Vetted Grafana Professionals

Abhishek Yadav

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in Python and FinTech

Tempe, AZ4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with experience shipping both enterprise financial systems at Citi and production AI copilots. Built a real-time transaction monitoring dashboard that cut manual reporting by ~60%, and also designed a grounded, human-in-the-loop LLM support assistant with RAG, structured outputs, and production evals for quality and compliance.”

“Senior engineering/CTO-level leader with hands-on delivery of serverless, event-driven cloud governance platforms (deployed across multiple GE business units) and experience building adaptable usage-based billing at UserTesting. Has advised startups (including CaseText during YC) and supported fundraising and acquisition due diligence, including investor materials for a smart cooler custody management system presented to BARDA during Operation Warp Speed.”

“Has hands-on familiarity with successful F2P mobile fighting games (e.g., Marvel Contest of Champions) and can articulate key retention/monetization systems like streak-based daily logins, gacha rewards, and limited-time events. While not having shipped a game directly, they have shipped web/mobile products integrated into gaming ecosystems and think in terms of live-ops health metrics and A/B testing for IAP offers.”

Surya Teja

Screened

Mid-level Backend/Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI and FinTech payments

Tempe, AZ4y exp

“Full-stack engineer who has owned an operational reporting/dashboard product end-to-end—building a React UI, designing/implementing FastAPI services, and deploying/operating on AWS. Demonstrates strong performance engineering (Postgres query/index tuning using EXPLAIN ANALYZE) with concrete impact (reports reduced from tens of seconds to a few seconds) and a reliability mindset across observability, migrations, and resilient third-party/ETL integrations.”

“Backend/data engineering candidate with Netflix experience designing and migrating analytics platforms from batch to real-time streaming (Kafka/Flink) across AWS and GCP. Delivered measurable improvements (40% lower data delay, 99.9% accuracy) using phased rollouts, automated data validation (Great Expectations), and strong observability (Prometheus/Grafana), and proactively hardened pipelines with idempotency to prevent duplicate Kafka processing.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience building FastAPI services with strong reliability patterns (circuit breaker, rate limiting, caching, graceful degradation) and JWT/OAuth2 auth. Has delivered AWS EKS deployments via Terraform with Secrets Manager/IRSA and HPA autoscaling, and built Glue/Spark ETL pipelines on S3 Parquet with schema-evolution and idempotent reruns; also demonstrated measurable SQL tuning impact (20–30s to <10s).”

Likhitha Bethi

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems, distributed systems, and applied AI

Stony Brook, NY4y exp

“Goldman Sachs engineer who owned end-to-end features for an internal onboarding and case management platform, spanning React/TypeScript UI, a GraphQL gateway, and Node + Spring WebFlux microservices. Built and operated a Kafka-based ingestion and search pipeline with DLQs, retries, idempotency, and strong observability, and improved developer experience via backward-compatible GraphQL API design and schema-driven documentation.”

“Gameplay engineer with hands-on ownership of a real-time C++ combat ability system, including diagnosing and eliminating large-scale combat frame spikes by refactoring hit detection to an event-driven, animation-notify approach (cut collision checks ~80%). Also implemented UE5 networked abilities (dash) with client-side prediction and server-authoritative reconciliation, plus projectile ballistics validated through debug spline visualizations and unit tests.”

“Infrastructure/platform engineer with hands-on experience running production and non-production Amazon EKS clusters, including upgrade processes and reliability monitoring via Prometheus/Grafana. Also administered on-prem VMware vSphere/vCloud Director and handled a significant vSwitch/VLAN outage, and uses Terraform + Terragrunt with S3 remote state and release-based drift detection across dev/stage/prod.”

“Data engineer at Microsoft who owned an end-to-end subscription analytics platform processing 7TB+ daily across 40+ pipelines, combining ADF batch ingestion with Kafka/Spark streaming and rigorous Great Expectations quality gates. Built a Fabric-based self-service ingestion platform with CI/CD and observability, plus a Databricks feature store serving near-real-time ML inference with Delta Lake reliability and versioning.”

Shreya Roy Koneri

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend microservices and real-time payments

Phoenix, AZ5y exp

“Product-minded full-stack engineer who has owned customer-facing platforms end-to-end, including a unified web UI platform that increased adoption by 30% using feature flags and phased rollouts. Experienced designing TypeScript/React systems with microservices and RabbitMQ at scale, addressing reliability issues with DLQs, retries, and idempotent consumers, and building internal analytics tooling adopted company-wide within weeks.”

