Vetted Amazon EKS Professionals

“AI/ML engineer with CVS Health experience deploying production LLM systems in regulated healthcare settings, including a large-scale RAG solution (1M+ documents) built for compliance-grade, auditable policy/regulatory Q&A with strong anti-hallucination controls. Also delivered an NLP summarization system for physician notes/case narratives by partnering closely with non-technical care operations stakeholders and iterating via prototypes, dashboards, and feedback loops.”

“Open-source JavaScript library contributor/maintainer focused on performance and usability—uses profiling and user feedback to optimize large-dataset processing and modernize abstractions. Refactored a nested-callback event handling system into an observer-pattern dispatcher with batched event queues, reducing CPU usage and improving maintainability; also handles community-reported crashes by reproducing issues, fixing memory leaks, and updating docs.”

“Built an LLM-powered academic research assistant for a professor (LangChain + OpenAI + arXiv) focused on synthesizing papers quickly, with emphasis on reliability (ReAct prompting, citation verification) and cost control (caching). Has production MLOps/orchestration experience at Cisco and HCL Tech using Kubernetes, plus MLflow and GitHub Actions for lifecycle management and CI/CD.”

“Built an AI lending assistant (RAG + DeBERTa) used by credit analysts to retrieve policies and past loan decisions, tackling real production issues like hallucinations, document quality, and sub-second latency. Deployed a modular, Dockerized AWS architecture (ECS/EMR + load balancer) with load testing, caching/precomputed embeddings, and CloudWatch monitoring, and used Airflow to automate scheduled data/embedding/vector DB refresh pipelines with retries and alerts.”

“Robotics engineer with hands-on experience scaling a multi-vendor heterogeneous warehouse robot fleet, building a distributed “traffic manager” for collision avoidance and real-time rerouting using CBS/MAPF and DCOP-style negotiation. Strong real-time/safety-critical systems background (RTOS, deterministic lock-free multithreading) plus modern perception and simulation tooling (CNN-LSTM/transformers, CARLA/Isaac Sim, VIO/GTSAM, camera-IMU calibration). Startup-oriented and comfortable moving quickly from prototype to production.”

“Backend engineer with American Express experience maintaining an internal Python/Flask rewards simulation microservice used by product analysts and QA. Demonstrated strong performance and scalability work: moved batch simulations to Celery, added Redis caching to cut DynamoDB latency, and tuned Postgres/SQLAlchemy queries with EXPLAIN ANALYZE and composite indexes (bringing API responses under ~200ms by queueing jobs). Also has experience integrating ML via Flask-based model-serving APIs (scikit-learn/LightGBM packaged with joblib) and designing multi-tenant data isolation and tenant-specific configuration systems.”

“Backend/ML platform engineer in the insurance domain who built and shipped an AI-driven risk scoring/fraud detection service for underwriting. Runs containerized .NET Core and Python inference services on Azure (AKS + GPU nodes) with Terraform/ARM and Azure DevOps CI/CD, and has hands-on experience improving reliability under peak load plus implementing production AI guardrails (drift monitoring, fallbacks, human review, audit logs).”

“Full-stack engineer with strong production ownership in banking/identity & entitlements systems, building Spring Boot + Postgres/Redis services and React dashboards, then deploying on AWS EKS with Jenkins CI/CD. Demonstrated impact through reduced authorization latency and fewer access-related support tickets, plus strong observability and reliability practices (CloudWatch, tracing, autoscaling, Kafka pipelines with DLQs and reconciliation).”

“Cloud/DevOps engineer (6+ years) with healthcare domain experience who has owned production AWS systems end-to-end—building real-time data pipelines and an admission forecasting ML service delivered via API and Tableau. Led EMR modernization from on-prem/VMs to containerized AWS using phased migration and blue-green deployments, achieving ~99.5% uptime while cutting on-prem footprint ~30% and driving major automation gains (up to ~90% manual work reduction).”

“Software engineer with experience building and iterating high-volume Spring Boot microservices on AWS (Docker/Kubernetes) and integrating with React front-ends. Also delivered an LLM-powered document summarization system using embeddings + retrieval (RAG) with grounding/guardrails and built evaluation loops that directly drove retrieval and chunking improvements. Has scaled Kafka-based pipelines processing millions of messy financial/infrastructure records with reliability and cost/latency tradeoff management.”

“Data engineer focused on AWS-based enterprise data platforms, owning end-to-end pipelines from multi-source batch/stream ingestion (Glue/Kinesis/StreamSets/Airflow) through PySpark transformations into curated datasets for Redshift/Snowflake. Emphasizes production reliability with strong monitoring/observability and data quality gates, and reports ~30% performance improvement plus improved SLAs and latency after optimization.”

