Vetted Kubernetes Professionals

“Backend/data platform engineer who owned a FastAPI + Kafka microservice in Verizon’s billing pipeline, handling high-volume usage ingestion/validation/enrichment with strong observability and CI/CD on AWS EKS. Demonstrated measurable performance gains (latency down to ~120–150ms; Kafka throughput +30–40%; DB CPU -25%) and led an on-prem ETL-to-AWS migration using Terraform, parallel validation, and phased cutover with zero downtime.”

“Full-stack engineer who built "Workstream AI," an AI-powered engineering visibility product that converts GitHub activity into real-time insights using an event-driven microservices stack (RabbitMQ/Postgres/Express) and GPT-4 with a React frontend. Previously a Founding SWE at a health & wellness startup, building data-driven user management tooling, and also delivered a real-time shuttle tracking/ride request system using Java Spring Boot/Hibernate + React; comfortable owning production deployment details (AWS EC2, DNS, SSL).”

“ML/AI engineer with production experience in high-scale banking fraud detection at Truist, building an end-to-end pipeline (Airflow/AWS Glue/Snowflake, PyTorch/sklearn) with automated retraining and Kubernetes-based deployment; delivered measurable gains (22% fewer false positives, 15% higher recall) and reduced manual ops ~40%. Also partnered with clinicians at Kellton to deploy an LLM system for summarizing/classifying clinical notes, improving review time and decision speed.”

“Built a production LLM-powered workflow at Frontier to extract structured signals from messy, high-volume documents and route work to the right teams, replacing a multi-day, error-prone manual process. Emphasizes production reliability with schema/consistency validation, re-prompting and deterministic fallbacks, plus async pipeline optimizations for predictable latency. Experienced with multi-agent orchestration (LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI) and AWS workflow tooling (Step Functions, SQS, Lambda), and delivered ~70% safe automation via stakeholder-driven thresholds and human review.”

“Built and deployed a production autonomous AI data analyst agent (LangChain + GPT + Streamlit on AWS) that turns natural-language questions into validated SQL, visualizations, and insights, cutting manual analysis time by ~50%. Emphasizes reliability and MLOps: schema-aware validation/guardrails to prevent hallucinations, scalable large-data processing, and Azure DevOps CI/CD + MLflow for automated deployment and experiment tracking.”

“Built production AI/RAG-style systems for message Q&A and insurance claims workflows, combining data ingestion, indexing/retrieval, and LLM integration with fallback modes. Has hands-on orchestration experience (Airflow, Prefect, LangChain) and cites large operational gains (claims processing reduced to ~45 seconds; manual review -50%; false alerts -30%) through automated, monitored pipelines and close collaboration with non-technical stakeholders.”

“ML/NLP engineer (Beyond Identity) who built production semantic search and entity-resolution systems over internal security documentation, using LDA + BERT embeddings with FAISS/Pinecone to cut search time by 30%. Also scaled a real-time anomaly detection pipeline to millions of events/day with Spark and AWS Lambda, with strong emphasis on measurable validation (Precision@k, MRR, F1, ARI).”

“Software intern at BestWork who owned an AI-powered sales performance chatbot end-to-end: React/Material UI frontend, TypeScript AWS Lambda backend, and AWS Bedrock (Llama 3) + OpenSearch knowledge base over Salesforce/HubSpot data with Slack-based weekly summaries. Worked directly with the CTO in a high-ambiguity environment, including building an audio bot from scratch just in time for a client demo, and implemented metadata-based retrieval to handle multi-team knowledge base constraints.”

“Built and deployed a production Llama 3-based RAG document Q&A system using FAISS, addressing context-window limits through chunking and keeping retrieval accurate by regularly refreshing embeddings. Has hands-on orchestration experience with LangChain and LlamaIndex for multi-step LLM workflows (including memory management) and collaborates with non-technical teams (e.g., marketing) to deliver AI solutions like recommendation systems.”

“Backend/AI engineer in healthcare/insurance (mentions Cigna) who has shipped production systems spanning high-reliability APIs, async job architectures (Celery), and LLM/RAG features. Built an LLM document assistant with Terraform-managed AWS infra, semantic search retrieval, and strict permissioning/audit logs, and designed an automated prior-authorization workflow with human-in-the-loop escalation and compliance-driven thresholds.”

“Governance engineer intern at GSK who built policy-as-code automation using Open Policy Agent/Rego integrated into GitHub CI/CD and Terraform workflows. Also built and shipped a voice-enabled expense tracking app using speech-to-text + LLM structured extraction with strong validation, retries, and semantic guardrails, and designed the supporting PostgreSQL data model with performance-focused indexing.”

