Vetted Observability Professionals

Venkat Palaparthi

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and secure enterprise platforms

Dallas, TX6y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong production ownership in banking/identity & entitlements systems, building Spring Boot + Postgres/Redis services and React dashboards, then deploying on AWS EKS with Jenkins CI/CD. Demonstrated impact through reduced authorization latency and fewer access-related support tickets, plus strong observability and reliability practices (CloudWatch, tracing, autoscaling, Kafka pipelines with DLQs and reconciliation).”

Abhishek Saraswat

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in Java backend microservices

Arlington, TX4y exp

“Backend/distributed-systems engineer focused on automation and near-real-time processing, building Java/Spring Boot microservices with Kafka, PostgreSQL, and AWS. Strong in scaling and reliability work—debugging tricky asynchronous messaging issues (delays, duplicates, out-of-order events) and improving resilience/observability with retries, fallbacks, logging, and monitoring. No production ROS/ROS2 experience yet, but has studied core ROS concepts and draws clear parallels to event-driven architectures.”

“Data-focused engineer who has built near real-time trending news sentiment pipelines end-to-end (API/web ingestion, validation, transformations, and dashboard serving) and implemented reliability patterns like retries with exponential backoff and backfills. Also shipped Java/Spring Boot REST APIs backed by SQL with indexing/pagination, and stood up an early-stage QR-based attendance MVP using Firebase with iterative hardening via logging and validation.”

“Product-minded full-stack engineer focused on internal operations tooling, with hands-on ownership across React/TypeScript, serverless APIs, and Postgres. They combine UX simplification with deep performance and reliability work, citing a transaction-exception workflow redesign that cut task completion time by roughly 25%, and they’ve also built multi-tenant configurable systems with strong guardrails.”

“Built a Python pipeline to monitor and classify public posts from sources like Hacker News and Reddit for SWE/tech job opportunities, with a strong focus on reliability, observability, and recoverable failures. Also currently building a court queueing system for the UCSD Badminton Club, showing an ability to turn messy, informal real-world processes into practical automation through iterative user feedback.”

“AI/ML engineer at MRI Software focused on taking LLM and RAG systems from prototype to reliable production. Notable work includes an AI automation system for migrating 1200+ legacy pages with 75-80% manual effort reduction, plus enterprise document-querying and reusable Python LLM infrastructure that cut lookup time by 70% and improved team velocity by 30-40%.”

Phani K

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI, NLP, and healthcare-financial ML

Terre Haute, IN4y exp

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on experience shipping healthcare AI systems, including an oncology risk prediction platform and RAG-based clinical decision support tools. Stands out for combining clinical domain context with strong production engineering across Spark, FastAPI, AWS SageMaker, monitoring, evaluation, and safety guardrails.”

Apoorv Bankey

Screened

Mid-level Backend Engineer specializing in distributed systems and FinTech

New York City, NY6y exp

“Engineer who uses AI and multi-agent workflows as a force multiplier while keeping architecture, security, scalability, and production quality under human control. Shared a concrete example of accelerating a backend-heavy SaaS email ingestion platform with authentication, role-based APIs, database models, and deployment setup using agent-style development and review.”

“Automation-focused engineer with hands-on experience building production Python integrations, maintaining 60+ Jenkins pipelines across six product lines, and hardening CI systems in real-world environments. Most notably, they turned a tribal-knowledge Windows server maintenance process into a production workflow across nine servers, saving about 500 engineering hours annually.”

“Full-stack engineer with end-to-end ownership of a production customer plan activation and account management flow at T-Mobile, spanning Java/Spring Boot APIs, React frontend, and Docker-based CI/CD deployments. Demonstrated performance/scalability work (query optimization, indexing, caching) and measured success via improved retrieval speed and reduced support tickets.”

KUSHWANTH MUTHYALA

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in FinTech

Irvine, CA6y exp

“Engineer with hands-on experience building and deploying end-to-end ML inference pipelines using SageMaker, TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, and Kafka-backed real-time data systems. Brings a strong distributed-systems mindset and has already operated in a tech lead capacity through architecture decisions, code reviews, and cross-functional coordination. Especially compelling for teams building production AI/ML platforms that need both practical execution and sound engineering judgment.”

“Early-career engineer who built and launched a zero-to-one AI-driven approval workflow at SDSU that is used daily by roughly 2,000 university users. They owned the system end-to-end—from FastAPI/PostgreSQL backend to React UI—and showed strong judgment around LLM reliability, using a two-step pipeline, validation checks, and human-review fallbacks to cut manual processing time by about 80%.”

