Vetted Argo CD Professionals

“Fintech startup veteran (8+ years) building TrustRelay, a control-plane product between ERPs and banks to verify vendors, enforce pre-flight payout policies, automate reconciliation, and produce deterministic audit evidence. Currently at MVP stage and planning to pursue Founders Institute Boston Sprint 2026 while lining up design partners and raising pre-seed/seed.”

“Deloitte engineer who built and shipped AI-powered, Kafka-driven workflow automation for transportation/document processing, including LLM-based semantic search. Strong in production reliability (idempotency, offset management, retries), observability (Datadog/CloudWatch), and database performance tuning (PostgreSQL/Flyway), with measurable latency improvements.”

“Azure cloud platform engineer with strong enterprise Linux operations background who designs multi-region HA/DR on Azure (and AWS) using Azure Site Recovery, Traffic Manager, AKS autoscaling, and geo-replicated Azure SQL. Built secure Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for .NET/Python microservices to AKS/VMs and provisions full environments via Terraform modules with remote state, drift checks, and staged rollouts; has not directly owned IBM Power/AIX at scale.”

“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.”

“Cloud-focused platform/infrastructure engineer centered on AWS and Kubernetes, with hands-on experience building EKS environments via Terraform/Terragrunt, bootstrapping clusters with Cilium and ArgoCD, and integrating persistent storage and backup tooling like EFS/EBS CSI and Velero. While no longer focused on on-prem or hybrid operations, they also bring prior VMware/Hyper-V and migration-to-AWS experience, making them strongest in modern cloud platform engineering roles.”

“Engineer with a process-driven approach to AI-assisted software development, focused on orchestrating where AI adds value while maintaining human review and verification. Has applied this in backend work such as an S3-based invoice pipeline and used multi-agent workflows to speed up large API refactors across many endpoints.”

“Enterprise platform engineering leader who identified platform engineering as a major opportunity at Kyndryl and built an entire internal practice around it by codifying the offering and evangelizing it across leadership. Now exploring founding an agentic AI developer platform aimed at reducing variance and improving consistency in building/deploying cloud-native applications; has not raised capital yet.”

“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.”

“Backend engineer who has delivered large, measurable performance wins (10x throughput, 67% latency reduction) by combining Flask microservices, Redis caching, and AWS autoscaling/observability. Has hands-on depth in SQLAlchemy/Postgres optimization and production scaling pitfalls (cache consistency, connection exhaustion), plus experience deploying real-time ML inference (XGBoost) on AWS Lambda and building secure multi-tenant Kubernetes isolation.”

Harshitha Parupalli

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in multi-cloud real-time and batch data pipelines

Jersey City, NJ4y exp

“Data engineer with healthcare domain experience who owned 100M+ record pipelines end-to-end (Kafka/Kinesis/ADF → PySpark/dbt validation → Spark SQL transforms → Snowflake/Power BI serving). Built production-grade reliability practices (Airflow orchestration, CloudWatch/Grafana monitoring, pytest + contract/regression tests, idempotent ingestion/backfills) and delivered measurable improvements: 35% lower latency and 40% better query performance.”

Ashwitha Reddy

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Java/Spring microservices and AWS

Ohio, United States3y exp

“Backend/platform engineer who has owned a real-time business analytics dashboard backend (Python/Flask/MongoDB) and built Kafka event-streaming pipelines with idempotent processing and DLQs. Strong DevOps/GitOps experience deploying containerized microservices to AWS EKS with CI/CD (Jenkins/GitHub Actions/CodePipeline) and ArgoCD auto-sync/drift detection, plus hands-on support for phased hybrid cloud/on-prem migrations using feature flags and replication.”

Mukul Sai Pendem

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and DevOps

United States (Remote)4y exp

“Backend engineer with strong Python/FastAPI microservices ownership, including an ML-serving service with embeddings, async DB access, and Redis caching to reduce latency under high load. Experienced deploying and operating containerized services on Kubernetes using GitOps (Argo CD/Helm) with automated CI/CD, plus hands-on Kafka streaming pipeline tuning and enterprise migration work (Infosys) using blue-green/active-passive strategies.”

“Developer with experience across Drupal and Java/Spring Boot applications using React/jQuery for UI and API-driven features. Has handled production issues by tuning reverse proxy timeouts for login problems and troubleshooting data pipeline inaccuracies by fixing database queries, with a focus on performance and careful verification before changes.”

“Cloud/Kubernetes-focused production engineer with experience running 99.95% uptime platforms across AWS/Azure/GCP. Strong in incident response and performance troubleshooting (including a 30% MTTR reduction), and in building secure CI/CD and Terraform-based IaC for AKS/GKE microservices with robust change controls and rollback practices. Notably does not have direct IBM Power/AIX/VIOS/HMC or PowerHA/HACMP ownership.”

