Vetted AWS CloudFormation Professionals

Tara Worrell

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in backend systems, AI/LLM integration, and cloud infrastructure

Brooklyn, NY6y exp

“Backend engineer with experience in highly regulated and high-stakes systems, including an airline crew messaging platform requiring near-zero-error real-time operations and a HIPAA-compliant mental health application built from an early-stage concept. They also show strong operational maturity, having owned a GoDaddy production incident through resolution and then led deployment pipeline improvements that reduced build failures by 40% and doubled deployment frequency.”

“Full-stack engineer with startup experience building real-time collaboration and meeting platforms for enterprise customers. Has worked across product ownership, React/TypeScript frontends, Go and Node.js backend services, PostgreSQL data modeling, and production performance optimization in B2B SaaS environments.”

“Backend engineer who built a real-time, event-driven alerting platform (Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, MongoDB) processing millions of events per day on AWS (Docker/Kubernetes), including hands-on performance debugging of Kafka consumer lag at peak. Also shipped an end-to-end LLM-based alert summarization feature and designed a multi-step incident triage agent workflow with retries and human-in-the-loop escalation.”

“Full-stack engineer with production experience across React/TypeScript, Node/Express, and Java/Spring Boot, operating containerized systems on AWS (EKS/ECS/EC2/RDS/S3) with strong observability (CloudWatch/Grafana). Notable for fixing a real checkout/order-placement failure end-to-end by adding frontend submission guards and backend idempotency with Redis + Kafka deduplication, then validating impact via technical metrics and business KPIs. Has also built Kafka-based integrations/pipelines with robust retry/backfill/reconciliation patterns in retail and banking contexts.”

“AI/LLM engineer with production experience in legal tech: built a GPT-4 + LangChain RAG summarization system at Govpanel that reduced legal case-file review time by 50%+. Previously at LexisNexis, orchestrated end-to-end Airflow data/AI pipelines processing 5M+ legal documents daily, improving ETL runtime by 35% with robust validation, monitoring, and SLAs.”

“Full-stack engineer (4+ years) with Citigroup experience building a modular banking dashboard using React/TypeScript/Redux and a Java Spring Boot microservices backend (12+ services) integrated with Kafka. Strong in reliability/observability and cloud operations on AWS (EC2/S3/Lambda, CloudWatch, Prometheus, ELK, IaC with Terraform/CloudFormation), with quantified improvements in latency, development speed, and data pipeline correctness.”

Abi Olatunji

Screened

Senior DevSecOps/SRE Engineer specializing in secure AWS & Azure cloud platforms

Dallas, TX9y exp

“Senior production infrastructure/SRE-style engineer with deep IBM Power/AIX (7.2/7.3) ownership at scale (40+ LPARs) supporting SAP/Oracle, including live DLPAR changes and PowerHA clustering. Also brings modern cloud/DevOps experience—Azure DevOps CI/CD secured with Key Vault and Terraform-based Azure provisioning—bridging legacy enterprise platforms with cloud automation.”

Mohithkumar Bolisetti

Screened

Mid-level Java Full-Stack Developer specializing in microservices and cloud platforms

Strongsville, Ohio5y exp

“Full-stack engineer focused on modernizing legacy financial/compliance platforms into cloud-native, domain-driven microservices. Deep hands-on experience across Spring Boot/Kafka/Redis/Postgres-Mongo backends and React/Angular frontends, with strong CI/CD and Kubernetes/OpenShift deployment practices for real-time, high-volume workloads.”

“Full Stack Engineer with hands-on experience owning customer-facing products end-to-end, emphasizing fast iteration via feature flags and risk-based testing for critical user flows. Built TypeScript/React systems with shared types and clean backend layering, and has microservices experience using RabbitMQ to decouple services and manage scale issues like queue backlogs. Also created an internal dashboard for dev/QA to centralize build/test/deploy visibility and iterated on it through lightweight user research and usage metrics.”

“Full-stack engineer with enterprise experience at Metasystems Inc. (and Qualcomm) building high-traffic, security-sensitive systems—owned a secure transaction processing module end-to-end using Java/Spring Boot, Python/Django, and React. Strong AWS production operations (EKS/ECS/Lambda/RDS/DynamoDB) with IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), observability, and reliability patterns; also delivered resilient ETL/integration pipelines with idempotency/retries/backfills and achieved a 50% deployment-time reduction through CI/CD and modular refactoring.”

“Cloud/Kubernetes-focused engineer with production ownership in multi-account AWS environments (GE) and EKS-based platforms (Lumeus.ai). Strong in incident response and reliability—diagnosed IAM-driven serverless failures (SQS/Lambda) and Kubernetes deployment issues (CrashLoopBackOff, memory pressure) with rollbacks, policy fixes, and improved monitoring. Built secure Jenkins CI/CD and delivered infrastructure via CloudFormation and Terraform for serverless and EKS stacks.”

