Vetted Grafana Professionals

“LLM/ML platform engineer with hands-on experience taking an LLM document summarization prototype into a production-grade service on AWS EKS, emphasizing low-latency inference, drift monitoring, and safe CI/CD rollouts (canary + rollback). Strong in real-time debugging of agentic/RAG systems (tracing, retrieval/index drift fixes) and in developer enablement through practical workshops (Docker/Kubernetes/FastAPI) plus pre-sales support via demos and benchmarks to close pilots.”

“Open-source contributor who improved React Query’s caching/subscription behavior to reduce unnecessary re-renders via debouncing and batched updates, validated with benchmarking and extensive tests. Also maintained a Flask extension and resolved production background-task hangs by tracing Redis connection handling issues, adding cleanup/retry logic and troubleshooting docs. In a fast-paced startup, owned the design of a Celery+Redis multi-queue background processing system with Prometheus-based observability.”

“Embodied AI / robotics-focused ML engineer with experience at JPMorgan and EY building language-to-robot control systems that connect transformer/LLM intent to safe real-world robotic actions. Designed production-grade, low-latency architectures (Kafka/Redis, monitoring, CI/CD) and applied sim-to-real and model distillation to make research ideas deployable on physical systems.”

“LLM/GenAI engineer with US Bank experience building a production financial-document intelligence platform using LangChain/LangGraph, GPT-4, and Amazon OpenSearch. Delivered a RAG-based assistant for compliance/audit teams with grounded, cited answers, focusing on reducing hallucinations and latency, and deployed securely on AWS (SageMaker/EKS) with CI/CD and evaluation tooling (LangSmith, RAGAS).”

“At HPE, led and deployed an enterprise-grade LLM document intelligence platform for an insurance client, automating extraction from highly variable PDFs/scans/emails and raising field accuracy from 74% to 93%. Built a LangChain/Pinecone/OpenSearch RAG framework to cut hallucinations by 37% and operationalized LangSmith evals in CI, driving a 41% triage accuracy lift and >33% fewer incorrect resolutions while partnering closely with claims operations via HITL workflows.”

“Data/MLOps engineer (Cognizant background) who owned an AWS/Airflow/Snowflake healthcare transactions pipeline processing ~8–10M records/day and cut pipeline/data-quality incidents by ~33%. Also built and deployed a production FastAPI model-inference service on Kubernetes (Docker, HPA) with strong observability (Prometheus/Grafana), versioned endpoints, and resilient backfill/idempotent external data ingestion patterns.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on AWS-based, event-driven systems—building Golang microservices and serverless pipelines with strong data validation, observability (CloudWatch/Splunk/New Relic), and reliability patterns (retries/DLQs). Has also operated distributed web scraping/data collection with schema versioning and Step Functions backfills, and ships well-documented, versioned REST/WebSocket APIs for internal and external consumers.”

Tuukka Luolamo

Screened

Executive Technology Leader (CTO) specializing in AI, cloud, and distributed platforms

Remote14y exp

“Engineering leader who stays hands-on in high-leverage technical areas (architecture, scalability, reliability) while operating at an executive level. Led StagePilot’s shift from a tightly coupled legacy system to a cloud-native, event-driven real-time platform proven at 1M+ concurrent users, and previously scaled multiple SRE teams at McGraw-Hill with SLOs, on-call, and blameless ops practices.”

Sri Lalitha

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Java Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and FinTech

California, USA6y exp

“Backend engineer who owned a Python task management API with JWT auth, async notifications, and performance work (DB optimization/caching) to handle high volumes. Led an on-prem to Azure private cloud migration at Morgan Stanley using GitOps and IaC (Terraform/ARM) with phased rollout and rollback planning. Also built a Kafka real-time streaming pipeline with exactly-once/idempotent consumers and Prometheus/Grafana monitoring.”

Mukul Sai Pendem

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and DevOps

United States (Remote)4y exp

“Backend engineer with strong Python/FastAPI microservices ownership, including an ML-serving service with embeddings, async DB access, and Redis caching to reduce latency under high load. Experienced deploying and operating containerized services on Kubernetes using GitOps (Argo CD/Helm) with automated CI/CD, plus hands-on Kafka streaming pipeline tuning and enterprise migration work (Infosys) using blue-green/active-passive strategies.”

Chandra Shekar Akkandra

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in fraud detection and risk analytics in Financial Services

Newark, CA5y exp

“Finance-domain ML/LLM engineer who has shipped production systems including a RAG-based financial insights assistant with a custom post-generation validation layer that verifies atomic claims against retrieved source text to prevent hallucinations in compliance-critical workflows. Also built large-scale MLOps automation on AWS using Kubeflow + MLflow + CI/CD for fraud detection and credit risk models processing 500M+ transactions/day with a 99.99% uptime goal, and partnered closely with JP Morgan risk/compliance stakeholders on NLP-driven compliance monitoring.”

Narendra R

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in microservices and cloud platforms

Dallas, TX7y exp

“Backend engineer focused on scalable Python/Flask services and high-performance PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy systems, with demonstrated wins like reducing N+1-driven response times to under 200ms and cutting P95 latency below 1s via background queues and caching. Has production experience operationalizing ML models as Dockerized APIs on AWS (S3/Lambda) with monitoring (CloudWatch/ELK), plus robust multi-tenant isolation using JWT-driven tenant context and row-level security.”

