Vetted Distributed Tracing Professionals

Punith Jayaramu

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and Mortgage systems

Auburn Hills, MI3y exp

“Full-stack engineer with deep AWS serverless and reliability experience in fintech/underwriting systems, including eligibility scoring and dynamic rule deployments. Built and productionized an LLM-powered incident RCA assistant (Bedrock Claude 3 + custom RAG + React) achieving 92% precision and ~75% MTTR reduction, with mature guardrails (evals, drift monitoring, HITL, audit logs) and strong operational rigor (canaries, chaos testing, DLQ remediation).”

Mark Wlodawski

Screened

Senior Unity Developer specializing in AI/LLM systems and multiplayer VR

Orlando, FL11y exp

“Backend/data engineer focused on AWS-native Python systems: built a FastAPI microservice on ECS/Fargate serving real-time analytics at millions of daily requests with strong reliability (OAuth2/JWT, retries/timeouts, correlation IDs) and autoscaling. Also delivered Glue/PySpark ETL pipelines to curated S3 Parquet/Athena with schema evolution + data quality controls, owned Airflow pipeline incidents, and has a track record of measurable performance and cost optimizations (e.g., ~80%+ query latency reduction; reduced logging/NAT/Fargate spend).”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered RAG knowledge system to unify operational/policy information across PDFs, wikis, and databases, emphasizing auditability and low-latency/cost performance. Improved answer relevance at scale by moving from pure vector search to hybrid retrieval with metadata filtering and reranking, and partnered closely with healthcare operations/compliance to define acceptance criteria and human-in-the-loop guardrails.”

“Candidate has hands-on experience at Cognizant building production-grade automation and integration solutions across Python ML services, Java microservices, Kafka, and Selenium-based UI testing. They stand out for a strong reliability mindset—covering failure modes, observability, flaky test hardening, and translating ambiguous payment-system business processes into resilient end-to-end automated workflows.”

“Customer-facing application security/support professional who helps teams operationalize SAST/DAST/SCA in CI/CD, reduce false positives, and prioritize remediation by business risk. Has hands-on experience troubleshooting intermittent pipeline failures (rate limiting/timeouts under parallel load) using logs/metrics/traces, and driving durable outcomes via runbooks/KB documentation and phased security rollouts across stakeholders.”

Mohammed Saalim Kartapillai

Screened

Senior Backend/Full-Stack Engineer specializing in data platforms and cloud microservices

Chicago, Illinois7y exp

“Backend engineer who built and shipped an end-to-end AI outreach product (LazyMails) combining a LinkedIn-scraping Chrome extension with a FastAPI/Postgres backend and Gemini-powered email generation, achieving major personal productivity gains. Also has enterprise experience at TCS on Humana’s 500k+ user wellness platform running Kubernetes microservices with Azure DevOps CI/CD, plus Kafka-based real-time eligibility event streaming and GitOps-driven operations.”

“Backend/data engineer with strong AWS production experience spanning serverless APIs and containerized workers (Lambda, API Gateway, ECS) plus data pipelines (Glue, S3, Athena/Redshift). Has modernized legacy SAS/cron batch systems into Python/AWS with parallel-run parity validation and low-risk cutovers, and has owned ETL incidents end-to-end (CloudWatch detection, backfills, and preventative controls). Targeting $130k–$150k base and strongly prefers remote, with occasional Bethesda onsite acceptable.”

“AWS-focused Python backend/data engineer who builds production analytics APIs and ETL pipelines using API Gateway, Lambda, Step Functions, ECS, Glue, S3, and RDS. Strong in operational reliability and performance tuning (including SQL indexing/partitioning) and has modernized legacy SAS statistical processing into validated Python services with phased rollouts and stakeholder sign-off.”

“Built and deployed a production, multi-tenant modular agentic AI platform at Easybee AI, using LangChain/LangGraph with Redis-backed durable state to make agents reusable, traceable, and auditable. Emphasizes reliability via strict tool schemas, deterministic controllers, tenant-level policy enforcement, and regression testing derived from real production failures; also delivered AI automation for legal/finance workflows (attorney draw and expense automation) with explainable, deterministic payouts.”

Naveen Chokkakula

Screened References

Senior Golang Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud-native microservices

Texas, USA5y exp

“Software engineer with experience at UWorld and Infosys, focused on full-stack product delivery and backend reliability. Stands out for owning analytics/onboarding experiences end-to-end while also building resilient distributed systems, reusable service primitives, and safe multi-tenant configuration guardrails.”

Nidhi Sharma

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Junior Software Engineer specializing in backend systems, AI, and cloud infrastructure

Noida, India2y exp

“Built multiple AI-heavy systems with a strong engineering lens on observability, reliability, and real-world usability, including an LLM gateway for auditability/failure isolation and Allyvision, an accessibility tool for visually impaired users. Also owned an end-to-end warehouse shipment tracking dashboard at Addverb Technologies that drove measurable operational gains, combining backend/data depth with frontend product execution.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience across event-driven Python ingestion services on AWS (EventBridge/SQS/MongoDB), serverless APIs (Lambda/API Gateway), and analytics ETL (Glue → Redshift). Has modernized legacy reporting into Node.js/React systems and demonstrated measurable SQL performance wins (minutes to seconds) plus strong incident ownership with validation, DLQs, and alerting.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who builds and operates Spring Boot microservices with React/TypeScript frontends, using Kafka/RabbitMQ for event-driven workflows. Created an internal ops dashboard for Support/SRE with tracing, alert correlation, and self-serve actions, improving MTTR and reducing escalations while maintaining regulatory-grade reliability and security.”

“Backend/data engineer who built an enterprise LLM assistant (AI Genie) at Broadband Insights using a LangChain + GPT-4 + Pinecone RAG pipeline to automate broadband analytics reporting. Developed Python/Dagster ETL processing 10M+ records/day and improved data freshness by 60%, with production-grade scalability patterns (async workers, containerized microservices, Kubernetes) and strong multi-tenant isolation practices.”

“Full-stack engineer who built an early-stage social platform for scriptwriters (Scriptscape) from scratch, owning everything from React Native/React UX to Node/Postgres APIs and AWS deployment. Demonstrates strong production-minded engineering with CI/CD, observability, and scalability patterns (cursor pagination, indexing, background jobs), plus experience hardening flaky third-party integrations with idempotency and backfills.”

“Built a production "Mini RAG Assistant" for internal document Q&A, focusing on grounded answers (anti-hallucination), retrieval quality, and latency/cost optimization. Uses LangChain/LangGraph for orchestration and applies a metrics-driven evaluation loop (including reranking and semantic chunking improvements) while collaborating closely with product stakeholders.”