“Infrastructure engineer with hands-on ownership of a scaled IBM Power/AIX estate (AIX 7.x, VIOS, HMC; 2 frames/20+ LPARs) supporting critical middleware and database workloads, including live DLPAR changes and VIOS/SAN outage recovery. Also brings modern DevOps/IaC experience building GitHub Actions pipelines for Docker/Kubernetes deployments and provisioning AWS environments with Terraform (EKS/RDS/VPC/IAM) using modular, review-driven workflows.”

“Cloud/DevOps-focused engineer with production experience in Linux, AWS, Kubernetes, and cloud-native architectures. Has built GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines for containerized Kubernetes deployments and implemented Terraform-based AWS infrastructure with modular design and remote state/locking (S3 + DynamoDB) plus PR/CI-driven change control.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience at Capital One and Prime Softech owning production systems end-to-end: secure authentication (Java/Spring Security + React/Redux) through AWS ECS deployments with Terraform and CI/CD. Strong reliability/observability focus (Prometheus/Grafana/ELK/CloudWatch) with quantified improvements (15% reliability gain, 30% fewer post-release defects). Also led legacy monolith-to-microservices refactors and built real-time Kafka/Spark ingestion pipelines for analytics/fraud detection.”

Bhakti Patel

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in .NET, Python, and cloud-native systems

Worcester, MA11y exp

“Full-stack engineer who owned an end-to-end production feature for a Piraeus Bank stock exchange module, spanning React/TypeScript, backend services, and cloud operations with Docker + CI/CD, delivering reported 90% faster API responses and improved uptime. Also built a Smartwound research MVP on AWS, creating a Python image-processing/scoring pipeline to ship despite unclear image-analysis specs.”

Bandla Sai Giridhar

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and cloud-native microservices

Dallas, TX4y exp

“Backend engineer who built a Python/Flask system for high-volume healthcare claims processing, using PostgreSQL as the source of truth and RabbitMQ workers for scalable async processing. Experienced in SQLAlchemy/Postgres performance tuning, multi-tenant data isolation (including Postgres RLS), and integrating/versioning ML model services (scikit-learn/PyTorch/Hugging Face) with controlled rollouts. Drove measurable performance gains by batching background jobs and adding Redis caching (40% less workload; response times cut from ~10s to 2–3s).”

Srikanth Reddy

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI and financial risk & compliance analytics

Plainsboro, NJ7y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered financial risk and compliance platform to reduce manual trade exception handling and speed up insights from regulatory documents. Implemented a LangChain multi-agent workflow with structured/unstructured data integration (Redshift + vector DB) and emphasized hallucination reduction for regulatory safety using Amazon Bedrock. Strong MLOps/orchestration background across Kubernetes, Airflow, Jenkins, and monitoring/testing with MLflow, Evidently AI, and PyTest.”

Sharanya Teegala

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Java/Spring and AWS microservices

Minneapolis, MN5y exp

“Full-stack engineer with experience at Wells Fargo and Salesforce building regulated, customer-facing financial systems and internal DevOps tooling. Deep in microservices and event-driven architectures (Spring Boot, Kafka/RabbitMQ) with strong CI/CD automation, contract testing, and observability; delivered measurable impact including 60% faster deployments and 40% fewer support tickets.”

“LLM/ML engineer who has shipped production systems in legal/financial-risk domains at Wolters Kluwer, including a hybrid OCR+deterministic+LLM extraction pipeline that structured UCC filings at massive scale and drove $6M+ in revenue. Also built LangGraph-based multi-agent “Deep Research” workflows with model routing, tool calls (MCP), persistence, and human-in-the-loop review, and partnered closely with policy writers to deliver LLM summarization that cut writing time by ~60%.”

“Full-stack engineer with production experience building Java 17 Spring Boot microservices for high-traffic systems at Verizon and on a JPMC payments platform (funds transfer/validation using ISO 20022), plus modern React/TypeScript dashboards for ops and analytics. Demonstrates strong scalability and reliability chops (Kafka event-driven pipelines, Redis caching, clustering, BullMQ background jobs) and has built real-time apps end-to-end with secure JWT refresh-token auth and Socket.io performance tuning.”

“GenAI/LLM engineer who recently built a production compliance assistant at State Farm for KYC/AML and regulatory teams, using AWS Bedrock + LangChain with Textract/Lambda pipelines to extract fields, tag risk, and summarize long documents. Implemented RAG, strict structured outputs, and human-in-the-loop guardrails, and reports automating ~80% of documentation work while reducing review time by ~40%.”