Vetted AWS Professionals

“Built a student-focused course planning tool called Dolphin Planner and appears to have owned it end-to-end, from full-stack implementation to UX refinement. Stands out for solving a real campus scheduling problem, optimizing React rendering performance, and iterating based on direct observation of classmates using the product.”

“Product leader with experience spanning enterprise AI at Wells Fargo and large-scale consumer platform revamps at TimesJobs and Mudah.my. Notably led a GenAI-powered commercial lending email/document intelligence solution with 90%+ accuracy and redesigned user journeys that drove a 25% lift in registrations, while also building and mentoring cross-functional product teams.”

Uma mahesh

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Mid-level AI Software Engineer specializing in Generative AI and healthcare automation

NC, USA5y exp

“Backend/AI engineer with 5+ years spanning ServiceNow, Cognizant, and GE Healthcare, where they built agentic AI and RAG systems for safety-critical medical device workflows. Particularly compelling for teams needing production LLM systems in regulated environments: they combine cloud deployment and evaluation rigor with HIPAA-aware privacy controls, explainability, and measurable business impact.”

Ziyu Wang

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Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI platforms and agents

New York, NY4y exp

“Front-end engineer focused on high-performance real-time browser applications, with hands-on ownership of an AI-integrated education platform and interactive admin tooling. Stands out for deep browser fundamentals knowledge and measurable UI performance gains, including a 40% reduction in client-side response latency.”

“Frontend engineer with strong React/TypeScript depth who built a schema-driven onboarding platform in Next.js and Apollo GraphQL to support client-specific workflows without duplicating forms. Demonstrates solid performance instincts, having diagnosed and improved lag in a production cart/order dashboard using React DevTools Profiler, memoization, debounced filters, and state isolation.”

“Founding Principal Engineer/Head of Engineering at Amberflo (Seed $5M Homebrew; Series A Norwest) who built and shipped an AI Gateway + real-time LLM cost metering/pricing MVP end-to-end (control plane/data plane, AWS infra, CI/CD). Known for extremely fast MVP cycles (often 1–2 weeks), scaling teams (50–60 hires), and driving major pivots (usage-based billing to FinOps) by repurposing an existing metering/pricing platform; based in Chicago and has led a Silicon Valley startup remotely with frequent Bay Area travel.”

“Platform-focused engineer/technical program leader working in silicon/wafer validation environments, with hands-on experience securing access to sensitive test results and engineering tooling. Has implemented RBAC/least-privilege controls with Azure Entra ID, Key Vault, PAM and integrated Checkmarx into dev workflows, while also deploying ML services on AKS using Bicep/Helm/Docker and Azure DevOps CI/CD with strong monitoring and incident response practices.”

“Robotics software engineer who owned the end-to-end navigation stack for a mobile manipulation robot (Cone-E), integrating ZED-2i SLAM into a real-time occupancy grid with live obstacle avoidance, A* planning, and lookahead control. Strong in real-time debugging and stability improvements (goal snapping/locking, obstacle persistence, rate-limited replanning) and validates changes on hardware, supported by simulation (Gazebo/Webots) and Docker/CI-based testing.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on AWS-based Python services and data pipelines: built a Django/DRF user management/auth platform deployed with serverless AWS (Lambda/API Gateway) and event-driven workflows (Step Functions/EventBridge), with CloudFormation + Jenkins for automated delivery and Secrets Manager/Parameter Store for secure config. Also delivered AWS Glue ETL from S3 to RDS with schema evolution controls and incident-driven improvements, and has demonstrated measurable SQL tuning impact (minutes-to-seconds).”

“LLM/RAG practitioner who productionized an LLM-driven customer communication and transaction understanding system at PayPal, emphasizing privacy/compliance guardrails and large-scale data normalization. Experienced in real-time debugging of hallucinations via retrieval pipeline tuning and in leading hands-on developer workshops and sales-aligned POCs to drive adoption.”

“Firmware architect/lead engineer for automotive LiDAR sensors, designing RTOS-based, layered firmware and solving high-throughput real-time constraints using DMA and lock-free buffering. Built ROS nodes to bridge embedded sensor output to higher-level perception (point clouds, diagnostics, configuration) while isolating real-time logic in firmware. Established an end-to-end CI/CD pipeline with GTest unit tests plus SIL/HIL automation and Dockerized build/test environments.”

“Software engineer with strong end-to-end ownership of search and listing systems (React/TypeScript frontend with Node.js + Spring Boot backends), focused on shipping fast while managing risk via feature flags, testing, and metrics. Demonstrated measurable UX/performance wins (reduced latency and search abandonment) and built internal observability tooling (dashboard + alerts) that improved incident response. Experienced with microservices reliability patterns including idempotency and dead-letter queues.”

