Vetted Amazon Kinesis Professionals

“Hands-on engineering manager at a marketing company leading a highly senior, distributed team (10 direct reports) while personally coding ~60–70% and owning end-to-end architecture across three interconnected products. Built agentic CRM automation and a reinforcement-learning-driven distribution layer for channel spend/bidding, with a strong focus on scalable design and observability (Prometheus/APM/logging) enabling frequent releases and few production incidents.”

Andrew Fares

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in AI, GenAI, and cloud data platforms

Seattle, WA4y exp

“Built production AI systems inside AWS finance/procurement, including an LLM-based supplier quote classification and price-vetting workflow that drove $5M in savings over 3 months. Combines GenAI evaluation expertise, internal platform design, and reusable Python data-quality tooling with strong cross-functional execution across finance, accounting, and hardware engineering.”

“ML/LLM engineer with Stripe and Adobe experience who productionized a transformer-based Payments Foundation Model for real-time fraud detection at global scale (billions of transactions). Built petabyte-scale ETL/feature pipelines (Spark/EMR, Airflow, dbt, Kafka/Flink) and achieved <100ms multi-region inference (EKS, TorchServe, edge/Lambda, GPU/CPU routing) with strong PCI-DSS/GDPR compliance and explainability (SHAP/LIME), reporting a 64% fraud accuracy improvement.”

“End-to-end product engineer who built and shipped Shopify Magic, an LLM-powered product-description generator on Amazon Bedrock with RAG over a tenant-isolated vector database, achieving 50% faster content creation, sub-2s latency, and 70%+ merchant adoption. Also led a Flexport migration from a monolithic Rails app to microservices using feature flags and parallel runs, delivering zero downtime and a 60% improvement in development speed.”

Rohini Rajagopalan

Screened

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in SaaS, Cloud Migration, and Cybersecurity

Santa clara, CA8y exp

“Senior engineering leader with experience at Cisco, Amazon, and startup Shopkick, operating at high scale (e.g., Secure Web Gateway handling ~40M QPS). Known for measurable impact across reliability and cost (85% efficacy improvement; Datadog spend cut from ~$500k/month to ~$15k/month) and for leading complex platform modernization (1-year monolith-to-microservices/event-driven migration with zero customer impact) plus compatibility-focused API design that cut device onboarding from a month to a day.”