Vetted Observability Professionals

“Backend-focused Python engineer who builds modular Flask services on AWS and specializes in performance/scalability work across data-heavy APIs. Has concrete wins in query optimization (1.5s to <200ms) and high-throughput async processing (Celery+Redis, ~40% throughput gain), plus experience serving scikit-learn text classification models via containerized REST services and designing multi-tenant data isolation strategies.”

“Full-stack engineer who has owned React/TypeScript + Spring Boot dashboard products end-to-end, including real-time performance/alerts and data aggregation across services. Strong in shipping MVPs quickly with feature flags, automated testing and CI/CD, and using monitoring/click-path analytics to prioritize work—achieved a 40% page-load reduction. Experienced operating microservices with RabbitMQ at scale, addressing retries/idempotency/observability and fixing duplicate-processing incidents with idempotent consumer patterns and DLQs.”

“Built and deployed an enterprise RAG application at Centene to help clinical teams retrieve insights from large internal policy document sets, cutting manual research by 30–40%. Implemented custom domain-adapted embeddings (SageMaker + BERT transfer learning) and hybrid retrieval (BM25 + Pinecone) to drive a 22% relevance lift, and ran the system in production on AWS EKS with CI/CD, MLflow, and Prometheus monitoring (99% uptime, ~40% latency reduction).”

“Full-stack engineer with Deloitte and CrowdDoing experience shipping production web platforms on AWS (EC2/RDS/S3/Fargate) using React/TypeScript and Node/Express/PostgreSQL. Built customer-facing authentication/SSO flows (OAuth2 + JWT) and state-specific US privacy consent workflows, and also delivered a Python/Flask LLM-based finance document parser chatbot with vector DB integration and latency optimizations.”

“IBM Power/AIX infrastructure engineer who owned a very large production estate (12 Power9 E980 frames and 400+ AIX 7.2 LPARs) with deep hands-on expertise in VIOS/vHMC, DLPAR, and PowerHA. Demonstrated strong incident response (zero-downtime DLPAR fix; split-brain prevention during storage failure) and modernization skills spanning Jenkins/Ansible CI/CD and Terraform automation for IBM Power Virtual Server/PowerVC.”

“Data engineer with healthcare/clinical trial domain experience who owned a 100TB+/month AWS pipeline end-to-end (Glue/S3/Redshift/Airflow) and drove measurable outcomes (20% lower latency, 99.9% reliability, 40% less manual reporting). Also built production data services and API-based ingestion on GCP (Cloud Run/Functions/BigQuery) with strong validation, versioning, and safe migration practices, and launched an early-stage RAG solution (LangChain + GPT-4) for researchers.”

“Built and shipped an AI-driven interview evaluation pipeline at SeekOut that automated recruiter screening via a multi-stage LLM agent workflow (.NET backend, RabbitMQ orchestration, Python workers). Emphasizes production-grade reliability (idempotency, retries, strict JSON/schema validation), strong observability with OpenTelemetry, and measurable efficiency gains including ~40% reduction in token usage/cost.”

Ronak Jain

Screened

Mid-level Sensor Fusion Research Engineer specializing in autonomous vehicle perception

Auburn Hills, MI2y exp

“Robotics/perception engineer with experience at Magna International building and scaling a ROS2-based autonomous vehicle sensor-fusion stack from radar+camera to include LiDAR, addressing hard problems like PTP nanosecond synchronization and probabilistic data association. Also developed and deployed a real-time 3D LiDAR object detection pipeline (PointPillars-style) optimized with ONNX/TensorRT and FP16, with strong production bringup/monitoring and rigorous simulation-to-road testing practices.”

Vivekananda Reddy

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Java, React, and AWS

Dallas, TX4y exp

“Backend engineer focused on cloud-native microservices on AWS, owning Python/Flask ingestion services integrated with S3/Lambda and deployed via Docker/Kubernetes with CI/CD. Has led phased migrations from manually managed EC2 setups to automated CloudFormation + pipeline-driven releases, and designed event-driven near-real-time pipelines with idempotency, retry/backoff, and strong observability.”

Eric Guzman

Screened

Senior Solutions Architect specializing in MLOps and AI platform operations

New York, NY7y exp

“Audio/music editor and mixer with Symphony Space promotional work (e.g., Uptown Showdown, Selected Shorts), focused on shaping emotion and pacing through tempo automation, tension-building harmonic choices, and precise cut-to-music timing. Pro Tools certified (Institute of Audio Research) with hands-on mixing workflows across Logic, Reason, and Cubase, and experience iterating based on commercial/producer feedback.”

Sai Nikhil Kanchukatla

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in Golang microservices and IAM/SSO

Dallas, TX6y exp

“Backend engineer with experience at DigitalOcean and BNY Mellon, specializing in secure, highly available authentication and API platforms. Built an enterprise SSO system integrating Okta via OIDC with resilience patterns (gRPC contracts, circuit breakers, Kafka) and strong encryption, and led a careful monolith-to-Golang microservices migration using shadow traffic, dual writes, and feature flags to preserve data integrity.”

Hy Serure

Screened

Executive Technology Leader & Architect specializing in enterprise digital transformation

Oakhurst, NJ29y exp

“Longtime S-Corp founder (20+ years) who evolved from running a web agency to becoming a Shopify expert contracted by agencies/brands to upskill teams and lead enterprise eCommerce builds. Recently built and launched a payment-links/QR-code web app in weeks that gained 20 users on day one without advertising; now looking to pivot toward building a scalable product business not tied to hourly contracting.”

