Vetted Amazon Athena Professionals

“Senior engineering leader in the Bay Area with experience spanning VMware, Hortonworks/Cloudera, Barracuda, and Palo Alto Networks, including leading open-source work (Apache Knox) and architecting large-scale security platforms. Has driven disaster recovery and cloud security products, designed Python microservices for Microsoft 365 security, and scaled teams (3x) while formalizing enterprise readiness practices with automated documentation using Notebook LLM.”

“Data/ML engineer with experience at American Express and Amazon, owning an end-to-end rewards redemption/liability ML pipeline (~200GB) with rigorous regulatory/audit validation and quarterly executive reporting. Also built web-scraped product datasets with anti-bot protections at a startup and helped modernize an authn/authz service using AWS, plus led early-stage migration work from an internal warehouse to GCP with CI/CD and cloud observability.”

“Ticketmaster data engineer who built CDC-driven Kafka pipelines feeding Snowflake for analytics and data science teams. Hands-on in production operations—scaled Kafka during sudden playoff-driven transaction spikes and improved monitoring for preemptive scaling. Known for using small-batch experiments and quantitative metrics to align stakeholders and drive cost-saving architecture changes (e.g., buffering to reduce AWS Lambda invocation frequency).”

“Built a production LLM/RAG assistant for insurance/health claims agents that ingests 100–200 page patient PDFs via OCR (migrated from local Tesseract to Azure Document Intelligence) and delivers grounded claim detail retrieval plus summaries with PII/PHI guardrails. Experienced orchestrating large workflows with Celery worker pipelines and AWS Step Functions (S3-triggered, Fargate-based batch inference/accuracy aggregation), and collaborates closely with non-technical SMEs (claims agents/nurses) through shadowing, iterative demos, and SME-defined evaluation.”

“Engineering leader who managed a 20-person cross-functional team building customer-driven software solutions, delivering a 50% reduction in simulation/test lifecycle and securing a long-term strategic SLA. Strong in scalable data ingestion architectures (FastAPI + Kafka + multiprocess workers), operational diagnostics (correlation IDs/centralized logging), and microservice decoupling for analytics/visualization. Active open-source contributor who shipped a NATS bug fix and improved SDK onboarding with automation that cut ramp time by 30%.”

“Data engineer working on healthcare and operational datasets, owning production-grade pipelines end-to-end (bronze/silver/gold) with volumes ranging from a few GBs to several TBs per day. Strong focus on data quality automation (Great Expectations), schema evolution (Delta Lake), and reliability/observability on Azure (Monitor/Log Analytics), plus experience with external data collection and backfill-friendly designs.”