Sai Kondapaka

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in microservices, data pipelines, and FinTech fraud detection

Remote, USA5y exp

“Backend engineer with PayPal experience owning a high-throughput, low-latency fraud detection pipeline processing billions of transactions/day, integrating LLM-based models into real-time Kafka streams and payment decisioning APIs. Strong Kubernetes + GitOps practitioner (declarative, auditable deployments; autoscaling/probe tuning) with migration experience modernizing legacy systems onto AKS/OpenShift.”

Sreelekha Vuppala

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in Generative AI, MLOps, and cloud data platforms

USA4y exp

“GenAI/ML engineer (CitiusTech) who has deployed production RAG systems for compliance/operations document Q&A, using Pinecone + FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes with strong monitoring and guardrails. Also built a GenAI-powered incident triage/routing solution in collaboration with non-technical stakeholders, achieving 35% faster response times and 40% fewer misclassified tickets, and has hands-on orchestration experience with Airflow and AutoSys.”

Navindu Jayatilake

Screened

DevOps Technical Lead specializing in Kubernetes, AWS, and platform engineering

Colombo, Sri Lanka6y exp

“Sri Lanka–based DevOps/Platform engineer focused on Kubernetes and AWS who has led real production incidents and recoveries (network-policy-induced asymmetric routing; node pool failure due to CNI upgrade). Built production CI/CD with GitHub Actions (ephemeral self-hosted runners on EKS), ArgoCD, Vault, and Terraform, and led a phased ECS-to-EKS migration including Kafka consumers and MongoDB Atlas private endpoints.”

Sanket Dumbare

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and FinTech platforms

USA3y exp

“Backend/platform engineer who led an end-to-end Python (FastAPI) transaction analytics microservice for real-time financial monitoring, including SQS ingestion, scoring/aggregation, and low-latency APIs. Strong AWS + Kubernetes/GitOps background (EKS, ArgoCD, Jenkins, ECS/ECR, CloudWatch) with hands-on experience scaling event-driven systems and executing phased on-prem to AWS migrations.”

Sanket Mungikar

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and real-time analytics

California, USA5y exp

“Full-stack engineer at BigCommerce who combines customer-facing deployment ownership with hands-on AI/LLM systems work. Built and launched merchant analytics and predictive inventory workflows using React, TypeScript, FastAPI, Kafka, AWS, and RAG-style architectures, and has real production experience debugging non-deterministic AI issues caused by data pipeline freshness and event-ordering problems.”

“Backend engineer who designed and evolved an AWS-based event-processing system in Python/PostgreSQL, achieving a 60% p95 latency reduction while improving reliability during traffic spikes. Led a zero-downtime migration from a monolithic Django app to FastAPI microservices using feature flags, strong testing, and cross-team coordination, with production-grade observability (Prometheus/Grafana/CloudWatch) and security (JWT/OAuth2, RBAC, Postgres RLS).”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered calorie-counting chatbot that turns plain-English meal descriptions into normalized food entities, quantities, and calorie estimates using a hybrid transformer + rule-engine pipeline. Emphasizes reliability with schema/constraint guardrails, confidence-based routing (including embedding similarity search fallbacks), and strong observability/metrics (hallucination rate, calibration, latency, cost). Partnered closely with nutritionists to encode domain standards into mappings and validation logic.”

“Backend/platform engineer who owned a real-time customer analytics microservice stack in Python/FastAPI with Kafka streaming into PostgreSQL, including schema enforcement (Avro) and high-throughput optimizations. Strong Kubernetes + GitOps practitioner (EKS/GKE, Helm, Argo CD) who has handled CI/CD reliability issues with automated pre-deploy checks and rollbacks, and supported major migrations (on-prem to AWS; VM to EKS) with blue-green cutover planning.”

Saicharitha Yanamandala

Screened

Mid-Level Software Developer specializing in Java, Cloud, and Microservices

Chicago, IL6y exp

“Backend/Python engineer who owned an end-to-end FastAPI + AWS internal natural-language document Q&A system (Textract extraction, embeddings/vector DB, LLM integration) with strong focus on reliability and latency. Hands-on with Kubernetes + GitOps (Argo CD, Helm, rolling updates/auto-rollback) and built/optimized Kafka streaming pipelines using Prometheus/Grafana. Also supported a zero-downtime on-prem to cloud migration with parallel run and gradual traffic cutover.”

Rishabh Goyal

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in Java/Spring and React

USA6y exp

“Python backend engineer focused on real-time e-commerce analytics systems, building FastAPI + Kafka microservices with strong idempotent processing patterns (Postgres upserts, manual offsets, Redis caching). Has hands-on Kubernetes (EKS) and GitOps delivery with Argo CD/GitHub Actions, plus experience migrating containerized services from on-prem VMs to AWS using Terraform and blue-green cutovers.”