Vetted Amazon EC2 Professionals

“Product-leaning full-stack engineer (65% product / 35% infra) who built core components of the LightFoot feature flag platform: end-to-end client/server SDKs with OpenTelemetry-based observability and a React+TypeScript UI for flag management and metrics dashboards. Strong focus on performance (memoization/lazy loading/caching), reliable API design, and Postgres modeling for read-heavy flag evaluation workloads, with AWS production experience (EC2/ECS/Lambda/API Gateway/VPC).”

“Full-stack engineer with strong production ownership who built a "Problem Workspace" coding feature using Next.js App Router + TypeScript, combining Server Components for fast initial render with WebSocket-driven real-time execution updates. Demonstrates deep reliability and data-consistency expertise (idempotency keys, Postgres constraints/indexing, EXPLAIN ANALYZE) and has implemented durable async orchestration (Temporal-style workflows) to reduce failures and timeouts under load.”

“Built and deployed a Virginia Tech CS department blog/archive application using a MERN/Next.js stack and a fully serverless AWS architecture (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudFront, Route 53), including CI/CD via the Serverless Framework. Implemented RBAC for student/faculty/admin users and added an article export feature backed by MongoDB.”

“Backend engineer with experience at HSBC and Machinations who has delivered major production performance wins (cutting large trade-file upload times from ~13–15s to ~2s) using chunked parallel processing with strong reliability controls. Also built and shipped an applied AI RAG workflow using Langflow + Cohere embeddings + FAISS with hosted/local LLM fallbacks (Hugging Face, Ollama) and production-grade guardrails, observability, and evaluation.”

“AI engineer who shipped a production chat assistant for a storage company by building the underlying RAG-style knowledge base (document ingestion, chunking/embeddings, FAISS vector store) and an admin update interface to keep content current. Also has full-stack delivery experience (Python REST APIs + React/TypeScript UI) and AWS operations using Terraform/Jenkins, including handling a real production performance incident by optimizing DB queries and adding auto-scaling.”

“AI/ML engineer who built a production RAG-based internal document intelligence assistant (LangChain + Pinecone) to let employees query enterprise reports in natural language. Demonstrated hands-on pipeline orchestration with Apache Airflow and tackled real production issues like retrieval grounding and latency using tuning, caching, and token optimization, while partnering closely with non-technical business stakeholders through iterative demos.”

“Full-stack/backend engineer with deep experience building real-time fraud and credit-risk systems. Shipped an event-driven fraud monitoring platform (Kafka→MongoDB/Redis→WebSockets) delivering sub-200ms updates to 3000+ concurrent internal users, and built a Java/Spring Boot credit risk decisioning API that improved turnaround time by 30–40%. Strong AWS production operations (ECS Fargate/RDS/Redis) with proven incident response and performance tuning.”

“Full-stack engineer who has shipped and owned production analytics dashboards using Next.js App Router + TypeScript, combining server components for data-heavy pages with client components for interactive charts/filters. Also built a Temporal-orchestrated payment reconciliation workflow with versioning, idempotency, and exponential-backoff retries, and has hands-on Postgres query/index optimization using EXPLAIN ANALYZE.”

“Software engineer with experience at Goldman Sachs and Arizona State University’s Learning Engineering Institute, shipping production backend systems including a vendor equities invoice-generation service designed for extensibility across multiple vendors. Built Django REST + PostgreSQL backends with JWT auth and Pytest coverage, and delivered data-heavy, responsive Angular dashboards; also has exposure to AWS EC2 deployments and GitLab CI/CD automation.”

“New-grad/early-career engineer who led high-stakes modernization of a field-operations platform from Firebase to AWS using an incremental/dual-write strategy, achieving zero downtime and ~30–32% infra cost reduction while improving scalability. Also built and productionized an AI-native code assistant (LangChain + Pinecone RAG) with measurable online metrics and safety guardrails, and has experience working directly with CEO/CTO/CPO and embedded with customer teams to ship enterprise features quickly.”

“Backend/API engineer with ~4 years experience building production services in .NET Core/PostgreSQL/Redis/Docker and optimizing real-world latency issues (claims ~60% response-time improvement). Also built and owned an end-to-end RAG-based AI assistant using Python/FastAPI, OpenAI APIs, and Pinecone, plus agentic workflows with reliability guardrails (retries, confidence thresholds, monitoring). Currently pursuing a master’s degree and targeting a $150k base salary.”

“Data engineer focused on building reliable, production-grade pipelines and external data collection systems on AWS (S3/Lambda/SQS/Glue/EMR) using PySpark/SQL, serving curated datasets to Snowflake/Redshift for finance and fraud teams. Has operated a large-scale crawler ingesting millions of records/day with anti-bot tactics, schema versioning/quarantine, and CloudWatch/Datadog monitoring, and also shipped a versioned REST API with caching and query optimization.”

“Data engineer at AT&T focused on large-scale telecom (5G/IoT) data platforms, owning end-to-end pipelines from Kafka/Azure ingestion through Databricks/Delta Lake transformations to serving analytics and ML. Has operated at very high volumes (~50+ TB/day) and delivered measurable performance gains (25–30% faster processing) plus improved reliability via Airflow monitoring, robust data quality checks, and resilient external data collection patterns (rate limiting, retries, dynamic schemas).”

“Data engineer focused on building reliable, production-grade data systems end-to-end: batch and real-time pipelines (Airflow/Kafka/Spark) with strong data quality, monitoring/alerting, and incident response. Has experience integrating external API/web data with retries, throttling, and schema-change handling, and serving curated datasets to analytics (Power BI) and backend consumers with performance optimizations like Redis caching.”

“Applied NLP/ML engineer with experience at KeyBank and Novartis building production document intelligence and entity-resolution systems in finance and healthcare. Has delivered end-to-end pipelines (Airflow + AWS) using transformers (DistilBERT/Sentence-BERT), vector search (FAISS/Milvus/Pinecone), and human-in-the-loop labeling to achieve measurable gains (40%+ faster queries; up to 88% F1 and 93% precision/90% recall in entity linking).”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building FastAPI APIs secured with JWT and delivering AWS-based data processing solutions using Lambda and ECS Fargate. Has worked with Snowflake/third-party API sources and targets including DynamoDB, S3, RDS, Redshift, and Glue, and uses CloudWatch/X-Ray for monitoring and troubleshooting. Seeking ~$65/hr and is open to onsite work in Bethesda, MD.”

“GenAI/RAG engineer who has deployed a production policy/regulatory search assistant for a financial client using LangChain + Vertex AI, FastAPI, Docker/Kubernetes, and Airflow-orchestrated data pipelines. Demonstrated measurable impact with 50–60% latency reduction and 70% fewer pipeline failures, plus KPI-driven grounding evaluation (90%+ target) and strong cross-functional collaboration with compliance/business teams.”

“Built and owned an end-to-end RAG-based AI support platform at Mechanize (FastAPI/LangChain/Pinecone/React) with rigorous evals and guardrails, driving 45% fewer support tickets and ~$280K annual savings. Also led a high-risk legacy modernization at Argo AI, incrementally extracting a monolithic Django backend using Strangler Fig + feature flags while supporting 10K+ concurrent users.”

“Software engineer/QA automation leader with Lowe’s experience owning automation quality strategy for a customer-facing platform supporting large contractor orders. Built TypeScript/React dashboards backed by Spring Boot microservices (MongoDB) and RabbitMQ async messaging, with strong CI/CD test automation and production monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana). Also created an internal automated test reporting dashboard that improved QA workflow through training-led adoption and iterative refinement.”