Vetted Amazon CloudWatch Professionals

Sunil Chinthaparthi

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native backend and distributed systems

New York, NY4y exp

“Backend engineer focused on Python/FastAPI microservices running on Kubernetes (AWS EKS) with strong GitOps/CI/CD ownership (GitHub Actions + ArgoCD). Demonstrated measurable performance wins (p95 latency cut from >1s to <200ms) and production reliability work across Kafka/Redis streaming and cloud-to-on-prem migrations (RDS/S3 to Postgres/MinIO) using parallel validation and checksum-based consistency checks.”

“Software engineer who owned customer-facing, high-traffic TypeScript/React + TypeScript backend systems end-to-end, emphasizing safe velocity through feature flags, staged rollouts, observability, and rollback-ready incremental delivery. Reports shipping more frequently with fewer production incidents and faster recovery due to these guardrails.”

“Backend engineer focused on cloud/distributed systems, deploying Java 17/Spring Boot microservices on AWS EKS with RDS and Kafka. Demonstrated strong production readiness work (DB lock mitigation, Kafka idempotency, gradual rollouts) and delivered a major latency improvement (~400ms to ~100ms). Also has proven cross-layer troubleshooting skills, isolating intermittent API timeouts to a specific Kubernetes node’s network interface issue, and partners closely with ops teams to build dashboards and workflow automation (including Python scripts).”

“Player-coach engineering leader focused on consumer-grade video/multimodal products and high-reliability identity/auth experiences. Led design and implementation of multi-step mobile login/MFA flows with telemetry-driven funnel improvements, shipped Node services and security fixes, and owned auth incidents end-to-end using RUM and step-level instrumentation. Introduced feature-flagged delivery and targeted review/testing practices to speed iteration ~20–30% while keeping login stability high.”

“Senior data engineer with experience in both healthcare (CVS Health) and financial services (Bank of America), building large-scale Azure lakehouse pipelines (30+ EHR sources, ~5TB) and real-time streaming services (Event Hubs/Kafka) for patient vitals. Strong focus on reliability and data quality (Great Expectations, monitoring/alerting, schema drift automation), with measurable outcomes like 50% runtime reduction and 99%+ uptime for regulatory reporting pipelines.”

“Data engineer with Intuit experience owning end-to-end, high-volume financial data pipelines (API/S3 ingestion, Airflow orchestration, Spark/PySpark + SQL transforms, Snowflake marts). Strong focus on reliability and data quality—achieved 99.8% SLA and cut discrepancies by 35% using Great Expectations, reconciliation, schema versioning, and automated backfills; also built near real-time Kafka/API data services with CI/CD and observability.”

Nagarjuna Vaddineni

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and data pipelines

Seattle, WA6y exp

“Amazon backend engineer who built and operated high-scale Java Spring Boot microservices on AWS (EKS/EC2) handling millions of daily transactions, with deep experience debugging p95 latency and database/ORM bottlenecks. Shipped an AI-driven real-time personalization feature by integrating SageMaker model inference end-to-end with low-latency caching and graceful fallbacks, and designed robust order/payment orchestration with retries, compensations, and DLQ-based escalation.”

“ML/AI engineer with Goldman Sachs experience building production fraud detection and RAG-based trading insights systems end-to-end. Stands out for combining real-time ML infrastructure, GenAI retrieval systems, and compliance-aware design, with measurable impact including nearly 25% false-positive reduction and improved analyst productivity.”

“Built and owned end-to-end production systems for a healthcare platform, including a predictive task recommendation feature (React + FastAPI + ML on AWS ECS) that cut backlog 20% and saved coordinators ~10 hours/week. Also productionized an AI-native RAG system (vector DB + LLM) delivering 40% faster query resolution, and led phased modernization of a monolithic FastAPI service into async microservices using feature flags and canary releases.”

Akhil Kunala

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and cloud-native FinTech

Seattle, WA5y exp

“Amazon engineer with 5+ years of experience who built an AI-assisted log investigation and triage workflow that cut debugging time by about 30% during on-call incidents. Combines observability tooling like CloudWatch and Splunk with Python, prompt engineering, and RAG-based diagnostics, and has practical experience orchestrating agentic AI workflows with a strong human-in-the-loop reliability focus.”

“Backend-focused engineer with experience at AWS building a global alarm processing platform (Python, Lambda/SQS/DynamoDB) handling traffic spikes and reliability issues; resolved duplicate alerts and latency under load by fixing hot partitions and enforcing idempotency. Previously at Cognizant, built Java/PostgreSQL backend workflows for healthcare dashboards using pre-aggregated summary tables, strong SQL optimization, and state-driven job orchestration with ELK-based observability and production guardrails.”

“Has experience improving an ad server workflow by standardizing genre selection with templates, enabling reuse across multiple accounts and measuring success via hours of manual labor saved. Also delivered an internal technical demo on a device-metrics-to-AWS-CloudWatch logging workflow using whiteboarding and PowerPoint to onboard a new team.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with e-commerce and analytics experience who modernized synchronous order workflows into a Kafka-based event-driven architecture (Java/Spring Boot) to reduce checkout latency and peak-traffic failures. Has built production FastAPI services with JWT/RBAC and strong testing/observability, delivered React+TypeScript reporting dashboards, and handled AWS scaling incidents end-to-end (RDS read latency mitigated with read replicas and query tuning).”

