Vetted Elasticsearch Professionals

“Built and owned end-to-end production systems for a healthcare platform, including a predictive task recommendation feature (React + FastAPI + ML on AWS ECS) that cut backlog 20% and saved coordinators ~10 hours/week. Also productionized an AI-native RAG system (vector DB + LLM) delivering 40% faster query resolution, and led phased modernization of a monolithic FastAPI service into async microservices using feature flags and canary releases.”

Prakash Bhanu

Screened

Director of Software Engineering specializing in cloud, platform, and FinTech systems

Sunnyvale, CA22y exp

“Senior software engineering leader with broad 0-to-1 product experience spanning web apps, microservices, monoliths, messaging platforms, ML/AI products, and large-scale distributed systems. Notable examples include building a payroll/finance product for cast and crew, a distributed messaging platform, and a Walmart application deployed across multiple CDNs and clouds handling hundreds of TPS, with personal ownership across architecture, design, coding, and support.”

“Built end-to-end AI features across both fitness and insurance domains, including a full-stack personalized workout recommendation system and a production RAG-based insurance QA assistant at Relevance Labs. Stands out for combining backend/distributed systems skills with practical LLM architecture, evaluation, and risk-aware human-in-the-loop design; notably reduced unnecessary LLM calls by 40% while improving latency and answer reliability.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-powered clinical assistant at a healthcare startup, re-architecting a prototype into a robust RAG system on AWS with guardrails, citations, monitoring, and automated tests for clinical reliability. Works closely with clinicians to convert workflow feedback into evaluation criteria and iterative system improvements, and has hands-on experience debugging agentic systems in real time (including during live client demos).”

“Built Baioniq, an enterprise LLM platform for automating extraction from massive unstructured documents like contracts and insurance claims. They demonstrate unusually strong production depth in agentic AI—scaling to 100k+ requests/day, processing 1M+ claim documents, and improving extraction accuracy through rigorous RAG architecture, evaluation, and fallback design.”

“Built and owned a production conversational AI platform for a healthcare contact center, including RAG-based agent assist, hybrid retrieval, safety guardrails, and production monitoring. Stands out for combining LLM product delivery with strong operational rigor, driving a reported 25-30% improvement in handling time in a sensitive healthcare environment.”

“Built and launched a production self-healing MLOps agent that autonomously diagnosed and fixed model training failures on Kubernetes GPU infrastructure. Combines deep AI infrastructure knowledge with full-stack product ownership, and has delivered measurable impact including 35% less infrastructure waste, nearly 50% less troubleshooting time, and 60% lower LLM API costs.”

“Director-level Senior Manager of Software Engineering at Discover with roughly a decade in web application engineering leadership, focused on modernizing legacy banking platforms into cloud-native SPA architectures. Stands out for combining large-team people leadership with hands-on technical depth in architecture, debugging, and prototyping, including GenAI experimentation and high-scale customer-facing migrations.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience shipping operational products in inventory and production management, spanning React/TypeScript frontends and Python, Node.js, and Java/Spring Boot backends. Particularly strong in making complex systems usable and reliable in production, including AI-powered anomaly detection with fallback logic, observability, and user-friendly alerting for non-technical operations teams.”

“Architecture leader from Disney who managed system, AI, and data architects while staying hands-on in solution design. Has experience building LLM-based video advertising products, designing Kafka-based real-time data architectures, and using MVP/POC approaches to align product and executive stakeholders.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership of a customer-facing advanced performance metrics experience in the Amazon S3 console, spanning React UI, Python/Node services, Redshift/RDS data access, and AWS IaC/CI-CD with CloudWatch/Route53 operational readiness. Demonstrates strong production instincts around resilience (partial failures, multi-region inconsistencies), progressive rollouts/feature flags, and reliable ETL/integration patterns (idempotency, backfills, reconciliation).”

Eric Lee

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and AI-powered systems

San Jose, CA3y exp

“Software engineer with experience spanning startup-style full-stack product work and large-scale Amazon backend systems. Built and owned an AI-powered recruiting workflow in Next.js/TypeScript/Prisma/PostgreSQL, and previously improved Alexa service scalability at Amazon by driving a caching change that cut API traffic by about 30%.”

Ranfei Pang

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI systems and FinTech

Boston, MA4y exp

“Amazon warehouse-tools engineer with strong full-stack and GenAI systems experience, spanning large-scale provisioning platforms and internal LLM/chatbot products. They’ve owned systems end to end, including React/TypeScript frontends, Java/AWS backend orchestration, and Bedrock-based RAG architectures, with measurable impact on latency, token cost, validation quality, and operational support load.”

