Vetted Event-Driven Architecture Professionals

“AI engineer at Cleveland Clinic building production LLM/NLP systems for radiology documentation, focused on HIPAA-aware, real-time performance across ~298 campuses. Re-architected infrastructure with AWS event-driven services to handle scaling and improved SLA compliance ~40%, and complements this with a personal multi-agent debate system (CrewAI) using local Llama/Mistral plus rigorous evaluation (A/B tests, red teaming, observability).”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who has built and operated event-driven microservices platforms (FastAPI/React/TypeScript, Kafka, Kubernetes) and internal DevOps tooling. Delivered measurable impact through user-feedback-driven iteration (WebSockets update mechanism cutting redundant API calls ~30%) and operational improvements (deployment monitoring dashboard reducing rollback time ~40%), with strong focus on reliability, observability, and data consistency at scale.”

“Software engineer and University of Chicago graduate teaching assistant who built a full-stack internal analytics dashboard (React/TypeScript + Node/Express) and worked in RabbitMQ-based microservices with Prometheus/Grafana observability. Also created an AI-powered ERD diagram generator (React + MermaidJS + OpenAI) adopted by students to save hours on database assignments, using validation loops to ensure valid Mermaid output.”

“Backend engineer who built an AI RAG quoting system for the fastener industry, reducing quote turnaround from weeks to ~30 minutes and raising retrieval accuracy to ~90% by solving a semantic-collision issue with a parent-document retrieval design. Strong in production AWS integrations (Cognito auth, S3 pre-signed uploads), performance optimization (multithreading/out-of-core), and real-time streaming (Kafka/Spark Kappa architecture achieving sub-second latency), plus Kubernetes logging and GitHub Actions CI/CD to ECR.”

“Data professional with ~4 years of experience, most recently at AIG (insurance), building ML/NLP systems for fraud detection and policy automation using transformers, CNNs, and clustering/anomaly detection. Also developed a RAG-based knowledge retrieval system, iterating across embedding models and moving to production based on precision and latency SLAs, then containerizing and deploying with SageMaker and CI/CD.”

“Backend engineer with airline operations domain experience who modernized flight-ops systems from batch updates to real-time streaming on AWS (Kafka + Spring Boot microservices), improving latency and stability through metric-driven tuning and idempotency. Also shipped a production LLM decision-support component using RAG over operational logs and internal procedures, with strong guardrails and an evaluation/regression loop to reduce hallucinations and enforce grounding.”

“Unity VR developer who has shipped on Meta Quest, including Metro Awakening (Steam Awards 2024 VR Game of the Year) as an AI Programmer, focusing on performance-critical multi-agent AI optimization (EQS/HTN) for Quest 2. Also shipped Final Fury, taking ownership across gameplay, UI, networking (sync mechanics), and AI on a small team, and built a data-driven gesture/move system for VR fighting prototypes.”

Vivekananda Reddy

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Java, React, and AWS

Dallas, TX4y exp

“Backend engineer focused on cloud-native microservices on AWS, owning Python/Flask ingestion services integrated with S3/Lambda and deployed via Docker/Kubernetes with CI/CD. Has led phased migrations from manually managed EC2 setups to automated CloudFormation + pipeline-driven releases, and designed event-driven near-real-time pipelines with idempotency, retry/backoff, and strong observability.”

“Built and shipped an AI-driven interview evaluation pipeline at SeekOut that automated recruiter screening via a multi-stage LLM agent workflow (.NET backend, RabbitMQ orchestration, Python workers). Emphasizes production-grade reliability (idempotency, retries, strict JSON/schema validation), strong observability with OpenTelemetry, and measurable efficiency gains including ~40% reduction in token usage/cost.”

Sai Nikhil Kanchukatla

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in Golang microservices and IAM/SSO

Dallas, TX6y exp

“Backend engineer with experience at DigitalOcean and BNY Mellon, specializing in secure, highly available authentication and API platforms. Built an enterprise SSO system integrating Okta via OIDC with resilience patterns (gRPC contracts, circuit breakers, Kafka) and strong encryption, and led a careful monolith-to-Golang microservices migration using shadow traffic, dual writes, and feature flags to preserve data integrity.”

Umair Khokhar

Screened

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in AI Platforms for Enterprise B2B SaaS

San Francisco, CA15y exp

“Technical leader/player-coach who architected and shipped an end-to-end computer vision pricing system for a major North American auto seller, using Go + Ray + AWS SageMaker in a low-latency distributed inference architecture. Strong in production governance (logs/tracing/guardrails/AppSec), reliability incident ownership (DNS limits affecting 20% traffic), and measurable delivery acceleration (deployment cycle 16→4 days; delivery speed 5→2 days) through process optimization and AI-assisted enablement.”

