Vetted Kubernetes Professionals

“Full-stack engineer who has shipped and owned production analytics dashboards using Next.js App Router + TypeScript, combining server components for data-heavy pages with client components for interactive charts/filters. Also built a Temporal-orchestrated payment reconciliation workflow with versioning, idempotency, and exponential-backoff retries, and has hands-on Postgres query/index optimization using EXPLAIN ANALYZE.”

“AI/LLM engineer who built a production QA RAG for a University of Massachusetts faculty success initiative, cutting service tickets by 70%. Strong end-to-end RAG implementation skills (LangChain, Qdrant, hybrid/HyDE retrieval, FastAPI) with rigorous evaluation (RAGAS, LLM-as-judge) and practical handling of constraints like API rate limits and cost. Prior cross-functional delivery experience collaborating with SMEs and business owners at TCS and IBM.”

“Backend/API engineer with ~4 years experience building production services in .NET Core/PostgreSQL/Redis/Docker and optimizing real-world latency issues (claims ~60% response-time improvement). Also built and owned an end-to-end RAG-based AI assistant using Python/FastAPI, OpenAI APIs, and Pinecone, plus agentic workflows with reliability guardrails (retries, confidence thresholds, monitoring). Currently pursuing a master’s degree and targeting a $150k base salary.”

“Data engineer/backend data services practitioner with Bank of America experience building real-time and batch transaction-monitoring pipelines and APIs (Kafka + databases, REST/GraphQL). Highlights include a reported 45% response-time improvement through performance optimizations and use of Delta Lake schema evolution plus CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins) and operational reliability patterns like CloudWatch monitoring and dead-letter queues.”

Ganesh Medepalli

Screened

Mid-level Java Developer specializing in Spring Boot microservices and AWS

USA3y exp

“Backend engineer with primary experience in Java/Spring Boot microservices, AWS (EC2/ECS/Lambda), and CI/CD automation with Jenkins. Supported modernization/migration efforts at Berkshire Hathaway and Citius Infotech by containerizing legacy components with Docker, refactoring services to be stateless, and managing infra changes via Terraform and Git-based workflows; has limited but practical Python API prototyping experience (Flask/FastAPI) and solid conceptual grounding in Kubernetes and Kafka.”

SUMIT MAMTANI

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in ML, MLOps, and customer analytics

Tempe, AZ4y exp

“ML/NLP practitioner focused on insurance/claims analytics for a large financial firm, working with millions of fragmented structured and unstructured records. Built production-grade pipelines for entity extraction, entity resolution, and semantic search using Sentence-BERT + vector DB, including fine-tuning with contrastive learning (reported ~15% recall lift) and scalable ETL/containerized deployment on Kubernetes.”

Molli Dinesh

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in NLP, LLMs, and MLOps

Remote, USA4y exp

“Built an AI-driven insurance policy summarization platform at Marsh, taking it end-to-end from messy PDF ingestion/OCR and custom extraction through LLM fine-tuning and AWS SageMaker deployment. Delivered measurable impact (25% reduction in manual review time, 99% uptime) and demonstrated strong production MLOps/LLMOps practices with Airflow/Step Functions orchestration, rigorous evaluation (ROUGE + human review), and continuous monitoring for drift, latency, and hallucinations.”

Kiran M

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and data platforms

Bentonville, AR5y exp

“Backend/ML integration engineer with experience at Accenture and Walmart building Flask-based analytics and prediction APIs on PostgreSQL/MySQL. Strong focus on performance and scalability—uses precomputed aggregates, Redis caching, query tuning (indexes/partitioning/EXPLAIN), and async/background processing; also designs secure multi-tenant isolation with JWT and schema/db-per-tenant strategies.”

Pravalika Kasojjala

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM, RAG/GraphRAG, and fraud analytics

Charlotte, NC5y exp

“LLM/agent engineer who has deployed a production internal assistant to reduce employee inquiry resolution time while maintaining regulatory compliance. Experienced with RAG, hallucination risk triage, and graph-based orchestration (LangGraph) for enterprise/banking-style workflows, emphasizing schema-validated, citation-backed, tool-constrained agent designs and tight collaboration with non-technical business/compliance stakeholders.”

Raviteja Kambhampati

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in cloud-native microservices and React

San Francisco, CA5y exp

“Full-stack engineer who has owned customer-facing analytics and dashboard products end-to-end using TypeScript/React with Spring Boot microservices. Strong in scaling and stabilizing distributed systems (RabbitMQ, DLQs/retries, observability with correlation IDs) and in building internal tooling that consolidates ELK/CloudWatch signals to speed up support and operations; reported ~30% performance improvement on a recent dashboard.”

Saicharitha Yanamandala

Screened

Mid-Level Software Developer specializing in Java, Cloud, and Microservices

Chicago, IL6y exp

“Backend/Python engineer who owned an end-to-end FastAPI + AWS internal natural-language document Q&A system (Textract extraction, embeddings/vector DB, LLM integration) with strong focus on reliability and latency. Hands-on with Kubernetes + GitOps (Argo CD, Helm, rolling updates/auto-rollback) and built/optimized Kafka streaming pipelines using Prometheus/Grafana. Also supported a zero-downtime on-prem to cloud migration with parallel run and gradual traffic cutover.”

Rishabh Goyal

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in Java/Spring and React

USA6y exp

“Python backend engineer focused on real-time e-commerce analytics systems, building FastAPI + Kafka microservices with strong idempotent processing patterns (Postgres upserts, manual offsets, Redis caching). Has hands-on Kubernetes (EKS) and GitOps delivery with Argo CD/GitHub Actions, plus experience migrating containerized services from on-prem VMs to AWS using Terraform and blue-green cutovers.”

