Vetted Observability Professionals

Tony Barreto

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in modern web apps

San Francisco, CA5y exp

“Product-focused full-stack builder who has shipped and operated multiple production apps from scratch, including an e-commerce bakery delivery scheduler (with concurrency controls and timezone handling) and a real-time passenger music-request system for Lyft rides that hit and resolved YouTube API rate-limit scaling issues via debouncing and caching. Strong in React+TypeScript and Node.js/TypeScript backends, with solid PostgreSQL/PostGIS data modeling and performance tuning.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM hallucination detection and monitoring pipeline using semantic-level entropy (embedding-clustered multi-generation variance) to flag unreliable outputs in downstream automation. Implemented a scalable async architecture (FastAPI + Docker + Redis/Celery) with strong observability (structured logs + PostgreSQL) and developed evaluation loops combining controlled prompts and human review; also partnered with non-technical stakeholders on AI-driven form validation/document processing.”

“Built and productionized a real-time social-media sentiment analysis system used by a marketing team to monitor brand/campaign performance. Experienced in orchestrating LLM workflows with LangChain (validation → prompting → parsing → post-processing), plus monitoring, retraining, and RAG-style retrieval using embeddings/vector stores to keep outputs reliable over time.”

Akash Mishra

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Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in ETL pipelines on GCP

Miami, Florida5y exp

“Full-stack engineer from Larix Technologies who led a Next.js migration feature: an internal real-time workflow status dashboard built with App Router/TypeScript using server components for initial render and client polling for live updates. Demonstrates strong post-launch ownership—monitoring latency/error rates, adding caching and payload reductions, and optimizing Postgres queries/indexes—plus experience building durable RabbitMQ-based message routing workflows with idempotency, retries, and dead-letter queues.”

Shehab mohamed mohamed

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Junior AI Engineer specializing in MLOps, LLMs, and multi-agent systems

Cairo, Egypt2y exp

“ML/AI engineer focused on production-grade systems, with experience building a low-latency multi-agent 'neural concierge' booking platform used across domains like restaurants and hospitals. Also worked on a healthcare computer vision system for nystagmus/eye-movement analysis, showing a mix of scalable LLM infrastructure, MLOps, and safety-conscious medical AI experience.”

sajda kabir

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI, voice, and full-stack product engineering

Kolkata, India2y exp

“Product-minded full-stack engineer from SuperU who built AI voice-agent infrastructure end-to-end, from React/TypeScript campaign UIs to a forked n8n orchestration backend and Postgres multi-tenant data model. Stands out for shipping quickly in ambiguous startup environments, debugging deep reliability issues across layers, and delivering measurable gains like activation rising from 20% to 70%+ and call drops falling below 0.5%.”

“IBM Power/AIX engineer who has owned a large production estate (20+ Power9/Power10 frames and 400+ LPARs) with vHMC and dual-VIOS HA. Has hands-on incident recovery experience (NPIV/RMC issues, LPM restores) and PowerHA failovers, plus modern DevOps exposure using Terraform on AWS and CI/CD with GitHub Actions/Jenkins (including deploying AI/RAG and vision workloads).”

“Backend/AI engineer who built and refactored a production RAG system over IRS Form 990 filings for 60 nonprofits, using a dual-path architecture (deterministic financial ranking + TF-IDF semantic retrieval) to keep latency sub-2s and reduce hallucinations. Demonstrates strong API craftsmanship in FastAPI (contract-first, OpenAPI-driven) plus production-grade security for multi-tenant systems (JWT, RBAC, Supabase-style RLS) and careful migration practices (feature flags, traffic mirroring, incremental rollout).”

“Built and productionized LLM-powered workflows that generate contextual insights from structured financial data, including prompt/retrieval design, data standardization, and reliability controls like rate limiting and batching. Also diagnosed and fixed real-time failures in an automated order validation system using logs/metrics, staging reproduction, edge-case handling, retries, and alerting, while supporting sales/customer teams with demos, scripts, and FAQs to drive adoption.”

Iskhak Ishmakhametov

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Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and real-time systems

Bellevue, WA7y exp

“Full-stack product engineer with a strong real-time systems focus: built and rolled out a WebSocket-based notifications system (with robust reconnect/resync and event ordering protections) that cut update latency to under 200ms. Also owned a workflow automation platform backend in FastAPI (JWT/RBAC, versioned APIs, standardized errors), designed the PostgreSQL schema for workflows/tasks/executions, and operated deployments on AWS ECS Fargate with blue-green CI/CD and performance stabilization via caching and autoscaling.”

