Vetted Kubernetes Professionals

“Backend Python engineer who has built an LLM agentic tutoring/assignment helper with a custom pipeline for parsing visually complex textbooks (integrating AlibabaResearch VGT and implementing missing preprocessing from the paper), improving RAG grounding with ~90% cleaner extracted text. Also led major platform scaling work by refactoring monolithic image processing into Celery-based async microservices on AWS (GPU/CUDA + S3), and implemented Kafka streaming for payment webhooks with strict ordering, idempotency, and multi-zone fault tolerance.”

“Backend/data engineer with aerospace telemetry and reporting experience across RTX and other orgs, spanning Python/FastAPI microservices, AWS serverless/containers, and AWS Glue-to-Redshift analytics pipelines. Has led legacy modernization with parallel-run parity validation and incremental rollout, and demonstrates strong operational ownership (monitoring, incident response, and cost optimization).”

“Backend engineer who built a high-stakes, privacy-first platform at be Still Analytics for survivors of domestic violence, emphasizing anonymity, security, and reliability. Experienced with GenAI backends (LangChain + AWS Bedrock) including RAG to prevent hallucinations, plus cloud-native scaling (Docker/Kubernetes) and cost-saving migrations from legacy VMs to serverless (30% reduction).”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building Python/Django APIs on PostgreSQL and delivering AWS serverless + containerized architectures (API Gateway/Lambda, IaC, CI/CD, secrets/config). Has operated AWS Glue pipelines ingesting S3 log/3rd-party data with schema evolution monitoring, modernized legacy batch logic into API-based services via parallel-run parity testing, and improved Postgres query performance by several seconds; prefers fully remote work and targets $120–130k base.”

“Built and shipped production LLM systems at Founderbay, including a low-latency voice agent and a graph-based multi-agent research assistant. Strong focus on reliability in real workflows—hybrid SERP + full-site scraping RAG, grounding guardrails, validation checkpoints, and transcript-driven evaluation—plus performance tuning with async FastAPI, Redis caching, and containerization. Also partnered with a non-technical ops lead to automate post-call follow-ups via call summarization, field extraction, and tool-triggered actions.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer (Cognizant) who owned a customer-facing document validation platform for onboarding/compliance and emphasized fast, reliable delivery through CI/CD automation (Jenkins/AWS) and containerized releases (Docker/Kubernetes). Also built an internal support dashboard that replaced manual log checks with real-time error visibility, significantly reducing investigation time, and has hands-on experience scaling microservices with idempotency, retries/DLQs, and distributed logging.”

“Built and shipped a production real-time content moderation platform for Zoom/WebEx-style meetings, combining Whisper speech-to-text with fast NLP classifiers and REST APIs to flag hate speech, bias, and HIPAA-related content under strict latency constraints. Demonstrates strong MLOps/infra depth (Airflow, Kubernetes, Terraform/Helm, observability) and a pragmatic approach to reducing false positives via threshold tuning, context validation, and hard-negative data—while partnering closely with compliance and product stakeholders.”

“Built and productionized an LLM+RAG lending assistant on AWS to help loan officers quickly answer questions from credit policies and prior decisions, tackling hallucinations with retrieval-only responses and a no-context fallback. Also automated end-to-end ETL and model retraining/deployment using Apache Airflow, and has experience translating clinical stakeholder needs (doctors/care managers) into ML features, metrics, and dashboards.”

“At ReferU.AI, designed and deployed an agentic RAG pipeline that automates multi-jurisdiction legal document drafting, emphasizing hallucination reduction through hybrid retrieval, validation agents, guardrails, and iterative regeneration. Experienced with orchestration frameworks (especially CrewAI) and rigorous testing/evaluation practices including human-in-the-loop review, adversarial testing, and production metrics/logging.”

“Software engineer (Alpine Bank) focused on modernizing high-traffic customer-facing systems with React/TypeScript frontends and Spring Boot microservices. Has hands-on experience stabilizing and scaling event-driven architectures with Kafka (idempotent consumers, partitioning, retry queues) and building internal observability dashboards that materially sped up post-deployment verification and improved release confidence.”

“Developed and productionized VL-Mate, a vision-language, LLM-powered assistant aimed at helping visually impaired users understand their surroundings and query internal knowledge. Emphasizes reliability and safety via confidence thresholds, uncertainty-aware fallbacks, hallucination grounding checks, and rigorous offline + user-in-the-loop evaluation, with experience orchestrating multi-step LLM pipelines (LangChain-style and custom Python async) and deploying on containerized infrastructure.”

