Vetted Distributed Tracing Professionals

“Built and operated a real-time student event/party discovery platform with map-based search, RSVP, and authentication using React/TypeScript, Node.js, and Firebase Firestore. Demonstrates strong backend correctness under concurrency (transactions, idempotency, retries/backoff) and solid API product thinking (versioning, Swagger docs, structured errors, cursor pagination), including custom geospatial querying via Haversine filtering.”

“Backend/platform engineer with Optum experience owning a production FHIR Member Access API aligned to CMS interoperability requirements. Built and scaled Spring Boot/HAPI FHIR microservices on AWS (Docker/Kubernetes) with zero-downtime CI/CD, and operated them with strong observability (Dynatrace, logs/metrics, alerting) and incident response. Also implemented a Kafka-based FHIR bulk data pipeline with schema versioning, idempotent processing, and reliable backfills/replays.”

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).”

Rambabu Dhanavath

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend and cloud-native microservices

United States5y exp

“Backend/cloud engineer with 5 years of experience who has shipped a production internal ops LLM assistant end-to-end using Spring Boot microservices on AWS. Stands out for designing controlled, safety-first agent orchestration with deterministic tool access, Redis/DB-backed recoverable state, and strong observability/evaluation practices to improve reliability in production.”

“Frontend engineer with hands-on experience building AI-powered document search and analytics products, including RAG-based knowledge retrieval interfaces with citations, filters, and document previews. Stands out for combining React/TypeScript architecture with production performance tuning using profiling tools, memoization, lazy loading, and debounced data flows to keep complex, document-heavy UIs responsive.”

Dishank Kailash Oza

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in distributed cloud systems

Santa Clara, CA3y exp

“Engineer with a thoughtful, production-oriented approach to AI-assisted development, including multi-agent workflows for planning, coding, review, testing, and debugging. Stands out for treating AI systems like distributed pipelines with explicit interfaces, validation layers, and guardrails to improve reliability and reduce hallucinations.”

“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.”

“Software engineer with hands-on experience building and maintaining a React accessibility utility/component library (open-source-style) used across university portals, emphasizing WCAG 2.2 compliance, robust focus/keyboard behavior, and Jest/React Testing Library coverage. Also built and maintained .NET Core microservices at the Florida Department of Transportation, including integrating AI-driven features, with strong ownership around observability, incident response, and performance-focused refactoring.”

“IBM Power/AIX infrastructure engineer with hands-on production experience across Power8/Power9 frames, VIOS and HMC, including resolving a production LPAR outage caused by vFC mapping issues. Has operated PowerHA clusters for critical finance workloads, running quarterly failover tests and handling an unplanned failover triggered by a network adapter failure, then improving resilience with redundancy and monitoring automation.”

Mohith Venkata

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud-native APIs and data workflows

Tukwila, WA4y exp

“Built and owned end-to-end ordering and inventory/order management systems for a wholesale distributor, delivering an MVP quickly and iterating based on direct observation of daily users. Experienced with TypeScript/React + Node.js layered architectures and microservices using RabbitMQ, including real-world scaling issues (duplicates, backpressure) and observability practices (correlation IDs, structured logging).”

Sivapriya Rachakonda

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices on AWS and Kubernetes

Remote, USA5y exp

“Backend engineer who built a stateless Python/Flask service supporting a healthcare-document ETL pipeline, offloading heavy processing to Celery workers and adding strong observability (metrics, structured logs, audits). Demonstrates practical performance/reliability work: batch chunking, priority queues, autoscaling by queue depth/CPU, DLQ routing, and PostgreSQL tuning (indexes, pagination) to cut slow API responses. Also has experience deploying real-time ML classification via TensorFlow Serving behind a FastAPI wrapper and integrating models via REST/gRPC.”

Harini KanakapuraRavishankar

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack & Integration Engineer specializing in Insurance APIs

Chicago, IL7y exp

“Hands-on engineer focused on taking complex/LLM-style workflows from prototype to production, emphasizing robust error handling, CI/CD + Docker deployment, and deep observability (Kibana/Rancher/Grafana). Experienced customizing client integrations and data transformations (XML/JSON/PDF to SFTP) and debugging agent workflows with traces, prompt verification, and human-in-the-loop safety controls. Partnered with product/ops to drive adoption, including a MuleSoft migration that improved partner onboarding speed by ~50%.”

