Vetted Amazon RDS Professionals

“Backend/data engineer focused on AWS-based, event-driven systems—building Golang microservices and serverless pipelines with strong data validation, observability (CloudWatch/Splunk/New Relic), and reliability patterns (retries/DLQs). Has also operated distributed web scraping/data collection with schema versioning and Step Functions backfills, and ships well-documented, versioned REST/WebSocket APIs for internal and external consumers.”

Rushir Bhavsar

Screened

Intern AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, MLOps, and distributed training

1y exp

“Founding AI engineer (June 2024) at Talon Labs who built and productionized an LLM-powered chatbot for interacting with proprietary supply-chain documents, deployed at large scale (25–100,000 users). Experienced with RAG/LLM orchestration (LangChain, LlamaIndex, Groq AI) and production ops tooling (Kubernetes, Docker, Kubeflow, Airflow), with a metrics-driven approach to evaluation, observability, and stakeholder alignment.”

Sri Lalitha

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Java Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and FinTech

California, USA6y exp

“Backend engineer who owned a Python task management API with JWT auth, async notifications, and performance work (DB optimization/caching) to handle high volumes. Led an on-prem to Azure private cloud migration at Morgan Stanley using GitOps and IaC (Terraform/ARM) with phased rollout and rollback planning. Also built a Kafka real-time streaming pipeline with exactly-once/idempotent consumers and Prometheus/Grafana monitoring.”

Manasa Reddy Nagendla

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Java Engineer specializing in microservices, cloud, and event-driven systems

Cincinnati, OH6y exp

“Software engineer at Procter & Gamble focused on warehouse/operations systems, building near-real-time order/inventory visibility using Java/Spring Boot, React, Kafka, PostgreSQL, and Redis with measurable latency and load-time gains. Also shipped internal LLM/RAG knowledge assistants grounded in company runbooks and workflows, implementing guardrails and an evaluation loop that drove concrete retrieval improvements (document chunking) and regression prevention.”

Ramtin Kazemi

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Django, AWS, and AI/ML

San Diego, California1y exp

“Full-stack engineer who built and owned an AI-powered personal statement editor in Next.js (App Router + TypeScript), including dynamic routing, server-side data fetching, and typed API route handlers. Post-launch, they handled production monitoring/debugging and shipped reliability/performance upgrades (rate limiting, retries, rollback, DB indexing), and report a 40% latency reduction using Suspense/streaming and React concurrency patterns. Also implemented a durable Temporal-orchestrated AI document workflow with robust retry/idempotency strategies.”

Kaushik Balakesavalu

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in enterprise SaaS and FinTech

Fairfax, VA5y exp

“Software engineer with fintech/retirement-fund domain experience who led an internal dashboard consolidating fund transactions, approvals, and reporting into a single workflow tool. Strong in full-stack delivery (React + REST APIs + DB optimization) and in scaling/cleaning messy operational data via modular ETL pipelines (Python/Node), iterating post-launch with performance improvements like caching, pagination, and enhanced filtering.”

Narendra R

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in microservices and cloud platforms

Dallas, TX7y exp

“Backend engineer focused on scalable Python/Flask services and high-performance PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy systems, with demonstrated wins like reducing N+1-driven response times to under 200ms and cutting P95 latency below 1s via background queues and caching. Has production experience operationalizing ML models as Dockerized APIs on AWS (S3/Lambda) with monitoring (CloudWatch/ELK), plus robust multi-tenant isolation using JWT-driven tenant context and row-level security.”

Ashwitha Reddy

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Java/Spring microservices and AWS

Ohio, United States3y exp

“Backend/platform engineer who has owned a real-time business analytics dashboard backend (Python/Flask/MongoDB) and built Kafka event-streaming pipelines with idempotent processing and DLQs. Strong DevOps/GitOps experience deploying containerized microservices to AWS EKS with CI/CD (Jenkins/GitHub Actions/CodePipeline) and ArgoCD auto-sync/drift detection, plus hands-on support for phased hybrid cloud/on-prem migrations using feature flags and replication.”

Mukul Sai Pendem

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and DevOps

United States (Remote)4y exp

“Backend engineer with strong Python/FastAPI microservices ownership, including an ML-serving service with embeddings, async DB access, and Redis caching to reduce latency under high load. Experienced deploying and operating containerized services on Kubernetes using GitOps (Argo CD/Helm) with automated CI/CD, plus hands-on Kafka streaming pipeline tuning and enterprise migration work (Infosys) using blue-green/active-passive strategies.”

“Data engineer with experience at Capital One and HSBC building and operating GCP-based data platforms. Led an end-to-end Oracle-to-BigQuery migration processing ~200–300GB/day using Dataflow/Beam, Airflow, Dataproc/PySpark, and Looker, achieving ~99.5% pipeline success and ~30% fewer data quality issues. Strong in production reliability, schema drift handling for external APIs, and BigQuery performance/serving patterns (materialized views, authorized views, versioned datasets).”

