer with payments and insurance domain experience (Cognizant), owning high-volume production systems end-to-end. Shipped a Spring Boot payment tokenization service with strong observability and phased migration that cut transaction latency ~30% and improved payment efficiency ~25%. Also productionized an ML-driven financial health/risk analytics pipeline with near real-time dashboards across 70+ schools, emphasizing interpretability, data quality, and drift monitoring.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who builds and operates Spring Boot microservices with React/TypeScript frontends, using Kafka/RabbitMQ for event-driven workflows. Created an internal ops dashboard for Support/SRE with tracing, alert correlation, and self-serve actions, improving MTTR and reducing escalations while maintaining regulatory-grade reliability and security.”

“Built and deployed a production AI document Q&A (RAG) platform that lets non-technical users query hundreds of PDFs/Word files, cutting search time from hours to seconds. Experienced with scaling retrieval pipelines (chunking, embeddings, vector search, batching/caching) and orchestrating reliable workflows using AWS Step Functions/Airflow with robust retries, monitoring, and fallbacks.”

“Healthcare-focused ML/AI engineer who has built clinical note summarization and medical image annotation solutions using LLMs, RAG, and multimodal models. They combine experimentation across major model providers with practical production concerns like monitoring, drift detection, and latency/cost tradeoffs, and also earned 2nd place in a Google hackathon for a medical AI assistant.”

“Built and launched a production AI knowledge assistant at Virtusa used by 8,000 people, combining RAG, tool use, and strong reliability practices to cut lookup time by 60%. Also owns full-stack delivery, including a real-time transaction monitoring dashboard built with React, Spring Boot, and Kafka handling 200K API requests per day.”

Sasi Kanduri

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Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and workflow platforms

Sacramento, CA7y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong React and Python backend depth who has owned complex analytical products end-to-end, from performant UIs to FastAPI services, SQLAlchemy data models, Redis caching, and production observability. Particularly compelling is their 0→1 automation work in the water systems domain, where they built Airflow- and LLM-powered workflows that reduced manual notification and correction work by 90%.”

“Backend engineer with deep experience modernizing a provider credentialing/compliance platform with multiple upstream/downstream integrations. Focused on building predictable, scalable REST APIs (primarily ASP.NET Core; framework-agnostic approach applicable to FastAPI), improving performance via DB/query optimization, and hardening workflows with idempotency, transactions, feature flags, and strong auth/RBAC patterns.”

“Full-stack engineer focused on data-heavy platforms, building Spring Boot microservices and Angular/React dashboards end-to-end. Has hands-on experience improving large-scale API and UI performance (including cutting 8–10s response times) and ensuring cross-service consistency using Kafka, idempotent consumers, and strong validation/transaction patterns on AWS with CI/CD and observability (Prometheus/ELK).”

“LLM/RAG-focused engineer who repeatedly takes agentic workflows from impressive demos to dependable production using rigorous evals, SLOs, and deep observability. Has led high-impact incident mitigation (22-minute MTTR during a major sale) and developer enablement workshops, and partnered with sales to close a $410k ARR enterprise deal with a tailored RAG pilot (FastAPI/pgvector/Okta/InfoSec-ready).”

“Backend-focused TypeScript/Node.js engineer who owned a production microservice for transactional workflows in a React + microservices platform, integrating REST and Kafka event processing. Emphasizes operability and correctness (idempotency keys, exponential backoff retries, DLQs, centralized logging/metrics/alerts) plus strong API DX via versioning and Swagger/OpenAPI with improved error contracts based on developer feedback.”

Raghavendra Dubey

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Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in Java microservices and cloud-native systems

CA, USA5y exp

“Enterprise workflow/product engineer (DXC) who owned a customer-facing workflow application for 500+ users and improved performance ~30% through API/SQL optimization, caching, and CI/CD-backed iteration. Experienced designing React/TypeScript + Java/Spring Boot systems and operating microservices with RabbitMQ/Kafka-style messaging, emphasizing reliability via DLQs, backpressure, and strong observability. Also built an internal automation dashboard adopted by support/ops teams to cut manual work and reduce SLA misses.”

