Vetted Observability Professionals

“Backend/data platform engineer who owned a FastAPI + Kafka microservice in Verizon’s billing pipeline, handling high-volume usage ingestion/validation/enrichment with strong observability and CI/CD on AWS EKS. Demonstrated measurable performance gains (latency down to ~120–150ms; Kafka throughput +30–40%; DB CPU -25%) and led an on-prem ETL-to-AWS migration using Terraform, parallel validation, and phased cutover with zero downtime.”

“At onedata, built and deployed an LLM-powered, multi-agent analytics platform on AWS Bedrock that lets users create Amazon QuickSight dashboards through natural-language conversation, cutting dashboard build time from ~30 minutes to ~5 minutes. Strong in production concerns (observability, token/cost tracking, model tradeoffs) and in bridging business + technical work, owning pre-sales pitching through delivery with an engineering management background focused on AI product management.”

“Full-stack engineer who built "Workstream AI," an AI-powered engineering visibility product that converts GitHub activity into real-time insights using an event-driven microservices stack (RabbitMQ/Postgres/Express) and GPT-4 with a React frontend. Previously a Founding SWE at a health & wellness startup, building data-driven user management tooling, and also delivered a real-time shuttle tracking/ride request system using Java Spring Boot/Hibernate + React; comfortable owning production deployment details (AWS EC2, DNS, SSL).”

“Built a production LLM-powered workflow at Frontier to extract structured signals from messy, high-volume documents and route work to the right teams, replacing a multi-day, error-prone manual process. Emphasizes production reliability with schema/consistency validation, re-prompting and deterministic fallbacks, plus async pipeline optimizations for predictable latency. Experienced with multi-agent orchestration (LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI) and AWS workflow tooling (Step Functions, SQS, Lambda), and delivered ~70% safe automation via stakeholder-driven thresholds and human review.”

“ML/NLP engineer with hands-on experience building production systems for unstructured insurance claims and customer data linking. Delivered measurable impact at scale (millions of documents), combining transformer-based NLP, vector search (FAISS/Pinecone), and human-in-the-loop validation, and has strong production workflow/observability practices (Airflow, AWS Batch, Grafana/Prometheus).”

“Infrastructure/Platform-focused engineering leader who led a large-scale AWS modernization, standardizing Terraform IaC and embedding security/policy validation into CI/CD to reduce drift and improve auditability. Also delivered data reliability improvements by incrementally migrating key integrations to an event-driven Kafka model with DLQs and lag monitoring, and has hands-on incident leadership using observability tooling (New Relic).”

“Software engineer who shipped an end-to-end internal workforce dashboard at Northwestern Mutual, spanning Spring Boot APIs, PostgreSQL schema/query optimization, and a React + TypeScript UI with role-based access and filtering. Has hands-on production experience deploying via GitHub Actions CI/CD to AWS (Docker, EC2, RDS) and resolving performance incidents by tuning database queries and indexes.”

“Infrastructure/DevOps engineer (Geico) focused on AWS and Kubernetes at production scale. Has hands-on experience building secure GitHub Actions CI/CD for EKS, provisioning core AWS infrastructure with Terraform/CDK, and leading end-to-end incident response with post-incident automation to prevent recurrence; no direct IBM Power/AIX/PowerHA experience.”

“Backend engineer who has shipped both high-throughput real-time systems and production LLM/RAG features. Built a database-free, local-first messaging service (Node/Express/Socket.IO) achieving ~1,500 msgs/sec at <25ms p95, and implemented a Go-based RAG recommendation pipeline with strict JSON/schema validation, catalog grounding, fallbacks, and eval loops that cut hallucinations to ~1–2% while reducing LLM costs ~60%.”

“Backend/platform engineer with Optum experience owning a production FHIR Member Access API aligned to CMS interoperability requirements. Built and scaled Spring Boot/HAPI FHIR microservices on AWS (Docker/Kubernetes) with zero-downtime CI/CD, and operated them with strong observability (Dynatrace, logs/metrics, alerting) and incident response. Also implemented a Kafka-based FHIR bulk data pipeline with schema versioning, idempotent processing, and reliable backfills/replays.”

Aakanksha Desai

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in React, Kubernetes, and AI-powered apps

Scottsdale, Arizona2y exp

“Backend/DevOps-leaning engineer managing multiple customer service platforms end-to-end (requirements through deployment). Built an in-house Python monitoring/alerting solution for Salesforce-to-Java contact sync jobs (Snowflake dependencies) that increased uptime ~60%, and helped modernize delivery by moving the team from manual releases to automated Jenkins-based deployments while coordinating an Oracle EBS→Fusion transition with business/data/IT stakeholders.”

“Built a production AI legal search platform that uses a retrieval-first, source-grounded LLM pipeline with confidence-based fallbacks and structured, traceable outputs to reduce hallucinations and improve trust. Also has experience at Discover Excellence building real-time analytics and identity stitching systems, emphasizing conservative data validation, idempotent processing, and fault-tolerant queue-based workflows.”

