Vetted Engineering Professionals in the Greater Phoenix

“AWS-focused backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building serverless APIs (Lambda/API Gateway) secured with Cognito/JWT, deploying via Terraform + CI/CD, and managing secrets with Secrets Manager/Parameter Store. Also built AWS Glue ETL from S3 to RDS with schema evolution and data-quality controls, modernized a monolith into microservices using parallel testing, and delivered major SQL performance gains (minutes to seconds) while owning incident response for batch pipelines.”

“Built a full-stack dependency impact analysis product ('Blast Radius') that mapped runtime service relationships and reportedly reduced deployment incidents by 40%. Also developed AI evaluation and security benchmarking systems, including WebSEC Arena and a lyric-generation tool fine-tuned on 300,000 song lyrics, with academic interest strong enough to spur a research paper effort.”

“Backend engineer specializing in event-driven/serverless systems and Python/FastAPI APIs. Built a scalable PDF-to-structured-data pipeline on AWS (S3, Lambda, Step Functions, Textract, DynamoDB, SNS) with strong observability (p50/p90/p99) and reliability patterns (idempotency, retries/DLQs), and has led zero-downtime migrations using feature flags, dual writes, and incremental rollouts.”

Mayank VYAS

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM agents, RAG retrieval, and IoT ML systems

Tempe, AZ4y exp

“Built production LLM-driven products including a job-hunt AI (job ranking + resume optimization) and an InterviewAI agentic pipeline using LangChain. Focused on practical deployment concerns like securing OpenAI usage via rate limiting and tiered quotas, and demonstrates an applied approach to choosing models, retrieval methods (RAG), and prompting strategies.”

“Software engineering intern who built and deployed a full-stack telemedicine platform (React/Node/MongoDB) used daily in a pediatric clinic, incorporating PyTorch-based predictive features. Demonstrated strong customer-facing iteration and production performance debugging—resolved a live slowdown by indexing/optimizing MongoDB queries and adding caching, improving response times by ~50%.”

“Backend engineer who has led redesigns and migrations for a real-time logistics platform, improving scalability and resilience while managing eventual consistency tradeoffs. Demonstrates strong distributed-systems rigor (idempotency, transactions, async queues, monitoring) and builds secure, versioned FastAPI APIs with JWT/OAuth2, RBAC, and database row-level security.”

Jeevan Hebbal Manjunath

Screened

Junior Robotics & Machine Learning Engineer specializing in autonomous systems

Tempe, AZ2y exp

“Robotics engineer leading development of a Physical Reservoir Computing controller for a pneumatic soft robotic arm, owning everything from automated data collection and leak-testing automation to hardware design/manufacturing and cross-lab integration with Virginia Tech. Built ROS 2/DDS-based multi-robot systems integrating OptiTrack, a lab quadruped, and a UR5e, and pairs simulation (Gazebo/MuJoCo) + PPO RL training with production-ready tooling (Docker, CI/CD, Flask dashboards, RAG chatbot portfolio).”