Vetted Grafana Professionals

“Data/ML platform engineer with healthcare (Cigna) experience owning an end-to-end pipeline spanning Airflow + Debezium CDC ingestion, PySpark/SQL transformations, rigorous data quality gates, and feature-store/API serving for ML training and inference. Worked at 10+ TB scale and cites a ~30% latency reduction plus stronger reliability via idempotent design, monitoring, and backfill-safe reprocessing; also built pragmatic early-stage data pipelines at Frankenbuild Ventures.”

Molli Dinesh

Screened

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

Remote, USA4y exp

“Built an AI-driven insurance policy summarization platform at Marsh, taking it end-to-end from messy PDF ingestion/OCR and custom extraction through LLM fine-tuning and AWS SageMaker deployment. Delivered measurable impact (25% reduction in manual review time, 99% uptime) and demonstrated strong production MLOps/LLMOps practices with Airflow/Step Functions orchestration, rigorous evaluation (ROUGE + human review), and continuous monitoring for drift, latency, and hallucinations.”

Pravalika Kasojjala

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM, RAG/GraphRAG, and fraud analytics

Charlotte, NC5y exp

“LLM/agent engineer who has deployed a production internal assistant to reduce employee inquiry resolution time while maintaining regulatory compliance. Experienced with RAG, hallucination risk triage, and graph-based orchestration (LangGraph) for enterprise/banking-style workflows, emphasizing schema-validated, citation-backed, tool-constrained agent designs and tight collaboration with non-technical business/compliance stakeholders.”

Sujith Julakanti

Screened

Junior MLOps Engineer specializing in LLMs and cloud infrastructure

College Station, TX3y exp

“Built a production multimodal LLM system (Gemini on GCP) to automate behavioral coding of family-involved science experiment videos, including preprocessing for inconsistent lighting/audio and LangGraph-orchestrated parallel workflows. Also developed rubric-based AI grading workflows and partnered closely with non-technical education stakeholders through explainability-focused walkthroughs and manual-vs-AI evaluation alignment.”

Saicharitha Yanamandala

Screened

Mid-Level Software Developer specializing in Java, Cloud, and Microservices

Chicago, IL6y exp

“Backend/Python engineer who owned an end-to-end FastAPI + AWS internal natural-language document Q&A system (Textract extraction, embeddings/vector DB, LLM integration) with strong focus on reliability and latency. Hands-on with Kubernetes + GitOps (Argo CD, Helm, rolling updates/auto-rollback) and built/optimized Kafka streaming pipelines using Prometheus/Grafana. Also supported a zero-downtime on-prem to cloud migration with parallel run and gradual traffic cutover.”

Alex Johnson

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in observability and developer tools

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Product-leaning full-stack engineer (65% product / 35% infra) who built core components of the LightFoot feature flag platform: end-to-end client/server SDKs with OpenTelemetry-based observability and a React+TypeScript UI for flag management and metrics dashboards. Strong focus on performance (memoization/lazy loading/caching), reliable API design, and Postgres modeling for read-heavy flag evaluation workloads, with AWS production experience (EC2/ECS/Lambda/API Gateway/VPC).”

Kiran M

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and data platforms

Bentonville, AR5y exp

“Backend/ML integration engineer with experience at Accenture and Walmart building Flask-based analytics and prediction APIs on PostgreSQL/MySQL. Strong focus on performance and scalability—uses precomputed aggregates, Redis caching, query tuning (indexes/partitioning/EXPLAIN), and async/background processing; also designs secure multi-tenant isolation with JWT and schema/db-per-tenant strategies.”

Shruthi Nandakumar

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in FinTech and cloud-native microservices

St. Louis, MO5y exp

“Backend/AI engineer who owned a high-scale Java/Spring Boot microservice for a financial application (millions of requests/day) and led major reliability/performance fixes (including ORM/query and PostgreSQL tuning) achieving ~60% latency reduction. Also shipped application-layer LLM features for ops teams (summarization + tool-calling) with strong guardrails (PII redaction, validation, audit/feedback) and designed a state-driven agent workflow with retries, circuit breakers, and human escalation.”

