Vetted Observability Professionals

Vidhi Chhatbar

Screened

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

Los Angeles, CA5y exp

“Software engineer with experience across enterprise (AIG, MSCI) and an early-stage startup (Job Map), owning production systems end-to-end. Built secure insurance microservices on Spring Boot with JWT/RBAC and AWS-based CI/CD/observability, plus Kafka streaming pipelines for financial data. Also shipped a GenAI personalization MVP using FastAPI and LLM APIs in a high-ambiguity startup environment.”

“Backend engineer who led the end-to-end modernization of FleetView into a scalable, event-driven system supporting 1,000+ users and 13,000+ assets, cutting API latency by ~40%. Also built an AI-powered exit interview analytics pipeline on Azure using GPT-4o with strong guardrails, validation, and evaluation practices, showing a rare mix of production backend rigor and applied LLM workflow experience.”

“Software engineer with experience spanning an SEL internship and Walmart, combining backend/data pipeline work (Python, Kafka, relational DBs) with DevOps practices (Docker, Grafana, GitHub/Jenkins CI/CD, GitOps). Notably contributed to a REST-to-GraphQL migration aimed at reducing cloud utilization and implemented testing strategies to validate the transition.”

Vinay Naidu

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in Healthcare and FinTech

5y exp

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered incident assistant integrated with monitoring, logs, and metrics systems that reduced triage time by 30–40% and improved MTTR. Stands out for a strong reliability-first approach to agent design, including deterministic orchestration, strict schemas, fallback flows, grounding checks, and safeguards for messy operational data.”

“Built internal product features at Sysco's Collab Cafe across React/TypeScript frontend and Spring Boot/PostgreSQL backend, including a full project invite flow and an early AI-style project matching capability. Stands out for owning features end-to-end, improving React dashboard performance with profiling and component refactoring, and making pragmatic 0→1 tradeoffs to ship quickly.”

“Built and deployed an AI-powered insurance claims fraud platform end-to-end using Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, OpenAI, pgvector, and AWS EKS. Stands out for combining LLM/RAG architecture with production-grade scalability and observability, delivering measurable impact including 62% less manual review, 40% better fraud precision, 37% higher throughput, and 99.95% uptime.”

Neeshma Narahari

Screened

Mid-level Software Developer specializing in backend microservices and cloud platforms

Irving, TX6y exp

“Full-stack product engineer with strong React and TypeScript depth who has owned dashboard features end-to-end, from UI architecture and rendering optimization through Spring Boot APIs and database query tuning. Particularly compelling for startup or high-growth teams: they’ve shipped 0→1 internal operations platforms, prioritized MVP workflows effectively, and iterated post-launch using user feedback, logs, and usage metrics.”

“Python backend engineer with experience combining traditional API/microservices development and GenAI integrations, including healthcare claims workflows. Particularly compelling for teams building production AI systems: they pair hands-on work with LLMs, RAG, LangChain-style orchestration, and AWS deployment with a strong emphasis on reliability, security, and engineering discipline.”

“Software engineer with Intuit experience shipping an end-to-end real-time financial insights product on AWS, using event-driven architecture with Kafka and Spark Streaming to process millions of records with low latency. Also delivers customer-facing React + TypeScript dashboards and has hands-on production operations experience, including resolving a database scaling incident via read replicas, query tuning, and connection pooling.”

“Backend/ML engineer who built production LLM-enabled systems at PRGX, including an interpretable contract opportunity scoring engine (Bradley-Terry pairwise ranking) that reached 0.82 weighted Spearman agreement with SME auditors and was integrated into workflow. Also built a Duke student advisor chatbot and hardened it for real-world reliability/security with schema-driven tool calling, normalization, and off-domain defenses; led staged production rollouts with shadow testing and achieved 0.90 F1 on a new extraction field before shipping.”

“Backend engineer with Citigroup experience who built and evolved a self-service user provisioning/identity backend, cutting onboarding from 45 minutes to under 2 minutes. Demonstrates strong production-grade integration and reliability practices (isolated integrations, retries, rollback logic, heavy logging) plus secure API development in Python/FastAPI with OAuth scope-based authorization and incremental, low-risk rollout strategies.”

“Built and owned Prism, a real-time collaborative coding platform, making key architectural choices around deterministic event ordering and a backend source-of-truth to improve trust under concurrent edits. Also created a Python-based bug analysis and test automation suite that became part of standard engineering workflow, cutting debugging time by ~95% while improving fault detection coverage.”

