Vetted Elasticsearch Professionals

“Built a production GenAI-powered analytics assistant to reduce reliance on data analysts by enabling natural-language Q&A over Databricks/Power BI dashboards, backed by vector search (Pinecone/Milvus) and a Neo4j knowledge graph, including multimodal support via OpenAI Vision. Demonstrates strong real-world LLM reliability engineering with strict RAG, LangGraph multi-step verification, and Guardrails/custom validators, plus broad orchestration and production monitoring experience (Airflow, ADF, Step Functions, Kubernetes, Prometheus/CloudWatch).”

“Backend/full-stack engineer building complex internal platforms and customer-facing demos at the intersection of infrastructure and product. Shipped a no-code Product Lifecycle Manager for manufacturing (3 manufacturers, 1000+ evolving tests) using AWS S3/SQS ingestion and extensible Postgres (EAV+JSONB) with end-to-end traceability. Also built a FastAPI-based company data intelligence platform with Okta-secured RBAC and an LLM/MCP layer for ChatGPT-like analytics over enterprise data sources.”

“Built a production RAG-based GenAI copilot backend at Aetna using Python/FastAPI, GPT-4, LangChain, and Azure AI Search, deployed on AKS with Prometheus/Grafana observability. Owned the system end-to-end (ingestion through deployment) and improved peak-time reliability by addressing vector search and embedding bottlenecks with Redis caching, index optimization, and async processing, plus added anti-hallucination guardrails via retrieval confidence thresholds.”

“Engineering lead/player-coach working on project management software, owning a high-impact scheduling algorithm rewrite focused on performance, maintainability, and documentation after prior team turnover caused regressions. Previously at EOX Vantage, helped an insurance client modernize monolithic workflows by scoping ambiguous requirements into a roadmap and shipping a day-one MVP before iterating with value-add features.”

“LLM engineer who built a production seller-support RAG system at eBay using hybrid retrieval (BM25 + Pinecone vectors) with Cohere reranking, LangGraph orchestration, and citation-grounded answers. Strong focus on reliability: semantic/structure-aware chunking, automated Ragas-based evaluation with nightly regressions, and production observability (LangSmith) plus drift monitoring (Arize). Also implemented a multi-agent fraud pipeline with AutoGen using JSON-schema contracts and explicit termination conditions.”

“JP Morgan engineer and Texas A&M student web developer who has owned production systems end-to-end, including a real-time ML training workflow that improved internal search relevance by 30%. Experienced with AWS cloud migrations and operating containerized services on ECS with CloudWatch+ELK observability, Terraform infra, and Spinnaker CI/CD; also built event-driven pipelines with RabbitMQ and Elasticsearch at 1M+ record scale.”

Sunil Chinthaparthi

Screened

Mid-level Python Developer specializing in AWS microservices and cloud automation

Jersey City, NJ4y exp

“Backend engineer focused on Python/FastAPI microservices running on Kubernetes (AWS EKS) with strong GitOps/CI/CD ownership (GitHub Actions + ArgoCD). Demonstrated measurable performance wins (p95 latency cut from >1s to <200ms) and production reliability work across Kafka/Redis streaming and cloud-to-on-prem migrations (RDS/S3 to Postgres/MinIO) using parallel validation and checksum-based consistency checks.”

Mithilesh Gaurihar

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in Java microservices and cloud-native systems

USA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer (SAP Labs experience) who built an end-to-end, real-time fraud detection system on Java 11/Spring Boot microservices with Kafka event streaming and a React/Redux analytics dashboard with WebSocket updates. Demonstrated strong production ownership by diagnosing a critical memory leak with Prometheus/CloudWatch + heap dumps and improving performance with Redis caching (40% faster queries), while also modernizing deployments via Kubernetes, Jenkins CI/CD, and Terraform.”

Prateek Patil

Screened

Engineering Leader specializing in Digital Health, AI, and Cloud Platforms

Santa Clara, CA16y exp

“Senior Engineering Manager at Roche leading two Scrum teams building internally shared (“inner-sourced”) tools and libraries for a healthcare enterprise. Has led security/compliance-first architecture decisions (e.g., Python AI modules running inside a Java container) and front-end modularization (Angular monorepo to module federation), with a strong focus on developer experience via automated Swagger/OpenAPI documentation and robust testing/versioning practices.”

Mounika Gunturu

Screened

Senior Python Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud-native microservices and data platforms

New York, NY9y exp

“Backend/data engineer from Oliver Wyman who built and ran production Python (FastAPI) services on AWS (ECS/Lambda/API Gateway) supporting risk modeling and regulatory reporting. Strong in reliability/observability, Glue-based ETL with data quality controls, and legacy SAS-to-Python modernization with rigorous parity validation; also demonstrated measurable SQL performance wins and cost-control improvements in serverless scaling. Based in Raleigh, NC and can travel onsite for important Bethesda-area meetings.”

