Vetted Kubernetes Professionals

“Full-stack engineer who shipped a production real-time code editor using Next.js App Router (server components for MongoDB fetch + client components over WebSockets) with optimistic updates and concurrency conflict handling. Also designed a multi-tenant Postgres subscription billing data model and validated analytics query performance with EXPLAIN ANALYZE; reports a ~25% improvement in supported concurrent sessions via MongoDB/schema optimization.”

“Software engineer who built an AI marketing/outreach agent end-to-end: Next.js (App Router + TypeScript) frontend integrated with a Python/Django REST backend using LLMs (Gemini, ChatGPT-4o) and SQL databases. Demonstrated measurable performance wins—improved a 100k-record UI by 15% (Lighthouse) and cut a Postgres-backed search API from ~3s to ~1ms via indexing—while also owning post-launch monitoring (webhooks/cron, New Relic/CloudWatch) and customer support.”

“Built a production anomaly-detection workflow at VDOIT for messy cloud billing/cost data, emphasizing validation, idempotency, retries, and monitoring. Delivered measurable impact by preventing ~$50K/month in overspend and improving response time, and is now applying the same multi-step pipeline approach to LLM-based agent workflows.”

Pranav Mishra

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLM agents, RAG, and MLOps

Charlotte, NC2y exp

“AI/ML engineer who has shipped production systems across computer vision and conversational agents: built a YOLOv8-based wheel fitment pipeline at a Techstars-backed automotive startup, focusing on sub-second latency, monitoring, and robust fallback mechanisms that drove 2–3x page view growth and +5–6k users. Also built a voice-based interview platform orchestrating Deepgram + GPT-4 Mini + OpenAI TTS with FSM-driven reliability, and has hands-on RAG experience (LangChain, hybrid retrieval, cross-encoder reranking, custom pseudo-query generation).”

Uzair Asif

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native web, mobile, and AI features

8y exp

“Frontend lead for a consumer-facing social platform, owning architecture through release. Built scalable React/TypeScript systems (Redux Toolkit, Remix) with a shared Storybook component library and strong quality gates (CI, Jest/Cypress). Experienced modernizing legacy codebases incrementally with feature flags and shipping major dashboard features with staged rollouts and close QA collaboration.”

Rethvick Sriram Yugendra Babu

Screened

Junior AI/ML Software Engineer specializing in Generative AI and scalable data pipelines

Tucson, AZ2y exp

“Built and operated large-scale biodiversity/ecological research platforms, integrating 50+ heterogeneous global datasets into a unified BIEN 3 schema on PostgreSQL/PostGIS and improving data consistency by 35%. Strong production engineering background (Linux monitoring, CI/CD performance gates, Docker on AWS/Azure) plus applied AI work building a Python RAG system (0.90 precision) and halving latency with Elasticsearch.”

Binaya Sharma

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack systems, big data, and applied AI

Baton Rouge, LA6y exp

“Built and deployed ForensicLLM, a local domain-specific LLaMA-3.1-8B model for digital forensic investigators using RAFT + RAG over 1000+ curated research papers, with citation-aware responses and rigorous evaluation (BERTScore/G-Eval). Deployed via vLLM and Docker and validated through a chatbot survey with 80+ participants; published at DFRWS EU 2025.”

Taruni Reddy Ampojwala

Screened

Mid-level GenAI Engineer specializing in LLM agents and RAG systems

Brooklyn, NY4y exp

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based LLM assistant that answers day-to-day operational questions from internal PDFs/SOPs, with strong emphasis on data consistency (metadata versioning, confidence thresholds, conflict handling) and low-latency retrieval at scale. Experienced designing and orchestrating multi-agent LLM workflows (retrieval/validation/generation) and pipeline orchestration for ingestion/embedding/vector-store updates, plus iterative delivery with non-technical operations/business stakeholders.”

Gomathy Selvamuthiah

Screened

Junior Data/AI Engineer specializing in MLOps, real-time pipelines, and LLM applications

Portland, US2y exp

“Built an LLM-driven MLOps agent at SBD Technologies that automated an EV-charging prediction workflow end-to-end, integrating with real-time Kafka/FastAPI systems supporting 120K+ chargers at 99.99% event delivery. Addressed frequent schema drift by implementing SQLAlchemy/Flyway validation (60% reduction in drift issues) and deployed as Kubernetes microservices with GitHub Actions CI/CD; also has Airflow-based ingestion/crawling experience into Snowflake and stakeholder-facing delivery via a Fleetcharge PWA.”

Avanishika Revelli

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in backend, cloud, and robotics automation

2y exp

“Graduate Research Assistant in Robotics at Arizona State University who built an end-to-end LLM-driven task execution framework enabling collaborative robots to convert high-level natural language instructions into safe, executable ROS actions. Implemented robust monitoring, failure detection, and automatic replanning, and addressed real-world issues like timestamp/frame-transform mismatches and heterogeneous robot interoperability using adapter nodes.”

Ram Abhinav Vedant Madabushi

Screened

Junior Full-Stack/AI Engineer specializing in web platforms and LLM applications

Palo Alto, CA2y exp

“Backend engineer from FoodSupply.ai who built and evolved a scalable restaurant/supplier product and order management platform using Node.js and REST APIs. Implemented a hybrid MySQL+MongoDB data architecture, optimized performance with Redis/Prisma, and led a phased migration with feature flags and a temporary sync layer to maintain data consistency. Strong focus on production security (OAuth2, RBAC, row-level security, AWS IAM) and reliability practices (testing with Pytest, Docker/AWS pipelines).”

