Vetted Observability Professionals

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.”

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.”

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.”

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).”

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.”

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.”

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.”

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.”

“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.”

Paavani Karuturi

Screened

Junior Backend and ML Engineer specializing in distributed systems and LLM infrastructure

San Jose, CA2y exp

“Backend engineer with strong ownership across authentication, API infrastructure, and AI-powered document workflows. They built and operated a production auth microservice supporting 10,000+ users with measurable latency and security improvements, and also shipped hackathon and applied-AI systems including legal document and medical document retrieval/Q&A products.”

“Full-stack engineer at an early-stage startup with hands-on production experience spanning Angular frontend features, backend safety checks for an image-generation workflow (OpenAI Safety), and AWS operations. Built CI/CD to ECS with GitHub Actions, implemented CloudWatch observability, and improved release reliability via Blue/Green deployments with automatic rollback.”

Michael Boaz

Screened

Senior Software Developer specializing in cloud-native and event-driven architecture

Atlanta, GA24y exp

“Built and shipped production LLM/agent systems on AWS for internal developer support and IT observability use cases, including a Claude-based support tool grounded in internal documentation and a cost-optimized ServiceNow integration. Stands out for combining agent design, cloud architecture, CI/CD, chaos testing, and observability to make non-deterministic systems reliable and maintainable in production.”

“Full-stack engineer focused on AI-powered enterprise document automation, especially transforming unstructured financial documents into structured outputs. Stands out for treating LLMs and agents as components within robust production systems, with emphasis on validation, security, observability, and scalable multi-agent architecture.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on ownership of Spring Boot microservice deployments in Freddie Mac's mortgage workflow domain, including measurable gains in reliability and MTTR. Brings strong production debugging skills around distributed transaction pipelines and has also built a full-stack AI chatbot project using React, Express, and Google Gemini API.”

“Engineering leader with 8+ years across IoT, emergency messaging, and political campaign data science, including operating a massive IoT microservices platform at several million devices and roughly 200 million requests per minute. Particularly strong in retrofitting legacy systems for modern observability using OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb, and Grafana LGTM, while also managing distributed international teams and developing engineers into senior and tech lead roles.”

Arya Thorat

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in distributed cloud-native FinTech systems

Texas, USA5y exp

“Full-stack/backend engineer with deep experience building real-time fraud and credit-risk systems. Shipped an event-driven fraud monitoring platform (Kafka→MongoDB/Redis→WebSockets) delivering sub-200ms updates to 3000+ concurrent internal users, and built a Java/Spring Boot credit risk decisioning API that improved turnaround time by 30–40%. Strong AWS production operations (ECS Fargate/RDS/Redis) with proven incident response and performance tuning.”

“Full-stack engineer focused on fintech risk and fraud products, with hands-on experience building React/TypeScript dashboards and Spring Boot microservices backed by PostgreSQL, Redis, and AWS. Has also contributed to AI-driven fraud detection workflows using AWS Bedrock, with a strong emphasis on production reliability, analyst usability, and measurable quality metrics.”

“Growth-stage startup engineer with strong end-to-end ownership across React, Java/Spring Boot, MySQL, and cloud deployment. They led workflow automation products that replaced manual operational processes, improved efficiency and reliability, and evolved the platform into a more configurable B2B workflow system shaped by user feedback.”