Vetted Kubernetes Professionals

“LLM/agentic workflow engineer with hands-on experience turning demo-grade LLM analytics into production-ready features by tackling tail latency, observability, and cost/reliability controls. Strong at diagnosing real-time customer incidents via trace-driven debugging across retrieval, tool calls, retries, and prompt/version metadata, and frequently partners with sales as a technical lead to de-risk enterprise pilots through transparent failure-mode walkthroughs.”

“Backend engineer focused on multi-tenant enterprise AI personalization and recommendation platforms, combining ML/LLM intent extraction with deterministic policy guardrails for compliance and auditability. Has hands-on AWS experience (ECS/Lambda/DynamoDB/S3) and led a careful DynamoDB single-table migration using dual write/read, canary + feature-flag rollouts, and strong observability/security (JWT/OAuth2, RBAC, Postgres RLS).”

“Built an AI journaling app at HackCU 2025 featuring a speaking AI avatar with long-term memory via RAG (ChromaDB) and low-latency microservices coordinated through Kafka, including deployment under AMD/non-CUDA constraints using a quantized Llama 8B model. Also has Goldman Sachs experience deploying a Trade UI on Kubernetes with CI/CD rollback automation, plus a healthcare AI internship at CU Anschutz collaborating closely with physicians on diagnostic reasoning and dataset annotation.”

“Capital One engineer focused on fraud and payments platforms, owning end-to-end services and internal tools used by fraud analysts. Built high-traffic Kafka/REST systems and real-time React/TypeScript dashboards (WebSockets, Redis), with strong emphasis on observability, idempotency, and scalable microservices. Successfully drove adoption of AI-assisted fraud classification by pairing transparency and manual overrides with measurable workflow improvements.”

“Built and deployed an enterprise GenAI knowledge assistant over thousands of internal PDFs/reports using a RAG stack (GPT-4 + Hugging Face embeddings + vector DB) to reduce manual search and SME escalations. Uses LangGraph/LangChain to orchestrate modular agent workflows with relevance filtering and fallback handling, and applies rigorous evaluation (golden datasets, edge cases, A/B tests) with production monitoring metrics.”

“AI/LLM engineer with production experience at Charles Schwab building a RAG-based assistant to help 5,000+ reps answer complex financial policy questions. Implemented a multi-layer anti-hallucination approach (GNN-driven ontology/graph retrieval + citation-only answers) and compliance-focused guardrails (Azure AI Content Safety) in partnership with audit/compliance stakeholders.”

“Software engineer at Capital One who owned and shipped AI-driven personalization and internal insights dashboards end-to-end, emphasizing fast iteration with feature flags and tight user feedback loops. Built a TypeScript/React + Spring Boot/Python document automation platform with compute-heavy NLP microservices, async workflows, and production-scale reliability/performance practices (Kafka/RabbitMQ-style queues, Redis caching, tracing).”

“AI/ML engineer currently at BlackRock who deployed an AI-powered sentiment analysis microservice into a task management platform to prioritize and escalate high-risk/frustrated tickets from free-text comments. Experienced running production microservices on AWS EKS with Docker/Kubernetes/Helm and provisioning infrastructure via Terraform, with strong MLOps rigor (MLflow evaluation pipelines, canary rollouts, and real-time monitoring) and cross-functional collaboration with product/operations.”

“Interned at Zonda where he built an AI-driven semantic search solution over ~280M housing/builder records. Iterated from local LLMs via llama.cpp quantization to a vector-embedding retrieval system, then boosted semantic accuracy with a custom spaCy NER layer and re-ranking, optimizing for latency through precomputation. Collaborated with economics-focused stakeholders to reduce manual document/paperwork time by enabling natural-language search over internal data.”

“Engineer with banking and industrial/IoT experience who has deployed a payment-processing microservice with zero downtime, handling Protobuf schema evolution and sensitive data migration via dual-write/checksum techniques. Demonstrates strong cross-stack troubleshooting (pinpointed intermittent distributed timeouts to a failing ToR switch port) and customer-facing Python ETL customization using plugin-based parsers and Pydantic validation, plus hands-on monitoring/alerting improvements with operators.”

“ML/AI engineer with Capital One experience building production-grade customer segmentation and fraud detection systems combining NLP (transformers) and anomaly detection. Strong MLOps and orchestration background (PySpark ETL, MLflow, Airflow, Docker/Kubernetes, Azure ML) with real-time monitoring/alerting and performance optimizations like quantization and caching, plus proven ability to deliver business-facing insights through Power BI/Tableau for marketing stakeholders.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-powered PDF document Q&A system to eliminate manual searching through long documents, focusing on scalability and answer reliability. Implemented semantic chunking (using headings/paragraphs/tables), overlap, and preprocessing/quality checks to reduce hallucinations, and orchestrated the end-to-end pipeline with Airflow using retries, alerts, and parallel tasks.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered internal documentation assistant using embeddings, a vector database, and a RAG pipeline to reduce time spent searching PDFs/manuals. Experienced in orchestrating end-to-end LLM workflows with Airflow/LangChain, improving reliability via monitoring/error handling, and driving measurable quality through retrieval and hallucination-focused evaluation metrics.”

