Vetted Kubernetes Professionals

Dikshith Pulakanti

Screened

Intern AI Engineer specializing in agentic LLM systems

Singapore, Singapore0y exp

“Built multiple AI-heavy backend systems from scratch, including FORESIGHT, a personal financial intelligence platform running daily on live bank accounts with zero manual intervention, and JobPilot, an autonomous job application agent spanning Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, and custom forms. Stands out for combining strong systems design with applied ML pragmatism, reproducibility, and unusually candid reflection on security, scalability, and observability tradeoffs.”

“Front-end engineer with experience building high-stakes internal products in financial services at Visa and Wells Fargo. They combine deep browser-performance knowledge with pragmatic typed architecture and close user observation, delivering measurable outcomes like cutting AML case resolution from 12 days to 4 and improving trader alert response through data-driven UI changes.”

“Full-stack engineer with deep experience building enterprise compliance and certification systems at Paycom, including complex approval workflows, live migrations, and large-scale assignment processing. Particularly strong at turning ambiguous business rules into reliable backend workflow logic and at designing trustworthy GraphQL/AI-assisted user experiences backed by real-time system data.”

Sanket Mungikar

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in distributed backend and AI analytics platforms

California, USA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer at BigCommerce who combines customer-facing deployment ownership with hands-on AI/LLM systems work. Built and launched merchant analytics and predictive inventory workflows using React, TypeScript, FastAPI, Kafka, AWS, and RAG-style architectures, and has real production experience debugging non-deterministic AI issues caused by data pipeline freshness and event-ordering problems.”

Sai Divya Mulukala

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and distributed systems

USA5y exp

“Full-stack engineer with experience building operational dashboards at Walmart and improving digital banking experiences at Bank of America. Stands out for tracing performance issues across frontend, APIs, and backend services, including cutting response times from 1.2s to 700ms and resolving duplicate event-processing problems in distributed systems.”

“Fullstack engineer from Prudential who built a workflow automation platform for internal service reps, combining Angular/React frontends with NestJS, GraphQL, Kafka, MongoDB, and Redis. Stands out for translating ambiguous business problems into scalable metadata-driven systems, validating architecture through hands-on POCs, and delivering a measurable 40% reduction in transaction handling time.”

“Built and deployed a compliance-sensitive LLM pipeline that extracts rebate logic from hospital–supplier medical contracts, using multi-layer redaction (regex/NER/dictionary), schema-validated structured outputs, and secure placeholder reinsertion. Hosted models on Amazon Bedrock to avoid retraining on sensitive data and improved both accuracy and cost by splitting the workflow into a lightweight section classifier plus a fine-tuned extraction model, orchestrated with LangChain and evaluated via layered, test-driven agent assessments.”

“Backend engineer who designed and evolved an AWS-based event-processing system in Python/PostgreSQL, achieving a 60% p95 latency reduction while improving reliability during traffic spikes. Led a zero-downtime migration from a monolithic Django app to FastAPI microservices using feature flags, strong testing, and cross-team coordination, with production-grade observability (Prometheus/Grafana/CloudWatch) and security (JWT/OAuth2, RBAC, Postgres RLS).”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered calorie-counting chatbot that turns plain-English meal descriptions into normalized food entities, quantities, and calorie estimates using a hybrid transformer + rule-engine pipeline. Emphasizes reliability with schema/constraint guardrails, confidence-based routing (including embedding similarity search fallbacks), and strong observability/metrics (hallucination rate, calibration, latency, cost). Partnered closely with nutritionists to encode domain standards into mappings and validation logic.”

“Candidate indicated they live in New York but did not provide substantive details about their experience; they declined to discuss at least one topic as restricted and did not answer role-related questions with concrete examples.”

“Robotics/ROS2-focused early-career engineer who built a stereo visual-odometry SLAM system for autonomous navigation and optimized it to run reliably in real time on Raspberry Pi. Strong in sensor fusion (camera+IMU), ROS2 debugging/profiling, and distributed robotics/IoT pipelines (ROS2 + MQTT + cloud), with added experience extracting WiFi CSI for sensing/localization and shipping via Docker + GitHub Actions CI/CD.”

“Built a web-based online Sudoku game in JavaScript (multiplayer format supporting up to 6 teams with up to 5 players each) and demonstrates strong product/analytics orientation. Uses a KPI-driven approach (DAU/WAU, ARPU, session duration, LTV) and structured prioritization methods (MoSCoW, story mapping, cost of delay, DFV) to iterate toward targets; seeking a remote role around $70k/year.”

“Backend engineer who has built high-throughput analytics and fraud-detection systems, combining Python/Flask + Celery/RabbitMQ with strong PostgreSQL performance tuning (indexing, partitioning, EXPLAIN ANALYZE). Has production experience integrating ML inference (scikit-learn/TensorFlow → TensorFlow Lite) into Spring Boot microservices with caching and model versioning, plus designing secure multi-tenant architectures using JWT-based tenant routing and PostgreSQL RBAC/RLS.”

