Vetted Observability Professionals

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who ships AI-enabled products end-to-end: built CodeChat, a production internal codebase Q&A tool using RAG with Pinecone and a model-agnostic wrapper across OpenAI/Anthropic/AWS Bedrock, cutting AWS costs ~50% and latency ~45%. Also built and operated RealityStream, a Flask-based real-time forecasting API with JWT/RBAC, MLflow model versioning, and Prometheus/Grafana observability, including handling a real production latency incident via rollback, preloading, and caching.”

“Product-focused full-stack engineer who built and shipped an LLM-powered document-to-flashcard conversion pipeline end-to-end (backend + React/TypeScript UI) in ~10 days. Experienced with event-driven queue/worker systems (Redis/BullMQ), PostgreSQL performance tuning, and AWS production operations, including resolving real scaling incidents and driving reliability from ~70% to nearly 100%.”

“Engineer with Deloitte experience building real-time analytics products and scalable Kafka/Go/Postgres pipelines, plus production LLM features using RAG and embeddings. Demonstrates strong focus on performance, reliability, and guardrails/evaluation loops to reduce hallucinations and improve real-world AI system quality.”

“Early engineer at a fast-growing startup who owned an AI-powered portfolio/site generation workflow end-to-end (frontend in Next.js App Router/TypeScript through backend orchestration). Emphasizes server-first security/performance (Server Components/Actions, revalidation), and production hardening with validation, caching, observability, retries/idempotency, and CI/E2E testing.”

“Built an end-to-end automated trading system for Polymarket, including Go/Python execution services, Terraform-scheduled ETL/feature pipelines, and monitoring on modest hardware. Also shipped a production LLM+RAG signal verifier/explainer that grounds trade decisions in external context (news/social) with vector DB retrieval and guardrails, plus a lightweight RAGAS-style eval loop on ~50 resolved markets that improved signal faithfulness by ~15%.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer from Foxconn Industrial Internet who led development of a production TypeScript/Node.js facility monitoring platform delivering near real-time manufacturing metrics (e.g., downtime and OEE) using MySQL + InfluxDB and a React dashboard. Demonstrates strong production operations mindset with queue-based workers, idempotency/DLQ patterns, structured observability, and automated Docker + GitLab CI/CD deployments.”

“Financial data engineer who has built and operated high-volume batch + streaming pipelines (200–300 GB/day; 5–10k events/sec) using AWS, Spark/Delta, Airflow, Kafka, and Snowflake, with strong emphasis on data quality and reliability. Demonstrated measurable impact via 99.9% SLA adherence, major reductions in bad records/nulls, MTTR improvements, and significant latency/runtime/query performance gains; also built a distributed web-scraping system processing 5–10M records/day with anti-bot and schema-drift defenses.”

“Full-stack engineer who built an AI-driven document analysis and processing workflow end-to-end, including large-document ingestion, queued async processing, and low-latency retrieval for user-facing flows. Demonstrated practical performance tuning (moving heavy work off request path, polling, caching) and Postgres optimization validated with EXPLAIN ANALYZE, plus durable workflow resilience via retries and dead-letter queues.”

Yukta Chikate

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in safety-critical and uncertainty-aware ML systems

Brooklyn, NY5y exp

“Built and productionized an LLM-powered assistant for company documents and support questions, focused on reducing time spent searching PDFs/policies/tickets while preventing hallucinations by grounding answers in approved sources. Demonstrates strong production engineering (Kubernetes/orchestration, caching, monitoring, fallbacks) plus security-minded permissioning and close collaboration with operations/support stakeholders.”

Rohan Varma Bandari

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist & Generative AI Engineer specializing in LLMs and RAG

USA4y exp

“Built production LLM + hybrid RAG and multi-agent orchestration systems at Wells Fargo to automate complaint document/audio transcript understanding and categorization, addressing vocabulary drift via embedding + vector index updates instead of frequent retraining. Strong in LLM workflow reliability (testing/benchmarks/observability) and stakeholder-facing delivery with explainability (citations/SHAP-style justifications) and Tableau dashboards.”

Harideep Balusa

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in FinTech risk, fraud detection, and GenAI/RAG systems

USA6y exp

“Built and productionized Azure-based LLM/RAG systems for regulatory/compliance use cases, including automating analyst research and compliance report generation across large unstructured document sets. Demonstrates strong practical depth in hallucination mitigation, hybrid retrieval tuning (BM25 + embeddings), and production MLOps (Databricks, Cognitive Search, AKS, Airflow/MLflow), plus proven ability to deliver auditable, explainable solutions with non-technical compliance teams.”

Naga Chandra mouli Thammineni

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in React and Spring Boot

Hyderabad, Telangana, India2y exp

“Software engineer who built and owned a centralized Asset Management platform at Hyundai Mobis used daily by multiple internal teams, delivering everything from UI/TypeScript React frontend to Spring Boot services, databases, deployment, and post-release support. Experienced in scaling microservices with Kafka-based async workflows, improving data consistency/real-time updates, and implementing reliability patterns like standardized API contracts, retries, DLQs, and targeted caching.”

