Vetted Azure Kubernetes Service Professionals

“IBM Power/AIX infrastructure engineer who has owned a sizable production estate (50 Power servers / ~200 LPARs) spanning VIOS/HMC, SAN/NFS, and PowerHA clusters. Demonstrates strong incident leadership (LPAR outage + split-brain recovery) and a process-improvement mindset with measurable reductions in recurrence/MTTR, while also bringing modern DevOps/IaC experience (Jenkins, ArgoCD, Terraform, security scanning, canary/blue-green).”

“DevOps/Infrastructure engineer with hands-on production experience building Jenkins CI/CD pipelines that provision Kubernetes infrastructure and process data into a MapR cluster. Uses Terraform to provision AWS resources (EC2, S3, VPC, subnets) with remote state in S3, separate environment state files, and code review/validation practices; targeting $135k base.”

Filmon Tesfay

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud-native FinTech and AI platforms

New York, NY8y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong production ownership: built and operated a real-time transaction monitoring/fraud-alerting system using Java Spring Boot, Kafka, Docker, and AWS with CI/CD. Demonstrates metrics-driven operations (latency, stability, consumer lag, true/false positives) and reliability patterns for integrations (idempotency, retries/backoff, DLQs, reconciliation/backfills), plus modern React/TypeScript + Node/Postgres architecture experience.”

Santhoshi Priya Sunchu

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in NLP and predictive modeling

Massachusetts, USA5y exp

“AI/ML practitioner in healthcare/insurance (Blue Cross Blue Shield) who built and deployed a production NLP system to classify patient risk from unstructured clinical notes. Experienced in end-to-end pipeline orchestration (Airflow, AWS Step Functions/Lambda/SageMaker) and real-time optimization (BERT to DistilBERT on AWS GPUs), with strong clinician collaboration to drive adoption.”

Ashutosh Meena

Screened

Junior Embedded Software Engineer specializing in IoT and microcontrollers

Chicago, IL2y exp

“Embedded/software engineer with hands-on Raspberry Pi work building a WhatsApp-controlled camera/servo system using TCP/IP plus Selenium automation of WhatsApp Web. Brings production DevOps experience from Infosys (Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD, microservices, Kafka) and a methodical hardware/software debugging workflow using lab tools like oscilloscopes and multimeters.”

Rahul Solleti

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and full-stack web apps

United States5y exp

“Backend/platform engineer focused on real-time financial fraud detection and transaction monitoring, building low-latency FastAPI + Kafka systems with strong reliability patterns (DLQs, idempotency) and cloud observability. Has hands-on Kubernetes delivery across AWS EKS and Azure AKS with automated CI/CD and GitOps-style deployments, plus experience migrating legacy C# / Java monoliths to containerized microservices using Terraform/ARM and zero-downtime rollout strategies.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong ownership across React, FastAPI, and PostgreSQL who has built real-time collaboration and analytics workflows end-to-end. Particularly compelling for high-growth AI product teams: they’ve also shipped a 0→1 AI-assisted dataset retrieval and summarization capability, balancing MVP speed with scalable architecture and post-launch performance tuning.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-powered financial intelligence and forecasting platform at Northern Trust using a RAG architecture (LangChain + Hugging Face + FAISS) with end-to-end MLOps (Docker/Kubernetes, Airflow, MLflow). Emphasized regulatory-grade explainability (SHAP/Power BI) and hallucination control (retrieval-only grounding), achieving ~30% forecasting accuracy improvement and ~65% reduction in analyst research time, with sub-second inference and 95% uptime on EKS/AKS.”

“Backend engineer who owned an order management API built with Python/FastAPI and PostgreSQL, integrating payment and shipping providers with strong reliability patterns (idempotency, async workers, retries/backoff, circuit breakers). Experienced deploying services to Kubernetes using a GitOps model with ArgoCD (auto-sync, self-healing, pruning, rollbacks) and building high-volume Kafka streaming pipelines. Has also supported phased cloud-to-on-prem migrations with a focus on security monitoring/SIEM log continuity.”

“Product-focused full-stack engineer (Spring Boot/Django + React/TypeScript) with deep experience building multi-tenant, enterprise workflow and supply-chain/order-tracking systems. Owned an end-to-end Workflow SLA Breach Prediction & Alerting feature integrating Azure ML for a cloud workflow platform used by ~10,000 enterprise users, and has hands-on AWS operations experience resolving real production latency/scaling incidents via query optimization and Redis caching.”

“Full-stack developer with strong cloud/on-prem focus (AWS, VPC networking) who has improved production reliability by bringing manually created IAM/security group resources under Terraform and standardizing environments. Demonstrated end-to-end troubleshooting across app + infrastructure + networking (traffic capture revealed proxy response truncation) and delivered Python-based monitoring/reporting enhancements that improved ops visibility and turnaround.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who led a legacy monolith-to-microservices migration (OAuth, Redis, ActiveMQ) while shipping incrementally via CI/CD to avoid user disruption. Strong in search/filter experiences and performance tuning (Solr schema + relevance boosting) with measurable impact (login reduced to ~5s), plus React/TypeScript UI work including configuration-driven filters and shareable URL state.”

