Vetted Apache Airflow Professionals

Jesse Olson

Screened

Executive AI technology leader specializing in agentic AI and enterprise transformation

22y exp

“Candidate is exploring a startup in the autonomous agentic AI space and is approaching it with a disciplined founder mindset. They are evaluating market opportunity, competition, customer pain, ROI, technical feasibility, and MVP options while already speaking with potential customers across verticals to validate needs and buying processes.”

“Backend/platform engineer who has owned real-time reporting and streaming analytics systems end-to-end, combining FastAPI/Postgres APIs with Kafka consumers, Celery background jobs, and Redis caching. Strong DevOps/GitOps experience deploying Python/Node microservices to AWS EKS with Helm, ArgoCD/FluxCD, and CI pipelines, and has supported phased on-prem to AWS migrations using Terraform and traffic cutovers.”

Christopher Sipola

Screened

Senior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs and recommendation systems

New York, NY11y exp

“ML/GenAI engineer who owned major parts of Spotify’s AI DJ from offline experimentation through deployment, monitoring, and iteration. They combine recommender systems, RAG, real-time feedback loops, and LLM safety/orchestration to ship consumer-facing personalization features that drove double-digit engagement and deeper listening sessions.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM conversational AI system at OpenAI supporting chat, summarization, and semantic search at 1M+ requests/day, driving major latency (40%) and accuracy (25%) improvements through Pinecone optimization and tighter RAG with re-ranking. Also has Amazon experience improving recommendation systems by translating ML metrics into business terms to boost CTR and conversions, with strong MLOps/orchestration depth (Airflow, MLflow, SageMaker, Kubeflow).”

“ML engineer with 5 years at Stripe building and productionizing real-time fraud detection at massive scale (3M+ transactions/day; $5B+ annual payment volume). Delivered measurable impact (22% accuracy lift, 18% loss reduction, +3–5% authorization rates) and has strong MLOps/orchestration experience (Docker, Kubernetes, Airflow, MLflow, CI/CD, monitoring/rollback) plus a structured approach to LLM agent/RAG evaluation.”

“IBM Power/AIX infrastructure engineer who has owned large-scale Power9/AIX 7.x estates across primary/DR (VIOS/HMC/vHMC) and has deep hands-on experience with DLPAR, shared processor pool governance, and PowerHA recovery. Also brings modern DevOps/IaC capability—built Azure DevOps/GitHub CI/CD for Terraform + Kubernetes/Helm with strong security controls and resolved a production Terraform state-lock failure by redesigning backend locking and pipeline concurrency.”