“Master’s-in-Data-Science candidate (UHV) with 4+ years in AI engineering building production LLM and multimodal systems. Designed an LLM-powered workflow automation platform using RAG over vector stores with guardrails (schema/output validation, fallbacks) and a rigorous evaluation/monitoring framework including drift tracking and shadow deployments. Experienced orchestrating large-scale vision-language pipelines with Airflow and Kubernetes (OCR, distributed training) and partnering with non-technical ops stakeholders to cut cycle time and reduce errors.”

“Backend/platform engineer who owned a real-time customer analytics microservice stack in Python/FastAPI with Kafka streaming into PostgreSQL, including schema enforcement (Avro) and high-throughput optimizations. Strong Kubernetes + GitOps practitioner (EKS/GKE, Helm, Argo CD) who has handled CI/CD reliability issues with automated pre-deploy checks and rollbacks, and supported major migrations (on-prem to AWS; VM to EKS) with blue-green cutover planning.”

“Designed and deployed an enterprise LLM-powered clinical/pharmacy policy knowledge assistant at CVS Health, replacing manual searches across PDFs/Word/SharePoint with a HIPAA-compliant RAG system. Built end-to-end ingestion and orchestration (Airflow + Azure ML/Data Lake + vector index) with PHI masking, versioned re-embedding, and production monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana), and partnered closely with clinicians/compliance to ensure policy-grounded, auditable answers.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered clinical note summarization system used by care managers to speed review of 5–20 page unstructured medical records. Implemented safety-focused validation (prompt constraints, rule-based and section-level checks, human-in-the-loop) to reduce hallucinations while maintaining low latency and meeting privacy/regulatory constraints, integrating via APIs into existing clinical tools.”

“AI/LLM engineer with production experience building secure, scalable compliance-focused generative AI systems (GPT-3/4, BERT) including RAG over internal regulatory document bases. Has delivered end-to-end pipelines on AWS with PySpark/Airflow/Kubernetes/FastAPI, emphasizing privacy controls, monitoring, and iterative evaluation (A/B testing). Also partnered closely with bank compliance officers using prototypes to refine NLP summarization/classification and reduce document review time.”

“Full-stack developer who built an end-to-end Hotel Management System using React and Spring Boot with MongoDB and AWS. Has hands-on experience debugging API/data-fetching issues with Postman and validating results against the database, plus exposure to handling large data workloads with chunking and monitoring via Grafana/Tabula.”

“AI/LLM engineer with recent production experience at UnitedHealth Group building an end-to-end RAG system over structured EMR data and unstructured clinical notes, including evidence retrieval, GPT/LLaMA-based reasoning, and a validation layer for reliability. Strong in orchestration (Kubeflow/Airflow/MLflow), prompt engineering for noisy healthcare text, and rigorous evaluation/monitoring with gold-standard benchmarking, plus close collaboration with clinical operations stakeholders.”

“At Dreamline AI, built and productionized an AWS-based incentive intelligence platform that uses Llama-2/GPT-4 to extract eligibility rules from unstructured state policy documents into structured JSON, then processes them with Glue/PySpark and serves results via Lambda/SageMaker/API Gateway. Designed state-specific ingestion connectors plus schema validation and automated checks/alerts to handle frequent policy/format changes without breaking the pipeline, and partnered with business/analytics stakeholders to deliver interpretable eligibility decisions via explanations and dashboards.”

“ML/LLM engineer at Charles Schwab who built a production loan-advisor chatbot integrated with internal knowledge and loan-calculator APIs, adding strict numeric validation to prevent rate hallucinations and optimizing context to control costs. Also runs ~40 Airflow DAGs orchestrating retraining/ETL/drift monitoring with an automated Snowflake→SageMaker→auto-deploy pipeline, and uses rigorous testing plus canary rollouts tied to business metrics and compliance constraints.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong production ownership who built a "Problem Workspace" coding feature using Next.js App Router + TypeScript, combining Server Components for fast initial render with WebSocket-driven real-time execution updates. Demonstrates deep reliability and data-consistency expertise (idempotency keys, Postgres constraints/indexing, EXPLAIN ANALYZE) and has implemented durable async orchestration (Temporal-style workflows) to reduce failures and timeouts under load.”

“AI/ML engineer who built a production RAG-based internal document intelligence assistant (LangChain + Pinecone) to let employees query enterprise reports in natural language. Demonstrated hands-on pipeline orchestration with Apache Airflow and tackled real production issues like retrieval grounding and latency using tuning, caching, and token optimization, while partnering closely with non-technical business stakeholders through iterative demos.”