Vetted Kubernetes Professionals

Sharath Kasula

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Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in React, TypeScript, and real-time web applications

New York, NY7y exp

“Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer at T-Mobile who owned a real-time operational dashboard end-to-end, from Figma collaboration through React/TypeScript implementation to backend/API and SQL performance coordination. Stands out for diagnosing cross-layer production issues, improving onboarding with measurable drop-off reduction, and turning repeated product needs into reusable primitives adopted across multiple teams.”

Waldorff Villacres

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Healthcare technology executive and architect with 20+ years leading enterprise platforms and digital transformation.

Seattle, Washington, USA21y exp

“Healthcare-focused founder in the R&D stage building an EHR and clinical staffing startup centered on value-based care. They have already tested the concept with the market, are engaging Medicaid/Medicare leaders and industry conferences like ViVE and HIMSS, and are focused on early-signal detection to improve patient outcomes while lowering utilization costs.”

Tong Wu

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack SaaS and cloud systems

Ontario, Canada8y exp

“Built and owned Laserfiche's Schedule Custom Report platform end-to-end, spanning Angular frontend, backend orchestration, and production observability for an enterprise reporting workflow. Stands out for integrating multiple independent microservices with RabbitMQ-based event orchestration while also improving UX on complex migration tooling.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on ownership of banking microservices from initial design to launch and production support, including security, CI/CD, observability, and incident response. Stands out for measurable modernization impact—~35% faster backend processing, ~40% lower query latency, and ~30% better deployment cycles—and for a pragmatic approach to both Kafka-based async systems and controlled LLM integration in enterprise workflows.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based internal knowledge assistant that let analysts query company documents in natural language, using LangChain/LangGraph with Pinecone and a FastAPI service for integration. Emphasizes reliability in production through hallucination mitigation (retrieval tuning + prompt guardrails) and measurable evaluation/monitoring (accuracy, latency, task completion, hallucination rate), iterating based on user feedback.”

Rohit Vibhu Channananjundarya

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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.”

“Built and shipped a production Python service integrating with a helium mass spectrometer for real-time sensing and remote control/monitoring. Combines hardware integration, observability, and Playwright-based automation expertise, with a strong track record of turning brittle or ambiguous real-world processes into reliable systems— including reducing dashboard automation failures from about 20% to under 2%.”

Hilary Lutz

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Intern IT and cybersecurity professional with data and Python skills

Philadelphia, PA5y exp

“Internship experience at Arkema and Proscia focused on improving onboarding and internal automation workflows. Built SQL-based processes for computer onboarding and security compliance checks, redesigned cybersecurity onboarding for different departments, and created templated setup instructions with GitHub-based review safeguards.”

“Built an internal RAG assistant for financial documents using FastAPI, OpenAI APIs, and vector search, improving document search speed and reducing manual effort for the business team. Stands out for a pragmatic approach to AI engineering: uses AI heavily for productivity, but keeps human judgment central and has designed retrieval, validation, and summarization workflows end-to-end.”

“Full-stack/product-minded engineer with strong React/TypeScript depth who has owned systems end-to-end, from UI architecture to backend services and data design. At Qualcomm, they built both a telemetry dashboard and an ML model drift monitoring platform for 20+ edge models, including post-launch tuning that cut false positives by 60%. They also demonstrate 0→1 startup execution by solo-building a production RAG document Q&A platform with JWT auth, Stripe gating, and sub-300ms retrieval.”

“AI and platform engineer with 5 years of experience who built a production knowledge assistant for Verizon end-to-end, from architecture through deployment, monitoring, and incident hardening. Stands out for combining modern LLM/RAG systems with enterprise-grade rigor, including validation layers, observability, versioning safeguards, and measurable impact on technician productivity and retrieval quality.”

“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.”

