Vetted AWS CloudFormation Professionals

Bhavana Anna

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in fraud detection and Generative AI (RAG)

USA5y exp

“AI/ML engineer who has shipped production LLM and ML systems, including a RAG pipeline that ingested ~500k insurance/client documents to help adjusters answer questions faster and more consistently. Experienced in handling messy real-world document formats, tuning retrieval/chunking, and reducing latency via vector search optimization, precomputed embeddings, and caching. Also built orchestrated fraud-detection deployment workflows using AWS Step Functions and SageMaker, and partners closely with non-technical operations teams on NLP automation.”

Bilal Ahmed

Screened

Senior Linux Systems Engineer specializing in hybrid cloud and DevOps automation

7y exp

“Cloud/infrastructure engineer from ASM Research supporting federal healthcare systems, operating multi-cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) environments at ~2000-server scale. Deep hands-on experience with Terraform/Ansible IaC, PR-based governance (Atlantis), and secure CI/CD (OIDC/least privilege), with concrete incident response wins and HA/failover testing improvements. Not an IBM Power/AIX specialist but comfortable translating virtualization/partitioning and ops practices to new platforms.”

Phanideep P

Screened

Senior Data Engineer specializing in cloud lakehouse and streaming data platforms

5y exp

“Data platform/data engineer with cross-industry experience in banking and healthcare, building cloud-native lakehouse architectures across AWS/Azure/GCP. Has owned high-volume (millions of records; TB/day) pipelines with strong data quality automation (dbt/Great Expectations), observability (Grafana/Prometheus), and real-time streaming (Kafka/Spark) for fraud monitoring; also delivered an early-stage migration from SQL Server to BigQuery with 40% batch latency reduction.”

Scott Knight

Screened

Director-level software engineering leader specializing in SaaS and Healthcare IT

Portland, OR23y exp

“Candidate is exploring startup ideas focused on SaaS tools for small and medium-sized businesses, especially IT and HR automation. They have prior experience in VC-backed companies and with accelerators, and stand out for emphasizing real customer feedback and prototyping over echo-chamber startup advice.”

“AI/full-stack engineer who has built zero-to-one internal products around LLMs, RAG, and NLP pipelines, including a conversational data interface and a production AI agent system. Stands out for combining frontend UX for non-technical users with backend/cloud architecture and measurable impact, including a reported 60% reduction in data retrieval time.”

“Entrepreneur/fintech product builder who raised a $100K pre-seed from ex-Google/Microsoft execs and built a real-time, direct-to-vendor bill pay micropayments platform. Previously helped scale Norton LifeLock to 1M users (2003) and also created Karma LA, a fraud-resistant, verified donation system (including VA veteran verification) aimed at improving trust and conversion in giving.”

“Cloud/hybrid infrastructure engineer with McKesson experience migrating tightly coupled healthcare applications to microservices on AWS EKS. Strong in IaC-driven standardization, CI/CD automation, and production observability (CloudWatch/Splunk/Prometheus/tracing), with demonstrated ability to debug complex incidents spanning Kubernetes and cloud networking.”

“Infrastructure/DevOps engineer (Geico) focused on AWS and Kubernetes at production scale. Has hands-on experience building secure GitHub Actions CI/CD for EKS, provisioning core AWS infrastructure with Terraform/CDK, and leading end-to-end incident response with post-incident automation to prevent recurrence; no direct IBM Power/AIX/PowerHA experience.”

Aakanksha Desai

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in React, Kubernetes, and AI-powered apps

Scottsdale, Arizona2y exp

“Backend/DevOps-leaning engineer managing multiple customer service platforms end-to-end (requirements through deployment). Built an in-house Python monitoring/alerting solution for Salesforce-to-Java contact sync jobs (Snowflake dependencies) that increased uptime ~60%, and helped modernize delivery by moving the team from manual releases to automated Jenkins-based deployments while coordinating an Oracle EBS→Fusion transition with business/data/IT stakeholders.”

Ramyasree K

Screened

Mid-level DevOps/Cloud Engineer specializing in AWS infrastructure automation

Boston, MA4y exp

“Frontend engineer with experience building a large-scale React + TypeScript administrative dashboard for an e-commerce platform, using Redux Toolkit plus TanStack Query to separate UI and server state. Emphasizes quality at scale through CI/CD automation, Jest/integration testing, and performance techniques like code splitting and caching, with experience coordinating integration across multiple teams.”

makarand pundlik

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in AWS serverless and Node.js microservices

New York, NY2y exp

“Software intern at BestWork who owned an AI-powered sales performance chatbot end-to-end: React/Material UI frontend, TypeScript AWS Lambda backend, and AWS Bedrock (Llama 3) + OpenSearch knowledge base over Salesforce/HubSpot data with Slack-based weekly summaries. Worked directly with the CTO in a high-ambiguity environment, including building an audio bot from scratch just in time for a client demo, and implemented metadata-based retrieval to handle multi-team knowledge base constraints.”

Shravani Koona

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices

United States3y exp

“Backend/data engineer with experience at Assurant and Capgemini, focused on reliability and performance at scale. Improved high-latency backend APIs by adding and iterating on a Redis caching layer driven by CloudWatch/monitoring metrics, and built scalable BI pipelines that normalize messy multi-source enterprise data with strong observability and error handling. Familiar with LLM/RAG architecture and practical guardrails, though has not yet shipped an LLM feature to production.”

