Vetted AWS Professionals

“Software engineer with strong end-to-end ownership across frontend, backend, data, and infrastructure, including real-time systems (Kafka/Postgres) and observability (Datadog). Built and productionized an AI-native RAG support assistant (OpenAI embeddings + Pinecone) with prompt/guardrail design, achieving 48% agent adoption and 30% faster responses. Experienced in legacy modernization and reliability work using feature flags, event/transaction replay, and rapid embedded delivery.”

“Forward-deployed engineer/tech lead who built an end-to-end demand planning and forecasting application for a major US steel manufacturer, integrating Snowflake data into the C3 platform with batch/MapReduce workflows, monitoring, and a React/TypeScript UI. Also productionized an enterprise LLM integration with structured outputs and authorization guardrails, reporting +30% stakeholder engagement and broad adoption across customer deployments.”

“Part-time founder building a bootstrapped IT startup in the R&D phase, running multiple product iterations and cost/benefit analyses to validate uniqueness and monetization potential. Has prior experience working for venture capital firms and is familiar with how accelerators operate, with a strong focus on finding investors who can be true thought partners for rapid pivots.”

“Built and productionized an internal LLM-powered document Q&A system at Morgan Stanley using a LangChain-based RAG pipeline (FAISS + OpenAI) with AWS ingestion (S3/Lambda), handling 100k+ pages and cutting lookup time ~35% while keeping responses under 3 seconds. Strong on reliability: automated evals/CI (pytest + GitHub Actions), CloudWatch monitoring, drift detection (prompt drift and fraud-model drift), and security controls (IAM + app-level authorization) in a financial-services environment.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer who has owned production systems end-to-end, including a Dockerized Node.js/TypeScript probabilistic fault-tree analysis service for nuclear safety research deployed on AWS. Also built and operated a FastAPI-based RAG pipeline over 200+ PDFs using FAISS, focusing on low-latency, idempotent workflows and strong observability; experienced with API design and Playwright E2E automation across React/Angular projects.”

“Built and shipped production LLM/RAG systems at Mayo Clinic, including a conversational AI assistant for patient pre-consultation and a clinical-trial matching tool for doctors. Implemented HIPAA-compliant de-identification and guardrails, plus real-time feedback logging and fine-tuning that improved response accuracy by 15% and reduced admin workload by 25%.”

“Infrastructure/operations engineer with deep IBM Power/AIX experience (AIX 7.x, VIOS, HMC/vHMC) managing ~15–25 LPARs across production and DR, including live DLPAR changes and structured performance troubleshooting. Also hands-on with PowerHA/HACMP incident recovery and failover testing, plus broader DevOps delivery building Jenkins CI/CD for containerized microservices and Terraform/Ansible IaC across AWS and Azure, and leading Solaris SPARC to x86 migration cutovers.”

“LLM/agent builder with experience shipping production LLM features at an early-stage ed-tech mental wellness startup (conversation analysis + structured feedback via FastAPI, OpenAI API, Render, CI/CD). Also built a multi-step dining concierge agent using OpenSearch over Yelp data with fallback query relaxation, and has enterprise data engineering experience at Capgemini migrating databases to Snowflake with robust ETL normalization and data-quality handling.”

“Frontend-leaning engineer with production React experience and hands-on Next.js App Router patterns (Server/Client Components, Route Handlers, caching/revalidate decisions). Has built internal sales dashboards and optimized both React UI performance and SQL Server-backed analytics queries, and previously created an onboarding framework at Adobe that evolved into a configurable, multi-team reusable platform in a lean environment.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered customer support triage/resolution agent that automated ~60% of tickets, cutting response times from hours to seconds and improving first-response resolution by ~40%. Experienced designing multi-tenant, tenant-isolated agent architectures with RAG, schema-based tool calling/strict JSON validation, and strong reliability practices (guardrails, retries, fallbacks, monitoring), including safe integration with messy ERP-like data.”

“Backend-focused engineer with strong .NET/Angular experience building enterprise financial and healthcare systems, including microservice APIs deployed with Docker/Kubernetes and AWS ECS. Demonstrates production reliability skills across secrets management (Secrets Manager/IAM), incident response (CloudWatch + Kafka failover), and data engineering patterns from SSIS ETL (data quality, incremental recovery), plus proven SQL tuning with a 10-minute report reduced to under 30 seconds.”

“Built a production Medicare Q&A chatbot using OCR (pytesseract), LangChain chunking, ChromaDB embeddings/retrieval, and an Ollama LLM. Thinks in terms of practical tradeoffs (cost, model selection, static vs frequently-updated corpora) and emphasizes deterministic testing plus observability for reliable LLM workflows; also has experience automating non-technical teams' pain points (e.g., recruiting event integration).”

“Banking infrastructure engineer who owns large-scale IBM Power/AIX (AIX 7.x, VIOS, HMC/vHMC) environments with hundreds of LPARs and deep PowerHA/SAN recovery experience. Also builds modern cloud delivery platforms—Azure DevOps/Jenkins CI/CD and Terraform for AWS/Azure (EKS/AKS, networking, security)—bridging legacy mission-critical systems and cloud-native automation.”

“Backend engineer who built and scaled a blockchain-based e-voting platform at early-stage startup Elemential Labs, balancing decentralization with real-world operability by centralizing control-plane components while keeping the ledger immutable. Has hands-on experience migrating high-throughput ingestion from Kafka to AWS Kinesis with parallel cutover, strengthening data integrity and read-after-write consistency (Elasticsearch), and hardening pipelines against silent data-quality failures via anomaly detection and self-healing automation.”

“CTO-for-equity founder who partners with non-technical co-founders to bring AI-powered product ideas to market, emphasizing financial viability and go-to-market planning over "just an MVP." Currently working with two other founders (CEO/Sales and CPO/industry expert) to launch a SaaS platform, leveraging AI coding tools (Cursor/Windsurf) for extremely fast, production-ready iteration with daily releases.”

“Builder/technical leader who was brought into Finicity to turn a credit-improvement concept into a viable product—architected, staffed, and launched what became Experian Boost. Delivered a major North American product launch in ~6 months, scaling to ~50,000 new users per day at launch and solving complex ML classification and distributed processing/order-of-operations challenges on AWS.”

“Built and productionized a secure internal RAG-based AI assistant (LangChain/FastAPI/FAISS on GCP), tackling real-world issues like latency, retrieval speed, and hallucinations—delivering 25% faster retrieval and 99.9% uptime. Also implemented scalable, reliable ML retraining orchestration with AWS Step Functions/SageMaker/Lambda and partners closely with compliance analysts to iteratively refine prompts and outputs to meet governance standards.”

“Full-stack engineer focused on high-throughput document/financial data platforms, building Angular/React front ends and Spring Boot microservices with Python/Flask services for heavy processing. Experienced in designing non-blocking, asynchronous workflows (Celery/RabbitMQ) and deploying containerized systems to AWS ECS with auto-scaling and CloudWatch monitoring.”

“IBM Power/AIX engineer with hands-on ownership of large AIX 7.1/7.2 environments (VIOS, HMC/vHMC) supporting enterprise middleware/back-end workloads. Demonstrated real production incident handling: identified CPU entitlement underprovisioning after a DLPAR change and restored performance via live CPU rebalancing, plus PowerHA failover execution and runbook/process hardening. Also builds secure CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/GitLab/Azure DevOps with CyberArk) and Terraform IaC with drift management and controlled rollouts.”