Vetted AWS CloudFormation Professionals

Dale Durham

Screened References

Principal Software Engineer specializing in SaaS architecture and cloud platforms

Hammond, IN23y exp

“Veteran B2B SaaS engineer/technical leader with 13+ years in production systems across medical, legal, and academic conference markets. Stands out for combining hands-on full-stack and microservices architecture work with measurable business impact, including leading an early startup internationalization effort that more than doubled revenue in under a year and modernizing a declining conference platform into the market leader in its niche.”

“Engineering leader who delivered a Magento-to-Shopify rebuild ahead of schedule while maintaining 100% team retention over 4 years at Hydrobuilder Holdings. Also built and ran a concert-listing platform (TourVolume) in production for 12+ years (Webby Honorable Mention) and later open-sourced the full codebase. Deep experience in auth/API platforms on AWS, including moving critical auth services from Lambda to ECS to eliminate cold-start latency.”

Mark Wlodawski

Screened

Senior Unity Developer specializing in AI/LLM systems and multiplayer VR

Orlando, FL11y exp

“Backend/data engineer focused on AWS-native Python systems: built a FastAPI microservice on ECS/Fargate serving real-time analytics at millions of daily requests with strong reliability (OAuth2/JWT, retries/timeouts, correlation IDs) and autoscaling. Also delivered Glue/PySpark ETL pipelines to curated S3 Parquet/Athena with schema evolution + data quality controls, owned Airflow pipeline incidents, and has a track record of measurable performance and cost optimizations (e.g., ~80%+ query latency reduction; reduced logging/NAT/Fargate spend).”

“Healthcare-focused ML/AI engineer who has built production voice agents and clinical question-answering systems end-to-end, from experimentation through deployment, observability, and iteration. Particularly strong in making LLM systems reliable in real workflows via RAG, fine-tuning, guardrails, evaluation pipelines, and shared Python tooling; cites ~20% clinical QA accuracy gains and ~40% faster physician decision turnaround.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across Python/Flask microservices and AWS serverless/data platforms (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Glue/PySpark). Demonstrated strong reliability and operations mindset (JWT/RBAC, retries/timeouts/circuit breakers, CloudWatch/SNS alerting) and measurable performance wins (SQL report runtime cut from 10 minutes to 30 seconds). Seeking ~$150k base and cannot travel for onsite meetings for the next 5–6 months due to family medical constraints.”

Prudhvi Avula

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Java, React, and distributed systems

Austin, TX7y exp

“Implementation and AI workflow engineer who has owned customer deployments end-to-end for messaging/integration platforms and also built production-oriented LLM systems. Stands out for combining stakeholder-facing delivery leadership with hands-on experience in Kafka/MongoDB integrations, RAG/agent architectures, and resilient document-processing pipelines with strong validation and fallback controls.”

Gibran Rodriguez

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Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in cloud, AI, and healthcare platforms

Round Rock, TX16y exp

“Senior engineering leader with a rare mix of org-scaling and deep hands-on technical execution across cloud platforms, AI/RAG systems, IoT, mobile, and operational software. Has led zero-downtime migrations, improved deployment velocity by 50%+, and built DataFabriks from an internal warehouse AI platform into a multi-tenant commercial SaaS product across healthcare and industrial environments.”