Keerthi Kalluri

Screened

Senior Full-Stack & GenAI Engineer specializing in healthcare and financial services

6y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered customer support assistant using a RAG backend in Python, focused on deflecting repetitive Tier-1 tickets and reducing resolution time. Demonstrates strong production engineering instincts around reliability (confidence scoring + human fallback), scalability/cost optimization (multi-stage pipelines), and workflow orchestration/observability (LangChain, custom DAGs, structured logging, step metrics).”

Akhilesh Babu Tumati

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native and AI-integrated systems

3y exp

“Built and deployed a Virginia Tech CS department blog/archive application using a MERN/Next.js stack and a fully serverless AWS architecture (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudFront, Route 53), including CI/CD via the Serverless Framework. Implemented RBAC for student/faculty/admin users and added an article export feature backed by MongoDB.”

Nikhitha santhoshi Maroju

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Java/Spring microservices on AWS

Redwood, CA4y exp

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered fraud investigation agent using RAG to generate transaction explanations and draft analyst reports. Emphasizes production robustness (fallbacks, strict structured outputs, async orchestration, monitoring/evals) and reports measurable impact: ~12% precision lift and ~80 high-priority alerts per week with reduced manual effort.”

“Platform/infrastructure engineer with hands-on ownership of Kubernetes, Terraform, VMware, and hybrid on-prem/AWS environments. Stands out for combining deep platform build/upgrade experience with strong incident response and reliability practices, including a Terraform redesign at H&R Block that reduced provisioning time by 40% and hybrid networking improvements that hardened Direct Connect failover.”

“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.”

Brendan Dwyer

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI and cloud platforms

Colorado Springs, CO10y exp

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on experience turning research-style RAG concepts into production underwriting systems at Prudential Financial. Built an internal document intelligence assistant end-to-end with strong monitoring, safety, and evaluation practices, driving a 38% faster review process and 31% better retrieval accuracy. Also improved platform engineering at VivSoft by standardizing Python-based ML deployment across 60+ models.”

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.”

“Candidate approaches AI-assisted coding like a senior developer supervising junior contributors: they define precise technical requirements, enforce code quality and documentation, and review outputs before approval. They also actively lead multi-agent workflows using OpenClaw and a Kanban-style AI project management setup, coordinating both coding and non-technical agents.”

VINAY KUMAR VIPPALA

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in FinTech backend systems

Seattle, WA5y exp

“Full-stack product engineer with hands-on ownership from React UI through Spring Boot APIs and SQL data layers, focused on transaction-heavy fintech workflows. Built both a transaction reconciliation system and a 0-to-1 AI-based anomaly detection workflow at LeisurePay, combining performance-minded frontend engineering with pragmatic product delivery.”

“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.”

“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.”

Arya Thorat

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in distributed cloud-native FinTech systems

Texas, USA5y exp

“Full-stack/backend engineer with deep experience building real-time fraud and credit-risk systems. Shipped an event-driven fraud monitoring platform (Kafka→MongoDB/Redis→WebSockets) delivering sub-200ms updates to 3000+ concurrent internal users, and built a Java/Spring Boot credit risk decisioning API that improved turnaround time by 30–40%. Strong AWS production operations (ECS Fargate/RDS/Redis) with proven incident response and performance tuning.”

“Growth-stage startup engineer with strong end-to-end ownership across React, Java/Spring Boot, MySQL, and cloud deployment. They led workflow automation products that replaced manual operational processes, improved efficiency and reliability, and evolved the platform into a more configurable B2B workflow system shaped by user feedback.”

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.”

“Built an employee payroll and leave management system end to end at Northwest Missouri State University, owning stakeholder discovery, UI design, frontend implementation, backend APIs, and payroll business logic. Also has experience modernizing legacy transaction processing with an incremental migration approach from COBOL-based batch systems to Spring Boot services.”