Vetted CI/CD Professionals

“Backend/DevOps-focused engineer with healthcare and financial systems experience, including an ICU readmission risk platform delivering real-time ML scores via a secure FastAPI service (PyTorch model serving, PostgreSQL, Celery/Redis) deployed on AWS with strong observability. Has hands-on Kubernetes GitOps delivery (Helm, ArgoCD, HPA) and has supported a JPMC on-prem-to-AWS microservices migration using phased validation and blue-green cutovers, plus Kafka/Avro streaming for real-time transaction processing.”

“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.”

“Hands-on technical professional experienced in taking LLM/AI-adjacent integrations from prototype to production, using customer observation to refine UX and uncover edge cases. Diagnoses workflow issues in real time using logs and Sankey-style workflow analysis, and communicates fixes with clear short/long-term plans plus proactive alerting. Also partners cross-functionally to drive adoption and cost savings, including a POC around IBM Sterling Integrator that reduced licensing costs by $30K/year.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong DevOps/AWS production experience who builds and operates multi-agent AI systems end-to-end (Streamlit/Python through Docker/Kubernetes and ECS/Fargate). Has delivered measurable outcomes: sub-2s latency and ~92% routing accuracy for an AI wellness assistant, shipped an AI-for-BI prototype in under 6 weeks cutting analysis time ~40%, and improved pipeline iteration speed ~35% via modularization and CI/regression checks.”

“Completed an Amazon externship building a GPT-4 + RAG pipeline to summarize themes from hundreds of employee reviews for workforce analytics aimed at improving warehouse retention. Emphasizes production-readiness through labeled-data evaluation, source attribution for explainability, human-in-the-loop review, and rigorous data cleaning/observability to debug real-world LLM workflow issues.”

“Engineering manager leading a 15-person team at FBN on the Gridbull platform, shipping a self-serve pricing/quoting tool for structured commodity products using real-time futures market data. Owns architecture and reliability for third-party data integrations (WebSocket + REST fallback), including resolving a day-one production incident caused by undocumented vendor connection resets. Introduced lightweight Technical Implementation Plans to improve cross-functional alignment and delivery speed in a high-growth environment.”

“CTO who ties technology strategy directly to business outcomes, building multi-year roadmaps with measurable ROI. Led major modernization (cloud, data platform, unified API, microservices + CI/CD) delivering 5x faster releases/deployments, 99.8% uptime, and 40% user growth without headcount increases, while scaling engineering from 15 to 80+ in ~18 months.”

“Full-stack engineer with startup experience who owned end-to-end features on Impact’s Hiring Solutions platform, including a hiring inbox spanning React UI and Postgres data models; the product helped drive 500+ jobs filled shortly after launch. Comfortable designing modern React/TypeScript + Node architectures (GraphQL, testing, migrations) and operating on AWS (RDS, EC2/Fargate, S3, Datadog, CircleCI). Also founded their own startup (Bibbr) and made early-stage stack/infrastructure decisions under high ambiguity.”

“Full-stack engineer with fintech/trading domain experience (Fidelity) and startup SaaS CRM/billing platform work (Zoho), building real-time portfolio analytics and trade-processing systems. Strong in microservices, event-driven architectures (Kafka/WebSockets), and AWS/Kubernetes operations with measurable performance gains (~34–35% latency reduction) and maintainability improvements (~40% faster deployments). Targeting a founding full-stack engineer role in NYC with meaningful equity.”

“CTO candidate with experience supporting startups targeting Series A/Series B funding and a strong grasp of how funding choices affect ownership. Emphasizes building clean-slate architecture and organizations, and uses market/UX research plus AI-enabled rapid prototyping and architectural trade-off analysis to validate ideas quickly.”

“Built and operated a production TypeScript backend for a stateful conversational quoting chatbot at Tringapps, orchestrating multi-step workflows and session state while integrating with Salesforce and NetSuite. Implemented validation/retry logic, modular architecture, and strong logging/observability to handle real-world edge cases and external API failures.”

“Software engineer with strong end-to-end ownership across frontend, backend, data, and infrastructure, including real-time systems (Kafka/Postgres) and observability (Datadog). Built and productionized an AI-native RAG support assistant (OpenAI embeddings + Pinecone) with prompt/guardrail design, achieving 48% agent adoption and 30% faster responses. Experienced in legacy modernization and reliability work using feature flags, event/transaction replay, and rapid embedded delivery.”

“Built GoEngineer’s first production AI systems, including an end-to-end RAG pipeline for SolidWorks technical support using Azure Blob Storage, Azure AI Search, and Azure OpenAI, plus an AI summarization feature adopted by sales/customer success. Strong in productionizing LLM workflows with evaluation harnesses (golden sets, LLM-as-judge, red teaming, shadow deploys) and Azure infrastructure integrations (Redis, Service Bus, App Insights), and has also implemented a custom MCP server for agentic monitoring.”

“Built and productionized an internal LLM-powered document Q&A system at Morgan Stanley using a LangChain-based RAG pipeline (FAISS + OpenAI) with AWS ingestion (S3/Lambda), handling 100k+ pages and cutting lookup time ~35% while keeping responses under 3 seconds. Strong on reliability: automated evals/CI (pytest + GitHub Actions), CloudWatch monitoring, drift detection (prompt drift and fraud-model drift), and security controls (IAM + app-level authorization) in a financial-services environment.”