Emmanuel Bakwowi

Screened

Senior DevSecOps Engineer specializing in multi-cloud Kubernetes and CI/CD automation

New York, NY10y exp

“Cloud/DevOps engineer operating across AWS and Azure, running Kubernetes workloads with secure CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps) and Terraform IaC. Has supported AIX/PowerHA systems in hybrid environments—handling failover testing, incident recovery, and performance troubleshooting (including multipath/storage-path issues)—and has led cutovers by managing dependencies, rollback, and stabilization.”

Bhavishyasai Chigurupati

Screened

Mid-Level Data/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and cloud data platforms

Overland Park, KS5y exp

“Built and productionized an LLM-based financial document analysis system using a RAG pipeline, including robust ingestion/chunking/embedding workflows, vector DB retrieval, and an AWS-deployed FastAPI service containerized with Docker. Demonstrates strong applied expertise in improving retrieval quality and latency at scale, plus hands-on experience debugging agentic/LLM workflows with monitoring and trace-based analysis while supporting demos and customer-facing adoption.”

Umair Khokhar

Screened

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in AI Platforms for Enterprise B2B SaaS

San Francisco, CA15y exp

“Technical leader/player-coach who architected and shipped an end-to-end computer vision pricing system for a major North American auto seller, using Go + Ray + AWS SageMaker in a low-latency distributed inference architecture. Strong in production governance (logs/tracing/guardrails/AppSec), reliability incident ownership (DNS limits affecting 20% traffic), and measurable delivery acceleration (deployment cycle 16→4 days; delivery speed 5→2 days) through process optimization and AI-assisted enablement.”

Xin Li

Screened

Staff Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and high-concurrency APIs

Santa Clara, CA17y exp

“Full-stack engineer in an insurance + telematics org who built a 0→1 multi-agent, AI-driven mobile regression execution system integrating Jira and n8n, emphasizing determinism (schema-validated outputs), traceability (state-machine style step archives), and scalable device scheduling. Also designed an event-driven microservices architecture using Kafka with standardized API/event contracts and has hands-on incident response experience improving resilience via rate limiting, circuit breaking, caching, and idempotency.”

Rupini Polavarapu

Screened

Senior DevOps Engineer specializing in AWS cloud infrastructure and CI/CD automation

Atlanta, GA10y exp

“AWS platform/infra engineer with hands-on ownership of EKS cluster lifecycle (upgrades, node scaling, networking/ingress, and EBS-backed stateful storage) and reliability validation using Datadog plus CI/CD smoke tests. Also supported on-prem VMware environments and operated a hybrid on-prem-to-AWS setup over site-to-site VPN, including incident response and implementing change-controlled firewall processes and proactive connectivity health checks.”

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped production RAG copilots and multi-agent workflows, including a real-time Llama3 (Ollama) copilot backend handling 12k+ concurrent queries at 99.9% uptime. Deep on orchestration (Langflow/Airflow/Kubernetes), reliability evaluation (hallucination detection, p95 latency, token cost), and monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana), with demonstrated stakeholder-facing analytics delivery via Tableau.”

TEJASWI GUDIMETLA

Screened

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

North Carolina, USA4y exp

“AI/LLM engineer focused on building reliable, scalable multi-agent and RAG-based pipelines across microservices. Stands out for combining practical experimentation with strong engineering discipline around schema validation, retries, observability, and structured API contracts to make LLM systems production-ready.”

“Built a production AI stylist agent for retail store associates that pulls customer loyalty, address, and purchase-history data to generate in-store product recommendations. Demonstrates hands-on experience across agent orchestration, MCP-based tool integration, Vertex AI/GCP deployment, observability, resilience patterns, and pragmatic production tradeoffs like using PostgreSQL with pgvector instead of a standalone vector database.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on experience building end-to-end data pipelines and Spring Boot services, including systems processing up to 1 million records per day. Demonstrates practical strength in reliability engineering, API versioning, external data ingestion, and early-stage delivery with CI/CD, observability, and pragmatic architecture choices.”

Raj Shrinivasan

Screened

Principal AI Engineer specializing in agentic systems and cloud-native platforms

Cleveland, OH23y exp

“Built a production RAG-powered analytics copilot at Aya Healthcare for operations leaders and analysts on a large healthcare staffing platform processing over a billion telemetry records annually. Stands out for strong production-minded agent engineering: deterministic orchestration, grounding-first design, deep observability, and data-driven workflow changes such as confidence-based human review for a PR review agent.”

“Built an AI-driven trading mentor/analytics system combining a React frontend, Spring Boot backend, and FastAPI ML service for stock risk and indicator analysis. Stands out for a pragmatic approach to AI-assisted development: uses AI for acceleration, but manually reviews code line by line, validates outputs against real market behavior, and adds safeguards for unreliable financial data.”

“Fullstack engineer with strong backend depth who has owned complex digital banking modernization work end-to-end, spanning React UI workflows, Spring Boot microservices, API design, and event-driven integrations. Stands out for balancing technical architecture with user clarity, especially in ambiguous environments where stakeholder feedback reshaped workflows after launch.”