Yogita Adari

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in generative and multimodal systems

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Built and productionized an agentic LLM automation system for an insurance client to determine medication eligibility, using prompt-chaining plus a RAG pipeline over policy rules and deploying on AWS (Lambda/Step Functions, Bedrock) with a serverless architecture. Addressed major data/schema mismatch issues via a semantic matching pipeline and validated performance through human agreement scoring, A/B testing, KPI monitoring, and confidence-based human-in-the-loop review.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who has shipped both enterprise workflow software and AI-powered document intelligence products. Stands out for combining practical product judgment with strong production debugging skills across Spring Boot, GraphQL, FastAPI, vector search, and RAG systems, and for improving adoption by making AI search experiences intuitive for non-technical users.”

“Full-stack and AI product engineer who has shipped both operational SaaS and LLM-powered research tools to production. Built a dispatch optimization system at Quickflora that cut manual effort by ~50%, and also developed grounded RAG and agentic systems using tools like LlamaIndex, Gemini, pgvector, and FastAPI with a strong emphasis on citations, reliability, and practical user workflows.”

“New grad software engineer with hands-on experience building production full-stack analytics infrastructure during a Swiftwise AI internship and independently shipping AI products. Stands out for combining strong TypeScript/React/backend fundamentals with practical RAG and agent-building experience, including a poker coaching assistant built solo from ingestion and retrieval through prompt tuning and evaluation.”

Kinjal Patel

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and FinTech

Austin, TX7y exp

“Backend/full-stack engineer with hands-on experience building a core consent management service for an open banking platform using Spring Boot microservices, Kafka, Redis, and secure REST APIs. Stands out for combining domain knowledge in financial data sharing and consent controls with practical system design that improved customer self-service and reduced support dependency.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong banking/financial-platform experience, spanning React/Angular frontends, Spring Boot microservices, Kafka, and secure API design. They’ve built high-volume transaction systems handling 40,000+ daily requests and also owned an AI-driven search/recommendation feature that improved search relevance by 20% and adoption by 12%.”

Joshua Newell

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in embedded systems and secure communications

Remote, USA14y exp

“Engineer with experience in defense and aerospace-adjacent software, including serving as lead engineer on an SBIR contract for a Space Force warfighter communication system. Has hands-on full-stack experience improving a flight test sensor management application with React, Perl, and Oracle SQL, plus recent systems work in Rust observability and Go-based secure communications integration.”

“Full-stack engineer who shipped a production "Financial Insight" assistant dashboard in Next.js App Router/TypeScript, integrating a RAG pipeline (embeddings + ChromaDB + LLM) via route handlers and owning post-launch performance (latency, token cost, retrieval relevance). Also built/optimized Postgres-backed workflows for an outbound dialer and callback routing engine handling ~10,000 daily contacts, validating query performance with EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS).”

Sri Teja

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in LLM systems and enterprise data platforms

Phoenix, AZ5y exp

“Built and owned key parts of Ripley, an AI-powered multi-agent operations platform for roadside assistance that automates high-volume customer service workflows at production scale. They designed the orchestration, evaluation, monitoring, and enterprise integrations, helping drive 70-80% automation and ~99% reliability across thousands of weekly interactions and millions of annual requests.”

“Frontend engineer with deep Angular and TypeScript expertise who spent about 1.5 years building a sophisticated rewards-program UI for a Fortune 500 financial services client serving over a million cardholders. Stands out for combining large-scale UI architecture, performance optimization, and nuanced state-driven UX thinking, with hands-on debugging experience in RxJS and strong opinions on type safety.”

“Backend engineer with deep experience building and evolving financial-services workflow systems where correctness, data integrity, and reliable state transitions outweigh raw throughput. Emphasizes idempotent, contract-driven FastAPI APIs with defense-in-depth security (JWT + row-level security) and careful, low-blast-radius migrations using feature flags, dual writes/shadow reads, and incremental rollout.”

“Backend engineer who built and launched a warehouse locations/inventory microservice for Walmart, supporting a new product rollout with on-call war-room ownership and now running across all US distribution centers. Emphasizes reliability and correctness (background syncs, 2PC concepts, alerting) plus design-first API development in Python/FastAPI with OAuth/JWT and RBAC, and has led staged legacy-to-microservice migrations with continuous data integrity verification.”