Vetted Splunk Professionals

Kal Yimer

Screened

Mid-level Java Application Engineer specializing in FinTech backend systems

Silver Spring, MD3y exp

“Banking-focused software engineer with hands-on experience modernizing legacy systems and building internal full-stack applications using Java, Spring Boot, React, SQL, and MongoDB. Stands out for reliability-minded engineering in financial environments, including a scheduling system that handled Daylight Saving Time correctly, reduced manual work, and protected downstream processing.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building reliable Python FastAPI services on Kubernetes and delivering AWS EKS + Terraform CI/CD with strong secrets isolation and rollback practices. Also built AWS Glue ETL pipelines into S3/Redshift with schema-evolution handling and data-quality controls, modernized legacy analytics into modular Python services with parallel-run parity validation, and has demonstrated SQL tuning impact (minutes to seconds) plus ownership of batch pipeline incidents end-to-end.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building FastAPI APIs secured with JWT and delivering AWS-based data processing solutions using Lambda and ECS Fargate. Has worked with Snowflake/third-party API sources and targets including DynamoDB, S3, RDS, Redshift, and Glue, and uses CloudWatch/X-Ray for monitoring and troubleshooting. Seeking ~$65/hr and is open to onsite work in Bethesda, MD.”

“Software engineer/QA automation leader with Lowe’s experience owning automation quality strategy for a customer-facing platform supporting large contractor orders. Built TypeScript/React dashboards backed by Spring Boot microservices (MongoDB) and RabbitMQ async messaging, with strong CI/CD test automation and production monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana). Also created an internal automated test reporting dashboard that improved QA workflow through training-led adoption and iterative refinement.”

“Backend engineer with banking-domain experience building production microservices and Kafka-based transaction processing systems. While they have not yet shipped a full LLM agent, they bring relevant distributed-systems expertise in reliability, observability, idempotency, and event-driven workflow design, including a reported 15-20% performance improvement.”