Vetted Observability Professionals

Francois Odienne

Screened

Director of Engineering specializing in SaaS platforms, AI-first product development, and telecom

Moorpark, CA28y exp

“Technology leader with venture-backed company experience at LogicMonitor, where they aligned engineering strategy with business growth and long-term platform scalability. Demonstrates strong familiarity with the VC/studio/accelerator ecosystem and a thoughtful founder mindset centered on validating real problems, innovative solutions, and execution capacity.”

“Backend/product-minded engineer from Ramp with strong travel-tech experience, having built an end-to-end booking platform integrating multiple external providers, policy enforcement, and reporting infrastructure. They also shipped an LLM-powered personalization workflow using embeddings and Google Gemini that cut trip planning time by 22%, and demonstrated strong production reliability instincts through circuit breakers, health checks, and schema-driven normalization.”

“Product-minded full-stack engineer who has built AI-heavy systems spanning Next.js/TypeScript frontends, Python/FastAPI backends, queues, databases, and workflow infrastructure. Stands out for combining strong technical depth with UX instincts—improving trust in AI assistants, shipping ambiguous client features quickly, and creating reusable primitives for AI generation and analysis products.”

“Product-minded full-stack engineer with experience shipping engagement features and core communication systems at DribbleUp and Expys. Stands out for combining rapid MVP execution with rigorous iteration: delivered a leaderboard feature that lifted engagement by 8% initially and 20% overall, built a chat MVP in 3 days, and has hands-on experience deploying LangChain-based concierge agents with evals and human review.”

“UC Berkeley CS–trained hands-on engineering leader with executive experience spanning fundraising and board/customer communication. Led architecture and roadmap for AI-driven fintech platforms (including portfolio data, market signals, document processing, and Bitcoin trading), scaling global orgs (~100 people) and driving modular API-based designs that improved reliability, onboarding speed, and customer retention.”

“Full-stack engineer with enterprise banking experience at Citi and hands-on production AI agent work, including a multi-agent incident analysis pipeline using LangGraph, RAG, and LangSmith. Also built a zero-to-one healthcare operations dashboard spanning hospital workflows and AI-assisted clinical features, suggesting a blend of strong systems engineering and product-minded execution.”

PavanKumar Varkala

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Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI-driven web applications

Jersey City, NJ4y exp

“Built and shipped an AI-driven operational workflow platform at Adobe that handled 12k+ monthly requests using React, Node.js, TypeScript, OpenAI APIs, PostgreSQL, Redis, and RAG. Stands out for combining full-stack product ownership with production-grade LLM architecture, evals, and human-in-the-loop controls, delivering measurable gains including 38% higher accuracy and 40% less manual triage.”

“Full-stack engineer who described a sophisticated forum platform spanning Next.js, NestJS, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, and AWS. Stands out for strong systems thinking: they designed for type safety, eventual consistency, idempotent async moderation, analytics scalability, and production reliability, while also driving an architectural refactor that reduced new post-type delivery from multi-day work to about half a day.”

“Platform-focused engineer/technical program leader working in silicon/wafer validation environments, with hands-on experience securing access to sensitive test results and engineering tooling. Has implemented RBAC/least-privilege controls with Azure Entra ID, Key Vault, PAM and integrated Checkmarx into dev workflows, while also deploying ML services on AKS using Bicep/Helm/Docker and Azure DevOps CI/CD with strong monitoring and incident response practices.”

“Software engineer with Capital One experience contributing to shared internal “open-source style” JavaScript/React/TypeScript libraries (component library and hooks/utilities). Drove measurable performance gains (~25% improvement) by refactoring hooks to prevent unnecessary re-renders, and improved adoption via stronger documentation, testing (Jest), semver discipline, and code review/PR workflows; also stabilized a backend service by adding monitoring and automated tests in an unstructured project.”

“Built a production internal RAG-based Q&A assistant at Huawei for ~4,000 engineers over a 12M-document Elasticsearch corpus, replacing link-only search with synthesized answers and achieving 87% user acceptance while keeping hallucinations under 0.4%. Pairs rigorous offline benchmarking (RAGAS, PR-gated F1 improvements) with human A/B testing and OpenTelemetry-based production monitoring, and also has strong Kubernetes/SRE experience orchestrating 50+ gRPC services with major MTTR and pager-fatigue reductions.”

“Backend engineer focused on building production-ready Python services (Flask/FastAPI) with strong performance and scalability instincts—Celery/Redis background processing, robust multi-tenant isolation (Postgres RLS), and pragmatic CI/Docker operations. Demonstrated measurable DB optimization impact (cut a critical analytics query from ~1–2s to ~100–150ms) and has hands-on experience integrating LLM/ML workflows (OpenAI, LangChain, embeddings, Redis/FAISS vector stores) without degrading API responsiveness.”

