Vetted Prometheus Professionals

“Built end-to-end LLM/RAG systems for biological data and scientific literature analysis in a drug discovery setting, helping researchers explore disease insights and treatment hypotheses faster. Combines applied GenAI product work with strong production engineering, including monitoring, retrieval optimization, reusable Python services, and scalable deployment on AWS/Kubeflow.”

Devika gade

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in FinTech and cloud-native applications

Remote, USA4y exp

“Full stack developer with strong implementation ownership across cloud deployments, integrations, and AI-powered support automation. They have put LLM/RAG workflows into production with measurable impact—cutting first response time by nearly 40%—and show unusual depth in debugging non-deterministic AI incidents, improving observability, and turning messy document inputs into reliable API-driven pipelines.”

Keano Zamora

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend, platform, and cloud infrastructure

King of Prussia, PA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with experience owning a customer-facing data platform at GDIT, built on Django and Next.js. Demonstrated pragmatic architecture choices to handle image-heavy deployments and helped evolve the frontend from Alpine.js to a consistent React-based stack.”

“Senior engineering executive who has spent the last decade leading large-scale platform modernization while staying deeply hands-on in architecture, debugging, and code reviews. He has led 120+ person organizations, built cloud-native SaaS and identity platforms across regulated and enterprise domains, and ties engineering decisions directly to revenue outcomes, including contributing to Wind River's $1B+ milestone.”

Sunil Chinthaparthi

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native backend and distributed systems

New York, NY4y exp

“Backend engineer focused on Python/FastAPI microservices running on Kubernetes (AWS EKS) with strong GitOps/CI/CD ownership (GitHub Actions + ArgoCD). Demonstrated measurable performance wins (p95 latency cut from >1s to <200ms) and production reliability work across Kafka/Redis streaming and cloud-to-on-prem migrations (RDS/S3 to Postgres/MinIO) using parallel validation and checksum-based consistency checks.”

“Co-founded a Digital Loss Prevention (DLP) startup and raised $6M in seed funding by showcasing a controlled, laptop-based technology demo. Post-funding, drove MVP planning and execution by sequencing operations and assembling a team to build an appliance MVP, using an iterative build/evaluate/visualize approach.”

“Backend engineer focused on cloud/distributed systems, deploying Java 17/Spring Boot microservices on AWS EKS with RDS and Kafka. Demonstrated strong production readiness work (DB lock mitigation, Kafka idempotency, gradual rollouts) and delivered a major latency improvement (~400ms to ~100ms). Also has proven cross-layer troubleshooting skills, isolating intermittent API timeouts to a specific Kubernetes node’s network interface issue, and partners closely with ops teams to build dashboards and workflow automation (including Python scripts).”

“Built an "AskMyVideo" system that turns YouTube videos into queryable knowledge graphs by transcribing audio (Whisper), chunking and embedding content, and enabling traceable answers back to exact timestamps. Strong in entity resolution (rules + fuzzy matching + TF-IDF/cosine with PR-curve thresholding) and modern retrieval stacks (FAISS, hybrid dense/sparse, domain fine-tuning with ~12% precision gain), with a production mindset using Airflow/Prefect, Docker/FastAPI, and LangSmith/Prometheus/Grafana observability.”

“Worked on payments and wallet transactions, with an emphasis on observability and root-cause analysis. Delivered end-to-end A/B testing optimization and implemented Jenkins-based CI/CD automation that reduced manual implementation to 35% and cut deployments to ~2 minutes, with attention to operational considerations like on-call/call rotations.”

Shanmukha Koganti

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in recommender systems and edge computer vision

Bay Area, CA6y exp

“ML/AI engineer with production experience at Shopify and Intel, building a deep learning product ranking system that lifted add-to-cart ~14% and serving real-time similarity search via FAISS+Redis under <20ms latency at massive scale. Also deployed computer vision models to 100+ retail edge locations using Docker/Ansible/k3s with zero-downtime rollouts, and applies strong MLOps practices (A/B testing, canary/shadow, observability) plus performance optimization (OpenVINO, INT8).”

Alex Vo

Screened

Staff Backend Software Engineer specializing in telemetry pipelines and observability

San Jose, CA3y exp

“Backend engineer from VMware focused on proprietary enterprise systems (monitoring tools, data pipelines, and APIs). Drove a ClickHouse migration POC (local to remote host) using a dual-write/cutover approach and source-level debugging across Node/driver differences during a Node 12→20 upgrade, and delivered measurable performance gains (~20% CPU/memory improvement) through batching and streaming ingestion.”

“Built and owned end-to-end production systems for a healthcare platform, including a predictive task recommendation feature (React + FastAPI + ML on AWS ECS) that cut backlog 20% and saved coordinators ~10 hours/week. Also productionized an AI-native RAG system (vector DB + LLM) delivering 40% faster query resolution, and led phased modernization of a monolithic FastAPI service into async microservices using feature flags and canary releases.”

