Vetted Docker Professionals

Ojasmitha Pedirappagari

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Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and agentic platforms

Jersey City, NJ5y exp

“Built and shipped a production RAG-based assistant that lets parents ask natural-language questions about their child’s learning progress, using pgvector retrieval (child-id filtered) and Redis caching to hit ~180ms latency. Implemented real-world guardrails and compliance (Llama Guard, COPPA, retrieval thresholds, fallbacks) with 99.5% uptime, and ran human-in-the-loop eval loops that improved satisfaction from 3.8 to 4.2 while serving 60k+ monthly users and reducing costs significantly.”

Srilekha Jakkula

Screened

Senior Data Engineer specializing in scalable data pipelines and API-driven data services

Chicago, IL5y exp

“Data engineer focused on building scalable, reliable end-to-end data pipelines and backend REST data services, spanning API ingestion plus batch/stream processing with Airflow, Kafka, Spark/PySpark, and SQL. Emphasizes strong data quality validation, monitoring/fault tolerance, and performance tuning for large datasets, with experience deploying in cloud environments using containerization and CI/CD.”

Zubair Shaik

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Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in AI-driven FinTech platforms

Remote, USA4y exp

“Built and productionized an LLM-powered loan decisioning agent at Bank of America, integrating RAG with microservices to automate creditworthiness assessment and recommendations. Emphasizes real-world reliability and governance (EKS autoscaling, observability, SOC2/PCI security controls), and drove measurable outcomes including 20% faster loan decisions and a reduction in agent failures/fallbacks to under 2% through schema enforcement and confidence-based routing.”

“Backend engineer who built a real-time, event-driven alerting platform (Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, MongoDB) processing millions of events per day on AWS (Docker/Kubernetes), including hands-on performance debugging of Kafka consumer lag at peak. Also shipped an end-to-end LLM-based alert summarization feature and designed a multi-step incident triage agent workflow with retries and human-in-the-loop escalation.”

“Backend/microservices engineer (Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, Angular microfrontends) with Teradata experience building distributed analytics/query routing platforms and delivering 20–30% latency reductions through event-driven redesign and reliability hardening. Also built and shipped an end-to-end multimodal medical imaging AI feature (LLaVA/Mistral 7B + LoRA) with production guardrails like confidence-based human review, drift monitoring, and audit logs.”

“Full-stack engineer with production experience across React/TypeScript, Node/Express, and Java/Spring Boot, operating containerized systems on AWS (EKS/ECS/EC2/RDS/S3) with strong observability (CloudWatch/Grafana). Notable for fixing a real checkout/order-placement failure end-to-end by adding frontend submission guards and backend idempotency with Redis + Kafka deduplication, then validating impact via technical metrics and business KPIs. Has also built Kafka-based integrations/pipelines with robust retry/backfill/reconciliation patterns in retail and banking contexts.”

“Backend/real-time systems engineer transitioning into robotics software: building ROS 2 fundamentals (pub/sub, custom messages, launch files) and experimenting with Nav2 + SLAM in Gazebo/RViz. Demonstrated practical debugging by tuning costmaps/planners and analyzing topic latency to stabilize simulated navigation, and has experience integrating telemetry pipelines and REST-based external interfaces.”

“Backend engineer who architected and owned a mission-critical outage management/decision-support platform, replacing a legacy system that failed under load. Emphasizes auditability, deterministic validation, and server-side concurrency controls (section locking, scoped autosaves), plus redundancy/load balancing and monitoring to keep the system stable for 24/7 operations handling 1,500+ weekly outage events.”

“DXArts PhD researcher and recent UW capstone contributor building autonomous robotics systems with ROS2 (SLAM Toolbox, Nav2) and Gazebo simulation. Currently focused on integrating a 9-DOF SparkFun IMU with motor controls on Raspberry Pi, and developing OpenCV ArUco-marker tracking for an automated BlueROV that can locate and retrieve underwater targets in collaboration with mechanical engineering.”

“Founding member of Tausight, building AI systems to detect and protect PHI for healthcare organizations; helped take the company through post–Series A funding and exited after ~6 years. Drove a strategic collaboration with Intel’s OpenVINO team—becoming the first to deploy it in a real production system and improving model performance by ~30% on customer Intel-CPU machines.”

“Software engineer/product owner who has led end-to-end delivery of AI and content-management platforms, including building RAG-based reliability improvements and migrating fragile systems to containerized AWS ECS/Kubernetes with Terraform-managed CI/CD. Experienced designing event-driven microservices (SQS/SNS/RabbitMQ), scaling queue consumers with autoscaling, and creating internal Python tooling to standardize data connectors (e.g., BigQuery/Airtable/internal APIs) to speed iteration.”

“Accenture engineer who owned an insurance e-application end-to-end and drove incremental releases that reduced recurring production issues. Also built a TypeScript/React (Next.js) + NestJS microservices platform using PostgreSQL, Redis, Stripe, and Kafka, with strong focus on decoupling, eventual consistency, and scaling consumers under load. Created a hackathon chat-based internal assistant that used live form context and documentation-grounded answers to help agents resolve customer queries during form filling.”

