Vetted CI/CD Professionals

Srichandan Kota

Screened

Senior Full-Stack AI Engineer specializing in Generative AI and FinTech

Minneapolis, MN6y exp

“Backend engineer who built and owned an AI-powered financial research product end-to-end, using a typed NestJS/GraphQL backend with LangGraph-style agent routing to produce sourced, structured financial analysis. Emphasizes finance-grade correctness (Zod validation, metric registries, unit/empty-result guardrails) while keeping latency low via batching, caching, and fast token streaming, and has led incremental migrations using strangler/feature-flag/shadow traffic patterns.”

Uday Dorawala

Screened

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in SaaS platforms, data, and cloud modernization

Raleigh, NC25y exp

“Former founder with an acquired venture who later led R&D at McClatchy and joined multiple startups. Identified a major client need and built a mobile app platform using ML and AR for home builders, driving adoption by dozens of customers and $1M+ ARR. Strong hands-on builder who can architect MVPs, iterate quickly with A/B testing and user feedback, and scale early engineering teams and culture.”

Veena Vyshnavi Garre

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native systems and AI/ML

Hyderabad, India7y exp

“Backend engineer who significantly evolved an internal Resource Manager platform, moving from a monolith to microservices and improving onboarding speed while reducing integration errors. Has hands-on experience building reliable and secure Python/FastAPI APIs (Pydantic schemas, circuit breakers, caching, metrics/alerts) and leading zero-downtime migrations with strong data integrity patterns (dual writes, idempotency, reconciliation checks).”

Abhinav Garg

Screened

Senior Robotics Software Engineer specializing in ROS 2 autonomy and distributed systems

College Park, MD6y exp

“Robotics Software Engineer with 2.5 years at the Army Research Lab building production tools and cloud infrastructure for large-scale ROS/Unity simulation on AWS. Created a Python GUI to streamline analysis of massive (100GB) ROS bag/MCAP datasets and has deep ROS2/Nav2 performance debugging experience (executor/QoS/TF tracing). Also built an in-house ROS perception pipeline for an assembly-line use case, reaching 92% accuracy.”

Femi Ayoade

Screened

Mid-level Robotics Controls Engineer specializing in ROS2 real-time motion control

Tustin, CA5y exp

“Robotics software engineer at Earthwise building a full ROS2 Humble warehouse AMR stack for bin picking—owning perception (Livox/Orbbec/RPLidar fusion + calibration), Nav2 navigation with custom planners/behavior trees, and application-layer nodes (barcode scanning, safety monitoring, web HMI). Demonstrated strong real-world debugging and performance tuning (sub-cm AprilTag docking; ~80% reduction in localization failures) plus solid simulation/CI practices (Gazebo + Docker + GitHub Actions).”

Visaj Kapadia

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Developer specializing in AWS and scalable web platforms

Santa Monica, CA5y exp

“Software engineer with hands-on AWS experience optimizing an email campaign delivery system—re-architected a monolithic worker into multi-threaded/multi-worker ECS components to boost throughput ~600% (5 to 35 emails/sec). Comfortable debugging production issues (e.g., SQS/EventBridge policy misconfiguration) and emphasizes maintainable delivery via design docs, TDD, versioned APIs, and strong test coverage.”

Atharva Deshmukh

Screened

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

Rochester, New York4y exp

“Applied LLMs to high-stakes domains (wildfire risk for emergency teams and loan approval via a fine-tuned IBM Granite model), with a strong focus on reliability—using RAG-based cross-validation to reduce hallucinations and continuous ingestion pipelines (MODIS satellite imagery via AWS Lambda) to keep data current. Experienced in production orchestration and MLOps-style workflows using Airflow, AWS Step Functions, and SageMaker Pipelines, and collaborates closely with analysts on KPI-driven evaluation.”

PremKumar Gandla

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in MLOps, NLP, and scalable model deployment

Texas, USA4y exp

“Built and deployed a production autonomous AI data analyst agent (LangChain + GPT + Streamlit on AWS) that turns natural-language questions into validated SQL, visualizations, and insights, cutting manual analysis time by ~50%. Emphasizes reliability and MLOps: schema-aware validation/guardrails to prevent hallucinations, scalable large-data processing, and Azure DevOps CI/CD + MLflow for automated deployment and experiment tracking.”

Alankrit Srivastava

Screened

Intern Data Engineer specializing in Snowflake pipelines and AI/ML analytics

Houston, TX3y exp

“Built and operated an end-to-end TypeScript/Node AI agent platform for high-volume financial data that generates explainable investment signals and automates execution via resilient Playwright browser automation. Uses Postgres + pgvector/Prisma for RAG retrieval, Redis for async orchestration, Zod-based boundary validation as a circuit breaker, and OpenTelemetry for tracing/latency monitoring; also designed a TypeScript SDK with semver, scoped bearer-token auth, CLI key rotation, and interactive Swagger docs.”

“Data/ML engineer with end-to-end ownership of donor-data deployments for a university foundation, delivering major performance and data-quality gains (500K+ records; 24h to 6h processing; duplicates 5% to 1%). Has put an LLM-assisted enrichment workflow into production with retrieval-grounded business rules, versioned outputs for traceability, and strong operational rigor around validation, logging, and CI/CD.”

