Vetted Kubernetes Professionals

“AI engineer with production experience building a LangGraph-based, stateful multi-agent system at MetLife to automate complex insurance claims adjudication, integrating document discovery, Azure Document Intelligence OCR/extraction, and health data analysis. Strong in agent orchestration and production deployment (Docker + FastAPI REST APIs), with a structured approach to reliability, evaluation, and stakeholder-driven requirements.”

“LLM engineer who built a production-style educational questionnaire generation system (MCQs/fill-in-the-blanks/short answers) using Hugging Face models (BERT/T5) and implemented grounding, decoding tuning, and post-generation validation to control hallucinations and quality. Also developed a "tech care" assistant chatbot with a custom Python orchestration/router layer (intent classification, context management, multi-step flows) and a structured testing/evaluation approach including expert review and automated checks.”

“Backend engineer with cloud-native Python/Flask experience building high-throughput financial platforms (loan origination intelligent document processing and real-time fraud detection). Has scaled microservices on AKS with event-driven Azure messaging, delivered measurable performance gains (e.g., 700ms→180ms query latency; ~40% API improvements), and implemented strong security controls (OAuth2/JWT, Azure AD RBAC, audit logging, AES-256/TLS) for sensitive regulated data.”

“IBM Power/AIX infrastructure engineer with hands-on production experience across Power8/Power9 frames, VIOS and HMC, including resolving a production LPAR outage caused by vFC mapping issues. Has operated PowerHA clusters for critical finance workloads, running quarterly failover tests and handling an unplanned failover triggered by a network adapter failure, then improving resilience with redundancy and monitoring automation.”

“IBM Power/AIX infrastructure engineer who has owned a sizable production estate (50 Power servers / ~200 LPARs) spanning VIOS/HMC, SAN/NFS, and PowerHA clusters. Demonstrates strong incident leadership (LPAR outage + split-brain recovery) and a process-improvement mindset with measurable reductions in recurrence/MTTR, while also bringing modern DevOps/IaC experience (Jenkins, ArgoCD, Terraform, security scanning, canary/blue-green).”

“Production infrastructure engineer from Textron Systems who owned IBM Power/AIX 7.2 environments supporting manufacturing-critical automated RF test workloads. Deep hands-on experience with VIOS/HMC, DLPAR performance issues, SAN/vFC failures and failover recovery, plus modern DevOps practices (Azure DevOps CI/CD, Key Vault) and Terraform-based AWS infrastructure with remote state/locking and drift controls.”

“Backend/full-stack Java engineer at PNC Bank specializing in real-time fraud detection systems. Built event-driven Spring Boot + Kafka microservices with PostgreSQL/Redis performance tuning, and shipped a production LLM-powered RAG feature for fraud analysts with strong guardrails (grounded internal data, structured prompts with references, human-in-the-loop) plus an evaluation loop using labeled historical fraud cases.”

“Built and launched a verified listings system for Burrow (student subleasing) after interviewing ~50 students about scam/fake listing concerns; chose a lightweight .edu-based verification approach to ship fast and then iterated with badges and clearer details, reducing churn from 15% to 7%. Also ran an LLM A/B test for auto-generating listing descriptions and improved trust/accuracy by updating prompts to prevent hallucinated details.”

“DevOps/Infrastructure engineer with hands-on production experience building Jenkins CI/CD pipelines that provision Kubernetes infrastructure and process data into a MapR cluster. Uses Terraform to provision AWS resources (EC2, S3, VPC, subnets) with remote state in S3, separate environment state files, and code review/validation practices; targeting $135k base.”

Vidit Naik

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Junior AI/ML & Full-Stack Engineer specializing in LLMs and RAG systems

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“Forward-deployed engineer who built a production AI drone-control chatbot that lets users fly a drone via natural language while viewing a real-time feed. Implemented RAG over drone SDK documentation (vector DB + top-k retrieval) and LoRA fine-tuning, with a focus on latency, token efficiency, and cost reduction, and regularly works with non-technical clients to integrate and explain AI system architecture.”

Filmon Tesfay

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Senior Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud-native FinTech and AI platforms

New York, NY8y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong production ownership: built and operated a real-time transaction monitoring/fraud-alerting system using Java Spring Boot, Kafka, Docker, and AWS with CI/CD. Demonstrates metrics-driven operations (latency, stability, consumer lag, true/false positives) and reliability patterns for integrations (idempotency, retries/backoff, DLQs, reconciliation/backfills), plus modern React/TypeScript + Node/Postgres architecture experience.”

Branden Lee

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Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in React/TypeScript and Spring/Go

6y exp

“Software engineer/SME who owned customer-facing features in a tanker planning/scheduling domain, spanning UI, database migrations, and REST APIs. Drove major performance improvements by shifting complex pairing logic from a React/TypeScript frontend into a backend BFF (cutting load time from ~3 minutes to ~30 seconds) and led cross-team event-driven integrations using RabbitMQ and hexagonal architecture. Also built an internal OpenLayers-based mapping library adopted across multiple apps via Nexus.”

Utkarsh Aman

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Senior Frontend Engineer specializing in scalable consumer apps and micro frontends

San Francisco, California7y exp

“Frontend engineer focused on React/TypeScript dashboards for manufacturing-cycle analytics (downtime/wait time/cycle time). Has hands-on experience building reusable charting components (JSON-to-graph) with React ECharts, scaling data flows with Redux/RTK Query, and refactoring monolithic UI code into modular components while shipping on a ~3-week release cadence.”

