Vetted Docker Professionals

varsha viswanathan

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Entry-Level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and FinTech

Fremont, CA1y exp

“Software engineering intern experience at Zoho Corp and Zeus Desk building and deploying customer-facing systems. Delivered a real-time booking platform backend that stayed stable for 1,000+ users by optimizing MySQL queries/indexing and shipping hotfixes during production latency incidents. Also integrated financial operations APIs across 50+ small-bank partners by creating a normalization/validation layer to handle inconsistent partner data and prevent integration breakages.”

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.”

Michael St.Claire

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Chief Architect specializing in microservices, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise AI agents

Idaho, US22y exp

“Startup-focused engineering leader applying for a CTO role; previously served as founding CTO of a tech startup and held engineering/architecture roles across several others. Evaluates new ventures through market research and market demand, and emphasizes building from the ground up with strong teams (has not personally participated in fundraising).”

Vladimir Novick

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive CTO and Software Architect specializing in AI systems and cloud platforms

Israel, Israel22y exp

“Startup-minded technical founder currently running Novicklabs and building Itervox.dev, an AI agent orchestration platform for developer teams. Previously served as CTO at EventLoop and shows strong insight into multi-agent tooling, observability, security, and the open-source-to-cloud path for developer infrastructure products.”

Serge Alhalbi

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Robotics & AI Engineer specializing in autonomous systems

Tulsa, OK4y exp

“Robotics software engineer with deep ROS2 experience who owned the perception stack for an automated C. elegans manipulation system—building YOLO-based worm segmentation plus OCR label reading and integrating it into a MoveIt2 pipeline with real-time latency constraints. Also deploying ROS2 on an AgileX Tracer with ZED depth camera for vision-based person following and working on SLAM/sensor fusion, with additional production-style ML deployment experience (Dockerized FastAPI + PyTorch on AWS EC2 with CI/CD).”

“Cloud/Linux infrastructure engineer focused on high-availability AWS platforms (EKS/EC2) with strong observability and incident response ownership. Has hands-on experience building secure CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins) and Terraform-based IaC at scale, including resolving real production issues like peak-traffic latency and Terraform remote state locking; transparent about not having direct IBM Power/AIX/PowerHA production ownership.”

“DevSecOps/AWS infrastructure engineer at Madison Logic who owns a 15-account AWS footprint and treats nearly all AWS resources as code (Terraform/CloudFormation). Led a CI/CD platform migration (Bitbucket → GitLab + GitHub Actions) supporting WordPress and containerized microservices, improving release frequency to weekly/daily, and has hands-on production incident response experience on ECS Fargate using Datadog with fast rollback via immutable ECR tags and task definition revisions.”

Preet Talati

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Junior Full-Stack Developer specializing in .NET Core and React

2y exp

“Full-stack engineer who has shipped end-to-end, customer-facing features in an education/student-population context, including an authorized incident-reporting workflow with RBAC and a PostgreSQL-backed data model. Has 0→1 React+TypeScript/Redux product experience (CTO at Jiffur) and hands-on production operations with CI/CD (Azure Pipelines/GitHub Actions), including resolving a real CPU-saturation outage via operational mitigation and scaling changes.”

“Works on clinical trial applications and data pipelines, including AWS Lambda-based file transfer workflows for clinical study metadata. Has hands-on experience hardening production systems by adding observability, SSH/auth exception handling (Paramiko), retries/timeouts, and validating changes across SIT/UAT/prod. Also supports adoption through tailored technical demos for new teams and vendor partners integrating into their workflows.”

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped production systems end-to-end, including a note-taking product (Notey) combining audio/image capture, ASR, summarization, and a semantic chat agent over past notes. Also has applied ML experience in healthcare, collaborating directly with doctors to validate an EEG seizure-detection pipeline, and uses Kubernetes to optimize GPU usage for LLM training.”

