Vetted Elastic Stack (ELK) Professionals

“Cloud/SRE-style engineer at TDS supporting revenue-critical transportation SaaS platforms on AWS/GCP with Kubernetes. Has hands-on experience leading high-impact production work including DDoS mitigation, zero-downtime MSSQL→PostgreSQL migration using CDC, and building secure GitHub Actions + ArgoCD delivery pipelines and Terraform-based GKE infrastructure.”

“UNIX infrastructure engineer with hands-on AIX 7.x and Solaris 11.4 operations, including high-severity Oracle/NFS I/O incidents resolved via MTU/Jumbo Frame tuning and performance tooling (iostat/vmstat/top/fio). Experienced in IBM Power (P5–P9) environments with VIOS/LPAR and PowerHA/HACMP (up to 8-node clusters), plus legacy Sun/Oracle SPARC and AIX migrations using custom Bash/Python discovery scripts and rsync-based cutovers.”

Naveen Chokkakula

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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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“End-to-end engineer focused on AI-native enterprise systems, including a production generative knowledge platform using RAG + semantic search over internal documentation (React, Python/Flask, GPU-hosted NLP models, Pinecone) with strong CI/CD and observability. Reports concrete outcomes including 40% faster knowledge access and ~75% employee adoption, and has led incremental cloud-native modernization using feature flags, parallel runs, canary releases, and regression testing.”

Sai Prudhivi

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Mid Software Engineer specializing in full-stack microservices and cloud platforms

New York, NY4y exp

“Backend-focused engineer with experience building high-volume policy management and enterprise pricing systems, including Django/FastAPI/Flask services, Kafka-based async workflows, and Prometheus/Grafana observability. While they have not yet shipped a customer-facing AI agent or production LLM integration, they bring strong cloud, API, reliability, and scalable system design fundamentals that translate well to responsible AI infrastructure work.”

“AI Engineer at Humanitarian AI who has built and productionized both a LangGraph-based multi-agent workflow system and a RAG pipeline (OpenAI embeddings + vector DB) with rigorous evaluation/guardrails. Reports strong measurable impact (60% faster workflow delivery, 40% fewer incidents, 70% reduced research time) and has prior enterprise modernization experience at Infosys migrating ETL to microservices with zero production incidents.”

“Engineer with experience in regulated healthcare and financial systems, including a United Health healthcare service migration to AWS. Built documentation-as-code for CI/CD (Jenkins/Docker/Kubernetes/Terraform + GitHub Actions) that accelerated release cycles from 3 weeks to 4 days and tied security configuration (Spring Security/OAuth2/JWT) directly to HIPAA/GDPR compliance. Strong in observability-led incident response (ELK/Prometheus/Grafana) and performance tuning (PostgreSQL, async processing), citing MTTR reduction from 3 hours to 50 minutes and support for 250K+ concurrent users.”

“Full-stack engineer focused on data-heavy platforms, building Spring Boot microservices and Angular/React dashboards end-to-end. Has hands-on experience improving large-scale API and UI performance (including cutting 8–10s response times) and ensuring cross-service consistency using Kafka, idempotent consumers, and strong validation/transaction patterns on AWS with CI/CD and observability (Prometheus/ELK).”

“Backend engineer who built an Emergency Alert System with Virginia Tech for the City of Alexandria, focusing on real-time ingestion, secure dashboards, and AI-assisted prioritization. Emphasizes high-stakes reliability with guardrails (hybrid rules+LLM, confidence-based fallbacks), scalable async processing, and defense-in-depth security (JWT/RBAC plus database row-level security).”

Muhammad Waqas Ashraf

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Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps

Lahore, Pakistan7y exp

“Frontend engineer focused on building and scaling data-heavy, real-time dashboards with React/Next.js/TypeScript. Emphasizes performance and reliability at scale through modular architecture, centralized state (Zustand/Redux), strict API contracts, automated testing, and production monitoring (Grafana/CloudWatch), and has experience shipping quickly with feature-flagged rollouts and rapid iteration from user feedback.”

“Independent product builder with several live startups spanning transit, gaming, and SaaS/API tools. Notably built a Cyprus bus routes app before transit data was broadly available on Google Maps, and is currently maintaining products like CountriesDB and HolidayDB while pursuing SEO-led growth and validating ideas solo before expanding.”

Romain Delamare

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Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in microservices and web applications

Montpellier, France10y exp

“Developer who treats AI as a junior collaborator, using it to accelerate mobile app feature development and UI/UX iteration while retaining architectural and implementation ownership. Has hands-on experience with specialized agents, multi-agent collaboration, and supervisor-agent patterns, suggesting practical fluency in AI-native development workflows.”

“LLM/RAG practitioner who has taken a support-ticket triage automation system from prototype to production, building the full pipeline (fine-tuned models, FastAPI inference services, vector storage, monitoring) and delivering measurable impact (~40% reduction in triage time). Demonstrates strong operational troubleshooting of LLM/agentic workflows (observability-driven debugging, fixing agent routing/looping) and supports adoption through tailored demos and sales-aligned technical communication.”

Anudeep Reddy Veerla

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Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices

Boston, MA3y exp

“Built and shipped both a solo real-time multiplayer Spades game (TypeScript monorepo with shared client/server engine) and a production internal LLM-powered document Q&A tool for a SaaS company. Demonstrates strong RAG pipeline design (Pinecone + embeddings + reranking), rigorous eval/regression practices, and pragmatic data ingestion/observability work across Confluence, Notion, and messy PDFs/OCR—backed by clear metric improvements (P@1 61%→78%, escalations 40%→22%).”

Jayasri Guthula

Screened

Mid-level Applied ML Engineer specializing in LLM evaluation and multimodal agent systems

Remote5y exp

“Full-stack engineer working at the intersection of product and infrastructure, building developer-facing interfaces for AI voice agents in XR/immersive environments plus telemetry-heavy analytics dashboards. Experienced in Postgres telemetry data modeling and performance tuning, and in designing durable multi-step LLM pipelines with idempotency, retries, and strong observability; has operated in fast-moving startup-like teams (Biocom, HandshakeAI).”

Vishesh Kumar

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Intern Software & AI Engineer specializing in distributed systems and LLM applications

Palo Alto, CA1y exp

“Stony Brook Fall 2024 capstone contributor who built a ROS2-based warehouse mobile robot prototype, owning perception and SLAM integration end-to-end. Strong in real-time robotics optimization on Jetson Orin (TensorRT/CUDA, ROS2 tracing/Nsight) and in distributed ROS2 communications (DDS discovery/QoS, MAVLink-to-ROS2 bridging), with a full simulation/testing/deployment toolchain (Gazebo, CI tests, Docker/K3s).”

Pranav Gaikwad

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native platforms and supply chain systems

Atlanta, GA8y exp

“Backend and platform engineering leader with deep supply chain and warehouse systems experience, including building a company-wide MDM platform across five ERP systems and supporting a 72-microservice warehouse execution environment. Particularly compelling for AI-forward logistics roles: currently pursuing an AI-focused PhD, has published supply chain AI research, and holds a utility patent for AI-driven predictive analysis.”