Vetted AWS Professionals

Andrew Rosenblatt

Screened

Executive CIO specializing in AI-driven healthcare transformation and M&A integration

Culver City, CA16y exp

“Healthcare technology veteran with 21 years in the space who is now building Explain My Labs, a pre-seed startup with an alpha product already in friends-and-family testing. They bring hands-on startup preparation experience, including a pitch deck, investor meetings, and a clear thesis around a market gap in solutions that serve both patients and users.”

“Built a production LLM-powered root cause analysis agent for supply chain alerts that helped operations managers avoid manual dashboard investigation. Demonstrates unusually strong depth in agent reliability, orchestration, and observability, with concrete production practices like hallucination blocking, shadow testing on 500 cases, and data-driven improvements that raised user agreement to 94% while cutting GPT-4 usage by 60%.”

“Backend-focused engineer with Walmart Global Tech experience building shipment and seller workflow systems using Spring Boot, GraphQL, Kafka, and async processing. Stands out for improving bulk label API performance by 60-75%, designing item-level partial-failure workflows that improved user clarity, and also exploring AI-powered debugging/RCA platforms with Java, Python, LangChain, and LLM integrations.”

“Engineer focused on AI-powered developer automation and agent-driven software delivery, with experience spanning customer-facing edtech and internal tooling. They describe building a K-12 chatbot-based learning platform for the York Region public school system and creating internal automations like code-generation pipelines and diff summarization tools adopted across teams, alongside work on legacy encrypted messaging systems at Instagram/Meta.”

“Backend/data engineer with experience at Nike building high-volume order orchestration and validation APIs using FastAPI microservices on AWS EKS with Kafka, Redis, and Postgres. Strong in production reliability (timeouts/retries/idempotency), GitOps (Argo CD) + Terraform deployments, and data pipelines (AWS Glue/S3), with hands-on incident ownership and legacy modernization into API-driven services.”

“Senior, product-focused engineer who has built real-time customer-facing web applications and a microservices backend (TypeScript/React/Node) using RabbitMQ, MongoDB, and Redis. Demonstrates strong operational maturity (idempotency, tracing/observability, backpressure) and built an internal console that became the primary tool for debugging, replaying jobs, and managing system behavior.”

“AWS Software Development Manager leading globally deployed, production-critical DDoS protection (L3/L4) across AWS. Known for scaling teams and driving cross-org tiger-team initiatives from concept through worldwide rollout, including performance-focused Python architecture changes and a major JDK 8→21 migration while maintaining strict backward compatibility. Also led an internal SDK-like integration framework improving APIs, documentation, and onboarding for major AWS service teams.”

“LLMOps-focused technical leader who took an LLM use case from prototype to production for a non-technical customer by combining trust-building and structured enablement with a robust AWS/Kubernetes-based MLOps stack. Built observability and rollback mechanisms (Grafana + MLflow) to troubleshoot in real time, and scaled delivery by hiring a 5-person team while partnering with sales to manage expectations and drive adoption across departments.”

“Player-coach engineering leader focused on scalable data security scanning and risk detection in hybrid cloud, owning architecture and core implementation of an incremental/parallel DSPM scanning engine. Shipped production improvements including 60% lower scan latency and 30% fewer false positives, with strong emphasis on correctness under concurrency, multi-tenant observability (SLOs/burn-rate alerts), and disciplined rollout practices (feature flags, shadow scans, canaries).”

Parth Vadera

Screened

Senior AI/ML Data Scientist specializing in recommender systems, LLMs, and MLOps

Tracy, CA11y exp

“ML/NLP leader with 12+ years of impact across LinkedIn, TikTok, and Levi's, building and productionizing multimodal recommendation and embedding-based search systems. Deep experience in entity resolution, vector retrieval, and rigorous evaluation, with cloud-native deployment/monitoring (MLflow, Airflow, SageMaker/Lambda, Azure ML, Kubernetes) and demonstrated double-digit relevance gains at millions-of-users scale.”

Dennis Noto

Screened

Executive Technology & Security Leader specializing in FinTech, AI platforms, and enterprise modernization

Denver Metro Area36y exp

“Technology transformation leader who builds board-approved roadmaps and scales engineering orgs with strong Agile execution. Led large modernization efforts (e.g., Scottrade: 3,000 programs/4M LOC in 18 months) and scaled POCs into enterprise SaaS platforms using Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform for high-concurrency workloads.”

Raymond Otero

Screened

Director of Customer Experience & Success specializing in regulated cloud and agentic AI transformation

Philadelphia, PA28y exp

“Founder of a self-funded side advisory (e-Regency Advisory Services LLC) focused on helping early- and growth-stage technology companies improve customer experience, modernize cloud platforms, and build customer success/operations strategies leveraging AI. Has worked closely with founders and startup leadership teams and has supported companies as they prepared for or pursued funding, bringing a pragmatic, operationally disciplined approach to validating and scaling new ideas.”