Utkarsh Chandel

Screened

Senior Security Engineer specializing in detection engineering, cloud security, and DFIR

San Francisco, CA8y exp

“LLM workflow/agentic systems practitioner who has helped customers harden an LLM-based incident triage prototype into a trusted daily-use production system by adding observability, audits, confidence gating, and deterministic fallbacks. Brings an SRE-style approach to real-time debugging (trace replay, rollback/canary, safe toggles) and is experienced running developer-centric demos/workshops and partnering with sales on technical qualification and security/architecture artifacts.”

Meghanath kethireddy

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack/Backend Engineer specializing in Java microservices and cloud platforms

Dallas, TX5y exp

“PayPal ML/AI practitioner who built and productionized a hybrid recommendation engine (BERT/LLM embeddings + collaborative filtering + XGBoost ranking) on AWS with end-to-end MLOps and orchestration. Addressed real-world issues like cold start and embedding latency (ONNX, clustering, caching, PySpark/Delta Lake) and drove a 27% lift in upsell conversion via A/B testing and stakeholder collaboration with marketing.”

Manasa Reddy Nagendla

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Java Engineer specializing in microservices, cloud, and event-driven systems

Cincinnati, OH6y exp

“Software engineer at Procter & Gamble focused on warehouse/operations systems, building near-real-time order/inventory visibility using Java/Spring Boot, React, Kafka, PostgreSQL, and Redis with measurable latency and load-time gains. Also shipped internal LLM/RAG knowledge assistants grounded in company runbooks and workflows, implementing guardrails and an evaluation loop that drove concrete retrieval improvements (document chunking) and regression prevention.”

Sana Khan

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in MLOps, LLMs, and real-time inference in FinTech

Oklahoma, USA4y exp

“ML/LLM engineer who has deployed a production LLM-powered assistant for intent classification and query routing (order recommendation/support deflection), combining BERT fine-tuning with an embedding-based retrieval layer and optimizing for low-latency inference. Experienced with end-to-end reliability practices—Airflow-orchestrated ETL, data validation/alerting, MLflow experiment tracking, and iterative improvements driven by user feedback and monitoring.”

“Hands-on implementation-focused candidate with experience owning cloud deployments and putting LLM/RAG workflows into production. They stand out for combining customer-facing deployment ownership with practical AI systems work, including retrieval tuning, hallucination mitigation, production incident response, and document-processing pipelines for messy real-world inputs.”

Tong Wu

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack SaaS and cloud systems

Ontario, Canada8y exp

“Built and owned Laserfiche's Schedule Custom Report platform end-to-end, spanning Angular frontend, backend orchestration, and production observability for an enterprise reporting workflow. Stands out for integrating multiple independent microservices with RabbitMQ-based event orchestration while also improving UX on complex migration tooling.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based internal knowledge assistant that let analysts query company documents in natural language, using LangChain/LangGraph with Pinecone and a FastAPI service for integration. Emphasizes reliability in production through hallucination mitigation (retrieval tuning + prompt guardrails) and measurable evaluation/monitoring (accuracy, latency, task completion, hallucination rate), iterating based on user feedback.”

“Built an internal RAG assistant for financial documents using FastAPI, OpenAI APIs, and vector search, improving document search speed and reducing manual effort for the business team. Stands out for a pragmatic approach to AI engineering: uses AI heavily for productivity, but keeps human judgment central and has designed retrieval, validation, and summarization workflows end-to-end.”

“AI and platform engineer with 5 years of experience who built a production knowledge assistant for Verizon end-to-end, from architecture through deployment, monitoring, and incident hardening. Stands out for combining modern LLM/RAG systems with enterprise-grade rigor, including validation layers, observability, versioning safeguards, and measurable impact on technician productivity and retrieval quality.”

“Senior engineering executive with 8+ years leading large-scale SaaS modernization across AI, compliance, ecommerce, streaming, IoT, and travel. Has led a 150+ global engineering org, modernized seven cloud-native platforms for a $400M business, and consolidated travel systems processing $1B+ annually while staying hands-on in architecture, incident response, and AI integration.”

Yash Priyadarshi

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure

Bengaluru, India2y exp

“Backend/distributed-systems engineer who built a Golang distributed key-value store on AWS using Multi-Paxos, WAL, and non-blocking gRPC replication (cutting write latency ~40%) and proactively addressed tricky failure modes like leader-election livelock. Also developed a Python/Kubernetes cost-optimization scaling engine deployed with Helm/Terraform, delivering ~$40K annual savings while sustaining 99.99% uptime, and drives contract-first API development (OpenAPI/Swagger) to speed frontend integration.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who has shipped real-time, customer-facing dashboards and ticketing/payment features at Freshworks and Global Payments. Strong in Python API design (Django/Flask/FastAPI) and React/TypeScript UIs, with hands-on experience scaling PostgreSQL for high transaction volumes and operating services on AWS, including incident response and HIPAA-aligned security controls.”