“Built and shipped a production RAG-based enterprise knowledge assistant to replace slow/inaccurate search across millions of documents, using LangChain orchestration with GPT-4/LLaMA and vector databases. Strong focus on production constraints—latency, hallucination control, and cost—using hybrid retrieval, guardrails, LLM-as-judge validation, and model routing, and has experience translating non-technical stakeholder pain points into measurable outcomes.”

“Built and productionized an enterprise retrieval-augmented generation platform for internal knowledge over large unstructured corpora, emphasizing trust via strict citation/grounding and hybrid retrieval (BM25 + FAISS + cross-encoder re-ranking). Demonstrates strong scaling and cost/latency optimization through incremental indexing/embedding and index partitioning, plus disciplined evaluation/observability practices. Has experience operationalizing pipelines with Airflow/Databricks/GitHub Actions and partnering closely with risk & compliance stakeholders on auditability requirements.”

“Full-stack engineer who built and owned an end-to-end real-time engineering dashboard for Medtronic robotic surgical systems, streaming high-frequency sensor/kinematic data via Python WebSockets to a React/TypeScript UI. Differentiates through performance/reliability practices (stable core vs experimental layer, observability, caching) and high-impact 3D visualization + session playback that became part of engineers' regular bench-testing workflows.”

“Software engineer/product owner experience at GE Healthcare, owning a patient records and claims workflow product end-to-end. Built React/TypeScript + Spring Boot systems with contract-driven APIs (OpenAPI) and operated Spring Boot microservices using RabbitMQ, focusing on reliability patterns (idempotency, DLQs) and performance improvements driven by clinical feedback. Also created an internal monitoring/deployment dashboard that became the default tool for on-call and production support.”

“Built and deployed a production SecureAIChatBot (RAG-based) for secure internal information retrieval, using embeddings/vector search, GPT models, monitoring, and safety filters. Focused on real-world production challenges like latency and output consistency, applying caching, retrieval scoping, smaller models, and controlled prompting, and used LangChain to orchestrate the end-to-end workflow.”

“Full-stack engineer and ML assistant in UC Irvine’s CS department who deployed a lab project showcase platform and integrated on-demand execution of computational projects using Docker for isolation. Also built and optimized Linux cloud/cluster test automation for research, diagnosing RAM and network sync bottlenecks, and later led development of a Python-based predictive analytics tool for musicians using probabilistic graphical models and flexible data pipelines.”

“Built and productionized an internal LLM-powered search tool that helps engineers find the right SolidWorks macros using plain-English queries, using OpenAI embeddings and ChromaDB with strong logging/fallback safeguards. Experienced in diagnosing RAG/agentic workflow issues in real time and in hands-on API support, including fixing customer macros after SolidWorks version updates and driving adoption through reusable solutions and best practices.”

“Software engineer experienced in e-commerce systems, building customer-facing features and internal operations tools with TypeScript/React frontends and Spring Boot microservices. Demonstrated measurable performance wins (order-tracking API improved from ~2s to <700ms) and strong event-driven reliability practices with RabbitMQ (idempotency, DLQs, retry/backoff), including resolving a production queue backlog incident. Built an ops dashboard with real-time cross-service order tracing that became a daily tool for support/ops and reduced escalations to engineering.”

“BNY Mellon engineer who has built and operated production AI systems end-to-end: a LangChain/Pinecone RAG platform scaled via FastAPI + Kubernetes to 1000 RPM with 99.9% uptime, supported by monitoring and data-drift detection. Also deep in data/infra orchestration (Airflow, Dagster, Terraform on AWS/EMR/EC2), processing 500GB+ daily and delivering measurable reliability and performance gains, plus strong compliance-facing model explainability using SHAP and Tableau.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong data/regulatory reporting background (BNY) who owns customer-facing and internal reporting products end-to-end—from ETL/SQL transformations through React/TypeScript UIs and Spring Boot APIs. Built role-based, audit-friendly dashboards and designed RabbitMQ-based event-driven microservices with reliability patterns (idempotent consumers, publisher confirms, Saga) to scale workflows across teams.”

“Backend/AI engineer who built an AI icon-generation SaaS backend (Java/Spring Boot, MongoDB) on AWS, including async job processing with idempotency and S3-based result storage to handle traffic spikes. Also shipped applied AI in finance—an end-to-end fraud detection pipeline with risk scoring—and designed a banking support AI agent with strict guardrails, audit logs, and human-in-the-loop escalation.”

“Robotics engineer who led core autonomy stack development at Spacer Robotics (Isaac ROS/ROS2) spanning sensor integration, SLAM/mapping, navigation, and validation. In a research lab thesis, built three mobile robots from scratch and created a distributed multi-agent collaboration framework with blockchain-based incentive models, demonstrating depth in both hands-on robotics and distributed systems.”