Vetted AWS Professionals

“Founder of Nexus Security Advisors, an early-stage cybersecurity consulting firm focused on supporting small and mid-sized businesses with practical security needs. Brings cybersecurity leadership plus AI governance and compliance focus, and has experience designing and delivering hands-on cyber threat intelligence training by validating needs with leadership and partnering to build a practical curriculum.”

“Backend engineer (Nokia) who designs and migrates cloud-native microservices at scale, including a secure low-latency system handling 500k+ daily transactions. Strong in Kubernetes/OpenShift operations, CI/CD standardization, and production security (OAuth2/JWT/RBAC) with SOC2-aligned controls and zero critical security incidents. Demonstrated expertise in safe migrations (canary/blue-green, dual writes, reconciliation) and concurrency correctness in real-time systems.”

“Software engineer who built and scaled an internal automation/auditing tool for analyzing Google and Adobe tagging containers, adopted by 13 internal clients and saving ~15 hours per audit. Has experience shipping containerized, Kubernetes-orchestrated systems and integrating OpenAI APIs into an agentic chatbot feature (plus prior NLP chatbot work during a Cyber Peace Foundation internship).”

“Infrastructure/DevOps engineer (Vidmob) focused on AWS + containers, owning GitLab CI/CD and Terraform-managed environments. Led a high-impact CI incident by correlating runner queue time, Docker pull latency, and NAT egress; implemented ECR pull-through caching and VPC endpoints to restore performance and then standardized the fix in Terraform for future scale-ups.”

“QA Automation Engineer with 7+ years building dependable enterprise automation suites across UI, API, and database layers using Selenium (Java), Playwright, Karate, and Cypress. Integrates smoke/regression suites into CI/CD (GitLab/Jenkins/GitHub Actions) with reporting and notifications, and has prevented production issues by catching silent backend failures and high-impact payment defects through end-to-end validation and strong root-cause evidence.”

“LLM-focused customer-facing technical leader with experience productionizing LLM workflows in financial services (State Street), including guardrails, retrieval tuning, and reliability improvements. Also partners closely with sales and executives—at Payoneer helped drive enterprise-wide adoption for a $10M ARR global account through technical discovery, demos, and pilots.”

“Built and deployed a production compliance automation RAG system (at Citi) that generates citation-backed, schema-validated risk summaries for regulatory document review. Emphasizes regulated-environment reliability with retrieval-only grounding, abstention, confidence thresholds, and immutable audit logging, plus orchestration using LangChain/LangGraph and Airflow. Reported ~60% reduction in compliance review effort while maintaining high precision and traceability.”

“Senior technology/executive leader with 30+ years building and scaling mission-critical platforms across blockchain, cloud, cybersecurity, and fintech, including leading 100+ person global teams and managing $100M P&Ls. Founded Pharus (2022) after driving Web2-to-Web3/DeFi/metaverse initiatives at SDK Co, using a first-principles, PoC-driven approach to deliver secure, compliance-aware transformations (GDPR/NYDFS) and multi-million-dollar optimizations, with a focus on quantum-resistant Web3 and ethical AI governance.”

“ML/LLM engineer who has shipped production RAG systems (LangChain + HF Transformers + FAISS) with hybrid retrieval and cross-encoder re-ranking, deployed via FastAPI/Docker/Kubernetes and monitored with MLflow. Also partnered with wealth advisors at Edward Jones to deliver a client retention model with SHAP-driven explanations and a dashboard that improved trust, adoption, and reduced high-value client churn.”

“GenAI/ML engineer who has shipped production agentic systems in highly regulated and high-throughput environments, including an AWS Bedrock-based fraud/compliance workflow at U.S. Bank with PII redaction and hallucination detection that cut investigation time by 50%+. Also built and evaluated RAG and recommendation systems at Target, using RAGAS-driven testing, hybrid retrieval with re-ranking, and SHAP explainability dashboards to align model behavior with merchandising business KPIs.”

“AI engineer with hands-on production experience building an end-to-end RAG system that reduced document-answering time from hours to minutes, improving accuracy through chunk overlap and hybrid BM25+semantic retrieval. Also built a LangGraph-based agent that researches company financial news via web search (Google Serper), using Pydantic structured outputs and checkpointing for reliability; experienced collaborating with non-technical stakeholders at JPMC and communicating ROI.”

“Backend-focused engineer with production experience building Spring Boot services for automated workflow and data-processing platforms, using queues plus retry and idempotency patterns. Also uses Python to automate data processing; emphasizes testing and peer review for maintainability.”

