Vetted CI/CD Professionals

“Data engineer with healthcare (CVS Health) experience who migrated production PySpark workloads to native BigQuery SQL and built a Great Expectations-based validation microservice on GKE (Flask + REST) integrated into Cloud Composer. Has operated high-volume pipelines (~300–400GB/day) and designed external vendor ingestion on AWS (Lambda/Step Functions/Glue) with schema-drift detection, alerting, and backfill-safe controls to protect downstream Snowflake/BigQuery tables.”

“Built and shipped a production enterprise RAG knowledge assistant that returns grounded, cited answers and uses confidence-based fallbacks (clarifying questions/abstention) with monitoring and compliance controls for sensitive data. Implemented end-to-end agent orchestration (function calling, structured JSON, state, retries/rate limits) plus eval/feedback loops, and achieved a reported 30–40% improvement in knowledge-task completion time while reducing hallucinations via retrieval improvements.”

Lavanya Chilakalapudi

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud-native web apps and APIs

Tampa, FL5y exp

“Backend engineer with experience building microservice-based systems that integrate LLM workflows (code review suggestions, documentation generation, test scaffolding) using REST APIs, Celery/Redis, and OpenTelemetry for observability. Demonstrates hands-on database and performance optimization in PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy (bulk inserts, lock mitigation, cursor-based pagination) plus multi-tenant data isolation via tenant-aware models, middleware scoping, and schema/row-level strategies.”

ABHIJOY SARKAR

Screened

Senior AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, agentic systems, and MLOps

San Francisco Bay Area, CA8y exp

“Built and shipped PromptGuard, a production middleware proxy that secures GenAI RAG/agent systems against prompt injection and unsafe tool use using risk scoring, graded policy actions, and least-privilege tool gating. Also replaced LangChain abstractions with a custom state-machine runner for a production voice agent to reduce latency and improve traceability, and delivered a clinic call assistant by converting front-desk/doctor requirements into scenario-based guardrails and measurable evals.”

Akshaya Rajagopalan

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud SaaS and accessible web apps

Waterloo, Canada6y exp

“Frontend engineer who leads end-to-end delivery of complex workflow-driven React + TypeScript products on top of Rails/GraphQL backends, with a strong emphasis on typed API contracts, scalable architecture, and automated quality gates. Shipped major features (e.g., inventory reservation at Jobber) using feature-flagged rollouts, close QA collaboration, and performance-focused iteration.”

Velusamy Ramasamy

Screened

Principal Software Architect specializing in cloud platforms, data engineering, and enterprise security

Seattle, WA29y exp

“Engineering leader with experience defining solutions from business requirements through detailed specifications and implementation, emphasizing cost-aware technology selection. Has led architectural changes including adding IBM Cloud alongside AWS for budget reasons and integrating caching/messaging to improve availability and performance, and describes scaling distributed teams via experienced DevOps/QA hires and structured evaluation.”

Shobana Chandrasekaran

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in AI microservices and generative fashion

Sunnyvale, CA2y exp

“Backend/AI workflow engineer at a startup building production AI services for fashion workflows, including an AI-powered techpack generation API in Go (Gin) with MongoDB handling ~1k+ daily requests. Recently implementing an image-to-3D dress generation feature end-to-end, integrating a Python FastAPI AI service with ComfyUI + Hunyuan, with strong emphasis on async orchestration, webhooks, and observability (OpenTelemetry + SigNoz).”

Shriya Bannikop

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud platforms, data engineering, and distributed systems

Seattle, WA5y exp

“Full-stack engineer who built and owned an AI-assisted job-matching dashboard in Next.js App Router/TypeScript, keeping LLM logic server-side and improving performance via deduplication, caching/revalidation, and streaming (35% fewer duplicate LLM calls; 40% faster first render). Also has strong data/backend chops: designed Postgres models and optimized queries at million-record scale (1.8s to 120ms) and built durable AWS multi-region telemetry workflows with idempotency, retries, and monitoring.”

Parth Tusham

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in systems, cloud, and security

Sunnyvale, CA1y exp

“Systems and infrastructure engineer pivoting toward robotics software; brings strong low-level debugging, multithreaded systems, and networking experience where correctness and timing matter. Has hands-on experience using Docker and CI/CD to build reproducible test/evaluation environments (thesis), and proposes a disciplined, contract-driven approach to distributed communication and real-time performance debugging.”

Antara Bhavsar

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native systems and Android development

Bloomington, IN3y exp

“Application-focused software engineer with experience at Amazon and Motorola shipping production systems ranging from developer monitoring/on-call tooling (Alcazar, ~40% MTTR improvement) to consumer AI features used by 100K+ users. Currently building an AI/ML-driven platform with a Python/FastAPI backend on AWS (ECS/RDS/S3) and has handled real production latency/scaling incidents end-to-end.”

Prajit Mohan

Screened

Junior QA Engineer specializing in test automation for web applications

Oakland, CA3y exp

“QA automation engineer with healthcare web experience who owned an end-to-end automated test suite (Java/Cucumber/Selenium and Cypress) and integrated it into CI/CD (Jenkins to GitHub Actions, qTest DoD gates). Known for boosting regression coverage to ~93%, stabilizing flaky Cypress tests, and catching production-impacting pipeline/environment redirect issues through workflow updates and cross-browser/regional scenario testing.”