“Software engineer with deep experience in real-time payments and event-driven microservices. Built a React/TypeScript + Spring Boot system using RabbitMQ, and created an internal operations dashboard that improved visibility into message-processing workflows for engineering, support, and SRE. Strong in experimentation-driven product iteration (feature flags/A-B tests) and in scaling reliability via idempotent consumers and end-to-end observability.”

“CTO/enterprise architect who stays hands-on in code while leading strategy, stakeholder alignment, and team scaling. At Eastridge, established product and technology vision/roadmap, built product engineering/strategy functions, and helped launch products into global markets; most recently led GenAI product design including tech selection, infrastructure, scalability, and observability.”

“Built and deployed an LLM-powered analytics assistant enabling business users to ask questions in plain English and receive validated Spark SQL executed in Databricks, with a Streamlit/Flask UI. Addressed strict client schema-privacy constraints by implementing a RAG strategy and ultimately leveraging AWS Bedrock and fine-tuned reference docs. Also has production ML pipeline experience using Docker + Airflow and AWS (S3/ECS/EC2) for financial classification models.”

“Built and productionized an NLP-powered customer support assistant at JPMorgan Chase for digital banking, focused on reducing response time for repetitive client queries. Strong in real-world AI deployment challenges—sensitive data handling, low-latency FastAPI services, and AWS/Kubernetes operations with CI/CD—plus a metrics- and guardrails-driven approach to reliable AI workflows.”

“AI/ML engineer with HP experience building and productionizing an LLM-powered document intelligence platform (LangChain + Pinecone) to deliver semantic search and contextual Q&A across millions of enterprise support documents. Demonstrates strong MLOps and scaling expertise (Airflow, Kubernetes autoscaling, Triton GPU inference, monitoring with Prometheus/W&B) plus a structured approach to evaluation (A/B tests, shadow deployments, failover) and effective collaboration with non-technical stakeholders.”

“Full-stack engineer (backend-led) with recent experience building enterprise workflow orchestration and billing/payment platforms at Intuit using Java/Spring Boot (WebFlux), Kafka, Postgres/Redis, and React/TypeScript. Has operated at high scale (reported ~1200 RPS during month-end billing) and focuses on event-driven microservices, real-time UI updates via streaming, and disciplined API evolution with contract testing.”

“Backend/platform engineer with payments domain experience, having owned core services for MasterCard’s global card tokenization and settlement platform. Built Django/Celery microservices plus Kafka/Redis real-time fraud streaming, delivering 27% latency improvement, sub-100ms fraud checks, and 18% fewer false positives. Strong DevOps/IaC background across Kubernetes, AWS ECS, Terraform, GitHub Actions, and GitOps practices for high-scale transaction systems (including UPI at PhonePe).”

“Backend/platform engineer from Fanatics sportsbook core team with deep experience in real-time ingestion systems (Kafka) and high-throughput performance optimization. Delivered an 87% latency reduction on a Java API handling hundreds of thousands of updates per second, and improved reliability of shared internal libraries via deterministic recovery logic, strong testing, and feature-flagged rollouts.”

“Engineering leader/player-coach who led a high-stakes 0→1 in-house usage-based billing/rating platform to replace a third-party system, saving millions and protecting 30M+ in revenue. Deep experience in event-driven microservices on AWS (Lambda/SQS/DynamoDB), billing correctness, migrations, and incident response, while scaling teams through hiring, coaching, and lightweight execution processes.”

“Software engineer in the mortgage/financial services domain (Freddie Mac) who builds end-to-end loan origination and credit risk capabilities using Spring Boot microservices, Angular dashboards, and data pipelines. Delivered measurable impact (30% reduction in underwriting turnaround time) and emphasizes production reliability/compliance with strong guardrails, observability, and evaluation loops for risk scoring systems.”

Allan Farinas

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Python and AWS

West Covina, CA11y exp

“Backend/data engineer who has built production Python microservices (FastAPI) and AWS-native platforms for event ingestion and analytics, combining ECS/Fargate + Lambda with CloudFormation-driven environments and strong secrets/IAM practices. Experienced modernizing legacy logic with parallel-run parity validation and safe phased cutovers, and has demonstrated measurable SQL tuning wins (20–30s down to 1–2s) plus incident ownership in Glue/Step Functions ETL pipelines.”

Pooja Dokuri

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI, RAG pipelines, and cloud MLOps

Remote, USA4y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM + vector search clinical decision support system at UnitedHealth Group, retrieving medical evidence and patient context in real time for prior authorization and risk scoring. Strong in end-to-end RAG architecture (Hugging Face embeddings, Pinecone/FAISS, SageMaker, Redis) plus orchestration (Airflow/Kubeflow) and rigorous evaluation/monitoring, with demonstrated ability to align solutions with clinical operations stakeholders.”