Vetted Amazon EC2 Professionals

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership of production systems, including a Kafka-based notification/alerting platform (Node.js + React) deployed on AWS with Docker/GitHub Actions, achieving ~95% email delivery reliability. Demonstrates strong operational maturity (observability, CI/CD, zero-downtime migrations) and experience shipping in ambiguous environments (SJSU project) with evolving requirements.”

“IBM Power/AIX engineer who has owned a large production estate (20+ Power9/Power10 frames and 400+ LPARs) with vHMC and dual-VIOS HA. Has hands-on incident recovery experience (NPIV/RMC issues, LPM restores) and PowerHA failovers, plus modern DevOps exposure using Terraform on AWS and CI/CD with GitHub Actions/Jenkins (including deploying AI/RAG and vision workloads).”

“Backend-focused engineer who built a time-sensitive data retrieval system for a source with no public API, using an AWS EC2-hosted persistent browser session plus a PostgreSQL TTL caching layer—cutting manual retrieval by 99% and achieving sub-10-second average retrieval. Emphasizes production security (Secrets Manager, encryption, IP allowlisting, rate limiting) and robustness via testing and edge-case handling (atomic file operations).”

“Frontend-focused engineer who leads end-to-end delivery of high-performance React + TypeScript products, including legal-tech client platforms and a large-scale case management dashboard handling thousands of records. Strong in SEO for SPAs, strict code quality automation, and performance work (Lighthouse 95+, 40% FCP reduction), plus disciplined rollout practices using LaunchDarkly, canary releases, and Sentry monitoring.”

“Frontend engineer at WITT who led multiple end-to-end React/TypeScript products in fintech/e-commerce contexts, including a shopping cart with Stripe payments and a multi-step registration flow. Emphasizes scalable component architecture, strong QA (tests/reviews/linting), and performance work (lazy loading/memoization), plus disciplined rollout via feature flags and close product/design collaboration.”

“Full-stack engineer from an early-stage AI SaaS startup who owned and shipped a production AI-powered PDF document chat and sharing feature end-to-end (React/TS + Node + Postgres on AWS). Demonstrates strong product thinking through layered success metrics and tight feedback loops, plus hands-on reliability/observability work (CloudWatch, structured logging, alarms) and robust ingestion pipeline patterns (idempotency, retries, reconciliation).”

“Full-stack product engineer with a strong real-time systems focus: built and rolled out a WebSocket-based notifications system (with robust reconnect/resync and event ordering protections) that cut update latency to under 200ms. Also owned a workflow automation platform backend in FastAPI (JWT/RBAC, versioned APIs, standardized errors), designed the PostgreSQL schema for workflows/tasks/executions, and operated deployments on AWS ECS Fargate with blue-green CI/CD and performance stabilization via caching and autoscaling.”

“Solo builder of OGym, shipping production AI features for gyms that turn member behavior/health data (workouts, attendance, nutrition, payments, device metrics) into prioritized, actionable owner and member insights. Designed and implemented FastAPI backends, PostgreSQL-based RAG workflows, guardrails (RBAC/validation/rate limiting), and real-user evaluation loops, with a strong focus on latency/cost optimization and reliable data pipelines.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered customer support assistant using a Python/FastAPI backend with RAG (embeddings + vector search) over internal docs and product/operational data. Instrumented the system with logging/metrics and ran continuous eval loops; post-launch improvements focused on retrieval quality (chunking/ranking) and performance/cost tradeoffs (query classification, caching, validation guardrails).”

“Machine learning lab assistant at Eastern Illinois University who productionized a voice-enabled conversational AI system: redesigned it with RAG, LoRA fine-tuning (including text-to-SQL), and safety guardrails, then deployed a scalable API supporting ~1,000 daily queries. Also partnered with customer-facing teams during a BlueFi internship by building demos/APIs and accelerating releases via Terraform + AWS CI/CD automation.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on climate/emissions data platforms, building production Python (FastAPI) microservices and AWS serverless/ETL pipelines (Glue/Athena/Lambda/EventBridge). Demonstrated strong reliability and observability practices plus measurable optimization wins, including cutting PostgreSQL query runtimes from minutes to seconds and reducing AWS costs from ~$6k/month to ~$400/month.”

“Software engineer with demonstrated production performance wins (37% latency reduction) through SQL optimization, backend API redesign, and disciplined rollout practices (staging, feature flags). Experienced debugging distributed pipeline issues across infrastructure layers (memory pressure and network timeouts) and building AWS-based systems (Lambda + RDS) to handle request spikes, including work on a business-focused chatbot.”