“Backend/platform engineer with State Farm experience modernizing and scaling an enterprise consolidated payment data platform and event-driven pipelines. Built cloud-native payment architecture (ECS->EKS) handling millions of financial transactions/day and high-volume telemetry (~100M events/day), with strong schema governance (Avro + schema registry) and production operations/incident mitigation driven by observability.”

Pooja Miryala

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in NLP, LLMs, and RAG for banking and healthcare

Ohio, USA4y exp

“Deployed a real-time LLM-driven call center summarization and agent-assist platform at Fifth Third Bank, combining transformer models (BERT/GPT) with FastAPI inference on AKS and vector storage (ChromaDB/PostgreSQL). Emphasizes production-grade reliability (autoscaling, CI/CD, monitoring) and measurable evaluation (A/B testing), and translates model outputs into business-facing Power BI insights for call center leadership.”

Hrishi Kamal Earla

Screened

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

Remote, CA7y exp

“JavaScript/React engineer with hands-on open-source library contribution experience, including thoughtful PRs that improved error handling, API flexibility, and added features backed by tests and documentation. Demonstrates a profiling-first approach to UI/runtime performance (memoization, component splitting, render-path optimization) and strong community support skills—reproducing edge cases, delivering sustainable fixes, and communicating workarounds and releases.”

“Full-stack/AI engineer who has shipped production systems spanning real-time analytics dashboards and an internal LLM-powered knowledge assistant. Experienced with RAG pipelines (embeddings/vector DB, semantic retrieval, query rewriting) plus evaluation loops and guardrails, and builds observable Kafka-based data pipelines monitored with Prometheus/Grafana.”

Surya Padmini Konjula

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend, cloud, and AI for FinTech

San Jose, CA6y exp

“Senior full-stack engineer focused on AI-powered workflow automation and customer support products, with hands-on ownership from React/TypeScript UI through FastAPI microservices, retrieval pipelines, and Kubernetes deployment on GCP. Particularly strong in turning ambiguous zero-to-one AI initiatives into production systems that reduce manual operations, improve turnaround time, and remain reliable through strong orchestration and monitoring practices.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered agent for supply chain operations that integrates ERP data and automates multi-step decision-making with tool calling, state management, and structured JSON outputs. Emphasizes production reliability (guardrails, fallbacks, monitoring, idempotency) and reports strong business impact: 40% faster decisions, 30% higher throughput, and 25% efficiency gains.”

Sai Chinthalapudi

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack .NET Developer specializing in cloud and microservices

United States4y exp

“Software engineer with healthcare platform experience at CVS Health, focused on APIs, SQL performance, and distributed systems. Worked on a 5-6 engineer team building a healthcare simulation platform and drove API/query tuning and caching improvements that cut response times by 50% for real-time, high-volume telemetry workflows.”

“Senior full-stack engineer with strong healthcare domain experience who has shipped an Azure OpenAI RAG-based patient medication support chatbot to production, driving ~10K queries/month and a reported 38% reduction in call center volume. Also builds polished real-time React/TypeScript pharmacy tooling and operates large-scale Python/Spark ETL pipelines (~12M records/day) with strong API design, observability, and cloud deployment experience across Azure/Kubernetes and AWS.”

“AI/ML engineer with experience at Northern Trust and Persistent Systems building production LLM + RAG systems for regulated financial use cases, including liquidity forecasting, anomaly detection, and credit scoring. Emphasizes compliance-first design with explainability (SHAP), traceability (MLflow), and hallucination controls (FAISS + citation-grounded prompting), and has delivered drift-triggered retraining pipelines using Airflow and Kubernetes while translating model outputs into business-ready marketing segments.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG clinical document understanding and summarization system for healthcare, focused on reducing manual review time while meeting strict accuracy, latency, and compliance needs. Demonstrates strong MLOps/orchestration depth (Airflow, Kubernetes, Azure ML Pipelines) and a rigorous approach to hallucination mitigation through layered, source-grounded safeguards and stakeholder-driven requirements with physicians/compliance teams.”

“Software engineer with healthcare domain experience (patient monitoring and provider systems) who improves reliability and performance in complex React/Flask applications. Led API standardization for shared internal React utilities using an RFC + deprecation strategy, and optimized a live WebSocket dashboard to handle 3000+ concurrent clinics while reducing client CPU usage. Strong in production debugging, data ingestion validation, and operational improvements like structured logging and alerting.”

Sachin Dulla

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in NLP, fraud detection, and MLOps

Kentwood, MI3y exp

“Built and deployed a domain-specific LLM chatbot for research/support, cutting manual effort by ~50%. Demonstrates strong applied LLM engineering: RAG, prompt grounding with citations and fallbacks, embedding/top-k tuning, and production monitoring (confidence, latency, feedback loops). Experienced orchestrating agent workflows with LangChain-style pipelines and continuous evaluation to maintain reliability.”