Vetted AWS Professionals

“Backend engineer who built a Node.js + SQL service integrating with the Google Ads API to periodically upload online and offline conversions via Azure Logic Apps, persisting upload records for ROI reporting. Implemented PII hashing, token validation, redundancy, and detailed failure/status logging for reliability and debuggability. Currently scoping an LLM/agent workflow (likely LangChain) to let marketing bulk-update e-commerce product data using SEO keywords without developer involvement.”

“Full-stack engineer with payments/settlement domain experience who modernized a payment tracking workflow from REST to GraphQL and delivered a production payment status dashboard using Next.js App Router + TypeScript. Strong in performance and reliability work (Postgres indexing/Explain Analyze, Redis caching, Datadog observability) and in durable event-driven processing with Kafka (DLQs, idempotency, reconciliation, event replay).”

“GenAI/LLM engineer who built and productionized a 0-1 application (EMULaiTOR at Lumanity) combining qualitative + quantitative data using Postgres/pgvector RAG and prompt engineering, deployed with Azure backend and AWS-hosted frontend. Demonstrates strong production instincts (latency reduction via region alignment, autoscaling/health checks) and hands-on agent/tool-call debugging, plus experience enabling sales and winning a large pharma client.”

“Unreal Engine gameplay programmer with shipped experience on Five Nights at Freddy’s (including Ruin), spanning end-to-end systems like save/load + checkpoints, math-heavy spline-based AI movement, and player movement tuning. Also implemented a networked PvP dash using Unreal’s prediction pipeline (FSavedMove_Character) with server-authoritative validation, and has demonstrated strong debugging under stress-test conditions.”

“Founder/CTO-type candidate with deep exposure to the VC/accelerator ecosystem (Open Angel Forum; HAX/SOSV) and a track record of raising capital, including a $1M seed round in 2017. Built ventures spanning IoT wearable/HUD SaaS for industrial hygiene monitoring and institutional Bitcoin mining/distributed compute infrastructure, and ran a venture from 2017–2025.”

“Forward Deployment Engineer focused on application security and production integrations, with hands-on experience hardening API-driven ticketing systems (JWT/RBAC/rate limiting/log redaction) and implementing CI/CD security controls (Bandit SAST, SCA, container hardening). Strong in diagnosing peak-load production issues using logs/metrics/infra signals and driving durable fixes like adaptive throttling and backoff, while aligning engineering, business, and leadership stakeholders on risk and SLA impact.”

“Internship experience at Paycom owning an end-to-end personalized course recommendation feature for an LMS, spanning SQL-based data pipelines, ML integration, and FastAPI REST services for real-time recommendations. Focused on production tradeoffs (latency vs. accuracy), scaling/SQL optimization, and post-launch iteration driven by engagement metrics.”

“Full-stack engineer with healthcare and insurance domain experience who has owned production systems end-to-end (React/Next.js, FastAPI/Node, Postgres, AWS SNS/SQS, Docker, CI/CD) and delivered measurable impact (30% faster data processing). Also productionized an LLM-powered clinical data assistant using RAG + a vector database with guardrails and evaluation loops, cutting analyst lookup time by ~30–40%, and has experience modernizing monoliths to microservices with feature-flagged, low-regression rollouts.”

“Startup-focused tech leader with 20+ years of experience who has led engineering teams across multiple startups and pitched inside VC firms. Currently building infrastructure for managing physical wealth—creating a canonical data layer that integrates with wealth management systems to account for precious metals and other tangible assets—and is prepared to raise capital to align with the right partners.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer who has owned production TypeScript systems in both fintech-style transaction/rewards flows and HIPAA-regulated healthcare platforms. Deep focus on correctness and reliability (idempotency, retries/DLQs, reconciliation, observability) plus strong infra automation (Docker/Terraform/CI-CD) and measurable performance wins (40% query improvement, 90% test coverage).”

“Full-stack engineer working at the intersection of product and infrastructure, building developer-facing interfaces for AI voice agents in XR/immersive environments plus telemetry-heavy analytics dashboards. Experienced in Postgres telemetry data modeling and performance tuning, and in designing durable multi-step LLM pipelines with idempotency, retries, and strong observability; has operated in fast-moving startup-like teams (Biocom, HandshakeAI).”

“Cloud-focused DevSecOps/infra engineer with strong AWS production ownership (EC2/EKS/ECS) and hands-on CI/CD (Jenkins->ECR->Helm on Kubernetes). Demonstrated end-to-end outage recovery (ALB 503s caused by Helm env var misconfig) with rapid rollback plus pipeline guardrails, and deep Terraform experience (modular IaC, remote state with S3/DynamoDB, drift detection) supporting federal cloud modernization efforts.”

