Vetted AWS Professionals

Rahul Kushwaha

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and scalable microservices

Texas, USA5y exp

“Backend/platform engineer focused on high-traffic financial systems, owning real-time event-driven ingestion and Kafka streaming pipelines using Python/FastAPI, Avro schemas, and AWS services. Has hands-on Kubernetes (EKS) and GitOps/CI-CD experience (ArgoCD/Jenkins) and supported large-scale migrations from legacy VMs to containerized microservices with zero/low-downtime cutovers.”

Ayush Gupta

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in Agentic AI and Generative AI

6y exp

“Built and deployed a live LLM-powered platform that takes a LinkedIn job URL + resume and generates job-specific resumes and personalized outreach at scale, with production-grade logging/monitoring/retries on Vercel + Railway. Experienced with agent orchestration (AWS Bedrock/Strands, LangGraph, CrewAI) and rigorous AI workflow testing, plus stakeholder-facing prototypes like data lineage/metadata and NL-to-SQL + dashboard generation.”

Priyanshu Maurya

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in insurance, finance, and healthcare analytics

New York, NY3y exp

“Built and productionized LLM-driven sentiment scoring for earnings call transcripts at Goldman Sachs, replacing legacy NLP to deliver a cleaner trading signal while managing latency/cost via batching, caching, and distilled models. Also implemented an Airflow-orchestrated fraud modeling pipeline at MetLife with drift-based retraining and SageMaker deployment, and has a disciplined evaluation/rollout framework for reliable AI workflows.”

Hongxi Chen

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and backend infrastructure

Beijing, China0y exp

“Backend engineer with deep experience building event-driven logistics systems (orders, warehouse execution, real-time delivery tracking) using Spring Boot/PostgreSQL/Redis and strong observability (Prometheus/Grafana). Led a zero-downtime migration from monolithic MySQL to a sharded architecture for ~2M users with dual-write, checksum validation, and fast auto-rollback, and has strong security expertise including PostgreSQL RLS for multi-tenant SaaS and robust OAuth/JWT handling.”

“Full-stack engineer with fintech and AI product experience: built HuddleAI end-to-end on Firebase/React, including a serverless LLM meeting-intelligence pipeline (FFmpeg + Google Speech-to-Text + GPT-4 with schema validation) and Slack notifications. At Gemini, owned a Postgres/Scala workflow change for wire deposit approvals that cut blocked registrations by 60% and emphasized correctness/compliance in UK/EU transaction-state UI.”

Luis Mirantes

Screened

Executive engineering leader specializing in scaling ML platforms and FinTech systems

Chevy Chase, MD30y exp

“Founder of an AI-agent startup focused on high-speed train braking efficiency, with a subsystem already demoed to RENFE Spain and positive initial feedback. Has hands-on fundraising and investor presentation experience, and stands out for a highly analytical approach to venture building centered on ROI, competitive barriers, IP protection, and evidence-based decision making.”

“ML engineer with production experience across healthcare and fraud domains, including end-to-end ownership of a telecare patient deterioration system at Oracle Health and a GPT-4/RAG fraud reporting solution at Cognizant. Stands out for combining scalable data/ML infrastructure, clinical NLP, and GenAI delivery with measurable gains in model quality and workflow efficiency.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered internal developer tool that accelerated code reviews by about 30% while maintaining reliability through modular orchestration, validation, and monitoring. Demonstrates strong practical depth in agent architecture, backend workflow orchestration, and observability for non-deterministic AI systems, with concrete examples of reducing agent errors by 60%.”

Tianxiang Yang

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in MERN and FinTech

Arkansas, AR4y exp

“Frontend/full-stack engineer with Walmart experience building browser-based user features end to end, including an email mention notification system and performance improvements on e-commerce tooling. Strongest themes are React-based UI development, optimization, and refactoring legacy codebases toward more maintainable functional-component architecture.”

“Backend/ML systems engineer with experience at SDSC, UCSD, and Media.net, building production semantic dataset/model discovery using embeddings + Solr KNN and LLM-based intent/reranking at 5M+ dataset scale. Emphasizes offline/online separation for predictable serving, has delivered measurable gains (23% retrieval accuracy, 38% latency reduction) and helped secure a $3M+ NSF grant.”

“Data Analyst at U.S. Cellular who built production LLM solutions, including a Tableau-embedded chatbot that converts natural language questions into Oracle SQL and returns actionable KPI insights for non-technical users. Also authored MAD-CTI, a multi-agent LLM system for dark web hacker forum threat intelligence (published in IEEE Access) that outperformed single-agent approaches by 14%.”

“Engineering leader with BCG consulting background who has built roadmaps and scaled AI and data platforms for pharma and manufacturing clients. Led architecture shifts (Django monolith to event-driven microservices) for high-volume IoT SaaS products, improving deployment speed and enabling zero-downtime releases. Also established a near-shore engineering team in São Paulo and has managed distributed teams across multiple countries, leveraging strong stakeholder communication and a prior professional acting background for storytelling.”