“Full-stack intern at Rebel who owned backend work on a cross-platform music platform using Python/Django with MongoDB, implementing user-focused REST APIs end-to-end. Also built CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/GitHub Actions) to containerize and deploy to AWS, and has experience integrating Kafka-based real-time event processing with reliability and observability practices.”

“IBM Power/AIX engineer who has owned a 150+ LPAR AIX 7.x estate with VIOS/HMC/vHMC and PowerHA in production, including real outage and failover recoveries. Also brings modern DevOps/IaC experience—built Jenkins pipelines deploying to AKS and implemented Terraform on AWS with remote state, locking, and drift management.”

“Backend engineer with Accenture and EY experience building multi-tenant financial/compliance platforms in Python/Flask. Strong in performance and scalability work across SQLAlchemy/PostgreSQL (EXPLAIN ANALYZE, indexing, N+1 fixes) and in reliability improvements using Celery + Redis. Has integrated external AI model APIs for document extraction/invoice validation with robust background processing, retries, and output cleaning.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG intelligent document understanding platform for healthcare clinical documents (notes, discharge summaries, diagnostic reports), integrating spaCy entity extraction, Pinecone vector search, and a Spring Boot API on AWS with monitoring and guardrails. Demonstrates strong MLOps/orchestration (LangChain, Airflow, Kubeflow/Kubernetes) and a metrics-driven evaluation approach, and partnered with a healthcare operations manager to cut manual review time by 80%.”

“Healthcare-focused ML/LLM engineer who built a production hybrid RAG workflow to automate prior authorization by retrieving from medical guidelines/historical cases (FAISS) and generating grounded rationales for clinicians. Strong in operationalizing ML with Airflow/Kubeflow/MLflow on SageMaker, optimizing latency (ONNX/quantization/async), and reducing hallucinations via evidence-only prompting; also partnered closely with clinical ops to deploy a readmission prediction tool used in daily rounds.”

“AIX/IBM Power Systems engineer with hands-on production performance troubleshooting (NMON) and operational administration across VIOS/HMC/LPAR/DLPAR. Has implemented enterprise patching and security remediation using NIM (e.g., OpenSSH vulnerability) and built automation to generate and curate weekly AIX images for the NIM environment.”

“CloudData engineer who productionized an LLM assistant for a warehouse/logistics customer by wrapping it as a versioned, containerized API with guardrails, deterministic post-processing, and full observability. Experienced diagnosing real-time RAG/agentic incidents (latency spikes and confident-wrong answers) using trace-based isolation, replay in staging, retrieval tuning, and canary releases. Regularly runs technical demos/workshops and partners with sales on security/IAM, SLAs, and pilot rollouts to drive adoption.”

“Security-focused engineer/customer-facing technical lead with SaaS platform experience at Ipsilon Lab, advising customers on API security and secure SDLC improvements. Has implemented production AppSec tooling (SAST/SCA), designed AWS least-privilege agent/scanning deployments, and led Kubernetes CI/CD security-agent integrations with Secrets Manager and PR gating. Strong track record troubleshooting complex customer integrations end-to-end (logs/metrics/traces through DB execution plans) and driving measurable stability/security posture improvements.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience at Western Union and Aptly (for Microsoft), building production systems spanning React/TypeScript frontends and .NET Core/microservices backends. Has delivered an engineer-facing diagnostics/configuration console with TanStack Query caching/background refresh and has hands-on experience hardening transaction-processing workflows with Kafka, Azure Functions, and Resilience4j, plus Postgres modeling and query optimization.”

“Built a contract and customer documentation retrieval solution for Urban Studio, designing a RAG + Elasticsearch hybrid search stack (RRF + cross-encoder reranking) with a strong emphasis on chunking/data quality and hallucination reduction. Experienced in diagnosing LLM workflow issues via observability traces and tailoring technical demos to developer concerns like reliability and high concurrency.”

“Full-stack .NET/Azure engineer with end-to-end ownership of policy management microservices (React/TypeScript + C#/ASP.NET Core + Kubernetes) delivering significant performance and quality improvements (e.g., response time -35%, defects -30%, CSAT +18%). Also productionized an AI-assisted analyst workflow using Azure OpenAI with a RAG pipeline on Azure Cognitive Search, including rigorous prompt versioning, guardrails, and measurable impact (review time -40%, errors -55%). Led incremental legacy modernization via Strangler Fig and dual-write migrations with zero production regressions.”

“Backend engineer who evolved Coca-Cola bottlers' Trade Promotion Optimization platform at Coke One North America, building domain-focused microservices in Node.js and Python (Flask/FastAPI) with PostgreSQL. Experienced in multi-tenant security (OAuth2/JWT, RBAC, row-level scoping by bottler/region), API contract/versioning discipline, and Azure DevOps-driven incremental rollouts with strong observability.”