Vetted Amazon RDS Professionals

“Cloud/infrastructure engineer from ASM Research supporting federal healthcare systems, operating multi-cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) environments at ~2000-server scale. Deep hands-on experience with Terraform/Ansible IaC, PR-based governance (Atlantis), and secure CI/CD (OIDC/least privilege), with concrete incident response wins and HA/failover testing improvements. Not an IBM Power/AIX specialist but comfortable translating virtualization/partitioning and ops practices to new platforms.”

“Built a real-time telemedicine clinician dashboard and iterated post-launch by diagnosing lag via logs/metrics and optimizing DB queries/sync logic. Also shipped a production internal RAG knowledge assistant for support teams, including embeddings/vector DB, citation-only answers with abstention thresholds, and an eval loop driven by real ticket data that improved accuracy through chunking/overlap and batching optimizations.”

“Full-stack engineer focused on application-layer product work (70–75%), with production experience building real-time operational dashboards (React/TypeScript + Node/Express + WebSockets + Postgres) and measurable impact (50% reduction in data entry time). Also owned a Flask backend for a SaaS product with token auth/RBAC, versioning, observability, and performance tuning, and has operated containerized apps on AWS (EKS, RDS/Aurora, S3, API Gateway) including handling a real latency/scaling incident end-to-end.”

“Built and shipped an AI-powered driver ranking/assignment system at AffirmoAI using LLM intent classification + RAG over pgvector/Postgres, served via FastAPI with a React UI that explains scores. Drove measurable improvements through optimization and iteration (latency down to <800ms, adoption 60%→90%+) and implemented rigorous eval loops with dispatcher ground truth plus cold-start handling for new drivers.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience building real-time, event-driven systems at Walgreens, including a Kafka-based prescription status notification service and scalable pipelines for messy prescription/inventory data. Strong focus on reliability patterns (retries, idempotency, DLQs) and iterating based on pharmacist feedback to improve usability.”

“Backend engineer who built and owned an AI-powered financial research product end-to-end, using a typed NestJS/GraphQL backend with LangGraph-style agent routing to produce sourced, structured financial analysis. Emphasizes finance-grade correctness (Zod validation, metric registries, unit/empty-result guardrails) while keeping latency low via batching, caching, and fast token streaming, and has led incremental migrations using strangler/feature-flag/shadow traffic patterns.”

“LLM/agentic-systems practitioner who has repeatedly taken LLM-driven pricing/decision services from prototype to production using pilots, guardrails, observability, and staged rollouts. Demonstrates strong real-time incident troubleshooting (dependency timeouts, cached fallbacks) and post-incident hardening (isolation/async/alerts), and also supports go-to-market via developer workshops, technical demos, and sales-aligned POCs.”

“Backend/data engineer in healthcare who built an AWS-based clinical analytics platform from scratch (DynamoDB/S3/Airflow/dbt) with sub-second clinician query goals, 99.9% uptime, and HIPAA-grade controls (KMS encryption, IAM RBAC, audit trails). Also modernized ML delivery by replacing a manual 4-hour deployment with a 30-minute Docker/GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline using parallel runs, parity testing, and rollback, and caught critical EHR data edge cases (date formats/timezones) that could have impacted patient care.”

“Co-op engineer at EnFi who built and maintained a multi-tenant prompt library and LLM workflow tooling used by internal teams and external enterprise clients. Led TypeScript/React package design and standardized a typed workflow abstraction across disparate implementations (React, Go, JSON), improving reliability and developer adoption. Delivered measurable performance gains (~25% latency reduction) and owned end-to-end execution including docs, demos, debugging, and deployment.”

“Backend engineer working on Plumas Bank’s digital modernization, building a FastAPI-based loan origination/processing system with OAuth2/JWT security, AWS Lambda-driven PDF document generation to S3, and MongoDB integration. Has led a legacy workflow migration to a new microservice using dual-write/dual-read and monitoring, and emphasizes multi-tenant isolation via layered API controls plus row-level security.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on AWS-native Python systems: built a FastAPI microservice on ECS/Fargate serving real-time analytics at millions of daily requests with strong reliability (OAuth2/JWT, retries/timeouts, correlation IDs) and autoscaling. Also delivered Glue/PySpark ETL pipelines to curated S3 Parquet/Athena with schema evolution + data quality controls, owned Airflow pipeline incidents, and has a track record of measurable performance and cost optimizations (e.g., ~80%+ query latency reduction; reduced logging/NAT/Fargate spend).”

“Frontend engineer with experience building a large-scale React + TypeScript administrative dashboard for an e-commerce platform, using Redux Toolkit plus TanStack Query to separate UI and server state. Emphasizes quality at scale through CI/CD automation, Jest/integration testing, and performance techniques like code splitting and caching, with experience coordinating integration across multiple teams.”

