Vetted Amazon EKS Professionals

“Enterprise Architecture leader with insurance domain experience (Farmers Insurance) who drove a multi-phase roadmap to modernize a siloed CRM landscape—migrating from legacy Siebel to Salesforce Financial Services Cloud with Customer 360, MDM, and omnichannel capabilities. Also led a high-impact architecture decision to implement offline billing to reduce customer-facing downtime, including complex SAP/on-prem-to-cloud integration and transaction sync.”

“Backend/platform engineer with payroll domain depth who built high-volume payroll processing microservices (Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis) on AWS Kubernetes and debugged major peak-cycle latency by redesigning transaction boundaries and moving to async Kafka processing (>50% latency reduction). Also shipped an LLM-powered HR assistant using RAG with strong security/guardrails (RBAC, PII masking, audit logs) that cut support tickets by 40%, and designed reliable multi-step agent workflows with retries, circuit breakers, and idempotency.”

“Backend/AI workflow engineer with PayPal experience building workflow-driven financial compliance systems (Python/Java, Postgres, AWS/EKS) at thousands of executions/day. Has shipped production LLM-powered document extraction with strict schema/rule validation, auditability, and human-in-the-loop fallbacks, and has deep expertise in reliability (idempotency, locking, state machines) and Postgres performance tuning.”

“Backend/platform engineer with experience across edtech, logistics, and AWS internal systems—owned a production course recommender end-to-end (model serving + APIs + caching/observability), delivering +30% CTR and -20% latency. Has scaled real-time delivery visibility/rerouting on Kubernetes/EKS to sub-200ms P95 during demand spikes and built billion-events/day telemetry pipelines on AWS (Kinesis Firehose, Lambda, S3, Redshift) with schema evolution, dedupe, and replay support.”

“Infrastructure/DevOps engineer with primary ownership in enterprise Linux and AWS/Azure production environments (including financial systems). Built secure, repeatable CI/CD pipelines deploying containerized workloads to EKS/ECS and implemented Terraform/CloudFormation IaC with drift detection and rollback practices; lacks direct IBM Power/AIX/PowerHA experience.”

“Built and shipped a production enterprise RAG knowledge assistant that returns grounded, cited answers and uses confidence-based fallbacks (clarifying questions/abstention) with monitoring and compliance controls for sensitive data. Implemented end-to-end agent orchestration (function calling, structured JSON, state, retries/rate limits) plus eval/feedback loops, and achieved a reported 30–40% improvement in knowledge-task completion time while reducing hallucinations via retrieval improvements.”

Lavanya Chilakalapudi

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud-native web apps and APIs

Tampa, FL5y exp

“Backend engineer with experience building microservice-based systems that integrate LLM workflows (code review suggestions, documentation generation, test scaffolding) using REST APIs, Celery/Redis, and OpenTelemetry for observability. Demonstrates hands-on database and performance optimization in PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy (bulk inserts, lock mitigation, cursor-based pagination) plus multi-tenant data isolation via tenant-aware models, middleware scoping, and schema/row-level strategies.”

Deepika Gotla

Screened

Senior Technical Support Engineer specializing in Azure Cloud & Generative AI

Bellevue, WA7y exp

“Microsoft cloud/infra engineer with 5+ years supporting enterprise Azure environments, specializing in security-focused networking (private endpoints, DNS) and production troubleshooting across Azure Front Door/App Gateway WAF/AKS. Has implemented posture improvements via Defender for Cloud, Azure Policy, and RBAC tightening, and also designs secure AWS agent/scanner integrations and modern EKS/GitHub Actions/Secrets Manager observability-enabled SDK rollouts.”

Shriya Bannikop

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud platforms, data engineering, and distributed systems

Seattle, WA5y exp

“Full-stack engineer who built and owned an AI-assisted job-matching dashboard in Next.js App Router/TypeScript, keeping LLM logic server-side and improving performance via deduplication, caching/revalidation, and streaming (35% fewer duplicate LLM calls; 40% faster first render). Also has strong data/backend chops: designed Postgres models and optimized queries at million-record scale (1.8s to 120ms) and built durable AWS multi-region telemetry workflows with idempotency, retries, and monitoring.”

Jignesh Desai

Screened

Director of Software Engineering specializing in fraud detection and payments platforms

San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA26y exp

“Engineering manager/player-coach who focuses on laying technical foundations and improving team execution: kickstarted Visa standard UI library adoption, standardized API exception handling, and introduced a test automation framework that enabled a shift from quarterly to monthly releases. Led a phased latency/throughput initiative that doubled throughput, and owned a production incident caused by a dependency’s expired certificate, driving monitoring and certificate-expiry notification improvements across dependent systems.”

Abraham Musa

Screened

Senior Solutions Architect specializing in cloud AI infrastructure and security

Union City, NJ9y exp

“Cloud-native architect focused primarily on AWS, with experience designing Kubernetes and AI/ML infrastructure for customers rather than owning day-to-day operations. Particularly interesting for AI platform roles: they described using Amazon Bedrock to analyze Terraform and automatically generate compliant IaC templates and runbooks for new multi-cloud AI environments.”

