Vetted Elasticsearch Professionals

“Healthcare-focused ML/AI engineer who has built clinical note summarization and medical image annotation solutions using LLMs, RAG, and multimodal models. They combine experimentation across major model providers with practical production concerns like monitoring, drift detection, and latency/cost tradeoffs, and also earned 2nd place in a Google hackathon for a medical AI assistant.”

“Backend/platform engineer with strong ownership of production systems, including a full Azure migration from a VM-based monolith to a containerized, event-driven microservices architecture. They combine cloud infrastructure, LLM/RAG optimization, and pragmatic stakeholder management, with measurable wins including 90% infra cost reduction, faster deployments, and significantly improved latency and token efficiency.”

“Software engineer currently building for a wealth management platform, with hands-on ownership across React/TypeScript front ends, Azure serverless backends, and SQL data systems. Stands out for turning hackweek concepts into production features, building observability infrastructure from scratch, and delivering measurable gains in latency, uptime, incident response, and client satisfaction.”

“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.”

“Backend/data engineer with strong production experience across Python microservices (FastAPI) and AWS serverless/data platforms (Lambda, API Gateway, Glue, Redshift). Demonstrates reliability and incident ownership (rate limits, retries/circuit breakers, monitoring) and has delivered measurable SQL performance gains (12–15s to <800ms, ~60% CPU reduction). Seeking fully remote work and not open to relocation/onsite meetings.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on AWS serverless and data platform experience: built a Lambda-based reCAPTCHA/token validation + SES subscription workflow and designed Glue ETL pipelines producing Parquet datasets for Athena. Also led a high-traffic multilingual media CMS modernization at Radio Free Asia by migrating to Arc XP using parallel runs, phased rollouts, feature flags, and rollback plans.”

“Built and shipped a production GPT-4 + RAG customer support chatbot that materially improved support operations (response time 4 hours to <3 minutes; ~65% tier-1 ticket automation). Demonstrates strong end-to-end LLM engineering across retrieval (Sentence Transformers/Pinecone), safety (multi-layer moderation), cost/latency optimization (caching/streaming, Celery/Redis), and rigorous evaluation/monitoring (shadow deploys, Datadog, 500+ test cases), plus proven stakeholder buy-in leading to 80% adoption.”

“LLM/RAG-focused engineer who repeatedly takes agentic workflows from impressive demos to dependable production using rigorous evals, SLOs, and deep observability. Has led high-impact incident mitigation (22-minute MTTR during a major sale) and developer enablement workshops, and partnered with sales to close a $410k ARR enterprise deal with a tailored RAG pilot (FastAPI/pgvector/Okta/InfoSec-ready).”

“ML/NLP engineer with banking domain experience who built a GenAI-powered fraud detection and risk intelligence system at Origin Bank, combining RAG (LangChain + FAISS), fine-tuned BERT NER, and GPT-4/Sentence-BERT embeddings. Delivered measurable impact (25% higher fraud detection accuracy, 40% less manual review) and emphasizes production-grade pipelines on AWS SageMaker/Airflow with strong data validation and scalable PySpark processing.”

Raghavendra Dubey

Screened

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

CA, USA5y exp

“Enterprise workflow/product engineer (DXC) who owned a customer-facing workflow application for 500+ users and improved performance ~30% through API/SQL optimization, caching, and CI/CD-backed iteration. Experienced designing React/TypeScript + Java/Spring Boot systems and operating microservices with RabbitMQ/Kafka-style messaging, emphasizing reliability via DLQs, backpressure, and strong observability. Also built an internal automation dashboard adopted by support/ops teams to cut manual work and reduce SLA misses.”

Aditi Deshpande

Screened

Mid-level Software/AI Engineer specializing in GenAI, AWS, and microservices

Remote, United States4y exp

“Built a production AI pipeline at EyCrowd to automatically grade shaky outdoor user-submitted brand videos using CV + CLIP/BLIP and a LangChain RAG layer per brand, with GPT-4 generating structured JSON explanations and grades. Optimized for latency and cost (batch PyTorch inference, caching), cutting review time from ~8 minutes to <2 minutes while reaching ~90% alignment with human graders and supporting thousands of videos/day.”

