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Vetted Kubernetes Professionals
Pre-screened and vetted.
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.”
Pahuldeep Singh
Senior Full-Stack Developer specializing in scalable web platforms and automation
“Backend/full-stack engineer focused on TypeScript/Node.js systems, with hands-on ownership of a real-time telemetry and dashboard platform built on Kafka, Debezium, PostgreSQL, and GraphQL. Stands out for combining event-driven architecture, correctness/idempotency patterns, strong observability, multi-tenant security, and developer-friendly API design in production environments.”
Balaji Nissenkarao
Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in AI/LLM systems
“ML/LLM systems engineer who has owned AI support automation products end-to-end, including ServiceNow-integrated incident routing, RAG-based resolution suggestion systems, and production stabilization. Stands out for combining hands-on platform work across PySpark, AWS Glue, FastAPI, Kubernetes, and Pinecone with measurable operational impact, including 30-35% MTTR reduction and 25-30% improvement in first-touch resolution.”
Chaitanya Prasad Reddy Narala
Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in FinTech risk and fraud systems
“Senior AI/ML engineer focused on production LLM systems, combining RAG, fine-tuning, distributed training, and AI safety to ship scalable real-time moderation and conversational AI platforms. Stands out for pairing deep AWS/Kubernetes MLOps expertise with measurable impact: 40% lower latency/cost, 30-50% fewer hallucinations, and major reliability gains through observability and automation.”
Manish Challa
Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and financial services
“ML/AI engineer with hands-on experience shipping regulated financial AI systems at JPMC and Capgemini, spanning credit risk, fraud detection, and generative AI assistants. Stands out for combining modern LLM/RAG architectures with strong MLOps, real-time infrastructure, and explainability/compliance practices, while delivering measurable business impact in latency, accuracy, cost, and risk reduction.”
Sachin Komati
Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI, RAG, and healthcare ML
“Built an end-to-end GenAI/RAG platform for financial compliance and research at BlackRock, focused on safe, auditable answers in a highly regulated environment. Combines strong LLM engineering depth with production platform skills and delivered clear business impact, including reducing research/compliance turnaround from hours to seconds, improving retrieval relevance by 22%, and cutting inference costs by 75%.”
Farhan Shahbaz
Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and platform engineering
“Backend engineer with deep experience in security and access-management platforms at JPMorgan Chase, including owning automation for migrating 50+ engineering teams from CyberArk to HashiCorp Vault. Stands out for combining regulated-environment rigor, infrastructure automation, and production operations with practical AI integration in internal access workflows.”
Mohammad Gouse Ali Shaik
Mid-level Software Development Engineer specializing in cloud-native AI/ML systems
“AI/ML-focused engineer with practical experience building RAG-based and multi-agent systems, including architectures for retrieval, reasoning, context processing, and response generation. Stands out for combining LLM productivity gains with disciplined software engineering practices like validation, monitoring, and reproducibility.”
Malyadri Peruru
Senior Software Engineer specializing in backend, cloud, and IoT automation
“Software engineer with strong systems design experience spanning both core product infrastructure and AI-enabled support workflows. Co-led a from-scratch B2B SaaS billing platform for complex customer pricing models, and also improved an orchestrated agent system by tightening context, metadata, and human-review safeguards for misrouted support tickets.”
Adithi Anugu
Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in API and data-driven applications
“Full-stack engineer with internship experience at Sports Excitement and AI systems work at the University of Florida, combining React/TypeScript, Node.js, and PostgreSQL with applied AI workflow tooling. Stands out for shipping measurable product improvements—30% faster pagination and 40% higher engagement—and for building observability, eval, and human-review layers around AI-assisted data extraction systems.”
Anchal Thool
Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and backend systems
“AI/ML-focused software engineer who has built and orchestrated multi-agent systems with separate retrieval, planning, validation, execution, and escalation components. Stands out for combining hands-on experimentation with a strong reliability mindset, using observability, structured logging, tracing, and evaluation to make agentic workflows production-ready.”
Deepthi Pamisetty
Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in FinTech and cloud-native systems
“Full-stack engineer with production experience building AI-powered search and automation systems at JPMorgan Chase and customer-facing product features at Wayfair. Stands out for combining React frontend work with backend microservices, RAG/LangChain AI integration, and cloud-scale performance tuning, including a support chatbot that reduced ticket resolution time by 35%.”
Rajesh Kilari
Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI applications
“IBM full-stack engineer focused on document automation for internal and government use cases, building Java Spring Boot services and React/TypeScript UIs that automate XML-to-multilingual PDF workflows. Stands out for turning complex backend automation into usable tools for non-technical operations teams while improving processing speed and reducing manual effort.”