Ashritha G

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Mid-Level Software Development Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud microservices

USA3y exp

“Software engineer with enterprise, customer-facing delivery experience across Outlier AI and Wipro—builds and productionizes workflow and integration solutions with a strong focus on real-world performance and reliability. Delivered a Firestore/Redis-backed real-time pipeline that cut page load times by 20% and held consistent performance across 10,000+ sessions, and has hands-on production incident experience stabilizing high-traffic microservices via caching, indexing, and safe canary deployments.”

“Built a production LLM/RAG document extraction and game/quiz content workflow using LLaMA 2, LangChain/LangGraph, and FAISS, achieving ~94% accuracy and reducing turnaround from hours to minutes. Demonstrates strong applied MLOps/orchestration (CI/CD, MLflow, Databricks/PySpark), robust handling of noisy/variable document layouts (layout chunking + OCR fallbacks), and practical reliability practices (human-in-the-loop routing, drift monitoring, A/B testing).”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience in financial payroll, tax, and compensation platforms, building Python microservices and AWS-based data pipelines for high-volume, peak-driven workloads. Strong reliability focus (OAuth2 auth, retries/timeouts, structured logging, incident response) and proven performance wins, including cutting complex report queries from ~8 minutes to under 30 seconds.”

“DevOps engineer (State Farm) with hands-on ownership of Python backend services and data pipelines, deploying microservices and workers on Kubernetes using GitOps (Argo CD). Has led complex cloud-to-on-prem/hybrid migrations with staged cutovers and rollback planning, and built Kafka-based real-time streaming pipelines with schema governance, autoscaling, and strong observability.”

Yash Prakashbhai Shah

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Senior Backend Software Engineer specializing in Java, microservices, and cloud infrastructure

Santa Clara, CA6y exp

“Backend/platform engineer at Aryaka Networks who built a centralized resiliency and security Spring Boot library to standardize Keycloak RBAC and fault-tolerance across 25+ Kubernetes-migrated microservices. Uses profiling and observability (Prometheus/Grafana) to drive measurable performance and reliability gains (25% faster APIs, 70% faster environment setup) and accelerates adoption via golden-path starter repos and Swagger/OpenAPI live docs.”

Saswata Deb

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Mid Backend Engineer specializing in AI systems and LLM infrastructure

India4y exp

“Early-to-growth-stage B2B SaaS engineer from Sentisum who combined Python backend, data pipeline, and applied AI work with direct customer-facing product input. Particularly compelling for startup roles: they owned systems end-to-end, migrated transcription infrastructure to cut costs by ~93%, and built scalable async export and data-processing workflows over large enterprise conversation datasets.”

“Software engineer (Alpine Bank) focused on modernizing high-traffic customer-facing systems with React/TypeScript frontends and Spring Boot microservices. Has hands-on experience stabilizing and scaling event-driven architectures with Kafka (idempotent consumers, partitioning, retry queues) and building internal observability dashboards that materially sped up post-deployment verification and improved release confidence.”

Sharanya Rao

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Mid-level Backend & Blockchain Engineer specializing in Cosmos SDK and EVM

Remote, USA4y exp

“Built and productionized an LLM+RAG lending assistant on AWS to help loan officers quickly answer questions from credit policies and prior decisions, tackling hallucinations with retrieval-only responses and a no-context fallback. Also automated end-to-end ETL and model retraining/deployment using Apache Airflow, and has experience translating clinical stakeholder needs (doctors/care managers) into ML features, metrics, and dashboards.”

“AI/automation-focused implementation engineer who has owned customer-facing LLM deployments end-to-end, spanning support automation, lead outreach, and messy document-processing workflows. Stands out for combining hands-on technical depth in Python/OpenAI/RAG systems with measurable business impact, including cutting support resolution time from 24 hours to 6 hours and reducing manual outreach work by 60%.”

“Backend engineer experienced in evolving high-scale legacy on-prem systems into cloud-native, event-driven microservices on AWS/Kubernetes (noted peak traffic ~1.5M QPS). Strong focus on reliability engineering and operational excellence—SLO-driven observability, GitOps/canary rollouts, chaos testing, and preventing cascading failures (e.g., retry-storm mitigation).”

“Built and owned invoice automation and alerting products at Neuralix, automating multi-site electricity invoice ingestion from PDFs into validated JSON with strict schema enforcement and LLM-based validation (reported ~98% compliance). Delivered zero-manual processing at 200+ invoices/month and ~5x faster throughput, and designed a domain-driven alert lifecycle to reduce noisy notifications and improve operational response.”