Pranathi Kamisetty

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Intern AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, NLP, and conversational search

Chicago, Illinois1y exp

“Student building a production trip-planning LLM agent (LangChain + Streamlit) that routes user queries across multiple tools (maps/places/Wikipedia). Implemented zero-shot multi-label intent detection with priority rules to handle multi-intent requests, and collaborates with a startup product manager to shape tone, features, and user experience.”

Diya Wadhwani

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in MERN, AWS, and secure authentication

4y exp

“Application-layer full-stack engineer who has shipped enterprise-facing integrations and developer tooling, including an end-to-end Slack integration for automated ticket creation and a real-time feature-flag dashboard (React/TS + GraphQL/Apollo + NestJS) with audit trails. Has hands-on AWS container operations experience (ECS Fargate/ALB/RDS) and has improved product performance (35% faster dashboards) while building auth and RBAC for 500+ users.”

“Unity gameplay engineer with hands-on ownership across core game systems, multiplayer, AI/LLM integration, and cross-platform XR/mobile shipping. Particularly compelling is their combination of deep runtime optimization and systems architecture: they cut match-3 cascade frame spikes by 40-50%, eliminated a class of production race-condition bugs, and also built a local-model FastAPI-backed AI prototype with structured evaluation and cost control.”

“AI/ML manager who has deployed production NLP in healthcare—mining unstructured clinical notes and combining them with structured patient data to predict readmissions, with strong emphasis on data alignment and terminology normalization. Also experienced operationalizing ML with Airflow/MLflow and AWS Step Functions/SageMaker, plus stakeholder-facing Power BI dashboards (e.g., marketing customer segmentation).”

“Hands-on LLM/RAG engineer with production experience improving retrieval quality and stability by addressing messy data, vector DB inaccuracy, and top-K issues—ultimately redesigning to hybrid search with tuned keyword/semantic weighting and MCP-based data supplementation. Also brings strong AKS/Kubernetes deployment experience, optimizing CI/CD speed via lightweight local Docker validation and decomposing pods to avoid full rebuilds, plus a metrics-driven approach to agent/workflow testing and traceability.”

“Backend/platform engineer with payments and insurance domain experience (Cognizant), owning high-volume production systems end-to-end. Shipped a Spring Boot payment tokenization service with strong observability and phased migration that cut transaction latency ~30% and improved payment efficiency ~25%. Also productionized an ML-driven financial health/risk analytics pipeline with near real-time dashboards across 70+ schools, emphasizing interpretability, data quality, and drift monitoring.”

“Robotics/AI engineer focused on multi-agent reinforcement learning for Crazyflie drones, enabling coordination via implicit motion-based communication and a stabilizing FSM layer; reported 98.5% sim and 92% real-world behavior-recognition accuracy. Also built a modular ROS 2 wall-following system (custom nodes/services/actions) and a Raspberry Pi + OpenCV stereo-vision walking robot, emphasizing rigorous logging, stress testing, and sim-to-real deployment.”

“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.”

“AI Engineer with production experience building an LLM-powered conversational scheduling assistant (rules-based + OpenAI GPT agents) and improving responsiveness by ~40% through architecture optimization. Strong in orchestration (Airflow), containerized deployments, and data quality (Great Expectations/PySpark), with prior work automating population health reporting pipelines (Azure Data Factory → Snowflake) and delivering insights via Tableau to non-technical stakeholders.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on ROS (ROS 1) experience building sensor-processing and state-based control pipelines in Python/C++. Demonstrated measurable reliability and performance gains in autonomous navigation—cut runtime failures by 30%, reduced replanning by 35%, and improved debugging efficiency by 40%—using timing-aware state machines, message/interface discipline, and simulation/testing with Gazebo, rosbag, Docker, and CI/CD.”

“Software developer with EdPlus experience building pragmatic internal tools (Next.js/TypeScript) and cloud automations (AWS) that feed Google Sheets and Looker Studio dashboards for operational visibility across 30+ student workers. Also worked on an IEEE Xplore-published missing-person tracker using a SPARQL graph database on Azure with a TypeScript/React frontend, and has experience navigating legacy access constraints (OpenVPN) while enabling remote VR previews via ngrok.”

“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.”