Swathi Sankaran

Screened

Senior Python Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud, data engineering, and ML/GenAI

New York, NY10y exp

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building FastAPI services on AWS and implementing strong reliability/observability (CloudWatch, ELK, correlation IDs, alarms). Has delivered serverless + container solutions with IaC (CloudFormation/Terraform) and Jenkins CI/CD, and built AWS Glue/PySpark pipelines into S3/Redshift with schema-evolution and data-quality safeguards; demonstrated large-scale SQL tuning (45 min to 3 min on a 500M-row workload).”

“Frontend/full-stack engineer with Chegg experience shipping signed-in and top-of-funnel Next.js experiences, including leading an account-sharing/device-management MVP integrated with a Java Spring Boot service. Stands out for strong rollout ownership, analytics-based validation, and pragmatic security/performance decisions in production.”

Abhishek Adinarayanappa

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in backend, cloud, and machine learning systems

Miami, FL3y exp

“Built Digipulse, a university project that ingested and clustered Bluesky tweet data at scale and used Gemini to generate near-real-time topic summaries, processing 1M+ tweets per day. Also brings Intel experience with Prometheus and Kubernetes, including production monitoring and incident troubleshooting.”

Vidhi Chhatbar

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud microservices and FinTech

Los Angeles, CA5y exp

“Software engineer with experience across enterprise (AIG, MSCI) and an early-stage startup (Job Map), owning production systems end-to-end. Built secure insurance microservices on Spring Boot with JWT/RBAC and AWS-based CI/CD/observability, plus Kafka streaming pipelines for financial data. Also shipped a GenAI personalization MVP using FastAPI and LLM APIs in a high-ambiguity startup environment.”

“Built end-to-end financial workflow platforms at Citi spanning React frontends, Spring Boot microservices, Kafka, Redis, and Oracle. Particularly compelling for teams needing someone who can modernize legacy systems into real-time architectures—the candidate cites a 48x throughput improvement from a batch-to-Kafka modernization effort.”

“Backend engineer who built a Logistics-as-a-Service platform in Go, proactively refactoring a monolithic REST service into gRPC microservices to improve performance and maintainability. Led a 3-person team with disciplined code reviews, Dockerized DB migrations, and a canary-style rollout (5% traffic) monitored for latency and failures; also implemented JWT/OAuth2 RBAC and production-minded edge-case handling in an ordering system.”

“Backend/platform engineer with payments domain experience, having owned core services for MasterCard’s global card tokenization and settlement platform. Built Django/Celery microservices plus Kafka/Redis real-time fraud streaming, delivering 27% latency improvement, sub-100ms fraud checks, and 18% fewer false positives. Strong DevOps/IaC background across Kubernetes, AWS ECS, Terraform, GitHub Actions, and GitOps practices for high-scale transaction systems (including UPI at PhonePe).”

“Built and deployed a secure, production LLM-based document summarization and risk-highlighting tool for financial auditors, running inside a private Azure environment to protect confidential data. Focused on reliability (hallucination mitigation via retrieval-based prompts and source citations) and validated performance through comparisons to auditor summaries plus a user pilot, cutting review time by about half.”

“Backend engineer who has led major platform evolution to cloud-native microservices (Spring Boot on AWS with Terraform) and built scalable, secure FastAPI APIs. Demonstrates strong production rigor with metric-driven validation, canary/phased rollouts, and incremental migrations using shadow traffic/feature flags/parallel writes—achieving faster deployments, fewer incidents, and zero-downtime traffic spikes and migrations.”

“Machine learning/NLP engineer who built a production-oriented retrieval-based AI system at Morgan Stanley for healthcare use cases, combining RAG over unstructured patient records with deep-learning medical image segmentation (U-Net/Mask R-CNN). Strong in end-to-end pipelines and MLOps (Spark/MongoDB, AWS SageMaker, CI/CD, monitoring, automated retraining) and in entity resolution/data quality validation for noisy clinical data.”

“Senior software engineer (5+ years) from Walmart Global Tech who owned and operated high-scale supplier inventory submission systems, including a microservice handling submissions up to 500k items and a data platform processing ~10TB/day. Strong in AWS/Kubernetes (EKS), Kafka/Spark streaming + batch pipelines, and production operations (on-call, metrics/alerting), with demonstrated performance wins (30% faster responses, 50% faster processing).”

Evan Z

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in video streaming and processing systems

Champaign, IL1y exp

“Software engineering intern at China Telecom who built and continuously evolved a real-time transaction platform ("Smart Tangerine") focused on strong consistency and peak-hour concurrency. Implemented microservices with Redis and RabbitMQ to decouple heavy processing and cut latency (~80ms to ~30ms), and led a zero-downtime migration from a monolith using strangler pattern, dual-write, and traffic shadowing.”

“Entrepreneur building a luxury rental car company startup with capital already raised, though undisclosed. Demonstrates a thoughtful founder mindset centered on vision, growth trajectory, due diligence, and market penetration, and is actively building connections in the VC/accelerator ecosystem.”

“Unity/C# game engineer with about 3 years of experience who owned a high-impact runtime content delivery platform at Zynga/Singa powering LiveOps releases for roughly two years. Their work cut app size by 35-40%, removed a 25K daily activator drop on release days, improved load times by 25%, and supported a feature that drove 10% quarterly revenue growth.”