Vetted Azure Kubernetes Service Professionals

Vigneshwari Shankiri

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Java Full-Stack Developer specializing in microservices and cloud platforms

5y exp

“Frontend engineer who has led enterprise-scale UI delivery end-to-end on a microservices platform, designing modular Angular SPAs (v12-17) tightly aligned to Spring Boot REST APIs. Emphasizes quality and release velocity through layered testing (Karma/Jasmine), CI/CD automation (Jenkins/Azure DevOps), performance tuning with RxJS/lazy loading, and incremental rollouts with close product/design/QA collaboration.”

Nithin Reddy

Screened

Mid-Level Software Development Engineer specializing in distributed systems and event-driven architectures

Santa Clara, California4y exp

“Built and maintained an internal JavaScript/React real-time event monitoring UI used by multiple Goldman Sachs teams (e.g., Private Wealth Management and Bulk Trading Systems). Focused on scaling performance under hundreds of events/sec—using profiling, memoization, batching, and debouncing—and paired it with strong internal documentation and disciplined incident diagnosis via synthetic load testing and logs/metrics.”

“Backend engineer at Cerebrone.ai building cloud-native Flask microservices for an AI-driven automation platform on GCP (Cloud Run/App Engine), including dedicated inference services integrating OpenAI and internal ML pipelines. Demonstrated strong performance and scalability wins across Postgres/SQLAlchemy optimization, multi-tenant (healthcare/HIPAA-grade) data isolation, and high-throughput background processing with Celery/Redis/RabbitMQ, with multiple quantified latency/CPU/throughput 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.”

“Cloud/platform engineer with hands-on ownership of AWS EKS Kubernetes platforms built and upgraded via Terraform, including AWS networking/security, EBS/EFS/S3 storage integration, and reliability validation through CloudWatch plus Prometheus/Grafana. Also has on-prem VMware/vSphere administration experience and day-to-day hybrid on-prem-to-AWS operations (VPN/Direct Connect), with examples of resolving pod instability from an application memory leak and fixing a production connectivity drop via routing/firewall troubleshooting.”

Arjun Masadi

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud-native FinTech and Healthcare platforms

Remote, USA3y exp

“Full-stack engineer (3+ years) who owned an AI-powered customer financial health dashboard end-to-end at Regions Bank, combining React/Java Spring Boot with LangChain + Pinecone for personalized insights. Strong production operations experience on AWS EKS with CI/CD and observability (OpenTelemetry/Prometheus/Grafana), delivering measurable outcomes including 22% support reduction and 99.9% uptime, plus robust third-party financial/clinical integrations.”

Sravanti Dandu

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Mid-level Cloud Engineer specializing in AWS & Azure infrastructure automation

Arizona, USA6y exp

“Backend/platform engineer (American Express) who built a Flask-based orchestration layer to automate infrastructure provisioning and integrated Azure AD/JWT RBAC security. Strong in PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy performance optimization (70%+ query-time reduction) and scalable async/event-driven architectures, including ML inference pipelines (SageMaker/Azure ML/Hugging Face) and high-throughput job queues (Celery/Redis) with reliability patterns like DLQs and idempotency.”

Vinay K Naidu

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in Healthcare IT and FinTech

5y exp

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered incident assistant integrated with monitoring, logs, and metrics systems that reduced triage time by 30–40% and improved MTTR. Stands out for a strong reliability-first approach to agent design, including deterministic orchestration, strict schemas, fallback flows, grounding checks, and safeguards for messy operational data.”

“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 engineer who built an e-commerce order processing service in Python/Flask with PostgreSQL, focusing on correctness and reliability (idempotency, Redis locks, async payment processing with circuit breakers). Also integrated an ML recommendation system as a separate FastAPI inference service with caching and async embedding updates, reporting ~25% CTR lift, and has experience with multi-tenant isolation using PostgreSQL row-level security.”

“Full-stack Java developer with IBM and Epic Systems experience modernizing legacy enterprise apps into microservices and delivering customer-facing healthcare claims workflows at very high scale (2M+ transactions/day). Strong blend of product engineering (APIs + React/TypeScript UI) and production operations on AWS, including performance incident remediation via query optimization, indexing, and autoscaling.”

“GenAI/ML engineer who has shipped production agentic systems in highly regulated and high-throughput environments, including an AWS Bedrock-based fraud/compliance workflow at U.S. Bank with PII redaction and hallucination detection that cut investigation time by 50%+. Also built and evaluated RAG and recommendation systems at Target, using RAGAS-driven testing, hybrid retrieval with re-ranking, and SHAP explainability dashboards to align model behavior with merchandising business KPIs.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered internal operations automation platform using LangChain RAG (Pinecone) and FastAPI microservices, deployed on AWS EKS, serving 10k+ daily interactions. Implemented a rigorous evaluation/observability stack (golden datasets, prompt regression tests, MLflow, retrieval metrics, hallucination monitoring) that drove hallucinations below 2% and improved reliability, and partnered closely with non-technical ops leaders to cut manual lookup work by 60%+.”

“Backend/platform engineer who has owned end-to-end production systems in financial/claims domains, including a transaction analytics microservice platform processing ~10M daily operations and cutting latency from ~150ms to <70ms. Also productionized an LLM-powered monitoring/alerting capability (Llama 3 + FastAPI) with prompt design, guardrails, and production evaluation, and led monolith-to-microservices modernization on AWS using feature flags and parallel runs.”

“Built a production internal LLM-powered knowledge assistant using a RAG architecture (Python, LLM APIs, cloud services) that answers employee questions with sourced, grounded responses from internal documents. Demonstrates strong practical depth in retrieval tuning (chunking/metadata filters), orchestration with LangChain, and production reliability practices (latency optimization, automated embedding refresh, evaluation metrics, logging/monitoring) while partnering closely with non-technical operations teams.”

Harshini Jaligama

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in cloud-native microservices and FinTech

Remote, USA5y exp

“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).”

UMESH KAMISETTY

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in cloud lakehouse and streaming platforms

Seattle, WA5y exp

“Data engineer focused on building production-grade pipelines on AWS (Kafka/Kinesis/Glue/S3) through to curated serving layers in Snowflake and Delta Lake. Emphasizes automated data quality validation (PySpark + CI/CD), modular dbt transformations for analytics (customer spending, risk metrics), and operational reliability with CloudWatch and DLQs; data consumed by BI tools and ML pipelines for fraud detection and risk analytics.”

“Software developer who uses AI pragmatically across the full stack to accelerate coding, testing, debugging, and documentation while maintaining strong human oversight. Stands out for treating AI output like any other code source—reviewing for architecture fit, security risks, performance, and standards before integration—and for coordinating multiple AI tools across backend, frontend, and test workflows.”

“Senior engineering leader with a rare blend of principal-level technical depth and large-scale people management, spanning identity/auth modernization, platform architecture, and cloud integration work. At Paylocity, they helped transform a legacy .NET/SQL environment into a more modular, microservices-oriented platform and dramatically reduced deployment times, while also leading teams as large as 80+.”

“Database/platform engineer with hands-on ownership of large-scale GCP data systems in financial services, including customer-facing SaaS investment products with strict SLAs. Stands out for leading an on-prem-to-GCP modernization using Spanner, AlloyDB, Bigtable, and BigQuery, and for building Terraform/Python automation that cut provisioning time by ~70% while improving reliability and self-service.”