“Full-stack engineer at an early-stage startup (AirKitchenz) who owned the hourly booking/availability and first paid booking flow end-to-end—React/TypeScript frontend, Node backend, Postgres modeling, and Stripe payments/webhooks. Experienced operating production on AWS (EC2/Elastic Beanstalk, Docker, RDS, CloudWatch) and building reliable, idempotent integrations while iterating quickly in a pre-PMF environment through direct host/renter feedback.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience in financial payroll, tax, and compensation platforms, building Python microservices and AWS-based data pipelines for high-volume, peak-driven workloads. Strong reliability focus (OAuth2 auth, retries/timeouts, structured logging, incident response) and proven performance wins, including cutting complex report queries from ~8 minutes to under 30 seconds.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building a real-time notification API on Flask/Celery/Postgres and scaling it on AWS with Docker, Redis queuing, and SQLAlchemy query optimization. Also delivered AWS serverless deployments (Lambda) using Terraform + GitHub Actions and built AWS Glue ETL pipelines from S3 to Redshift with CloudWatch monitoring and DataBrew data quality checks.”

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped production RAG chatbots using LangChain/OpenAI with FAISS and FastAPI, focusing on real-world constraints like context windows, concurrency, and latency (reported ~40% latency reduction and <2s average response). Experienced orchestrating AI pipelines with Celery and fault-tolerant long-running workflows with Temporal, and has applied NLP model tradeoff testing (Word2Vec vs BERT) to drive measurable accuracy gains.”

“DevOps engineer (State Farm) with hands-on ownership of Python backend services and data pipelines, deploying microservices and workers on Kubernetes using GitOps (Argo CD). Has led complex cloud-to-on-prem/hybrid migrations with staged cutovers and rollback planning, and built Kafka-based real-time streaming pipelines with schema governance, autoscaling, and strong observability.”

“Backend/cloud engineer with hands-on ownership of a climate data extraction pipeline (BeautifulSoup + Pandas ETL + CRON) that automated 50k+ monthly data points and removed ~20 hours/week of manual work. Also built a multi-AZ Kubernetes deployment for a Node.js system using Terraform and GitHub Actions (blue-green, rollbacks) and has Kafka/FastAPI experience from a healthcare plan management project.”

“Backend engineer who built a Node.js + SQL service integrating with the Google Ads API to periodically upload online and offline conversions via Azure Logic Apps, persisting upload records for ROI reporting. Implemented PII hashing, token validation, redundancy, and detailed failure/status logging for reliability and debuggability. Currently scoping an LLM/agent workflow (likely LangChain) to let marketing bulk-update e-commerce product data using SEO keywords without developer involvement.”

“AI/LLM engineer who shipped a production RAG-based knowledge assistant at SparkPlug serving 10,000+ daily users, streaming GPT-4 answers with inline citations over WebSockets. Demonstrated measurable impact (support resolution time cut 18→12 minutes; retrieval precision +~20%) and strong production rigor across ingestion, monitoring/alerting, evaluation, and messy ERP-style data integration with validation, RBAC, and idempotent operations.”

Anudeep Reddy Veerla

Screened

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).”

Yash Prakashbhai Shah

Screened

Senior Backend Software Engineer specializing in Java, microservices, and cloud infrastructure

Santa Clara, CA6y exp

“Backend/platform engineer at Aryaka Networks who built a centralized resiliency and security Spring Boot library to standardize Keycloak RBAC and fault-tolerance across 25+ Kubernetes-migrated microservices. Uses profiling and observability (Prometheus/Grafana) to drive measurable performance and reliability gains (25% faster APIs, 70% faster environment setup) and accelerates adoption via golden-path starter repos and Swagger/OpenAPI live docs.”