Vetted Agile Professionals

“QA professional from enterprise SaaS/cloud environments (Exeter; previously Boeing programs) with strong UI and end-to-end workflow testing experience. Known for rigorous defect investigation and validation across UI/API/DB layers (including SQL checks) and disciplined tooling/workflow in Jira/Azure DevOps/ALM Octane; has QA lead experience supporting release readiness and go/no-go decisions. No professional game studio/AAA shipping experience yet, but experience maps to complex, high-pressure release cycles.”

“Former President/CEO who led MyGov through a successful acquisition, now on sabbatical building ncognait LLC—an AI-enabled app studio with one product launched (Taistful) and another in private beta (AIDONIS). Focused on startup CTO/founding roles and highly opinionated about using agentic coding to dramatically compress product development cycles and compete with larger incumbents.”

“Engineering leader/player-coach who modernized a legacy C#/SQL Server system to Snowflake + Python on GCP, enabling ~30x scale and supporting hundreds of millions of transactions per day per customer. Strong in architecture tradeoffs (Snowflake vs Databricks), production reliability (New Relic, logging/alerting), and lightweight process improvements like a rigorous Definition of Done and structured PR reviews.”

“Backend/platform engineer who has owned end-to-end production systems in financial/claims domains, including a transaction analytics microservice platform processing ~10M daily operations and cutting latency from ~150ms to <70ms. Also productionized an LLM-powered monitoring/alerting capability (Llama 3 + FastAPI) with prompt design, guardrails, and production evaluation, and led monolith-to-microservices modernization on AWS using feature flags and parallel runs.”

“Built a production internal LLM-powered knowledge assistant using a RAG architecture (Python, LLM APIs, cloud services) that answers employee questions with sourced, grounded responses from internal documents. Demonstrates strong practical depth in retrieval tuning (chunking/metadata filters), orchestration with LangChain, and production reliability practices (latency optimization, automated embedding refresh, evaluation metrics, logging/monitoring) while partnering closely with non-technical operations teams.”

“Built and productionized AI-driven insurance claims document intelligence/automation at American Family Insurance, integrating OCR/NLP models and a rules-based validation layer into existing claims systems via APIs. Delivered measurable impact (≈28% accuracy lift, ≈35% reduction in manual processing time) and modernized legacy workflows with phased cloud migration, feature flags, parallel runs, and CloudWatch-based monitoring.”

“Software engineer with hands-on ownership of both fintech checkout improvements (saved payment methods/one-click checkout with tokenization and feature-flag rollouts) and production LLM/RAG systems for customer support. Demonstrates strong operational rigor via guardrails, evaluation loops integrated into CI/CD, and scalable data pipelines handling messy PDFs/CSVs/logs with reliability and observability.”

“Distributed-systems engineer applying robotics-style patterns to software: built "Vibecheck," a high-throughput real-time video + OS-telemetry fusion and analysis system (500+ MB/session) with strict latency constraints. Strong in containerization and CI/CD (Docker, GitHub Actions) and in designing fault-tolerant, event-driven architectures (Kafka/RabbitMQ), plus hands-on debugging of multi-agent coordination using blackboard + watchdog/circuit-breaker control patterns.”

“Data/analytics-focused engineer who builds end-to-end KPI reporting and validation products used daily by plant leads and leadership to track yield, downtime, and defects. Combines Python/SQL + Power BI data pipelines with strong data-quality practices (automated validation, monitoring/alerts) and has experience designing scalable frontend architecture in TypeScript/React and working in distributed/microservices-style data systems.”

“Runs two lean real estate companies remotely by building local on-the-ground contact networks and leveraging free-tier technology to keep total annual business costs under $100. Brings a cost-elimination and MVP/validation-first mindset, preferring to join an established company unless a clearly viable business idea emerges.”

“Backend/ML-focused software engineer who built and evolved a Python/FastAPI backend for a large-scale conversational AI platform, decoupling API and inference services to improve stability and deployment velocity. Experienced in production hardening (timeouts/fallbacks/monitoring), secure multi-tenant systems (JWT/RBAC/RLS), and low-risk migrations using shadow deployments and incremental traffic ramp-ups.”