Melissa Bennett
Executive engineering and AI leader specializing in healthcare AI and startup scaling
“Engineering leader who has built teams and products from scratch in both healthcare AI and consumer tech. Most notably, they grew Thrive AI Health’s engineering org from 0 to 20 and led delivery of a multimodal, multi-agent AI health coach—including a real-time voice experience piloted with Eli Lilly—while previously scaling Sweetgreen’s mobile ordering platform into a major revenue channel.”
Pujan Parikh
Staff Front-End Engineer specializing in enterprise cloud and AI-driven applications
“Frontend-leaning architect with deep React/TypeScript expertise who has repeatedly owned platform-level problems across Oracle Health, Oracle Cloud, and Veritas. Stands out for building cross-plugin routing standards for a next-gen EHR, high-scale real-time observability dashboards, and even stepping into backend/AI infrastructure design with Kafka- and RAG-based systems.”
Anshika Bajpai
Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and MLOps
“Engineer with impactful experience at Palo Alto Networks and Optum, focused on production automation and AI-powered internal tools. Built and owned an end-to-end RAG knowledge system adopted by 1000+ internal users with roughly 75% faster response times, and also transformed a legacy Optum coverage-feed workflow from 500+ minutes to under 3 minutes through data standardization and microservices refactoring.”
“Forward-deployed, full-stack/platform engineer who owns production features end-to-end across frontend, backend, data, and infrastructure (AWS serverless, Terraform, React). Has modernized critical fintech/payment systems (zero-downtime monolith-to-microservices with Kafka event sourcing) and productionized AI-native support workflows (LLM + RAG on Pinecone) with measurable gains in latency, incidents, CSAT, and support efficiency.”
Dave Marr
Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in full-stack web platforms and AI integration
“Frontend engineer with deep experience building high-performance, data-heavy web applications, especially geospatial and climate/energy visualization products. Has led React/TypeScript architecture for large interactive UIs and designed Mapbox/MVT-based systems that dramatically reduced payload size and improved responsiveness in production.”
Bhargav Patel
Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in AI-driven FinTech systems
“Built and shipped AI-powered fraud investigation and risk dashboard features at Barclays, combining full-stack engineering with RAG-based LLM systems in a compliance-sensitive environment. Stands out for pairing explainable AI architecture with measurable business impact: improving fraud detection accuracy by 18% while reducing analyst investigation time by 14%.”
Prachi Rajeshkumar Bhavsar
Mid Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and AI systems
“Full-stack engineer whose strongest hands-on work is a self-built real-time collaborative code editor spanning React, Node.js, Express, and WebSockets. They stand out for owning both product UX and backend synchronization challenges, with a clear bias toward simplicity, low-latency collaboration, and modular architecture in early-stage product building.”
waqas alyas
Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer specializing in AWS and Kubernetes
“AIX/IBM Power Systems engineer with hands-on production incident leadership in a regulated banking environment, using deep OS-level tooling to diagnose CPU entitlement and memory pressure issues. Experienced with HMC/vHMC, VIOS, and zero-downtime DLPAR resizing, plus PowerHA/HACMP clustering and validated failover testing. Also drives migration readiness via Bash/Python automation (60% manual-effort reduction) and phased AIX cloud/hybrid cutovers.”
daniel doman
Principal Cloud & Cybersecurity Architect specializing in regulated financial and government environments
“Serial venture builder/operator across ad tech, media delivery, search engines, international content management, and ecommerce; has raised up to $150M and been involved in 8 acquisitions or IP-acquisition events. Known for refactoring/re-engineering smaller or troubled platforms into higher-value businesses, including building yield-management algorithms and a Kafka-like system to improve ad delivery profitability.”
Jayanti Lahoti
Junior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack systems, ML, and robotics perception
“Robotics software engineer with autonomous driving lab experience at UCSD, building and optimizing ROS2 perception and control pipelines (camera-based real-time object detection) with a strong focus on low-latency performance and robust message interfaces. Also brings production deployment experience from Hewlett Packard Enterprise, using Docker and Kubernetes for containerized environments and deployment pipelines.”
Akanksha Kummari
Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in MLOps, NLP, and production ML systems
“Backend/founding-engineer-style builder who designed and evolved a near-real-time customer churn prediction platform (FastAPI + AWS SageMaker/Lambda + Redis + MLflow) to enable real-time retention actions, reporting ~18% churn reduction. Demonstrates strong production engineering in secure API design, incremental migrations with data integrity safeguards, and robustness improvements in async pipelines (idempotency, DLQs, retry visibility).”