Vetted Spring Boot Professionals

“Software engineer focused on data platforms and applied LLM systems: built an internal data quality monitoring layer to catch silent data drift and iterated post-launch after finding ~30% false-positive alerts, reducing noise via dynamic baselines and improved structured logging. Also shipped a production RAG-based internal knowledge assistant over Jira/Confluence with citations, confidence-based fallbacks, and nightly automated evals to prevent regressions.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer (5+ years) with Shopify experience integrating LLM/RAG workflows into production APIs. Owned a Python TensorFlow Serving inference pipeline connected to Java microservices via gRPC, optimizing tail latency at ~10k concurrent load and improving retrieval relevance with embedding and evaluation work. Strong Kubernetes/EKS + GitOps/CI/CD background, including monolith-to-microservices migrations and event-driven streaming patterns.”

“Ticketmaster data engineer who built CDC-driven Kafka pipelines feeding Snowflake for analytics and data science teams. Hands-on in production operations—scaled Kafka during sudden playoff-driven transaction spikes and improved monitoring for preemptive scaling. Known for using small-batch experiments and quantitative metrics to align stakeholders and drive cost-saving architecture changes (e.g., buffering to reduce AWS Lambda invocation frequency).”

“Backend/platform engineer with deep payments experience who built and operated a real-time transaction routing service end-to-end on AWS (Spring Boot, PostgreSQL/RDS, Redis, Kubernetes), delivering ~40% latency reduction and 99.99% uptime via strong resiliency and observability practices. Also productionized an internal LLM-powered RAG knowledge assistant with guardrails and a user-feedback-driven evaluation loop, and has led incremental monolith-to-microservices modernization using Strangler Fig and shadow traffic.”

“Backend engineer with experience at UnitedHealth Group redesigning a high-traffic Spring Boot microservice from blocking to reactive architecture during peak season, cutting median latency by 47% for a service used by ~10M customers annually. Strong in Kubernetes-based deployment/scaling and pragmatic rollout strategies (blue-green/incremental traffic shifting) with performance and database troubleshooting.”

“Amazon experience integrating LLM-powered chat automation into Amazon Connect contact-center workflows, taking prototypes to production with compliance-minded guardrails, schema/policy validation, and robust fallbacks. Regularly supports rollout and adoption via developer workshops, integration guides, and customer calls, with strong production triage and observability practices.”

“Backend engineer who built a real-time pipeline for recording, transcribing, and analyzing audio from 400+ news radio stations, scaling Whisper on an HPC cluster with 7 H100 GPUs. Has strong performance optimization experience (30% latency reduction via SQL/query design; 50% DB call reduction via Redis caching) and has implemented region-based data isolation and PII protections in a regulated environment (JP Morgan Chase).”

“SRE-focused engineer with experience at Sony Interactive Entertainment productionizing high-throughput LLM/agentic systems on Kubernetes, including GPU-aware autoscaling and warm-pool strategies to manage latency and cost under traffic spikes. Demonstrates strong incident response using Prometheus/Grafana + Jaeger tracing (e.g., resolving recursive agent loops and restoring 99.9% availability within minutes) and partners closely with sales/customer teams through PoV demos and developer workshops.”

“Backend engineer from Palantir who built and productionized an enterprise LLM-based document intelligence/search platform, evolving it into a hybrid lexical+vector retrieval system. Emphasizes reliability and cost control via strict LLM gating, robust fallback paths, and evaluation frameworks (e.g., MMLU/BLEU), plus disciplined migration practices (feature flags, dual-writes, shadow reads) to ship changes safely at scale.”

“AI engineer at Anote.ai who built and shipped a production multi-agent LangGraph/LangChain/Ray RAG platform for enterprise search and workflow automation, supporting 3 commercial products and 100+ developers. Drove measurable gains (30% accuracy improvement, lower latency) and improved reliability with Redis-based state checkpointing, message-queue synchronization, and Milvus retrieval optimizations, while partnering with PMs/clients to add transparency features like confidence scores and real-time logs.”

“Capital One engineer leading the architecture and delivery of a large-scale AWS Glue/Spark/Delta Lake batch messaging pipeline that decoupled batch from real-time flows, added multi-region failover and automated retries, and delivered ~40% AWS cost savings with ~3x performance gains. Currently building an LLM-powered Slack bot using RAG to automate message investigations by querying CloudWatch, Snowflake, and internal documentation with privacy-aware masking of NPI/PII.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience building credit/fraud enrichment services and checkout pipelines on AWS (EKS + Lambda) using FastAPI, Kafka, Postgres, and Redis, with a strong focus on reliability patterns (timeouts/retries/circuit breakers) and observability. Has also built AWS Glue/PySpark ETL into S3/Redshift with schema evolution and data quality controls, and modernized legacy credit decisioning into Java/Node microservices with parallel-run parity validation and feature-flag rollouts.”

“Engineering leader at Bayer Crop Science leading a Core Platform team responsible for widely used open-source TypeScript/React and mobile SDKs (npm/GitHub) embedded across 10M+ monthly active devices. Known for shipping high-performance, backward-compatible developer frameworks with rigorous release discipline (bi-weekly releases, 99.99% uptime, long streaks of zero breaking changes) and major DX wins (onboarding cut to minutes, support tickets down 82%).”

“Engineering leader who managed a 20-person cross-functional team building customer-driven software solutions, delivering a 50% reduction in simulation/test lifecycle and securing a long-term strategic SLA. Strong in scalable data ingestion architectures (FastAPI + Kafka + multiprocess workers), operational diagnostics (correlation IDs/centralized logging), and microservice decoupling for analytics/visualization. Active open-source contributor who shipped a NATS bug fix and improved SDK onboarding with automation that cut ramp time by 30%.”