Vetted Amazon Athena Professionals

“Full-stack engineer with deep serverless AWS experience who built VidToNote, an AI video analysis platform, end-to-end using Next.js App Router/TypeScript and an event-driven pipeline (API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Step Functions, SQS). Strong on production reliability and observability (CloudWatch, X-Ray, structured logging), plus data/analytics work in Postgres with measurable query optimizations and durable LLM evaluation workflows. Amazon background; integrated 22 AWS services and completed AWS Solutions Architect Professional certification within a month.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production AWS experience spanning serverless APIs (Chalice/Lambda/API Gateway/Cognito) and data pipelines (Glue PySpark + Step Functions). Has modernized a legacy SAS reporting system into AWS microservices and implemented schema-drift detection and incident prevention for ETL workflows, plus measurable SQL tuning wins (30 min to <10 min runtime).”

“Data engineer at Microsoft who owned an end-to-end subscription analytics platform processing 7TB+ daily across 40+ pipelines, combining ADF batch ingestion with Kafka/Spark streaming and rigorous Great Expectations quality gates. Built a Fabric-based self-service ingestion platform with CI/CD and observability, plus a Databricks feature store serving near-real-time ML inference with Delta Lake reliability and versioning.”

“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.”

“Aspiring founder building an AI governance and compliance startup for the finance industry, focused on agents that monitor data lakes/lakehouses to detect security vulnerabilities, PII exposure, and governance issues in real time. Has already formed an S-corp, has not raised capital yet, and approaches idea validation through Minimum Lovable Product testing with potential clients.”

Michael Kilgore

Screened

Mid-Level Software Development Engineer specializing in AWS data pipelines and forecasting systems

3y exp

“Built and deployed (via an Upwork contract) an LLM-powered agent for options trading that detects large options trade events, enriches them with market/filing data (price history, earnings transcripts, insider trading), and delivers recommendations via Telegram. Implemented schema-constrained outputs (Pydantic/Google GenAI), robust orchestration, logging, and error-notification handling, plus vector-DB-based reuse of prior outputs to improve consistency.”

Chaithanya Konda

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in multi-cloud analytics platforms

Waltham, MA6y exp

“Data engineer with hands-on GCP platform experience spanning BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Dataflow, and Cloud Composer, including both production operations and cloud migration work. They led a migration from legacy SQL Server/Oracle systems to a cloud-native BigQuery architecture and cite measurable impact: processing reduced from hours to minutes, query latency improved 60%+, and ingestion time improved 40%.”

“Software engineer with practical, day-to-day experience embedding AI into development workflows across coding, testing, code review, and AWS data pipelines. Uses tools like Claude, Cline, JUnit, Mockito, and Amazon Bedrock, and stands out for having a realistic, mature view of agent limitations, hallucinations, and the need for strong prompting and human validation.”