Vetted Grafana Professionals

Priyanka Ramesh

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Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Java/Spring Boot and React

Boston, MA2y exp

“Backend engineer (IpserLab) who owned Python services for a production quiz/analytics platform, focusing on reliability and low-latency behavior under peak load. Hands-on with Kubernetes + Docker deployments and GitHub Actions CI/CD in a GitOps-style workflow, including solving configuration drift and enabling fast rollbacks. Also implemented Kafka-based event streaming with idempotent consumers and strong observability (lag tracking, structured logging, alerting).”

Naveen Chokkakula

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Senior Golang Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud-native microservices

Texas, USA5y exp

“Software engineer with experience at UWorld and Infosys, focused on full-stack product delivery and backend reliability. Stands out for owning analytics/onboarding experiences end-to-end while also building resilient distributed systems, reusable service primitives, and safe multi-tenant configuration guardrails.”

“Cloud/Linux infrastructure engineer focused on high-availability AWS platforms (EKS/EC2) with strong observability and incident response ownership. Has hands-on experience building secure CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins) and Terraform-based IaC at scale, including resolving real production issues like peak-traffic latency and Terraform remote state locking; transparent about not having direct IBM Power/AIX/PowerHA production ownership.”

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped production systems end-to-end, including a note-taking product (Notey) combining audio/image capture, ASR, summarization, and a semantic chat agent over past notes. Also has applied ML experience in healthcare, collaborating directly with doctors to validate an EEG seizure-detection pipeline, and uses Kubernetes to optimize GPU usage for LLM training.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who builds and operates Spring Boot microservices with React/TypeScript frontends, using Kafka/RabbitMQ for event-driven workflows. Created an internal ops dashboard for Support/SRE with tracing, alert correlation, and self-serve actions, improving MTTR and reducing escalations while maintaining regulatory-grade reliability and security.”

“End-to-end engineer focused on AI-native enterprise systems, including a production generative knowledge platform using RAG + semantic search over internal documentation (React, Python/Flask, GPU-hosted NLP models, Pinecone) with strong CI/CD and observability. Reports concrete outcomes including 40% faster knowledge access and ~75% employee adoption, and has led incremental cloud-native modernization using feature flags, parallel runs, canary releases, and regression testing.”

Deva Sai Kumar Bheesetti

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Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in data automation, cloud & AI

Lowell, MA5y exp

“JavaScript engineer who effectively "maintains" an internal open-source-style React/Node.js shared library used by multiple teams—owning API stability, semantic versioning, CI/testing, logging, and documentation. Demonstrates strong cross-team debugging and change-management skills (schema-driven refactors, feature flags, validation layers) to ship new features without breaking existing workflows, plus a profiling/benchmarking-driven approach to performance.”

Yang Qi

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Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI platforms and data visualization

Cambridge, MA3y exp

“Full-stack engineer with healthcare/bioinformatics experience who built a real-time genomic data analysis and 2D visualization feature (React/TypeScript + D3, FastAPI) at University of Utah Health, deploying on AWS ECS Fargate with monitoring and measuring engagement via Google Analytics. Also built AWS Lambda-based ETL pipelines for lab data ingestion using pandas/NumPy with reliability patterns (idempotency, retries, CloudWatch alerting) and drove maintainability improvements through shared component libraries and React hooks.”

LAKSHMI KATTAMURI

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Mid-level Embedded Software Engineer specializing in RTOS and microcontroller firmware

Boston, MA4y exp

“Backend/embedded-focused engineer with hands-on experience designing real-time, memory/power-constrained firmware architectures and also building Python/FastAPI services. Demonstrates strong production rigor across migrations (strangler pattern, shadow reads, feature flags), security (OIDC/JWT, RBAC/ABAC, Postgres RLS), and robustness for async workflows (idempotency, event ordering, state machines).”

Sai Prudhivi

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Mid Software Engineer specializing in full-stack microservices and cloud platforms

New York, NY4y exp

“Backend-focused engineer with experience building high-volume policy management and enterprise pricing systems, including Django/FastAPI/Flask services, Kafka-based async workflows, and Prometheus/Grafana observability. While they have not yet shipped a customer-facing AI agent or production LLM integration, they bring strong cloud, API, reliability, and scalable system design fundamentals that translate well to responsible AI infrastructure work.”

“Built and launched a production AI knowledge assistant at Virtusa used by 8,000 people, combining RAG, tool use, and strong reliability practices to cut lookup time by 60%. Also owns full-stack delivery, including a real-time transaction monitoring dashboard built with React, Spring Boot, and Kafka handling 200K API requests per day.”

