Vetted Kubernetes Professionals

Rahul Solleti

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and full-stack web apps

United States5y exp

“Backend/platform engineer focused on real-time financial fraud detection and transaction monitoring, building low-latency FastAPI + Kafka systems with strong reliability patterns (DLQs, idempotency) and cloud observability. Has hands-on Kubernetes delivery across AWS EKS and Azure AKS with automated CI/CD and GitOps-style deployments, plus experience migrating legacy C# / Java monoliths to containerized microservices using Terraform/ARM and zero-downtime rollout strategies.”

“Built and shipped a widely adopted, production-grade RAG internal search assistant that unified scattered engineering knowledge, deployed as a FastAPI service on Kubernetes with FAISS + LangChain. Demonstrates deep practical expertise in retrieval tuning (chunking, hybrid search, re-ranking) and in making LLM workflows reliable in production via guardrails, monitoring, and evaluation, plus strong cross-functional delivery with non-technical operations teams.”

“Backend-focused engineer with banking-domain deployment experience who has owned releases end-to-end, from discovery and API/database implementation through post-launch stabilization. Brings a reliability-first mindset across distributed systems, incident response, and messy real-world data handling, and has also applied that foundation to retrieval-based LLM workflows in production-oriented cloud environments.”

“Software engineer who built JobIntel, an end-to-end Python ETL pipeline integrating ATS data from platforms like Greenhouse using Scrapy and FastAPI. Stands out for production reliability work: designing async fault-tolerant architecture, optimizing PostgreSQL write-heavy upserts, and building a Prometheus/Splunk observability stack that cut debugging from hours to minutes.”

“Built OpenGPU features spanning React/TypeScript, Go orchestration, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Stripe, with a strong focus on reliability, transaction integrity, and low-latency distributed systems. Also shipped LLM product infrastructure, including persona-conditioned frameworks and reusable prompt/model abstractions, showing a blend of systems engineering and fast product iteration.”

“Built and deployed an end-to-end fintech product, FinSight, for bank statement analysis and financial Q&A using a production-style RAG architecture. Stands out for combining FastAPI, OpenAI embeddings, FAISS, hybrid SQL/vector retrieval, and practical reliability work like chunking optimization, validation, and low-latency performance tuning.”

Naveen K

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI agents and RAG workflows

San Francisco, CA3y exp

“Candidate is highly focused on AI-native software development, using tools like GitHub Copilot and OpenAI models within structured plan-code-review-test workflows. They stand out for designing multi-agent coding systems with planner, coder, and tester roles, and for applying tech-lead style governance through constraints, quality gates, and validation-first practices.”

“Software engineer focused on backend and full-stack development who is already integrating AI deeply into day-to-day engineering workflows. Stands out for experimenting with multi-agent setups where separate agents handle planning, coding, review, testing, and documentation, while maintaining strong human oversight around quality, security, and performance.”

“Backend-focused engineer with hands-on experience deploying AI-driven document processing and RAG-based workflows using Python, LangChain, FAISS, and REST APIs. Has owned projects from requirements through post-launch monitoring, including debugging production retrieval issues and building reliable pipelines for messy PDFs/scans and compliance-oriented document analysis.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong ownership across React, FastAPI, and PostgreSQL who has built real-time collaboration and analytics workflows end-to-end. Particularly compelling for high-growth AI product teams: they’ve also shipped a 0→1 AI-assisted dataset retrieval and summarization capability, balancing MVP speed with scalable architecture and post-launch performance tuning.”

“Built Complyma's workspace intelligence layer end-to-end, shipping a zero-to-one semantic search and RAG assistant used by paying customers during an internship window. Combines full-stack product execution with strong multi-tenant security thinking, delivering measurable gains including 60% faster retrieval across 50K+ records and 30% higher workspace creation success.”

Naveen K

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI-powered backend systems

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership of a real-time analytics and alerting dashboard built with React/TypeScript, Node.js, Kafka, Redis, and PostgreSQL. Also contributed to an internal LLM-powered support automation system, focusing on backend orchestration, RAG-based reliability, and Kubernetes deployment. Stands out for combining product-minded zero-to-one execution with strong distributed systems and AI integration experience.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on high-scale, event-driven AWS ingestion systems (SQS/Lambda/EKS) processing millions of events per day, with strong reliability patterns (idempotency, DLQs, bounded retries) and deep observability using Datadog distributed tracing. Has delivered Terraform/GitHub Actions CI/CD and improved secret rotation via Secrets Manager + IRSA, plus Glue-based ETL with schema-evolution handling and Postgres SQL optimization (including JSONB/GIN indexing). Candidate is currently living outside the US and states they do not have US work authorization.”