“Full-stack engineer who built an internal user-activity tracking and reporting system end-to-end using React/TypeScript, Node/Express, and Postgres, deployed on AWS (EC2/ALB, S3/CloudFront) with CloudWatch observability. Emphasizes reliability and data correctness via idempotent ingestion, retries with exponential backoff, backfills/reconciliation, and performance tuning as data scales, and has experience shipping quickly in ambiguous early-stage startup conditions.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across GCP and AWS: built FastAPI microservices on Cloud Run and delivered AWS Lambda + ECS Fargate systems with Terraform/GitHub Actions. Strong in data engineering (Glue/Spark, S3/Redshift) and modernization (SAS to Python/SQL), with proven reliability and incident ownership—including cutting a 20+ minute reporting query to under 2 minutes.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on ROS 2 autonomy experience on an obstacle-avoiding quadrotor (ROS 2 + Gazebo + PX4 + Nav2/SLAM), including custom work to extend Nav2 into a 3D aerial domain and output PX4 trajectory setpoints. Also built cost-saving ML infrastructure (PostgreSQL + AWS data-cleaning pipeline) and improved object detection accuracy by 40% using CUDA/PyTorch, with strong containerization and CI/CD practices (Docker + Kubernetes, aggressive version pinning) to prevent environment drift.”

“AI/LLM engineer who built a production autonomous GenAI content ecosystem that generates short-form scripts, extracts viral highlights from long-form video, and dubs content into 33+ languages. Focused on making LLM outputs production-safe via schema enforcement, token-to-time alignment, critic-agent verification, and scalable async orchestration—cutting manual workflows by ~90% and saving $200k+ annually.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience building secure Django/DRF APIs (JWT RS256 + rotating refresh tokens), background processing with Celery, and strong reliability practices (timeouts, retries/backoff, structured logging, audit trails). Has delivered AWS solutions spanning Lambda + ECS with IaC/CI-CD and built Glue/PySpark ETL pipelines with schema evolution and data-quality quarantine patterns; also modernized a legacy SAS pipeline to Python/PySpark with parallel-run parity validation and phased rollout.”

“Backend-focused engineer with financial domain experience who built Java REST APIs for data entry/validation and implemented strong testing, alerting, and rollback practices for production reliability. Has hands-on experience automating legacy manual processes with Ansible and troubleshooting AWS EKS/OpenShift deployments via CloudFormation in a permission-constrained enterprise environment; comfortable with occasional onsite meetings in Bethesda, MD.”

“AI/LLM engineer who built a production content-generation system for nursing education, combining multimodal RAG over proprietary PDFs (including images) with structured Cosmos DB data and external sources. Strong focus on production reliability—prompt-chaining with LangChain, validation/guardrails, and Azure-based monitoring/observability—plus experience designing Azure AI agents with tool integrations like Bing Search.”

“Frontend-focused engineer who built a full movie recommendation system from concept to production, comparing classic collaborative filtering with LLM-based recommendation approaches on AWS. Emphasizes scalable architecture, strict TypeScript data contracts, and high-quality Next.js/React UI patterns (defensive states, scoped state management, performance optimization) with disciplined QA and feature-flagged rollouts.”

“Built and deployed a production long-form article summarization system using BART/T5/PEGASUS, tackling real-world constraints like token limits, latency/quality tradeoffs, and factual drift via chunking/merge logic and constrained decoding. Uses pragmatic Python-based pipeline orchestration (scheduled jobs, modular scripts, logging/retries) and iterates with stakeholder feedback to make outputs genuinely useful for content workflows.”

“LLM/ML platform engineer with hands-on experience taking an LLM document summarization prototype into a production-grade service on AWS EKS, emphasizing low-latency inference, drift monitoring, and safe CI/CD rollouts (canary + rollback). Strong in real-time debugging of agentic/RAG systems (tracing, retrieval/index drift fixes) and in developer enablement through practical workshops (Docker/Kubernetes/FastAPI) plus pre-sales support via demos and benchmarks to close pilots.”

“Full-stack engineer who built a policy management and notifications platform end-to-end: Java/Spring Boot microservices with PostgreSQL plus a React/Redux UI, deployed on AWS with Docker and Jenkins CI/CD. Demonstrates strong real-world scaling and reliability practices (Redis caching, Kafka, query/index tuning, ACID transactions, locking, and idempotent processing) to handle high-volume concurrent workloads.”

“Built and deployed production LLM-powered document summarization/classification systems using embeddings, vector databases (RAG-style retrieval), and automated evaluation (BERTScore/ROUGE), with a focus on monitoring and scalable cloud pipelines. Also partnered with a fraud analytics team to deliver a transaction anomaly detection solution, translating model outputs into Power BI dashboards and actionable KPIs while iterating on thresholds and alerts based on stakeholder feedback.”

“Senior technology leader and hands-on builder spanning enterprise architecture and product/engineering leadership across healthcare and entertainment. Has led high-impact cloud and security architecture decisions (including establishing a private cloud to address scalability/security at massive scale) and scaled orgs 300% using pod-based team structures. Currently building an AI-supported hydroponics/vertical farming IoT framework (ESP32 + Azure) and a musician collaboration platform (React + Neo4j + AWS).”