“Backend/platform engineer with strong ownership of production systems, including a full Azure migration from a VM-based monolith to a containerized, event-driven microservices architecture. They combine cloud infrastructure, LLM/RAG optimization, and pragmatic stakeholder management, with measurable wins including 90% infra cost reduction, faster deployments, and significantly improved latency and token efficiency.”

“AI Engineer at Humanitarian AI who has built and productionized both a LangGraph-based multi-agent workflow system and a RAG pipeline (OpenAI embeddings + vector DB) with rigorous evaluation/guardrails. Reports strong measurable impact (60% faster workflow delivery, 40% fewer incidents, 70% reduced research time) and has prior enterprise modernization experience at Infosys migrating ETL to microservices with zero production incidents.”

“Backend/data engineer with strong production experience across Python microservices (FastAPI) and AWS serverless/data platforms (Lambda, API Gateway, Glue, Redshift). Demonstrates reliability and incident ownership (rate limits, retries/circuit breakers, monitoring) and has delivered measurable SQL performance gains (12–15s to <800ms, ~60% CPU reduction). Seeking fully remote work and not open to relocation/onsite meetings.”

“Backend engineer with deep experience modernizing a provider credentialing/compliance platform with multiple upstream/downstream integrations. Focused on building predictable, scalable REST APIs (primarily ASP.NET Core; framework-agnostic approach applicable to FastAPI), improving performance via DB/query optimization, and hardening workflows with idempotency, transactions, feature flags, and strong auth/RBAC patterns.”

“Built and shipped a production GPT-4 + RAG customer support chatbot that materially improved support operations (response time 4 hours to <3 minutes; ~65% tier-1 ticket automation). Demonstrates strong end-to-end LLM engineering across retrieval (Sentence Transformers/Pinecone), safety (multi-layer moderation), cost/latency optimization (caching/streaming, Celery/Redis), and rigorous evaluation/monitoring (shadow deploys, Datadog, 500+ test cases), plus proven stakeholder buy-in leading to 80% adoption.”

“Built and deployed a scalable, production-ready LLM knowledge assistant using a RAG architecture (LangChain + vector store/FAISS) to replace keyword search for internal documents. Demonstrates hands-on expertise in hallucination reduction and retrieval quality improvements through semantic chunking, similarity tuning, prompt design, and human-in-the-loop validation, plus strong stakeholder communication via demos and visual explanations.”

“Built and productionized a clinical NLP + patient risk stratification platform at Dermanture, combining Spark/PySpark pipelines with BERT/BioBERT for entity extraction and text classification and downstream risk models in TensorFlow/scikit-learn. Experienced running regulated, auditable ML workflows with Airflow and AWS SageMaker, emphasizing data validation (Great Expectations), drift monitoring, and explainability (SHAP) to drive clinician trust and adoption.”

“Engineer with experience in regulated healthcare and financial systems, including a United Health healthcare service migration to AWS. Built documentation-as-code for CI/CD (Jenkins/Docker/Kubernetes/Terraform + GitHub Actions) that accelerated release cycles from 3 weeks to 4 days and tied security configuration (Spring Security/OAuth2/JWT) directly to HIPAA/GDPR compliance. Strong in observability-led incident response (ELK/Prometheus/Grafana) and performance tuning (PostgreSQL, async processing), citing MTTR reduction from 3 hours to 50 minutes and support for 250K+ concurrent users.”

“Master’s program project lead who built and deployed a real-time sound recognition system (Flask + React Native + ML) that was adopted by 200+ university students. Demonstrates strong production engineering and cross-layer debugging—solving latency, unreliable uploads, and observability gaps using microservice separation, chunked/idempotent transfers, and packet-capture-driven network diagnosis—plus AWS/on-prem and IoT edge-to-cloud integration experience.”

“Full-stack engineer focused on data-heavy platforms, building Spring Boot microservices and Angular/React dashboards end-to-end. Has hands-on experience improving large-scale API and UI performance (including cutting 8–10s response times) and ensuring cross-service consistency using Kafka, idempotent consumers, and strong validation/transaction patterns on AWS with CI/CD and observability (Prometheus/ELK).”

“LLM/RAG-focused engineer who repeatedly takes agentic workflows from impressive demos to dependable production using rigorous evals, SLOs, and deep observability. Has led high-impact incident mitigation (22-minute MTTR during a major sale) and developer enablement workshops, and partnered with sales to close a $410k ARR enterprise deal with a tailored RAG pilot (FastAPI/pgvector/Okta/InfoSec-ready).”