Vetted AWS Glue Professionals

Pavanika Thotakura

Screened

Senior Data Engineer specializing in cloud big data pipelines and real-time streaming

Seattle, WA6y exp

“Amazon data engineer who built a real-time fraud detection pipeline for AWS Lambda, tackling multi-region telemetry quality issues and scaling stream processing for billions of daily requests. Strong in production-grade data/ML workflows on AWS (EMR, Glue, Kinesis, SageMaker) with hands-on entity resolution and anomaly detection.”

“Full-stack engineer with AWS Skill Builder experience building internal content-management and search workflows in TypeScript across React and Node.js. They drove a shift from keyword to semantic search using OpenSearch and Bedrock Titan Embeddings, delivering a 5x reduction in discovery time while also improving production reliability and observability for large-scale content workflows.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience building FastAPI services with strong reliability patterns (circuit breaker, rate limiting, caching, graceful degradation) and JWT/OAuth2 auth. Has delivered AWS EKS deployments via Terraform with Secrets Manager/IRSA and HPA autoscaling, and built Glue/Spark ETL pipelines on S3 Parquet with schema-evolution and idempotent reruns; also demonstrated measurable SQL tuning impact (20–30s to <10s).”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production AWS experience spanning serverless APIs (Chalice/Lambda/API Gateway/Cognito) and data pipelines (Glue PySpark + Step Functions). Has modernized a legacy SAS reporting system into AWS microservices and implemented schema-drift detection and incident prevention for ETL workflows, plus measurable SQL tuning wins (30 min to <10 min runtime).”

Jehanzeb Khan

Screened

Director-level Engineering Manager specializing in large-scale data and compute platforms

Sunnyvale, CA20y exp

“Platform and distributed-systems leader (player-coach) who owned architecture and reliability for an Amazon analytics/data platform serving ~100K internal users at exabyte scale. Built an ML-driven “Lakeflow” optimization layer that cut pipeline completion times ~20–25% and reduced compute waste >15%, and led major incident response/redesign efforts (e.g., deletion storm) with strong rollout/observability/rollback practices.”

“Built GenMedX, a multi-module clinical AI system for emergency department decision support spanning triage prediction, diagnosis, medication Q&A, and visit summarization. Stands out for combining medical LLM fine-tuning, RAG, and rigorous evaluation/monitoring to drive a major triage recall improvement from 38.5% to 76.6%, with a strong focus on safety, edge-case detection, and production reliability.”

Andrew Hoyt

Screened

Executive technology leader specializing in SaaS, cloud platforms, and enterprise engineering

Atlanta, GA14y exp

“Enterprise software CTO with rare breadth across deep architecture, large-scale org leadership, and AI transformation. He has led 250+ teams at Aderant and previously a 2000-person global engineering org at NCR, while still personally driving re-architecture, prototyping, debugging, and AI-native product innovation across legal, retail, and restaurant platforms.”

“Senior engineering leader in the Bay Area with experience spanning VMware, Hortonworks/Cloudera, Barracuda, and Palo Alto Networks, including leading open-source work (Apache Knox) and architecting large-scale security platforms. Has driven disaster recovery and cloud security products, designed Python microservices for Microsoft 365 security, and scaled teams (3x) while formalizing enterprise readiness practices with automated documentation using Notebook LLM.”

Sagnik Mazumder

Screened

Executive ML/AI Founder specializing in agentic analytics and data infrastructure

10y exp

“Founder of Photosphere Labs (agentic AI for ecommerce data synthesis/analysis) who worked directly with customers to scope, build, demo, and iterate LLM-based solutions, including an AI chat product for brand owners. Previously at Block, built and explained a nuanced causal inference/propensity model tied to Square POS integrations, translating model specs and outputs into business impact for varied client contexts.”

“Aspiring founder building an AI governance and compliance startup for the finance industry, focused on agents that monitor data lakes/lakehouses to detect security vulnerabilities, PII exposure, and governance issues in real time. Has already formed an S-corp, has not raised capital yet, and approaches idea validation through Minimum Lovable Product testing with potential clients.”

Yoga Sundaram Rama Swamy

Screened

Senior GTM Engineer specializing in revenue systems and analytics

Ohio, USA8y exp

“Non-traditional Sales Engineer candidate with a strong technical GTM/RevOps and analytics background across Stripe, Bendix, and Amazon. Stands out for building revenue workflow automations and enterprise data integrations that materially improved sales execution, including 28% better outbound conversion and major reductions in manual planning and reporting effort.”

“Backend/data engineer with Optum healthcare claims domain experience building high-reliability Python microservices (FastAPI/Kafka/Postgres) and AWS data platforms (EKS, Glue, Redshift). Demonstrated strong production ownership: fixed duplicate Kafka processing via transactional outbox/idempotency, scaled to millions of daily events, and delivered major SQL performance gains (40+ min to <5 min, ~60% CPU reduction). Seeking remote-only work; targets $130k base.”