Vetted Helm Professionals

Rohit Vibhu Channananjundarya

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and full-stack platforms

Chicago, IL6y exp

“Engineer who treats AI as a force multiplier rather than a replacement for judgment, with hands-on experience using tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, and Codex across planning, coding, testing, and review. Particularly notable for building a multi-agent PR review system that automated summarization, risk scanning, schema validation, and test suggestions, helping the team shift reviewer time toward architecture and business logic.”

“Engineer working on high-throughput financial systems who uses AI pragmatically to accelerate development without sacrificing design ownership, correctness, or compliance. Particularly interesting for teams building regulated, real-time platforms: they have hands-on experience integrating fraud detection models into microservices, handling transaction ingestion, scoring, decisioning, and throughput-sensitive asynchronous workflows.”

“Open-source JavaScript contributor focused on performance and maintainability in data visualization libraries—refactored legacy ES5 into modular ES6, added tests/docs, and delivered ~30% faster load times with positive community adoption. Also optimized a React dashboard (~40% load-time reduction) and took ownership in an ambiguous AI product initiative by setting milestones, standing up an initial ML pipeline, and shipping a prototype in ~6 weeks that became the basis for production.”

“Developer with experience across Drupal and Java/Spring Boot applications using React/jQuery for UI and API-driven features. Has handled production issues by tuning reverse proxy timeouts for login problems and troubleshooting data pipeline inaccuracies by fixing database queries, with a focus on performance and careful verification before changes.”

“Built production LLM systems including a real-time customer feedback analysis and workflow automation platform using RAG and multi-agent orchestration with confidence-based human escalation, addressing privacy and legacy integration challenges. Also automated ML operations with Airflow/Kubernetes (e.g., daily churn model retraining) cutting retraining time to under 30 minutes, and demonstrates a rigorous testing/monitoring approach plus strong non-technical stakeholder collaboration.”

“Cloud/Kubernetes-focused production engineer with experience running 99.95% uptime platforms across AWS/Azure/GCP. Strong in incident response and performance troubleshooting (including a 30% MTTR reduction), and in building secure CI/CD and Terraform-based IaC for AKS/GKE microservices with robust change controls and rollback practices. Notably does not have direct IBM Power/AIX/VIOS/HMC or PowerHA/HACMP ownership.”

Sreelekha Vuppala

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in Generative AI, MLOps, and cloud data platforms

USA4y exp

“GenAI/ML engineer (CitiusTech) who has deployed production RAG systems for compliance/operations document Q&A, using Pinecone + FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes with strong monitoring and guardrails. Also built a GenAI-powered incident triage/routing solution in collaboration with non-technical stakeholders, achieving 35% faster response times and 40% fewer misclassified tickets, and has hands-on orchestration experience with Airflow and AutoSys.”

Ivan Kadyka

Screened

Staff Technical Lead specializing in Unity and .NET

Warsaw, Poland11y exp

“Unity/gameplay engineer (Playtika) who built a state-machine/ECS-driven slot/bonus engine in a client-server setup, focusing on consistent outcomes under latency and highly engaging reward sequences. Also implemented server-authoritative real-time challenges/contests via an event-driven messaging system (SignalR-like) across iOS/Android/WebGL/UWP, and validates impact through retention/session/engagement analytics.”

Navindu Jayatilake

Screened

DevOps Technical Lead specializing in Kubernetes, AWS, and platform engineering

Colombo, Sri Lanka6y exp

“Sri Lanka–based DevOps/Platform engineer focused on Kubernetes and AWS who has led real production incidents and recoveries (network-policy-induced asymmetric routing; node pool failure due to CNI upgrade). Built production CI/CD with GitHub Actions (ephemeral self-hosted runners on EKS), ArgoCD, Vault, and Terraform, and led a phased ECS-to-EKS migration including Kafka consumers and MongoDB Atlas private endpoints.”

Deeresh Gajjala

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in Java/Spring Boot microservices and AWS payments systems

Dallas, TX6y exp

“Senior software engineer with Amazon experience who owned end-to-end improvements to a real-time payment authorization service, rebuilding it as a reactive Spring WebFlux microservice with saga orchestration and Kafka event streaming, deployed on AWS EKS with strong observability. Also built React+TypeScript and Node/Express full-stack workflow apps (onboarding, campaign management, admin review) and has experience shipping quickly in ambiguous startup environments while maintaining reliability and data correctness.”

Jaskirat Singh

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and data platforms

Eden Prairie, MN5y exp

“Infrastructure/data platform engineer with hands-on GCP production experience, especially Bigtable, who led a migration from Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API to Bigtable that removed throttling and cut costs by 50%+. Stands out for combining distributed data architecture, zero-downtime Kafka migration strategy, and Terraform/Python automation for deterministic multi-region GKE operations.”