Manvi Panjwani

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in cloud, governance automation, and distributed systems

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Governance engineer intern at GSK who built policy-as-code automation using Open Policy Agent/Rego integrated into GitHub CI/CD and Terraform workflows. Also built and shipped a voice-enabled expense tracking app using speech-to-text + LLM structured extraction with strong validation, retries, and semantic guardrails, and designed the supporting PostgreSQL data model with performance-focused indexing.”

Satwika Boppudi

Screened

Mid-level Site Reliability Engineer specializing in AWS cloud and AI-driven backend systems

Houston, TX7y exp

“Backend/AI engineer in healthcare/insurance (mentions Cigna) who has shipped production systems spanning high-reliability APIs, async job architectures (Celery), and LLM/RAG features. Built an LLM document assistant with Terraform-managed AWS infra, semantic search retrieval, and strict permissioning/audit logs, and designed an automated prior-authorization workflow with human-in-the-loop escalation and compliance-driven thresholds.”

Kirill Aristarkhov

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack, AI/ML systems, and game development

Santa Barbara, CA3y exp

“Full-stack engineer (React/TypeScript + Bun/Node-like backend) who recently rebuilt a terminal-based chat UI, implementing custom Markdown lex/parse/render and a typewriter-style streaming renderer while optimizing React DOM growth for ~50% faster performance. Has startup experience making high-ownership decisions under ambiguity and rapidly integrating multiple external AI/tooling services (5–6 in a week) with fallback strategies for flaky dependencies.”

Raj Patel

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs and RAG systems

Remote, USA1y exp

“Production-focused applied ML/LLM engineer who has deployed an LLM-powered RAG assistant and improved reliability through rigorous retrieval evaluation (recall/MRR), reranking, and guardrails that prevent confident wrong answers. Experienced running containerized ML/LLM services on Kubernetes (including AWS-managed layers) with CI/CD and observability, and has delivered a real-time predictive maintenance system using streaming sensor data and time-series anomaly detection in close partnership with maintenance teams.”

Sumanth Gottipati

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and FinTech

New York, NY4y exp

“At Delta Airlines, built and shipped a production LLM-powered semantic search/troubleshooting assistant over maintenance logs and operational documentation using OpenAI embeddings and a vector database. Implemented hybrid ranking, query enrichment, and structured filters to improve relevance ~35% while optimizing latency via caching and vector tuning. Also designed a scalable Kafka + AWS (Lambda/SQS) ingestion pipeline with strong reliability/observability and an eval loop using real engineer queries and human review.”

Damaris Villa González

Screened

Entry Mechatronics Engineering student specializing in robotics and embedded control

Guadalajara, México1y exp

“Hands-on builder with projects spanning IoT/backend data systems and robotics: created a flow meter pipeline that sends readings over WiFi to a database and web server with real-time averaging and easy data download. Also diagnosed a hard-to-catch AGV/AMR reliability issue during long autonomous runs (battery voltage drop causing sensor failures) and mitigated it with voltage monitoring and a buffer circuit; familiar with Python/FastAPI API best practices (Pydantic, async, OAuth2/JWT).”

Srichandan Kota

Screened

Senior Full-Stack AI Engineer specializing in Generative AI and FinTech

Minneapolis, MN6y exp

“Backend engineer who built and owned an AI-powered financial research product end-to-end, using a typed NestJS/GraphQL backend with LangGraph-style agent routing to produce sourced, structured financial analysis. Emphasizes finance-grade correctness (Zod validation, metric registries, unit/empty-result guardrails) while keeping latency low via batching, caching, and fast token streaming, and has led incremental migrations using strangler/feature-flag/shadow traffic patterns.”

Israel Sodano

Screened

Principal/Staff Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and FinTech platforms

São Paulo, Brazil13y exp

“Brazil-based tech leader who helped build Bankly’s end-to-end Banking-as-a-Service platform—delivering a plug-and-play solution in 6 months and architecting for ~5k requests/second; Bankly later became the largest BaaS in Brazil. Also runs a closed, personal-capital private trading group focused on automating investment decisions with AI trading bots, but is currently prioritizing international career growth over entrepreneurship.”

Ruturaj Dixit

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Junior Data Scientist specializing in AI/ML and product analytics

New York, NY2y exp

“Applied ML/data scientist who has owned backend-heavy AI systems end-to-end, including a market-signal platform on FastAPI/AWS and rapid MVP delivery in medical computer vision. Particularly interesting for teams needing someone who can combine model development, backend APIs, production debugging, and pragmatic low-latency architecture decisions.”

Dishank Kailash Oza

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Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure

Santa Clara, CA4y exp

“Engineer with a thoughtful, production-oriented approach to AI-assisted development, including multi-agent workflows for planning, coding, review, testing, and debugging. Stands out for treating AI systems like distributed pipelines with explicit interfaces, validation layers, and guardrails to improve reliability and reduce hallucinations.”

Ramya Sree Kanijam

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems, cloud, and AI pipelines

Remote, USA3y exp

“Built and owned an end-to-end AI-driven content enrichment pipeline for a news workflow, using n8n, LLM agents, and external APIs to automate ingestion, deduplication, categorization, and approval routing. Stands out for production-minded AI systems work: they improved reliability with schema validation, retries, idempotency, and monitoring, while automating 90% of processing and cutting duplication errors by 95%+.”