KARTHIKBABU VADLOORI

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in Spring Boot, React, and cloud microservices

San Francisco, CA5y exp

“Backend engineer with experience at Meta and Accenture building regulated-data systems (healthcare/financial) using Python/Flask and Postgres. Has scaled high-throughput services to millions of daily requests, delivering measurable latency wins (~40% API latency reduction; ~35% faster DB-backed endpoints), and has productionized ML inference services using Docker/Kubernetes and AWS (ECS/SageMaker).”

Zheng Wu

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and cloud messaging

Mountain View, CA1y exp

“Data/ML engineer who has owned end-to-end systems across email deliverability/segmentation and production LLM apps. Built a Spark+Airflow segmentation engine that materially improved deliverability (99.9%) and open rates (>50%), and shipped a PDF-to-quiz RAG product using LangChain/Vertex AI/Chroma with strong guardrails and an eval loop that cut hallucinations to <5%.”

Adam Wermus

Screened

Senior Data Engineer & Render Tools Developer specializing in VFX and render farm pipelines

Santa Monica, CA7y exp

“Real-time simulation/physics engineer who optimized character effects and cloth for the "Infinity" game by implementing and profiling multiple ODE integrators, including pioneering the largely undocumented Parker-Sochacki method (optimized 5/7 sims; >30% speedup on a particle system). Also built SPH fluid solvers in Unity (C#) and created Grafana/Python Dash dashboards to analyze latency/throughput, with strong interest in applying math/physics and tooling to soccer/football gameplay.”

“AI/full-stack engineer with hands-on production experience across React/TypeScript, Go, and Python, spanning an early-stage education startup and a compliance-sensitive internal healthcare data platform. Stands out for shipping LLM and retrieval-based products with measurable impact, including a 27% recommendation improvement, support for 1M+ daily events, and a 19% lift in task completion in a secure, auditable environment.”

Kshitij Kakade

Screened

Intern-level AI/Full-Stack Engineer specializing in LLM systems and RAG

Mountain View, CA2y exp

“Product intern at KNEX who stepped into engineering ownership when the team was reassigned and shipped a lease abstraction AI agent that cut data-entry time by roughly 85% in a live CEO demo. Also built a full-stack agentic RAG app with React/TypeScript, FastAPI, pgvector, hybrid retrieval, tool use, and citation-based transparency, showing unusually strong end-to-end AI product depth for an early-career candidate.”

“Engineer with a rare mix of Android, backend, and AI workflow automation experience, spanning Amazon Flex mobile features and legal-tech document automation. Built a globally used in-app recording pipeline at Amazon and previously helped cut immigration legal drafting time by ~50% through AI-assisted document parsing, form filling, and human-in-the-loop review.”

“Internship experience deploying cloud-based services into production, including navigating security/resource provisioning and coordinating approvals across impacted teams. Built a Python backend for a local Ollama-based app using open-source models, and has hands-on distributed systems experience implementing and debugging Paxos with extensive logging/state tracing.”

“AppSec/customer security specialist with Atlassian enterprise cloud migration experience, advising on SSO and API token hardening and driving adoption through phased rollouts. Implemented Snyk (SCA) and SonarQube (SAST) in Bitbucket Pipelines with Jira-based vuln workflows, cutting critical vuln MTTR from 30 to 7 days for financial services customers. Strong in SSO troubleshooting (Okta/SAML) and secure AWS/EKS-based agent integrations with secrets management and Datadog observability.”

“Engineering lead/player-coach at Sam's Club who drove major React Native Member Desk Returns changes (including Vision Center insurance refund flows) by coordinating Product/UX, QA, and API teams and leading a 3-engineer squad. Also led an e-commerce mobile OAuth migration, evolving a login experience from vanilla JS to a React SPA as security requirements (MFA, reCAPTCHA) emerged, and improved production reliability via better request flagging and analytics/log instrumentation.”

Tejaswini Manjunatha

Screened

Mid-level Reliability Engineer specializing in incident response and LLM-driven support automation

Palo Alto, USA4y exp

“Customer Success Services / Support professional working on Palantir Foundry who productionizes customer integrations (secure OAuth2, scheduled pipelines) and builds LLM-driven support automation (runbook matching) with monitoring and evaluation suites. Also leads developer workshops/demos on Foundry packaging/installation workflows, using live debugging techniques to make concepts concrete.”