Vetted Kubernetes Professionals

“Brazil-based tech leader who helped build Bankly’s end-to-end Banking-as-a-Service platform—delivering a plug-and-play solution in 6 months and architecting for ~5k requests/second; Bankly later became the largest BaaS in Brazil. Also runs a closed, personal-capital private trading group focused on automating investment decisions with AI trading bots, but is currently prioritizing international career growth over entrepreneurship.”

“Former founder with an acquired venture who later led R&D at McClatchy and joined multiple startups. Identified a major client need and built a mobile app platform using ML and AR for home builders, driving adoption by dozens of customers and $1M+ ARR. Strong hands-on builder who can architect MVPs, iterate quickly with A/B testing and user feedback, and scale early engineering teams and culture.”

“LLM/agentic-systems practitioner who has repeatedly taken LLM-driven pricing/decision services from prototype to production using pilots, guardrails, observability, and staged rollouts. Demonstrates strong real-time incident troubleshooting (dependency timeouts, cached fallbacks) and post-incident hardening (isolation/async/alerts), and also supports go-to-market via developer workshops, technical demos, and sales-aligned POCs.”

“Co-op engineer at EnFi who built and maintained a multi-tenant prompt library and LLM workflow tooling used by internal teams and external enterprise clients. Led TypeScript/React package design and standardized a typed workflow abstraction across disparate implementations (React, Go, JSON), improving reliability and developer adoption. Delivered measurable performance gains (~25% latency reduction) and owned end-to-end execution including docs, demos, debugging, and deployment.”

“Robotics Software Engineer with 2.5 years at the Army Research Lab building production tools and cloud infrastructure for large-scale ROS/Unity simulation on AWS. Created a Python GUI to streamline analysis of massive (100GB) ROS bag/MCAP datasets and has deep ROS2/Nav2 performance debugging experience (executor/QoS/TF tracing). Also built an in-house ROS perception pipeline for an assembly-line use case, reaching 92% accuracy.”

“Backend-focused software engineer building distributed, event-driven Java/Spring Boot microservices with Kafka for low-latency, high-frequency processing. Has hands-on experience modernizing a legacy Java system into containerized microservices deployed on Kubernetes with GitHub Actions CI/CD, and has integrated retrieval-based AI components into production workflows; no ROS/robot hardware experience yet.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on AWS-native Python systems: built a FastAPI microservice on ECS/Fargate serving real-time analytics at millions of daily requests with strong reliability (OAuth2/JWT, retries/timeouts, correlation IDs) and autoscaling. Also delivered Glue/PySpark ETL pipelines to curated S3 Parquet/Athena with schema evolution + data quality controls, owned Airflow pipeline incidents, and has a track record of measurable performance and cost optimizations (e.g., ~80%+ query latency reduction; reduced logging/NAT/Fargate spend).”

“JavaScript engineer and open-source contributor focused on runtime performance, reliability, and developer experience—refactored a widely used client-side API/state library to improve concurrent request handling, error consistency, and UI performance while adding tests and documentation. Also owned improvements to a core microservice at Velsa integrating multiple hospital systems, bringing structure to ambiguous priorities and delivering stability and performance gains from design through deployment.”

“Production-focused applied ML/LLM engineer who has deployed an LLM-powered RAG assistant and improved reliability through rigorous retrieval evaluation (recall/MRR), reranking, and guardrails that prevent confident wrong answers. Experienced running containerized ML/LLM services on Kubernetes (including AWS-managed layers) with CI/CD and observability, and has delivered a real-time predictive maintenance system using streaming sensor data and time-series anomaly detection in close partnership with maintenance teams.”

“Backend engineer who has built end-to-end data and platform systems across domains: a Scala/Java media data warehouse with a custom query language and Elasticsearch search, plus production security patterns (RBAC, RLS, audit trails) including a telehealth platform. Also demonstrated strong operational rigor by using feature-flagged side-by-side migrations and by catching ecommerce checkout edge cases that were dropping revenue.”

“ML/LLM engineer with production experience building medical RAG systems to automate chart review, including retrieval + re-ranking and rigorous evaluation. Notably uncovered errors/bias in physician-curated ground truth by tracing answers back to source note chunks and presented evidence to an academic partner, accelerating deployment. Also built a RAG-based FAQ chatbot for a health insurance company and delivered it to non-technical stakeholders via demos.”

“Built a production GPT-4/LangChain/Pinecone RAG “AI Copilot” at Northern Trust to automate financial report generation and analyst Q&A over internal structured (SQL warehouse) and unstructured policy data. Focused on real-world production challenges—grounding and latency—achieving major speed gains (seconds to milliseconds) via MiniLM embedding optimization and Redis caching, and implemented rigorous testing/evaluation with MLflow-backed metrics while aligning compliance and finance stakeholders for deployment.”