“Customer-facing technical support/solutions professional with experience at Stripe and Intuit helping developers take payment API and webhook integrations from testing to production. Uses Datadog and AWS CloudWatch to diagnose real-time production issues (e.g., webhook signature validation errors causing retries/delays) and unblocks customer deployments through hands-on, developer-oriented guidance.”

“Full-stack engineer building real-time internal banking operations dashboards (Java/Spring Boot microservices + React/TypeScript) with Kafka-based streaming and post-launch performance optimizations. Also shipped a production internal AI support assistant using RAG (Confluence/PDF/support docs ingestion, embeddings + vector DB retrieval) with guardrails, evaluation loops, and observability to reduce hallucinations and prevent regressions.”

“LLM/agent engineer who has shipped multiple autonomous, multi-step agents to production (document-to-SOP conversion, test generation, code generation) using a custom Python DAG orchestrator with persistent state, tool-calling permissions, and structured outputs (Pydantic/JSON Schema). Demonstrates strong production hardening practices—semantic contracts, golden-dataset prompt regression tests, circuit breakers, and multi-level monitoring—and delivered large productivity wins (34 hours of manual writing reduced to ~20 minutes review; ~15–20 engineering hours/week saved).”

Praveen Nutulapati

Screened

Mid-level Generative AI Engineer specializing in LLM fine-tuning, RAG, and agentic systems

New York, NY6y exp

“Built and deployed a production multi-agent RAG system at JPMorgan Chase to automate regulated credit analysis and compliance clause discovery across large internal policy/document libraries. Implemented LangGraph-based supervisor orchestration with structured state management (Azure OpenAI) to support long-running, resumable workflows, plus hybrid retrieval + re-ranking and guardrails for reliability. Strong at evaluation/observability (trace logging, LLM-judge, HITL) and at communicating results to non-technical stakeholders via Power BI embeds and Streamlit prototypes.”

Harshana Ragipindi

Screened

Mid-level Support/Software Engineer specializing in incident response, automation, and AWS monitoring

USA4y exp

“Built and owned end-to-end travel booking and baggage fee calculation platforms used by both customer support and customers, emphasizing fast iteration with automated guardrails and production visibility. Experienced designing TypeScript/React systems and operating RabbitMQ-based microservices at scale, including disciplined event contracts, idempotent consumers, and schema evolution strategies. Also created an internal real-time troubleshooting/pricing console that replaced fragmented tools and improved support resolution workflows through pilot-led adoption.”

Venu Venkata Surendra reddy Erusu

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and Cloud-Native Microservices

Syracuse, NY4y exp

“Research assistant at Syracuse University who owned a Python/FastAPI analytics backend for user-uploaded large datasets, using S3 streaming uploads and background workers for heavy processing. Has hands-on experience deploying Dockerized Python/Java microservices to AWS EKS with Jenkins-based CI/CD, plus Kafka-based event-driven pipelines and practical migration patterns (dependency mapping, dual-write, reconciliation) to minimize downtime.”

Vasudha Prerepa

Screened

Mid-Level Java Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud-native microservices

5y exp

“QA/validation-focused engineer with experience at Meta testing an ML+LLM content classification/summarization system, including production-vs-test behavior gaps. Built automated E2E validation and drift monitoring (PSI, KL divergence, embedding cosine similarity) run daily/multiple times per day and gated via CI. Also implemented Jenkins-orchestrated Selenium/API test suites in Docker at Capgemini and partnered with a business analyst to convert business rules into automated AI-driven validation checks.”

“End-to-end deployment owner for Oracle document delivery/print services in a hospital-like production environment, focused on reliability/performance at scale (thousands of systems). Also describes implementing event-driven RAG/agentic LLM workflows with attention to embeddings/index consistency, latency, and measurable improvements in response relevance and operational efficiency.”

Sirisha Maddikunta

Screened

Mid-level Generative AI Engineer specializing in enterprise LLM and healthcare AI solutions

O Fallon, MO6y exp

“Built and owned an end-to-end LLM-powered fraud investigation assistant that automated case summaries and risk analysis, cutting analyst investigation/documentation time by 40%. Stands out for translating RAG concepts into a production-grade internal platform with strong evaluation, monitoring, and reusable Python service architecture that improved both analyst trust and engineering velocity.”

“Built and owned a production conversational AI platform for a healthcare contact center, including RAG-based agent assist, hybrid retrieval, safety guardrails, and production monitoring. Stands out for combining LLM product delivery with strong operational rigor, driving a reported 25-30% improvement in handling time in a sensitive healthcare environment.”

Joseph Villanueva

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack SaaS and Healthcare IT

San Francisco, CA8y exp

“Product-minded software engineer from Gusto who has shipped internal AI agent capabilities and end-to-end user-facing features across frontend and backend. Stands out for making pragmatic architecture tradeoffs—moving from OpenAI prototypes to deterministic systems when accuracy, latency, and uptime mattered—while still improving LLM workflow quality and reducing tool-calling errors by 15%.”