Vetted Event-Driven Architecture Professionals

Niharika Bhasin

Screened

Intern Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AWS serverless and real-time web apps

New York City, NY0y exp

“New-grad/early-career engineer who led high-stakes modernization of a field-operations platform from Firebase to AWS using an incremental/dual-write strategy, achieving zero downtime and ~30–32% infra cost reduction while improving scalability. Also built and productionized an AI-native code assistant (LangChain + Pinecone RAG) with measurable online metrics and safety guardrails, and has experience working directly with CEO/CTO/CPO and embedded with customer teams to ship enterprise features quickly.”

Nikitha Margadi

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in cloud lakehouse, streaming, and MLOps

Texas, USA5y exp

“Data engineer at AT&T focused on large-scale telecom (5G/IoT) data platforms, owning end-to-end pipelines from Kafka/Azure ingestion through Databricks/Delta Lake transformations to serving analytics and ML. Has operated at very high volumes (~50+ TB/day) and delivered measurable performance gains (25–30% faster processing) plus improved reliability via Airflow monitoring, robust data quality checks, and resilient external data collection patterns (rate limiting, retries, dynamic schemas).”

“Backend engineer with healthcare and financial services experience (Humana, PNC) who owned production-grade, high-volume ingestion-to-API pipelines end-to-end in C#/.NET and SQL. Strong focus on data quality, handling out-of-order/partial upstream records, and improving reliability/observability via structured logging and telemetry, plus significant SQL performance tuning to reduce peak-load issues.”

Krishnamraju Penumatsa

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in cloud data platforms and streaming pipelines

Fort Worth, TX6y exp

“Data engineer currently at American Airlines who built and owned end-to-end flight operations and booking data pipelines (batch + real-time) using Azure Data Factory, Kafka, Spark/Databricks, Synapse, and Snowflake—processing hundreds of GBs/day. Strong focus on reliability and data quality (idempotency, checkpointing, retries, validation/alerts) and delivered near-real-time analytics powering Power BI dashboards; previously helped stand up an early-stage data platform at Sysco on AWS (Glue/S3/Redshift) with Airflow and Jenkins CI/CD.”

Brendan Dwyer

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI and cloud platforms

Colorado Springs, CO10y exp

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on experience turning research-style RAG concepts into production underwriting systems at Prudential Financial. Built an internal document intelligence assistant end-to-end with strong monitoring, safety, and evaluation practices, driving a 38% faster review process and 31% better retrieval accuracy. Also improved platform engineering at VivSoft by standardizing Python-based ML deployment across 60+ models.”

Paavani Karuturi

Screened

Junior Backend and ML Engineer specializing in distributed systems and LLM infrastructure

San Jose, CA2y exp

“Backend engineer with strong ownership across authentication, API infrastructure, and AI-powered document workflows. They built and operated a production auth microservice supporting 10,000+ users with measurable latency and security improvements, and also shipped hackathon and applied-AI systems including legal document and medical document retrieval/Q&A products.”

“Software engineer with 4 years of experience spanning scalable backend systems, full-stack product development, and production LLM integrations in finance, insurance, and e-commerce contexts. They describe shipping an AI-powered internal financial analysis tool, improving document-review workflows by 40%, and driving a zero-to-one B2B SaaS subscription launch with cross-functional GTM alignment.”

“Candidate approaches AI-assisted coding like a senior developer supervising junior contributors: they define precise technical requirements, enforce code quality and documentation, and review outputs before approval. They also actively lead multi-agent workflows using OpenClaw and a Kanban-style AI project management setup, coordinating both coding and non-technical agents.”

VINAY KUMAR VIPPALA

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in FinTech backend systems

Seattle, WA5y exp

“Full-stack product engineer with hands-on ownership from React UI through Spring Boot APIs and SQL data layers, focused on transaction-heavy fintech workflows. Built both a transaction reconciliation system and a 0-to-1 AI-based anomaly detection workflow at LeisurePay, combining performance-minded frontend engineering with pragmatic product delivery.”

“Full-stack software engineer who has owned production workflows spanning React/Next.js, FastAPI, Redis-backed async processing, and PostgreSQL in a multi-tenant invoice-processing product. Shows strong product instincts as well—improving UX for long-running operations, iterating MVPs based on real user behavior, and balancing reusable abstractions with practical implementation constraints.”

Michael Boaz

Screened

Senior Software Developer specializing in cloud-native and event-driven architecture

Atlanta, GA24y exp

“Built and shipped production LLM/agent systems on AWS for internal developer support and IT observability use cases, including a Claude-based support tool grounded in internal documentation and a cost-optimized ServiceNow integration. Stands out for combining agent design, cloud architecture, CI/CD, chaos testing, and observability to make non-deterministic systems reliable and maintainable in production.”

“Pragmatic AI-focused builder who uses tools like ChatGPT and Claude to accelerate development while maintaining strict review, testing, and architectural ownership. Has hands-on experience designing lightweight multi-agent workflows, including a RAG-style system with separate retrieval and response roles, and approaches new AI trends through direct experimentation rather than hype.”

Chuangyu Xu

Screened

Entry-Level Software Engineer specializing in Java backend and distributed systems

New York, NY

“Built and shipped a production AI mock-interview platform where an LLM “interviewer” generates role-specific questions, runs multi-turn follow-ups, and outputs structured scoring/feedback using RAG. Demonstrates strong production-readiness practices (Prometheus/Grafana monitoring, retries/timeouts, fallback models/templates, schema validation, replay-based debugging) and achieved 99%+ availability with ~40% higher session completion. Also has experience integrating agents with messy SAP/ERP-style data sources using a data middleware layer, cleaning/validation, and idempotent write safeguards.”

“Unity/C# developer with hands-on ownership of a core, sample-accurate audio looping system for an audio-driven game, including syncing multiple tracks and driving character animations from audio events. Also has mocap animation cleanup/blending experience, broad exposure to multiplayer stacks (Photon/Mirror/Unity Netcode/gRPC), and is currently exploring local/on-device LLM gameplay integration with a focus on designing around latency.”

Andrew Sheehan

Screened

Executive engineering leader specializing in enterprise architecture and digital transformation

27y exp

“Candidate has spent years working with startups across various industries and has been involved in multiple stages of company building, including hiring, technology choices, and budgeting. They appear especially oriented toward operational discipline, cost control, and evaluating ideas through structured cost, time, and value analysis.”

Sean O'Dea

Screened

Executive CTO and software architect specializing in scalable SaaS and cybersecurity

Las Vegas, NV19y exp

“Repeat founder and operator who has built multiple startups, including a social platform, and chose to bootstrap after learning firsthand that investor demand was centered on distribution rather than technology. Brings a candid operator-side understanding of VC, term sheets, and fundraising dynamics, plus experience shipping against real scale at Parlement.”

“Engineering leader focused on developer platforms and open-source frameworks/SDKs, with strong community and release-engineering chops. Drove major reliability and DX improvements (30–50% faster release cycles; 2–3x repeat contributors; ~50% faster onboarding) and led an incremental Python monolith to TypeScript event-driven migration using Protobuf contracts, feature flags, and a plugin architecture to preserve backward compatibility.”