“Full-stack engineer with primary depth in .NET Core and Python who has built and deployed end-to-end AWS applications (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudFront) and supported them in production. Experienced in scaling large, data-driven workloads using queues/background workers, batching, and database tuning, with strong focus on API contracts, observability, and resilience patterns; also has hands-on React/TypeScript and some Spring Boot exposure.”

“Backend engineer at Goldman Sachs who built LLM-powered reconciliation/reporting services and high-throughput Kafka pipelines (8M+ events/day). Strong in production-grade Python/FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes with GitOps-style CI/CD, plus experience migrating legacy reporting/settlement services onto an internal Kubernetes platform using shadow deployments and gradual cutovers.”

“AI/ML engineer with experience at Accenture and Morgan Stanley, building production LLM systems (GPT-3 summarization) and finance-focused ML models (credit risk and trading anomaly detection). Combines MLOps depth (Docker/Kubernetes, AWS SageMaker/Glue/Lambda, MLflow, A/B testing, drift monitoring) with practical domain adaptation techniques like few-shot prompting and RAG/knowledge-base integration.”

“Full-stack engineer with 3+ years using Java/Spring Boot (Citi) and React, who built a production observability dashboard monitoring 53 microservices across 17 clusters with real-time health/latency tracing and significant performance improvements (cut load time from ~10s). Also designed a serverless AWS face-recognition system (Lambda/S3/SQS) built to handle burst traffic (~1000 concurrent requests), demonstrating strength in scalable, event-driven architectures.”

“AI/ML engineer with production LLM experience in regulated financial services (J.P. Morgan Chase), building a customer response engine to automate first-contact resolution while addressing privacy, bias, compliance, and scale. Strong MLOps/orchestration background (Airflow, Docker/Kubernetes, AWS Step Functions, Azure ML/SageMaker) plus proven ability to integrate with legacy systems and drive stakeholder adoption through dashboards, auditability, and training.”

“GenAI Engineer at Infosys who built and deployed a production multi-agent RAG system for a top-tier bank, scaling to ~50,000 queries/day with 99.9% uptime. Drove measurable gains (45% accuracy improvement, 30% API cost reduction) through open-source LLM fine-tuning, Pinecone indexing/retrieval optimization, and AWS-based MLOps/monitoring, and has experience enabling adoption via developer workshops and customer-facing collaboration.”

“Engineering leader/CTO-type with deep experience building and scaling a vehicle routing platform at Transdev On Demand, including a nationwide rollout to 22 US airports ahead of schedule. Drove engineering best practices (CI/CD, high test coverage, pair programming, automated deployments) and led a multi-tenant architectural upgrade to expand the routing engine to additional business lines and external customers.”

“Healthcare/clinical ML practitioner who built and productionized ClinicalBERT-based pipelines to extract and standardize oncology EHR data, improving downstream model F1 from 0.81 to 0.92 while controlling training cost via LoRA/QLoRA. Experienced orchestrating real-time AWS ETL/ML workflows (Glue, Lambda, SageMaker) and partnering with clinicians using SHAP-based interpretability, contributing to an 18% reduction in readmissions and full adoption.”

“McKinsey data/ML practitioner who led production deployment of an entity resolution + semantic search platform for unstructured finance and healthcare data, integrating with legacy systems under HIPAA constraints. Deep hands-on stack across transformers (spaCy/HF BERT), embeddings + FAISS, and production MLOps/workflow tooling (Airflow, Docker, CI/CD, Prometheus/Grafana), with reported gains of +30% decision speed and +25% search relevance.”

“Backend engineer who built and owned an AI-powered SMS survey platform for a nonprofit serving at-risk communities (internet-limited users), using Cloudflare Workers + Twilio and a state-machine survey engine. Scaled it to ~10k active users with near-zero downtime, added English/Spanish support, and iteratively improved LLM behavior (Claude 3.7 Sonnet) to handle nuanced, real-world SMS responses reliably.”

“Full-stack engineer with end-to-end ownership experience, including building a real-time campaign/inventory dashboard at P&G using React/TypeScript, Spring Boot, GraphQL/REST, Redis, Docker, and AWS (EC2/RDS/S3) with Prometheus/Grafana observability. Demonstrates strong performance and reliability focus (p95 tuning, caching, idempotent event-driven ingestion with DLQs/reconciliation) and has shipped MVPs in ambiguous early-stage environments.”