Vetted Engineering Professionals in the Chicago Metro

“Full-stack engineer with experience building secure, cloud-native document/workflow platforms handling high-volume customer and medical data across microservices on Kubernetes. Demonstrated impact improving performance via event-driven AWS architectures (Lambda + DynamoDB Streams) and strengthening compliance/security for S3-stored documents using IAM and KMS. Has delivered end-to-end APIs and UIs using Java/Spring Boot with Angular/React, plus Docker and CI/CD.”

“Backend engineer who has shipped production LLM-powered features, including an AI-assisted developer tool on AWS (Spring Boot) and a blog platform capability using embeddings + Elasticsearch for semantic retrieval and LLM-generated summaries/recommendations. Demonstrates practical tradeoff management (quality/latency/cost), guardrails to reduce hallucinations, and evaluation-driven iteration using real user queries and observability via ELK.”

“Backend/Python engineer who owned an end-to-end FastAPI + AWS internal natural-language document Q&A system (Textract extraction, embeddings/vector DB, LLM integration) with strong focus on reliability and latency. Hands-on with Kubernetes + GitOps (Argo CD, Helm, rolling updates/auto-rollback) and built/optimized Kafka streaming pipelines using Prometheus/Grafana. Also supported a zero-downtime on-prem to cloud migration with parallel run and gradual traffic cutover.”

“Entry-level software engineer who has shipped end-to-end product features in a chat application, including a frontend table component plus backend support, then refactored the implementation after client feedback by switching UI libraries. Has production experience combining traditional NLP with an LLM fallback based on confidence thresholds for intent/entity extraction, and is building infrastructure around legacy enterprise APIs (MCP tools) including asynchronous job queues for long-running tasks.”