Vetted Ansible Professionals

“Backend engineer who built and owned an AI-powered SMS survey platform for a nonprofit serving at-risk communities (internet-limited users), using Cloudflare Workers + Twilio and a state-machine survey engine. Scaled it to ~10k active users with near-zero downtime, added English/Spanish support, and iteratively improved LLM behavior (Claude 3.7 Sonnet) to handle nuanced, real-world SMS responses reliably.”

“AI/ML engineer who has shipped production AI systems end-to-end, including an automated multi-channel (Gmail/WhatsApp/voice) candidate interviewing workflow and an enterprise RAG knowledge search platform. Demonstrates strong production rigor (monitoring, A/B tests, guardrails, schema validation, shadow testing) with quantified impact: ~60–70% reduction in interview evaluation time and ~20–30% relevance gains in RAG retrieval.”

“Infrastructure/operations engineer with enterprise-scale observability ownership across Linux plus exposure to Windows/AIX and AWS SaaS. Has led DR exercises and real incidents involving cross–data center traffic failover, with hands-on firewall policy management and automation (Chef/Ansible) for agent deployment and patching; experience includes Bank of America and Discover Financial Services.”

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.”

“Built a production Python microservice around Grafana Loki focused on reliability, with checkpointing, idempotency, replay tooling, tracing, and alerting to prevent data loss and silent lag. Also has hands-on experience hardening brittle Playwright automations against dynamic UIs, auth expiry, rate limits, MFA, and bot-detection constraints, plus turning tribal-knowledge SOPs into explicit state-machine-driven workflows.”

“Product-minded full-stack engineer with experience shipping engagement features and core communication systems at DribbleUp and Expys. Stands out for combining rapid MVP execution with rigorous iteration: delivered a leaderboard feature that lifted engagement by 8% initially and 20% overall, built a chat MVP in 3 days, and has hands-on experience deploying LangChain-based concierge agents with evals and human review.”

Keerthi Pericherla

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud-native FinTech applications

Remote, USA5y exp

“Frontend engineer with HCL Tech experience building loan operations dashboards and React/TypeScript data-heavy interfaces. Stands out for combining maintainable component architecture with hands-on performance tuning, including a reported 30% load-time improvement in a production visualization-heavy application.”

“Software engineer with strong end-to-end ownership of search and listing systems (React/TypeScript frontend with Node.js + Spring Boot backends), focused on shipping fast while managing risk via feature flags, testing, and metrics. Demonstrated measurable UX/performance wins (reduced latency and search abandonment) and built internal observability tooling (dashboard + alerts) that improved incident response. Experienced with microservices reliability patterns including idempotency and dead-letter queues.”

“Backend engineer focused on building production-ready Python services (Flask/FastAPI) with strong performance and scalability instincts—Celery/Redis background processing, robust multi-tenant isolation (Postgres RLS), and pragmatic CI/Docker operations. Demonstrated measurable DB optimization impact (cut a critical analytics query from ~1–2s to ~100–150ms) and has hands-on experience integrating LLM/ML workflows (OpenAI, LangChain, embeddings, Redis/FAISS vector stores) without degrading API responsiveness.”

“Hands-on technical professional experienced in taking LLM/AI-adjacent integrations from prototype to production, using customer observation to refine UX and uncover edge cases. Diagnoses workflow issues in real time using logs and Sankey-style workflow analysis, and communicates fixes with clear short/long-term plans plus proactive alerting. Also partners cross-functionally to drive adoption and cost savings, including a POC around IBM Sterling Integrator that reduced licensing costs by $30K/year.”

“Infrastructure/operations engineer with deep IBM Power/AIX experience (AIX 7.x, VIOS, HMC/vHMC) managing ~15–25 LPARs across production and DR, including live DLPAR changes and structured performance troubleshooting. Also hands-on with PowerHA/HACMP incident recovery and failover testing, plus broader DevOps delivery building Jenkins CI/CD for containerized microservices and Terraform/Ansible IaC across AWS and Azure, and leading Solaris SPARC to x86 migration cutovers.”

