Vetted OpenTelemetry Professionals

“Founder/CTO-type startup leader who has built cloud-native data and AI platforms from scratch while owning both technical vision and product direction. Brings rare end-to-end startup experience spanning zero-to-one building, growth-stage execution, and fundraising from early stage through exit, with a strong ability to translate technical complexity into clear investor narratives.”

Abhishek Adinarayanappa

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in backend, cloud, and machine learning systems

Miami, FL3y exp

“Built Digipulse, a university project that ingested and clustered Bluesky tweet data at scale and used Gemini to generate near-real-time topic summaries, processing 1M+ tweets per day. Also brings Intel experience with Prometheus and Kubernetes, including production monitoring and incident troubleshooting.”

“Built and deployed an AI-powered insurance claims fraud platform end-to-end using Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, OpenAI, pgvector, and AWS EKS. Stands out for combining LLM/RAG architecture with production-grade scalability and observability, delivering measurable impact including 62% less manual review, 40% better fraud precision, 37% higher throughput, and 99.95% uptime.”

“Player-coach engineering leader currently running a Solution Architecture/FDE team responsible for both presales and postsales delivery. Stands out for combining enterprise systems thinking with hands-on AI product work: they built configurable tooling that sped delivery by ~30%, drove a Kafka-to-Pulsar architecture shift for scale, and spent the last two years building LLM-based document extraction and RAG inference pipelines shaped directly by user feedback.”

“AI/full-stack engineer who has built both a real-time crypto sentiment platform from scratch and production enterprise RAG search systems at Kore.ai. Stands out for combining strong systems engineering with practical LLM evaluation, retrieval tuning, and careful human-in-the-loop design for high-risk network automation use cases with Cisco.”

“Frontend/platform engineer with unusually strong depth in real-time data systems, observability, and API architecture across Adobe, Macy's/Bloomingdale's, and ASU. They’ve owned high-scale product surfaces end-to-end, from secure GraphQL/REST and WebSocket design through deployment, while also driving platform-wide standards adopted across 8+ product surfaces and 6 teams.”

“Built and productionized an autonomous research agent (AutoGPT) in a Docker/Kubernetes environment with Pinecone-based long-term memory and custom Python tools for analysis, visualization, and report drafting. Implemented layered guardrails (prompt templates, automated validation, self-critique loops, and monitoring) and achieved ~25% reduction in manual report generation time while scaling the workflow to support multiple concurrent users.”

Pahuldeep Singh

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Senior Full-Stack Developer specializing in scalable web platforms and automation

Remote6y exp

“Backend/full-stack engineer focused on TypeScript/Node.js systems, with hands-on ownership of a real-time telemetry and dashboard platform built on Kafka, Debezium, PostgreSQL, and GraphQL. Stands out for combining event-driven architecture, correctness/idempotency patterns, strong observability, multi-tenant security, and developer-friendly API design in production environments.”

“Built and shipped AI-powered fraud investigation and risk dashboard features at Barclays, combining full-stack engineering with RAG-based LLM systems in a compliance-sensitive environment. Stands out for pairing explainable AI architecture with measurable business impact: improving fraud detection accuracy by 18% while reducing analyst investigation time by 14%.”

Ajay Madhusudhan Thumala

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in data engineering and LLM applications

Irvine, CA1y exp

“Computer science engineer and master’s graduate who independently built a mechatronics-heavy capstone prototype: a smartphone concept for deafblind users using micro-actuator arrays for braille reading. Also has platform engineering experience at Quantiphi, deploying webhooks to Kubernetes and implementing GitOps-based CI/CD using AWS CodeCommit/CodeBuild and ECR.”

“Built a production AI-powered insights platform for marketing teams analyzing large-scale social and news data, combining Java microservices, Kafka, Spark, React, and LLM-based retrieval workflows. Stands out for shipping customer-facing AI features with measurable gains in accuracy and latency, plus solid reliability practices for high-volume backend systems.”

“Candidate brings practical GenAI engineering experience with a disciplined approach to AI-assisted development. They have designed lightweight multi-agent workflows for a RAG-based support copilot, including retrieval, relevance validation, response generation, and groundedness checks to reduce hallucinations.”

“Full-stack engineer who has built both a TypeScript-based HR/payroll platform and a production agentic AI support system end to end. Stands out for combining strong product judgment with deep LLM systems thinking: RAG architecture, confidence-based routing, evals, observability, and human-in-the-loop design in a greenfield environment.”