Austin Pierce-Ptak

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and ETL systems

Seattle, WA5y exp

“Backend engineer with end-to-end ownership experience across enterprise SaaS and high-volume data systems, including PostgreSQL/.NET services at Visual Lease and ETL pipelines at Broadridge processing millions of records for Fortune 500 clients. Stands out for combining production support, observability thinking, and pragmatic architecture tradeoffs, while also experimenting with LLM-powered job application automation using Claude.”

“Full-stack engineer with startup-style ownership across backend, frontend, and AI systems, spanning Java/Spring, React, Node/TypeScript, and LLM-powered retrieval. Shipped a workspace intelligence layer using LangChain, OpenAI, and Pinecone to paying customers, while also improving core product metrics like workspace creation success (+30%), latency (450ms to 280ms), and deployment cycle time (-40%).”

“Built both a fantasy sports analytics product and a privacy-sensitive AI assistant for therapists, showing range across consumer and healthcare use cases. Particularly notable for designing self-hosted, HIPAA-conscious LLM systems with RAG, structured outputs, observability, and human-in-the-loop guardrails for clinical workflows.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on high-scale, event-driven AWS ingestion systems (SQS/Lambda/EKS) processing millions of events per day, with strong reliability patterns (idempotency, DLQs, bounded retries) and deep observability using Datadog distributed tracing. Has delivered Terraform/GitHub Actions CI/CD and improved secret rotation via Secrets Manager + IRSA, plus Glue-based ETL with schema-evolution handling and Postgres SQL optimization (including JSONB/GIN indexing). Candidate is currently living outside the US and states they do not have US work authorization.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered customer support agent for an EV charging platform using RAG plus internal APIs, automating session/payment issues and ticket routing. Emphasizes production readiness via guardrails, schema validation, state-machine orchestration, monitoring, and continuous evals, delivering a reported 35–40% reduction in support tickets and improved customer satisfaction.”

Indupriya gummadi

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in React/Next.js web applications

Detroit, MI5y exp

“Software engineer with airline operations domain experience building real-time dashboards and internal tools for frontline ops and customer support. Strong in TypeScript/React performance optimization and backend/microservices reliability (RabbitMQ, DLQs, autoscaling, correlation IDs/observability), with a track record of shipping incrementally via feature flags and driving organic adoption through pilot-led iteration.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on ownership of a production POS platform, including architecture, CI/CD, Kubernetes deployment, and live incident handling. Also built a RAG-based document Q&A system using OpenAI/Anthropic with hybrid retrieval, evaluation metrics, and fallback logic, showing both traditional backend depth and practical applied AI experience.”

“AI/full-stack builder with a track record of shipping practical LLM products in both hackathon and professional settings. Built ScoutR, an agentic football scouting platform that won Best Use of Gemini at HackCU 2026, and at Merkle shipped a GPT-4-based review-tagging tool that cut analyst tagging time by 90%.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience building real-time sensor telemetry platforms: FastAPI + PostgreSQL services with strong observability, plus AWS serverless and Glue-based ETL into Redshift. Has modernized legacy SAS pipelines into Python microservices and delivered measurable performance wins (Postgres query latency cut to <1 minute and ~60% DB CPU reduction) while owning incident response and reliability improvements.”

“Hands-on engineer focused on productionizing LLM-powered assistants: builds RAG pipelines with guardrails, response schemas, and citation-grounded outputs, then hardens them with explicit NFRs (latency, uptime, security, cost). Experienced diagnosing agentic/LLM workflow issues in real time using observability and stepwise isolation, and supports go-to-market via developer demos, workshops, and pre-sales technical evaluations in microservices/Spring Boot environments.”

“Backend-focused Python engineer who builds modular Flask services on AWS and specializes in performance/scalability work across data-heavy APIs. Has concrete wins in query optimization (1.5s to <200ms) and high-throughput async processing (Celery+Redis, ~40% throughput gain), plus experience serving scikit-learn text classification models via containerized REST services and designing multi-tenant data isolation strategies.”

“Backend/DevX engineer with startup experience who built internal JavaScript SDKs for POS integrations, including a daily GMV calculation feature standardized across multiple POS providers. Strong in performance debugging (used Jaeger to resolve legacy WebSocket bottlenecks) and developer enablement—built a cronjob migration tool (ArgoWorkflow to internal platform) with documentation that let teams migrate in ~30 seconds, plus handled on-call and internal support.”