“Backend engineer with deep experience building and evolving financial-services workflow systems where correctness, data integrity, and reliable state transitions outweigh raw throughput. Emphasizes idempotent, contract-driven FastAPI APIs with defense-in-depth security (JWT + row-level security) and careful, low-blast-radius migrations using feature flags, dual writes/shadow reads, and incremental rollout.”

“Backend/data platform engineer who has built and operated a cloud-native media ingestion/processing platform in Python (Django/DRF, FastAPI) with Kafka, Postgres, and Redis, emphasizing multi-tenant security and reliability. Delivered AWS production systems combining EKS and Lambda with Terraform + GitHub Actions/Helm, and built Glue-based ETL pipelines with strong schema-evolution and data-quality practices; also modernized SAS analytics into Python on AWS. Seeking fully remote roles with a $120K–$140K base range.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience modernizing high-volume transactional systems by decomposing monoliths into Spring Boot microservices on AWS, using Kafka for async workflows and Redis/SQL tuning for latency. Has built Python/FastAPI services with strong API contracts and production-grade security (OAuth2/JWT, RBAC, row-level security), and proactively hardened payment flows against race conditions and double-charging via idempotency.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered RAG system at Upstart enabling natural-language search across 50k+ scattered internal technical docs. Delivered sub-300ms p95 latency for ~50 active users with strong hallucination safeguards (retrieval-first, thresholds, citations) plus robust testing/monitoring and cost controls (prompt caching cutting API spend ~20%).”

“Backend/data platform engineer who owned end-to-end production services for a fleet analytics/GenAI platform, spanning FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes and AWS (EKS + Lambda) event-driven workloads. Strong in reliability/observability (OpenTelemetry, circuit breakers, idempotency), data pipelines (Glue/Airflow/Snowflake), and measurable performance/cost wins (SQL 10s to <800ms P95; ~30% compute cost reduction).”

“Software engineer with experience across data engineering and backend/platform work: owned a Databricks/PySpark real-time pipeline powering customer dashboards with a 15-minute SLA, and helped modernize an investor web app from JSP to React/TypeScript with API + SQL/materialized-view performance improvements. Also contributed to breaking a Java monolith into microservices (Redis + gRPC on AWS EKS) and built an EC2-deployed Play Store/App Store crawler that reduced third-party data costs.”

“Backend engineer focused on AI-enabled systems, having built a production-style RAG pipeline (vector search + LLM) exposed via Python/Flask endpoints with strong observability and hallucination-reduction techniques. Demonstrates deep performance work in PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy (5x faster analytics queries) and high-throughput optimization using Celery + Redis (800ms to 120ms latency, 3x throughput), plus schema-per-tenant multi-tenancy with tenant-aware middleware and logging.”

“Robotics software engineer who built the software layer for an autonomous warehouse sorting system, spanning navigation/path planning, task scheduling, and backend services. Deep hands-on ROS 2 Foxy experience (Nav2/costmaps) and real-time multi-robot debugging, using simulation-driven analysis plus incremental/partial re-planning to handle dynamic obstacles in production-like warehouse environments.”

“Built and deployed a production real-time voice AI support agent that answers inbound calls, identifies callers, troubleshoots via a knowledge base, and automatically creates/updates tickets with escalation to humans when needed. Demonstrates strong reliability/latency engineering (streaming, schema validation, idempotency, DB constraints) and uses LangGraph state machines plus OpenAI Agents SDK for multi-agent routing, with KPI-driven testing and monitoring.”

“Built a college AI chatbot during a master’s program, owning the full Python/Flask backend plus Google Gemini integration and a Postgres persistence layer (course info + conversation history), including caching/performance tuning. Also deployed and migrated ETL/ELT workloads from AWS Lambda into Kubernetes/EKS with GitHub Actions-based GitOps CI/CD, IRSA permissions, and Secrets Manager/S3/Postgres connectivity.”

“JavaScript/React performance-focused engineer who contributed upstream to an open-source virtualization/pagination library, fixing overlapping-fetch race conditions and introducing prefetch/deduping patterns that cut load times from ~3s to <900ms and reduced render thrash ~35%. Also built healthcare automation systems (clinical summary and claims triage), including a FastAPI + RAG pipeline that retrieved CPT/ICD evidence, improving decision accuracy from 67% to 86% and reducing turnaround time by 40%.”

“Software/full-stack engineer focused on deploying and integrating microservice applications into production AWS and hybrid cloud/on-prem industrial environments. Demonstrated end-to-end troubleshooting by tracing intermittent user failures to network routing/packet loss caused by load balancer and NIC misconfiguration, then adding monitoring to prevent recurrence. Also delivers customer-specific Python extensions with strong validation, testing, and backward compatibility.”