Vetted AWS IAM Professionals

“Software/product engineer who owns customer-facing internal platforms end-to-end, with deep experience building data pipeline health and data quality tooling (near-real-time alerting and ops dashboards). Strong in React/TypeScript + Python REST architectures and microservices with RabbitMQ, emphasizing reliability patterns (idempotency, DLQs, correlation IDs) and fast, safe iteration via feature flags, testing, and observability.”

“Cloud/DevOps-focused engineer with hands-on experience building Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for containerized applications deployed to AKS, including security scanning, approvals, versioned artifacts, and rollback. Also implemented Terraform-based IaC for Azure (VNets/subnets/NSGs/AKS) with modular design, remote state/locking, and drift detection; resolved a real deployment outage caused by an Azure RBAC permission change.”

William Watanabe

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in authentication and SolidJS/TypeScript

New York City, NY3y exp

“Mid-level full-stack engineer (Los Angeles) who built and shipped an end-to-end authentication system for SolidAuth, an open-source SolidStart ecosystem library published to NPM with 1000+ downloads. Experienced designing React/TypeScript + Node + Postgres architectures, operating lightweight production systems on AWS (EC2/S3/RDS/IAM/CloudWatch), and building resilient third-party ingestion/integration flows with idempotency, retries, queues, and backfills; also worked in an early-stage NIL startup (OFFSZN) shipping core onboarding/profile features amid changing requirements.”

Avanishika Revelli

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in backend, cloud, and robotics automation

2y exp

“Graduate Research Assistant in Robotics at Arizona State University who built an end-to-end LLM-driven task execution framework enabling collaborative robots to convert high-level natural language instructions into safe, executable ROS actions. Implemented robust monitoring, failure detection, and automatic replanning, and addressed real-world issues like timestamp/frame-transform mismatches and heterogeneous robot interoperability using adapter nodes.”

Ram Abhinav Vedant Madabushi

Screened

Junior Full-Stack/AI Engineer specializing in web platforms and LLM applications

Palo Alto, CA2y exp

“Backend engineer from FoodSupply.ai who built and evolved a scalable restaurant/supplier product and order management platform using Node.js and REST APIs. Implemented a hybrid MySQL+MongoDB data architecture, optimized performance with Redis/Prisma, and led a phased migration with feature flags and a temporary sync layer to maintain data consistency. Strong focus on production security (OAuth2, RBAC, row-level security, AWS IAM) and reliability practices (testing with Pytest, Docker/AWS pipelines).”

sampath achalla

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in backend and full-stack web applications

USA4y exp

“Backend engineer focused on scalable, secure, observable systems—built an async workflow backend with REST APIs and state persistence that improved reliability under concurrent load and cut end-to-end processing time ~40%. Strong in production security for multi-tenant systems (OAuth2/JWT, RBAC, DB row-level security) and in low-risk migrations using feature flags and canary releases, including catching and preventing cross-tenant data access issues with CI-based RLS tests.”

I Anuj

Screened

Junior Backend/Infrastructure Engineer specializing in AWS distributed systems

Chennai, India2y exp

“Backend engineer with 1.7 years of experience plus prior founding experience who has already owned production systems end-to-end in an early-stage environment. Most notably, they rebuilt a failing ingestion pipeline into a stable SQS/Fargate architecture that improved success from 40% to 100%, boosted throughput 10x, and cut processing time by ~75%, while also shipping an LLM-powered fashion search workflow using Vertex AI and Elasticsearch.”

“AI/backend engineer who independently built and operated an agentic telecom analytics system end-to-end, using LangGraph and Claude to turn natural language into safe SQL in a regulated environment. He combines startup-speed execution with compliance-minded rigor, citing 95%+ NL-to-SQL accuracy, a 30-minute-to-2-minute workflow improvement, and zero-findings support across three regulatory audit cycles.”

Sampath Achalla

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in Golang and cloud-native FinTech systems

USA3y exp

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer in fintech/payments who shipped an end-to-end Stripe payments + webhook system for a financial microservices platform, emphasizing ledger accuracy via idempotency, transactional writes, retries, and DLQs. Also delivered a real-time React/TypeScript payment status dashboard informed by user interviews, and improved production performance by 35% p95 latency through PostgreSQL tuning and Redis caching on AWS.”

“Frontend engineer with hands-on experience building production React/TypeScript dashboards for operations teams, including real-time ETL and service monitoring. Stands out for combining maintainable component design with practical performance optimization and map-based visualization work in data-heavy applications.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong production experience improving performance and reliability of data-heavy analytics products. Has shipped end-to-end features spanning Node/Express + PostgreSQL + Redis and React/TypeScript, deployed via Docker/GitHub Actions to AWS EKS with Helm, and monitored with Datadog/CloudWatch; also built a Python compliance automation backend for AWS security monitoring with RBAC, versioned REST APIs, and resilient throttling-aware processing.”