“Frontend-focused JavaScript engineer who built Collabsync with real-time chat and file sharing using Socket.io, emphasizing reusable components, clear event contracts, and performance (minimizing React re-renders). Has experience at PwC building internal React/Angular dashboards and documenting insurance APIs, plus a contract role at Capital One delivering in fast-changing, loosely defined environments.”

“Open-source contributor to a JavaScript visualization library who focused on runtime/rendering performance—eliminating unnecessary full redraws via memoization and diff-based updates validated with Chrome profiling. Also strengthened the project’s developer experience by adding TypeScript definitions, writing practical documentation, building minimal example apps, and handling community issues with reproducible debugging and public fixes.”

“Applied LLMs and a graph-RAG architecture in Neo4j to automate an accounting firm's cross-checking of transactional books against tax regulations, indexing 1,000+ pages into a knowledge graph with vector search. Combines agentic LLM workflows with classical NER (Hugging Face/NLTK) and validates using expert-labeled held-out data plus precision/recall and measured accountant time savings after deployment.”

“20-year technology builder with ~8 years in healthcare AI, currently at Keycentrix modernizing a legacy pharmacy solutions business. Shipped an OCR MVP within days and delivered a rebate-based product generating ~$50K/month, leveraging Claude/LangGraph agentic automation to replace work typically requiring a much larger engineering team. Developing a "Longevity AI Copilot" B2B platform that synthesizes research, labs, and wearable data into personalized longevity protocols for HNW and corporate wellness markets; concept validated but not yet incorporated or funded.”

“Interned at Paycom and shipped a productionized ML/AI system that automatically regenerates XPath selectors to self-heal Selenium UI tests when the DOM changes. The pipeline handled 1,000+ failing tests/hour with ~90–95% auto-fix accuracy, using confidence thresholds, human-in-the-loop fallbacks, logging/dashboards, and retraining loops to manage distribution shift and maintain reliability.”

Jones Pavan

Screened

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in platform modernization and AI integration

Burbank, CA15y exp

“Engineering leader from Blackline who has repeatedly rescued and delivered high-visibility products by resetting roadmaps, tightening execution (better specs/estimation), and accelerating team velocity. Scaled a distributed org from ~20 to ~40 engineers by building a new India team with strong hiring rubrics and governance-as-code/SDLC consistency. Also modernized legacy systems into microservices (Kafka/Kubernetes/Apigee) and drove hackathon-to-production innovation using Google Vertex AI.”

Pratik Jaiswal

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in financial services ML and MLOps

Remote, USA4y exp

“ML engineer/data scientist with M&T Bank experience who built a production reinforcement-learning portfolio analytics tool for wealth management, emphasizing near real-time performance via batch/serving separation and robust generalization through stress-scenario backtesting and RL regularization. Strong MLOps background (Airflow, Grafana, MLflow) and proven ability to drive adoption with non-technical stakeholders using KPI alignment and SHAP-based explanations.”

CHIRAG ARORA

Screened

Senior Backend Software Engineer specializing in microservices and cloud platforms

San Jose, CA9y exp

“Backend engineer with PayPal experience building a high-reliability onboarding API platform (Java/Spring Boot) integrating KYC/compliance and serving 1M+ users annually. Also shipped an internal LLM-driven developer tool that automates PR review insights and OpenAPI documentation with rigorous evaluation, schema-bound guardrails, and production observability.”

Johanna Griffin

Screened

Senior Technical Support Engineer specializing in DevOps and CI/CD

Ukiah, CA10y exp

“DevOps Customer Engineer (CircleCI) with hands-on experience supporting enterprise customers through a major security incident (token revocation/secret rotation) and advising on secure CI/CD practices. Experienced in integrating security tooling into pipelines (e.g., Snyk via CircleCI Orbs), troubleshooting complex CircleCI Server/Kubernetes-like deployments using logs/metrics/traces, and running structured multi-customer onboardings tracked in Jira/Salesforce.”

“Data platform engineer with hands-on ownership of high-volume financial data pipelines (millions of transactions/day) on Azure (ADF, Databricks, Delta Lake, Synapse), emphasizing schema-drift protection and automated data-quality gates. Also built resilient web scraping pipelines with anti-bot and backfill strategies, and shipped a versioned FastAPI + Redis data API with autoscaling, testing, and CI/CD via GitHub Actions.”

“Analytics professional with hands-on experience building SQL and Python workflows for support operations and product reporting. They stand out for turning messy CRM, ticket, and activity data into validated, performance-optimized reporting tables and dashboards, while partnering closely with stakeholders to standardize KPI definitions around SLA performance and retention.”

“Backend/AI engineer who has built an offline, citation-grounded RAG system end-to-end with hybrid retrieval, local LLM inference, and quantitative evaluation via RAGAS. Also brings real-time systems experience from an Airbnb-like booking platform and data pipeline/ML quality work from a Bilibili internship, with a strong emphasis on reliability, privacy, and measurable correctness.”