“Built and shipped a production RAG question-answering system using LangChain/OpenAI, Docker, and FastAPI, then reduced hallucinations through disciplined retrieval tuning and constrained prompting. Also implemented a custom evaluation framework (QA-pair dataset) to measure faithfulness/relevance and deployed containerized ML microservices on AWS ECS/Fargate with ALB and rolling, zero-downtime updates.”

“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.”

“Accenture engineer who built real-time smart mobility products (Verra Mobility) used by both consumers and government agencies, spanning React/TypeScript frontends and Node.js/GraphQL microservices with Kafka. Demonstrated strong delivery and reliability practices (CI/CD, feature flags, automated testing, CloudWatch observability) and achieved a ~20% GraphQL performance improvement supporting 50,000+ daily transactions, plus built an internal ops/support dashboard adopted into daily workflows.”

“Backend Java engineer with strong platform/DevOps experience: modernized an insurance claims legacy monolith into DDD-aligned microservices, deployed containerized services on Kubernetes with Jenkins CI/CD and static analysis gates, and implemented GitOps using ArgoCD. Also led major AWS migration planning with dependency mapping and network monitoring to uncover hidden dependencies, and built Kafka-based real-time event streaming with schema-registry-driven evolution.”

“Unity lead developer/project manager who builds VR storytelling and training simulator experiences, including hand-tracking-driven interactions and custom rendering (Shader Graph, forward rendering, occlusion culling). Created an educational Unity game (Bed Time Hunter) spanning gameplay, VFX/shaders, terrain/lighting, and Photon multiplayer, and built a VR office simulator that targets both Quest standalone and SteamVR while streaming cloud IoT sensor data.”

“Software developer with hands-on experience owning customer-facing work end-to-end (requirements, implementation, testing, and feedback-driven iteration) using Python and React.js. Also described remodeling an internal legacy page/tool to improve performance and accuracy, and has exposure to microservices and RabbitMQ plus ETL-based system work.”

“Software developer at Indiana University who built a phishing training platform using TypeScript/React, Node, GraphQL, and DynamoDB, including an admin tool to monitor student completion and send automated reminder emails. Also created TechRent, an IU-only electronics rental marketplace concept focused on improving security by restricting access to university students.”

“Built and operated an end-to-end customer-facing "Record Platform" web product as both engineer and primary user, focusing on reliability and correctness in core flows like search and checkout. Implemented a TypeScript/React frontend with a multi-service backend and Kafka-based event-driven architecture, and created internal tooling to automate risky ops like Kubernetes TLS certificate rotation with k6 load/chaos testing (including HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 validation).”

“Backend/platform engineer with hands-on ownership of Kubernetes GitOps delivery (GitHub Actions + Argo CD) on AWS EKS, including progressive rollouts and reliable rollback across interdependent microservices. Built a Python/FastAPI ML-driven document-processing service (PostgreSQL + S3) to complement existing Spring Boot systems, and implemented Kafka streaming pipelines with Schema Registry plus Prometheus/Grafana observability. Also supported a hybrid cloud-to-on-prem migration for compliance/latency with phased rollout and incremental PostgreSQL migration.”

“Full-stack engineer who owns customer-facing web products end-to-end (React/TypeScript + Node.js), shipping frequent releases with strong testing, staged deploys, and production monitoring. Improved a key user flow by batching backend calls and simplifying frontend rendering, driving ~30% faster load times and ~30% higher completion rates. Also built an ops monitoring dashboard using ELK + Prometheus/Grafana that cut incident response time by 40% and has hands-on microservices messaging experience (RabbitMQ/Kafka, idempotency, DLQs).”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based enterprise document intelligence platform for financial/compliance/operational documents on AWS (Spark/Glue ingestion, embeddings + vector DB, LangChain orchestration, REST APIs on Docker/Kubernetes). Deep hands-on experience orchestrating multi-step and multi-agent LLM workflows (LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI) with strong focus on grounding, evaluation, observability, and cost/latency optimization, and has partnered closely with non-technical finance/compliance teams to drive adoption.”

“Backend/DevOps-leaning engineer managing multiple customer service platforms end-to-end (requirements through deployment). Built an in-house Python monitoring/alerting solution for Salesforce-to-Java contact sync jobs (Snowflake dependencies) that increased uptime ~60%, and helped modernize delivery by moving the team from manual releases to automated Jenkins-based deployments while coordinating an Oracle EBS→Fusion transition with business/data/IT stakeholders.”