“Healthcare data engineer with hands-on ownership of claims/member data pipelines on a cloud analytics platform, spanning batch and streaming ingestion (Airflow/Kafka/Spark/Databricks) through serving for reporting. Emphasizes reliability and data quality via embedded validation, schema-drift detection, deduplication, and operational monitoring/incident response, plus pragmatic CI/CD and observability setup in early-stage/ambiguous projects.”

“Data engineer/backend developer who owned end-to-end pipelines and external data collection systems, including API ingestion and large-scale web scraping. Worked at ~50M records/month scale, improving processing speed by 20% and reducing reporting errors by 15%, and shipped a Rust-based internal data API with versioning, caching, and strong validation/observability practices.”

Biswajit Dash

Screened

Senior Platform/DevOps Engineer specializing in CI/CD and Observability

Milpitas, CA25y exp

“DevOps engineer focused on CI/CD who built and productionized LLM/MCP-based chat agents integrated into Cisco Webex to help developers troubleshoot PRs and pipelines via GitHub/Jenkins data. Strong in operationalizing agentic systems with observability (OpenTelemetry/Grafana), user-scoped rate limiting, and Kubernetes-based scaling, and has presented demos on agent SDK capabilities and DORA metrics dashboards.”

“Full-stack engineer who has owned an AI-powered HTTP monitoring dashboard end to end, from Node.js/MongoDB backend and dashboard UI through deployment and reliability controls. Particularly strong in turning raw technical signals into usable AI-assisted product experiences, with concrete impact including ~60% faster anomaly detection and meaningful AI cost optimization.”

“Full-stack engineer with healthcare and financial services experience who owned an end-to-end appointment scheduling feature at Norton Healthcare, improving scheduling speed and reliability through Angular/TypeScript, SQL Server, Entity Framework Core, Redis caching, and secure APIs. Also brings enterprise modernization experience from IBM and JPMorgan Chase, including microservices migration, CI/CD, and production observability.”

“Banking infrastructure engineer who owns large-scale IBM Power/AIX (AIX 7.x, VIOS, HMC/vHMC) environments with hundreds of LPARs and deep PowerHA/SAN recovery experience. Also builds modern cloud delivery platforms—Azure DevOps/Jenkins CI/CD and Terraform for AWS/Azure (EKS/AKS, networking, security)—bridging legacy mission-critical systems and cloud-native automation.”

Bradley Willson

Screened

Senior Linux Systems Engineer specializing in hardware qualification and Bash test automation

Seattle, WA14y exp

“Former software tester with historical exposure to AIX 5.2 and Solaris 9 (circa 2001) and extensive Linux experience dating back to 1994. They indicated their background is primarily in testing and server hardware validation rather than IBM Power/AIX/Solaris operations and migrations.”

Kamal Virk

Screened

Senior Site Reliability Engineer specializing in cloud-native DevOps and Kubernetes

New City, NY13y exp

“IBM Power/AIX engineer with hands-on ownership of large AIX 7.1/7.2 environments (VIOS, HMC/vHMC) supporting enterprise middleware/back-end workloads. Demonstrated real production incident handling: identified CPU entitlement underprovisioning after a DLPAR change and restored performance via live CPU rebalancing, plus PowerHA failover execution and runbook/process hardening. Also builds secure CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/GitLab/Azure DevOps with CyberArk) and Terraform IaC with drift management and controlled rollouts.”

“CTO/AI executive with repeated 0-to-1 leadership and founder experience across banking software, cloud, and fintech. Most recently, as a fractional CAIO, built a 50+ person team and launched 3 products in 9 months generating $10M+ new revenue; previously founded Trilogy (200+ clients in 7 countries) and created cloud tech that helped drive a $35M acquisition by VMware.”