“Built a production AI-driven QA automation platform using a multi-agent architecture (MCPs + LangGraph) to run parallel website tests across multiple device environments via automated image building and containerization. Currently collaborating with restaurant operators and managers to deliver an agentic restaurant analytics system, emphasizing deep domain discovery with non-technical stakeholders.”

“Backend/DevOps-focused engineer with healthcare and financial systems experience, including an ICU readmission risk platform delivering real-time ML scores via a secure FastAPI service (PyTorch model serving, PostgreSQL, Celery/Redis) deployed on AWS with strong observability. Has hands-on Kubernetes GitOps delivery (Helm, ArgoCD, HPA) and has supported a JPMC on-prem-to-AWS microservices migration using phased validation and blue-green cutovers, plus Kafka/Avro streaming for real-time transaction processing.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong DevOps/AWS production experience who builds and operates multi-agent AI systems end-to-end (Streamlit/Python through Docker/Kubernetes and ECS/Fargate). Has delivered measurable outcomes: sub-2s latency and ~92% routing accuracy for an AI wellness assistant, shipped an AI-for-BI prototype in under 6 weeks cutting analysis time ~40%, and improved pipeline iteration speed ~35% via modularization and CI/regression checks.”

“Built and shipped production LLM/RAG systems at Mayo Clinic, including a conversational AI assistant for patient pre-consultation and a clinical-trial matching tool for doctors. Implemented HIPAA-compliant de-identification and guardrails, plus real-time feedback logging and fine-tuning that improved response accuracy by 15% and reduced admin workload by 25%.”

“Infrastructure/operations engineer with deep IBM Power/AIX experience (AIX 7.x, VIOS, HMC/vHMC) managing ~15–25 LPARs across production and DR, including live DLPAR changes and structured performance troubleshooting. Also hands-on with PowerHA/HACMP incident recovery and failover testing, plus broader DevOps delivery building Jenkins CI/CD for containerized microservices and Terraform/Ansible IaC across AWS and Azure, and leading Solaris SPARC to x86 migration cutovers.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered customer support triage/resolution agent that automated ~60% of tickets, cutting response times from hours to seconds and improving first-response resolution by ~40%. Experienced designing multi-tenant, tenant-isolated agent architectures with RAG, schema-based tool calling/strict JSON validation, and strong reliability practices (guardrails, retries, fallbacks, monitoring), including safe integration with messy ERP-like data.”

“Data engineer/backend developer who owned end-to-end pipelines and external data collection systems, including API ingestion and large-scale web scraping. Worked at ~50M records/month scale, improving processing speed by 20% and reducing reporting errors by 15%, and shipped a Rust-based internal data API with versioning, caching, and strong validation/observability practices.”

Hangquan Zhao

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in connected vehicle platforms and real-time data systems

Mountain View, CA4y exp

“Open-source maintainer of KafkaJSUI, a Vue.js-based Kafka browser UI, focused on making large-topic exploration fast and responsive. Delivered major performance wins (incremental fetching, virtualized lists, WebSocket streaming, backpressure, Web Worker offloading) cutting load times to sub-200ms, and also strengthened CI and developer documentation while handling community-reported issues end-to-end.”

Venkata Surya Yashwanth Varma Vadlamudi

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and full-stack web development

Ithaca, NY2y exp

“Software engineer at Cimpress owning end-to-end transactional pages for Pens.com (e-commerce). Built and integrated new discount experiences in a React/TypeScript + Node.js stack, focusing on modular component architecture to reduce tight coupling and avoid breaking existing functionality; prioritizes roadmap work using performance and conversion metrics.”

Yukti Kamthan

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and data systems

Mumbai, India10y exp

“Built and shipped production LLM/AI agent systems including an NL-to-SQL query agent with semantic search and Redis-based caching, using schema-aware prompting and threshold validation to reduce hallucinations. Has orchestration experience running ML microservices on Kubernetes and automating event-driven insurance (P&C) workflows (claims/policy + fraud checks), reporting ~60% manual overhead reduction and ~99% uptime, with strong monitoring/drift-detection and business-facing Power BI reporting.”

Sachin Reddy Kunta

Screened

Mid-Level Backend Software Engineer specializing in payments, fraud systems, and AI agent infrastructure

San Francisco, CA3y exp

“Early-career engineer who owned an end-to-end objective assessment/coding contest platform at an edtech startup, using Postgres + S3 and Redis (queues + ZSET) to decouple and scale code submission processing with worker sandboxes. Also implemented idempotency controls and set up monitoring and CI/CD while the rest of the team focused on curriculum.”

jiayu Zhao

Screened

Junior Quantitative Analyst and Full-Stack Engineer specializing in FinTech and web platforms

Chicago, IL6y exp

“Backend/distributed-systems engineer with AI infrastructure experience who built an AI-driven video generation platform, focusing on an asynchronous FastAPI-based orchestration layer between user APIs and heavy inference services. Strong in production instrumentation and latency/concurrency optimization; actively learning ROS 2 but has not yet worked on physical robotics or ROS-based deployments.”