Vetted Event-Driven Architecture Professionals

Abhishek Yadav

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in Python and FinTech

Tempe, AZ4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with experience shipping both enterprise financial systems at Citi and production AI copilots. Built a real-time transaction monitoring dashboard that cut manual reporting by ~60%, and also designed a grounded, human-in-the-loop LLM support assistant with RAG, structured outputs, and production evals for quality and compliance.”

“Senior engineering/CTO-level leader with hands-on delivery of serverless, event-driven cloud governance platforms (deployed across multiple GE business units) and experience building adaptable usage-based billing at UserTesting. Has advised startups (including CaseText during YC) and supported fundraising and acquisition due diligence, including investor materials for a smart cooler custody management system presented to BARDA during Operation Warp Speed.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience building Python/Flask microservices using PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy, JWT auth, Docker, and GitHub Actions CI/CD. Strong in performance and scalability work—migrated heavy processing to Celery/Redis, tuned queries with EXPLAIN ANALYZE and indexing, and delivered 50%+ API latency reduction. Also integrates AI workflows (OpenAI APIs) with batching/caching/fallbacks and has implemented multi-tenant data isolation patterns.”

Pavanika Thotakura

Screened

Senior Data Engineer specializing in cloud big data pipelines and real-time streaming

Seattle, WA6y exp

“Amazon data engineer who built a real-time fraud detection pipeline for AWS Lambda, tackling multi-region telemetry quality issues and scaling stream processing for billions of daily requests. Strong in production-grade data/ML workflows on AWS (EMR, Glue, Kinesis, SageMaker) with hands-on entity resolution and anomaly detection.”

Surya Teja

Screened

Mid-level Backend/Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI and FinTech payments

Tempe, AZ4y exp

“Full-stack engineer who has owned an operational reporting/dashboard product end-to-end—building a React UI, designing/implementing FastAPI services, and deploying/operating on AWS. Demonstrates strong performance engineering (Postgres query/index tuning using EXPLAIN ANALYZE) with concrete impact (reports reduced from tens of seconds to a few seconds) and a reliability mindset across observability, migrations, and resilient third-party/ETL integrations.”

“Engineer with hands-on experience across backend, full-stack, cloud, and AI/ML systems, with particular depth in Python, FastAPI, AWS Bedrock, SageMaker, and RAG-based architectures. Stands out for treating AI and agents as accelerators within disciplined production engineering, emphasizing guardrails, observability, latency/cost monitoring, and scalable system design.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience building FastAPI services with strong reliability patterns (circuit breaker, rate limiting, caching, graceful degradation) and JWT/OAuth2 auth. Has delivered AWS EKS deployments via Terraform with Secrets Manager/IRSA and HPA autoscaling, and built Glue/Spark ETL pipelines on S3 Parquet with schema-evolution and idempotent reruns; also demonstrated measurable SQL tuning impact (20–30s to <10s).”

“Backend/data engineering candidate with Netflix experience designing and migrating analytics platforms from batch to real-time streaming (Kafka/Flink) across AWS and GCP. Delivered measurable improvements (40% lower data delay, 99.9% accuracy) using phased rollouts, automated data validation (Great Expectations), and strong observability (Prometheus/Grafana), and proactively hardened pipelines with idempotency to prevent duplicate Kafka processing.”

“Backend/distributed-systems engineer with Uber experience building real-time telemetry and safety signal pipelines. Strong in Kafka-based event-driven architectures, low-latency processing under peak load, and production reliability via monitoring, retries, and fallback logic; has Docker/Kubernetes and CI/CD deployment experience.”

“Full-stack engineer with deep serverless AWS experience who built VidToNote, an AI video analysis platform, end-to-end using Next.js App Router/TypeScript and an event-driven pipeline (API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Step Functions, SQS). Strong on production reliability and observability (CloudWatch, X-Ray, structured logging), plus data/analytics work in Postgres with measurable query optimizations and durable LLM evaluation workflows. Amazon background; integrated 22 AWS services and completed AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification within a month.”

“Amazon engineer who built an Amazon Bedrock-powered summarization layer over large-scale network/service telemetry (“top talker” insights) to help security engineers triage anomalies faster. Emphasizes production-grade design patterns for LLM features—non-blocking enrichment, deterministic fallbacks, strict structured outputs, and monitoring to preserve trust in source-of-truth telemetry.”

Yeshwanth Sai Pala

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud microservices and AI-driven FinTech

Remote, USA4y exp

“Stripe engineer who shipped an end-to-end merchant fraud insights dashboard, spanning Spring Boot/Kafka risk-scoring services and a React+TypeScript UI. Focused on low-latency, high-volume transaction processing and production operations on AWS (EKS/CloudWatch), including handling a real traffic-spike latency incident via query optimization, indexing, and rate limiting.”

Likhitha Bethi

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems, distributed systems, and applied AI

Stony Brook, NY4y exp

“Goldman Sachs engineer who owned end-to-end features for an internal onboarding and case management platform, spanning React/TypeScript UI, a GraphQL gateway, and Node + Spring WebFlux microservices. Built and operated a Kafka-based ingestion and search pipeline with DLQs, retries, idempotency, and strong observability, and improved developer experience via backward-compatible GraphQL API design and schema-driven documentation.”