HarshelSrivatsava Srivatsava

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Intern Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI-powered SaaS products

Birmingham, AL1y exp

“Solo builder of OGym, shipping production AI features for gyms that turn member behavior/health data (workouts, attendance, nutrition, payments, device metrics) into prioritized, actionable owner and member insights. Designed and implemented FastAPI backends, PostgreSQL-based RAG workflows, guardrails (RBAC/validation/rate limiting), and real-user evaluation loops, with a strong focus on latency/cost optimization and reliable data pipelines.”

Haneesh Kapa

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Junior AI Full-Stack Engineer specializing in LLM automations and RAG systems

Nashua, NH2y exp

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered customer support assistant using a Python/FastAPI backend with RAG (embeddings + vector search) over internal docs and product/operational data. Instrumented the system with logging/metrics and ran continuous eval loops; post-launch improvements focused on retrieval quality (chunking/ranking) and performance/cost tradeoffs (query classification, caching, validation guardrails).”

“Backend engineer with production ERP experience deploying microservices and improving performance/reliability using a metrics-driven approach (logs, latency, error rates). Has hands-on cloud/hybrid operations across AWS and Azure with Docker/Kubernetes, and has resolved real-world mobile sync issues by tuning timeouts/retries and reducing payload sizes. Builds configurable Python services to deliver customer-specific behavior without destabilizing the core codebase.”

“Machine learning lab assistant at Eastern Illinois University who productionized a voice-enabled conversational AI system: redesigned it with RAG, LoRA fine-tuning (including text-to-SQL), and safety guardrails, then deployed a scalable API supporting ~1,000 daily queries. Also partnered with customer-facing teams during a BlueFi internship by building demos/APIs and accelerating releases via Terraform + AWS CI/CD automation.”

“Software engineer with demonstrated production performance wins (37% latency reduction) through SQL optimization, backend API redesign, and disciplined rollout practices (staging, feature flags). Experienced debugging distributed pipeline issues across infrastructure layers (memory pressure and network timeouts) and building AWS-based systems (Lambda + RDS) to handle request spikes, including work on a business-focused chatbot.”

“Backend Python engineer who owned a real-time manufacturing insights streaming service, building FastAPI async microservices with Kafka-style queue buffering, batching/backpressure, and a low-latency snapshot store. Led a serverless-to-Kubernetes (EKS) migration at UGenomeAi using GitOps-style GitHub Actions pipelines, standardized config/secrets, and improved deployment consistency with pinned dependencies and multi-stage Docker builds.”

“ML/NLP engineer who has built production systems end-to-end: a real-time recommendation platform (100k+ profiles) using BERTopic-style clustering and a RAG-based news summarization/recommendation stack with ChromaDB. Strong focus on scaling and reliability (GPU batching, Redis caching, Kafka ingestion, Docker/Kubernetes, Prometheus/Grafana) and on maintaining model quality over time via drift monitoring and retraining triggers.”

“Full-stack system analyst/programmer at PeakPlay Sports (startup) who built an AI "coach" product end-to-end in ~2 months, using a LangGraph-orchestrated multi-agent architecture with a FastAPI backend. Shipped production RAG grounded in athlete history (OpenAI embeddings + vector store) with guardrails and a structured eval loop (golden set + LLM-judge + human review) to improve engagement and reduce hallucinations.”

Dhwani Patel

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Mid-level Full-Stack Python Developer specializing in AI/ML and backend APIs

BC, Canada15y exp

“Python/Django backend engineer with open-source experience upgrading Archivematica to Django 4.2 LTS, including resolving a tricky breaking change in datetime parsing by implementing a preservation-safe legacy timestamp conversion layer. Also built a cost-efficient, reproducible Small Language Model (Microsoft Phi-3) fine-tuning pipeline that turns CSV product data into a domain-specific searchable Q&A chatbot, with emphasis on memory optimization and overfitting prevention.”

SaiDheerajReddy Gadikota

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

USA, USA4y exp

“Current AI engineer at a startup who has spent the last year architecting multi-agent systems for software development workflows. Stands out for combining LLM speed with engineering discipline—using tools like Pydantic, LangGraph, and LangChain to build reliable, production-ready agent workflows with validation, routing, and retry logic.”

“Research Analyst at Syracuse who deployed an LLM-powered lab automation system allowing researchers to run QCoDeS instrument workflows via natural language, with strong safety guardrails for real instruments and multi-instrument support. Also collaborated with non-technical stakeholders at iConsult on an audio classification/recommendation pipeline, translating business goals into metrics and Tableau dashboards with model comparisons and A/B test results.”