“Infrastructure/DevOps engineer (Geico) focused on AWS and Kubernetes at production scale. Has hands-on experience building secure GitHub Actions CI/CD for EKS, provisioning core AWS infrastructure with Terraform/CDK, and leading end-to-end incident response with post-incident automation to prevent recurrence; no direct IBM Power/AIX/PowerHA experience.”

“At Delta Airlines, built and shipped a production LLM-powered semantic search/troubleshooting assistant over maintenance logs and operational documentation using OpenAI embeddings and a vector database. Implemented hybrid ranking, query enrichment, and structured filters to improve relevance ~35% while optimizing latency via caching and vector tuning. Also designed a scalable Kafka + AWS (Lambda/SQS) ingestion pipeline with strong reliability/observability and an eval loop using real engineer queries and human review.”

“Full-stack engineer with cloud and GenAI experience who has owned production features end-to-end, including a reporting dashboard optimized from 14s to 5s using query/API refactoring and monitored via AWS CloudWatch. Also productionized an OpenAI-powered chatbot using LangChain with prompt design, guardrails, and evaluation via production logs and user feedback, and has led incremental legacy-to-microservices modernization with parallel run to avoid regressions.”

“TSE with hands-on experience troubleshooting customer-reported data issues across APIs and SQL, coordinating with engineering on hotfixes, and translating risk to non-technical stakeholders. Has supported application security workflows using Veracode by generating reports, driving remediation via Jira, and tracking exposure metrics; also assisted customers with SSO setup (client ID/secret).”

“Backend engineer who has shipped both high-throughput real-time systems and production LLM/RAG features. Built a database-free, local-first messaging service (Node/Express/Socket.IO) achieving ~1,500 msgs/sec at <25ms p95, and implemented a Go-based RAG recommendation pipeline with strict JSON/schema validation, catalog grounding, fallbacks, and eval loops that cut hallucinations to ~1–2% while reducing LLM costs ~60%.”

“Backend-leaning founding/early engineer who built automation platforms end-to-end: FastAPI/Python services integrated with a Next.js/TypeScript frontend, including a production VNC streaming URL endpoint for cloud-instance desktop viewing. Also designed core Postgres user/workflow data models and built an agentic orchestration system with LangChain/LangGraph (sub-agents, validators, pause/resume), plus made scalability tradeoffs like S3 pre-signed uploads to keep microservices responsive.”

“Senior technologist (25 years experience) who served as chief architect/CTO for a patented software startup that was acquired. Strong at building scalable, robust, technology-agnostic systems and translating technical value into investor-ready narratives (forecasts, roadmaps, documentation). Currently prefers joining an existing founding team as a key technical leader/mentor rather than leading entrepreneurship solo.”

“Built and operated a real-time student event/party discovery platform with map-based search, RSVP, and authentication using React/TypeScript, Node.js, and Firebase Firestore. Demonstrates strong backend correctness under concurrency (transactions, idempotency, retries/backoff) and solid API product thinking (versioning, Swagger docs, structured errors, cursor pagination), including custom geospatial querying via Haversine filtering.”

“Backend/platform engineer with Optum experience owning a production FHIR Member Access API aligned to CMS interoperability requirements. Built and scaled Spring Boot/HAPI FHIR microservices on AWS (Docker/Kubernetes) with zero-downtime CI/CD, and operated them with strong observability (Dynatrace, logs/metrics, alerting) and incident response. Also implemented a Kafka-based FHIR bulk data pipeline with schema versioning, idempotent processing, and reliable backfills/replays.”

“Consulting-style LLM practitioner who builds enterprise knowledge assistants using RAG and takes them from prototype to production with guardrails, evaluation, and full-stack observability. Experienced partnering with IT and customer-facing teams to demo solutions, build tailored prototypes, and drive adoption through API-based integration.”

“Backend/data engineer with experience at Assurant and Capgemini, focused on reliability and performance at scale. Improved high-latency backend APIs by adding and iterating on a Redis caching layer driven by CloudWatch/monitoring metrics, and built scalable BI pipelines that normalize messy multi-source enterprise data with strong observability and error handling. Familiar with LLM/RAG architecture and practical guardrails, though has not yet shipped an LLM feature to production.”

“Built and shipped AI-powered workflow automation at Oracle, including an MCP-based agentic workflow with tool-calling and guardrails, plus Grafana monitoring and Confluence documentation. Also led a Django monolith-to-microservices migration at Chamsmobile using blue-green deployment and load balancer traffic splitting to avoid regressions while modernizing production systems.”

“Frontend-focused engineer with enterprise Angular experience integrated with .NET APIs, emphasizing production-ready practices (reusable components, modular architecture, TypeScript standards, Jasmine unit tests, and CI/CD). Has not built Unreal Engine UI systems yet, but articulates how they would translate web UI modularity, separation of concerns, and testing/automation practices to Unreal/CommonUI workflows.”