Vetted Engineering Professionals in the Chicago Metro

“Serverless-focused engineer (5+ years) who has built and deployed AWS Lambda/API Gateway backends with CloudFormation-based IaC and Jenkins-driven CI/CD across dev/staging/prod. Has experience with AWS Glue/OpenSearch data pipelines and emphasizes data correctness via Golden Data automated tests; also modernized a regulated .NET account-confirmation workflow by eliminating an unreliable SMTP email dependency. Based in San Jose, seeking primarily remote work with quarterly travel to Bethesda, MD and targeting $200k base.”

“Infrastructure security/DevSecOps engineer who led security and automation patterns during a large Azure migration (30+ legacy apps, wave-based execution), enforcing zero-trust controls by baking CrowdStrike/Illumio into golden images and adding CI/CD security gates. Experienced integrating GitLab runners and Terraform agents as containerized services with strong secrets management (Azure Key Vault) and disciplined image/versioning practices, and has hands-on troubleshooting of ACI runtime constraints under load.”

“Backend/ML platform engineer who owns end-to-end delivery of ML-serving APIs (FastAPI + TensorFlow) and runs them reliably on Kubernetes using ArgoCD GitOps. Has hands-on experience solving production-only issues (probe tuning for model warm-up, resource profiling) and building scalable Kafka streaming pipelines, plus supporting phased on-prem to AWS migrations with dependency discovery and recreation of hidden jobs/workflows.”

“AIX/IBM Power veteran (30 years) with hands-on experience across the full stack—hardware installs, HMC/vHMC, VIOS, LPAR/DLPAR, NIM, and PowerHA fundamentals. Led SEV1 performance incidents (including Ethernet adapter tuning) and helped re-platform a large AIX estate to AWS (77 servers to ~120 EC2s) with extensive pre-cutover testing and operational automation (mksysb + sudo provisioning).”

“Embedded/software engineer with hands-on Raspberry Pi work building a WhatsApp-controlled camera/servo system using TCP/IP plus Selenium automation of WhatsApp Web. Brings production DevOps experience from Infosys (Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD, microservices, Kafka) and a methodical hardware/software debugging workflow using lab tools like oscilloscopes and multimeters.”

“Hands-on engineer focused on taking complex/LLM-style workflows from prototype to production, emphasizing robust error handling, CI/CD + Docker deployment, and deep observability (Kibana/Rancher/Grafana). Experienced customizing client integrations and data transformations (XML/JSON/PDF to SFTP) and debugging agent workflows with traces, prompt verification, and human-in-the-loop safety controls. Partnered with product/ops to drive adoption, including a MuleSoft migration that improved partner onboarding speed by ~50%.”

“Product-focused full-stack engineer (70% application-layer) who has shipped multi-tenant RBAC for a formerly single-tenant platform, cutting infrastructure costs by 50%. Built high-impact customer-facing features including analytics dashboards (40% retention lift) and a React/TypeScript scheduling grid that reduced navigation time by 60% and setup time by 80%, with solid AWS operations and Postgres performance tuning experience.”

“Python backend engineer who owned an end-to-end Django/DRF authentication and account-management module (JWT, RBAC, email verification) and optimized token validation performance. Has hands-on Kubernetes + Helm delivery with GitOps via ArgoCD (multi-environment app-of-apps, drift detection/rollback) and has supported a cloud-to-on-prem migration using staged testing and phased cutover. Also built and scaled a Kafka-based real-time user activity tracking pipeline with reliability and backpressure controls.”

“AAA sports game QA tester who supported full development through launch and live updates, owning gameplay stability/regression risk. Experienced in triage-driven prioritization and in diagnosing complex crash issues (including thread synchronization) using evidence-backed Jira reports, then hardening coverage with stress/concurrency/soak and CI-integrated regression suites.”

“Backend engineer with airline operations domain experience who modernized flight-ops systems from batch updates to real-time streaming on AWS (Kafka + Spring Boot microservices), improving latency and stability through metric-driven tuning and idempotency. Also shipped a production LLM decision-support component using RAG over operational logs and internal procedures, with strong guardrails and an evaluation/regression loop to reduce hallucinations and enforce grounding.”