Sviatoslav Boichuk

Screened

Executive CTO / Engineering Leader specializing in Full-Stack Architecture and Cloud Delivery

Ivano-Frankivsk region, Ukraine11y exp

“Founder building a hiring-focused startup who has engaged with venture investors but is prioritizing direct end-user traction through email marketing and other outreach before returning to raise a seed round. Has experience working with startups that have already raised seed funding and demonstrates a structured approach to market validation (customer conversations, landing pages) prior to heavy development.”

Revanth P

Screened

Mid-level DevOps Engineer specializing in AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and GenAI infrastructure

Walnut Creek, CA4y exp

“Database/platform engineer with stronger hands-on experience in AWS and Azure than GCP, but able to speak credibly about cloud database architecture, automation, and reliability engineering. They led an on-prem MySQL to RDS/DynamoDB migration, built Terraform/Python-based zero-touch database operations, and described a performance incident where latency dropped from 2s to under 300ms while supporting 2x traffic.”

“Built and shipped Site Audit AI, a production multi-turn Claude-based agent that autonomously crawls websites, calls tools, and generates scored audit reports—reducing a manual 2-3 hour developer workflow to under 60 seconds. Also brings practical experience integrating inconsistent payroll/HR data across platforms like QuickBooks and Keka, with a strong focus on validation, fault tolerance, and resumable workflows.”

Antonio Walker

Screened

Senior Technical Lead and Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud, AI, and enterprise platforms

Irvine, CA13y exp

“Engineering leader and player-coach who says he joined Freeing Returns during a transition from sales-led services to SaaS, architected the platform from the ground up, and helped hire a 10+ person team across engineering, product, and delivery. He also describes leading an AI-based fraud detection system on Salesforce with data lake and pipeline architecture, combining startup build-from-scratch execution with hands-on technical leadership.”

“Software developer with 5+ years of experience building a TypeScript/Angular/Ionic proof-of-delivery application for food logistics, used daily by 500+ drivers. Stands out for solving real-world field constraints like offline sync, device-based licensing, signature capture, and cross-hardware scanner/printer integration across Zebra, Honeywell, and Socket Mobile devices.”

Mila Chernik

Screened

Executive strategy and operations leader specializing in SaaS, payments, and AI

New York, NY17y exp

“Operator and transformation leader with deep SaaS/payments experience across fintech, ecommerce, retail, and hospitality. Has led large cross-functional organizations through Agile, portfolio, and architecture transformations, including $20M ARR impact at Movex and major performance/cost gains at HS-Soft. Also brings founder-level strategic advisory experience, building ROI cases for growth and AI automation investments.”

“Built a production multi-agent RAG assistant using LangChain/LangGraph with OpenAI embeddings and FAISS, focusing on retrieval quality and latency (Redis caching, parallel retrieval, precomputed embeddings). Experienced orchestrating ETL/ML pipelines with Airflow and Databricks Workflows, and has delivered an AI assistant for business ops to extract insights from policy/compliance documents through close non-technical stakeholder collaboration.”

“Backend engineer (Encore) who led the evaluation and redesign of a high-volume, low-latency real-time retrieval/ranking and inference platform on AWS, shifting from tightly coupled services to a modular architecture for better fault isolation and independent scaling. Strong focus on production reliability, observability, and security (JWT/RBAC, multi-tenant scoping, Postgres/Supabase RLS), with disciplined migration playbooks (feature flags, shadow traffic, dual writes/reconciliation).”

“Backend-leaning full-stack developer (Java/Spring Boot, Angular, MySQL) who emphasizes rapid iteration with quality via clean code, validation, and API testing. Built a web application to help women connect directly with NGOs, focusing on an intuitive dashboard and user walkthroughs to support adoption, and designed flexible REST APIs to handle frequent requirement changes.”

Tim Kwok

Screened

Senior DevOps Engineer specializing in multi-region AWS/GCP cloud infrastructure

United States8y exp

“Backend/data engineer with strong AWS production experience spanning FastAPI microservices and large-scale data pipelines. Has delivered containerized Python services on EKS with Terraform/Helm/GitHub Actions, implemented robust auth/secrets practices, and owned ETL reliability (Glue/S3/Redshift) including incident response and idempotent reruns. Demonstrated SQL tuning on 50M-record ETL workloads to remove SLA misses and improve reliability.”

Charmi Dharmendrakumar Parmar

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and cloud-native systems

Alpharetta, GA4y exp

“Backend/full-stack engineer who owned a cloud-native, AWS-based microservices backend for an HRIS product used by ~10,000 users, including onboarding and workflow orchestration. Strong production focus on event-driven architecture, idempotency/retries, observability, and developer-friendly API design (OpenAPI, versioning, JWT), plus hands-on Selenium automation for resilient checkout-style flows.”

“Full-stack engineer who has owned both institutional and personal products end-to-end, including Rutgers' myCommunity platform used by 70,000+ students. Particularly strong in production systems, data synchronization, authentication, and third-party API integrations, with a pragmatic approach to shipping, observability, and UI modernization.”

“Senior full-stack engineer with 7+ years of Python-centric experience who has worked in lean startup environments and personally drove backend architecture for a data-intensive B2B analytics platform. Stands out for navigating ambiguous, fast-changing requirements while improving scalability and performance through Redis, Celery, RabbitMQ, and PostgreSQL optimization.”