Mayank VYAS

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM agents, RAG retrieval, and IoT ML systems

Tempe, AZ4y exp

“Built production LLM-driven products including a job-hunt AI (job ranking + resume optimization) and an InterviewAI agentic pipeline using LangChain. Focused on practical deployment concerns like securing OpenAI usage via rate limiting and tiered quotas, and demonstrates an applied approach to choosing models, retrieval methods (RAG), and prompting strategies.”

Srikar Tharala

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and RAG systems

Remote, USA4y exp

“Currently at ProShare and reports building an AI/LLM-powered system deployed to production, aimed at helping with status-related difficulties and reducing misunderstandings across transactions. Also cites prior collaboration at Porsche with marketing teams, focusing on translating marketing goals into technical requirements and communicating solutions clearly to non-technical stakeholders.”

Atharva Chavan

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in mobile, cloud, and GenAI integration

Syracuse, NY2y exp

“Software engineering intern with hands-on ownership of a Java/Spring Boot order management microservice, including production performance tuning via Redis caching and database indexing driven by API logs/metrics. Also contributed to a production mobile-backend LLM feature using RAG with embeddings over structured data and documents (DB + object storage), with guardrails to keep responses grounded.”

“Product-minded full-stack engineer with experience in fintech identity verification and industrial analytics, focused on turning repeated operational pain points into reusable platforms. Built real-time KYC/KYB dashboards, secure cross-platform web components, and a multi-tenant workflow engine that cut onboarding from 2 weeks to 1 day while materially improving conversion, reliability, and developer speed.”

“Software engineer with hands-on experience spanning backend APIs, streaming data systems, and cloud/infrastructure automation, who is already using agentic AI workflows in a disciplined way. Stands out for combining practical systems work in Spring Boot, Kafka/Spark/ClickHouse, and Terraform/Kubernetes with a thoughtful approach to AI oversight, architecture, and multi-agent orchestration.”

Shuchi Shah

Screened

Senior Applied AI Engineer specializing in RAG and full-stack systems

San Jose, CA13y exp

“Backend engineer with experience building an end-to-end civic tech AI platform that ingests city council meeting videos, transcribes them with Whisper, and enables natural-language Q&A via a LangChain/FAISS RAG pipeline. Demonstrated strong systems thinking by tuning retrieval for accuracy/latency/memory (cutting response time ~3s→1s and memory ~500MB→25MB) and by safely migrating an ERP from monolith toward services using dual writes, reconciliation, and idempotency to protect financial workflows.”

Sampath achalla

Screened

Mid-level Systems Software Engineer specializing in distributed cloud infrastructure

USA3y exp

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer in fintech/payments who shipped an end-to-end Stripe payments + webhook system for a financial microservices platform, emphasizing ledger accuracy via idempotency, transactional writes, retries, and DLQs. Also delivered a real-time React/TypeScript payment status dashboard informed by user interviews, and improved production performance by 35% p95 latency through PostgreSQL tuning and Redis caching on AWS.”

“Full-stack engineer with deep startup experience building products from scratch under ambiguous requirements. Delivered a scalable, admin-configurable notification platform (Spring Boot/Java/Kafka) supporting 50+ notification types across 3 channels for 10k+ users, cutting new notification setup to ~5 minutes. Also built a Tinder-meets-LinkedIn job-swiping app (React/TS + Node/Prisma) and has hands-on AWS production ops (ECS/EKS, RDS, CloudWatch) plus multiple third-party integrations (Stripe, QuickBooks, Twilio).”

“Senior backend/data engineer who has built and maintained HIPAA-compliant, real-time clinical FastAPI services on AWS, orchestrating ML/LLM and vector DB calls with strong reliability patterns (auth, timeouts/retries, graceful degradation, idempotency). Also delivered AWS IaC/CI-CD (Terraform/Helm/GitHub Actions) across EKS/Lambda/SageMaker and built Glue/Spark ETL with schema evolution and data quality controls, plus demonstrated large SQL performance wins (15 min to <9 sec) and hands-on incident ownership.”

“Owned and stabilized Decathlon e-commerce payment services, taking a prototype reliability effort to production by implementing failure detection/retries, load testing, and DB performance optimizations—reducing payment failures and cart abandonment. Also demonstrates an LLM/agentic workflow support mindset with strong observability, rapid incident diagnosis, and durable prevention via RCA, safeguards, and regression/replay testing, plus experience supporting sales/support with technical reassurance.”

“Unity developer with shipped Meta Quest 2 room-scale VR experience, owning VR architecture (XR Interaction Toolkit/Oculus Integration), core interaction systems (grabbing/UI/locomotion), and Quest performance optimization. Also built a solo mobile puzzle game with star-based difficulty tuning, UI/performance profiling, and progression/replay systems, and uses AI assistants to speed prototyping, debugging, and documentation.”

“Self-taught frontend developer with React/TypeScript project experience and strong QA background. Contributed as a QA tester on a Skunkworks web app by refining large story tickets, defining happy-path/edge test cases, and setting sprint metrics; also improved a legacy PHP web app by modularizing SFTP bulk upload code and enhancing page navigation.”

“Software engineer with hands-on production experience deploying Spring Boot services to AWS using Docker and Jenkins CI/CD, focused on stable releases, easy rollback, and performance improvements through monitoring/logging and query optimization. Has proven cross-layer troubleshooting skills (identified packet loss causing intermittent timeouts via network traces) and experience collaborating on-site with operators in industrial/IoT-style environments, including working alongside robotics/PLC teams.”