Sujit Singh

Screened

Engineering Director specializing in backend & data platforms for enterprise SaaS and cybersecurity

San Jose, CA21y exp

“Backend/data engineering player-coach on a UEBA cloud security analytics platform who standardized MLOps and detection development for 180+ detections, cutting ship time from 6–7 weeks to ~3 weeks while reducing false positives. Proven at operating large-scale streaming + Spark systems (200K+ events/sec, 100+ TB/day), driving major reliability/cost improvements, and leading incident response and team execution through GA.”

Shant Mardigian

Screened

Executive Engineering Leader specializing in scalable streaming, media supply chain, and AI operations

19y exp

“Tech executive with Disney experience who has repeatedly scaled and restructured engineering organizations (from 4 to 30 and up to 100+), using OKRs/KPIs to drive business-aligned roadmaps. Hands-on with architecture and platform strategy, including adopting MongoDB Atlas to centralize transactional data and building shared core services (security/permissions, auditing, compliance) to increase product velocity across distributed teams.”

“Software engineer with experience across early-stage startups and production full-stack systems, including migration work from a Go monolith to a Node.js backend and a clinical research application deployed on Kubernetes in AWS. Has worked across Go, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, SQL databases, and B2B SaaS data-streaming products.”

Kusumita Dasgupta

Screened

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in data platforms, cloud systems, and LLM products

United States22y exp

“Engineering leader/player-coach with recent hands-on work delivering an agentic AI MVP on Amazon Bedrock (conversational UI + supervisor agent routing between internal knowledge and external sources). Previously drove large-scale data platform cost optimization at Twitter, saving ~$3M–$5M annually, and has owned production incidents end-to-end with a focus on analytics/monitoring improvements and team coaching.”

Sanket Patel

Screened

Director-level Front-End Engineering Leader specializing in scalable web and mobile apps

Palo Alto, CA17y exp

“Amazon engineer/leader who drove a major modernization of the AWS Database Migration Service Console, migrating a monolithic UI to a micro-frontend architecture while improving performance, reliability, and engineering standards. Operates as a player-coach (80/20 hands-on/management), with demonstrated incident ownership and process improvements across Amazon and Walmart Labs.”

“Former tech professional and repeat founder who previously built Promote.co, pitched a marketplace-focused ad platform to Expa Ventures, and raised capital to build the product. Has spent the last two years independently developing and using stock market strategies, and is now looking to return to tech to solve meaningful, difficult problems.”

“Senior engineering leader with a rare blend of deep platform/infrastructure expertise and large-scale people leadership, spanning hands-on cloud-native architecture through management of globally distributed organizations of up to roughly 180 engineers. Particularly strong in Kubernetes platform modernization, reliability engineering, and scaling high-throughput SaaS systems while aligning platform investments to customer and business outcomes.”

Xun He

Screened

Staff Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and security engineering

25y exp

“Senior backend/infrastructure engineer with experience at Microsoft, DocuSign, Pinterest, and Harness, focused on security and developer productivity systems. Stands out for building Pinterest's first vulnerability management platform from scratch for a 100,000-EC2 production environment and driving major performance gains, while also delivering CI/Docker infrastructure and Python test intelligence features shaped by customer demand.”

Pavithra Kollu

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and search systems

San Francisco, CA5y exp

“Backend/ML infrastructure engineer with experience at Perplexity and Meta building production evaluation, monitoring, and retrieval systems for AI search, autonomous agents, and LLM-powered workflows. Particularly strong in turning messy manual quality-review processes into reusable Python/FastAPI automation with measurable impact, including major gains in search relevance, latency, and grounded answer quality.”

“AI/LLM engineer with production experience at NVIDIA and Microsoft, including building a RAG-based enterprise knowledge assistant that improved accuracy by 42% and scaled to thousands of queries. Deep in inference optimization (TensorRT-LLM, Triton, quantization, speculative decoding) and MLOps/observability (Prometheus/Grafana, MLflow, LangSmith), plus orchestration with Kubeflow/Airflow across multi-cloud.”

“Engineering/product leader with repeated experience defining roadmaps and delivering platform migrations across SaaS and enterprise contexts. Scaled an education system from two districts to 2M+ students statewide, and led an Elasticsearch-based architecture for an internal Disney product serving ~100K employees. Known for rigorous execution (RAID/OKRs/sprints), strong stakeholder communication (weekly AI summaries), and empowering teams via end-to-end ownership and customer-connected development.”

“Game UI engineer with shipped experience on Paladins (Unreal Engine 3/C++), including an in-game store with automated grid-based recommendation layout and an inventory UI built for PC/PlayStation/Xbox/Switch. Emphasizes production readiness through clean separation of UI/data, strong documentation for engineering and content workflows, and memory-conscious UI patterns (pooled entries/paged navigation) for constrained platforms like Switch.”