Vetted Observability Professionals

“Full-stack engineer with 3+ years using Java/Spring Boot (Citi) and React, who built a production observability dashboard monitoring 53 microservices across 17 clusters with real-time health/latency tracing and significant performance improvements (cut load time from ~10s). Also designed a serverless AWS face-recognition system (Lambda/S3/SQS) built to handle burst traffic (~1000 concurrent requests), demonstrating strength in scalable, event-driven architectures.”

“McKinsey data/ML practitioner who led production deployment of an entity resolution + semantic search platform for unstructured finance and healthcare data, integrating with legacy systems under HIPAA constraints. Deep hands-on stack across transformers (spaCy/HF BERT), embeddings + FAISS, and production MLOps/workflow tooling (Airflow, Docker, CI/CD, Prometheus/Grafana), with reported gains of +30% decision speed and +25% search relevance.”

“Backend engineer who built and owned an AI-powered SMS survey platform for a nonprofit serving at-risk communities (internet-limited users), using Cloudflare Workers + Twilio and a state-machine survey engine. Scaled it to ~10k active users with near-zero downtime, added English/Spanish support, and iteratively improved LLM behavior (Claude 3.7 Sonnet) to handle nuanced, real-world SMS responses reliably.”

“Data/ML practitioner with experience applying NLP and classical ML to large-scale customer data (2B+ records) for segmentation, prediction, and survey-text classification, delivering measurable business impact (~18% engagement efficiency). Has hands-on entity resolution across multi-source datasets and has built embedding-based semantic search using SentenceBERT + a vector database with domain fine-tuning (~20% relevance improvement), plus production workflow experience with Spark/Airflow and cloud tooling (AWS/Azure).”

“AI/software engineer with experience at Visa building a real-time transaction fraud/risk scoring microservice in the card authorization path (Python, Kafka, Kubernetes on AWS) with strict 120–150ms latency constraints and reason-code outputs for downstream decisioning. Owns ML backend end-to-end (data/feature engineering, model training, deployment) and has demonstrated production reliability work including latency spike mitigation, SLO-based observability, drift monitoring, and safe fallbacks to rule-based decisions.”

“Built and owned "Cortex," an AI agent that helps users understand large GitHub repositories by mapping architecture and relationships between files/folders in minutes. Implemented an agentic, multi-stage prompt decomposition approach and validated it across open-source repos, while also doing legacy service modernization work involving dependency upgrades and refactors.”

“AI/ML engineer who has shipped production AI systems end-to-end, including an automated multi-channel (Gmail/WhatsApp/voice) candidate interviewing workflow and an enterprise RAG knowledge search platform. Demonstrates strong production rigor (monitoring, A/B tests, guardrails, schema validation, shadow testing) with quantified impact: ~60–70% reduction in interview evaluation time and ~20–30% relevance gains in RAG retrieval.”

“Data engineer/platform builder with experience across PwC and Liberty Mutual delivering high-volume, production-grade pipelines and real-time data services. Has owned end-to-end streaming + batch architectures on AWS and Azure, including web scraping systems, with quantified reliability gains (99.9% availability, 90%+ error reduction, 30% latency reduction) and strong observability/CI-CD practices.”

“Infrastructure/operations engineer with enterprise-scale observability ownership across Linux plus exposure to Windows/AIX and AWS SaaS. Has led DR exercises and real incidents involving cross–data center traffic failover, with hands-on firewall policy management and automation (Chef/Ansible) for agent deployment and patching; experience includes Bank of America and Discover Financial Services.”

“Full-stack engineer with production experience building a security integrations portal in Next.js (App Router + TypeScript), using server components and typed route handlers as a secure proxy to multiple third-party security vendors. Demonstrated ability to scale performance significantly (server-side re-architecture for 1M+ datapoint dashboard filtering; Postgres query tuning from 1–2s to <200ms) and to own features post-launch (reliability, caching/background sync, and rapid onboarding of new integrations) in a pre-Series B through post-Series C environment.”

SAI RAKAM

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in backend microservices and FinTech payments

Remote, USA3y exp

“Capital One engineer focused on fraud and payments platforms, owning end-to-end services and internal tools used by fraud analysts. Built high-traffic Kafka/REST systems and real-time React/TypeScript dashboards (WebSockets, Redis), with strong emphasis on observability, idempotency, and scalable microservices. Successfully drove adoption of AI-assisted fraud classification by pairing transparency and manual overrides with measurable workflow improvements.”

Kevin Scharf

Screened

Senior Project Management & Compliance Professional in Aerospace & Defense

Englewood, CO8y exp

“Internal audit/GRC professional who partners closely with engineering on access controls, change management, and remediation—often translating "technically compliant" states into realistic threat scenarios and business impact. Has driven measurable reductions in privileged-access exposure through least-privilege resets and recurring reviews, and has hands-on experience troubleshooting real-world deployment/integration issues (including in a manufacturing environment) using logs/metrics and strong escalation documentation.”

Prasannakumar B Vardi

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in low-latency ad targeting and distributed backend systems

Santa Clara, CA9y exp

“Backend/platform engineer who built a high-scale audience segmentation and real-time targeting system using Spark/Glue + S3/Hudi and low-latency API services backed by Redis/relational stores. Demonstrates strong production rigor: Spark performance tuning to eliminate OOM failures, API idempotency/caching to cut p95 latency ~40%, and careful dual-run/feature-flag migrations with reconciliation and rollback runbooks. Experienced implementing layered security with JWT/OAuth, RBAC/ABAC, and database row-level security to prevent privilege escalation.”