“Built a voice-driven desktop assistant for users with mobility impairments, integrating Whisper and Google Gemini and adding voice-authentication via speaker embeddings for secure command execution. Has hands-on experience with AWS serverless/microservices patterns (Lambda, S3, CloudFront, CloudWatch) and CI/CD, plus built an internal MySQL-to-MongoDB migration tool used by the CTO and dev team with an emphasis on safe, low-impact data transformation.”

“Security-focused engineer with hands-on experience implementing and troubleshooting security tooling (including an open-source SIEM) and integrating SCA/container scanning into AWS/EKS and GitHub Actions pipelines. Demonstrates strong cloud security fundamentals (least-privilege IAM, IRSA, private subnet/VPC design, CloudTrail/GuardDuty) and can translate security-usability tradeoffs (e.g., password policy and 2FA) to different stakeholders.”

“Application-focused engineer who has shipped end-to-end products across mobile and web, including a music-based dating app feature for sending searchable/previewable songs in chat and a geospatial events service integrating external APIs. Demonstrates strong product + engineering instincts: performance-minded PostgreSQL modeling, Dockerized deployments with env-based config, and UX/accessibility polish backed by user studies, plus hands-on incident mitigation using Vercel logs.”

“Python/Django backend engineer with open-source experience upgrading Archivematica to Django 4.2 LTS, including resolving a tricky breaking change in datetime parsing by implementing a preservation-safe legacy timestamp conversion layer. Also built a cost-efficient, reproducible Small Language Model (Microsoft Phi-3) fine-tuning pipeline that turns CSV product data into a domain-specific searchable Q&A chatbot, with emphasis on memory optimization and overfitting prevention.”

“Full-stack developer who owned and shipped an end-to-end web application for LeafNBeyond (React/Node/Postgres), deployed to production at leafnbeyond.com, with reported 35% sales growth and strong UX feedback. Also built Azure-based ETL pipelines using lakehouse/medallion architecture with validation and retry logic, and has AWS fundamentals from a master’s coursework (EC2, RDS, IAM, load balancing).”

“Built a university campus assistant chatbot (BabyJ/WWJ) using RAG and agentic routing with a FastAPI + React stack and JWT auth, focusing heavily on production concerns like latency and reliability. Uses techniques like speculative prefetching, smart intent routing, and rigorous eval/testing (golden sets, regression, edge cases) while collaborating closely with campus admin/advising teams to iterate based on real user feedback.”

“Full-stack engineer at Srasys Inc. who built and owned production payments/checkout for an e-learning platform serving 5,000+ users using Next.js App Router + TypeScript. Deep focus on correctness and reliability (Stripe webhooks, signature validation, DB-level idempotency) plus measurable performance wins (~40% latency reductions) through Postgres indexing/EXPLAIN ANALYZE and Redis-backed caching with CloudWatch monitoring.”

“Built and shipped production AI features in the automotive dealership domain, including an end-to-end computer-vision damage detection system for trade-ins and a tool-calling, RAG-enabled LotSync AI Agent that answers inventory/VIN questions using strict schemas and internal APIs to avoid hallucinations. Also developed a Dagster + Oracle automated reporting pipeline as a Graduate Research Assistant, supporting 15+ university departments with normalized, reliable ETL workflows.”

“Internship-built full-stack systems spanning HR employee-record portals and internal data-quality dashboards (Flask + SQL + React), emphasizing data integrity and rapid MVP iteration. Also implemented Flask microservices with RabbitMQ for distributed task processing, addressing duplication/ordering issues with idempotency, durable queues, and correlation-ID logging; delivered quantified productivity gains for HR teams.”

“Backend engineer at Hexanika who owned a real-time fraud-detection platform: built Django microservices, integrated a GenAI anomaly-scoring model, and optimized data/infra for low-latency production (including ~40% query-latency reduction). Experienced running containerized services on AWS/GCP with Kubernetes/GKE, GitHub Actions-based CI/CD + GitOps, and building Pub/Sub streaming pipelines and on-prem-to-cloud migrations.”

“Backend engineer building an AI-powered social media platform on AWS, with hands-on experience shipping LLM-backed application features and improving production performance under high traffic. Strong focus on reliability/observability (CloudWatch, structured logs, health checks) and database optimization (MongoDB explain/slow logs, indexing, caching, connection pooling).”

“Full-stack engineer with deep startup experience (pre-seed through IPO/SPAC) currently building a Next.js/TypeScript SaaS sports analytics platform with a complex Postgres-based entitlement/ACL system. Has delivered measurable UX/business impact (35% retention lift, 40% volume increase) and built production-grade daily ETL + model training/inference workflows with validation and checkpointing for reliability.”