Deepika Gotla

Screened

Senior Technical Support Engineer specializing in Azure Cloud & Generative AI

Bellevue, WA7y exp

“Microsoft cloud/infra engineer with 5+ years supporting enterprise Azure environments, specializing in security-focused networking (private endpoints, DNS) and production troubleshooting across Azure Front Door/App Gateway WAF/AKS. Has implemented posture improvements via Defender for Cloud, Azure Policy, and RBAC tightening, and also designs secure AWS agent/scanner integrations and modern EKS/GitHub Actions/Secrets Manager observability-enabled SDK rollouts.”

Niyaz Nurbhasha

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in computer vision and LLM pipelines

4y exp

“ML/LLM engineer who built production systems to speed up artist content-creation workflows, including a fine-tuned image captioning model paired with a RAG layer over image embeddings/captions to improve consistency across changing domains. Experienced orchestrating multi-tool agents with LangChain/LangGraph (planning + critic/reflection) and setting up practical monitoring (caption rejection rate) plus evaluation sets for tool-calling accuracy, output quality, and latency.”

Bhanu Chander

Screened

Senior Data Engineer specializing in cloud data platforms and real-time pipelines

New York, NY6y exp

“Data engineer focused on reliability and observability, building end-to-end pipelines processing millions of records/day from sources like S3 and Kafka. Has hands-on experience with Airflow-based data quality automation, PySpark/Databricks transformations, and shipping versioned Python REST APIs deployed via Docker/Kubernetes with CI/CD (Jenkins) and monitoring (CloudWatch/Azure Logs).”

Jignesh Desai

Screened

Director of Software Engineering specializing in fraud detection and payments platforms

San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA26y exp

“Engineering manager/player-coach who focuses on laying technical foundations and improving team execution: kickstarted Visa standard UI library adoption, standardized API exception handling, and introduced a test automation framework that enabled a shift from quarterly to monthly releases. Led a phased latency/throughput initiative that doubled throughput, and owned a production incident caused by a dependency’s expired certificate, driving monitoring and certificate-expiry notification improvements across dependent systems.”

“Data engineer with experience at Expedia building SQL Server and Azure Data Factory pipelines for business reporting and analytics. Stands out for pragmatic end-to-end pipeline ownership in ambiguous environments, with a strong emphasis on data quality, rerunnability, query performance, and making downstream datasets reliable for other teams.”

Abraham Musa

Screened

Senior Solutions Architect specializing in cloud AI infrastructure and security

Union City, NJ9y exp

“Cloud-native architect focused primarily on AWS, with experience designing Kubernetes and AI/ML infrastructure for customers rather than owning day-to-day operations. Particularly interesting for AI platform roles: they described using Amazon Bedrock to analyze Terraform and automatically generate compliant IaC templates and runbooks for new multi-cloud AI environments.”

“Built and shipped production LLM agents that automate document processing and decision workflows, with a strong focus on reliability, guardrails, and measurable business impact. Stands out for combining RAG, tool calling, evals/monitoring, and ERP integration to deliver 30-35% manual effort reduction and higher throughput without additional headcount.”

“GenAI/LLM engineer who architected and deployed a production RAG “research assistant” for JPMorgan Chase’s regulatory compliance team, focused on safety-critical behavior (mandatory citations, refusal when evidence is missing). Deep hands-on experience with LlamaIndex, Pinecone, Hugging Face embeddings, LangGraph agent workflows, and metric-driven evaluation (golden sets, TruLens), including a reported 28% relevancy lift via cross-encoder re-ranking.”

“Built Multipass at Gemini, a Flask/React system that provisioned AWS access across 98 accounts for 400+ engineers, with a strong focus on reliability, observability, and hardening brittle auth flows. Earlier at Deloitte, turned a Word-doc HR onboarding SOP for CVS Health into 45 Workday integrations using XML/XSLT, cutting manual work by 38% and improving data accuracy by 12%.”

“Engineering leader who has operated effectively in both a VC-backed startup and SAP, combining director-level org leadership with day-to-day technical depth. Notable for re-architecting integrations that produced a 3x revenue gain, leading a 90-engineer matrixed organization, and staying hands-on in GenAI, infrastructure, and full-stack problem solving.”

“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%.”

Krishna Guda

Screened

Principal Software Engineer specializing in AI-native FinTech systems

Mountain View, CA23y exp

“Fintech product engineer working on a large-scale credit monitoring platform (tens of millions of users) with deep experience in regulated banking integrations, PII security, and step-up/MFA flows. Has shipped customer-facing React/TypeScript experiences driven by Optimizely experimentation and built reliable partner-facing microservices/SDKs on AWS, including resolving production traffic loss caused by edge security (DataDome/CAPTCHA) conflicts with payment providers.”

“Full-stack engineer from early-stage startups who has owned AI products end to end, from B2B document intelligence platforms on AWS to an HVAC voice assistant and a GCP-based RAG research system. Stands out for combining hands-on backend/infra depth with team leadership in lean environments, and for shipping scalable AI systems that contributed to roughly 1 million yuan in sponsorship.”