“Backend Java engineer with strong platform/DevOps experience: modernized an insurance claims legacy monolith into DDD-aligned microservices, deployed containerized services on Kubernetes with Jenkins CI/CD and static analysis gates, and implemented GitOps using ArgoCD. Also led major AWS migration planning with dependency mapping and network monitoring to uncover hidden dependencies, and built Kafka-based real-time event streaming with schema-registry-driven evolution.”

“Accenture engineer who built real-time smart mobility products (Verra Mobility) used by both consumers and government agencies, spanning React/TypeScript frontends and Node.js/GraphQL microservices with Kafka. Demonstrated strong delivery and reliability practices (CI/CD, feature flags, automated testing, CloudWatch observability) and achieved a ~20% GraphQL performance improvement supporting 50,000+ daily transactions, plus built an internal ops/support dashboard adopted into daily workflows.”

“Backend/platform engineer with hands-on ownership of Kubernetes GitOps delivery (GitHub Actions + Argo CD) on AWS EKS, including progressive rollouts and reliable rollback across interdependent microservices. Built a Python/FastAPI ML-driven document-processing service (PostgreSQL + S3) to complement existing Spring Boot systems, and implemented Kafka streaming pipelines with Schema Registry plus Prometheus/Grafana observability. Also supported a hybrid cloud-to-on-prem migration for compliance/latency with phased rollout and incremental PostgreSQL migration.”

“Software developer at Indiana University who built a phishing training platform using TypeScript/React, Node, GraphQL, and DynamoDB, including an admin tool to monitor student completion and send automated reminder emails. Also created TechRent, an IU-only electronics rental marketplace concept focused on improving security by restricting access to university students.”

“Backend/DevOps-leaning engineer managing multiple customer service platforms end-to-end (requirements through deployment). Built an in-house Python monitoring/alerting solution for Salesforce-to-Java contact sync jobs (Snowflake dependencies) that increased uptime ~60%, and helped modernize delivery by moving the team from manual releases to automated Jenkins-based deployments while coordinating an Oracle EBS→Fusion transition with business/data/IT stakeholders.”

“Backend/AI engineer with Johnson & Johnson experience building data-heavy payer/claims analytics services (Python/FastAPI, PostgreSQL, AWS) and optimizing them under peak ingestion load via indexing/query tuning and caching. Also shipped an end-to-end RAG feature for clinicians to extract insights from unstructured clinical notes, using constrained prompts and retrieval-confidence guardrails to prevent hallucinations.”

“Software engineer with hands-on AWS experience optimizing an email campaign delivery system—re-architected a monolithic worker into multi-threaded/multi-worker ECS components to boost throughput ~600% (5 to 35 emails/sec). Comfortable debugging production issues (e.g., SQS/EventBridge policy misconfiguration) and emphasizes maintainable delivery via design docs, TDD, versioned APIs, and strong test coverage.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience building real-time, low-latency systems: owned the Python backend for a real-time crowd-monitoring product (top 5% at HackHarvard 2025) using OpenCV, GPU YOLO inference (PyTorch), WebRTC, and OAuth. Also has production Kubernetes/GitOps experience (Helm/Kustomize, GitHub Actions, Argo CD), Kafka-based event pipelines, and executed a minimal-downtime on-prem PostgreSQL migration to AWS EC2.”

“At onedata, built and deployed an LLM-powered, multi-agent analytics platform on AWS Bedrock that lets users create Amazon QuickSight dashboards through natural-language conversation, cutting dashboard build time from ~30 minutes to ~5 minutes. Strong in production concerns (observability, token/cost tracking, model tradeoffs) and in bridging business + technical work, owning pre-sales pitching through delivery with an engineering management background focused on AI product management.”

“Full-stack engineer who built "Workstream AI," an AI-powered engineering visibility product that converts GitHub activity into real-time insights using an event-driven microservices stack (RabbitMQ/Postgres/Express) and GPT-4 with a React frontend. Previously a Founding SWE at a health & wellness startup, building data-driven user management tooling, and also delivered a real-time shuttle tracking/ride request system using Java Spring Boot/Hibernate + React; comfortable owning production deployment details (AWS EC2, DNS, SSL).”

“Infrastructure/Platform-focused engineering leader who led a large-scale AWS modernization, standardizing Terraform IaC and embedding security/policy validation into CI/CD to reduce drift and improve auditability. Also delivered data reliability improvements by incrementally migrating key integrations to an event-driven Kafka model with DLQs and lag monitoring, and has hands-on incident leadership using observability tooling (New Relic).”

“Software engineer who shipped an end-to-end internal workforce dashboard at Northwestern Mutual, spanning Spring Boot APIs, PostgreSQL schema/query optimization, and a React + TypeScript UI with role-based access and filtering. Has hands-on production experience deploying via GitHub Actions CI/CD to AWS (Docker, EC2, RDS) and resolving performance incidents by tuning database queries and indexes.”