Vetted Kubernetes Professionals

“Built and deployed production LLM applications including a natural-language-to-read-only-SQL system focused on ambiguity handling and query safety (schema whitelisting, intent validation, confidence checks, deterministic execution). Experienced with LangChain-based, modular agent orchestration and RAG document QA for large PDFs, with a metrics-driven testing/evaluation approach and cross-functional delivery with marketing on an AI content recommendation/search tool.”

“Product-minded full-stack engineer with hospitality tech experience who owned and scaled a multi-region guest verification/check-in workflow (ID/passport scanning, OCR, and government submissions) and built internal tools that cut manual entry up to 80%. Also built a React/TypeScript + FastAPI RAG “second brain” with async ingestion workers and an event-driven e-folio email microservice hardened with idempotency and retries.”

“Master’s capstone at Stevens: conceptualized and helped build a cross-platform assistive mobile app for visually impaired users with currency detection (ML), voice-driven AI chatbot (OpenRouter), and a guided navigation video-call feature using a shared room code. Personally implemented Firebase login/sign-in, facial-recognition login, video calling, chatbot integration, and led integration/testing across the full app.”

“Co-op engineer who owned and shipped a Python/Flask backend for automating architecture reviews and system metadata processing, including ingestion from multiple internal APIs, RBAC, testing, and deployment. Has hands-on Kubernetes + GitOps (ArgoCD) experience, built Kafka-based real-time ingestion, and supported a cloud-to-on-prem migration with phased cutover, smoke tests, and performance tuning.”

“Frontend-leaning engineer who shipped an end-to-end map-based discovery feature in a React Native mobile app, integrating location-based REST APIs with strong UX polish (loading/empty/error states) and cross-platform performance fixes. Also has experience building a Python backend with JWT auth and layered service structure, plus prior infrastructure work setting up centralized logging and monitoring.”

Rizwana Shaik

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native apps and AI copilots

Dallas, TX4y exp

“Internship project building and deploying a LLaMA-based, RAG-enabled copilot inside a Professional Services Automation platform, enabling natural-language navigation, text-to-SQL reporting, and project/resource/budget insights across multiple modules. Addressed real production issues like context drift and vague queries with hybrid search, metadata enrichment, and an intent classification/rewriting layer, orchestrated via Apache Airflow—ultimately cutting PMO reporting time by 40%.”

Ahmad Alomari

Screened

Senior Data Scientist & Machine Learning Engineer specializing in computer vision and production ML

Cleveland, OH7y exp

“PhD in computer engineering who has built production-oriented ML/NLP systems for space-weather prediction using Spark-based ETL on noisy satellite sensor logs. Strong in entity resolution and semantic search—fine-tuned E5 embeddings with contrastive learning and deployed to Pinecone, improving top-5 retrieval precision by 25%—and emphasizes scalable, observable pipelines with Airflow, Docker, and CI/CD.”

Ramya Jonnala

Screened

Principal/GenAI Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and MLOps

Plano, TX9y exp

“Built a production AI-powered university marking system that automates question generation and grading from PDF course materials using a RAG pipeline (S3 + Pinecone) orchestrated with LangChain/LangGraph and deployed on AWS ECS via Docker/ECR and GitHub Actions CI/CD. Addressed a key real-world LLM challenge—grading consistency—by implementing rubric-based scoring, retrieval re-ranking, and standardized context summarization, validated against human instructors.”

Tharun Chowdary Malepati

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI, NLP, and production MLOps

5y exp

“AI/LLM engineer who built and deployed a production healthcare RAG chatbot ("DoctorBot") with strict medical safety guardrails, an 85% confidence-gated verification layer, and latency optimizations that cut responses from ~8s to ~2–3s. Also worked on finflow.ai to generate finance/banking test cases from BRDs, collaborating closely with non-technical domain stakeholders, and has hands-on orchestration experience with LangChain/LangGraph and agentic evaluation/monitoring practices.”

“Built and shipped production LLM agents for real-time, high-concurrency conversational systems, including a RAG-based pipeline with dynamic multi-provider routing and failover that achieved 99.99% reliability and sub-800ms latency. Also architected a UAV telemetry chatbot with tool-calling (anomaly detection/summarization), strict schema validation, and robust eval/monitoring loops, cutting tool-call errors by 30% and reducing operational costs by 90%.”