“Frontend-focused engineer operating at a staff level with experience at Amazon and startups, known for rescuing high-impact, frontend-heavy systems through architecture, performance, and quality improvements. Delivered outsized results including cutting load times from ~90s to ~3s, raising test coverage from <1% to >80%, and enabling multi-team adoption of modern state management via training sessions for 50+ engineers.”

“Senior frontend engineer with experience leading high-impact React/TypeScript products at HelloFresh and CAA, including an A/B-tested onboarding flow shipped across multiple international brands. Modernized a legacy .NET frontend to Next.js using SSR and performance techniques (caching/memoization/lazy loading) and implemented robust testing/monitoring (Cypress, Honeycomb, GA) in fast-paced, production-deploy environments.”

“Software engineer with Capital One experience contributing to shared internal “open-source style” JavaScript/React/TypeScript libraries (component library and hooks/utilities). Drove measurable performance gains (~25% improvement) by refactoring hooks to prevent unnecessary re-renders, and improved adoption via stronger documentation, testing (Jest), semver discipline, and code review/PR workflows; also stabilized a backend service by adding monitoring and automated tests in an unstructured project.”

“Built a production internal RAG-based Q&A assistant at Huawei for ~4,000 engineers over a 12M-document Elasticsearch corpus, replacing link-only search with synthesized answers and achieving 87% user acceptance while keeping hallucinations under 0.4%. Pairs rigorous offline benchmarking (RAGAS, PR-gated F1 improvements) with human A/B testing and OpenTelemetry-based production monitoring, and also has strong Kubernetes/SRE experience orchestrating 50+ gRPC services with major MTTR and pager-fatigue reductions.”

“Development manager focused on developer productivity and platform enablement in a polyglot microservices environment. Drove ~50% productivity gains by evaluating and rolling out AI coding copilots with team training and cross-team demos, and designed a Disaster Recovery framework adopted by 50+ microservice teams. Also led edge-focused Python runtime optimization and relies on heavy test automation to safely execute large refactors during major platform upgrades.”

“Backend engineer focused on building production-ready Python services (Flask/FastAPI) with strong performance and scalability instincts—Celery/Redis background processing, robust multi-tenant isolation (Postgres RLS), and pragmatic CI/Docker operations. Demonstrated measurable DB optimization impact (cut a critical analytics query from ~1–2s to ~100–150ms) and has hands-on experience integrating LLM/ML workflows (OpenAI, LangChain, embeddings, Redis/FAISS vector stores) without degrading API responsiveness.”

“Built a production AI-driven QA automation platform using a multi-agent architecture (MCPs + LangGraph) to run parallel website tests across multiple device environments via automated image building and containerization. Currently collaborating with restaurant operators and managers to deliver an agentic restaurant analytics system, emphasizing deep domain discovery with non-technical stakeholders.”

“ML/NLP engineer with experience at Flatiron Health building a production NLP platform that processed millions of clinical notes, using BERT/BiLSTM-CRF and spaCy to extract and normalize entities from noisy EMR text with oncologist-in-the-loop validation. Also built scalable retail ML workflows (Spark + Kubernetes + feature store caching) and applied vector databases plus contrastive-learning fine-tuning to improve retrieval relevance and recommendations.”

“Backend/DevOps-focused engineer with healthcare and financial systems experience, including an ICU readmission risk platform delivering real-time ML scores via a secure FastAPI service (PyTorch model serving, PostgreSQL, Celery/Redis) deployed on AWS with strong observability. Has hands-on Kubernetes GitOps delivery (Helm, ArgoCD, HPA) and has supported a JPMC on-prem-to-AWS microservices migration using phased validation and blue-green cutovers, plus Kafka/Avro streaming for real-time transaction processing.”

“Backend/automation engineer who led the design of an OOP Python test automation framework for AWS infrastructure (Behave + Jenkins), cutting regression effort from weeks to a 3–4 hour run. Has hands-on cloud and DevOps experience across AWS (boto3, ECS, AMI automation via GitHub Actions) plus data/migration work including on-prem-to-cloud Oracle Retail DB migration with rollback planning and a Kafka + ML fraud-detection streaming pipeline.”

“Hands-on technical professional experienced in taking LLM/AI-adjacent integrations from prototype to production, using customer observation to refine UX and uncover edge cases. Diagnoses workflow issues in real time using logs and Sankey-style workflow analysis, and communicates fixes with clear short/long-term plans plus proactive alerting. Also partners cross-functionally to drive adoption and cost savings, including a POC around IBM Sterling Integrator that reduced licensing costs by $30K/year.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong DevOps/AWS production experience who builds and operates multi-agent AI systems end-to-end (Streamlit/Python through Docker/Kubernetes and ECS/Fargate). Has delivered measurable outcomes: sub-2s latency and ~92% routing accuracy for an AI wellness assistant, shipped an AI-for-BI prototype in under 6 weeks cutting analysis time ~40%, and improved pipeline iteration speed ~35% via modularization and CI/regression checks.”