Vetted Azure Kubernetes Service Professionals

Pavan Devulapalle

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud platforms and AI-integrated full-stack development

Seattle, WA3y exp

“Backend engineer who built Flask-based internal APIs supporting GenAI-driven provisioning/diagnostics (Outpost/AWS Outposts-like environment), with deep hands-on optimization across Postgres/SQLAlchemy (2s to <200ms endpoint improvement). Experienced integrating ML/LLM workflows via AWS SageMaker and Bedrock, and designing multi-tenant isolation plus high-throughput Redis-backed background task pipelines (minutes to seconds).”

“Platform/infra engineer with strong ownership of Kubernetes on VMware and day-to-day hybrid on-prem-to-AWS operations. Has hands-on experience automating infrastructure delivery with Terraform/Ansible/CI-CD, and has resolved real production issues spanning CSI storage reattachment during upgrades, vSphere storage-latency performance degradation, and hybrid connectivity/routing failures with improved validation, monitoring, and failover.”

“Backend engineer with experience at JPMorgan Chase and Walgreens, owning transaction-processing and prescription data flow systems in regulated environments. Brings strong hands-on depth in Spring Boot microservices, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, observability, and production incident resolution, plus practical experience integrating OpenAI-powered workflows with validation and fallback safeguards.”

“Backend/platform engineer with deep payments experience who built and operated a real-time transaction routing service end-to-end on AWS (Spring Boot, PostgreSQL/RDS, Redis, Kubernetes), delivering ~40% latency reduction and 99.99% uptime via strong resiliency and observability practices. Also productionized an internal LLM-powered RAG knowledge assistant with guardrails and a user-feedback-driven evaluation loop, and has led incremental monolith-to-microservices modernization using Strangler Fig and shadow traffic.”

Kaustubh Rai

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in scalable distributed systems and cloud platforms

Pittsburgh, PA2y exp

“Backend engineer with experience at UnitedHealth Group redesigning a high-traffic Spring Boot microservice from blocking to reactive architecture during peak season, cutting median latency by 47% for a service used by ~10M customers annually. Strong in Kubernetes-based deployment/scaling and pragmatic rollout strategies (blue-green/incremental traffic shifting) with performance and database troubleshooting.”

“AI/ML engineer who has shipped both a safety-critical mental health RAG chatbot (Mistral 7B + Pinecone) with automated faithfulness/toxicity monitoring and a deep Q-learning investment recommendation engine at Lincoln Financial Group. Strong in production MLOps and orchestration (AWS Lambda/CloudWatch/SageMaker, Docker, AKS) and in translating regulated-domain requirements (clinical reliability, fiduciary duty) into measurable model constraints and monitoring.”

“Product-minded software engineer with experience shipping AI-powered financial insights (spend forecasting, cashflow, credit optimization) and building real-time analytics systems using React/TypeScript and FastAPI. Has designed microservices with RabbitMQ/gRPC and strong observability (Prometheus/Grafana/OpenTelemetry), and also built an internal Figma plugin adopted by designers that reduced export time by 50%.”

“Engineer with hands-on experience shipping production Python integrations and designing for reliability from day one, including idempotency, retries, dead-letter handling, contract checks, and full observability. Also brings web automation experience with Puppeteer and has implemented high-availability failover using load balancer liveness checks, backup environments, and cold standby architecture.”