Vetted Grafana Professionals

“Founding Product Manager and first hire at a seed-stage startup who joined before a product existed and built the product function and engineering operating cadence from scratch. Owns end-to-end product development while also covering GTM, strategy, funding-related work, customer deployments, and direct engineering management—showing unusually broad startup operating range.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience building real-time sensor telemetry platforms: FastAPI + PostgreSQL services with strong observability, plus AWS serverless and Glue-based ETL into Redshift. Has modernized legacy SAS pipelines into Python microservices and delivered measurable performance wins (Postgres query latency cut to <1 minute and ~60% DB CPU reduction) while owning incident response and reliability improvements.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience scaling a CVE processing platform by re-architecting it into a Kafka-based distributed system, boosting throughput to 200k+ records/min while designing for HA, deduplication, and fault tolerance. Also led a Flyway-driven migration affecting 15M+ records with staged dev→stage→prod rollout, and has implemented production security patterns (Auth0, OAuth2/HTTPS, AWS IAM RBAC) including least-privilege hardening.”

“AI/ML engineer with experience at Northern Trust and Persistent Systems building production LLM + RAG systems for regulated financial use cases, including liquidity forecasting, anomaly detection, and credit scoring. Emphasizes compliance-first design with explainability (SHAP), traceability (MLflow), and hallucination controls (FAISS + citation-grounded prompting), and has delivered drift-triggered retraining pipelines using Airflow and Kubernetes while translating model outputs into business-ready marketing segments.”

“Hands-on engineer focused on productionizing LLM-powered assistants: builds RAG pipelines with guardrails, response schemas, and citation-grounded outputs, then hardens them with explicit NFRs (latency, uptime, security, cost). Experienced diagnosing agentic/LLM workflow issues in real time using observability and stepwise isolation, and supports go-to-market via developer demos, workshops, and pre-sales technical evaluations in microservices/Spring Boot environments.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who has built and operated event-driven microservices platforms (FastAPI/React/TypeScript, Kafka, Kubernetes) and internal DevOps tooling. Delivered measurable impact through user-feedback-driven iteration (WebSockets update mechanism cutting redundant API calls ~30%) and operational improvements (deployment monitoring dashboard reducing rollback time ~40%), with strong focus on reliability, observability, and data consistency at scale.”

“Software engineer and University of Chicago graduate teaching assistant who built a full-stack internal analytics dashboard (React/TypeScript + Node/Express) and worked in RabbitMQ-based microservices with Prometheus/Grafana observability. Also created an AI-powered ERD diagram generator (React + MermaidJS + OpenAI) adopted by students to save hours on database assignments, using validation loops to ensure valid Mermaid output.”

“Built and deployed an enterprise RAG application at Centene to help clinical teams retrieve insights from large internal policy document sets, cutting manual research by 30–40%. Implemented custom domain-adapted embeddings (SageMaker + BERT transfer learning) and hybrid retrieval (BM25 + Pinecone) to drive a 22% relevance lift, and ran the system in production on AWS EKS with CI/CD, MLflow, and Prometheus monitoring (99% uptime, ~40% latency reduction).”

“Python backend engineer who owned an end-to-end Django/DRF authentication and account-management module (JWT, RBAC, email verification) and optimized token validation performance. Has hands-on Kubernetes + Helm delivery with GitOps via ArgoCD (multi-environment app-of-apps, drift detection/rollback) and has supported a cloud-to-on-prem migration using staged testing and phased cutover. Also built and scaled a Kafka-based real-time user activity tracking pipeline with reliability and backpressure controls.”

“IBM Power/AIX infrastructure engineer who owned a very large production estate (12 Power9 E980 frames and 400+ AIX 7.2 LPARs) with deep hands-on expertise in VIOS/vHMC, DLPAR, and PowerHA. Demonstrated strong incident response (zero-downtime DLPAR fix; split-brain prevention during storage failure) and modernization skills spanning Jenkins/Ansible CI/CD and Terraform automation for IBM Power Virtual Server/PowerVC.”

Sai Nikhil Kanchukatla

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in Golang microservices and IAM/SSO

Dallas, TX6y exp

“Backend engineer with experience at DigitalOcean and BNY Mellon, specializing in secure, highly available authentication and API platforms. Built an enterprise SSO system integrating Okta via OIDC with resilience patterns (gRPC contracts, circuit breakers, Kafka) and strong encryption, and led a careful monolith-to-Golang microservices migration using shadow traffic, dual writes, and feature flags to preserve data integrity.”

Arunima Mishra

Screened

Senior Technical Product Lead specializing in Data Governance and MDM SaaS platforms

Bengaluru, India7y exp

“Technical/product lead at Albanero (acquired by Infor in 2024; now at Infor) who built a Data Mesh-focused “Governance as a Product” module from early persona-based policies through a highly configurable multi-ERP governance platform (MDM, multi-source mastering, match/merge, automated review workflows). Also troubleshoots agentic/LLM workflows in production using auditability, guardrails, monitoring, and real-time validation—fixing a P0 false-positive security flagging issue and contributing to significant deal/adoption growth (~50%) after V2 launch.”

