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Vetted AWS Professionals
Pre-screened and vetted.
Venkata Ramakrishnan
Director-level Engineering & Technology Leader specializing in digital transformation and enterprise platforms
“Providing technical guidance to a small team exploring a biomedical startup focused on earlier disease detection, including for remote/underserved areas. The venture is in ideation with initial research completed and is moving toward prototyping while exploring initial investment/support.”
usha kodati
Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in banking and cloud-native microservices
“Software engineer with Citi Bank experience building real-time fraud validation/scoring for loan processing, spanning Spring Boot microservices and a FastAPI Python service secured with OAuth2/JWT. Delivered React/TypeScript operations dashboards and deployed containerized services via Docker/Kubernetes with Jenkins CI/CD, while also tuning databases (Oracle/Postgres) and handling high-volume latency/scaling issues using ELK, caching, and autoscaling on AWS.”
Srikanth Nadukudy
Director of Customer Success specializing in enterprise data platforms and hybrid cloud
“Enterprise Principal/Lead CSM with experience owning high-profile tech, fintech, and government accounts end-to-end, including regulated AWS high-side deployments for a GPU-accelerated query engine. Built onboarding and VoC programs from the ground up, drove 90% adoption in 2 months, and influenced roadmap changes delivering 10x performance gains. Previously led Cloudera’s Apple relationship across 40+ teams and delivered 125% NRR through cloud/hybrid expansion and POCs.”
Hongye Xiong
Intern Software Engineer specializing in backend, cloud data platforms, and microservices
“Full-stack engineer who shipped a group scheduling SaaS feature with live availability updates using Next.js App Router + TypeScript, owning production reliability after launch (auth debugging, monitoring, polling/backoff tuning). Has hands-on experience with Postgres schema/index design and query optimization (EXPLAIN ANALYZE) and building durable orchestrated backend workflows with retries and idempotency.”
Rasheed Mohammed
Senior Site Reliability Engineer specializing in multi-cloud Kubernetes and DevSecOps
“Cloud/Kubernetes-focused production engineer with experience running 99.95% uptime platforms across AWS/Azure/GCP. Strong in incident response and performance troubleshooting (including a 30% MTTR reduction), and in building secure CI/CD and Terraform-based IaC for AKS/GKE microservices with robust change controls and rollback practices. Notably does not have direct IBM Power/AIX/VIOS/HMC or PowerHA/HACMP ownership.”
Yogi Makadiya
Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and DevSecOps
“Backend-leaning product engineer with DevSecOps depth who has shipped real-time, Kafka-driven data pipelines and AI-enabled customer-facing features to production on AWS. Built a Spring Boot API layer serving real-time predictions at 100K+ requests/day, improving latency by 35% and user task completion by ~25%, and delivered a React/TypeScript dashboard plus a Postgres audit/history model optimized for search and large event volumes.”
Vamshi Arempula
Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI, RAG, and agentic systems
“GenAI/LLM ML engineer (currently at Webprobo) building an enterprise GenAI platform with document intelligence and automation on AWS and blockchain. Has hands-on experience with RAG, LLM evaluation tooling, and orchestrating production LLM workflows with Apache Airflow, plus deep exposure to reliability challenges in globally distributed/edge deployments. Also partnered with business/marketing stakeholders at a banking client to deliver an AI-driven customer retention insights solution.”
Shashank Garg
Engineering leader specializing in FinTech ML/AI platforms
“Engineering Manager/player-coach leading Data Infrastructure, ML/DS, and AI Engineering pods who recently shipped multiple production agentic GenAI features. Built privacy-preserving LLM workflows (PII redaction via Microsoft Presidio) and drove an AI expense-approval agent from ambiguous ask to GA, cutting approval time from ~2.5 days to <4 hours with >85% accuracy. Also owned a major LLM cost overrun incident and implemented cost observability plus circuit breakers to prevent runaway agent loops.”
Sai Kondapaka
Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in microservices, data pipelines, and FinTech fraud detection
“Backend engineer with PayPal experience owning a high-throughput, low-latency fraud detection pipeline processing billions of transactions/day, integrating LLM-based models into real-time Kafka streams and payment decisioning APIs. Strong Kubernetes + GitOps practitioner (declarative, auditable deployments; autoscaling/probe tuning) with migration experience modernizing legacy systems onto AKS/OpenShift.”
SNEHA KUSUMA
Mid-level Java Full-Stack Developer specializing in banking and telecom platforms
“Frontend-focused engineer with experience at T-Mobile and U.S. Bank who maintained a TypeScript utility library (types, tests, build pipeline, and docs) adopted by multiple teams, and improved React workflow performance by refactoring components and optimizing data fetching. Known for pragmatic cross-team support—reproducing issues quickly, shipping well-tested fixes, and managing changes carefully to avoid breaking downstream apps.”
Rishitha reddy katamareddy
Mid-level Generative AI & Machine Learning Engineer specializing in agentic LLM systems
“Built and deployed a production agentic LLM knowledge assistant that answers complex questions over internal documents, APIs, and databases using a RAG architecture (FAISS/Pinecone) and LangChain/LangGraph orchestration. Emphasizes production-grade reliability and hallucination control through grounding, confidence thresholds, validation, retries/fallbacks, and full observability (logging/metrics/traces) with continuous evaluation and feedback loops.”