Sai Karthik Chittamuru

Screened

Senior Salesforce Developer specializing in AI systems and enterprise cloud solutions

Pittsburgh, PA15y exp

“Salesforce-focused engineer with hands-on experience building Sales Cloud and Service Cloud solutions, including a Zoho billing integration for quote/contract workflows and a multi-panel LWC case management dashboard. Stands out for making practical architecture decisions around middleware vs. custom REST, handling idempotency with upsert patterns, and modernizing legacy Aura patterns with Lightning Message Service.”

“Built production-grade Python systems in a medical/imaging context, including an image feature extraction and survival prediction microservice with strong testing, validation, and observability practices. Also developed a Playwright-based autonomous job application agent that handled dynamic UIs and anti-bot challenges with stealth tooling, proxies, and human-in-the-loop escalation.”

Akhil Kunala

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and cloud-native FinTech

Seattle, WA5y exp

“Amazon engineer with 5+ years of experience who built an AI-assisted log investigation and triage workflow that cut debugging time by about 30% during on-call incidents. Combines observability tooling like CloudWatch and Splunk with Python, prompt engineering, and RAG-based diagnostics, and has practical experience orchestrating agentic AI workflows with a strong human-in-the-loop reliability focus.”

Prakash Bhanu

Screened

Director of Software Engineering specializing in cloud, platform, and FinTech systems

Sunnyvale, CA22y exp

“Senior software engineering leader with broad 0-to-1 product experience spanning web apps, microservices, monoliths, messaging platforms, ML/AI products, and large-scale distributed systems. Notable examples include building a payroll/finance product for cast and crew, a distributed messaging platform, and a Walmart application deployed across multiple CDNs and clouds handling hundreds of TPS, with personal ownership across architecture, design, coding, and support.”

“Backend-focused engineer with experience at AWS building a global alarm processing platform (Python, Lambda/SQS/DynamoDB) handling traffic spikes and reliability issues; resolved duplicate alerts and latency under load by fixing hot partitions and enforcing idempotency. Previously at Cognizant, built Java/PostgreSQL backend workflows for healthcare dashboards using pre-aggregated summary tables, strong SQL optimization, and state-driven job orchestration with ELK-based observability and production guardrails.”

“Built end-to-end AI features across both fitness and insurance domains, including a full-stack personalized workout recommendation system and a production RAG-based insurance QA assistant at Relevance Labs. Stands out for combining backend/distributed systems skills with practical LLM architecture, evaluation, and risk-aware human-in-the-loop design; notably reduced unnecessary LLM calls by 40% while improving latency and answer reliability.”

“Cloud infrastructure/product engineer with end-to-end ownership of cloud-native storage/observability products, including taking an internal CMS to Google Cloud Marketplace and scaling to ~40,000 deployments. Strong in Kubernetes-based platforms (Operators, microservices, RabbitMQ) and performance/scalability work (e.g., 200% cluster capacity increase) plus internal tooling that materially improved SRE/QA debugging and release velocity.”

“Built a production LLM-powered RAG agent for healthcare/insurance operations that retrieves and summarizes patient medical documents with grounded citations, scaling to ~4.5M records. Addressed medical shorthand and terminology by fine-tuning ~120 lightweight DistilBERT models by specialty and validating entities against SNOMED/RxNorm, while using SHAP/LIME and human-in-the-loop review to make decisions explainable to stakeholders.”

“Full-stack AI/LLM engineer who has deployed a production LLM backend (Mistral 14B) on GKE to auto-transform datasets and generate runnable ML training pipelines, addressing hallucinations, schema mismatch, latency, and burst scaling with caching/prompt compression and HPA. Also has internship experience (Splunk, BlackOffer) delivering data automation and 10+ Power BI dashboards for non-technical stakeholders with measurable efficiency gains.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with e-commerce and analytics experience who modernized synchronous order workflows into a Kafka-based event-driven architecture (Java/Spring Boot) to reduce checkout latency and peak-traffic failures. Has built production FastAPI services with JWT/RBAC and strong testing/observability, delivered React+TypeScript reporting dashboards, and handled AWS scaling incidents end-to-end (RDS read latency mitigated with read replicas and query tuning).”

“Built and owned a production conversational AI platform for a healthcare contact center, including RAG-based agent assist, hybrid retrieval, safety guardrails, and production monitoring. Stands out for combining LLM product delivery with strong operational rigor, driving a reported 25-30% improvement in handling time in a sensitive healthcare environment.”

“Built and launched a production self-healing MLOps agent that autonomously diagnosed and fixed model training failures on Kubernetes GPU infrastructure. Combines deep AI infrastructure knowledge with full-stack product ownership, and has delivered measurable impact including 35% less infrastructure waste, nearly 50% less troubleshooting time, and 60% lower LLM API costs.”