“Currently building a DBC (Digital Birth Certificate) agentic AI system to speed root cause investigation for quality issues at their company. They bring hands-on experience designing and leading multi-agent workflows, including orchestrator/root-agent patterns, evaluation agents, clarification agents, and practical guardrails for hallucination, bias, and rate-limit management.”

“Developer with a pragmatic, disciplined approach to AI-assisted coding: uses tools like Copilot, ChatGPT, and Gemini to speed up debugging, optimization, unit testing, and documentation while maintaining ownership of design and code quality. Interested in expanding from single-agent workflows into multi-agent setups for larger coding tasks and stays current through hands-on use and AI ecosystem updates.”

“Senior engineering executive with 8+ years leading large-scale SaaS modernization across AI, compliance, ecommerce, streaming, IoT, and travel. Has led a 150+ global engineering org, modernized seven cloud-native platforms for a $400M business, and consolidated travel systems processing $1B+ annually while staying hands-on in architecture, incident response, and AI integration.”

Yash Priyadarshi

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure

Bengaluru, India2y exp

“Backend/distributed-systems engineer who built a Golang distributed key-value store on AWS using Multi-Paxos, WAL, and non-blocking gRPC replication (cutting write latency ~40%) and proactively addressed tricky failure modes like leader-election livelock. Also developed a Python/Kubernetes cost-optimization scaling engine deployed with Helm/Terraform, delivering ~$40K annual savings while sustaining 99.99% uptime, and drives contract-first API development (OpenAPI/Swagger) to speed frontend integration.”

Sai Sri Kolanu

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Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and production ML systems

Dearborn, MI4y exp

“Built and shipped an AI-powered RAG diagnostic assistant at Ford for EV technicians, integrating GPT-based models with LangChain, FAISS, and SageMaker into real technician workflows. Stands out for combining strong production LLM architecture with practical safety guardrails, monitoring, and measurable impact: 45% better diagnostic accuracy and roughly 30 minutes saved per case.”

“AI/full-stack engineer in gaming analytics who joined Omnic.ai at a 2-person stage, helped grow with the company, and built both backend and frontend for real-time gameplay analysis products. He combines computer vision production experience with LLM/RAG systems work, and has already led 4 employees while shipping 12 models in a fast-moving startup environment.”

“Unity game developer who built a "constraint-driven match resolution" card-game system that encouraged players to think 1–2 moves ahead while keeping interactions as simple as UNO-style matching; reported longer player sessions and positive feedback. Has used Photon to implement most online features in games and leverages AI tools for code writing to boost productivity.”

“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.”

“Software engineer with experience at Walmart and Amex building customer-facing backend services and microservices at scale (RabbitMQ). Built an internal developer tooling platform integrating Figma with GitHub Copilot to automate consistent React component creation, adopted across multiple teams; emphasizes fast, safe iteration using metrics, feature flags, gradual rollouts, and automated testing.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience building a large-scale healthcare claims and provider-enrollment system end-to-end (React frontend, Spring Boot microservices, PostgreSQL on AWS). Optimized high-volume claims processing (millions of records/day) using indexing/pagination and asynchronous workloads via AWS Lambda/Kafka, and deployed containerized services with Docker/Jenkins on AWS.”

“ML/GenAI engineer with production experience building an LLM-powered governance layer that summarizes verified drift/performance signals into validation reports and release notes, designed for regulated environments with de-identification and non-blocking fallbacks. Strong Airflow-based orchestration background across healthcare and finance, integrating Databricks/Spark and MLflow for scalable retraining/monitoring. Demonstrated ability to partner with non-technical healthcare operations teams to deliver actionable risk-scoring outputs via dashboards and automated reporting.”

“Engineering/technology leader who stays hands-on while driving executive-level roadmap execution, with deep experience modernizing cloud-based LIMS/LIS platforms and building AI-driven lab analytics. Led a monolith-to-microservices cloud migration with containerization and CI/CD, and delivered a reported 30% reduction in lab turnaround time while strengthening compliance.”