Vetted Elasticsearch Professionals

Brian Sanders

Screened

Senior Backend Engineer specializing in GenAI, LLMs, and scalable data pipelines

Chicago, IL12y exp

“Backend/ML platform engineer from Snapsheet who owned production Python services and data pipelines for insurance claims, including an AI document classification/summarization FastAPI service on ECS/Fargate processing 1M+ documents/year. Strong in AWS infrastructure (Terraform, CI/CD, secrets/IAM, autoscaling), Glue/PySpark ETL with schema evolution controls, and legacy SAS-to-microservices modernization with safe, feature-flagged rollouts and measurable performance wins.”

“Backend/data engineer with experience at Nike building high-volume order orchestration and validation APIs using FastAPI microservices on AWS EKS with Kafka, Redis, and Postgres. Strong in production reliability (timeouts/retries/idempotency), GitOps (Argo CD) + Terraform deployments, and data pipelines (AWS Glue/S3), with hands-on incident ownership and legacy modernization into API-driven services.”

“Player-coach engineering leader focused on scalable data security scanning and risk detection in hybrid cloud, owning architecture and core implementation of an incremental/parallel DSPM scanning engine. Shipped production improvements including 60% lower scan latency and 30% fewer false positives, with strong emphasis on correctness under concurrency, multi-tenant observability (SLOs/burn-rate alerts), and disciplined rollout practices (feature flags, shadow scans, canaries).”

“Full-stack engineer with strong startup experience across small distributed teams, owning everything from React UIs to Go services and Python data pipelines. He stands out for designing stable APIs and data models in ambiguous compliance-heavy environments, with measurable impact including a 38% reduction in manual cleanup and a 27% drop in customer-visible incidents. He has also worked deeply in B2B SaaS at Ashby, supporting mission-critical recruiting workflows where data correctness, permissions, and integration stability were essential.”

Ravikanth Kasamsetty

Screened

Executive engineering leader specializing in AI, data platforms, and cloud SaaS

California, USA23y exp

“Senior engineering executive with a rare mix of VP-level people leadership and deep hands-on architecture across cloud-native and AI platforms. He led secure hybrid SaaS design at Promethium, built GenAI-powered analytics with LLMs/RAG, and translated customer needs into product wins including the largest deal in company history and a PLG motion that generated 100+ leads.”

“Engineering/product leader with repeated experience defining roadmaps and delivering platform migrations across SaaS and enterprise contexts. Scaled an education system from two districts to 2M+ students statewide, and led an Elasticsearch-based architecture for an internal Disney product serving ~100K employees. Known for rigorous execution (RAID/OKRs/sprints), strong stakeholder communication (weekly AI summaries), and empowering teams via end-to-end ownership and customer-connected development.”