Tong Wu

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack SaaS and cloud systems

Ontario, Canada8y exp

“Built and owned Laserfiche's Schedule Custom Report platform end-to-end, spanning Angular frontend, backend orchestration, and production observability for an enterprise reporting workflow. Stands out for integrating multiple independent microservices with RabbitMQ-based event orchestration while also improving UX on complex migration tooling.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on ownership of banking microservices from initial design to launch and production support, including security, CI/CD, observability, and incident response. Stands out for measurable modernization impact—~35% faster backend processing, ~40% lower query latency, and ~30% better deployment cycles—and for a pragmatic approach to both Kafka-based async systems and controlled LLM integration in enterprise workflows.”

Kavya Aitagoni

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in web platforms and live events

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“Full-stack product engineer with experience shipping user-facing web products end-to-end, including an event analytics dashboard and checkout improvements at Eventbrite. Stands out for combining frontend polish, backend reliability, and production-minded practices like idempotent APIs, query optimization, CI/CD, logging, and monitoring to improve conversion and reduce engineering dependency.”

“Built and deployed an AI-driven expense categorization workflow integrating OpenAI API and PGVector to automate general ledger coding. Stands out for combining LLM/embedding architecture with finance operations context, stakeholder-facing deployment ownership, and measurable impact of roughly 30%+ reduction in manual coding effort.”

“Built and shipped a production Python service integrating with a helium mass spectrometer for real-time sensing and remote control/monitoring. Combines hardware integration, observability, and Playwright-based automation expertise, with a strong track record of turning brittle or ambiguous real-world processes into reliable systems— including reducing dashboard automation failures from about 20% to under 2%.”

“Built an internal RAG assistant for financial documents using FastAPI, OpenAI APIs, and vector search, improving document search speed and reducing manual effort for the business team. Stands out for a pragmatic approach to AI engineering: uses AI heavily for productivity, but keeps human judgment central and has designed retrieval, validation, and summarization workflows end-to-end.”

“Engineer working on high-throughput financial systems who uses AI pragmatically to accelerate development without sacrificing design ownership, correctness, or compliance. Particularly interesting for teams building regulated, real-time platforms: they have hands-on experience integrating fraud detection models into microservices, handling transaction ingestion, scoring, decisioning, and throughput-sensitive asynchronous workflows.”

“Developer with a pragmatic, disciplined approach to AI-assisted coding: uses tools like Copilot, ChatGPT, and Gemini to speed up debugging, optimization, unit testing, and documentation while maintaining ownership of design and code quality. Interested in expanding from single-agent workflows into multi-agent setups for larger coding tasks and stays current through hands-on use and AI ecosystem updates.”

“At KPMG, built and productionized a secure RAG-based LLM assistant that lets business and risk stakeholders query data warehouses in natural language, reducing dependence on data engineers for ad-hoc analysis. Demonstrates strong production rigor (Airflow orchestration, CI/CD, containerization), retrieval/embedding tuning (rechunking, semantic abstraction for structured data), and reliability controls (confidence thresholds, refusal behavior, monitoring and canary evals).”

“Customer-facing technical professional with experience supporting LLM/agentic-style workflows and complex integrated systems (APIs, backend logic, databases). Partnered with sales/customer teams at Radix Health to onboard new clients in phased prototypes, translating non-technical requirements into technical scope and implementing core product changes to tailor the appointment-booking solution for providers.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience at Vanguard, PNC, and Humana building customer-facing investment/banking flows and internal ops tools using Angular/React/TypeScript with Spring Boot microservices. Strong in shipping time-sensitive changes safely via automated testing/CI (JUnit/Mockito, Jenkins, SonarQube) and in operating event-driven microservices with Kafka (idempotency, retries, correlation IDs). Improved internal tool adoption by responding to ops/support feedback with query optimization and clearer search results.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience building a large-scale healthcare claims and provider-enrollment system end-to-end (React frontend, Spring Boot microservices, PostgreSQL on AWS). Optimized high-volume claims processing (millions of records/day) using indexing/pagination and asynchronous workloads via AWS Lambda/Kafka, and deployed containerized services with Docker/Jenkins on AWS.”

“Robotics software developer building an ESP32/FreeRTOS wheel-encoder driver for a differential-drive robot with PID velocity control and ROS2 odometry publishing. Has implemented vision-based human tracking (DepthAI) and an obstacle map + EKF sensor fusion using IMU and LiDAR, with a simulation-first debugging workflow (Gazebo, Foxglove) and Dockerized environments; plans to extend to Nav2 + SLAM Toolbox for building-scale mapping.”

“Backend engineer who built a containerized Flask service powering an engineering metrics dashboard by syncing GitHub and Jira data into PostgreSQL, with strong emphasis on schema design, query performance, caching, and background processing. Has hands-on experience with SaaS multi-tenancy (tenant scoping + Postgres RLS) and integrating AI/ML inference via separate model-serving services (FastAPI + TensorFlow Serving) and external APIs (OpenAI/Hugging Face/PyTorch).”