Vetted Helm Professionals

“Backend/data platform engineer who owned end-to-end production services for a fleet analytics/GenAI platform, spanning FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes and AWS (EKS + Lambda) event-driven workloads. Strong in reliability/observability (OpenTelemetry, circuit breakers, idempotency), data pipelines (Glue/Airflow/Snowflake), and measurable performance/cost wins (SQL 10s to <800ms P95; ~30% compute cost reduction).”

“Software engineer with deep healthcare claims domain experience who has owned customer-facing portals end-to-end (Java/Spring Boot + React/TypeScript) and improved usability/performance based on real user feedback. Built microservices using REST and RabbitMQ with strong observability (Splunk/cloud metrics), and delivered an internal claims investigation dashboard that streamlined operations through centralized data, search, and filtering.”

“Robotics software engineer who built the software layer for an autonomous warehouse sorting system, spanning navigation/path planning, task scheduling, and backend services. Deep hands-on ROS 2 Foxy experience (Nav2/costmaps) and real-time multi-robot debugging, using simulation-driven analysis plus incremental/partial re-planning to handle dynamic obstacles in production-like warehouse environments.”

“Backend engineer who built and optimized a high-traffic e-commerce platform in Python/Flask, focusing on scalability and reliability through service decomposition, Redis caching, and Celery-based background processing. Also integrated an AI intent-classification chatbot as a separately deployable inference service on AWS and has hands-on experience designing multi-tenant data isolation strategies in PostgreSQL.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on ownership of FastAPI/Django services using MongoDB and React integration, focused on production reliability and performance (Redis caching, Celery background jobs, automated testing). Has delivered AWS container deployments via GitHub Actions to ECR with scripted rollouts/health checks, and supported phased migrations with replication and rollback planning. Also built a real-time user-activity streaming pipeline addressing partition hot spots and consumer lag through partition-key strategy, idempotency, and monitoring.”

“IBM Power/AIX infrastructure engineer who has owned a large AIX 7.x/VIOS/HMC estate (hundreds of LPARs), handling provisioning, patching, tuning, and incident response. Demonstrated high-availability and recovery leadership with PowerHA failovers and SAN-path RCA/resiliency improvements, plus successful AIX 7.1→7.3 migrations with minimal downtime/no data loss. Also brings modern DevOps/IaC experience (Jenkins + Vault, Docker/Kubernetes, Terraform on Azure) with a focus on secure, repeatable deployments and drift control.”

“Engineer with Deloitte experience building real-time analytics products and scalable Kafka/Go/Postgres pipelines, plus production LLM features using RAG and embeddings. Demonstrates strong focus on performance, reliability, and guardrails/evaluation loops to reduce hallucinations and improve real-world AI system quality.”

“Built an end-to-end automated trading system for Polymarket, including Go/Python execution services, Terraform-scheduled ETL/feature pipelines, and monitoring on modest hardware. Also shipped a production LLM+RAG signal verifier/explainer that grounds trade decisions in external context (news/social) with vector DB retrieval and guardrails, plus a lightweight RAGAS-style eval loop on ~50 resolved markets that improved signal faithfulness by ~15%.”

Siddhartha Alapati

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in Java/Spring microservices and full-stack web apps

Denton, TX4y exp

“Software/full-stack engineer focused on deploying and integrating microservice applications into production AWS and hybrid cloud/on-prem industrial environments. Demonstrated end-to-end troubleshooting by tracing intermittent user failures to network routing/packet loss caused by load balancer and NIC misconfiguration, then adding monitoring to prevent recurrence. Also delivers customer-specific Python extensions with strong validation, testing, and backward compatibility.”

Shivani Sharma

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in Cloud, DevOps, and MLOps

Boston, MA3y exp

“Built and productionized a recommendation system from notebook prototype into a low-latency, scalable Cloud Run service using Docker, FastAPI, Terraform, CI/CD (GitHub Actions), and MLOps tooling (Vertex AI, MLflow). Experienced diagnosing real-time workflow issues using structured logging/ELK and GCP metrics, including resolving intermittent 504s by fixing unbounded SQL and adding caching. Also partners with sales/customer teams (Wasabi) to deliver tailored demos, troubleshoot, and drive onboarding/adoption.”

Zubair Shaik

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in AI-driven FinTech platforms

Remote, USA4y exp

“Built and productionized an LLM-powered loan decisioning agent at Bank of America, integrating RAG with microservices to automate creditworthiness assessment and recommendations. Emphasizes real-world reliability and governance (EKS autoscaling, observability, SOC2/PCI security controls), and drove measurable outcomes including 20% faster loan decisions and a reduction in agent failures/fallbacks to under 2% through schema enforcement and confidence-based routing.”

SreeHarsha Kelam

Screened

Senior DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure

Atlanta, GA5y exp

“GCP-focused database/platform engineer with hands-on production experience operating Cloud SQL at scale, especially around performance tuning, reliability, and day-2 operations. Has supported migration from a single-instance database setup to a more scalable GCP architecture and built Terraform/Python automation for provisioning and recovery workflows.”

