Vetted Observability Professionals

Navindu Jayatilake

Screened

DevOps Technical Lead specializing in Kubernetes, AWS, and platform engineering

Colombo, Sri Lanka6y exp

“Sri Lanka–based DevOps/Platform engineer focused on Kubernetes and AWS who has led real production incidents and recoveries (network-policy-induced asymmetric routing; node pool failure due to CNI upgrade). Built production CI/CD with GitHub Actions (ephemeral self-hosted runners on EKS), ArgoCD, Vault, and Terraform, and led a phased ECS-to-EKS migration including Kafka consumers and MongoDB Atlas private endpoints.”

Deeresh Gajjala

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in Java/Spring Boot microservices and AWS payments systems

Dallas, TX6y exp

“Senior software engineer with Amazon experience who owned end-to-end improvements to a real-time payment authorization service, rebuilding it as a reactive Spring WebFlux microservice with saga orchestration and Kafka event streaming, deployed on AWS EKS with strong observability. Also built React+TypeScript and Node/Express full-stack workflow apps (onboarding, campaign management, admin review) and has experience shipping quickly in ambiguous startup environments while maintaining reliability and data correctness.”

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.”

“Data engineer with Optum experience building end-to-end healthcare data pipelines for HL7/FHIR, processing millions of records daily across Kafka streaming and Databricks/Spark batch. Strong focus on data quality (schema enforcement/validations), reliability (Airflow monitoring/alerts), and analytics-ready serving in Snowflake powering Power BI/Tableau, with CI/CD via Git and Jenkins.”

“Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer who built and fully owned a production crew scheduling system at Archer using Next.js App Router/TypeScript, including a real-time, virtualized timeline handling ~1,200 crew over a 30-day window. Drove major post-launch improvements (60 FPS scrolling, PubNub-based soft-locking to cut conflicts ~90%) and created a correlation-ID-driven state replay/logging tool to debug hard-to-reproduce production issues while also contributing to FastAPI/SQLAlchemy/Postgres performance work.”

“Data engineer focused on reliability and data quality, owning end-to-end pipelines processing ~100k–300k records/day. Implemented robust validation and monitoring that cut reporting issues by ~30%, and built stable external data collection with anti-bot measures, backfills, and schema-change detection while maintaining backward-compatible internal data services.”

Jaskirat Singh

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and data platforms

Eden Prairie, MN5y exp

“Infrastructure/data platform engineer with hands-on GCP production experience, especially Bigtable, who led a migration from Azure Cosmos DB Cassandra API to Bigtable that removed throttling and cut costs by 50%+. Stands out for combining distributed data architecture, zero-downtime Kafka migration strategy, and Terraform/Python automation for deterministic multi-region GKE operations.”

Aravind Mohan

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI agents and backend systems

Seattle, WA5y exp

“Backend/AI workflow engineer who built a production event-personalization service (FastAPI + AWS Lambda) and solved real-world reliability/latency issues with deterministic routing, caching, and query/index optimization. Also built an end-to-end Gmail-based job application tracking agent using a lightweight RAG pipeline with Gemini, strong guardrails (Pydantic schemas, confidence thresholds), and offline regression tests to prevent drift and hallucination-driven data corruption.”

Sanket Mungikar

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and real-time analytics

California, USA5y exp

“Full-stack engineer at BigCommerce who combines customer-facing deployment ownership with hands-on AI/LLM systems work. Built and launched merchant analytics and predictive inventory workflows using React, TypeScript, FastAPI, Kafka, AWS, and RAG-style architectures, and has real production experience debugging non-deterministic AI issues caused by data pipeline freshness and event-ordering problems.”

“Candidate appears to work at the intersection of enterprise billing/payments systems and AI-powered support automation. They describe owning customer deployments, integrating PayPal/Stripe, building LLM/RAG workflows for finance operations, and handling production incidents affecting millions of invoice events with measurable improvements in resolution time and ticket volume.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer with Blue Cross Blue Shield experience building a reactive, event-driven claims processing microservice platform on AWS (ECS, SNS/SQS) with Terraform-based IaC and strong observability (Dynatrace/CloudWatch). Demonstrated measurable production impact (32% less downtime, 24% higher processing efficiency) and deep database performance/migration expertise across MongoDB and Postgres.”

