Vetted Observability Professionals

Chitra Uppalapati

Screened

Entry-level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and machine learning applications

Sunnyvale, CA1y exp

“Built production Python data integrations and dashboard automation for incident analytics, with a strong focus on data quality, observability, and reliability for leadership-facing reporting. Also translated an ambiguous manual creator evaluation process at startup Spring into an automated predictive scoring feature, showing a blend of backend data engineering, test automation, and cross-functional product thinking.”

Devika gade

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in FinTech and cloud-native applications

Remote, USA4y exp

“Full stack developer with strong implementation ownership across cloud deployments, integrations, and AI-powered support automation. They have put LLM/RAG workflows into production with measurable impact—cutting first response time by nearly 40%—and show unusual depth in debugging non-deterministic AI incidents, improving observability, and turning messy document inputs into reliable API-driven pipelines.”

Arjun Kulkarni

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI, LLM systems, and healthcare applications

San Francisco, CA3y exp

“Product-minded full-stack engineer with experience improving performance, UX, and platform architecture across startups including SideShift, Curator, Congruence, and work on an AI coding assistant called Exec. Stands out for cutting messaging-system Redis traffic by roughly 95%, redesigning user flows for faster adoption, and building reusable multi-tenant systems and cross-platform APIs without over-abstracting.”

“Healthcare data platform builder with experience at Aetion delivering a rule-based EMR/EHR ingestion and validation framework that cut onboarding from 8–10 weeks to hours and unlocked $30M+ in revenue over ~3 years. Motivated to found an AI/agent-driven healthcare solution, with a specific interest in using PET scans, doctor notes, and treatment data with LLMs to help predict cancer progression and guide next-step treatments.”

“LLM engineer who has deployed privacy-preserving, real-time workplace risk monitoring over massive enterprise chat/email streams, tackling latency, hallucinations, and extreme class imbalance with model benchmarking, RAG + fine-tuning, and a pre-filter alerting layer. Also built an agentic legal contract drafting system (Jurisagent) using LangGraph/LangChain with deterministic multi-agent control flow, structured outputs, and reliability-focused evaluation/telemetry.”

“Built a production LLM-powered analyst assistant at Discern Security to speed up SOC investigations using a RAG pipeline over security vendor documentation (Python PDF ingestion, vector search). Demonstrates deep, security-critical LLM engineering: structure-aware chunking with custom table parsing, grounded/cited responses, prompt-injection defenses, and post-generation validation, validated via golden datasets and adversarial testing; tool is used daily by analysts.”

“Software engineer who owned customer-facing, high-traffic TypeScript/React + TypeScript backend systems end-to-end, emphasizing safe velocity through feature flags, staged rollouts, observability, and rollback-ready incremental delivery. Reports shipping more frequently with fewer production incidents and faster recovery due to these guardrails.”

“Full-stack engineer (~4 years) who has owned and shipped customer-facing SaaS onboarding and a role-based real-time analytics dashboard using TypeScript/React with a modular backend. Experienced in microservices with RabbitMQ and strong observability practices (correlation IDs, structured logging, queue metrics), and built an internal deployment tracker integrated with CI/CD that replaced manual spreadsheet/Slack processes.”

“Backend engineer focused on cloud/distributed systems, deploying Java 17/Spring Boot microservices on AWS EKS with RDS and Kafka. Demonstrated strong production readiness work (DB lock mitigation, Kafka idempotency, gradual rollouts) and delivered a major latency improvement (~400ms to ~100ms). Also has proven cross-layer troubleshooting skills, isolating intermittent API timeouts to a specific Kubernetes node’s network interface issue, and partners closely with ops teams to build dashboards and workflow automation (including Python scripts).”

“Engineering leader who has led 100+ engineers at Sainsbury’s Tech and previously scaled an org from 6 to 60+ at AND Digital. Drove a high-impact modernization of a pricing/decisioning platform serving 1,700 stores—moving from batch monolith to real-time Kafka-based event-driven microservices with MLOps, IaC (Terraform), and zero-trust—delivering £18m+ annual profit uplift and 10+ deploys/day.”

“Engineering leader who drove the conception, PRD, architecture, and delivery of MaxCDN’s next-generation CDN platform ("E2"), including control plane work, hardware deployment planning, and observability/billing data processing. Also built Krypton Labs’ engineering team from the first hires, using a flat Agile structure and emphasizing constructive conflict, strong documentation, and remote-team accountability.”

“Built an "AskMyVideo" system that turns YouTube videos into queryable knowledge graphs by transcribing audio (Whisper), chunking and embedding content, and enabling traceable answers back to exact timestamps. Strong in entity resolution (rules + fuzzy matching + TF-IDF/cosine with PR-curve thresholding) and modern retrieval stacks (FAISS, hybrid dense/sparse, domain fine-tuning with ~12% precision gain), with a production mindset using Airflow/Prefect, Docker/FastAPI, and LangSmith/Prometheus/Grafana observability.”

“Worked on payments and wallet transactions, with an emphasis on observability and root-cause analysis. Delivered end-to-end A/B testing optimization and implemented Jenkins-based CI/CD automation that reduced manual implementation to 35% and cut deployments to ~2 minutes, with attention to operational considerations like on-call/call rotations.”