“Data/ML backend engineer with hands-on production experience spanning RAG services (LlamaIndex/OpenAI) and AWS data platforms. Has delivered Terraform-managed AWS architectures (Lambda + ECS Fargate) with secure secrets handling, built Glue-to-Redshift ETL with schema evolution controls, modernized SAS reporting into Python microservices, and achieved major Redshift query speedups (2+ hours to under 15 minutes).”

“Robotics software engineer who has built end-to-end pipelines spanning backend/data processing through model interfaces and hardware integration. Has hands-on ROS2 experience building Python nodes and debugging real-time behavior via profiling, publish-rate tuning, and latency fixes, plus experience standardizing multi-robot communication with QoS adjustments. Uses Gazebo simulation and Docker/CI/CD to catch integration issues early and speed iteration.”

“Built and shipped open-source LLM/RAG systems, including a generative AI assistant grounded on ~30,000 scraped university web pages, improving response accuracy ~30% by moving from TF-IDF-only retrieval to a hybrid sentence-transformer approach with fallback controls. Also partnered with non-technical leadership at Securi.ai to deliver real-time predictive analytics dashboards (Elasticsearch + Jira/ServiceNow) that reduced project overhead by 18%.”

“Full stack engineer in the financial/thematic investing domain who built end-to-end applications on AWS. Notably redesigned a slow portfolio analytics workflow by offloading heavy computations to scheduled AWS Lambda jobs and caching results in DynamoDB (TTL), cutting API latency from ~5 seconds to under 300ms while supporting data-heavy daily market processing.”

“Backend-heavy full-stack engineer with experience at Intuit (TurboTax Live) and Paytm payments, building and scaling Java/Spring Boot microservices for high-traffic transaction systems. Has hands-on wins improving peak-load performance using Redis/disk caching and Kafka event-driven patterns, plus React/Redux work for web app integration and strong monitoring practices with ELK.”

“Backend/LLM engineer who built a production-critical Amazon Bedrock + RAG correction and compliance layer for employee communications, integrating tightly with existing Spring Boot/AWS microservices to reduce manual review while keeping outputs explainable and auditable. Also designed an event-driven system processing 10M+ events/day (SQS/Lambda/DynamoDB/Elasticsearch) and handled on-call incidents with strong observability and reliability patterns (idempotency, retries, hotspot mitigation).”

“Infrastructure/DevOps engineer with primary ownership in enterprise Linux and AWS/Azure production environments (including financial systems). Built secure, repeatable CI/CD pipelines deploying containerized workloads to EKS/ECS and implemented Terraform/CloudFormation IaC with drift detection and rollback practices; lacks direct IBM Power/AIX/PowerHA experience.”

Lavanya Chilakalapudi

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud-native web apps and APIs

Tampa, FL5y exp

“Backend engineer with experience building microservice-based systems that integrate LLM workflows (code review suggestions, documentation generation, test scaffolding) using REST APIs, Celery/Redis, and OpenTelemetry for observability. Demonstrates hands-on database and performance optimization in PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy (bulk inserts, lock mitigation, cursor-based pagination) plus multi-tenant data isolation via tenant-aware models, middleware scoping, and schema/row-level strategies.”

Shriya Bannikop

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud platforms, data engineering, and distributed systems

Seattle, WA5y exp

“Full-stack engineer who built and owned an AI-assisted job-matching dashboard in Next.js App Router/TypeScript, keeping LLM logic server-side and improving performance via deduplication, caching/revalidation, and streaming (35% fewer duplicate LLM calls; 40% faster first render). Also has strong data/backend chops: designed Postgres models and optimized queries at million-record scale (1.8s to 120ms) and built durable AWS multi-region telemetry workflows with idempotency, retries, and monitoring.”

Shyaam Sundhar Rajamadam Srinivasan

Screened

Director-level Cybersecurity Architect specializing in cloud security, threat detection and incident response

Reston, VA18y exp

“Entrepreneur building an AI-enabled platform to help tradespeople (e.g., plumbers/carpenters) find customers, currently moving from ideation toward MVP and user launch. Previously founded Votimo (2012), an early philanthropy/donation-transparency platform, raised ~ $2M in angel funding, and implemented the system before strategic drift from leadership/vision changes.”

Amulya Varshney

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in Applied AI and FinTech

Bangalore, India3y exp

“Built and shipped production AI systems in high-stakes domains including fintech at Razorpay and payroll at Intuit. Most notably owned Ray, an AI-powered merchant support concierge that automated about 70% of support tickets and cut response times from hours to seconds, combining full-stack product work with LangGraph-based agent orchestration, RAG, and rigorous evaluation infrastructure.”