Sachin Dulla

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in NLP, fraud detection, and MLOps

Kentwood, MI3y exp

“Built and deployed a domain-specific LLM chatbot for research/support, cutting manual effort by ~50%. Demonstrates strong applied LLM engineering: RAG, prompt grounding with citations and fallbacks, embedding/top-k tuning, and production monitoring (confidence, latency, feedback loops). Experienced orchestrating agent workflows with LangChain-style pipelines and continuous evaluation to maintain reliability.”

Rupini Polavarapu

Screened

Senior DevOps Engineer specializing in AWS cloud infrastructure and CI/CD automation

Atlanta, GA10y exp

“AWS platform/infra engineer with hands-on ownership of EKS cluster lifecycle (upgrades, node scaling, networking/ingress, and EBS-backed stateful storage) and reliability validation using Datadog plus CI/CD smoke tests. Also supported on-prem VMware environments and operated a hybrid on-prem-to-AWS setup over site-to-site VPN, including incident response and implementing change-controlled firewall processes and proactive connectivity health checks.”

Emmanuel Bakwowi

Screened

Senior DevSecOps Engineer specializing in multi-cloud Kubernetes and CI/CD automation

New York, NY10y exp

“Cloud/DevOps engineer operating across AWS and Azure, running Kubernetes workloads with secure CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps) and Terraform IaC. Has supported AIX/PowerHA systems in hybrid environments—handling failover testing, incident recovery, and performance troubleshooting (including multipath/storage-path issues)—and has led cutovers by managing dependencies, rollback, and stabilization.”

“Backend/data engineer with healthcare claims expertise who has owned production data pipelines end-to-end, including ingestion, validation, transformation, and API serving. Stands out for improving data quality by 30%, building reliable integrations with strong auditability, and setting up pragmatic cloud deployment and observability in ambiguous early-stage environments.”

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped production RAG copilots and multi-agent workflows, including a real-time Llama3 (Ollama) copilot backend handling 12k+ concurrent queries at 99.9% uptime. Deep on orchestration (Langflow/Airflow/Kubernetes), reliability evaluation (hallucination detection, p95 latency, token cost), and monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana), with demonstrated stakeholder-facing analytics delivery via Tableau.”

“Backend/infrastructure-focused engineer building AI-agent products for small businesses, including a customer-service agent platform with intent routing, RAG over Pinecone, and external booking API integration. Has shipped Python/FastAPI services with JWT auth, versioned APIs, Docker deployments to AWS EC2 via GitHub Actions, and production monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana.”

“Built an AI-driven trading mentor/analytics system combining a React frontend, Spring Boot backend, and FastAPI ML service for stock risk and indicator analysis. Stands out for a pragmatic approach to AI-assisted development: uses AI for acceleration, but manually reviews code line by line, validates outputs against real market behavior, and adds safeguards for unreliable financial data.”

Bhanu Akepogu

Screened

Mid Software Engineer specializing in backend, full-stack, and AI systems

USA3y exp

“Full-stack engineer with 3+ years of backend and frontend experience who has built production AI products for enterprise document and policy workflows. Stands out for owning end-to-end systems that combine React, FastAPI, RAG, vector search, and AWS deployment, with measurable impact including 65% less manual review time and significantly faster knowledge-query resolution.”

Anirudh Raj

Screened

Entry-Level Machine Learning & Cloud Engineer specializing in AI data pipelines

Boston, MA

“Early-career cloud/appsec-focused engineer with hands-on experience building secure, observable microservice systems on AWS (IAM least privilege, KMS encryption, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, ALB) and troubleshooting autoscaling-related 500s down to connection pooling issues. Also deployed heavy ML workloads on Kubernetes by decomposing diffusion/transformer services, using workload identity to eliminate static credentials, and maintaining GitOps-style deployment audit trails.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across FastAPI microservices and AWS (Lambda, ECS, SQS, RDS, S3), plus Glue/Athena analytics pipelines. Demonstrates strong reliability and operations focus (timeouts/retries, centralized errors, CloudWatch monitoring) and measurable SQL optimization impact (25s to under 2s). Seeking fully remote senior developer role at ~$150k base.”

Joshua Caito

Screened

Director-level SRE leader specializing in cloud reliability and DevSecOps

Omaha, NE16y exp

“Engineering leader in insurance/enterprise environments who currently runs SRE and Level 2 operations at Mutual of Omaha with 11 direct reports. Combines people leadership with hands-on systems design, AI-enabled incident tooling, and observability workflow simplification; also has a track record of rescuing a major client upgrade project that was two years behind and delivering it roughly three months early.”