Vetted Event-Driven Architecture Professionals

“Backend engineer who built a low-latency real-time transaction API in Python/Flask, with strong depth in PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy performance tuning (time-based partitioning, indexing, connection pooling). Has production experience integrating ML scoring and OpenAI-style APIs with safety/latency controls, and designing multi-tenant isolation strategies including per-tenant pooling/caching and premium-tenant isolation.”

“Platform/infra engineer with strong ownership of Kubernetes on VMware and day-to-day hybrid on-prem-to-AWS operations. Has hands-on experience automating infrastructure delivery with Terraform/Ansible/CI-CD, and has resolved real production issues spanning CSI storage reattachment during upgrades, vSphere storage-latency performance degradation, and hybrid connectivity/routing failures with improved validation, monitoring, and failover.”

Poorna Pedapudi

Screened

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

Seattle, WA5y exp

“Software engineer focused on data platforms and applied LLM systems: built an internal data quality monitoring layer to catch silent data drift and iterated post-launch after finding ~30% false-positive alerts, reducing noise via dynamic baselines and improved structured logging. Also shipped a production RAG-based internal knowledge assistant over Jira/Confluence with citations, confidence-based fallbacks, and nightly automated evals to prevent regressions.”

“Backend engineer with experience at JPMorgan Chase and Walgreens, owning transaction-processing and prescription data flow systems in regulated environments. Brings strong hands-on depth in Spring Boot microservices, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, observability, and production incident resolution, plus practical experience integrating OpenAI-powered workflows with validation and fallback safeguards.”

“Engineer with a notably mature AI-native development process: uses Claude/Claude Code in a test-first, iterative workflow and has led multi-agent builds across frontend, backend, and testing. Most notably, they led development of an AI voice agent platform, creating custom agent skills and enforcing clear architectural boundaries to deliver a stable, scalable system.”

Tara Munjuluri

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and AI systems

Ames, IA3y exp

“Backend-focused engineer with end-to-end ownership experience on internal platforms at John Deere, including a workforce and skills system that cut manual review time by 40%. Brings a strong reliability and compliance mindset across Java/Python microservices, AWS infrastructure, and production operations, and has also built an LLM-powered RAG system over 1M+ records with emphasis on grounded outputs and observability.”

Varshitha Macherla

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Developer specializing in Java microservices and cloud platforms

Overland Park, KS2y exp

“Full-stack engineer (~2.6 years) with strong Java/Spring Boot backend experience and React/Angular frontend exposure, who has worked on enterprise-scale systems at Dell processing ~1.8M daily transactions/events. Built secure, partner/internal-facing APIs (OAuth2/JWT) across 14 integrations and implemented Kafka-based order/payment workflows with idempotency and sub-700ms processing targets, plus CI/CD and Selenium-based release validation.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer (5+ years) with Shopify experience integrating LLM/RAG workflows into production APIs. Owned a Python TensorFlow Serving inference pipeline connected to Java microservices via gRPC, optimizing tail latency at ~10k concurrent load and improving retrieval relevance with embedding and evaluation work. Strong Kubernetes/EKS + GitOps/CI/CD background, including monolith-to-microservices migrations and event-driven streaming patterns.”

Rathin Shah

Screened

Senior Robotics Systems Engineer specializing in autonomous mobility and optimal control

Pittsburgh, PA6y exp

“Robotics technical lead who architected and built a high-speed autonomous lunar rover mobility software system for GPS-denied environments, integrating MPC/LQR control, trajectory optimization, state and slip estimation, terrain-aware planning, and perception. Has deployed Deep RL policies trained in NVIDIA Isaac Sim onto real rover hardware via a ROS2 inference-node interface, with strong focus on real-time performance profiling, sim-to-real, and safety/HIL testing.”

“ML/GenAI engineer with strong end-to-end production ownership across predictive ML, RAG systems, and LLM routing. They pair solid platform engineering skills with measurable business impact, including 15% churn reduction, 35% support ticket deflection, 45% GenAI cost savings, and a shared inference library that cut deployment time from weeks to days.”

