Vetted Kubernetes Professionals

Sergey Pustovit

Screened

Director-level Data Platform & Analytics Engineering Leader specializing in distributed systems

Irvine, CA31y exp

“Entrepreneurially minded builder focused on proving architecture concepts via minimal demo prototypes for marketing. Has hands-on experience improving an A/B experimentation framework by interviewing stakeholders, identifying system limits and bottlenecks, and defining success criteria to scale experimentation and speed up analysis.”

“Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer who built an internal real-time operations dashboard from 0→1 using React, TypeScript, Redux Toolkit, Material UI, and Node.js integrations. Stands out for hands-on performance tuning at scale—profiling and fixing excessive re-renders, optimizing live-update UIs, and iterating post-launch with caching, pagination, and observability.”

“Front-end/product engineer with strong financial-domain experience, including browser-based interfaces for retail planning, sales forecasting, and high-throughput trading data. Stands out for combining UI engineering with machine learning, time-series prediction, browser performance optimization, and functional programming across tools like React, TypeScript, Elm, OCaml, and Scala.”

“JavaScript/TypeScript engineer from Ridgeline who built a retry feature for failed staging-to-production promotions with pre-promotion health checks. Brings a backend-scaling mindset to runtime performance work (metrics-first bottlenecking, Big-O analysis, async/parallelism, caching) and leverages Cursor/AI tooling to ramp quickly on large codebases.”

“Backend/AI engineer who built a production GPU-backed real-time inference API at Nvidia and debugged burst-induced tail latency, cutting P95 by ~29% through dynamic batching and backpressure. Also shipped an end-to-end RAG + agentic operational diagnostics assistant with strict tool controls, evidence citation, confidence gating, and strong production guardrails, plus demonstrated hands-on Postgres optimization (900ms to 40–60ms).”

Pankaj Goyal

Screened

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in FinTech, IAM, and AI/ML platforms

SF Bay Area, CA22y exp

“Player-coach backend leader at PostLo who led a major backend architecture upgrade to enable AI-driven features by separating transactional systems from AI workloads (vector embeddings/image validation) and adding async processing for heavy jobs. Also owned production reliability improvements (query/index optimization, workload isolation, monitoring and load testing) and translated an ambiguous retention goal into a shipped cashback rewards feature with auditable transactions.”

“Engineer with deep hands-on experience building Square's billing and payments platform in a startup-like environment inside a larger company. They drove a high-stakes PostgreSQL migration, built merchant-facing full-stack features across React/TypeScript, Go, and Python, and designed for PCI-compliant, high-throughput financial workflows with strong observability and production rigor.”

veera krishna chaitanya Arepalli

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AdTech and FinTech

Menlo Park, CA5y exp

“Meta product engineer with strong ad-tech experience who owned monetization and optimization features across Instagram Boost on mobile and web. They combine product analysis, experimentation, and full-stack execution, citing $9.8M/year from an upsell feature and $43K/day from feeding IG-to-WhatsApp lead signals into ad targeting. Also built an internal LLM-powered analytics agent to automate adoption-rate analysis for product teams.”