Vetted Observability Professionals

“QA automation engineer with Barclays digital banking experience who owned an end-to-end regression suite across UI, API, and database layers (Selenium/TestNG, REST Assured, SQL) and integrated it into CI/CD (Jenkins/GitLab). Known for preventing high-impact financial defects like duplicate transaction postings by adding backend SQL validations, negative/edge-case coverage, and converting production issues into automated regression tests; also strong in Cypress flake reduction using cy.intercept/cy.session and stable selectors.”

“Full-stack engineer who has shipped and owned production analytics dashboards using Next.js App Router + TypeScript, combining server components for data-heavy pages with client components for interactive charts/filters. Also built a Temporal-orchestrated payment reconciliation workflow with versioning, idempotency, and exponential-backoff retries, and has hands-on Postgres query/index optimization using EXPLAIN ANALYZE.”

“Backend/API engineer with ~4 years experience building production services in .NET Core/PostgreSQL/Redis/Docker and optimizing real-world latency issues (claims ~60% response-time improvement). Also built and owned an end-to-end RAG-based AI assistant using Python/FastAPI, OpenAI APIs, and Pinecone, plus agentic workflows with reliability guardrails (retries, confidence thresholds, monitoring). Currently pursuing a master’s degree and targeting a $150k base salary.”

“Data engineer/backend data services practitioner with Bank of America experience building real-time and batch transaction-monitoring pipelines and APIs (Kafka + databases, REST/GraphQL). Highlights include a reported 45% response-time improvement through performance optimizations and use of Delta Lake schema evolution plus CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins) and operational reliability patterns like CloudWatch monitoring and dead-letter queues.”

Prateek Pravanjan

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLM evaluation and GenAI pipelines

Remote1y exp

“LLM/agent engineer who built a production LangGraph multi-agent orchestrator connecting GitHub and APM/observability signals with a chain-of-verification loop for root-cause analysis. Emphasizes pragmatic architecture (start simple with state summaries), performance tuning (async LLM calls, Docker), and rigorous evaluation (LLM-as-judge, adversarial testing, hallucination/instruction adherence metrics, tool-call tracing) while iterating with non-technical stakeholders via A/B testing.”

Kiran M

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and data platforms

Bentonville, AR5y exp

“Backend/ML integration engineer with experience at Accenture and Walmart building Flask-based analytics and prediction APIs on PostgreSQL/MySQL. Strong focus on performance and scalability—uses precomputed aggregates, Redis caching, query tuning (indexes/partitioning/EXPLAIN), and async/background processing; also designs secure multi-tenant isolation with JWT and schema/db-per-tenant strategies.”

Yuvraj Singh Chauhan

Screened

Entry-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and DevOps automation

Bangalore, India1y exp

“Built and owned a production-scale AI-driven software release/version intelligence platform orchestrated via GitHub Actions that tracks 1000+ upstream repositories and automatically generates SLA-bound JIRA upgrade tickets for hardened container images. Replaced brittle regex/PEP440 parsing with an LLM-based semantic filtering layer plus deterministic validation to handle noisy/inconsistent GitHub tags at scale, with monitoring for coverage, latency, and correctness validated against upstream ground truth.”

Raviteja Kambhampati

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in cloud-native microservices and React

San Francisco, CA5y exp

“Full-stack engineer who has owned customer-facing analytics and dashboard products end-to-end using TypeScript/React with Spring Boot microservices. Strong in scaling and stabilizing distributed systems (RabbitMQ, DLQs/retries, observability with correlation IDs) and in building internal tooling that consolidates ELK/CloudWatch signals to speed up support and operations; reported ~30% performance improvement on a recent dashboard.”

Luis Aragon

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in data infrastructure and distributed systems

San Francisco, CA6y exp

“Software engineer working on agentic AI SMS customer engagement flows and a Customer Data Profile service that unifies journey data across SMS/web/calls while enforcing precise consent management. Has hands-on production operations experience, including recovering a reporting-critical Elasticsearch outage by standing up a new cluster in Kubernetes, restoring from snapshots, and rewinding Kafka consumers to reprocess missed data.”

Arthi R

Screened

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

Remote – Washington, D.C.5y exp

“Backend engineer with fintech/banking experience (e.g., Canara Bank) building secure Python/Flask microservices for financial reporting and unified data access. Strong in Postgres/SQLAlchemy performance optimization (including materialized views) and in productionizing ML services on AWS (Lambda/ECS/CloudWatch) with Docker, model registries, and blue-green deployments, plus multi-tenant isolation via JWT-based middleware.”

Sanjay Mandru

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud microservices and real-time analytics

Buffalo, NY3y exp

“Software engineer who built a reusable React component package (UI modules, auth helpers, API client wrappers) for an AI SaaS background-removal project, emphasizing performance (tree shaking/dynamic imports) and reliability (Jest + Storybook). Also delivered a unified REST API for Samsung Big Data Portal, resolving cross-team issues by standardizing schemas, improving validation/logging, and operating effectively amid shifting requirements.”