Ram Usarty

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native distributed systems

USA4y exp

“Backend/platform-focused engineer who has shipped production LLM agents for messy research dataset submissions, turning manual validation into an automated, reliable ingestion pipeline. Strong on production hardening (streaming large uploads, strict schema/function-calling outputs, idempotency, RBAC) plus eval/monitoring loops that improved data quality, reduced support burden, and increased adoption.”

Ojasmitha Pedirappagari

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and agentic platforms

Jersey City, NJ5y exp

“Built and shipped a production RAG-based assistant that lets parents ask natural-language questions about their child’s learning progress, using pgvector retrieval (child-id filtered) and Redis caching to hit ~180ms latency. Implemented real-world guardrails and compliance (Llama Guard, COPPA, retrieval thresholds, fallbacks) with 99.5% uptime, and ran human-in-the-loop eval loops that improved satisfaction from 3.8 to 4.2 while serving 60k+ monthly users and reducing costs significantly.”

Srilekha Jakkula

Screened

Senior Data Engineer specializing in scalable data pipelines and API-driven data services

Chicago, IL5y exp

“Data engineer focused on building scalable, reliable end-to-end data pipelines and backend REST data services, spanning API ingestion plus batch/stream processing with Airflow, Kafka, Spark/PySpark, and SQL. Emphasizes strong data quality validation, monitoring/fault tolerance, and performance tuning for large datasets, with experience deploying in cloud environments using containerization and CI/CD.”

Zubair Shaik

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in AI-driven FinTech platforms

Remote, USA4y exp

“Built and productionized an LLM-powered loan decisioning agent at Bank of America, integrating RAG with microservices to automate creditworthiness assessment and recommendations. Emphasizes real-world reliability and governance (EKS autoscaling, observability, SOC2/PCI security controls), and drove measurable outcomes including 20% faster loan decisions and a reduction in agent failures/fallbacks to under 2% through schema enforcement and confidence-based routing.”

SreeHarsha Kelam

Screened

Senior DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure

Atlanta, GA5y exp

“GCP-focused database/platform engineer with hands-on production experience operating Cloud SQL at scale, especially around performance tuning, reliability, and day-2 operations. Has supported migration from a single-instance database setup to a more scalable GCP architecture and built Terraform/Python automation for provisioning and recovery workflows.”

Tara Worrell

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in backend systems, AI/LLM integration, and cloud infrastructure

Brooklyn, NY6y exp

“Backend engineer with experience in highly regulated and high-stakes systems, including an airline crew messaging platform requiring near-zero-error real-time operations and a HIPAA-compliant mental health application built from an early-stage concept. They also show strong operational maturity, having owned a GoDaddy production incident through resolution and then led deployment pipeline improvements that reduced build failures by 40% and doubled deployment frequency.”

Adhiraj Chadha

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI, data, and full-stack applications

Amherst, MA3y exp

“Builder with a mix of backend engineering, product instinct, and startup execution: they shipped a legal BI platform from scratch that handled 1,000+ cases, cut reporting time 80%, and saved $30K annually. They also move quickly in ambiguous environments, from launching a roommate app across iOS/Android after user discovery to building a RAG system with a 50+ case evaluation suite and a cloud dev environment in under 48 hours.”

Hemanth Kumar Gajagiri

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack AI Engineer specializing in agentic systems and scalable platforms

San Francisco, CA6y exp

“AI-focused full-stack/DevOps engineer who goes beyond using copilots and has built production-oriented LLM systems such as natural-language-to-SQL and structured insight extraction pipelines. Stands out for treating AI as an accelerator rather than a replacement, with a strong emphasis on guardrails, validation, observability, and safe deployment practices in agent-based and distributed systems.”

“Engineer with hands-on experience designing and leading multi-agent AI development workflows, including a LangGraph-based system that automated parts of a RAG pipeline and significantly reduced development time. Stands out for treating AI agents like an engineering team, with clear architecture, handoff schemas, validation, and supervisor-driven conflict resolution.”

“Veteran IT operations and security professional with 30+ years of experience keeping companies safe from attacks. They are developing a business plan centered on restoring human oversight in heavily automated operations environments, with the goal of creating a simple, repeatable model that can scale across states and potentially serve both private and public-sector security needs.”

“Backend/real-time systems engineer transitioning into robotics software: building ROS 2 fundamentals (pub/sub, custom messages, launch files) and experimenting with Nav2 + SLAM in Gazebo/RViz. Demonstrated practical debugging by tuning costmaps/planners and analyzing topic latency to stabilize simulated navigation, and has experience integrating telemetry pipelines and REST-based external interfaces.”

“Built and productionized an enterprise retrieval-augmented generation platform for internal knowledge over large unstructured corpora, emphasizing trust via strict citation/grounding and hybrid retrieval (BM25 + FAISS + cross-encoder re-ranking). Demonstrates strong scaling and cost/latency optimization through incremental indexing/embedding and index partitioning, plus disciplined evaluation/observability practices. Has experience operationalizing pipelines with Airflow/Databricks/GitHub Actions and partnering closely with risk & compliance stakeholders on auditability requirements.”