Vetted Amazon Kinesis Professionals

Ram Usarty

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native distributed systems

USA4y exp

“Backend/platform-focused engineer who has shipped production LLM agents for messy research dataset submissions, turning manual validation into an automated, reliable ingestion pipeline. Strong on production hardening (streaming large uploads, strict schema/function-calling outputs, idempotency, RBAC) plus eval/monitoring loops that improved data quality, reduced support burden, and increased adoption.”

Tara Worrell

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in backend systems, AI/LLM integration, and cloud infrastructure

Brooklyn, NY6y exp

“Backend engineer with experience in highly regulated and high-stakes systems, including an airline crew messaging platform requiring near-zero-error real-time operations and a HIPAA-compliant mental health application built from an early-stage concept. They also show strong operational maturity, having owned a GoDaddy production incident through resolution and then led deployment pipeline improvements that reduced build failures by 40% and doubled deployment frequency.”

“Backend/ML systems engineer who built a Flask + PostgreSQL internal ticketing platform and demonstrates strong database/ORM performance depth (indexes, partitioning, RLS multi-tenancy). Notably optimized a high-throughput attachment OCR/embedding pipeline with batching, deduplication, and Redis caching, cutting median latency from 45s to 10s and reducing worker cost by 35% while increasing throughput 4x.”

“Built an end-to-end automated trading system for Polymarket, including Go/Python execution services, Terraform-scheduled ETL/feature pipelines, and monitoring on modest hardware. Also shipped a production LLM+RAG signal verifier/explainer that grounds trade decisions in external context (news/social) with vector DB retrieval and guardrails, plus a lightweight RAGAS-style eval loop on ~50 resolved markets that improved signal faithfulness by ~15%.”

“Engineering director and hands-on architecture leader who combines people management with strong systems design depth across performance optimization, serverless event-driven platforms, and developer-facing AI tooling. Notable wins include cutting API latency 30%, reducing shipping time 20%, and refactoring a product into a Claude Code-native workflow optimized for token efficiency and developer context management.”

“Built and productionized an enterprise retrieval-augmented generation platform for internal knowledge over large unstructured corpora, emphasizing trust via strict citation/grounding and hybrid retrieval (BM25 + FAISS + cross-encoder re-ranking). Demonstrates strong scaling and cost/latency optimization through incremental indexing/embedding and index partitioning, plus disciplined evaluation/observability practices. Has experience operationalizing pipelines with Airflow/Databricks/GitHub Actions and partnering closely with risk & compliance stakeholders on auditability requirements.”

“Software engineer with Prudential Financial experience building enterprise Spring Boot microservices for policy/risk assessment, including integrating Python ML models via Flask and hardening services with resiliency patterns. Also led an AWS lift-and-shift modernization during an internship (EC2/ELB/Route53/Auto Scaling) and built a personal diffusion-model text-to-music project using BERT tokens mapped to Mel spectrograms.”

“Built a production, real-time clinical documentation system at HCA that converts doctor–patient conversations into structured clinical summaries using speech-to-text, LLM summarization, and RAG. Demonstrated measurable gains from medical-domain fine-tuning (clinical concept recall +18%, ROUGE-L 0.62 to 0.74) while meeting HIPAA constraints via PHI anonymization and encryption, and deployed via Docker/FastAPI with CI/CD and monitoring.”

“IBM engineer who built and deployed a production RAG-based LLM assistant using LangChain/FAISS with a fine-tuned LLaMA model, served via FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes, achieving 99%+ uptime. Demonstrates strong practical expertise in reducing hallucinations (semantic chunking + metadata-driven retrieval) and managing latency, plus mature MLOps practices (Airflow/dbt pipelines, MLflow tracking, monitoring, A/B and shadow deployments) and effective collaboration with non-technical stakeholders.”

“Data engineer (~4 years) with full-stack delivery experience (Next.js App Router/TypeScript + React) building a real-time operations monitoring dashboard backed by Kafka and orchestrated data pipelines. Strong production focus: Airflow + CloudWatch monitoring, automated Python/SQL validation (99.5% accuracy), and CI/CD with Jenkins/Docker; has delivered measurable improvements in latency, pipeline reliability, and query performance (Postgres/Redshift).”

“Software engineer/product owner experience at UnitedHealth Group owning a high-volume claims eligibility console end-to-end (React/TypeScript + Spring Boot microservices) processing 1M+ transactions/day. Strong in event-driven architecture (Kafka/RabbitMQ), HIPAA-aligned security (OAuth/JWT/RBAC), and building internal observability tools that improve incident triage and production reliability.”

“ML/AI engineer with healthcare payer experience (Signal Healthcare, Cigna) who has shipped production fraud/claims prediction systems using Python/TensorFlow and exposed them via FastAPI/Flask microservices integrated with EHR and Salesforce. Emphasizes operational reliability and trust—Airflow-orchestrated pipelines with data quality gates plus SHAP-based interpretability, A/B testing, and drift/debug workflows—backed by reported outcomes of 22% lower false payouts and 17% higher model accuracy.”

“Built a production internal LLM/RAG assistant at CVS Health to cut time spent searching long policy and clinical guideline PDFs, combining fine-tuned BERT/GPT models with FAISS retrieval and a FastAPI service on AWS. Demonstrates strong real-world reliability work (document cleanup, hallucination controls, monitoring/drift tracking with MLflow) and close collaboration with non-technical clinical operations teams via demos and feedback-driven iteration.”

“Data engineer with Charter Communications experience modernizing large-scale AWS data lake pipelines: ingesting S3 data, validating against legacy systems, transforming with PySpark/Spark SQL, and serving via Iceberg/Delta tables. Worked at 50M–300M record scale, delivered >99.5% data match, and built monitoring/alerting (CloudWatch/SNS) plus retry orchestration (Step Functions) and data quality gates (Great Expectations).”

Prasanth Sai

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in cloud lakehouse/warehouse pipelines

4y exp

“Data engineer with HCA Healthcare experience building and operating end-to-end AWS-based pipelines for clinical and operational reporting (50–100 GB/day), serving curated data into Redshift/Snowflake for Power BI/Tableau. Emphasizes production reliability (Airflow SLAs/retries/alerting, logging/observability) and strong data quality controls (reconciliations, schema/null/duplicate checks), and has shipped versioned REST APIs to expose warehouse data to downstream systems.”

Shashank R

Screened

Senior Data Engineer specializing in cloud data platforms and real-time analytics

Las Vegas, NV6y exp

“Data engineer (Credit One) who built and owned real-time financial transaction and credit risk/fraud data systems end-to-end on AWS + Snowflake. Delivered high-scale pipelines (150k events/hour; ~2TB/week), raised data accuracy to 99%, and cut Snowflake costs 42% while adding strong observability, schema-drift handling, and production-grade APIs/documentation.”