“Backend/platform engineer with production ownership of high-volume transaction analytics and fraud monitoring services built in Java/Spring Boot. Has scaled data processing platforms (including healthcare datasets) and operated Kafka-based event pipelines with schema versioning, deduplication, and replay/backfill workflows, using strong observability via CloudWatch/Grafana and CI/CD with Jenkins.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered internal operations automation platform using LangChain RAG (Pinecone) and FastAPI microservices, deployed on AWS EKS, serving 10k+ daily interactions. Implemented a rigorous evaluation/observability stack (golden datasets, prompt regression tests, MLflow, retrieval metrics, hallucination monitoring) that drove hallucinations below 2% and improved reliability, and partnered closely with non-technical ops leaders to cut manual lookup work by 60%+.”

“Full-stack engineer who built and owned a generative-AI pipeline end-to-end inside the Vibecut video editor using Next.js App Router/TypeScript, Gemini-based prompt routing, and Zustand state management, including concurrency-safe requests. Also integrated Python services to access newly released AI tooling, optimized Postgres/S3 data flows for thumbnails, and built Modal-to-Amplitude workflows for Reddit-driven sentiment/metrics in a pre-seed environment while also handling marketing.”

“Engineering leader/player-coach who modernized a legacy C#/SQL Server system to Snowflake + Python on GCP, enabling ~30x scale and supporting hundreds of millions of transactions per day per customer. Strong in architecture tradeoffs (Snowflake vs Databricks), production reliability (New Relic, logging/alerting), and lightweight process improvements like a rigorous Definition of Done and structured PR reviews.”

“Backend/platform engineer who has owned end-to-end production systems in financial/claims domains, including a transaction analytics microservice platform processing ~10M daily operations and cutting latency from ~150ms to <70ms. Also productionized an LLM-powered monitoring/alerting capability (Llama 3 + FastAPI) with prompt design, guardrails, and production evaluation, and led monolith-to-microservices modernization on AWS using feature flags and parallel runs.”

“Built a production internal LLM-powered knowledge assistant using a RAG architecture (Python, LLM APIs, cloud services) that answers employee questions with sourced, grounded responses from internal documents. Demonstrates strong practical depth in retrieval tuning (chunking/metadata filters), orchestration with LangChain, and production reliability practices (latency optimization, automated embedding refresh, evaluation metrics, logging/monitoring) while partnering closely with non-technical operations teams.”

“Built and productionized AI-driven insurance claims document intelligence/automation at American Family Insurance, integrating OCR/NLP models and a rules-based validation layer into existing claims systems via APIs. Delivered measurable impact (≈28% accuracy lift, ≈35% reduction in manual processing time) and modernized legacy workflows with phased cloud migration, feature flags, parallel runs, and CloudWatch-based monitoring.”

“Software engineer with hands-on ownership of both fintech checkout improvements (saved payment methods/one-click checkout with tokenization and feature-flag rollouts) and production LLM/RAG systems for customer support. Demonstrates strong operational rigor via guardrails, evaluation loops integrated into CI/CD, and scalable data pipelines handling messy PDFs/CSVs/logs with reliability and observability.”

“Distributed-systems engineer applying robotics-style patterns to software: built "Vibecheck," a high-throughput real-time video + OS-telemetry fusion and analysis system (500+ MB/session) with strict latency constraints. Strong in containerization and CI/CD (Docker, GitHub Actions) and in designing fault-tolerant, event-driven architectures (Kafka/RabbitMQ), plus hands-on debugging of multi-agent coordination using blackboard + watchdog/circuit-breaker control patterns.”

“Built and shipped a production browser automation LLM agent with a structured 4-stage workflow (plan/browse/extract/verify), emphasizing reliability via schema validation (Pydantic), constrained tool use, and contextual retry loops. Reports ~60% accuracy on the WebArena benchmark and monitors runs via console output and the Agno framework GUI, prioritizing accuracy over speed.”

“Data engineer with healthcare and enterprise experience (Molina Healthcare, Dell Technologies) building and operating high-volume batch + streaming pipelines across AWS and Azure. Strong focus on data quality (schema validation, fail-fast checks), reliability (monitoring/alerts, retries), and performance tuning (Spark/partitioning), with measurable runtime reduction and improved downstream trust.”

“Backend/distributed-systems engineer who built a Golang distributed key-value store on AWS using Multi-Paxos, WAL, and non-blocking gRPC replication (cutting write latency ~40%) and proactively addressed tricky failure modes like leader-election livelock. Also developed a Python/Kubernetes cost-optimization scaling engine deployed with Helm/Terraform, delivering ~$40K annual savings while sustaining 99.99% uptime, and drives contract-first API development (OpenAPI/Swagger) to speed frontend integration.”