Luis Aragon

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in data infrastructure and distributed systems

San Francisco, CA6y exp

“Software engineer working on agentic AI SMS customer engagement flows and a Customer Data Profile service that unifies journey data across SMS/web/calls while enforcing precise consent management. Has hands-on production operations experience, including recovering a reporting-critical Elasticsearch outage by standing up a new cluster in Kubernetes, restoring from snapshots, and rewinding Kafka consumers to reprocess missed data.”

Arthi R

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and cloud-native microservices

Remote – Washington, D.C.5y exp

“Backend engineer with fintech/banking experience (e.g., Canara Bank) building secure Python/Flask microservices for financial reporting and unified data access. Strong in Postgres/SQLAlchemy performance optimization (including materialized views) and in productionizing ML services on AWS (Lambda/ECS/CloudWatch) with Docker, model registries, and blue-green deployments, plus multi-tenant isolation via JWT-based middleware.”

Sri Chandana Topuri

Screened

Mid-level Java Full-Stack Developer specializing in Spring microservices and Angular

5y exp

“Backend-focused engineer working primarily with Python/Django who also handles full-stack responsibilities. Has hands-on experience deploying containerized Python/Java microservices to Kubernetes using Helm and GitOps (ArgoCD), plus building Kafka-based event streaming with reliability controls (acks, consumer groups, DLQ). Also supported major on-prem to cloud/hybrid migrations using Terraform/Ansible with blue-green cutovers and data replication to minimize downtime.”

Sanjay Mandru

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud microservices and real-time analytics

Buffalo, NY3y exp

“Software engineer who built a reusable React component package (UI modules, auth helpers, API client wrappers) for an AI SaaS background-removal project, emphasizing performance (tree shaking/dynamic imports) and reliability (Jest + Storybook). Also delivered a unified REST API for Samsung Big Data Portal, resolving cross-team issues by standardizing schemas, improving validation/logging, and operating effectively amid shifting requirements.”

“Data engineer focused on building reliable, production-grade pipelines and external data collection systems on AWS (S3/Lambda/SQS/Glue/EMR) using PySpark/SQL, serving curated datasets to Snowflake/Redshift for finance and fraud teams. Has operated a large-scale crawler ingesting millions of records/day with anti-bot tactics, schema versioning/quarantine, and CloudWatch/Datadog monitoring, and also shipped a versioned REST API with caching and query optimization.”

“Built and productionized LLM-driven content intelligence/SEO agents for a high-traffic media platform, automating tagging/summarization/metadata with FastAPI + async orchestration and strict JSON-schema outputs. Demonstrated measurable impact (40% faster publishing, +20% organic traffic in 3 months) and strong reliability practices (offline evals, shadow mode, canaries, fallbacks, idempotency, and monitoring).”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered agent that automated purchasing and inventory operations by integrating with live ERP data and returning structured, machine-readable outputs usable by downstream systems. Emphasizes real-world reliability through orchestration, strict schemas/validation, confidence-based fallbacks with human handoff, and monitoring/evaluation feedback loops to reduce silent failures and make issues observable.”

“Data/ML platform engineer with healthcare (Cigna) experience owning an end-to-end pipeline spanning Airflow + Debezium CDC ingestion, PySpark/SQL transformations, rigorous data quality gates, and feature-store/API serving for ML training and inference. Worked at 10+ TB scale and cites a ~30% latency reduction plus stronger reliability via idempotent design, monitoring, and backfill-safe reprocessing; also built pragmatic early-stage data pipelines at Frankenbuild Ventures.”

“LLM/agent engineer with production experience in the insurance claims domain, integrating OpenAI + LangChain into a claims platform to automate unstructured document extraction/classification and cut manual effort by 35%. Built reliable, fault-tolerant AWS/Kubernetes microservices with CloudWatch monitoring plus circuit breakers/retries/fallbacks, and implemented multi-step Spring Boot orchestration with schema validation, confidence gating, and human-in-the-loop handling for low-confidence cases.”

Shashank Nawathe

Screened

Senior Front-End Engineer specializing in React, micro frontends, and GraphQL

Sunnyvale, CA8y exp

“Frontend engineer with Walmart Labs experience who contributed to the React Query (TanStack) open-source ecosystem by reproducing and helping fix a tricky cache invalidation edge case via a detailed GitHub issue and merged PR. Led measurable runtime performance improvements on a large B2B dashboard (D3.js), using memoization, component refactors, web workers, and virtualization to cut render time ~60% and eliminate UI freezes, and standardized data-fetching patterns to reduce data-related bugs ~30%.”

Shruthi Nandakumar

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in FinTech and cloud-native microservices

St. Louis, MO5y exp

“Backend/AI engineer who owned a high-scale Java/Spring Boot microservice for a financial application (millions of requests/day) and led major reliability/performance fixes (including ORM/query and PostgreSQL tuning) achieving ~60% latency reduction. Also shipped application-layer LLM features for ops teams (summarization + tool-calling) with strong guardrails (PII redaction, validation, audit/feedback) and designed a state-driven agent workflow with retries, circuit breakers, and human escalation.”

Sujith Julakanti

Screened

Junior MLOps Engineer specializing in LLMs and cloud infrastructure

College Station, TX3y exp

“Built a production multimodal LLM system (Gemini on GCP) to automate behavioral coding of family-involved science experiment videos, including preprocessing for inconsistent lighting/audio and LangGraph-orchestrated parallel workflows. Also developed rubric-based AI grading workflows and partnered closely with non-technical education stakeholders through explainability-focused walkthroughs and manual-vs-AI evaluation alignment.”