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Vetted Kubernetes Professionals
Pre-screened and vetted.
Prasad Krishna
Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in healthcare analytics and microservices
“Built and maintained an air-quality prediction backend in Python/Flask that serves offline-trained ML models to a React dashboard via JSON REST APIs. Demonstrates strong performance focus across the stack—low-latency inference under load, SQLAlchemy/Postgres query optimization, multi-tenant data isolation, and caching/background task strategies for high-throughput systems.”
Manvi Panjwani
Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in cloud, governance automation, and distributed systems
“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.”
makarand pundlik
Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in AWS serverless and Node.js microservices
“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.”
Satwika Boppudi
Mid-level Site Reliability Engineer specializing in AWS cloud and AI-driven backend 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.”
Raj Patel
Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs and RAG systems
“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.”
“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.”
Haritha Kuraparthi
Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud data engineering and analytics
“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.”
Shravani Koona
Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices
“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.”
Soham Ravindra Lokhande
Junior Software Engineer specializing in agentic automation and AI platforms
“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.”
Sumanth Gottipati
Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and FinTech
“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.”
Alicia Geng
Entry-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in AWS MLOps and computer vision
“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.”
Israel Sodano
Principal/Staff Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and FinTech platforms
“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.”
Uday Dorawala
Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in SaaS platforms, data, and cloud modernization
“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.”
Abhinav Garg
Senior Robotics Software Engineer specializing in ROS 2 autonomy and distributed systems
“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.”
Gabriel Fagundes
Mid-level AI/ML & Backend Engineer specializing in AI platforms and computer vision
“Backend engineer with hands-on experience building real-time, low-latency systems: owned the Python backend for a real-time crowd-monitoring product (top 5% at HackHarvard 2025) using OpenCV, GPU YOLO inference (PyTorch), WebRTC, and OAuth. Also has production Kubernetes/GitOps experience (Helm/Kustomize, GitHub Actions, Argo CD), Kafka-based event pipelines, and executed a minimal-downtime on-prem PostgreSQL migration to AWS EC2.”
PremKumar Gandla
Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in MLOps, NLP, and scalable model deployment
“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.”
Alankrit Srivastava
Intern Data Engineer specializing in Snowflake pipelines and AI/ML analytics
“Built and operated an end-to-end TypeScript/Node AI agent platform for high-volume financial data that generates explainable investment signals and automates execution via resilient Playwright browser automation. Uses Postgres + pgvector/Prisma for RAG retrieval, Redis for async orchestration, Zod-based boundary validation as a circuit breaker, and OpenTelemetry for tracing/latency monitoring; also designed a TypeScript SDK with semver, scoped bearer-token auth, CLI key rotation, and interactive Swagger docs.”
Brian Carroll
Principal Cybersecurity & Network Infrastructure Leader specializing in cloud, zero trust, and SIEM
“Founder of a self-funded IT management consulting practice specializing in security, compliance, and risk engineering for highly regulated sectors (banking/finance, healthcare, energy, defense, telecom). Uses consulting engagements to build repeatable “military-grade” security foundations and identify recurring pain points, with a longer-term goal of transitioning from consulting into a sustained internal team role for deeper impact.”
Shawn Faber
Executive Engineering Leader specializing in enterprise SaaS, AI/ML, and cloud modernization
“Commercially minded candidate with exposure to private equity firms as sales targets and experience building partnerships around venture-backed company ecosystems. They appear more inclined to join an existing company than found one, bringing a metrics-driven, process-oriented approach and creative execution style with a strong focus on clear growth paths and capital stability.”
Hari Billa
Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in machine learning, NLP, and healthcare AI
“Senior data scientist with hands-on ownership of production ML and GenAI systems across enterprise churn, clinical Q&A, and real-time fraud detection. Stands out for combining strong MLOps discipline with measurable business impact, including $2M+ retained revenue, 10K TPS low-latency fraud infrastructure, and a clinician-reviewed RAG system that improved retrieval accuracy by ~38%.”
SREYAS GANGJI
Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML backend systems
“AI/data engineer at ZS Associates focused on production-grade agentic systems, FastAPI microservices, and cloud-native ETL/RAG pipelines at significant scale. They’ve built multi-agent validation and diagnostic workflows inspired by their Copilot/KUBEPILOT AI work, supporting 500K+ records per day while improving ML inference performance by ~30% and cutting manual troubleshooting by 60%.”
Dishank Kailash Oza
Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure
“Engineer with a thoughtful, production-oriented approach to AI-assisted development, including multi-agent workflows for planning, coding, review, testing, and debugging. Stands out for treating AI systems like distributed pipelines with explicit interfaces, validation layers, and guardrails to improve reliability and reduce hallucinations.”
Rambabu Dhanavath
Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend and cloud-native microservices
“Backend/cloud engineer with 5 years of experience who has shipped a production internal ops LLM assistant end-to-end using Spring Boot microservices on AWS. Stands out for designing controlled, safety-first agent orchestration with deterministic tool access, Redis/DB-backed recoverable state, and strong observability/evaluation practices to improve reliability in production.”