Vetted Agile Professionals

“LLM engineer who has deployed production RAG systems for regulated document QA (PDFs/knowledge bases), emphasizing grounded answers with citations, RBAC, monitoring, and continuous feedback. Demonstrates deep practical expertise in retrieval quality (semantic chunking, hybrid BM25+embeddings, re-ranking), reliability (guardrails, deterministic workflows), and measurable evaluation (golden sets, log replay, A/B tests) while partnering closely with compliance/operations stakeholders.”

“Automotive software and OTA/infotainment platform leader who has repeatedly built new lines of business as an intrapreneur—most recently taking an infotainment app marketplace from concept to production in <7 months with $3M seed funding and delivering ~$200M ROI while scaling the team from 0 to 90. Deep hands-on experience solving OTA fragmentation across ECUs/telematics and multiple OS/backends, with 18 patent processes submitted; exploring an AI-driven platform to automate OTA software qualification and cut release cycles from 9–18 months to ~2 weeks.”

“Backend/data engineer who has built production Python microservices (FastAPI) and AWS-native platforms for event ingestion and analytics, combining ECS/Fargate + Lambda with CloudFormation-driven environments and strong secrets/IAM practices. Experienced modernizing legacy logic with parallel-run parity validation and safe phased cutovers, and has demonstrated measurable SQL tuning wins (20–30s down to 1–2s) plus incident ownership in Glue/Step Functions ETL pipelines.”

“Lead software engineer (3+ years) who built and scaled an AI product backend at Cosmo AGI from the ground up using FastAPI/Postgres/Redis/vector DB, targeting sub-200ms latency and supporting 1000+ active users. Strong in production-grade security and observability (OAuth/JWT, RBAC, Postgres RLS, Prometheus/Sentry), plus DevOps automation (Docker, GitHub Actions, blue-green deploys) with measurable impact on uptime, incidents, engagement, and deployment speed.”

“Worked on Sophia the humanoid robot, building production animation pipelines and enhancing human-robot interaction via perception and behavior orchestration. Experienced in stabilizing noisy perception-driven state transitions and designing smooth, user-centered behavioral flows, collaborating closely with artists, animators, and experience designers to translate creative intent into measurable system behavior.”

“Python/AWS engineer focused on batch-processing and data workflows, including building reusable S3/boto3 utilities with reliability features and IAM-based auth. Has led low-risk legacy modernizations using parity testing plus a month of parallel production runs, and has owned production issues end-to-end (including fixing a client-side Excel macro) while contributing to significant AWS cost reductions (~$10k/month).”

“Built and owned Prism, a real-time collaborative coding platform, making key architectural choices around deterministic event ordering and a backend source-of-truth to improve trust under concurrent edits. Also created a Python-based bug analysis and test automation suite that became part of standard engineering workflow, cutting debugging time by ~95% while improving fault detection coverage.”

“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.”

“LLM/RAG engineer who has built and deployed corporate-scale systems at Novartis and Johnson & Johnson, including a healthcare AI agent that generates day-to-day treatment schedules. Recently handled a high-stakes safety incident (LLM suggesting overdose) by tightening model instructions and validating with ~200 test prompts, and has strong end-to-end data/embedding/vector DB pipeline experience (PySpark, FAISS, Pinecone) plus SME-in-the-loop evaluation (RLHF).”

“AI Product Manager who also operates as a product marketer/CRM lifecycle lead, focused on behavior-driven onboarding and retention. Has delivered measurable growth through segmentation, multi-channel lifecycle programs, and experimentation (e.g., activation +23%, TTFV -30%, retention +14%), and led a cross-functional chatbot integration that improved course completion (+23%) while reducing refunds (-15%).”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered personalized client engagement assistant in the financial domain, balancing real-time recommendations with strict privacy/compliance requirements. Demonstrates strong MLOps/LLMOps depth (Airflow + MLflow, containerized microservices, drift monitoring) and a privacy-by-design approach validated in collaboration with risk and compliance teams.”

“Enterprise platform engineer/product owner who led end-to-end delivery of customer-facing ServiceNow Service Catalog/workflow solutions, emphasizing reliability, security, and fast iteration. Built React/TypeScript portals with Node.js and Spring Boot backends, and improved microservices reliability at scale using Kafka, monitoring, and robust retry/timeout patterns.”

“Software engineer with deep experience in real-time payments and event-driven microservices. Built a React/TypeScript + Spring Boot system using RabbitMQ, and created an internal operations dashboard that improved visibility into message-processing workflows for engineering, support, and SRE. Strong in experimentation-driven product iteration (feature flags/A-B tests) and in scaling reliability via idempotent consumers and end-to-end observability.”