Weston Carpenter

Screened

Mid-level Backend Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems

San Francisco, CA6y exp

“Technical/presales engineer with experience at Grubhub and Appen, spanning LLM-adjacent data labeling workflows and production AI troubleshooting. Built an integrations platform at Grubhub and has hands-on experience diagnosing prompt-related AI failures via Splunk, adding JUnit tests and logging to prevent recurrence. Known for shipping customer-specific workflow adaptations (e.g., OCR annotation coordinate transformations for crop/rotation) while keeping timelines intact through iterative delivery and parallelization.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered agent that automated purchasing and inventory operations by integrating with live ERP data and returning structured, machine-readable outputs usable by downstream systems. Emphasizes real-world reliability through orchestration, strict schemas/validation, confidence-based fallbacks with human handoff, and monitoring/evaluation feedback loops to reduce silent failures and make issues observable.”

“Data/ML platform engineer with healthcare (Cigna) experience owning an end-to-end pipeline spanning Airflow + Debezium CDC ingestion, PySpark/SQL transformations, rigorous data quality gates, and feature-store/API serving for ML training and inference. Worked at 10+ TB scale and cites a ~30% latency reduction plus stronger reliability via idempotent design, monitoring, and backfill-safe reprocessing; also built pragmatic early-stage data pipelines at Frankenbuild Ventures.”

“Data engineer/platform builder who has owned production pipelines end-to-end processing millions of records/day, with strong emphasis on data quality (quarantine workflows) and reliability (monitoring, retries, incremental loads). Also designed large-scale external data collection/crawling with anti-bot handling and backfills, and shipped versioned REST data services optimized for performance and developer usability in an early-stage environment.”

Shweta Gupta

Screened

Senior Backend Software Engineer specializing in Java microservices, Kafka, and AWS

Seattle, WA6y exp

“AI engineer who shipped a production chat assistant for a storage company by building the underlying RAG-style knowledge base (document ingestion, chunking/embeddings, FAISS vector store) and an admin update interface to keep content current. Also has full-stack delivery experience (Python REST APIs + React/TypeScript UI) and AWS operations using Terraform/Jenkins, including handling a real production performance incident by optimizing DB queries and adding auto-scaling.”

Alex Johnson

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in observability and developer tools

San Francisco, CA4y exp

“Product-leaning full-stack engineer (65% product / 35% infra) who built core components of the LightFoot feature flag platform: end-to-end client/server SDKs with OpenTelemetry-based observability and a React+TypeScript UI for flag management and metrics dashboards. Strong focus on performance (memoization/lazy loading/caching), reliable API design, and Postgres modeling for read-heavy flag evaluation workloads, with AWS production experience (EC2/ECS/Lambda/API Gateway/VPC).”

Akhilesh Babu Tumati

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native and AI-integrated systems

3y exp

“Built and deployed a Virginia Tech CS department blog/archive application using a MERN/Next.js stack and a fully serverless AWS architecture (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudFront, Route 53), including CI/CD via the Serverless Framework. Implemented RBAC for student/faculty/admin users and added an article export feature backed by MongoDB.”

Niharika Bhasin

Screened

Intern Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AWS serverless and real-time web apps

New York City, NY0y exp

“New-grad/early-career engineer who led high-stakes modernization of a field-operations platform from Firebase to AWS using an incremental/dual-write strategy, achieving zero downtime and ~30–32% infra cost reduction while improving scalability. Also built and productionized an AI-native code assistant (LangChain + Pinecone RAG) with measurable online metrics and safety guardrails, and has experience working directly with CEO/CTO/CPO and embedded with customer teams to ship enterprise features quickly.”

“Backend engineer with healthcare and financial services experience (Humana, PNC) who owned production-grade, high-volume ingestion-to-API pipelines end-to-end in C#/.NET and SQL. Strong focus on data quality, handling out-of-order/partial upstream records, and improving reliability/observability via structured logging and telemetry, plus significant SQL performance tuning to reduce peak-load issues.”

Krishnamraju Penumatsa

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in cloud data platforms and streaming pipelines

Fort Worth, TX6y exp

“Data engineer currently at American Airlines who built and owned end-to-end flight operations and booking data pipelines (batch + real-time) using Azure Data Factory, Kafka, Spark/Databricks, Synapse, and Snowflake—processing hundreds of GBs/day. Strong focus on reliability and data quality (idempotency, checkpointing, retries, validation/alerts) and delivered near-real-time analytics powering Power BI dashboards; previously helped stand up an early-stage data platform at Sysco on AWS (Glue/S3/Redshift) with Airflow and Jenkins CI/CD.”

“Former founding engineer and eventual CTO at 2Plus2 Partners (25 years ago) with additional experience in two private-equity-backed companies (apex analytix and HICX). Interested in helping build another company before retirement; comfortable with entrepreneurial risk but cannot self-fund significant capital.”

Vishal Kodakanchi

Screened

Director of AI Platforms & Architecture specializing in enterprise GenAI and AI Centers of Excellence

Mountain View, CA20y exp

“Software industry veteran (20 years) pursuing entrepreneurship; currently building an MVP software product aimed at solving specific finance and accounting problems for nano, micro, and small enterprises. Plans to run a metrics-driven pilot to validate demand before refining the product and raising capital; leveraging Google for Startups and exploring AWS for Startups.”

“Platform/infrastructure engineer with hands-on ownership of Kubernetes, Terraform, VMware, and hybrid on-prem/AWS environments. Stands out for combining deep platform build/upgrade experience with strong incident response and reliability practices, including a Terraform redesign at H&R Block that reduced provisioning time by 40% and hybrid networking improvements that hardened Direct Connect failover.”