Vetted Helm Professionals

Phat Dang

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Junior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack, DevOps, and GenAI

Toledo, OH2y exp

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on hardware integration who built an AI-enabled smart dog door using a Raspberry Pi, camera-based recognition (DeepFace adapted for dogs), and stepper motor control (TB6600/NEMA 17). Experienced in ROS/ROS 2 across perception-to-controls, rigorous bag-driven debugging of SLAM/navigation issues, and deploying robot software with simulation-in-the-loop testing plus Docker/Kubernetes CI/CD.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-enhanced version of the WeDAA platform to auto-generate microservice architecture diagrams and support code generation from user prompts, including a practical solution for non-overlapping canvas object placement via coordinate templates. Experienced in diagnosing agentic workflow failures using AWS Strands agents with feature-flagged debug logging, and frequently supports sales through tailored demos and POCs to drive adoption.”

“Backend/AI engineer who built production-grade intelligence systems in high-stakes domains including tax/legal document analysis and brain tumor MRI workflows. Stands out for combining LLM/RAG product delivery with strong engineering rigor around retrieval evaluation, grounding, validation, observability, and safe fallbacks—turning impressive demos into systems users could actually trust.”

Annie Suzan Edwin Arokiaraj Caroline

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and data pipelines

Tempe, AZ1y exp

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience building distributed data and API platforms (Kafka + Neo4j on Kubernetes), including processing 3M+ NYC taxi trip records and achieving sub-second graph analytics queries. Strong focus on reliability and performance in Python/FastAPI systems—async refactors, caching, timeouts/retries, feature-flagged rollouts, and JWT/RBAC security for production services.”

“Candidate is actively using AI-assisted development tools, including MCP server integrations with Copilot, to generate boilerplate test scripts, validate code standards, and handle package updates. They also have hands-on experience choosing different agents based on task requirements and serving as an admin for AI tool access.”

“Backend engineer who owned the API layer for an AI trust/analytics dashboard (trust scores, stability checks, public verification endpoints) using Python/FastAPI and Postgres. Has hands-on DevOps experience deploying FastAPI and Node.js services to AWS Kubernetes with GitHub Actions + ArgoCD GitOps, plus Kafka-based real-time event streaming and careful staged migration practices (shadow traffic/dual writes, rollback planning).”

“Cloud/DevOps-focused engineer with hands-on experience building Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for containerized applications deployed to AKS, including security scanning, approvals, versioned artifacts, and rollback. Also implemented Terraform-based IaC for Azure (VNets/subnets/NSGs/AKS) with modular design, remote state/locking, and drift detection; resolved a real deployment outage caused by an Azure RBAC permission change.”

Srikar Tharala

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and RAG systems

Remote, USA4y exp

“Currently at ProShare and reports building an AI/LLM-powered system deployed to production, aimed at helping with status-related difficulties and reducing misunderstandings across transactions. Also cites prior collaboration at Porsche with marketing teams, focusing on translating marketing goals into technical requirements and communicating solutions clearly to non-technical stakeholders.”

“Senior backend/data engineer who has built and maintained HIPAA-compliant, real-time clinical FastAPI services on AWS, orchestrating ML/LLM and vector DB calls with strong reliability patterns (auth, timeouts/retries, graceful degradation, idempotency). Also delivered AWS IaC/CI-CD (Terraform/Helm/GitHub Actions) across EKS/Lambda/SageMaker and built Glue/Spark ETL with schema evolution and data quality controls, plus demonstrated large SQL performance wins (15 min to <9 sec) and hands-on incident ownership.”

“Backend Python engineer who owned the full backend build of an AI-driven platform for UK golf clubs, including FastAPI microservices, vector search, and a tuned LangChain+Pinecone RAG pipeline focused on cost and hallucination reduction. Experienced deploying Django/FastAPI/Flask stacks on AWS-backed Kubernetes with GitOps/ArgoCD-style delivery, plus executing legacy-to-AWS migrations and building Kafka-based real-time analytics pipelines.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong production experience improving performance and reliability of data-heavy analytics products. Has shipped end-to-end features spanning Node/Express + PostgreSQL + Redis and React/TypeScript, deployed via Docker/GitHub Actions to AWS EKS with Helm, and monitored with Datadog/CloudWatch; also built a Python compliance automation backend for AWS security monitoring with RBAC, versioned REST APIs, and resilient throttling-aware processing.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered incident response agent for a microservices platform, automating alert triage and safe remediation recommendations with strong guardrails (RAG grounding, structured JSON outputs, rule-based validation, and human-in-the-loop). Implemented state-machine orchestration (Redis/Kafka), comprehensive eval/monitoring, and an error categorization pipeline that cut hallucination errors ~40% and reduced MTTR ~30%.”