Vetted Amazon SNS Professionals

Mazhar Haq

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior AWS Cloud Architect and Technical Leader specializing in security, migrations, and cost governance

Santa Monica, CA26y exp

“Infrastructure/platform engineer with strong AWS and hybrid on-prem networking depth, spanning Kubernetes platform engineering (IaC, autoscaling, GitOps, observability) and large-scale VMware operations. Managed thousands of VMs across 56 US military bases/airports and has resolved real production hybrid incidents involving BGP/Direct Connect route advertisement and prefix-limit constraints.”

“Player-coach engineer/lead on a high-scale research integrity platform ("Lighthouse") that flags fraud/manipulation signals across ~3M academic manuscripts per year. Owns architecture decisions (ADRs), implements across Go/Java/React services, and introduced NLP (SciBERT embeddings + human-in-the-loop) to assess out-of-context citations while also handling production incidents with a data-consistency-first approach.”

“Frontend engineer with significant ownership of Bloomberg's Japanese regional platform, building a complex multi-app Next.js experience for retail investors and financial professionals. Stands out for combining high-scale localization architecture, advanced TypeScript/component-system design, and measurable UX performance wins in demanding financial products.”

“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.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer (Amazon experience) who built an AWS-based integration testing platform using Flask, ECS, Docker, and CloudWatch—cutting 1000+ test cases from ~5 hours to ~30 minutes while improving log visibility for non-engineering users. Also led a zero-downtime EU region migration with rigorous ORR testing, and built a Kinesis/Firehose/S3 + Glue/Spark replay mechanism for resilient data recovery. Side project: reproducible, cost-efficient LLM hosting platform on EKS using CDK and Karpenter for scale-to-zero.”

Aniket Singhal

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Senior Software Engineer specializing in AWS-based distributed systems and FinTech platforms

Seattle, WA8y exp

“Backend engineer with Amazon experience building large-scale, automated financial/accounting and pricing systems on AWS. Designed a fault-tolerant Step Functions + DynamoDB workflow platform handling 100K+ messages/sec to compute fair values and generate journal entries in under 3 seconds, and led safe API refactors using shadow mismatch testing. Also uncovered a major legacy pricing bug (tax vs non-tax swap) that cut mismatch rates from 5–10% to ~0.5% and materially improved price acceptance/business outcomes.”

“Senior engineering leader with experience across cybersecurity, retail commerce, consulting, and media platforms, combining large-scale org leadership with hands-on architecture depth. Notable for driving measurable cloud modernization outcomes—multi-million-dollar cost savings, major latency and MTTR reductions, and compliance-heavy transformations—while also leading AI/NLP and consumer product simplification initiatives.”