“Built and shipped both a solo real-time multiplayer Spades game (TypeScript monorepo with shared client/server engine) and a production internal LLM-powered document Q&A tool for a SaaS company. Demonstrates strong RAG pipeline design (Pinecone + embeddings + reranking), rigorous eval/regression practices, and pragmatic data ingestion/observability work across Confluence, Notion, and messy PDFs/OCR—backed by clear metric improvements (P@1 61%→78%, escalations 40%→22%).”

“Backend engineer with experience modernizing high-traffic subscription and payment systems (TCS) by moving to event-driven Spring Boot microservices with Kafka, adding idempotency/state management to eliminate duplicate processing. Built and scaled FastAPI services for AI automation workflows (360DMMC) with versioned contracts, JWT security, and strong observability, and has led live refactors using feature flags, parallel runs, and data reconciliation.”

“Software engineer with limited robotics background but deep experience building end-to-end document ingestion and image understanding systems, including a CAD-specific pipeline using a custom model to extract components and bounding boxes for user-facing visualization and Q&A. Also brings strong infrastructure/DevOps skills (Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Terraform) with emphasis on reliability, cost optimization, and uptime.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on AWS-based, low-latency event processing for market data and social-signal sentiment systems. Has led a monolith-to-event-driven migration with feature-flagged incremental rollout, and emphasizes production-grade security (OAuth2/JWT, secrets management, Supabase RLS) and data integrity (deduplication/idempotency) under high-volume spike conditions.”

“Backend Python engineer who has built an LLM agentic tutoring/assignment helper with a custom pipeline for parsing visually complex textbooks (integrating AlibabaResearch VGT and implementing missing preprocessing from the paper), improving RAG grounding with ~90% cleaner extracted text. Also led major platform scaling work by refactoring monolithic image processing into Celery-based async microservices on AWS (GPU/CUDA + S3), and implemented Kafka streaming for payment webhooks with strict ordering, idempotency, and multi-zone fault tolerance.”

“Backend engineer who built a high-stakes, privacy-first platform at be Still Analytics for survivors of domestic violence, emphasizing anonymity, security, and reliability. Experienced with GenAI backends (LangChain + AWS Bedrock) including RAG to prevent hallucinations, plus cloud-native scaling (Docker/Kubernetes) and cost-saving migrations from legacy VMs to serverless (30% reduction).”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building Python/Django APIs on PostgreSQL and delivering AWS serverless + containerized architectures (API Gateway/Lambda, IaC, CI/CD, secrets/config). Has operated AWS Glue pipelines ingesting S3 log/3rd-party data with schema evolution monitoring, modernized legacy batch logic into API-based services via parallel-run parity testing, and improved Postgres query performance by several seconds; prefers fully remote work and targets $120–130k base.”

“Built and shipped production LLM systems at Founderbay, including a low-latency voice agent and a graph-based multi-agent research assistant. Strong focus on reliability in real workflows—hybrid SERP + full-site scraping RAG, grounding guardrails, validation checkpoints, and transcript-driven evaluation—plus performance tuning with async FastAPI, Redis caching, and containerization. Also partnered with a non-technical ops lead to automate post-call follow-ups via call summarization, field extraction, and tool-triggered actions.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered internal AI assistant using a RAG pipeline to help teams search internal PDFs/knowledge bases and generate grounded summaries/answers. Demonstrates strong end-to-end ownership (ingestion through APIs) plus production rigor (monitoring/logging/CI-CD, evaluation metrics) and practical optimizations for hallucination, latency, and answer quality (thresholding, fallbacks, caching, async, re-ranking, two-tier model routing).”

“Backend/full-stack engineer (Cognizant) who owned a customer-facing document validation platform for onboarding/compliance and emphasized fast, reliable delivery through CI/CD automation (Jenkins/AWS) and containerized releases (Docker/Kubernetes). Also built an internal support dashboard that replaced manual log checks with real-time error visibility, significantly reducing investigation time, and has hands-on experience scaling microservices with idempotency, retries/DLQs, and distributed logging.”

“Built and shipped a production real-time content moderation platform for Zoom/WebEx-style meetings, combining Whisper speech-to-text with fast NLP classifiers and REST APIs to flag hate speech, bias, and HIPAA-related content under strict latency constraints. Demonstrates strong MLOps/infra depth (Airflow, Kubernetes, Terraform/Helm, observability) and a pragmatic approach to reducing false positives via threshold tuning, context validation, and hard-negative data—while partnering closely with compliance and product stakeholders.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-driven document understanding pipeline using LangChain/LangGraph, focusing on reliability via step-by-step prompting, validation checks, and monitoring. Also partnered with non-technical marketing stakeholders at Heartland Community Network to deliver an XGBoost targeting model surfaced in Power BI, improving campaign conversion by 12%.”