Vetted AWS IAM Professionals

“AI/back-end engineer at Canon who helped build and operate an internal production LLM platform that acts as a secure middle layer between users and models, defending against jailbreaks/prompt injection while enabling RAG, memory, and grounded responses over company data. Experienced with LangChain/LangGraph orchestration, vector DB retrieval, and reliability practices (testing, monitoring, adversarial prompts) to run high-throughput, low-latency AI workflows in production.”

Ridwan Oladipupo

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Frontend Engineer specializing in React, Node.js, and AWS

Halifax, Canada11y exp

“Frontend engineer who led the Dash Merchant App and Backoffice platform (React/TypeScript/Redux) supporting $50M+ in monthly transactions. Focused on scalable architecture and reliability—introduced typed API layers, centralized error handling, and performance optimizations (including ~40% load-time reduction) while driving team adoption through incremental refactors, templates, and pairing.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-enhanced version of the WeDAA platform to auto-generate microservice architecture diagrams and support code generation from user prompts, including a practical solution for non-overlapping canvas object placement via coordinate templates. Experienced in diagnosing agentic workflow failures using AWS Strands agents with feature-flagged debug logging, and frequently supports sales through tailored demos and POCs to drive adoption.”

“Full-stack engineer at an early-stage EdTech startup building an AI-tutoring product; owns most of a Django REST backend, CI/CD, and key customer-facing features like FERPA-compliant auth, subscription payments, and real-time LaTeX input/rendering. Also built a /rPlace-style real-time multiplayer canvas (PolyPlace) using microservices, WebSockets, and event sourcing, with performance-focused client rendering (zoom/pan/viewport-based updates) and stress testing.”

“Backend Java developer who built an end-to-end upcoming payments feature: Spring Boot/Hibernate microservices with MySQL query/index optimization and Kafka event publishing, plus a web UI timeline component enabling users to view, skip, and edit scheduled payments with clear status indicators.”

“Full-stack engineer who has delivered production customer analytics/dashboard features using Next.js App Router + TypeScript on the frontend and Java Spring Boot microservices on the backend. Demonstrates strong production ownership (monitoring latency/error rates/adoption) plus hands-on performance work across React rendering and Postgres query/index optimization, and has implemented Temporal-like durable workflows with retries and idempotency.”

“Data/ML platform engineer with ~6 years in financial services and enterprise data platforms, building regulated fraud/credit-risk pipelines on AWS (Airflow, EMR/Spark, MLflow) and an Azure lakehouse ingesting 50+ sources and serving ~100M records/day. Also led an early-stage deployment of a RAG-based internal AI search tool using AWS Bedrock and LangChain with automated evaluation to validate LLM accuracy.”

Leon Hsi

Screened

Mid-level Solutions Consultant / Full-Stack Developer specializing in APIs, SQL, and cloud systems

Houston, TX4y exp

“Builder with hands-on security hygiene experience from developing a helpdesk portal handling sensitive payment/invoice data, focusing on RBAC, least-privilege integrations (QuickBooks/Atera), and tightening API authorization to prevent cross-account access. Also built personal projects integrating Twilio/Callkeep/Supabase/OpenAI with strong key management and defensive handling of real-world API/network failure modes; holds an ISC2 certification and is actively deepening cloud security skills.”

“Backend/AI engineer who built production-grade intelligence systems in high-stakes domains including tax/legal document analysis and brain tumor MRI workflows. Stands out for combining LLM/RAG product delivery with strong engineering rigor around retrieval evaluation, grounding, validation, observability, and safe fallbacks—turning impressive demos into systems users could actually trust.”

“Full-stack engineer from Clairvoyant who led end-to-end delivery of a cloud-native, event-driven platform: Spring Boot microservices + Kafka real-time streams with an Angular UI, migrated and containerized on AWS, and automated CI/CD with Jenkins/Maven/Git. Demonstrates depth in distributed consistency challenges (partitioning, consumer lag/duplicates) and database performance tuning across SQL/NoSQL under heavy workloads.”

“Full-stack engineer with fintech payments experience who shipped an end-to-end guest invoice payment flow emphasizing reliability under retries/failures (idempotency via DynamoDB, async processing with Lambda/EventBridge/SQS + DLQ). Also built a FastAPI backend with Cognito/JWT + scoped guest tokens and a polished React/TypeScript checkout UX, and has performance-focused Postgres/Redis design experience for flash-sale e-commerce workloads.”

Manas Agarwal

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Python APIs, React, and cloud AI integrations

Superior, CO2y exp

“Customer-facing software engineer who builds and deploys practical AI/RAG solutions (e.g., an AI assistant for searching billing PDFs) by deeply understanding support workflows and iterating with users. Demonstrates strong production instincts—quickly stabilizing peak-traffic API timeouts with caching/background jobs, then implementing durable fixes with proper monitoring and maintainable code practices.”

Samee Rauf

Screened

Junior AI/Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in ad automation and LLM systems

Dallas, Texas3y exp

“Full-stack engineer with deep ad-tech/marketing automation experience, building production tools that reduce programmatic ad waste and improve search ads performance. Shipped and operated AWS-deployed, Dockerized systems with Postgres/Redis and strong observability (Datadog/OpenTelemetry), and delivered measurable impact (25k campaigns processed, 50k sites negated, 3–4 hours/week saved). Built scalable abstractions for multi-platform ad integrations, enabling rapid onboarding of additional clients.”

“Early major technical hire who helped build fintech startup Ugami from MVP to near Series A, while supporting bridge round and Series A fundraising with technical materials for leadership. Also grew from intern to lead engineer at a venture-backed product shop, giving him firsthand exposure to investor expectations, startup incubation, and practical AI opportunities with tight scope and strong unit economics.”

“Candidate is actively using AI-assisted development tools, including MCP server integrations with Copilot, to generate boilerplate test scripts, validate code standards, and handle package updates. They also have hands-on experience choosing different agents based on task requirements and serving as an admin for AI tool access.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based multilingual analytics assistant for healthcare operations, enabling non-technical teams to query claims/EHR and risk metrics with grounded explanations. Demonstrates strong end-to-end LLM system engineering (retrieval tuning, re-ranking, hallucination controls, verification layers) plus workflow orchestration (Airflow/Composer/Step Functions) and stakeholder-driven iteration via prototypes and dashboards.”

“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.”

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.”

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).”

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.”