Supreet Purthpli

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native MLOps and FinTech

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Software engineer with JPMorgan Chase experience delivering end-to-end fintech features (Next.js/React/Node/Postgres on AWS) and measurable performance gains. Built and productionized an AI-native credit decisioning workflow combining LLMs, vector retrieval, and a rules engine with strong governance (bias checks, auditability, human-in-loop), improving precision and cutting underwriting turnaround time by 40%.”

“Engineer focused on AI-assisted and multi-agent software development, with hands-on experience designing structured agent workflows for implementation, testing, validation, and architectural review. Stands out for treating AI as an accelerator rather than a replacement, combining practical experimentation with strong attention to engineering fundamentals and operational concerns like observability, latency, and cost.”

“Backend/data platform engineer who led a major redesign of a hybrid streaming+batch analytics platform processing 10+ TB/day (Airflow/Hive/BigQuery) with strong data-quality automation. Also built a production RAG PDF assistant with concrete mitigations for hallucinations and prompt injection (re-ranking, grounding, verifier step) and has deep experience executing low-risk migrations (dual-write, blue-green, rapid rollback) and implementing JWT-based row-level security.”

“Backend engineer who designed and evolved an AWS-based event-processing system in Python/PostgreSQL, achieving a 60% p95 latency reduction while improving reliability during traffic spikes. Led a zero-downtime migration from a monolithic Django app to FastAPI microservices using feature flags, strong testing, and cross-team coordination, with production-grade observability (Prometheus/Grafana/CloudWatch) and security (JWT/OAuth2, RBAC, Postgres RLS).”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered calorie-counting chatbot that turns plain-English meal descriptions into normalized food entities, quantities, and calorie estimates using a hybrid transformer + rule-engine pipeline. Emphasizes reliability with schema/constraint guardrails, confidence-based routing (including embedding similarity search fallbacks), and strong observability/metrics (hallucination rate, calibration, latency, cost). Partnered closely with nutritionists to encode domain standards into mappings and validation logic.”

“Candidate indicated they live in New York but did not provide substantive details about their experience; they declined to discuss at least one topic as restricted and did not answer role-related questions with concrete examples.”

“Master’s-in-Data-Science candidate (UHV) with 4+ years in AI engineering building production LLM and multimodal systems. Designed an LLM-powered workflow automation platform using RAG over vector stores with guardrails (schema/output validation, fallbacks) and a rigorous evaluation/monitoring framework including drift tracking and shadow deployments. Experienced orchestrating large-scale vision-language pipelines with Airflow and Kubernetes (OCR, distributed training) and partnering with non-technical ops stakeholders to cut cycle time and reduce errors.”

“React performance-focused engineer who contributed performance patches back to an open-source context+reducer state helper after profiling and fixing excessive re-renders in an enterprise project management platform at Easley Dunn Productions. Also built an end-to-end LLM-driven pipeline at Prime Healthcare to normalize millions of supply-chain records, reducing defects by 80% and saving 160+ hours/month.”

“Built a production, agentic multi-agent pharmaceutical intelligence system for US oncology (breast cancer) conference/news intelligence, automating MSL-style information gathering and summarization for pharma and healthcare stakeholders. Uses CrewAI + LangChain orchestration, custom scraping across ~15 pharma newsrooms, and a grounding-score evaluation approach (sentence transformers/cosine similarity) to mitigate hallucinations.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on manufacturing/production-systems experience at Wallbox, improving the Supernova charger rework process by streamlining part-number/component updates. Strong in building modular Python/Flask services with clean integration layers (Cosmos DB, NetSuite, traceability/label printing), plus deep SQLAlchemy/Postgres performance tuning. Also brings scalable AI/ML integration and deployment experience (OpenAI/Hugging Face/TensorFlow Serving, Docker/FastAPI/Nginx) and multi-tenant schema isolation with RBAC.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered clinical note summarization system used by care managers to speed review of 5–20 page unstructured medical records. Implemented safety-focused validation (prompt constraints, rule-based and section-level checks, human-in-the-loop) to reduce hallucinations while maintaining low latency and meeting privacy/regulatory constraints, integrating via APIs into existing clinical tools.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong production ownership who built a "Problem Workspace" coding feature using Next.js App Router + TypeScript, combining Server Components for fast initial render with WebSocket-driven real-time execution updates. Demonstrates deep reliability and data-consistency expertise (idempotency keys, Postgres constraints/indexing, EXPLAIN ANALYZE) and has implemented durable async orchestration (Temporal-style workflows) to reduce failures and timeouts under load.”