Vetted Amazon RDS Professionals

“Senior engineering leader at AWS currently managing two services in the MSK organization, including Replicator for disaster recovery/data distribution and Glue Schema Registry. He combines hands-on distributed systems depth with large-scale people leadership, having managed teams up to 32 engineers and coordinated platform onboarding work across roughly 340 AWS services. Earlier experience in payroll and compliance platforms adds strong enterprise domain breadth beyond cloud infrastructure.”

Cathy Shu

Screened

Entry-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI and healthcare applications

Mountain View, CA1y exp

“Early-career full-stack/AI engineer who has already owned a production RAG system for a mental-health-focused startup serving veterans and first responders. Stands out for combining LLM application design, AWS infrastructure work, and product thinking around trust, latency, and guardrails, plus building a separate agentic commerce support prototype and a stock backtesting platform.”

Shuvam Mitra

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in anomaly detection and production ML

Pittsburgh, PA4y exp

“Interned at Backblaze building production AI systems for incident response and security operations, including an internal LLM-powered incident triage assistant that used Snowflake + RAG over historical tickets/postmortems and delivered results via Slack and a web UI. Emphasizes reliability (PII filtering, grounding, schema validation, fallbacks) and rigorous evaluation/observability (offline replay, partial rollouts, time-to-first-action metrics, Prometheus/Grafana).”

Kunj Amrutbhai Patel

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in distributed backend systems on AWS

Seattle, WA4y exp

“Built production systems in the AWS ecosystem, including an internal AI assistant for diagnosing account transfer and permissions issues and an end-to-end account transfer workflow used by enterprise customers. Stands out for combining LLM/RAG design with strong distributed systems reliability practices, emphasizing guardrails, fallbacks, and operational trust in high-stakes workflows.”

“Software engineer at Intel who owns a production Go/Kubernetes backend for supply-chain transparency and end-to-end hardware integrity verification in a hybrid cloud setup (AWS control plane + Azure data plane). Also built and shipped an AI agent workflow for real-estate due diligence that turns raw Excel spreadsheets into structured investment outputs and auto-generated PowerPoint insights using LangGraph, with strong emphasis on verification, observability, and reliability guardrails.”

Michael Kaufman

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in mobile and web platforms

Seattle, WA5y exp

“iOS-focused engineer who led feature development for Amazon Books/Kindle (e.g., Series & Story So Far recaps, Kindle Memories) and introduced pure Swift packages while building sync and content download systems. Also has full-stack experience (React/TypeScript + Node with REST/GraphQL) and strong AWS operations (CDK/CI-CD, CloudWatch, canaries, autoscaling), plus founder experience at GLXY.ai shipping an early hardware MVP (weight sensors) under tight constraints.”

Jim Glassman

Screened

Executive Technology Leader specializing in Enterprise AI, Cloud Architecture, and Data Platforms

Houston, TX16y exp

“Senior data/technology executive who stays hands-on: currently building a Go micro-kernel orchestration layer for medical AI agents to boost concurrency and enforce HIPAA/PHI controls, achieving 26x throughput on migrated workloads. Has led large-scale transformations across healthcare and financial services, including a 45-day data warehouse rebuild at Elara Caring and a data/ML roadmap at Acelity credited with $230M in annual revenue impact prior to 3M acquisition.”