Vetted Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) Professionals

Akshaya Chiduruppa

Screened

Mid-level Quality Assurance Engineer specializing in AI/ML and Apple ecosystem testing

Seattle, WA4y exp

“QA automation engineer with end-to-end ownership of a regression suite for a warehouse loan management platform (.NET/Angular), using Selenium (Java/Cucumber/POM) and Cypress. Improved suite stability and expanded risk-based coverage (DB/API/SQL, RBAC approval workflows), catching critical financial defects like EMI calculation errors and cutting regression effort by ~50% while gating releases via GitLab CI/CD with actionable Slack reporting.”

“Built an end-to-end AI resume tailoring system in Python/FastAPI with strong emphasis on reliability, validation, observability, and regression-based quality control. Also demonstrates thoughtful browser and workflow automation skills, especially around brittle UIs, resumable state, and turning ambiguous manual processes into production-ready automated pipelines.”

“Candidate takes a disciplined, developer-in-the-loop approach to AI-assisted coding, using AI primarily for brainstorming, suggestions, and optimization while retaining full ownership of architecture and final code decisions. They also actively stay current on AI developments through research papers, communities, and emerging tools.”

“Full-stack engineer with 3+ years using Java/Spring Boot (Citi) and React, who built a production observability dashboard monitoring 53 microservices across 17 clusters with real-time health/latency tracing and significant performance improvements (cut load time from ~10s). Also designed a serverless AWS face-recognition system (Lambda/S3/SQS) built to handle burst traffic (~1000 concurrent requests), demonstrating strength in scalable, event-driven architectures.”

“Backend engineer who built and owned an AI-powered SMS survey platform for a nonprofit serving at-risk communities (internet-limited users), using Cloudflare Workers + Twilio and a state-machine survey engine. Scaled it to ~10k active users with near-zero downtime, added English/Spanish support, and iteratively improved LLM behavior (Claude 3.7 Sonnet) to handle nuanced, real-world SMS responses reliably.”

Kanaka Chalam Volety

Screened

Staff DevOps/SRE Engineer specializing in AWS, Kubernetes, and GitOps

San Jose, CA24y exp

“Infrastructure-focused engineer with Vonage experience modernizing early-stage cloud architecture (Terraform modularization, blue-green deployments, containerization, and zero-downtime database migration planning to Aurora). Also built a local end-to-end side project, Vastu AI, combining a custom-trained YOLO model (Roboflow-labeled data) with a locally hosted LLM via Ollama to generate a vastu compliance report from floor-plan images.”

“Backend/automation engineer who led the design of an OOP Python test automation framework for AWS infrastructure (Behave + Jenkins), cutting regression effort from weeks to a 3–4 hour run. Has hands-on cloud and DevOps experience across AWS (boto3, ECS, AMI automation via GitHub Actions) plus data/migration work including on-prem-to-cloud Oracle Retail DB migration with rollback planning and a Kafka + ML fraud-detection streaming pipeline.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM feature that converts natural-language search requests into Lucene queries for OpenSearch-backed device event data, improving usability for non-technical users. Brings hands-on experience across the full stack of agentic systems: model training, FastAPI/React integration, Kubernetes deployment on AWS, event-driven orchestration with NATS/Kafka, and production-grade evaluation/observability.”

Vasudev Konde

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in APIs and cloud microservices

Phoenix, AZ5y exp

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped a production document-intelligence agent that automated internal support workflows using RAG, tool calling, and robust fallback controls. Stands out for combining hands-on architecture with measurable business impact: 85% faster query resolution, 35% lower LLM cost, 40% fewer LLM calls, and enough automation to avoid adding 2-3 support engineers.”

“Full-stack engineer focused on high-throughput document/financial data platforms, building Angular/React front ends and Spring Boot microservices with Python/Flask services for heavy processing. Experienced in designing non-blocking, asynchronous workflows (Celery/RabbitMQ) and deploying containerized systems to AWS ECS with auto-scaling and CloudWatch monitoring.”