Sanket Mungikar

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and real-time analytics

California, USA5y exp

“Full-stack engineer at BigCommerce who combines customer-facing deployment ownership with hands-on AI/LLM systems work. Built and launched merchant analytics and predictive inventory workflows using React, TypeScript, FastAPI, Kafka, AWS, and RAG-style architectures, and has real production experience debugging non-deterministic AI issues caused by data pipeline freshness and event-ordering problems.”

Supreet Purthpli

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native MLOps and FinTech

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Software engineer with JPMorgan Chase experience delivering end-to-end fintech features (Next.js/React/Node/Postgres on AWS) and measurable performance gains. Built and productionized an AI-native credit decisioning workflow combining LLMs, vector retrieval, and a rules engine with strong governance (bias checks, auditability, human-in-loop), improving precision and cutting underwriting turnaround time by 40%.”

“Backend engineer who designed and evolved an AWS-based event-processing system in Python/PostgreSQL, achieving a 60% p95 latency reduction while improving reliability during traffic spikes. Led a zero-downtime migration from a monolithic Django app to FastAPI microservices using feature flags, strong testing, and cross-team coordination, with production-grade observability (Prometheus/Grafana/CloudWatch) and security (JWT/OAuth2, RBAC, Postgres RLS).”

“Built a web-based online Sudoku game in JavaScript (multiplayer format supporting up to 6 teams with up to 5 players each) and demonstrates strong product/analytics orientation. Uses a KPI-driven approach (DAU/WAU, ARPU, session duration, LTV) and structured prioritization methods (MoSCoW, story mapping, cost of delay, DFV) to iterate toward targets; seeking a remote role around $70k/year.”

“Backend/platform engineer who owned a real-time customer analytics microservice stack in Python/FastAPI with Kafka streaming into PostgreSQL, including schema enforcement (Avro) and high-throughput optimizations. Strong Kubernetes + GitOps practitioner (EKS/GKE, Helm, Argo CD) who has handled CI/CD reliability issues with automated pre-deploy checks and rollbacks, and supported major migrations (on-prem to AWS; VM to EKS) with blue-green cutover planning.”

“AI/LLM engineer with production experience building secure, scalable compliance-focused generative AI systems (GPT-3/4, BERT) including RAG over internal regulatory document bases. Has delivered end-to-end pipelines on AWS with PySpark/Airflow/Kubernetes/FastAPI, emphasizing privacy controls, monitoring, and iterative evaluation (A/B testing). Also partnered closely with bank compliance officers using prototypes to refine NLP summarization/classification and reduce document review time.”

“Backend/API engineer with ~4 years experience building production services in .NET Core/PostgreSQL/Redis/Docker and optimizing real-world latency issues (claims ~60% response-time improvement). Also built and owned an end-to-end RAG-based AI assistant using Python/FastAPI, OpenAI APIs, and Pinecone, plus agentic workflows with reliability guardrails (retries, confidence thresholds, monitoring). Currently pursuing a master’s degree and targeting a $150k base salary.”

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.”

Sri Chandana Topuri

Screened

Mid-level Java Full-Stack Developer specializing in Spring microservices and Angular

5y exp

“Backend-focused engineer working primarily with Python/Django who also handles full-stack responsibilities. Has hands-on experience deploying containerized Python/Java microservices to Kubernetes using Helm and GitOps (ArgoCD), plus building Kafka-based event streaming with reliability controls (acks, consumer groups, DLQ). Also supported major on-prem to cloud/hybrid migrations using Terraform/Ansible with blue-green cutovers and data replication to minimize downtime.”

“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.”

“Full-stack engineer at an early-stage startup with hands-on production experience spanning Angular frontend features, backend safety checks for an image-generation workflow (OpenAI Safety), and AWS operations. Built CI/CD to ECS with GitHub Actions, implemented CloudWatch observability, and improved release reliability via Blue/Green deployments with automatic rollback.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building reliable Python FastAPI services on Kubernetes and delivering AWS EKS + Terraform CI/CD with strong secrets isolation and rollback practices. Also built AWS Glue ETL pipelines into S3/Redshift with schema-evolution handling and data-quality controls, modernized legacy analytics into modular Python services with parallel-run parity validation, and has demonstrated SQL tuning impact (minutes to seconds) plus ownership of batch pipeline incidents end-to-end.”

“Software engineer/QA automation leader with Lowe’s experience owning automation quality strategy for a customer-facing platform supporting large contractor orders. Built TypeScript/React dashboards backed by Spring Boot microservices (MongoDB) and RabbitMQ async messaging, with strong CI/CD test automation and production monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana). Also created an internal automated test reporting dashboard that improved QA workflow through training-led adoption and iterative refinement.”