Vetted Amazon Athena Professionals

“Built a production GenAI-powered analytics assistant to reduce reliance on data analysts by enabling natural-language Q&A over Databricks/Power BI dashboards, backed by vector search (Pinecone/Milvus) and a Neo4j knowledge graph, including multimodal support via OpenAI Vision. Demonstrates strong real-world LLM reliability engineering with strict RAG, LangGraph multi-step verification, and Guardrails/custom validators, plus broad orchestration and production monitoring experience (Airflow, ADF, Step Functions, Kubernetes, Prometheus/CloudWatch).”

Swathi Sankaran

Screened

Senior Python Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud, data engineering, and ML/GenAI

New York, NY10y exp

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building FastAPI services on AWS and implementing strong reliability/observability (CloudWatch, ELK, correlation IDs, alarms). Has delivered serverless + container solutions with IaC (CloudFormation/Terraform) and Jenkins CI/CD, and built AWS Glue/PySpark pipelines into S3/Redshift with schema-evolution and data-quality safeguards; demonstrated large-scale SQL tuning (45 min to 3 min on a 500M-row workload).”

“Early-stage founder building an engineering alpha product and planning a structured path to pilot and general availability. Active mentor in TechStars and MassChallenge with a strong VC network, emphasizing PMF, MVP-in-market feedback, and early sales while maintaining a sustainable approach to entrepreneurship.”

Allan Farinas

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Python and AWS

West Covina, CA11y exp

“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.”

Divyam Agrawal

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs and NLP classification systems

Seattle, WA4y exp

“Internship experience building a production RAG+LLM pipeline to map messy card transaction descriptions to merchant brands, including a custom modified-ROUGE evaluation approach for weak/variant ground truth. Improved scalability and cost by moving from a managed LLM endpoint (e.g., Bedrock) to self-hosted vLLM, and orchestrated massive embedding backfills (5,000+ files, 10B+ rows) using an Airflow-triggered SQS + ECS worker architecture with robust retry/DLQ handling.”

Samatha Amsala

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in cloud data warehousing and analytics

Omaha, NE6y exp

“Data engineer at American Express who owned end-to-end pipelines for transaction and customer data used in finance reporting and risk analytics, processing ~5–8M records/day. Built Airflow-orchestrated ingestion (including external APIs/web sources) with strong data quality controls, monitoring/alerts, and resilient backfill/retry patterns, and also shipped a versioned REST API serving aggregated metrics to analytics teams.”

“Backend/data engineer with strong AWS production experience across containers (ECS) and serverless (API Gateway/Lambda/SQS), plus Glue-based ETL to Parquet for Athena/Redshift. Demonstrates hands-on reliability and security depth (Cognito OAuth2/JWT with JWKS rotation, idempotency/DLQs, monitoring) and measurable performance wins (Redis caching + query tuning), along with legacy-to-services modernization using parallel-run parity and feature-flagged cutovers.”

“ML/NLP practitioner with experience building a transformer-failure prediction system that combines sensor signals with unstructured maintenance comments using LLM-based extraction and similarity validation. Strong emphasis on production readiness—data leakage controls, SQL-driven data quality tiers, and rigorous bias/fairness validation (including contract/spec evaluation across diverse company profiles).”

“Serial entrepreneur who built Verb Technology from a garage startup to a Nasdaq IPO, raising multiple rounds of capital along the way. Invented interactive live streaming technology that was acquired by Amazon and demonstrated rapid product/market response during COVID by prototyping and launching a solution for users while tightly managing AWS costs.”

“Data engineer with experience delivering an end-to-end pipeline handling ~3.5TB in a star-schema setup (fact + dimensions) and producing business-facing tables in Hive/Spark. Identified and resolved UAT-reported duplicate issues caused by joins through root-cause analysis, and also built automation to run Spark SQL metrics on weekly/monthly/quarterly cadences and distribute results to users.”

“Data engineer with experience at Sony and Walmart building high-volume, near-real-time analytics and ingestion systems. Has owned end-to-end pipelines from Kafka/Spark streaming through S3/Parquet and Redshift/Looker, emphasizing data quality (Great Expectations), observability (CloudWatch/Azure Monitor), and reliability (Airflow SLAs, retries, checkpointing), including measurable performance and latency improvements.”

“Data engineer focused on fraud and banking analytics who has owned end-to-end batch + streaming pipelines at very large scale (hundreds of millions of records/day). Built robust data quality/observability layers (schema validation, anomaly detection, alerting) and delivered low-latency serving via AWS Lambda/API Gateway with DynamoDB + Redis, plus external data ingestion/scraping pipelines orchestrated in Airflow with anti-bot protections.”

Ajay Madhusudhan Thumala

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in data engineering and LLM applications

Irvine, CA1y exp

“Computer science engineer and master’s graduate who independently built a mechatronics-heavy capstone prototype: a smartphone concept for deafblind users using micro-actuator arrays for braille reading. Also has platform engineering experience at Quantiphi, deploying webhooks to Kubernetes and implementing GitOps-based CI/CD using AWS CodeCommit/CodeBuild and ECR.”

“Data platform engineer focused on large-scale, real-time fraud systems, with hands-on ownership of streaming architectures using Kafka, Spark, Snowflake, and Databricks. Stands out for combining performance tuning and platform automation with LLM/RAG-based enrichment, delivering measurable gains in latency, fraud accuracy, false positives, and analyst decision speed.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-powered PDF document Q&A system to eliminate manual searching through long documents, focusing on scalability and answer reliability. Implemented semantic chunking (using headings/paragraphs/tables), overlap, and preprocessing/quality checks to reduce hallucinations, and orchestrated the end-to-end pipeline with Airflow using retries, alerts, and parallel tasks.”

“Data engineer/platform builder with experience across PwC and Liberty Mutual delivering high-volume, production-grade pipelines and real-time data services. Has owned end-to-end streaming + batch architectures on AWS and Azure, including web scraping systems, with quantified reliability gains (99.9% availability, 90%+ error reduction, 30% latency reduction) and strong observability/CI-CD practices.”

“Analytics candidate with hands-on experience at BCBS building HIPAA-compliant SQL/Snowflake/Tableau pipelines across fragmented legacy healthcare systems. Stands out for turning a 5-day claims reporting process into a near real-time 10-minute dashboard and for pairing strong data engineering discipline with reproducible Python-based churn modeling that drove measurable retention outcomes.”

“Built and owned Alight's AI-powered Search Summary feature end-to-end, using a RAG pipeline with OpenSearch and Bedrock, and drove a 20% increase in user feedback scores. Stands out for bringing rigorous production evaluation to LLM systems via live LLM-as-a-judge monitoring, and for experience with advanced agentic architectures, hybrid search, and reranking at scale.”

“Product-minded full-stack engineer who has built AI-heavy systems spanning Next.js/TypeScript frontends, Python/FastAPI backends, queues, databases, and workflow infrastructure. Stands out for combining strong technical depth with UX instincts—improving trust in AI assistants, shipping ambiguous client features quickly, and creating reusable primitives for AI generation and analysis products.”