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Vetted Kubernetes Professionals
Pre-screened and vetted.
Allan Farinas
Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Python and AWS
“Backend/data engineer who has built production Python microservices (FastAPI) and AWS-native platforms for event ingestion and analytics, combining ECS/Fargate + Lambda with CloudFormation-driven environments and strong secrets/IAM practices. Experienced modernizing legacy logic with parallel-run parity validation and safe phased cutovers, and has demonstrated measurable SQL tuning wins (20–30s down to 1–2s) plus incident ownership in Glue/Step Functions ETL pipelines.”
Hardik Goyal
Senior Integration Developer specializing in enterprise automation and data integration
“Frontend-focused engineer with experience building and optimizing React-based dashboards and reusable component libraries in a multi-team, internal open-source-style environment at Merck (ClearSight Forecasting Dashboard). Also handled production user issues on a live streaming platform (GameSee.tv) and built a financial application from scratch at Manipal Business Solutions, owning backend services, middle-tier APIs, and third-party integrations.”
Vineeth Reddy Vallapureddy
Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in backend microservices and enterprise AI tools
“Backend/platform engineer with experience across C3.ai (supply chain demand planning) and Amdocs (telecom), working on large-scale data systems and microservices. Has driven first-time adoption experiments of Snowflake + Spark to handle billion-record workloads, built Jenkins-to-Kubernetes delivery pipelines with Nexus artifact management, and implemented Kafka streaming between microservices with HA and retry/error-handling patterns.”
Pooja Dokuri
Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI, RAG pipelines, and cloud MLOps
“Built and deployed a production LLM + vector search clinical decision support system at UnitedHealth Group, retrieving medical evidence and patient context in real time for prior authorization and risk scoring. Strong in end-to-end RAG architecture (Hugging Face embeddings, Pinecone/FAISS, SageMaker, Redis) plus orchestration (Airflow/Kubeflow) and rigorous evaluation/monitoring, with demonstrated ability to align solutions with clinical operations stakeholders.”
Divyam Agrawal
Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs and NLP classification systems
“Internship experience building a production RAG+LLM pipeline to map messy card transaction descriptions to merchant brands, including a custom modified-ROUGE evaluation approach for weak/variant ground truth. Improved scalability and cost by moving from a managed LLM endpoint (e.g., Bedrock) to self-hosted vLLM, and orchestrated massive embedding backfills (5,000+ files, 10B+ rows) using an Airflow-triggered SQS + ECS worker architecture with robust retry/DLQ handling.”
Thomas To
Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI/ML data platforms for biotech and FinTech
“AI/ML full-stack practitioner in a small-scale manufacturing/lab operations environment who deployed a production ML system to improve blood cell order fulfillment by predicting yield/success from donor characteristics. Experienced building custom multi-agent orchestration (Python, LangChain/LangGraph, MCP) and balancing reliability, data quality constraints, and token/ROI economics while communicating tradeoffs to VP-level business stakeholders.”
Evan Z
Junior Software Engineer specializing in video streaming and processing systems
“Software engineering intern at China Telecom who built and continuously evolved a real-time transaction platform ("Smart Tangerine") focused on strong consistency and peak-hour concurrency. Implemented microservices with Redis and RabbitMQ to decouple heavy processing and cut latency (~80ms to ~30ms), and led a zero-downtime migration from a monolith using strangler pattern, dual-write, and traffic shadowing.”
SaiTeasmitha Kaja
Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Java/Spring Boot and cloud microservices
“Backend-focused Python/Flask engineer who has built authentication/profile services with clean modular architecture (blueprints + service layer) and tuned SQLAlchemy/Postgres for scale using indexing, query rewrites, and pagination. Has production-style integration experience for AI/ML via TensorFlow Serving and OpenAI APIs (batching, rate limiting, caching), plus multi-tenant data isolation and high-throughput background processing with Celery/Redis and idempotent jobs.”
“LLM engineer who has deployed production RAG systems for regulated document QA (PDFs/knowledge bases), emphasizing grounded answers with citations, RBAC, monitoring, and continuous feedback. Demonstrates deep practical expertise in retrieval quality (semantic chunking, hybrid BM25+embeddings, re-ranking), reliability (guardrails, deterministic workflows), and measurable evaluation (golden sets, log replay, A/B tests) while partnering closely with compliance/operations stakeholders.”
Satwik Alla
Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in scalable APIs and real-time AI apps
“Lead software engineer (3+ years) who built and scaled an AI product backend at Cosmo AGI from the ground up using FastAPI/Postgres/Redis/vector DB, targeting sub-200ms latency and supporting 1000+ active users. Strong in production-grade security and observability (OAuth/JWT, RBAC, Postgres RLS, Prometheus/Sentry), plus DevOps automation (Docker, GitHub Actions, blue-green deploys) with measurable impact on uptime, incidents, engagement, and deployment speed.”
John Hoffman
Senior Data Engineer specializing in Databricks, Spark, and AWS for government healthcare data systems
“Python/AWS engineer focused on batch-processing and data workflows, including building reusable S3/boto3 utilities with reliability features and IAM-based auth. Has led low-risk legacy modernizations using parity testing plus a month of parallel production runs, and has owned production issues end-to-end (including fixing a client-side Excel macro) while contributing to significant AWS cost reductions (~$10k/month).”
“Backend/AI engineer who built a real-time vector database system for high-frequency financial data using Kafka/Flink on Kubernetes, achieving sub-100ms similarity search at 10k+ concurrent load and resolving tricky duplication issues with idempotency/versioning. Also shipped an end-to-end LLM-based travel itinerary feature (profiling + prompt workflows + APIs) with a focus on quality consistency and low latency.”
