Vetted AWS IAM Professionals

“Backend/AI engineer who built an AI icon-generation SaaS backend (Java/Spring Boot, MongoDB) on AWS, including async job processing with idempotency and S3-based result storage to handle traffic spikes. Also shipped applied AI in finance—an end-to-end fraud detection pipeline with risk scoring—and designed a banking support AI agent with strict guardrails, audit logs, and human-in-the-loop escalation.”

“Customer-facing data engineering professional who builds and deploys real-time reporting/dashboard solutions, gathering reporting and compliance requirements through direct stakeholder engagement. Experienced with Google Cloud IAM governance, secure integrations (encryption, audit logging), and fast production troubleshooting of ETL/pipeline failures with follow-on monitoring and automated recovery improvements; motivated by hands-on, travel-oriented customer work.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with logistics domain experience (DHL) who shipped a real-time shipment status update system using Spring Boot + Kafka and a performance-tuned PostgreSQL tracking schema. Also has AWS production operations experience (ECS/Kubernetes, Jenkins CI/CD, Terraform/Ansible) and has handled peak-load incidents end-to-end by tracing Kafka lag to database bottlenecks and resolving via query/index optimization plus scaling.”

“Software engineer with Prudential Financial experience building enterprise Spring Boot microservices for policy/risk assessment, including integrating Python ML models via Flask and hardening services with resiliency patterns. Also led an AWS lift-and-shift modernization during an internship (EC2/ELB/Route53/Auto Scaling) and built a personal diffusion-model text-to-music project using BERT tokens mapped to Mel spectrograms.”

“Security-focused engineering leader working with an MSP and internal teams to tighten tenant security (least privilege/global admin reduction, conditional access, MFA) while maintaining operational responsiveness. Has implemented and operated Rapid7, Expel, Microsoft Defender/Entra, and Cisco Umbrella, and led a challenging Microsoft Copilot rollout integrating SharePoint and Salesforce with strong Jira/KB/postmortem practices.”

“Infrastructure/platform engineer with hands-on ownership of on-prem OpenStack/VMware and Kubernetes clusters deployed via Kubespray, including OpenStack-integrated networking and Ceph-backed storage. Built a GitOps-style Terraform delivery model in GitLab with CI/CD and security scanning (SAST/DAST/Checkov), and operated a hybrid on-prem/AWS ecommerce architecture with PCI-segmented payment systems over site-to-site VPN.”

Saniya Athani

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native DevOps and GenAI

San Francisco Bay Area, CA2y exp

“Cloud-focused engineer with hands-on experience deploying production cloud-native REST APIs on AWS using Pulumi IaC, containerization, and CI/CD, with strong emphasis on secure credential management and operational monitoring via CloudWatch. Also has IoT troubleshooting experience across edge hardware constraints and networking (TLS handshake failures), plus Python-based configurable data-processing tools and customer-facing requirements translation.”

Daniel Berhane Araya

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in production-grade LLM systems for regulated finance

Fairfax, VA9y exp

“AI/LLM engineer with published work who built FinVet, a production financial misinformation detection system using multi-pipeline RAG, confidence-based voting, and evidence-backed outputs (F1 0.85, +37% vs baseline). Also built NexusForest-MCP, a Dockerized Model Context Protocol server exposing structured global deforestation/carbon data via SQL tools for reliable LLM tool use. Previously delivered borrower risk-rating (PD) models at BMO Financial Group that were validated and integrated into an enterprise credit system through close collaboration with credit officers and portfolio managers.”

“Built a production, real-time clinical documentation system at HCA that converts doctor–patient conversations into structured clinical summaries using speech-to-text, LLM summarization, and RAG. Demonstrated measurable gains from medical-domain fine-tuning (clinical concept recall +18%, ROUGE-L 0.62 to 0.74) while meeting HIPAA constraints via PHI anonymization and encryption, and deployed via Docker/FastAPI with CI/CD and monitoring.”

“GenAI/ML engineer with hands-on experience building production financial intelligence and document summarization systems at Citibank. Stands out for combining LLM fine-tuning, hybrid RAG, multi-agent workflows, and strong MLOps/observability practices to deliver measurable business impact, including 60% faster analyst retrieval, 31% higher precision, and 99%+ uptime.”

“Backend-focused engineer with experience at Charles Schwab owning financial workflow deployments end-to-end, including API/database design, SQL optimization, Python automation, and AWS-based production stabilization. Also brings applied AI quality experience through building LLM/agent validation pipelines focused on scenario testing, edge-case detection, and reducing production risk.”

“Software engineer currently building AI-powered backend systems for interview analysis, with end-to-end ownership of an LLM-based monitoring platform. Stands out for combining practical product delivery in an ambiguous early-stage environment with measurable impact: over 40% reduction in manual review effort and roughly 20% lower inference cost.”

Justin Stander

Screened

Staff Frontend Engineer specializing in React platforms and SaaS architecture

New York, NY22y exp

“Frontend engineer who owned a globally deployed, multi-brand appointment-booking experience for Estée Lauder, balancing React modernization with legacy platform constraints. Stands out for combining micro-frontend architecture, browser-performance optimization, and product analytics tools like Fullstory, NPS, and attribution tagging to drive both UX improvements and measurable revenue impact.”

Koushik Ravikumar

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud-native Java and AI platforms

Kyle, TX4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong cloud and platform experience spanning React, Go, AWS, Kafka, and Terraform. Has led complex migrations from monolithic/containerized systems to microservices and cloud deployments, built compliance-oriented logging infrastructure, and improved a broken frontend codebase to achieve a 3x performance gain while making it easier for other developers to extend.”

KAVYA UDATHA

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in retail, banking, and healthcare systems

Fairborn, OH5y exp

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership of a real-time retail inventory and shipment tracking platform, spanning React/Angular dashboards through Spring Boot microservices, PostgreSQL, and Kafka. Stands out for building operationally impactful systems in ambiguous environments and for thinking carefully about scalability, monitoring, and user-friendly workflow automation, even without direct production AI experience.”

“Backend-leaning engineer at Coforge with strong experience in subscription lifecycle and billing platforms, combining PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Azure, Kubernetes, and messaging systems. Stands out for owning production systems end to end and driving an event-driven architecture shift that reduced failures by 30%+ and improved response times by 40%.”

“Backend engineer who built the core backend for Air Kitchens’ discovery/booking platform on AWS (Node + Python, DynamoDB, SQS/Lambda), optimizing for fast user-facing APIs and scalable async workflows. Introduced an AI matching service with a deterministic pre-filter + LLM ranking approach to balance latency vs quality, and has hands-on experience with production security (JWT/RBAC/RLS), CI/CD, and blue-green, staged migrations from Django to modular services.”

“Full-stack engineer who owned end-to-end delivery of a customer-facing financial services web platform and built internal tooling for engineering teams. Strong in microservices and event-driven systems (Kafka/RabbitMQ), distributed transaction management (saga), and production performance/observability—achieving ~40% backend response-time improvement through database and query optimization.”

“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.”