“Founding member of Tausight, building AI systems to detect and protect PHI for healthcare organizations; helped take the company through post–Series A funding and exited after ~6 years. Drove a strategic collaboration with Intel’s OpenVINO team—becoming the first to deploy it in a real production system and improving model performance by ~30% on customer Intel-CPU machines.”

“Software engineer/product owner who has led end-to-end delivery of AI and content-management platforms, including building RAG-based reliability improvements and migrating fragile systems to containerized AWS ECS/Kubernetes with Terraform-managed CI/CD. Experienced designing event-driven microservices (SQS/SNS/RabbitMQ), scaling queue consumers with autoscaling, and creating internal Python tooling to standardize data connectors (e.g., BigQuery/Airtable/internal APIs) to speed iteration.”

“Backend/platform engineer who owned a Python-based smart finance assistant backend, building async FastAPI microservices with PostgreSQL/Redis and deploying to AWS EKS via Docker/Helm and CI/CD (GitHub Actions, Jenkins). Strong in production reliability and migrations—implemented observability (Prometheus/Grafana), security (JWT RBAC), and executed a low-downtime monolith-to-microservices migration plus Kafka-based event streaming with ordering/retry/idempotency patterns.”

“Backend engineer currently building an AWS Lambda/FastAPI inventory recommendation system using a LangChain + GPT-4 RAG pipeline and MongoDB vector search; drove major cost optimization via Redis caching (60% reduction) while sustaining 10k+ daily requests under 2s latency. Previously deployed Node.js microservices on AWS OpenShift with Jenkins/Helm at UnitedHealth Group and led a zero-downtime monolith-to-microservices migration at Verizon, including RabbitMQ-based real-time messaging with DLQs and idempotency.”

“Full-stack engineer focused on productionizing LLM applications, including an Android privacy-policy risk summarization app (Kotlin/React Native + FastAPI + Ollama) that cut response times from ~10s to ~5–6s via batching, caching, async, and event-driven architecture. Currently at PRGX building an LLM-based legal contract clause extraction system, partnering closely with legal/procurement SMEs to create schemas, labeled datasets, and evaluation pipelines that improved accuracy from 70% to 85%. Also has experience architecting real-time voice/LLM systems with streaming microservices (Kafka, Kubernetes, gRPC/WebSockets) and an avatar chatbot pipeline (TalkingHead, Google TTS, AnythingLLM).”

Saniya Athani

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native DevOps and GenAI

San Francisco Bay Area, CA2y exp

“Cloud-focused engineer with hands-on experience deploying production cloud-native REST APIs on AWS using Pulumi IaC, containerization, and CI/CD, with strong emphasis on secure credential management and operational monitoring via CloudWatch. Also has IoT troubleshooting experience across edge hardware constraints and networking (TLS handshake failures), plus Python-based configurable data-processing tools and customer-facing requirements translation.”

Abi Olatunji

Screened

Senior DevSecOps/SRE Engineer specializing in secure AWS & Azure cloud platforms

Dallas, TX9y exp

“Senior production infrastructure/SRE-style engineer with deep IBM Power/AIX (7.2/7.3) ownership at scale (40+ LPARs) supporting SAP/Oracle, including live DLPAR changes and PowerHA clustering. Also brings modern cloud/DevOps experience—Azure DevOps CI/CD secured with Key Vault and Terraform-based Azure provisioning—bridging legacy enterprise platforms with cloud automation.”

“Software engineer/product-focused builder who delivered real-time supply chain inventory dashboards to replace a legacy system, integrating directly with ERP/WMS/TMS to eliminate manual reporting. Uses TypeScript/React with Redux Toolkit on the frontend and microservices + REST APIs on the backend, with performance improvements via Redis caching and a strong focus on user-feedback-driven prioritization and observability in distributed systems.”

“Full-stack engineer who owned end-to-end delivery of a customer-facing financial services web platform and built internal tooling for engineering teams. Strong in microservices and event-driven systems (Kafka/RabbitMQ), distributed transaction management (saga), and production performance/observability—achieving ~40% backend response-time improvement through database and query optimization.”

“AI/ML engineer with forensic analytics and healthcare claims experience (Optum), building production LLM/RAG systems to surface context-driven fraud patterns from unstructured claim notes and explain risk to investigators. Strong in large-scale retrieval performance tuning, legacy API integration with reliability patterns (SQS, circuit breakers), and MLOps orchestration on Airflow/Kubernetes with rigorous testing, monitoring, and stakeholder-friendly interpretability.”

“Cloud/Kubernetes-focused engineer with production ownership in multi-account AWS environments (GE) and EKS-based platforms (Lumeus.ai). Strong in incident response and reliability—diagnosed IAM-driven serverless failures (SQS/Lambda) and Kubernetes deployment issues (CrashLoopBackOff, memory pressure) with rollbacks, policy fixes, and improved monitoring. Built secure Jenkins CI/CD and delivered infrastructure via CloudFormation and Terraform for serverless and EKS stacks.”