Vetted Google Cloud Platform Professionals

Karan Javali

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and cloud-native web platforms

Salt Lake City, Utah5y exp

“Software engineer with experience at Goldman Sachs and Arizona State University’s Learning Engineering Institute, shipping production backend systems including a vendor equities invoice-generation service designed for extensibility across multiple vendors. Built Django REST + PostgreSQL backends with JWT auth and Pytest coverage, and delivered data-heavy, responsive Angular dashboards; also has exposure to AWS EC2 deployments and GitLab CI/CD automation.”

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.”

“Analytics-focused candidate with experience owning end-to-end data projects across AI transcription, retail forecasting, and transportation revenue analytics. They combine strong SQL/Python pipeline skills with dashboarding and stakeholder alignment, citing measurable impact including 60% lower ETL latency, 18% better forecast accuracy, and 25% operational efficiency gains.”

“Healthcare-focused data analyst with hands-on experience at Molina Healthcare building SQL and Python workflows for retention and churn analytics. They combined enrollment, CRM, and claims data into Power BI reporting, automated predictive churn analysis, and tied their work to measurable outcomes including faster processing, better reporting accuracy, and reduced churn.”

“Enterprise NetSuite Financials professional with hands-on ownership of GL configuration, month-end close, reporting, and production support in a multi-subsidiary environment at Bank of America. Particularly strong in stabilizing finance operations under deadline pressure, improving close efficiency, and building audit-ready reporting and controls across NetSuite and integrated systems.”

Anthony Thanpoovong

Screened

Entry-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud, AI, and full-stack development

Toronto, Canada1y exp

“Backend/AI engineer with hands-on experience building LLM-powered data products and AI platform workflows, including a project that turns tabular datasets into graphs, summaries, and chat-based insights with 1-2 second latency. Also contributed at TELUS to a Sovereign AI Factory self-serve onboarding platform tied to 100+ NVIDIA H200 GPUs, giving them an interesting mix of applied LLM, platform, and infrastructure exposure.”

Rami Jaloudi

Screened

Senior Applications Engineer specializing in legal technology and eDiscovery

New York, NY16y exp

“Early-stage founder candidate exploring an AI-enabled legal tech startup focused on document intelligence, secure workflows, and enterprise automation. Brings a rare blend of technical architecture fluency and product/business thinking, with clear firsthand insight into legal and document-heavy operational pain points.”

“Built and deployed an agentic RAG assistant in production to automate enterprise knowledge search and multi-step workflows with tool calling, tackling real-world issues like hallucinations, retrieval accuracy, and latency. Demonstrates strong LLMOps and orchestration depth (MLflow, Airflow, LangGraph/LangChain/LlamaIndex) plus a metrics-driven approach to agent testing/evaluation and cross-functional delivery with business stakeholders.”

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.”

Sriram Degala

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in healthcare and finance AI

Dallas, TX4y exp

“Built production-grade medical AI systems at MD Anderson, including an end-to-end RAG chatbot used by clinical researchers for real-time drug interaction and trial literature queries. Stands out for combining healthcare domain knowledge with strong MLOps, evaluation, and safety practices, and for delivering measurable gains in latency, retrieval precision, and team adoption.”

“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.”

“Engineering leader with 8+ years across IoT, emergency messaging, and political campaign data science, including operating a massive IoT microservices platform at several million devices and roughly 200 million requests per minute. Particularly strong in retrofitting legacy systems for modern observability using OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb, and Grafana LGTM, while also managing distributed international teams and developing engineers into senior and tech lead roles.”

“Backend engineer with experience at HSBC and Machinations who has delivered major production performance wins (cutting large trade-file upload times from ~13–15s to ~2s) using chunked parallel processing with strong reliability controls. Also built and shipped an applied AI RAG workflow using Langflow + Cohere embeddings + FAISS with hosted/local LLM fallbacks (Hugging Face, Ollama) and production-grade guardrails, observability, and evaluation.”

“Data science and AI professional with Capital One experience building churn prediction and GenAI-powered document intelligence solutions. Stands out for pairing hands-on technical depth in NLP, LLMs, and analytics with strong business communication, including driving adoption across teams and contributing to a 25% reduction in customer churn.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience at Wipro and Cisco building real-time monitoring and observability platforms from scratch. Stands out for combining streaming/data-pipeline depth (Kafka, Fluentd, Elasticsearch, Redis) with strong React/TypeScript frontend execution, and for delivering measurable impact such as cutting troubleshooting time by nearly a third.”

Adam Williams

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack distributed systems

Remote8y exp

“Mailchimp engineer with unusually broad full-stack ownership, spanning React/TypeScript front ends, Go services, and Java/Spring Boot GraphQL platforms. Stands out for building a monolith-replacement campaigns widget in just four weeks while navigating new multi-region Aurora DSQL infrastructure, and for pairing strong product sense with pragmatic migration and reliability decisions in a B2B SaaS environment.”

“Full-stack engineer who built BrewAI, a cloud-native AI resume optimization platform on GCP using React, TypeScript, LangChain, and Gemini, with scalable async job processing and LLM safety guardrails. The product gained real-world traction when an undergraduate college in India asked students to use it for internship resume drafting, and the candidate also has team lead experience shipping an early-stage ERP system.”

Rishabh Goyal

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend microservices and FinTech

USA4y exp

“Python backend engineer focused on real-time e-commerce analytics systems, building FastAPI + Kafka microservices with strong idempotent processing patterns (Postgres upserts, manual offsets, Redis caching). Has hands-on Kubernetes (EKS) and GitOps delivery with Argo CD/GitHub Actions, plus experience migrating containerized services from on-prem VMs to AWS using Terraform and blue-green cutovers.”

“Applied NLP/ML engineer with experience at KeyBank and Novartis building production document intelligence and entity-resolution systems in finance and healthcare. Has delivered end-to-end pipelines (Airflow + AWS) using transformers (DistilBERT/Sentence-BERT), vector search (FAISS/Milvus/Pinecone), and human-in-the-loop labeling to achieve measurable gains (40%+ faster queries; up to 88% F1 and 93% precision/90% recall in entity linking).”

Janvitha Mandyam

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and NLP

Chicago, IL4y exp

“GenAI/LLMOps practitioner who deployed a production RAG-based customer service and knowledge retrieval system for a global bank using LangChain, FAISS/Azure Cognitive Search, GPT-4/Claude, and Guardrails—driving a reported 35% Q&A accuracy lift while reducing handle time and escalations. Also partnered with non-technical leaders at CVS Health to deliver ML-driven supply chain risk and inventory insights via anomaly detection, NLG summaries, and stakeholder-friendly dashboards.”

“GenAI/RAG engineer who has deployed a production policy/regulatory search assistant for a financial client using LangChain + Vertex AI, FastAPI, Docker/Kubernetes, and Airflow-orchestrated data pipelines. Demonstrated measurable impact with 50–60% latency reduction and 70% fewer pipeline failures, plus KPI-driven grounding evaluation (90%+ target) and strong cross-functional collaboration with compliance/business teams.”

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.”

“Backend engineer with banking-domain experience building production microservices and Kafka-based transaction processing systems. While they have not yet shipped a full LLM agent, they bring relevant distributed-systems expertise in reliability, observability, idempotency, and event-driven workflow design, including a reported 15-20% performance improvement.”