Vetted Observability Professionals

“Built an internal RAG assistant for financial documents using FastAPI, OpenAI APIs, and vector search, improving document search speed and reducing manual effort for the business team. Stands out for a pragmatic approach to AI engineering: uses AI heavily for productivity, but keeps human judgment central and has designed retrieval, validation, and summarization workflows end-to-end.”

“Engineer working on high-throughput financial systems who uses AI pragmatically to accelerate development without sacrificing design ownership, correctness, or compliance. Particularly interesting for teams building regulated, real-time platforms: they have hands-on experience integrating fraud detection models into microservices, handling transaction ingestion, scoring, decisioning, and throughput-sensitive asynchronous workflows.”

“Entrepreneur building an applied-AI tool for geological resource exploration (critical minerals, oil & gas) that overlays proprietary and public data from reports/logs/maps to generate evidence-based greenfield profiling insights. Has spent ~2 years on industry research, built a POC, validated demand with purchasing signals, and developed partnerships/network including USGS, DARPA, and ESRI.”

“Backend engineer with experience evolving a high-volume agricultural loan processing platform (APMS) at HDFC Bank, emphasizing transactional integrity, auditability, and modularity while integrating with credit bureaus, document management, and risk engines. Also improved automation/reporting robustness at Trend Micro by catching duplicate-event retry edge cases and adding idempotency safeguards.”

“Customer-facing technical professional with experience supporting LLM/agentic-style workflows and complex integrated systems (APIs, backend logic, databases). Partnered with sales/customer teams at Radix Health to onboard new clients in phased prototypes, translating non-technical requirements into technical scope and implementing core product changes to tailor the appointment-booking solution for providers.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience building a large-scale healthcare claims and provider-enrollment system end-to-end (React frontend, Spring Boot microservices, PostgreSQL on AWS). Optimized high-volume claims processing (millions of records/day) using indexing/pagination and asynchronous workloads via AWS Lambda/Kafka, and deployed containerized services with Docker/Jenkins on AWS.”

“Software engineer with experience at Walmart and Amex building customer-facing backend services and microservices at scale (RabbitMQ). Built an internal developer tooling platform integrating Figma with GitHub Copilot to automate consistent React component creation, adopted across multiple teams; emphasizes fast, safe iteration using metrics, feature flags, gradual rollouts, and automated testing.”

“Software engineer who owned end-to-end delivery of customer-facing agricultural forecast reporting (crop yield/health) and iterated quickly via rigorous edge-case testing and customer feedback. Also built an internal ML training platform (TypeScript/React + Flask/Python + MongoDB) used by every developer, with architecture designed to stay responsive under heavy compute load.”

“ML/GenAI engineer with production experience building an LLM-powered governance layer that summarizes verified drift/performance signals into validation reports and release notes, designed for regulated environments with de-identification and non-blocking fallbacks. Strong Airflow-based orchestration background across healthcare and finance, integrating Databricks/Spark and MLflow for scalable retraining/monitoring. Demonstrated ability to partner with non-technical healthcare operations teams to deliver actionable risk-scoring outputs via dashboards and automated reporting.”

“Developer with experience across Drupal and Java/Spring Boot applications using React/jQuery for UI and API-driven features. Has handled production issues by tuning reverse proxy timeouts for login problems and troubleshooting data pipeline inaccuracies by fixing database queries, with a focus on performance and careful verification before changes.”

“ML/LLM practitioner who has shipped production RAG systems (summarization + Q&A) and end-to-end Airflow-orchestrated demand forecasting pipelines at NEON IT. Strong focus on reliability—uses evaluation scripts, retrieval/chunking tuning, validation/retries/alerts, and stakeholder-driven iteration to make AI workflows consistent and usable.”

“Built production LLM systems including a real-time customer feedback analysis and workflow automation platform using RAG and multi-agent orchestration with confidence-based human escalation, addressing privacy and legacy integration challenges. Also automated ML operations with Airflow/Kubernetes (e.g., daily churn model retraining) cutting retraining time to under 30 minutes, and demonstrates a rigorous testing/monitoring approach plus strong non-technical stakeholder collaboration.”

“ML/GenAI engineer with recent CVS Health experience building a production RAG system over unstructured financial/research documents using LangChain, FAISS, and Pinecone, plus LoRA/PEFT fine-tuning of GPT/LLaMA for domain-aware summarization. Demonstrates strong applied MLOps and data engineering skills (Airflow/Prefect, Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD, MLflow) and measurable impact (sub-second retrieval, ~40% better context retrieval, ~25% entity matching improvement).”

