Vetted Kubernetes Professionals

“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.”

“Data engineer who has owned production pipelines end-to-end—from Kafka/Airflow ingestion through SQL/Python validation and dbt transformations into Redshift/BI. Also built and operated a large-scale distributed web scraping platform (50–100 sites daily, ~5–10M records/day) with Kubernetes, Kafka queues, robust retries/DLQ, anti-bot measures, and backfill-safe raw HTML storage.”

Hammad Ur Rahman

Screened

Senior DevOps Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and CI/CD

Boston, Massachusetts11y exp

“IBM Power/AIX engineer who has owned a 150+ LPAR AIX 7.x estate with VIOS/HMC/vHMC and PowerHA in production, including real outage and failover recoveries. Also brings modern DevOps/IaC experience—built Jenkins pipelines deploying to AKS and implemented Terraform on AWS with remote state, locking, and drift management.”

Sharanya Rao

Screened

Mid-level Backend & Blockchain Engineer specializing in Cosmos SDK and EVM

Remote, USA4y exp

“Built and productionized an LLM+RAG lending assistant on AWS to help loan officers quickly answer questions from credit policies and prior decisions, tackling hallucinations with retrieval-only responses and a no-context fallback. Also automated end-to-end ETL and model retraining/deployment using Apache Airflow, and has experience translating clinical stakeholder needs (doctors/care managers) into ML features, metrics, and dashboards.”

Satish Kumar Reddy

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in NLP, computer vision, and MLOps

Remote, NJ5y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG intelligent document understanding platform for healthcare clinical documents (notes, discharge summaries, diagnostic reports), integrating spaCy entity extraction, Pinecone vector search, and a Spring Boot API on AWS with monitoring and guardrails. Demonstrates strong MLOps/orchestration (LangChain, Airflow, Kubeflow/Kubernetes) and a metrics-driven evaluation approach, and partnered with a healthcare operations manager to cut manual review time by 80%.”

chandankumar ramamurthy

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in LLM-powered products

Washington, D.C.3y exp

“Built multiple systems from scratch at DSSD and Aglint, including an NGO sustainability reporting dashboard and a production LLM-powered phone screening agent using Twilio/Retell AI with RAG grounded in PostgreSQL candidate/job data. Strong focus on real-world reliability: guardrails, monitoring, and lightweight eval/regression loops that reduced recruiter score overrides by ~30%. Currently on OPT through May 2026 (plans STEM OPT extension) and committed to relocating to NYC for in-person work; seeking $90k–$120k base with meaningful equity for founding engineer roles.”

Shiva Dasi

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in LLM agents and cloud-native systems

Boston, MA4y exp

“Built and shipped production LLM agents in compliance-sensitive environments (FERPA), emphasizing reliability via structured outputs, state-graph orchestration (LangGraph), and CI-driven eval/regression testing. Also has experience hardening messy ERP ingestion pipelines at scale (50K monthly orders) with normalization, idempotency/deduplication, and robust failure handling using AWS (SQS/CloudWatch) and PostgreSQL.”

Jyothsna V

Screened

Mid-level Backend Software Engineer specializing in Python/FastAPI and cloud-native microservices

USA4y exp

“Backend engineer who evolved Coca-Cola bottlers' Trade Promotion Optimization platform at Coke One North America, building domain-focused microservices in Node.js and Python (Flask/FastAPI) with PostgreSQL. Experienced in multi-tenant security (OAuth2/JWT, RBAC, row-level scoping by bottler/region), API contract/versioning discipline, and Azure DevOps-driven incremental rollouts with strong observability.”

Mrudula Devaguptapu

Screened

Mid-Level Software/AI Engineer specializing in backend systems, data pipelines, and RAG automation

United States3y exp

“Backend engineer with experience modernizing high-traffic subscription and payment systems (TCS) by moving to event-driven Spring Boot microservices with Kafka, adding idempotency/state management to eliminate duplicate processing. Built and scaled FastAPI services for AI automation workflows (360DMMC) with versioned contracts, JWT security, and strong observability, and has led live refactors using feature flags, parallel runs, and data reconciliation.”

Nidhi Sura

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI platforms, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure

Dublin, CA1y exp

“Software engineer with limited robotics background but deep experience building end-to-end document ingestion and image understanding systems, including a CAD-specific pipeline using a custom model to extract components and bounding boxes for user-facing visualization and Q&A. Also brings strong infrastructure/DevOps skills (Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Terraform) with emphasis on reliability, cost optimization, and uptime.”

Ashay Panchal

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI-driven distributed systems

San Jose, CA4y exp

“Backend engineer who built a high-stakes, privacy-first platform at be Still Analytics for survivors of domestic violence, emphasizing anonymity, security, and reliability. Experienced with GenAI backends (LangChain + AWS Bedrock) including RAG to prevent hallucinations, plus cloud-native scaling (Docker/Kubernetes) and cost-saving migrations from legacy VMs to serverless (30% reduction).”