“Commercially minded candidate with exposure to private equity firms as sales targets and experience building partnerships around venture-backed company ecosystems. They appear more inclined to join an existing company than found one, bringing a metrics-driven, process-oriented approach and creative execution style with a strong focus on clear growth paths and capital stability.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience building Python FastAPI services and AWS-native data pipelines. Has delivered containerized and serverless workloads (ECS/EKS/Lambda) with Terraform-based IaC, strong reliability patterns (JWT/RBAC, retries/circuit breakers, observability), and AWS Glue ETL into S3/Redshift. Demonstrated measurable SQL performance wins (40–50s to <4s) and owned real pipeline incidents through detection, mitigation, and prevention.”

“Built and evolved the backend-adjacent platform for a self-custody Bitcoin wallet used by 2000+ users, emphasizing security-first architecture that avoids custodial risk by keeping private key operations client-side. Demonstrates strong API reliability and security depth (FastAPI contract-first design, idempotency, state-machine modeling, JWT/device-aware auth) and has reduced production failures by hardening signing flows against poor connectivity.”

“Backend/data engineer who built a production booking platform on FastAPI microservices (Postgres/Redis/gRPC) and delivered AWS infrastructure spanning Lambda, ECS, SQS, and Glue-to-Redshift analytics. Demonstrated measurable SQL optimization (10 minutes to <40 seconds) and strong operational ownership through monitoring, incident response, and schema-evolution hardening.”

“Robotics software engineer (2 years) at a startup building a universal fleet management system, owning core integrations and real-time data pipelines for heterogeneous AMR/AGV fleets. Implemented Kalman-filter-based collision prediction integrating RTLS for human-driven forklifts, built MQTT microservices aligned with VDA5050, and is now architecting a PostGIS-backed path-planning service for dynamic, traffic-aware routing with future ML optimization.”

“AI Backend Engineer in MetLife’s claims technology group who built and deployed a production LLM-based decision support system that helps claim adjusters quickly find relevant policy rules from long PDFs and historical notes. Designed it as multiple production-grade services with retrieval-first guardrails, continuous validation, and Airflow-orchestrated pipelines for ingestion, embeddings, and vector index updates to keep the system reliable as policies and data evolve.”

“Backend/cloud engineer who built an AWS serverless IoT system that computes Bluetooth beacon locations from telemetry using heavy scientific Python (NumPy/SciPy/pandas) packaged as Dockerized Lambda, integrated with Java microservices and scheduled batch orchestration. Has deep AWS delivery experience (CI/CD with Code* tools, CloudFormation, cost controls) and has led high-severity incident response including CloudTrail forensics and infrastructure recovery after a compromised-keys crypto-mining attack.”

“Backend/platform engineer with production experience building a Python SDK over a microservices ecosystem, emphasizing reliability (JWT auth, retries/timeouts, custom exceptions) and integration testing. Has delivered AWS EKS microservices with Jenkins+Helm CI/CD, strong secrets/config separation using AWS Secrets Manager, and set up Datadog APM/deployment/change monitoring. Also modernized legacy VB applications to C#/.NET WPF via incremental migration with parity testing and stakeholder sign-off.”

“Built a production RAG-based healthcare chatbot to retrieve patient medical documents spread across multiple platforms, reducing manual and error-prone searching. Implemented semantic search with custom embeddings (Hugging Face) and Pinecone, deployed via FastAPI/Docker on AWS SageMaker with MLflow tracking, and optimized fine-tuning cost using LoRA while orchestrating retraining pipelines in Airflow.”

“GenAI/LLM engineer who built and deployed a production RAG system for enterprise document search and decision support, cutting manual lookup time by 40%+. Experienced with LangChain/LangGraph agent orchestration plus Airflow/Prefect for ingestion and incremental reindexing, with a strong focus on reliability (testing, observability) and stakeholder-driven metrics.”

“LLM/agent builder who shipped a live consumer AI-agent app (kalpa.chat) that visualizes complex reasoning as interactive graphs and abstracts multi-provider model usage via a unified wallet. Professionally has applied LangChain/LangGraph to IVR parsing and to scaling a football video-generation pipeline at DAZN, including shipping a VAR-specific retrieval/order fix via SQL after iterating with a non-technical PM.”

“Senior/Lead Frontend/Full-Stack engineer in Toronto with proven experience shipping high-stakes, real-time and regulated products across healthcare, legal/compliance, and fintech. Built a real-time compliance dashboard that survived a 400% data spike and a no-code workflow builder supporting 500+ nodes, with strong emphasis on performance engineering, type-safe architecture, and automated quality/rollout practices.”

“Unity XR developer who has shipped multiple Meta Quest apps, including an NHS medical training VR simulation where realistic, consultant-validated interaction mechanics and highly configurable systems were critical. Also built and shipped a solo indie AR product ("Eugene's AR Wiki") end-to-end, supporting a wide range of iOS/Android devices and incorporating analytics, interactive content, and engagement features like word games and face filters.”

“LLM-focused engineer with end-to-end experience shipping an OpenAI-powered edtech teacher assistant into production, using Humanloop-driven prompt iteration, rigorous observability (Datadog), and A/B testing tied to real learning metrics (25% comprehension lift). Also led adoption-driving technical demos at SiriusXM (event-driven AWS Lambda/Kotlin/CDK pipeline cutting processing from 24 hours to seconds) and partnered with sales at Spresso.ai to close eCommerce SDK deals and boost activation from 40% to 85%.”