Vetted Amazon RDS Professionals

“Built and operated a production warehouse metadata collection platform at Sigma Computing, integrating Go/gRPC services with a TypeScript backend and MySQL, with strong emphasis on idempotency, retries, bounded-concurrency job queues, and Datadog-based observability. Also created Kurral (kurral.com), an AI agent runtime security and observability/governance SDK/proxy concept, iterating via pilot-customer feedback and market research; targeting founding engineer roles with $180–200k base and ~2–5% equity.”

Manaswini Gogineni

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and full-stack web development

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“Backend engineer at Electric Hydrogen who built a serverless device-log ingestion and processing platform in Python/Flask, scaling throughput (4x peak ingestion) while keeping sub-300ms API latency. Strong in Postgres/SQLAlchemy performance (partitioning, materialized views) and production ML integration (ONNX model served via FastAPI microservice with async batch inference, Redis feature caching, and drift monitoring via S3/Lambda). Experienced designing secure multi-tenant systems with schema-per-tenant isolation and KMS-backed encryption.”

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.”