Santhoshi Priya Sunchu

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Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in NLP and predictive modeling

Massachusetts, USA5y exp

“AI/ML practitioner in healthcare/insurance (Blue Cross Blue Shield) who built and deployed a production NLP system to classify patient risk from unstructured clinical notes. Experienced in end-to-end pipeline orchestration (Airflow, AWS Step Functions/Lambda/SageMaker) and real-time optimization (BERT to DistilBERT on AWS GPUs), with strong clinician collaboration to drive adoption.”

Ramya Sree Kanijam

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Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in LLM, RAG, and cloud AI

Corpus Christi, TX3y exp

“Recent master’s graduate who led a team project building an LLM-based chatbot with RBAC-controlled information disclosure and a focus on reducing hallucinations. Also has hands-on embedded robotics experience (Arduino obstacle-avoiding robot using ultrasonic sensors) and practical DevOps/cloud deployment exposure with Docker, Terraform, Jenkins, and AWS (EKS/ECS/CodePipeline).”

Jitesh Kumar S

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Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP, computer vision, and MLOps

Lafayette, IN3y exp

“ML/LLM engineer with Meta experience building production AI systems for near real-time user-report classification and summarization under strict latency (<250ms), safety, cost, and privacy constraints. Has hands-on MLOps/orchestration experience (Airflow, Spark, MLflow, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub Actions) plus observability (Prometheus/Grafana) and applies rigorous evaluation, staged rollouts, and A/B testing to keep agent workflows reliable in production.”

Butchi Venkatesh Adari

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Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLM platforms and robotic perception

NewYork, NY4y exp

“Built and shipped a production multi-agent personal financial assistant at AlphevaAI on AWS ECS, combining FastAPI microservices, Redis/SQS orchestration, and Pinecone-based hybrid RAG (semantic + BM25) to ground financial guidance. Improved routing accuracy with an embedding-based SetFit + logistic regression intent classifier feeding an LLM router, and optimized UX with live streaming plus cost controls via model tiering and caching.”

Akshay Katageri

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Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in multi-agent systems and RAG

Jersey City, NJ4y exp

“Built and shipped a production LangGraph-based multi-agent LLM analytics/decision copilot that answers questions across SQL/BI systems and unstructured docs, emphasizing grounded, tool-verified outputs with citations and confidence gating. Deep hands-on experience with orchestration (LangGraph, CrewAI, OpenAI Assistants, MCP) plus real-world latency/cost optimization (vLLM batching/KV caching, speculative decoding, quantization) and rigorous eval/observability. Partnered closely with business/ops stakeholders to deliver explainable reporting automation, cutting manual reporting time by 50%+.”

Tyler Stroud

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Executive Engineering Leader specializing in AdTech and scalable cloud platforms

Miami, FL15y exp

“Engineering leader with experience in small, bootstrapped startups and exposure to VC environments, currently pursuing CTO-level opportunities. Thrives in fast-iterating, high-uncertainty settings and emphasizes data-driven clarity plus strong problem/market validation when evaluating new ventures.”

Shital Agarwal

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in backend, microservices, and full-stack web development

New Jersey, USA5y exp

“Software engineer who delivered a dynamic service-fee system for a Belgian online grocery e-commerce platform by carving out a Spring Boot microservice from a monolith, integrating Google distance APIs, Redis caching, and CI/CD for production rollout. Also built an OpenAI-powered university chatbot with agent/workflow orchestration during academia, emphasizing availability and fallback behavior.”

Sanjana Akula

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Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and FinTech

New York, NY5y exp

“Front-end engineer with experience at Optum and Wells Fargo maintaining internal React/Angular component libraries and design-system-aligned UI modules used across multiple apps. Known for stabilizing shared libraries via semantic versioning, Jest test automation, and high-quality documentation, plus measurable performance wins (≈40% faster dashboard loads) through profiling-driven React and API optimizations.”

Sivapriya Rachakonda

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Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices on AWS and Kubernetes

Remote, USA5y exp

“Backend engineer who built a stateless Python/Flask service supporting a healthcare-document ETL pipeline, offloading heavy processing to Celery workers and adding strong observability (metrics, structured logs, audits). Demonstrates practical performance/reliability work: batch chunking, priority queues, autoscaling by queue depth/CPU, DLQ routing, and PostgreSQL tuning (indexes, pagination) to cut slow API responses. Also has experience deploying real-time ML classification via TensorFlow Serving behind a FastAPI wrapper and integrating models via REST/gRPC.”

Ashutosh Meena

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Junior Embedded Software Engineer specializing in IoT and microcontrollers

Chicago, IL2y exp

“Embedded/software engineer with hands-on Raspberry Pi work building a WhatsApp-controlled camera/servo system using TCP/IP plus Selenium automation of WhatsApp Web. Brings production DevOps experience from Infosys (Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD, microservices, Kafka) and a methodical hardware/software debugging workflow using lab tools like oscilloscopes and multimeters.”

Valeriy Filin

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Senior Backend/Cloud Engineer specializing in IaC, SaaS platforms, and ML/Computer Vision

Aliso Viejo, CA19y exp

“Backend/infrastructure engineer with experience across API development (FastAPI/MySQL/SQLAlchemy), Kubernetes deployments, and large-scale data processing—built a Dockerized Python pipeline to pre-aggregate ~1B Graylog events for efficient querying. Has enterprise infrastructure automation background at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (Datafabric) using Terraform/Ansible with fail-fast and rollback practices, plus Kafka-based sensor streaming prototypes to Google Cloud with Java workers and autoscaling.”