“Amazon engineer who built a production AI agent platform (Python/AWS Strands on Bedrock) that lets teams create tool-using, multi-agent workflows—e.g., agents that auto-triage and resolve customer support tickets by reading internal documentation and collaborating with a research agent. Previously worked in Deloitte on IAM using Ping Identity/Ping DaVinci orchestration, and applies orchestration thinking plus structured evaluation (LLM-as-judge, surveys, automated tests) to improve agent reliability.”

“CTO/enterprise architect who stays hands-on in code while leading strategy, stakeholder alignment, and team scaling. At Eastridge, established product and technology vision/roadmap, built product engineering/strategy functions, and helped launch products into global markets; most recently led GenAI product design including tech selection, infrastructure, scalability, and observability.”

“Backend engineer focused on Python/FastAPI microservices, with hands-on experience deploying to AWS (EKS/ECR) via Jenkins and GitOps-style workflows using ArgoCD. Has built and stabilized real-time Kafka payment-event streaming pipelines and improved production performance under peak load through Redis caching, SQL optimization, and robust retry/DLQ patterns. Also supported phased migrations from on-prem environments to AWS with gradual traffic shifting and monitoring.”

“Built and productionized an autonomous research agent (AutoGPT) in a Docker/Kubernetes environment with Pinecone-based long-term memory and custom Python tools for analysis, visualization, and report drafting. Implemented layered guardrails (prompt templates, automated validation, self-critique loops, and monitoring) and achieved ~25% reduction in manual report generation time while scaling the workflow to support multiple concurrent users.”

“Frontend-focused engineer with experience building and optimizing React-based dashboards and reusable component libraries in a multi-team, internal open-source-style environment at Merck (ClearSight Forecasting Dashboard). Also handled production user issues on a live streaming platform (GameSee.tv) and built a financial application from scratch at Manipal Business Solutions, owning backend services, middle-tier APIs, and third-party integrations.”

“Procurement/sourcing professional with hands-on experience selecting and rolling out an analytics dashboard vendor end-to-end—using stakeholder discovery, POCs, and a scoring matrix—then negotiating a ~26% cost reduction and waiving implementation fees. Also demonstrates strong trade compliance instincts by catching and correcting an incorrect tariff code that would have increased duties ~18%, and uses structured milestone/risk tracking (RAG) to keep OTD and approvals on track.”

“Built and deployed an LLM-powered analytics assistant enabling business users to ask questions in plain English and receive validated Spark SQL executed in Databricks, with a Streamlit/Flask UI. Addressed strict client schema-privacy constraints by implementing a RAG strategy and ultimately leveraging AWS Bedrock and fine-tuned reference docs. Also has production ML pipeline experience using Docker + Airflow and AWS (S3/ECS/EC2) for financial classification models.”

“Built and productionized an NLP-powered customer support assistant at JPMorgan Chase for digital banking, focused on reducing response time for repetitive client queries. Strong in real-world AI deployment challenges—sensitive data handling, low-latency FastAPI services, and AWS/Kubernetes operations with CI/CD—plus a metrics- and guardrails-driven approach to reliable AI workflows.”

“AI/ML engineer with HP experience building and productionizing an LLM-powered document intelligence platform (LangChain + Pinecone) to deliver semantic search and contextual Q&A across millions of enterprise support documents. Demonstrates strong MLOps and scaling expertise (Airflow, Kubernetes autoscaling, Triton GPU inference, monitoring with Prometheus/W&B) plus a structured approach to evaluation (A/B tests, shadow deployments, failover) and effective collaboration with non-technical stakeholders.”

“Full-stack engineer (backend-led) with recent experience building enterprise workflow orchestration and billing/payment platforms at Intuit using Java/Spring Boot (WebFlux), Kafka, Postgres/Redis, and React/TypeScript. Has operated at high scale (reported ~1200 RPS during month-end billing) and focuses on event-driven microservices, real-time UI updates via streaming, and disciplined API evolution with contract testing.”

“Engineering leader (Credit Karma/fintech) who built internal developer-platform frameworks at near open-source scale, including a unified key management system migrating ~450 services from on-prem HSM to a centralized KMS. Known for driving large cross-team migrations with strong safety mechanisms (canaries, shadow reads, rollback toggles) and measurable DX/ops improvements (60% fewer provisioning requests; 40% faster time-to-first-secret).”