Vetted AWS IAM Professionals

Brian Carroll

Screened

Principal Cybersecurity & Network Infrastructure Leader specializing in cloud, zero trust, and SIEM

Bakersfield, CA20y exp

“Founder of a self-funded IT management consulting practice specializing in security, compliance, and risk engineering for highly regulated sectors (banking/finance, healthcare, energy, defense, telecom). Uses consulting engagements to build repeatable “military-grade” security foundations and identify recurring pain points, with a longer-term goal of transitioning from consulting into a sustained internal team role for deeper impact.”

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.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience spanning React/TypeScript frontends, Node.js backend services, and production systems on AWS. They’ve built real-time, event-driven inventory workflows using PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, and Keycloak, and also drove a multi-agent LangGraph architecture for a self-healing systems project evaluated on simulated Kubernetes outages.”

paul mack

Screened

Senior Product Leader specializing in Enterprise SaaS, AI, and digital transformation

Detroit, MI18y exp

“Product leader with an unusual blend of AI product building, social work training, and hands-on education experience. Built an AI-powered relationship coaching app from scratch, led IAM product strategy in fleet SaaS, and previously taught biology/AP Biology through Teach For America and helped found a high-performing Detroit charter school.”

“Full-stack engineer with Cognizant experience on Verizon's POS platform, where they shipped a trade-in flow under tight timelines and drove measurable engagement gains. Also builds personal LLM/agentic systems, including a multi-agent vacation planner using LangChain, structured outputs, and tool-integrated orchestration, showing a blend of enterprise product delivery and modern AI experimentation.”

“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.”

“IBM Power/AIX infrastructure engineer who has owned a sizable production estate (50 Power servers / ~200 LPARs) spanning VIOS/HMC, SAN/NFS, and PowerHA clusters. Demonstrates strong incident leadership (LPAR outage + split-brain recovery) and a process-improvement mindset with measurable reductions in recurrence/MTTR, while also bringing modern DevOps/IaC experience (Jenkins, ArgoCD, Terraform, security scanning, canary/blue-green).”

“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.”

Filmon Tesfay

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud-native FinTech and AI platforms

New York, NY8y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong production ownership: built and operated a real-time transaction monitoring/fraud-alerting system using Java Spring Boot, Kafka, Docker, and AWS with CI/CD. Demonstrates metrics-driven operations (latency, stability, consumer lag, true/false positives) and reliability patterns for integrations (idempotency, retries/backoff, DLQs, reconciliation/backfills), plus modern React/TypeScript + Node/Postgres architecture experience.”

Tejasri Alla

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Python Developer specializing in banking microservices

Northridge, CA5y exp

“Built and led production LLM-agent systems in enterprise environments (Simmons Bank, Mindtree), automating support ticket triage end-to-end with strong reliability engineering (99.9% uptime, Prometheus/Grafana, ECS autoscaling, CI/CD rollback). Demonstrated clear business impact (55% faster handling, SLA compliance 72%→96%, 800+ hours saved/month, +18% CSAT) and mature eval/feedback loops that improved extraction accuracy by 21%.”

Harika Reddymalle

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in backend automation and insurance systems

Dallas, TX4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on production ownership across Angular/.NET/SQL and React+TypeScript/Node/Postgres stacks, including CI/CD and AWS operations (EC2/ECS, RDS, S3, CloudWatch). Delivered an internal insurance document upload and tracking feature end-to-end, adding audit/history and async processing, then validated success through monitoring metrics and reduced support tickets. Comfortable shipping MVPs in ambiguous environments using feature flags, strong validation, and backward-compatible database migrations.”

Sanjana Akula

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and FinTech

New York, NY5y exp

“Front-end engineer with experience at Optum and Wells Fargo maintaining internal React/Angular component libraries and design-system-aligned UI modules used across multiple apps. Known for stabilizing shared libraries via semantic versioning, Jest test automation, and high-quality documentation, plus measurable performance wins (≈40% faster dashboard loads) through profiling-driven React and API optimizations.”

“Built a production LLM-assisted workflow for customer configuration data migrations, combining agentic parsing with deterministic validation and fail-safe pipeline design. Stands out for turning messy ERP and operational data into reliable, repeatable transformations while improving accuracy and cutting manual effort by more than 80%.”

“Built and deployed an end-to-end fintech product, FinSight, for bank statement analysis and financial Q&A using a production-style RAG architecture. Stands out for combining FastAPI, OpenAI embeddings, FAISS, hybrid SQL/vector retrieval, and practical reliability work like chunking optimization, validation, and low-latency performance tuning.”

“Full-stack engineer with startup-style ownership across backend, frontend, and AI systems, spanning Java/Spring, React, Node/TypeScript, and LLM-powered retrieval. Shipped a workspace intelligence layer using LangChain, OpenAI, and Pinecone to paying customers, while also improving core product metrics like workspace creation success (+30%), latency (450ms to 280ms), and deployment cycle time (-40%).”

“Built both a fantasy sports analytics product and a privacy-sensitive AI assistant for therapists, showing range across consumer and healthcare use cases. Particularly notable for designing self-hosted, HIPAA-conscious LLM systems with RAG, structured outputs, observability, and human-in-the-loop guardrails for clinical workflows.”

“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.”

“Frontend-leaning full-stack product engineer with experience in insurance and financial analytics, combining UI design, React/TypeScript implementation, and backend integration. Stands out for shipping data-heavy dashboards, real-time collaborative features, and early generative AI document-analysis workflows using Spring Boot, LangChain, and AWS Bedrock.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on high-scale, event-driven AWS ingestion systems (SQS/Lambda/EKS) processing millions of events per day, with strong reliability patterns (idempotency, DLQs, bounded retries) and deep observability using Datadog distributed tracing. Has delivered Terraform/GitHub Actions CI/CD and improved secret rotation via Secrets Manager + IRSA, plus Glue-based ETL with schema-evolution handling and Postgres SQL optimization (including JSONB/GIN indexing). Candidate is currently living outside the US and states they do not have US work authorization.”

“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.”

“LLM/RAG practitioner building clinician-facing AI search and Q&A inside EHR workflows, focused on trust, latency, and safety (grounded answers with citations, PHI controls, encryption/audit logs). Demonstrated real-time incident response for production LLM systems (e.g., fixing a metadata-filter deployment regression to prevent irrelevant results/cross-patient leakage) and strong demo/enablement skills for mixed technical and clinical stakeholders; also shipped a multi-model RAG tool at OrbeX Labs with upload/search/audit features for day-to-day adoption.”

“Product-focused full-stack engineer (Spring Boot/Django + React/TypeScript) with deep experience building multi-tenant, enterprise workflow and supply-chain/order-tracking systems. Owned an end-to-end Workflow SLA Breach Prediction & Alerting feature integrating Azure ML for a cloud workflow platform used by ~10,000 enterprise users, and has hands-on AWS operations experience resolving real production latency/scaling incidents via query optimization and Redis caching.”