“Built Multipass at Gemini, a Flask/React system that provisioned AWS access across 98 accounts for 400+ engineers, with a strong focus on reliability, observability, and hardening brittle auth flows. Earlier at Deloitte, turned a Word-doc HR onboarding SOP for CVS Health into 45 Workday integrations using XML/XSLT, cutting manual work by 38% and improving data accuracy by 12%.”

“Product-minded software engineer with experience shipping AI-powered financial insights (spend forecasting, cashflow, credit optimization) and building real-time analytics systems using React/TypeScript and FastAPI. Has designed microservices with RabbitMQ/gRPC and strong observability (Prometheus/Grafana/OpenTelemetry), and also built an internal Figma plugin adopted by designers that reduced export time by 50%.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on compliance and statistical processing systems on AWS, building containerized FastAPI services plus event-driven async workflows (Step Functions/EventBridge) with strong reliability patterns (JWT auth, idempotency, structured logging). Has modernized SAS-based batch pipelines into modular Python/AWS services with parallel-run parity validation, and has demonstrated measurable SQL performance wins (40+ min to <10 min) and hands-on incident ownership using CloudWatch-driven detection and prevention.”

“Amazon engineer who owned customer-facing Alexa features and built automation-heavy delivery practices (API/service-level testing in CI/CD) to ship quickly without sacrificing stability. Also built an internal self-service feature management/beta access platform (Angular + Spring Boot + event publishing) that replaced a multi-team ticket workflow with instant, auditable operations, and has deep microservices/Kafka experience with strong observability and reliability patterns.”

“Backend/platform engineer building HIPAA-compliant, real-time healthcare systems: owned a Python/Flask API layer for an AI-enabled patient engagement and risk scoring service, implemented PHI-safe logging and cross-service auditability, and delivered Kubernetes microservices via ArgoCD GitOps. Also has experience with Kafka streaming pipelines and hybrid cloud-to-on-prem migrations in regulated healthcare/fintech environments.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered RAG assistant for enterprise internal document search (PDFs, knowledge bases, structured data), addressing real-world issues like noisy documents, hallucinations, and latency with grounded prompting, retrieval-confidence fallbacks, and performance optimizations. Also partnered with compliance and business teams at JPMc to deliver a solution aligned with regulatory constraints, supported by monitoring, feedback loops, and systematic evaluation.”

“Backend/microservices engineer with fintech loan-lifecycle experience operating low-latency (sub-250ms) services in production using Kafka, idempotent transaction design, and Datadog observability. Also built an end-to-end LLM chatbot (React + Flask) with a decoupled model integration layer (FLAN-T5 via Hugging Face) and has experience designing partner-facing REST APIs with OAuth2/JWT and Swagger documentation.”

Swagat Adhikary

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in LLM agents and FinTech platforms

Raleigh, NC1y exp

“AI/LLM engineer with Fidelity Investments experience who built and shipped a production GraphRAG system that augmented prompts with codebase context, improving business analyst efficiency by 15% and saving ~$3.5M annually. Strong in AWS EKS/Kubernetes/Helm and enterprise IAM/OIDC patterns (including cross-account S3 access), with experience mentoring interns and collaborating with non-technical leaders to extend AI pipelines (e.g., adding SQL functionality during MVP).”

Nicholas Moore

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in scalable cloud-native systems

Lehi, Utah13y exp

“Backend/data engineer with production experience building high-concurrency customer engagement platforms at KomBea on AWS (EKS + Lambda) using FastAPI/Django, PostgreSQL, Redis, and strong observability. Has modernized legacy batch systems into modular Python services with parallel-run parity validation and phased rollouts, and has delivered resilient AWS Glue ETL pipelines with schema evolution and data quality controls.”

Sakshi Dinesh Deore

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AWS, DevOps automation, and data platforms

Bellevue, USA3y exp

“Engineer with Securonix experience deploying and operating production microservices and real-time data-processing systems at high throughput. Led AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, monitoring, and customer-driven customization for a threat-report classification solution, including rule adjustments and model retraining based on live client feedback.”

Geetha Sri Kasu

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, and AWS

5y exp

“Software engineer who owned an end-to-end self-service reporting workflow (secure APIs, async/batched processing, and React UI), improving report generation performance by ~30–40% and reducing manual support effort. Also built a RAG/embeddings prototype over internal docs and service logs with grounding-focused guardrails, and has a strong reliability/observability mindset (retries, DLQs, CI/CD validation, dashboards/tracing) for distributed workflows.”

“Platform/infrastructure-focused engineer with hands-on experience automating AWS EKS upgrades in Python, building observability around logs/metrics/SLOs, and migrating Terraform delivery from CodePipeline to Atlantis. They describe shipping automation that handled 140 resources across 50+ Terraform files ahead of schedule and debugging a Karpenter/CoreDNS regression in Kubernetes by tracing it from regional traffic spikes to a missing local DNS cache configuration.”