Michael Matonte

Screened

Senior Backend Engineer specializing in distributed systems and AI-enabled platforms

Jersey City, NJ7y exp

“Backend engineer with end-to-end ownership experience in high-stakes environments spanning Citibank and industrial operations. They built an internal banking platform that automated complex entitlement workflows across thousands of business units with an 80% reduction in redundant processing, and they are now applying AI through OpenAI-powered agent workflows with RAG, vector databases, and security controls.”

“Amazon experience integrating LLM-powered chat automation into Amazon Connect contact-center workflows, taking prototypes to production with compliance-minded guardrails, schema/policy validation, and robust fallbacks. Regularly supports rollout and adoption via developer workshops, integration guides, and customer calls, with strong production triage and observability practices.”

Kaustubh Rai

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in scalable distributed systems and cloud platforms

Pittsburgh, PA2y exp

“Backend engineer with experience at UnitedHealth Group redesigning a high-traffic Spring Boot microservice from blocking to reactive architecture during peak season, cutting median latency by 47% for a service used by ~10M customers annually. Strong in Kubernetes-based deployment/scaling and pragmatic rollout strategies (blue-green/incremental traffic shifting) with performance and database troubleshooting.”

“Applied Scientist with legal-tech experience who builds production LLM systems. Created and deployed Quibo AI, a LangGraph-based multi-agent pipeline that turns large markdown/Jupyter inputs into polished blogs and social posts, overcoming context limits via ChromaDB + HyDE RAG. Also built a large-scale iterative code-evolution workflow using multi-model orchestration (GPT/Claude/Gemini) with testing, debugging loops, and evaluation/observability practices.”

“AI engineer at Anote.ai who built and shipped a production multi-agent LangGraph/LangChain/Ray RAG platform for enterprise search and workflow automation, supporting 3 commercial products and 100+ developers. Drove measurable gains (30% accuracy improvement, lower latency) and improved reliability with Redis-based state checkpointing, message-queue synchronization, and Milvus retrieval optimizations, while partnering with PMs/clients to add transparency features like confidence scores and real-time logs.”

“Data engineer at Plaid who built greenfield, end-to-end real-time transaction pipelines and FastAPI data services for fraud detection and analytics, handling millions of events per day. Strong focus on reliability and data integrity via Great Expectations validation, Airflow-based monitoring/SLAs, quarantine/staging patterns, and robust external data ingestion with schema versioning and backfills (reported 50% fewer anomalies and ~40% fewer failures).”

Manjory saran

Screened

Senior Backend & Infrastructure Engineer specializing in cloud-native distributed systems

5y exp

“LLM infrastructure engineer who built a production-critical real-time personalization and memory retrieval system for a user-facing product, adding <100ms P99 latency while improving relevance ~20–25% and holding SLA through 3x traffic. Experienced designing tiered retrieval backends (Redis + vector store), deploying on Kubernetes with autoscaling/circuit breakers, and running rigorous observability, incident response, and agent evaluation (shadow traffic, A/B tests, regression/replay).”

Feras Alsaiari

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AWS data platforms and event-driven systems

4y exp

“Capital One engineer leading the architecture and delivery of a large-scale AWS Glue/Spark/Delta Lake batch messaging pipeline that decoupled batch from real-time flows, added multi-region failover and automated retries, and delivered ~40% AWS cost savings with ~3x performance gains. Currently building an LLM-powered Slack bot using RAG to automate message investigations by querying CloudWatch, Snowflake, and internal documentation with privacy-aware masking of NPI/PII.”

“Product-minded software engineer with experience shipping AI-powered financial insights (spend forecasting, cashflow, credit optimization) and building real-time analytics systems using React/TypeScript and FastAPI. Has designed microservices with RabbitMQ/gRPC and strong observability (Prometheus/Grafana/OpenTelemetry), and also built an internal Figma plugin adopted by designers that reduced export time by 50%.”

“Built and architected ML-integrated payment processing systems for PlayStation at Sony Interactive Entertainment, covering fraud determination, provider routing optimization, and model-training feedback loops in production. Brings a strong reliability and observability mindset, with concrete experience designing fallbacks, retries, correlation-ID tracing, and statistically grounded evaluation for non-deterministic systems.”