Pavan Kumar Malasani

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in financial risk, fraud detection, and GenAI

Remote, USA4y exp

“GenAI/ML engineer in Citigroup’s finance environment who has deployed production RAG systems for investment banking under strict privacy and model-risk constraints. Built an internal-VPC Llama2 + Pinecone + LangChain solution with NER redaction and citation-based verification to prevent hallucinations, delivering major time savings, and also partnered with global finance executives to ship an AI early-warning indicator for treasury/liquidity risk.”

Venkata Surya Yashwanth Varma Vadlamudi

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and full-stack web development

Ithaca, NY2y exp

“Software engineer at Cimpress owning end-to-end transactional pages for Pens.com (e-commerce). Built and integrated new discount experiences in a React/TypeScript + Node.js stack, focusing on modular component architecture to reduce tight coupling and avoid breaking existing functionality; prioritizes roadmap work using performance and conversion metrics.”

Dinesh Kumar Patibandla

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs and RAG for finance and healthcare

Texas, USA4y exp

“ML Engineer with recent Goldman Sachs experience building and deploying a production RAG/LLM assistant for summarization, drafting, and internal knowledge retrieval across financial, risk, and compliance documents. Designed for heavy regulatory constraints and scaled to 10,000+ concurrent users using Kubernetes-based orchestration, dynamic LLM routing, and rigorous testing (adversarial prompts, A/B tests, load simulations) with privacy controls like differential privacy.”

Fadli Putra

Screened

Mid-level QA Engineer specializing in automation and manual testing

8y exp

“QA tester with hands-on experience across web, mobile, and API testing, including requirements gathering, test planning/case creation, and executing system/regression/UAT. While new to console game testing and platform certification checklists (TRC/XR/LOT), they emphasize strong testing fundamentals, API automation experience, and using AI tools to ramp up quickly.”

Sandeep Athota

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in cloud MLOps and production ML systems

Texas, USA4y exp

“AI/ML engineer at J.P. Morgan Chase who deployed a production financial-risk prediction platform combining CNN/LSTM/gradient boosting on AWS SageMaker, with automated drift-triggered retraining and governance-grade fairness testing. Leveraged SageMaker Clarify plus SMOTE and LLM-generated synthetic data to improve minority-group F1 by 0.12, and communicated results to non-technical risk/ops teams via Power BI dashboards.”

Hangquan Zhao

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in connected vehicle platforms and real-time data systems

Mountain View, CA4y exp

“Open-source maintainer of KafkaJSUI, a Vue.js-based Kafka browser UI, focused on making large-topic exploration fast and responsive. Delivered major performance wins (incremental fetching, virtualized lists, WebSocket streaming, backpressure, Web Worker offloading) cutting load times to sub-200ms, and also strengthened CI and developer documentation while handling community-reported issues end-to-end.”

Abhay Ravi Kumar

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in backend, cloud DevOps, and ML/NLP

Bengaluru, India1y exp

“DevOps/data-automation professional with HPE experience who has deployed containerized microservices to AWS EKS and built an end-to-end observability stack (Prometheus/Grafana/CloudWatch via Terraform), reporting zero-downtime deployments and ~40% faster incident response. Also extends Python ETL automation for procurement/operations teams (rules engine, validation, performance tuning) and bridges SAP ERP data into Power BI/Qlik dashboards through close on-site user collaboration.”

Pandari G

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in Generative AI and RAG systems

San Francisco, USA5y exp

“GenAI/LLM engineer with production deployments in both fintech and retail: built an AI-powered mortgage document analysis/automated underwriting pipeline at Fannie Mae (OCR + custom LLM) cutting underwriting review from 3–4 hours to under an hour with privacy-by-design controls. Also helped build Sephora’s GenAI product advisory bot using LangChain-orchestrated RAG (Azure GPT-4, Azure AI Search, MySQL HeatWave vector search), focusing on grounding, evaluation, and compliance-aware architecture choices.”

Yukti Kamthan

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and data systems

Mumbai, India10y exp

“Built and shipped production LLM/AI agent systems including an NL-to-SQL query agent with semantic search and Redis-based caching, using schema-aware prompting and threshold validation to reduce hallucinations. Has orchestration experience running ML microservices on Kubernetes and automating event-driven insurance (P&C) workflows (claims/policy + fraud checks), reporting ~60% manual overhead reduction and ~99% uptime, with strong monitoring/drift-detection and business-facing Power BI reporting.”

HEMANTH KUMAR KOTTAPALLI

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in GPU-accelerated LLMs and MLOps

GA, USA4y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered decision-support system for supply-chain planners that explains demand forecast changes using grounded retrieval from sales, promotion, inventory, and supplier data. Implemented strict anti-hallucination guardrails and latency optimizations, deployed as a real-time AWS API with monitoring, and reported ~15% forecast accuracy improvement and ~12% supply-chain risk reduction. Experienced orchestrating data/ML/LLM workflows with Airflow, LangChain/LangGraph-style patterns, and AWS Step Functions while partnering closely with non-technical business users via demos and example-based requirements.”