“Backend-focused engineer with experience at AWS building a global alarm processing platform (Python, Lambda/SQS/DynamoDB) handling traffic spikes and reliability issues; resolved duplicate alerts and latency under load by fixing hot partitions and enforcing idempotency. Previously at Cognizant, built Java/PostgreSQL backend workflows for healthcare dashboards using pre-aggregated summary tables, strong SQL optimization, and state-driven job orchestration with ELK-based observability and production guardrails.”

“At Citi, helped lead the productionization of an internal LLM-driven automation workflow into a production-ready developer platform, focusing on determinism/reproducibility, security, and cost controls. Implemented prompt versioning/registry, JSON schema validation, sanitization, and deep telemetry (including manual edit-distance) plus human-in-the-loop review and phased rollout—driving major SDLC efficiency gains (e.g., test script creation cut from ~1 week to ~1 day).”

Shanmukha Koganti

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in recommender systems and edge computer vision

Bay Area, CA6y exp

“ML/AI engineer with production experience at Shopify and Intel, building a deep learning product ranking system that lifted add-to-cart ~14% and serving real-time similarity search via FAISS+Redis under <20ms latency at massive scale. Also deployed computer vision models to 100+ retail edge locations using Docker/Ansible/k3s with zero-downtime rollouts, and applies strong MLOps practices (A/B testing, canary/shadow, observability) plus performance optimization (OpenVINO, INT8).”

Nagarjuna Vaddineni

Screened

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

Seattle, WA6y exp

“Amazon backend engineer who built and operated high-scale Java Spring Boot microservices on AWS (EKS/EC2) handling millions of daily transactions, with deep experience debugging p95 latency and database/ORM bottlenecks. Shipped an AI-driven real-time personalization feature by integrating SageMaker model inference end-to-end with low-latency caching and graceful fallbacks, and designed robust order/payment orchestration with retries, compensations, and DLQ-based escalation.”

Shruti Krishnagiri

Screened

Executive Engineering Leader & Technical Founder specializing in AI automation platforms

San Francisco Bay Area, California20y exp

“Founder/CTO who built and shipped a consumer subscription-bundling platform end-to-end (architecture, implementation, testing) and scaled it to thousands of customers and major partners. Previously led a major reliability overhaul at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative for a Google-Docs-like ed-tech product—boosted observability, introduced incident management, and migrated to a Docker-based scalable architecture. Heavy user of AI tools (Cursor/Claude) for development, testing, and code review, with a strong bias toward lightweight, fast-moving execution.”

Sai Dinesh Pusapati

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI agents and LLM workflows

San Francisco, CA6y exp

“LLM/AI engineer with production experience building a retrieval-based document intelligence system that extracts information from PDFs/emails, backed by Python + Spark pipelines. Focused on reliability and cost/latency optimization (caching, batch processing) and has hands-on orchestration experience with Airflow (sensors, retries, alerts). Also partnered with business stakeholders to deliver customer feedback classification/summarization for faster sentiment insights.”

Umesh Toprani

Screened

Executive Cloud & Product Operations Leader specializing in SaaS transformation

26y exp

“Transformation leader brought into Barracuda Networks to orchestrate a founder-level shift from legacy software to SaaS across 14 product lines. Drove a metrics- and operating-margin-focused, multi-cloud (AWS/Azure/private cloud for DR) execution plan while aligning engineering, GTM, finance (subscription accounting), and support—contributing to nearly doubling revenue over ~4 years.”

Atulya Bist

Screened

Junior Data Scientist / Software Engineer specializing in LLM analytics and robotics

Los Angeles, CA3y exp

“Robotics/ML engineer who implemented TD3 and PPO in PyTorch to solve the challenging OpenAI Gymnasium humanoid-v5 MuJoCo task, including custom networks, rollout logic, and training scripts. Also has hands-on robotics coursework experience with ROS-based RRT motion planning on a real robotic arm, plus practical CI/CD and containerization experience (Docker, Jenkins, GitHub Actions). Currently exploring world models (VAE + sequence generator) using Euro Truck Simulator data.”

Alex Vo

Screened

Staff Backend Software Engineer specializing in telemetry pipelines and observability

San Jose, CA3y exp

“Backend engineer from VMware focused on proprietary enterprise systems (monitoring tools, data pipelines, and APIs). Drove a ClickHouse migration POC (local to remote host) using a dual-write/cutover approach and source-level debugging across Node/driver differences during a Node 12→20 upgrade, and delivered measurable performance gains (~20% CPU/memory improvement) through batching and streaming ingestion.”

Harsh Sanas

Screened

Intern-level Software Engineer specializing in GenAI, RAG, and backend systems

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“AI/LLM engineer focused on shipping production-grade agents that automate support, sales intake, and ERP-connected workflows. Stands out for combining strong orchestration and guardrails with measurable business outcomes, including 45% faster support handling, ~$1.2M annual savings, 18% higher customer satisfaction, and 99.5%+ reliability in production.”

“Built and owned end-to-end production systems for a healthcare platform, including a predictive task recommendation feature (React + FastAPI + ML on AWS ECS) that cut backlog 20% and saved coordinators ~10 hours/week. Also productionized an AI-native RAG system (vector DB + LLM) delivering 40% faster query resolution, and led phased modernization of a monolithic FastAPI service into async microservices using feature flags and canary releases.”