Zack Pagano

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Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and data platforms

San Francisco, CA3y exp

“Engineer in a highly regulated banking environment who has built both a full-stack digest product that cut notification volume 40% and an internal LLM-powered on-call assistant that reduced triage time by 30%+. Stands out for combining strong AWS/serverless and TypeScript architecture skills with careful AI safety, observability, and compliance-minded design.”

“Backend/platform engineer who has built and run production Python/Flask + Kafka microservices processing RFID and camera/RFID fusion streams for near-real-time retail cart updates at ~4–5M events/day. Strong in reliability/performance debugging (p99 latency, Kafka lag, Cosmos DB RU hot partitions) with measurable impact including ~30% database cost reduction, and has also shipped an end-to-end vulnerability scanning workflow with DynamoDB-backed state, idempotency, and robust retry/verification guardrails.”

“Backend engineer who built and owned an AI-powered SMS survey platform for a nonprofit serving at-risk communities (internet-limited users), using Cloudflare Workers + Twilio and a state-machine survey engine. Scaled it to ~10k active users with near-zero downtime, added English/Spanish support, and iteratively improved LLM behavior (Claude 3.7 Sonnet) to handle nuanced, real-world SMS responses reliably.”

“Full-stack engineer with end-to-end ownership experience, including building a real-time campaign/inventory dashboard at P&G using React/TypeScript, Spring Boot, GraphQL/REST, Redis, Docker, and AWS (EC2/RDS/S3) with Prometheus/Grafana observability. Demonstrates strong performance and reliability focus (p95 tuning, caching, idempotent event-driven ingestion with DLQs/reconciliation) and has shipped MVPs in ambiguous early-stage environments.”

“Financial-services AI engineer who shipped a production investment research assistant using RAG over internal research reports, SEC filings, and meeting transcripts, with a strong emphasis on truthfulness and guardrails. Built a structured evaluation loop (200+ golden test cases, RAG Triad metrics) that directly improved retrieval quality (e.g., fixing year-mismatch retrieval, boosting sensitive-query performance by 18% and cutting hallucinations to near zero) and scaled ingestion to ~10k messy documents with RabbitMQ + OpenTelemetry.”

Srinivas Matta

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Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in cloud-native web platforms

Paducah, KY4y exp

“Software engineer at Capital One who owned and shipped AI-driven personalization and internal insights dashboards end-to-end, emphasizing fast iteration with feature flags and tight user feedback loops. Built a TypeScript/React + Spring Boot/Python document automation platform with compute-heavy NLP microservices, async workflows, and production-scale reliability/performance practices (Kafka/RabbitMQ-style queues, Redis caching, tracing).”

“Product-minded full-stack engineer who has built AI-heavy systems spanning Next.js/TypeScript frontends, Python/FastAPI backends, queues, databases, and workflow infrastructure. Stands out for combining strong technical depth with UX instincts—improving trust in AI assistants, shipping ambiguous client features quickly, and creating reusable primitives for AI generation and analysis products.”

“Built a production internal RAG-based Q&A assistant at Huawei for ~4,000 engineers over a 12M-document Elasticsearch corpus, replacing link-only search with synthesized answers and achieving 87% user acceptance while keeping hallucinations under 0.4%. Pairs rigorous offline benchmarking (RAGAS, PR-gated F1 improvements) with human A/B testing and OpenTelemetry-based production monitoring, and also has strong Kubernetes/SRE experience orchestrating 50+ gRPC services with major MTTR and pager-fatigue reductions.”

“Infrastructure/operations engineer with deep IBM Power/AIX experience (AIX 7.x, VIOS, HMC/vHMC) managing ~15–25 LPARs across production and DR, including live DLPAR changes and structured performance troubleshooting. Also hands-on with PowerHA/HACMP incident recovery and failover testing, plus broader DevOps delivery building Jenkins CI/CD for containerized microservices and Terraform/Ansible IaC across AWS and Azure, and leading Solaris SPARC to x86 migration cutovers.”

Hangquan Zhao

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in connected vehicle platforms and real-time data systems

Mountain View, CA4y exp

“Open-source maintainer of KafkaJSUI, a Vue.js-based Kafka browser UI, focused on making large-topic exploration fast and responsive. Delivered major performance wins (incremental fetching, virtualized lists, WebSocket streaming, backpressure, Web Worker offloading) cutting load times to sub-200ms, and also strengthened CI and developer documentation while handling community-reported issues end-to-end.”