Ramya Sree Kanijam

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems, cloud, and AI pipelines

Remote, USA3y exp

“Built and owned an end-to-end AI-driven content enrichment pipeline for a news workflow, using n8n, LLM agents, and external APIs to automate ingestion, deduplication, categorization, and approval routing. Stands out for production-minded AI systems work: they improved reliability with schema validation, retries, idempotency, and monitoring, while automating 90% of processing and cutting duplication errors by 95%+.”

Dishank Kailash Oza

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in distributed cloud systems

Santa Clara, CA3y exp

“Engineer with a thoughtful, production-oriented approach to AI-assisted development, including multi-agent workflows for planning, coding, review, testing, and debugging. Stands out for treating AI systems like distributed pipelines with explicit interfaces, validation layers, and guardrails to improve reliability and reduce hallucinations.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience building Python FastAPI services and AWS-native data pipelines. Has delivered containerized and serverless workloads (ECS/EKS/Lambda) with Terraform-based IaC, strong reliability patterns (JWT/RBAC, retries/circuit breakers, observability), and AWS Glue ETL into S3/Redshift. Demonstrated measurable SQL performance wins (40–50s to <4s) and owned real pipeline incidents through detection, mitigation, and prevention.”

“IBM Power/AIX infrastructure engineer with hands-on production experience across Power8/Power9 frames, VIOS and HMC, including resolving a production LPAR outage caused by vFC mapping issues. Has operated PowerHA clusters for critical finance workloads, running quarterly failover tests and handling an unplanned failover triggered by a network adapter failure, then improving resilience with redundancy and monitoring automation.”

“Production infrastructure engineer from Textron Systems who owned IBM Power/AIX 7.2 environments supporting manufacturing-critical automated RF test workloads. Deep hands-on experience with VIOS/HMC, DLPAR performance issues, SAN/vFC failures and failover recovery, plus modern DevOps practices (Azure DevOps CI/CD, Key Vault) and Terraform-based AWS infrastructure with remote state/locking and drift controls.”

“DevOps/Infrastructure engineer with hands-on production experience building Jenkins CI/CD pipelines that provision Kubernetes infrastructure and process data into a MapR cluster. Uses Terraform to provision AWS resources (EC2, S3, VPC, subnets) with remote state in S3, separate environment state files, and code review/validation practices; targeting $135k base.”

Ramya Sree Kanijam

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in LLM, RAG, and cloud AI

Corpus Christi, TX3y exp

“Recent master’s graduate who led a team project building an LLM-based chatbot with RBAC-controlled information disclosure and a focus on reducing hallucinations. Also has hands-on embedded robotics experience (Arduino obstacle-avoiding robot using ultrasonic sensors) and practical DevOps/cloud deployment exposure with Docker, Terraform, Jenkins, and AWS (EKS/ECS/CodePipeline).”

Shabari Vignesh

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in cloud data platforms and AI agents

Santa Clara, CA6y exp

“Data/Backend engineer who has owned end-to-end merchant analytics systems on AWS: orchestrated multi-source ingestion (FISERV/Shopify/Clover) with Step Functions/Lambda, enforced strong data quality gates, and served curated datasets via Redshift and a FastAPI layer. Also built an early-stage Merchant Insights AI agent that converts natural language questions into SQL using OpenAI models, with full CI/CD and observability.”

Sivapriya Rachakonda

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices on AWS and Kubernetes

Remote, USA5y exp

“Backend engineer who built a stateless Python/Flask service supporting a healthcare-document ETL pipeline, offloading heavy processing to Celery workers and adding strong observability (metrics, structured logs, audits). Demonstrates practical performance/reliability work: batch chunking, priority queues, autoscaling by queue depth/CPU, DLQ routing, and PostgreSQL tuning (indexes, pagination) to cut slow API responses. Also has experience deploying real-time ML classification via TensorFlow Serving behind a FastAPI wrapper and integrating models via REST/gRPC.”

“Backend/cloud engineer who built an AWS serverless IoT system that computes Bluetooth beacon locations from telemetry using heavy scientific Python (NumPy/SciPy/pandas) packaged as Dockerized Lambda, integrated with Java microservices and scheduled batch orchestration. Has deep AWS delivery experience (CI/CD with Code* tools, CloudFormation, cost controls) and has led high-severity incident response including CloudTrail forensics and infrastructure recovery after a compromised-keys crypto-mining attack.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong ownership across React, FastAPI, and PostgreSQL who has built real-time collaboration and analytics workflows end-to-end. Particularly compelling for high-growth AI product teams: they’ve also shipped a 0→1 AI-assisted dataset retrieval and summarization capability, balancing MVP speed with scalable architecture and post-launch performance tuning.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience building customer-facing fintech mobile features end-to-end (loan estimate comparison) and scaling event-driven microservices in enterprise environments (Verizon). Has designed TypeScript/React/Node systems with queues/caching and built an internal rule-engine for bulk Excel ingestion that reduced data errors and manual rework through automated validation.”