Kanaka Chalam Volety

Screened

Staff DevOps/SRE Engineer specializing in AWS, Kubernetes, and GitOps

San Jose, CA24y exp

“Infrastructure-focused engineer with Vonage experience modernizing early-stage cloud architecture (Terraform modularization, blue-green deployments, containerization, and zero-downtime database migration planning to Aurora). Also built a local end-to-end side project, Vastu AI, combining a custom-trained YOLO model (Roboflow-labeled data) with a locally hosted LLM via Ollama to generate a vastu compliance report from floor-plan images.”

Naga Manasa Bandaru

Screened

Mid-level Frontend Software Engineer specializing in React, Next.js, and TypeScript

Dallas – Fort Worth, TX4y exp

“Product-focused full-stack engineer with FedEx experience building an internal logistics dashboard for near real-time shipment status and performance metrics using Next.js App Router + TypeScript. Strong in production ownership and performance work—uses React Profiler/Chrome DevTools to eliminate expensive re-renders and applies Postgres indexing/query tuning validated via EXPLAIN ANALYZE to improve dashboard responsiveness.”

Yun-Ting Chiou

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in TypeScript, React, and Java microservices

Chicago, IL2y exp

“Software engineer with finance-domain experience who built an internal transaction management system end-to-end at Prospect Equities (TypeScript/React Native + Java Spring Boot microservices on AWS), delivering 40% lower query latency and 73% operational efficiency gains. Has also designed Terraform-provisioned, SQS-based distributed systems and scaled workloads to 10,000+ concurrent users, including monolith-to-SOA modernization that cut internal review time by 47%.”

Pranav Chand

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and LLM platforms

ServiceNow, CA5y exp

“Backend engineer focused on multi-tenant enterprise AI personalization and recommendation platforms, combining ML/LLM intent extraction with deterministic policy guardrails for compliance and auditability. Has hands-on AWS experience (ECS/Lambda/DynamoDB/S3) and led a careful DynamoDB single-table migration using dual write/read, canary + feature-flag rollouts, and strong observability/security (JWT/OAuth2, RBAC, Postgres RLS).”

Belal Beydoun

Screened

Intern Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI and data analytics

Detroit, MI2y exp

“Software engineer focused on real-time, low-latency AI pipelines: built an end-to-end mobile-to-backend image classification system using React Native/Expo, Node.js, gRPC, MySQL, and Google Vision AI, optimizing throughput and latency. Also integrated an AI model into a real-time field workflow at DTE via Node.js + Azure Databricks, adding data cleaning/validation and safe fallback logic for reliability in operations.”

Akshit Modi

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in healthcare NLP and MLOps

Remote, USA5y exp

“Healthcare/clinical ML practitioner who built and productionized ClinicalBERT-based pipelines to extract and standardize oncology EHR data, improving downstream model F1 from 0.81 to 0.92 while controlling training cost via LoRA/QLoRA. Experienced orchestrating real-time AWS ETL/ML workflows (Glue, Lambda, SageMaker) and partnering with clinicians using SHAP-based interpretability, contributing to an 18% reduction in readmissions and full adoption.”

Srushti Milind Jamsandekar

Screened

Mid-Level Software Developer specializing in backend, cloud, and GenAI

CA, USA5y exp

“Full-stack engineer with fintech and AI feature experience who shipped an AI-powered project summary module in Next.js (App Router + TypeScript) with secure server-side fetching and route handlers to a FastAPI backend, then owned monitoring and performance fixes in production. Demonstrated measurable UX wins (30% faster dashboard loads) and strong backend fundamentals (Postgres indexing/EXPLAIN ANALYZE, SQS-orchestrated idempotent reconciliation workflows with DLQs and retries).”

Suloni Praveen

Screened

Entry-Level Software Engineer specializing in data engineering and ML systems

Los Angeles, CA0y exp

“Built an end-to-end Next.js/TypeScript LLM-based scientific PDF analyzer using local Ollama/Llama inference to prioritize privacy and cost, producing structured research artifacts (e.g., authors/methods/findings) with ~92% extraction accuracy. At Qualtrics, helped replace a batch pipeline with a real-time, low-latency ML inference service (Python/Go on Kubernetes) using Redis caching, Grafana-based observability, and graceful fallbacks to protect UX during failures.”

“Product-minded full-stack engineer with deep experience building React/TypeScript + serverless/SQL systems and improving both operational reliability and user activation. They stand out for connecting low-level architecture decisions like idempotency and atomic updates with business outcomes such as reduced support burden and lower 30-day cancellations, while also designing configurable multi-tenant product systems with strong guardrails.”

“Built a production Python microservice around Grafana Loki focused on reliability, with checkpointing, idempotency, replay tooling, tracing, and alerting to prevent data loss and silent lag. Also has hands-on experience hardening brittle Playwright automations against dynamic UIs, auth expiry, rate limits, MFA, and bot-detection constraints, plus turning tribal-knowledge SOPs into explicit state-machine-driven workflows.”

“Built and owned Alight's AI-powered Search Summary feature end-to-end, using a RAG pipeline with OpenSearch and Bedrock, and drove a 20% increase in user feedback scores. Stands out for bringing rigorous production evaluation to LLM systems via live LLM-as-a-judge monitoring, and for experience with advanced agentic architectures, hybrid search, and reranking at scale.”