Vetted Amazon RDS Professionals

“Front-end engineer focused on complex, data-heavy browser UIs, with hands-on ownership of a pharmaceutical sales analytics dashboard used by sales reps and managers. Stands out for combining React/TypeScript architecture with browser-level performance tuning and usability improvements for power users.”

“Aspiring founder building an AI governance and compliance startup for the finance industry, focused on agents that monitor data lakes/lakehouses to detect security vulnerabilities, PII exposure, and governance issues in real time. Has already formed an S-corp, has not raised capital yet, and approaches idea validation through Minimum Lovable Product testing with potential clients.”

“Senior frontend engineer focused on complex internal operations and payment products, with deep experience building React/TypeScript dashboards for payments, subscriptions, and observability workflows. Stands out for going beyond UI implementation to shape API contracts, real-time architectures, performance strategy, and product behavior across support, finance, and engineering use cases.”

“Engineering leader with hands-on platform, cloud, security, and data infrastructure experience who managed a 9-person cross-functional team spanning data engineering, infrastructure, SRE/DevOps, and DevSecOps. Notable impact includes completing a Mesos-to-ECS migration, cutting AWS spend by $1.6M annually, standing up a security engineering team, and building a no-code data lake/warehouse platform in partnership with sales, support, data science, and BI.”

“Backend/data engineer who has owned production Python APIs and high-throughput async workflows on AWS (FastAPI, Docker, ECS/EKS/Lambda) with mature reliability practices like idempotency, bounded retries, circuit breakers, and strong observability. Also built AWS Glue ETL into an S3/Redshift lakehouse and modernized legacy batch systems via parallel-run parity testing and feature-flagged migrations, including a SQL tuning win cutting a multi-minute query to under 10 seconds.”

“Software engineer with practical, day-to-day experience embedding AI into development workflows across coding, testing, code review, and AWS data pipelines. Uses tools like Claude, Cline, JUnit, Mockito, and Amazon Bedrock, and stands out for having a realistic, mature view of agent limitations, hallucinations, and the need for strong prompting and human validation.”

Kevin West

Screened

Executive engineering leader specializing in AI, cloud architecture, and startup product delivery

Phoenix, AZ15y exp

“Founding/backend engineering leader who built an AI product for car enthusiasts, recruited and managed cross-functional/offshore teams, and helped drive an $8M Series A after scaling a viral launch of 40k+ users in a weekend. Also built a sophisticated human-in-the-loop AI brand platform with agent orchestration and led a major AWS Step Functions migration that reduced platform costs from $30k/month to roughly $900/month.”