Vikram Sandigaru

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in AI agents, RAG pipelines, and LLM evaluation

Boston, US3y exp

“Built and shipped production LLM systems at Founderbay, including a low-latency voice agent and a graph-based multi-agent research assistant. Strong focus on reliability in real workflows—hybrid SERP + full-site scraping RAG, grounding guardrails, validation checkpoints, and transcript-driven evaluation—plus performance tuning with async FastAPI, Redis caching, and containerization. Also partnered with a non-technical ops lead to automate post-call follow-ups via call summarization, field extraction, and tool-triggered actions.”

Nagendra Reddy Palugulla

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and MLOps

Florida, United States4y exp

“Built and shipped a production real-time content moderation platform for Zoom/WebEx-style meetings, combining Whisper speech-to-text with fast NLP classifiers and REST APIs to flag hate speech, bias, and HIPAA-related content under strict latency constraints. Demonstrates strong MLOps/infra depth (Airflow, Kubernetes, Terraform/Helm, observability) and a pragmatic approach to reducing false positives via threshold tuning, context validation, and hard-negative data—while partnering closely with compliance and product stakeholders.”

“Full-stack product engineer focused on data-heavy dashboard applications, with hands-on ownership from React/TypeScript UI through Node/Express APIs to Postgres schema design and optimization. Stands out for combining product sense with engineering rigor: improving onboarding and reporting flows using analytics and user feedback, while also building reusable upload infrastructure and safe multi-tenant configurable experiences.”

“Senior engineer with experience at Micro Focus/HPE (now OpenText) supporting enterprise customers on monitoring platform deployments, upgrades, and ongoing product use. Brings hands-on expertise in operations agents, agentless integrations, security-related upgrade troubleshooting, and cross-functional escalation with engineering to keep customer environments stable and successful.”

“Full-stack product engineer with strong web3/blockchain experience, having built invoicing/tokenization, transaction explorer, and no-code workflow products across React, Node.js/serverless, and SQL. Stands out for combining deep technical execution with product thinking—improving onboarding completion by ~40%, shipping quickly under ambiguity, and creating reusable platform primitives for auditability and multi-tenant customization.”

“Backend-focused engineer with experience at Ramp, Easebuzz, and George Mason University, spanning data pipelines, workflow automation, and production reliability. Stands out for quantifiable performance gains, strong debugging instincts in distributed job systems, and translating ambiguous finance operations processes into measurable automation outcomes.”

Keeravani Chekuri

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM systems and MLOps

Boston, MA3y exp

“Built and deployed an AI tutoring assistant end-to-end at Nexora School, spanning discovery with school districts, multi-agent LangGraph/RAG architecture, AWS Bedrock migration, and post-launch stabilization. Stands out for combining hands-on LLM systems engineering with strong educator-facing trust building, FERPA-driven architecture decisions, and disciplined production practices around evals, logging, and messy document ingestion.”

“Built and deployed a full-stack web product for international football fans visiting the U.S. for FIFA, owning everything from crawling and aggregating event data to frontend, backend, deployment, and maintenance. Particularly strong in data-heavy product work, using LLMs, Google Maps API, and SQL/RPC patterns to improve data quality, speed implementation, and support a polished user experience.”

“Full-stack engineer who built a multi-tenant SaaS analytics dashboard end-to-end with Next.js App Router/TypeScript, emphasizing server components + React Query for performance and real-time UX. Demonstrated strong production ownership post-launch (observability, DB/query tuning, caching strategy) and has concrete wins like 30–40% load-time reduction and Postgres query latency cut to under 200ms.”

“Healthcare software sales candidate with hands-on experience building outbound campaigns, refining ICP and messaging in a small, iterative environment, and selling AI-enabled EMR capabilities. Demonstrates strong consultative discovery in nuanced care settings like home health and home care, with measurable outbound results including a 12% reply rate, 5-10 demos, and 25% demo conversion.”

“Backend engineer focused on real-time, event-driven systems (Java microservices) handling high-frequency data with low-latency and reliability requirements. Strong in Kafka-based asynchronous architectures, Redis caching, JVM/query tuning, and scalable deployments on Docker/Kubernetes with Jenkins CI/CD; no direct ROS/robotics experience but has closely related distributed communication patterns.”

“Backend engineer experienced in evolving high-scale legacy on-prem systems into cloud-native, event-driven microservices on AWS/Kubernetes (noted peak traffic ~1.5M QPS). Strong focus on reliability engineering and operational excellence—SLO-driven observability, GitOps/canary rollouts, chaos testing, and preventing cascading failures (e.g., retry-storm mitigation).”