Vetted Kubernetes Professionals

Vishesh Kumar

Screened

Intern Software & AI Engineer specializing in distributed systems and LLM applications

Palo Alto, CA1y exp

“Stony Brook Fall 2024 capstone contributor who built a ROS2-based warehouse mobile robot prototype, owning perception and SLAM integration end-to-end. Strong in real-time robotics optimization on Jetson Orin (TensorRT/CUDA, ROS2 tracing/Nsight) and in distributed ROS2 communications (DDS discovery/QoS, MAVLink-to-ROS2 bridging), with a full simulation/testing/deployment toolchain (Gazebo, CI tests, Docker/K3s).”

Yash Prakashbhai Shah

Screened

Senior Backend Software Engineer specializing in Java, microservices, and cloud infrastructure

Santa Clara, CA6y exp

“Backend/platform engineer at Aryaka Networks who built a centralized resiliency and security Spring Boot library to standardize Keycloak RBAC and fault-tolerance across 25+ Kubernetes-migrated microservices. Uses profiling and observability (Prometheus/Grafana) to drive measurable performance and reliability gains (25% faster APIs, 70% faster environment setup) and accelerates adoption via golden-path starter repos and Swagger/OpenAPI live docs.”

Isaiah Johnson

Screened

Senior DevSecOps/Cloud Engineer specializing in secure AWS delivery for federal environments

Alexandria, VA8y exp

“Cloud-focused DevSecOps/infra engineer with strong AWS production ownership (EC2/EKS/ECS) and hands-on CI/CD (Jenkins->ECR->Helm on Kubernetes). Demonstrated end-to-end outage recovery (ALB 503s caused by Helm env var misconfig) with rapid rollback plus pipeline guardrails, and deep Terraform experience (modular IaC, remote state with S3/DynamoDB, drift detection) supporting federal cloud modernization efforts.”

Anudeep Reddy Veerla

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices

Boston, MA3y exp

“Built and shipped both a solo real-time multiplayer Spades game (TypeScript monorepo with shared client/server engine) and a production internal LLM-powered document Q&A tool for a SaaS company. Demonstrates strong RAG pipeline design (Pinecone + embeddings + reranking), rigorous eval/regression practices, and pragmatic data ingestion/observability work across Confluence, Notion, and messy PDFs/OCR—backed by clear metric improvements (P@1 61%→78%, escalations 40%→22%).”

Mayur Agrawal

Screened

Entry-Level Backend Engineer specializing in analytics automation and cloud data pipelines

Bengaluru, India1y exp

“Forward Deployment Engineer focused on application security and production integrations, with hands-on experience hardening API-driven ticketing systems (JWT/RBAC/rate limiting/log redaction) and implementing CI/CD security controls (Bandit SAST, SCA, container hardening). Strong in diagnosing peak-load production issues using logs/metrics/infra signals and driving durable fixes like adaptive throttling and backoff, while aligning engineering, business, and leadership stakeholders on risk and SLA impact.”

Srinivasan Gomadam Ramesh

Screened

Mid-level AI/Data Engineer specializing in agentic AI and data platforms

Redmond, WA7y exp

“AI/LLM engineer who built a production resume-parsing and candidate-matching platform at Quadrant Technologies, combining agentic LangChain workflows, VLM-based document template extraction (~85% accuracy), and a hybrid RAG backend for resume-to-JD search. Notably integrated automated LLM evals and metric-based CI/CD quality gates to catch silent prompt/model regressions, and led a 3-person team across frontend/backend/testing.”

Tarun Gowda

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI, backend systems, and cloud platforms

Morristown, NJ3y exp

“Full-stack engineer who helped build and launch an internal genAI platform called GAIL, supporting multiple LLMs, confidential document upload for RAG pipelines, and collaborative chat. Worked across FastAPI, React/TypeScript, AWS/DynamoDB, and Azure, with notable ownership of backend RAG logic, MCP integration architecture, and frontend fixes that improved chat usability.”

Pranav Gaikwad

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native platforms and supply chain systems

Atlanta, GA8y exp

“Backend and platform engineering leader with deep supply chain and warehouse systems experience, including building a company-wide MDM platform across five ERP systems and supporting a 72-microservice warehouse execution environment. Particularly compelling for AI-forward logistics roles: currently pursuing an AI-focused PhD, has published supply chain AI research, and holds a utility patent for AI-driven predictive analysis.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on AWS-based, low-latency event processing for market data and social-signal sentiment systems. Has led a monolith-to-event-driven migration with feature-flagged incremental rollout, and emphasizes production-grade security (OAuth2/JWT, secrets management, Supabase RLS) and data integrity (deduplication/idempotency) under high-volume spike conditions.”

“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).”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 .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.”

“Cloud-focused application security practitioner with hands-on AWS and Kubernetes experience, including securing a manufacturing monitoring platform (API auth, least-privilege IAM, CI/CD security checks) and troubleshooting a production data-ingestion outage caused by an overly restrictive IAM change. Experienced in implementing cloud-native security tooling (IAM Access Analyzer, Inspector, CloudWatch) and deploying monitoring/security agents via Kubernetes sidecars with Helm, Prometheus/Grafana, and Jenkins-driven CI/CD.”

“Cloud/infrastructure engineer with strong production operations background across AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes, supporting 30+ enterprise workloads for ~40,000 users. Demonstrated incident leadership (hybrid AKS-to-AWS routing outage) with a reported 60% MTTR reduction, plus hands-on CI/CD (Jenkins) and Terraform-based IaC for AWS (VPC/EC2/EKS). Lacks direct IBM Power/AIX/PowerHA experience but emphasizes transferable ops and troubleshooting skills.”