Asad Abdul

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in AI-driven cloud-native applications

Laguna Niguel, CA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with healthcare/ops analytics experience at PatientXpress, shipping a real-time operational dashboard end-to-end (React/TypeScript + Node/Postgres on AWS) that cut manual reporting by 50%. Strong in performance and reliability work—pagination/caching, Postgres indexing/partitioning, Terraform-based AWS provisioning, CI/CD with GitHub Actions, and production incident response with improved monitoring (CloudWatch/Prometheus).”

Teja Puvvula

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in web apps, cloud, and data integrations

Florida, USA3y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong production ownership across frontend, backend, and cloud ops. Led an AdTech “Status Centre” initiative at Beautiful Code that automated DSP integrations (XML/SOAP/REST) and reduced manual work by 90%+, using an event-driven architecture with retries and OTEL/Datadog observability. Also built and hosted a MERN app (Onegrad), load-tested with k6, and has experience running large migrations (~8k users) with validation and alerting.”

Tim Kwok

Screened

Senior DevOps Engineer specializing in multi-region AWS/GCP cloud infrastructure

United States8y exp

“Backend/data engineer with strong AWS production experience spanning FastAPI microservices and large-scale data pipelines. Has delivered containerized Python services on EKS with Terraform/Helm/GitHub Actions, implemented robust auth/secrets practices, and owned ETL reliability (Glue/S3/Redshift) including incident response and idempotent reruns. Demonstrated SQL tuning on 50M-record ETL workloads to remove SLA misses and improve reliability.”

Charmi Dharmendrakumar Parmar

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and cloud-native systems

Alpharetta, GA4y exp

“Backend/full-stack engineer who owned a cloud-native, AWS-based microservices backend for an HRIS product used by ~10,000 users, including onboarding and workflow orchestration. Strong production focus on event-driven architecture, idempotency/retries, observability, and developer-friendly API design (OpenAPI, versioning, JWT), plus hands-on Selenium automation for resilient checkout-style flows.”

Vincent Camp

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in .NET, Unity, and simulation systems

Dalgren, VA10y exp

“Unity/C# simulation developer with 6 years in government/contractor environments, including ownership of multi-million-dollar Navy training sims. He led architecture and delivery of a complex FPS-style educational simulation tracking over 500,000 components, optimized to run on constrained VR/Android hardware and still in active use today.”

“AI/ML engineer with hands-on experience owning production deployments from discovery through post-launch stabilization, including real-time computer vision/OCR systems and LLM-powered RAG workflows. Stands out for translating messy customer workflows into reliable backend services, debugging non-deterministic retrieval issues, and hardening AI systems with validation, monitoring, and human-review fallbacks.”

“Full-stack engineer who has owned both institutional and personal products end-to-end, including Rutgers' myCommunity platform used by 70,000+ students. Particularly strong in production systems, data synchronization, authentication, and third-party API integrations, with a pragmatic approach to shipping, observability, and UI modernization.”

“AI/ML engineer with 9+ years of experience building production recommendation and LLM systems end-to-end, from experimentation through deployment, monitoring, and retraining. Stands out for combining strong MLOps discipline with practical GenAI/RAG implementation, including measurable impact such as ~25% higher engagement on an e-commerce recommender and nearly 30% faster knowledge retrieval from internal documents.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong AWS operations experience who helped replace a long-standing manual logistics reporting process by building a production-grade, event-driven On-Time-Performance rules system. Personally owned the Vue-based rule configuration frontend end-to-end (design collaboration through QA/UAT and post-release support) and measures success via accuracy validation against historical data, reduced manual adjustments/tickets, and system latency/error metrics.”

Emma Choudhary

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Python, Django, and Generative AI

United States6y exp

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building partner-facing Python APIs (FastAPI, Celery, Postgres/Redis) and AWS serverless data platforms (Lambda, SQS, Step Functions, Glue). Emphasizes reliability and governance—JWT tenant-scoped auth, secrets/config hygiene, data-quality quarantine, and incident ownership—plus measurable SQL tuning that eliminated timeouts and stabilized reporting workloads.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on experience building healthcare and fraud-detection systems from experimentation through deployment, monitoring, and retraining. Stands out for combining real-time IoT pipelines, cloud-native MLOps, and GenAI/RAG in regulated healthcare settings, with reported impact including reduced emergency response times and a 25% reduction in manual diagnosis time.”

“Cloud infrastructure/DevOps engineer focused on AWS/Azure production environments, with hands-on experience running EKS-based platforms, Terraform-driven IaC, and secure Jenkins/GitLab CI pipelines. Has led real-world migrations from EC2 to Kubernetes using blue/green cutovers and executed multi-AZ failover testing with documented same-day recovery and no data loss; does not have direct IBM Power/AIX ownership experience.”