“Software engineer with hands-on AWS operations experience who owned an end-to-end manufacturing image ingestion pipeline (on-prem to AWS S3) integrated with MES/WMS. In an early-stage SaaS internship, diagnosed a load bottleneck using K6/New Relic and shipped an NGINX least-connection load-balancing solution that scaled to ~4000 RPS while reducing latency. Also improved maintainability and performance in a React/Node e-commerce codebase, cutting page load time from ~10s to 2.8s.”

“Healthcare-focused data engineer/ML practitioner with experience at Lightbeam Health Solutions and Humana building production entity-resolution and semantic similarity pipelines across EMR, lab, and claims data. Uses NLP/ML (spaCy, scikit-learn, BioBERT/LightGBM) plus Snowflake/Airflow and vector search (Pinecone) to improve linkage accuracy (reported 90%) and semantic match quality (reported +12–15%), while reducing manual cleanup by 40%+.”

“Full-stack engineer who shipped a group scheduling SaaS feature with live availability updates using Next.js App Router + TypeScript, owning production reliability after launch (auth debugging, monitoring, polling/backoff tuning). Has hands-on experience with Postgres schema/index design and query optimization (EXPLAIN ANALYZE) and building durable orchestrated backend workflows with retries and idempotency.”

“Cloud/Kubernetes-focused production engineer with experience running 99.95% uptime platforms across AWS/Azure/GCP. Strong in incident response and performance troubleshooting (including a 30% MTTR reduction), and in building secure CI/CD and Terraform-based IaC for AKS/GKE microservices with robust change controls and rollback practices. Notably does not have direct IBM Power/AIX/VIOS/HMC or PowerHA/HACMP ownership.”

“Data engineer focused on reliable, scalable analytics pipelines and external data collection. Has owned end-to-end pipelines processing 5–10M records/day, serving Snowflake data marts to Power BI/Tableau, and reports ~99% reliability through strong validation/monitoring. Also shipped versioned REST APIs for curated data with query optimization and caching.”

Sai Kondapaka

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in microservices, data pipelines, and FinTech fraud detection

Remote, USA5y exp

“Backend engineer with PayPal experience owning a high-throughput, low-latency fraud detection pipeline processing billions of transactions/day, integrating LLM-based models into real-time Kafka streams and payment decisioning APIs. Strong Kubernetes + GitOps practitioner (declarative, auditable deployments; autoscaling/probe tuning) with migration experience modernizing legacy systems onto AKS/OpenShift.”

SNEHA KUSUMA

Screened

Mid-level Java Full-Stack Developer specializing in banking and telecom platforms

Dallas, TX5y exp

“Frontend-focused engineer with experience at T-Mobile and U.S. Bank who maintained a TypeScript utility library (types, tests, build pipeline, and docs) adopted by multiple teams, and improved React workflow performance by refactoring components and optimizing data fetching. Known for pragmatic cross-team support—reproducing issues quickly, shipping well-tested fixes, and managing changes carefully to avoid breaking downstream apps.”

Rishitha reddy katamareddy

Screened

Mid-level Generative AI & Machine Learning Engineer specializing in agentic LLM systems

USA4y exp

“Built and deployed a production agentic LLM knowledge assistant that answers complex questions over internal documents, APIs, and databases using a RAG architecture (FAISS/Pinecone) and LangChain/LangGraph orchestration. Emphasizes production-grade reliability and hallucination control through grounding, confidence thresholds, validation, retries/fallbacks, and full observability (logging/metrics/traces) with continuous evaluation and feedback loops.”

Harini Vinu

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in cloud, big data, and test automation

New York, United States1y exp

“Internship experience at Qualitest building and deploying an LLM-powered test automation system that reduced manual test creation and improved efficiency (~40%). Demonstrates strong production engineering for LLM systems (timeouts/retries/monitoring/caching, prompt optimization, batching) and has scaled workflows to 100+ concurrent jobs; also has orchestration experience with AWS Step Functions and Kubernetes.”

Prashant Salunke

Screened

Mid-Level Software Development Engineer specializing in full-stack and cloud-native systems

Chicago, IL4y exp

“Backend engineer who has shipped production LLM-powered features, including an AI-assisted developer tool on AWS (Spring Boot) and a blog platform capability using embeddings + Elasticsearch for semantic retrieval and LLM-generated summaries/recommendations. Demonstrates practical tradeoff management (quality/latency/cost), guardrails to reduce hallucinations, and evaluation-driven iteration using real user queries and observability via ELK.”