“Software engineer who has shipped both core web platform features (secure user authentication/profile management) and production LLM systems. Built an internal documentation knowledge assistant using a full RAG pipeline (OpenAI embeddings, vector DB, semantic search, reranking) with evaluation loops and a scalable document-ingestion pipeline for PDFs/FAQs, iterating based on metrics and user feedback.”

“Backend engineer with health-tech AI platform experience who designed a modular FastAPI/PostgreSQL architecture supporting real-time user data and swap-in AI workflows. Has hands-on production experience with observability (CloudWatch, structured logging, LangSmith/LangGraph/LangChain tracing), secure auth (OAuth2/JWT, RBAC, RLS), and careful data-pipeline migrations using parallel runs and rollback planning.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-powered financial intelligence and forecasting platform at Northern Trust using a RAG architecture (LangChain + Hugging Face + FAISS) with end-to-end MLOps (Docker/Kubernetes, Airflow, MLflow). Emphasized regulatory-grade explainability (SHAP/Power BI) and hallucination control (retrieval-only grounding), achieving ~30% forecasting accuracy improvement and ~65% reduction in analyst research time, with sub-second inference and 95% uptime on EKS/AKS.”

“LLM/RAG practitioner building clinician-facing AI search and Q&A inside EHR workflows, focused on trust, latency, and safety (grounded answers with citations, PHI controls, encryption/audit logs). Demonstrated real-time incident response for production LLM systems (e.g., fixing a metadata-filter deployment regression to prevent irrelevant results/cross-patient leakage) and strong demo/enablement skills for mixed technical and clinical stakeholders; also shipped a multi-model RAG tool at OrbeX Labs with upload/search/audit features for day-to-day adoption.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience building customer-facing fintech mobile features end-to-end (loan estimate comparison) and scaling event-driven microservices in enterprise environments (Verizon). Has designed TypeScript/React/Node systems with queues/caching and built an internal rule-engine for bulk Excel ingestion that reduced data errors and manual rework through automated validation.”

“CoreAI intern at The Home Depot who improved the Magic Apron Assistant by building a production video ingestion + RAG retrieval system for long videos (uploads and YouTube), including a graph-based retrieval module to speed up and improve relevance. Experienced with Kubernetes orchestration (HPA) and production reliability practices like caching, monitoring, regression testing, and stakeholder-driven requirements.”

“ML/AI engineer who built and productionized an NLP system at PurevisitX, orchestrating end-to-end ML workflows with Airflow (S3 ingestion through auto-retraining) and optimizing for drift and low-latency inference. Also partnered with Citibank risk teams on a fraud detection model, translating results via dashboards and iterating thresholds based on stakeholder feedback.”

“Systems Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services with hands-on ownership of enterprise logistics microservices (Spring Boot) using Kafka integrated with Azure Event Hubs, including partitioning strategies and operational handling of consumer lag/duplicate events. Also built a full-stack road-accident blackspot detection application using Python-based spatial clustering and model evaluation with a JavaScript/Mapbox frontend.”

“Built a production LLM-RAG system at McKesson to let internal healthcare operations teams query large volumes of unstructured operational documents via natural language with source-backed answers, designed with HIPAA/FHIR compliance in mind. Demonstrated strong production engineering across hallucination mitigation, retrieval quality tuning, and latency/scalability optimization, using LangChain/LangGraph and Airflow plus rigorous evaluation/monitoring practices.”

“Built an AI-based voice interviewer platform at 7C Lingo to automate early-stage candidate screening, owning the full lifecycle from architecture through deployment and weekly production iterations. Implemented a TypeScript/Next.js recruiter dashboard with a Flask/Postgres backend and AWS S3, plus modular services for transcription/analytics/session management using state-driven async workflows. Also created an internal Whisper-powered transcription and editing tool that evolved into a collaborative, versioned, live-transcription system.”

“Backend-focused engineer who owned an end-to-end Python/Flask service at Viasat powering a 1000+ user internal React app, including API design, Postgres performance tuning (~50% faster), Dockerization, and CI/CD. Demonstrated strong problem-solving by building custom EDN parsing logic and has built near real-time AWS SQS/Lambda pipelines with DLQs and autoscaling patterns; currently ramping on Kubernetes/GitOps (ArgoCD).”