Vetted Azure Kubernetes Service Professionals

“Embodied AI / robotics-focused ML engineer with experience at JPMorgan and EY building language-to-robot control systems that connect transformer/LLM intent to safe real-world robotic actions. Designed production-grade, low-latency architectures (Kafka/Redis, monitoring, CI/CD) and applied sim-to-real and model distillation to make research ideas deployable on physical systems.”

“At HPE, led and deployed an enterprise-grade LLM document intelligence platform for an insurance client, automating extraction from highly variable PDFs/scans/emails and raising field accuracy from 74% to 93%. Built a LangChain/Pinecone/OpenSearch RAG framework to cut hallucinations by 37% and operationalized LangSmith evals in CI, driving a 41% triage accuracy lift and >33% fewer incorrect resolutions while partnering closely with claims operations via HITL workflows.”

“Full-stack Java engineer (4+ years) who led end-to-end modernization of high-latency order management systems into cloud-native reactive microservices (Spring WebFlux) and built real-time React/Redux dashboards, reporting 99.98% uptime and 22% infra cost savings. Also headed a production RAG-based Order Support Bot at Dell Technologies with embeddings + MongoDB semantic search, automated validation and human fallback, plus CI/CD-driven LLM eval loops to reduce hallucinations.”

“ML/LLM practitioner who has deployed a production RAG-based trouble-call identifier using multiple datasets (device, network, past complaints). Experienced in end-to-end MLOps (FastAPI + Docker + Kubernetes with HPA) and in evaluating/monitoring LLM behavior to reduce hallucinations, with additional applied work in forecasting/anomaly detection and churn prediction for retention campaigns.”

Sri Lalitha

Screened

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

California, USA6y exp

“Backend engineer who owned a Python task management API with JWT auth, async notifications, and performance work (DB optimization/caching) to handle high volumes. Led an on-prem to Azure private cloud migration at Morgan Stanley using GitOps and IaC (Terraform/ARM) with phased rollout and rollback planning. Also built a Kafka real-time streaming pipeline with exactly-once/idempotent consumers and Prometheus/Grafana monitoring.”

Manasa Reddy Nagendla

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Java Engineer specializing in microservices, cloud, and event-driven systems

Cincinnati, OH6y exp

“Software engineer at Procter & Gamble focused on warehouse/operations systems, building near-real-time order/inventory visibility using Java/Spring Boot, React, Kafka, PostgreSQL, and Redis with measurable latency and load-time gains. Also shipped internal LLM/RAG knowledge assistants grounded in company runbooks and workflows, implementing guardrails and an evaluation loop that drove concrete retrieval improvements (document chunking) and regression prevention.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based internal knowledge assistant that let analysts query company documents in natural language, using LangChain/LangGraph with Pinecone and a FastAPI service for integration. Emphasizes reliability in production through hallucination mitigation (retrieval tuning + prompt guardrails) and measurable evaluation/monitoring (accuracy, latency, task completion, hallucination rate), iterating based on user feedback.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who has shipped real-time, customer-facing dashboards and ticketing/payment features at Freshworks and Global Payments. Strong in Python API design (Django/Flask/FastAPI) and React/TypeScript UIs, with hands-on experience scaling PostgreSQL for high transaction volumes and operating services on AWS, including incident response and HIPAA-aligned security controls.”

“Java/Spring Boot engineer with startup-style ownership experience across e-commerce, banking, and healthcare analytics. Stands out for driving a monolith-to-microservices migration with Kafka that improved checkout reliability under peak load, while also contributing full-stack with Angular and supporting production operations end to end.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with 7 years of Python experience who has worked on data-heavy products in both healthcare and social media intelligence. Particularly notable for driving Elasticsearch-based search improvements on a B2B social media analytics platform and for building secure healthcare APIs using Flask/Django with OAuth, JWT, and multiple databases.”

“Frontend engineer with experience at US Bank and S&P Global building complex React dashboards for analysts working with real-time, high-volume transaction and model-performance data. Stands out for combining performance tuning, scalable state architecture, and usability improvements that directly reduced manual analysis effort for expert users.”

“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.”

“Front-end engineer with experience building high-stakes internal products in financial services at Visa and Wells Fargo. They combine deep browser-performance knowledge with pragmatic typed architecture and close user observation, delivering measurable outcomes like cutting AML case resolution from 12 days to 4 and improving trader alert response through data-driven UI changes.”

Sanket Mungikar

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in distributed backend and AI analytics platforms

California, USA4y 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.”

“Full-stack product engineer who has built both operational systems and enterprise AI copilots in production. They owned an AI-powered inventory platform end-to-end, driving a 45% drop in stock issues, and also shipped a Microsoft Teams-based HR/IT copilot using RAG and workflow automation that reduced repetitive support queries by roughly 30%.”

“Platform/DevSecOps engineer who combines full-stack product ownership with practical LLM systems in production. They built a self-service secrets management portal that reduced DevOps bottlenecks while maintaining compliance, and shipped AI-powered deployment debugging and security-remediation workflows with strong guardrails, monitoring, and human-in-the-loop controls.”

“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).”

“Backend engineer who has built high-throughput analytics and fraud-detection systems, combining Python/Flask + Celery/RabbitMQ with strong PostgreSQL performance tuning (indexing, partitioning, EXPLAIN ANALYZE). Has production experience integrating ML inference (scikit-learn/TensorFlow → TensorFlow Lite) into Spring Boot microservices with caching and model versioning, plus designing secure multi-tenant architectures using JWT-based tenant routing and PostgreSQL RBAC/RLS.”

“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.”

“Backend engineer with Citi Bank experience building and operating a Python/Flask Personal Finance Manager platform at 1M+ transactions/month. Strong in secure API design, database performance tuning (PostgreSQL/Azure SQL), and production reliability (92%+ test coverage, load testing, monitoring). Also integrated an NLP expense-tagging microservice with caching, background workers, autoscaling, and multi-tenant isolation via RLS and tenant-aware JWT.”

“AI/LLM engineer with production experience building secure, scalable compliance-focused generative AI systems (GPT-3/4, BERT) including RAG over internal regulatory document bases. Has delivered end-to-end pipelines on AWS with PySpark/Airflow/Kubernetes/FastAPI, emphasizing privacy controls, monitoring, and iterative evaluation (A/B testing). Also partnered closely with bank compliance officers using prototypes to refine NLP summarization/classification and reduce document review time.”

Pravalika Kasojjala

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM, RAG/GraphRAG, and fraud analytics

Charlotte, NC5y exp

“LLM/agent engineer who has deployed a production internal assistant to reduce employee inquiry resolution time while maintaining regulatory compliance. Experienced with RAG, hallucination risk triage, and graph-based orchestration (LangGraph) for enterprise/banking-style workflows, emphasizing schema-validated, citation-backed, tool-constrained agent designs and tight collaboration with non-technical business/compliance stakeholders.”