Hamidreza Lotfalizadeh
Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM agents, RAG, and ML systems
“At Inertia Systems, built a production LLM-powered ingestion pipeline that converts heterogeneous sources (PDF/JSON/IFC/SQL and financial tables) into standardized text and uses GraphRAG to construct a knowledge graph with verified dependency relationships. Also has hands-on HPC orchestration experience with SLURM, including creating a custom wrapper process manager to improve resource utilization under restrictive scheduling policies.”
Chris Colinsky
Executive Technology Leader/CTO specializing in data platforms, AI agents, and e-commerce/payments
“Engineering leader with hands-on coding time who has driven major commerce and data-platform transformations: defined goop’s omnichannel strategy, unified payments to Square, and rebuilt real-time NetSuite inventory flows plus forecasting tools. Currently reorganized engineering into Product/Data/Support teams to hit aggressive seasonal roadmaps, and led a data-lake/medallion ELT refactor feeding embedded analytics (Tinybird) with improved reliability and cost efficiency; also accelerates onboarding via AI coding tools in a serverless, event-driven architecture.”
Sampada shelke
Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP, LLMs, and applied research
“New grad SDE (AI/ML) who built and deployed an LLM-based chatbot framework used across technology, military, and banking contexts, focusing on model selection tradeoffs (latency vs accuracy) through prototyping and benchmarking. Also built a multi-agent "eaterybot" using PyAutoGen/AutoGen with a manager agent orchestrating specialized agents, and emphasizes rigorous testing with adversarial/edge-case datasets and hallucination checks.”
Sreelekha Vuppala
Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in Generative AI, MLOps, and cloud data platforms
“GenAI/ML engineer (CitiusTech) who has deployed production RAG systems for compliance/operations document Q&A, using Pinecone + FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes with strong monitoring and guardrails. Also built a GenAI-powered incident triage/routing solution in collaboration with non-technical stakeholders, achieving 35% faster response times and 40% fewer misclassified tickets, and has hands-on orchestration experience with Airflow and AutoSys.”
“Unity/gameplay engineer (Playtika) who built a state-machine/ECS-driven slot/bonus engine in a client-server setup, focusing on consistent outcomes under latency and highly engaging reward sequences. Also implemented server-authoritative real-time challenges/contests via an event-driven messaging system (SignalR-like) across iOS/Android/WebGL/UWP, and validates impact through retention/session/engagement analytics.”
Harini Vinu
Intern Software Engineer specializing in cloud, big data, and test automation
“Internship experience at Qualitest building and deploying an LLM-powered test automation system that reduced manual test creation and improved efficiency (~40%). Demonstrates strong production engineering for LLM systems (timeouts/retries/monitoring/caching, prompt optimization, batching) and has scaled workflows to 100+ concurrent jobs; also has orchestration experience with AWS Step Functions and Kubernetes.”
Prashant Salunke
Mid-Level Software Development Engineer specializing in full-stack and cloud-native systems
“Backend engineer who has shipped production LLM-powered features, including an AI-assisted developer tool on AWS (Spring Boot) and a blog platform capability using embeddings + Elasticsearch for semantic retrieval and LLM-generated summaries/recommendations. Demonstrates practical tradeoff management (quality/latency/cost), guardrails to reduce hallucinations, and evaluation-driven iteration using real user queries and observability via ELK.”
Navindu Jayatilake
DevOps Technical Lead specializing in Kubernetes, AWS, and platform engineering
“Sri Lanka–based DevOps/Platform engineer focused on Kubernetes and AWS who has led real production incidents and recoveries (network-policy-induced asymmetric routing; node pool failure due to CNI upgrade). Built production CI/CD with GitHub Actions (ephemeral self-hosted runners on EKS), ArgoCD, Vault, and Terraform, and led a phased ECS-to-EKS migration including Kafka consumers and MongoDB Atlas private endpoints.”
Sumit Kothari
Junior AI/Full-Stack Engineer specializing in LLM apps and RAG systems
“AI engineer who built and shipped a production AI document-understanding/search system at Sumeru Inc, including a full RAG + LLMOps evaluation stack (MLflow, DeepEval, RAGAS) deployed on GCP. Also developed LangChain/LangGraph multi-agent workflows for UAV flight-log analysis and has experience presenting AI solutions to non-technical stakeholders and prospect clients to drive POCs.”
Lavanya Aggarwal
Mid-level Product Marketer specializing in GTM strategy for tech and media
“Marketing/paid social creative lead who recently ran a 3-month campaign for the Shortzy! app, owning strategy through QA while coordinating freelancers on a small budget. Combines entertainment/on-set direction experience with performance marketing fundamentals (A/B testing, CPA/ROAS/CTR) from Google Marketing certification work, plus conversion assets like landing pages and subscription messaging.”
Kunal Kulkarni
Intern AI/ML Researcher specializing in computer vision and data engineering
“Built a production-oriented multimodal RAG "Fix Assistant" with FastAPI, Tavily search, BM25 + cross-encoder reranking, and a local Phi-3.5 model, emphasizing strict grounding and fallback/verification modes to prevent hallucinations. Also has hands-on federated learning experience using STADLE to orchestrate edge-node training and aggregation for EV telemetry data, plus experience communicating AI results to non-technical stakeholders (traffic RL/congestion outcomes).”