Vetted Kubernetes Professionals

Rohan Chodapunedi

Screened

Entry-level Data Scientist specializing in LLMs and analytics

Folsom, CA1y exp

“Built a zero-to-one AI contract/policy QA agent for compliance and data teams, with a strong emphasis on trust, traceability, and clause-level citations rather than just fluent answers. They combine full-stack product ownership with practical LLM systems design, including hybrid retrieval, structured outputs, and evaluation pipelines to improve reliability, latency, and cost.”

“Built and shipped production AI features for Aiden, including a natural-language agent and a Knowledge Hub ingestion/retrieval system. Stands out for hands-on debugging of real LLM production issues across providers like OpenAI and AWS Bedrock, improving reliability and achieving 90% response/retrieval consistency through direct LiteLLM integration, validation, monitoring, and async system design.”

“Engineer with hands-on experience embedding AI into software delivery workflows, including Claude-powered PR review, testing, debugging, and multi-agent coding pipelines. They pair AI automation with strong systems thinking around microservices, fault tolerance, multi-AZ design, caching, and security controls like WAF and rate limiting, and also experiment independently with RAG and multi-agent search projects.”

Sakshi Patel

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in e-commerce and supply chain platforms

Remote, USA3y exp

“AI-focused developer who has built several practical AI products, including EchoMate, a voice-agent system designed to act as a proxy for doctors and support patients when physicians are unavailable. Also has experience with multi-agent/API-based workflows in a solar suitability project, showing interest in applying AI across both healthcare and climate-related use cases.”

George Platon

Screened

Principal Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI, DevOps, and cloud platforms

Romania, Romania16y exp

“Built a production end-to-end AI video-to-reels clip extraction system using a multi-agent architecture with transcription, captioning, effects generation, and centralized orchestration. Demonstrates unusually strong systems thinking around reliability, observability, evaluation, and production tradeoffs for LLM-powered workflows, including Kubernetes/Kafka-based deployment and regression-driven prompt governance.”

“Engineer with hands-on experience owning customer deployments for ordering and billing systems at Amdocs, including performance tuning, CI/CD improvements, and post-launch stabilization that delivered about 50% faster execution time. Also built and debugged an LLM-powered task prioritization app using Gemini, Streamlit, Python, and MongoDB, with a strong focus on prompt reliability, validation, and handling inconsistent real-world inputs.”

Kevin Delong

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI, LLMs, and RAG systems

Irvine, CA12y exp

“AI/ML engineer with hands-on experience shipping production systems across fintech, travel, and legal use cases. They’ve built end-to-end chatbot, generative content, and RAG solutions on AWS with CI/CD, monitoring, and guardrails, including a loan application platform that generated $3,000 in sales in its first month.”

“Engineer with a mature, agent-oriented approach to AI-driven software development, using structured planning, TDD, and verification loops rather than ad hoc prompting. Has hands-on experience acting as a tech lead for multiple AI agents in an LLM intelligent routing project, coordinating implementation, testing, debugging, and edge-case review with strong attention to system tradeoffs.”

“Data engineering/software development candidate who built a stock market pipeline and uses that project to demonstrate strong architectural thinking across Kafka, Spark, and Airflow. They stand out for a pragmatic approach to AI: using tools like Copilot, ChatGPT, LangChain, and AutoGen to accelerate development while maintaining human oversight, testing, and system-level decision making.”

“Candidate has hands-on experience using AI-assisted development in a pragmatic, controlled way, including shipping a more user-friendly student feedback form by redesigning text-heavy inputs into checkboxes and dropdowns. They stand out for disciplined review habits: line-by-line validation of AI-generated code, strong edge-case testing, and thoughtful use of structured prompts and staged workflows instead of over-relying on autonomous agent frameworks.”

“Backend/data engineer who helped evolve Bitnimbus LLC’s Kafka-as-a-service MVP from a monolith into an event-driven distributed system, using careful design, parallel rollouts, and idempotent event handling to maintain correctness. Also built production-grade API and database security (JWT scopes, rate limiting, explicit Postgres policies/RLS-style controls) and improved Prometheus monitoring by eliminating false outages via heartbeat metrics and windowed aggregation.”

“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.”

“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 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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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/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.”

“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).”

“Built and shipped “LabMate,” a production AI assistant specialized in laboratory hardware, using a weighted multi-source RAG pipeline with reranking and reasoning-focused query decomposition to handle complex user questions. Deployed on a local GPU cluster with vLLM and NVIDIA MPS (plus OCR/VLM components), and established evaluation using synthetic + public reasoning datasets while collaborating weekly with non-technical admins to align requirements and resource constraints.”

“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.”