Vetted Amazon VPC Professionals

“Candidate brings an operator-to-founder profile with leadership experience in IT and Business Systems and a strong grasp of how ideas become venture-backable products. They speak fluently about startup evaluation criteria such as TAM, technical defensibility, speed to scale, and AI differentiation, and appear especially motivated by building solutions end-to-end in startup or venture studio environments.”

“Software engineering candidate who built a compiler-like Python tool to translate between Python code and UML-style diagrams (and back). Also has hands-on AWS experience building a distributed pub/sub system using services like Lambda, API Gateway, ELB, WAF, VPC, and DynamoDB, plus ML projects using Kaggle datasets (e.g., diabetes risk analysis).”

“Cloud-focused engineer experienced deploying and stabilizing complex production systems that span APIs, infrastructure, and automated workflows, with a strong observability and safe-release mindset (feature flags/canaries/rollbacks). Has hands-on, customer-facing incident leadership, including executing DR regional failover during an AWS us-east-1 outage to maintain service and reportedly save a client ~$10M.”

“Cloud infrastructure/SRE-style engineer with experience at TCS and ServiceNow focused on IBM Cloud and Linux/RHEL operations, security hardening, and automation in Python. Has led end-to-end production incident response (certificate expiry) and implemented preventive alerting adopted by 20+ teams, plus built Jenkins CI/CD with Vault-based secrets and Terraform-based AWS provisioning.”

“Infrastructure/Unix engineer with production PowerHA/HACMP operations experience (resource groups, service IPs, shared storage) who has executed planned failovers and recovered a real outage involving a SAN driver crash and manual Oracle recovery (restored service in ~15 minutes with zero data loss). Also supports cloud DevOps practices including CI/CD security scanning (SonarQube, Snyk), container registry/versioning, and Terraform Cloud-based IaC across AWS and GCP with PR/Jenkins-driven plan-and-apply workflows.”

Aakash Khepar

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack AI Engineer specializing in agentic AI systems

Tempe, AZ4y exp

“AI/full-stack builder with hands-on experience shipping healthcare, career-tech, nonprofit, and fintech products, spanning speech AI, browser extensions, agentic RAG systems, and enterprise ML monitoring. Stands out for combining strong technical depth with measurable outcomes, including reducing clinical call WER from 26% to 3%, building safe tool-using agents with rollback/RBAC, and delivering zero-to-one multi-tenant platform features in ambiguous environments.”

“Engineer with hands-on experience across frontend, backend, and data systems, including React/TypeScript UI work at CitiGroup, ETL pipeline ownership at Accenture, and personal 0→1 builds like an AI chatbot and a real-time multiplayer typing platform. Stands out for combining product-minded prioritization with strong implementation depth in performance optimization, type-safe frontend architecture, and resilient data pipeline design.”

“AIX/IBM Power Systems engineer with hands-on production incident leadership in a regulated banking environment, using deep OS-level tooling to diagnose CPU entitlement and memory pressure issues. Experienced with HMC/vHMC, VIOS, and zero-downtime DLPAR resizing, plus PowerHA/HACMP clustering and validated failover testing. Also drives migration readiness via Bash/Python automation (60% manual-effort reduction) and phased AIX cloud/hybrid cutovers.”

“Serial venture builder/operator across ad tech, media delivery, search engines, international content management, and ecommerce; has raised up to $150M and been involved in 8 acquisitions or IP-acquisition events. Known for refactoring/re-engineering smaller or troubled platforms into higher-value businesses, including building yield-management algorithms and a Kafka-like system to improve ad delivery profitability.”

“Platform-focused engineer experienced in productionizing ML/LLM systems: containerized a local prototype, implemented CI/CD, deployed to Kubernetes with scaling controls, and added monitoring/logging. Comfortable diagnosing real-time issues in LLM/agent workflows using logs/metrics and incident stabilization tactics, and supports sales calls by clearly explaining production scalability to unblock customer decisions.”

“Infrastructure reliability/capacity-focused engineer with hands-on IBM Power/AIX (LPAR/DLPAR, HMC, VIOS) performance troubleshooting and modern cloud-native delivery experience. Built production CI/CD and Terraform-managed AWS/EKS environments, and has led real incident recoveries spanning Kubernetes autoscaling and AWS quota constraints with concrete RCA and prevention improvements.”

Nikhil Soni

Screened

Junior AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM systems and retrieval-augmented generation

New York, NY2y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered market intelligence and decision-support platform for noisy, real-time financial data, using a high-throughput embedding + vector DB RAG architecture to reduce hallucinations while keeping latency and cost low. Operated it at scale with GPU-backed inference (continuous batching/quantization), FastAPI on Kubernetes, and Airflow-orchestrated ingestion/embedding/retraining workflows, with strong schema-based reliability and monitoring.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with PayPal experience building payment orchestration, settlement, and merchant risk systems at production scale. Stands out for combining cloud-native AWS delivery, database/query performance tuning, and reliability work in event-driven microservices, including a monolith-to-microservices migration that doubled deployment frequency and cut incident response time by 40%.”

“Engineering leader/CTO-type with deep experience building and scaling a vehicle routing platform at Transdev On Demand, including a nationwide rollout to 22 US airports ahead of schedule. Drove engineering best practices (CI/CD, high test coverage, pair programming, automated deployments) and led a multi-tenant architectural upgrade to expand the routing engine to additional business lines and external customers.”

“Built and productionized a Python/LLM-based pipeline at Catalyst Solutions to automate healthcare RFP processing, turning unstructured documents into validated JSON/Excel with schema validation, confidence scoring, and human-review routing. Delivered major operational impact (hours-to-minutes processing, ~60% efficiency gain; 50+ RFPs processed) and modernized legacy scripts into a staged, more reliable architecture using incremental refactoring and fallback comparisons.”

Kevin Scharf

Screened

Senior Project Management & Compliance Professional in Aerospace & Defense

Englewood, CO8y exp

“Internal audit/GRC professional who partners closely with engineering on access controls, change management, and remediation—often translating "technically compliant" states into realistic threat scenarios and business impact. Has driven measurable reductions in privileged-access exposure through least-privilege resets and recurring reviews, and has hands-on experience troubleshooting real-world deployment/integration issues (including in a manufacturing environment) using logs/metrics and strong escalation documentation.”

Kanaka Chalam Volety

Screened

Staff DevOps/SRE Engineer specializing in AWS, Kubernetes, and GitOps

San Jose, CA24y exp

“Infrastructure-focused engineer with Vonage experience modernizing early-stage cloud architecture (Terraform modularization, blue-green deployments, containerization, and zero-downtime database migration planning to Aurora). Also built a local end-to-end side project, Vastu AI, combining a custom-trained YOLO model (Roboflow-labeled data) with a locally hosted LLM via Ollama to generate a vastu compliance report from floor-plan images.”