“Built practical automation systems spanning an NLP-based news classification pipeline and a WhatsApp interaction agent. Shows strong instincts around production reliability—using structured outputs, schema validation, idempotency, retries, and clarification flows to prevent bad actions in real-world messaging workflows.”

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped production RAG copilots and multi-agent workflows, including a real-time Llama3 (Ollama) copilot backend handling 12k+ concurrent queries at 99.9% uptime. Deep on orchestration (Langflow/Airflow/Kubernetes), reliability evaluation (hallucination detection, p95 latency, token cost), and monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana), with demonstrated stakeholder-facing analytics delivery via Tableau.”

“Backend/infrastructure-focused engineer building AI-agent products for small businesses, including a customer-service agent platform with intent routing, RAG over Pinecone, and external booking API integration. Has shipped Python/FastAPI services with JWT auth, versioned APIs, Docker deployments to AWS EC2 via GitHub Actions, and production monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana.”

Sai Prathyusha Kanisetti

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and healthcare IT

Fairfax, VA3y exp

“Full-stack engineer with experience in both healthcare and transportation, owning products from requirements through production support. Built a secure patient-records pipeline at CORAnet using Spring Boot, AWS S3, Docker, and Terraform, and shipped a real-time operational metrics dashboard at BNSF with Java, React/TypeScript, and Kafka. Stands out for combining backend architecture depth, infrastructure ownership, and pragmatic UI simplification.”

TEJASWI GUDIMETLA

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems, microservices, and AI pipelines

North Carolina, USA4y exp

“AI/LLM engineer focused on building reliable, scalable multi-agent and RAG-based pipelines across microservices. Stands out for combining practical experimentation with strong engineering discipline around schema validation, retries, observability, and structured API contracts to make LLM systems production-ready.”

“Built a production AI stylist agent for retail store associates that pulls customer loyalty, address, and purchase-history data to generate in-store product recommendations. Demonstrates hands-on experience across agent orchestration, MCP-based tool integration, Vertex AI/GCP deployment, observability, resilience patterns, and pragmatic production tradeoffs like using PostgreSQL with pgvector instead of a standalone vector database.”

Shreyas Kumar

Screened

Entry-level AI Engineer specializing in LLMs and applied NLP systems

Syracuse, NY1y exp

“Built Lumo, a real-time voice AI companion, owning the product end-to-end across React/TypeScript, FastAPI WebSockets, and PostgreSQL. Stands out for combining deep full-stack systems thinking with voice UX polish, reliability instrumentation, and configurable parent-control guardrails in a multi-tenant setup.”

Raj Shrinivasan

Screened

Principal AI Engineer specializing in agentic systems and cloud-native platforms

Cleveland, OH23y exp

“Built a production RAG-powered analytics copilot at Aya Healthcare for operations leaders and analysts on a large healthcare staffing platform processing over a billion telemetry records annually. Stands out for strong production-minded agent engineering: deterministic orchestration, grounding-first design, deep observability, and data-driven workflow changes such as confidence-based human review for a PR review agent.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across FastAPI microservices and AWS (Lambda, ECS, SQS, RDS, S3), plus Glue/Athena analytics pipelines. Demonstrates strong reliability and operations focus (timeouts/retries, centralized errors, CloudWatch monitoring) and measurable SQL optimization impact (25s to under 2s). Seeking fully remote senior developer role at ~$150k base.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on AWS data platform work (S3 + Glue + Lambda/Step Functions) and Kubernetes GitOps delivery (Argo CD + GitHub Actions). Has led ingestion and transformation of semi-structured event data, built internal APIs for ETL operations/monitoring, and implemented Kafka-based near-real-time streaming with enrichment and Elasticsearch for search/analytics, plus experience supporting an on-prem ERP migration to AWS.”

Saketh Kota

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist / ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI, RAG, and MLOps

Irving, TX4y exp

“Built and productionized a RAG-based LLM research assistant for biomedical and regulatory document search using Mixtral 7B on SageMaker, LangChain, and Milvus, cutting research time by ~40%. Has hands-on multi-cloud MLOps experience across AWS/Azure/GCP with Kubeflow/Airflow/Composer plus Terraform + ArgoCD, and applies rigorous evaluation/monitoring (latency, accuracy, hallucinations). Also partnered with a non-technical PM to deliver an insurance policy Q&A chatbot that reduced customer response time by 30%+.”

Lloyd Mangnall

Screened

Executive Technology Leader specializing in digital transformation and AI/ML platforms

30y exp

“Founder building AdaptiveWorX™ Flow, a graph-native, agent-first operating system intended to replace document-driven/Agile-era workflows with continuously verifiable, causally linked delivery. Brings decades of systems/architecture perspective plus prior digital health experience, including a PoC turning behavioral therapy sessions into structured longitudinal data using real-time A/V capture and multimodal AI, with an emphasis on compliance, traceability, and scalable platform design.”