Allison MacMillan
Engineering Manager specializing in programmatic advertising and large-scale backend systems
“Engineering manager with recent hands-on technical leadership in vendor-based geo augmentation, including making a key pivot from a broken vendor SDK to an internal data ingestion approach. Previously shipped impactful Python microservice refactors that reduced unnecessary data processing/storage and improved runtime payload efficiency, and has owned on-call incidents through mitigation (scaling pods) and prevention process changes.”
Bernie Miao
Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in EdTech and AI-powered learning tools
“Edtech/education-focused engineer who took an accessibility-critical LLM/vision feature from concept to production: built an OpenCV-gated whiteboard capture pipeline feeding Gemini Vision for handwriting-to-LaTeX, improving math transcription 80% while cutting inference costs 60%. Also built RAG observability and retrieval fixes that stabilized inconsistent answers, and partnered directly with sales to reshape demos and open a new K-12 revenue pipeline aligned to California Digital Divide grant requirements.”
Gilbert Martin
Executive Cloud Operations & DevSecOps Leader specializing in multi-cloud platforms and compliance
“Former founder who built a revenue-generating DevOps GTM service from zero, using milestone-based revenue targets and multi-channel selling (relationships, channel partners, and major conferences like AWS events and Dreamforce). Also led a cross-functional FedRAMP Moderate readiness strategy to enable selling into regulated environments, coordinating engineering/product/finance/sales/security/support and third-party partners under a tight timeline.”
Supreetha Kashyap
Mid-Level Software Engineer & Data Analyst specializing in cloud analytics and BI
“Built and owned an end-to-end Seat Allocation & Management System at Accenture, replacing a legacy process with a scalable web app used across teams. Deep focus on reliability under concurrency (transactions + unique constraints + idempotent APIs) and on Postgres performance tuning (composite indexes, EXPLAIN ANALYZE), plus post-launch production support and monitoring.”
Prasanna Chelliboyina
Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in forecasting, NLP, and GenAI
“GenAI/ML engineer with production experience building multilingual LLM systems (English/Spanish) and RAG-based clinical documentation summarization at Walgreens, combining prompt engineering, structured output validation, and rigorous evaluation (ROUGE + pharmacist review). Also orchestrated end-to-end ML pipelines for demand forecasting using Apache Airflow, PySpark, and MLflow with scheduled retraining and production monitoring.”
Sai Charan Kolla
Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and MLOps on AWS
“LLM engineer who built a production document intelligence/RAG pipeline to extract structured data from thousands of unstructured PDFs, cutting manual review time by 60%. Experienced with LangChain and Airflow orchestration plus rigorous evaluation (labeled datasets, prompt testing, HITL review, monitoring) to improve accuracy and reduce hallucinations while partnering closely with non-technical operations stakeholders.”
Adithya Chittajallu
Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM systems, MLOps, and Healthcare AI
“Built and shipped a production-grade agentic RAG system at CVS Health for patient adherence and medication recommendations, processing 20k+ patient records/day. Strong focus on real-world reliability: hybrid retrieval tuned with re-ranking (<400ms latency), strict JSON/schema validation and tool guardrails, and monitoring/drift detection that reduced MTTD from 6 days to 18 hours while improving recommendation accuracy (+8%) and cutting escalations (~23%).”
Nirmal Attarde
Mid-Level Software Development Engineer specializing in backend microservices and cloud
“Software engineer with Oracle experience deploying a BioCatch fraud-detection integration into HDFC Bank’s core banking platform, using phased rollout and real-time monitoring and reporting ~80% fraud reduction. Also built a modular speech-to-text product (VocalSense AI) achieving ~95% accuracy and has strong production incident response skills (15-minute recovery) plus AWS serverless API hardening for messy inputs.”
Teja Shree Attibele Venkataswamy
Mid-Level Full-Stack .NET Developer specializing in cloud microservices and data pipelines
“Backend/data engineer with experience at Citi and Elevance Health, building end-to-end pipelines and data services in regulated, high-volume environments. They combine Python, SQL, .NET, Azure Functions, and strong observability/reliability patterns to improve processing speed, reduce manual effort, and maintain high uptime across financial and healthcare data platforms.”
Durga Mahesh Boppani
Mid Software Engineer specializing in distributed cloud-native backend systems
“Backend/AI workflow engineer who built production-grade orchestration systems for hardware security verification at Silicon Assurance (Nextflow/Python/Postgres) and a multi-agent LLM-driven regulatory code checking system at the University of Florida. Emphasizes reliability: strict plan/execute/verify boundaries, queue-based isolation, and strong observability/auditability with Prometheus/Grafana and persisted prompts/tool calls.”
“Full-stack product engineer with hands-on ownership across React/TypeScript, serverless backends, and Postgres, combining technical depth with strong UX instincts. Stands out for measurable impact: improved a slow query from seconds to under 200ms and increased onboarding completion by about 25%, while also building reusable platform primitives and scalable multi-tenant configuration systems.”
Amaan Elahi
Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend, AI, and full-stack systems
“Built and shipped production LLM agents including an internal RAG-based compliance classification system at SAIL (FastAPI/Redis/Docker) designed to handle real failure modes and scale to ~10k LLM calls/hour, achieving ~93% pipeline accuracy with reduced hallucination risk via multi-model orchestration and strict grounding. Also architected “Elara,” a state-machine-driven conversational appointment booking agent using structured JSON outputs and backend function execution for reliability, and has experience normalizing messy OTA/PMS data at RateGain.”