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Vetted Bash Professionals
Pre-screened and vetted.
Staff-level Software Engineer specializing in LLM inference infrastructure and scalable model serving
Jacob Zimmerman
Director-level Engineering Platform leader specializing in cloud infrastructure, SRE, and SaaS compute
“Longtime early-stage startup operator (since 1998) now running a solo consulting practice focused on SaaS infrastructure and platform strategy. Former angel investor in a medical information SaaS company that went public, with a strong focus on making prototype/demo systems enterprise-ready through efficiency, reliability, and performance improvements, and a nuanced view of how AI/LLMs may change engineering team models.”
Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud platforms and healthcare AI
Staff DevOps Engineer specializing in SRE, Kubernetes, and hybrid cloud platforms
Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI platforms, payments, and consumer systems
Senior DevSecOps Engineer specializing in secure cloud CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code
Senior AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and production ML systems
Staff Software Engineer specializing in data platforms, distributed systems, and AI workflows
Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM training, RAG, and scalable inference
Senior AI Engineer specializing in NLP and large language models
Staff Machine Learning Scientist specializing in NLP, LLMs, and Generative AI
Staff AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, fraud detection, and MLOps
Senior Data Engineer specializing in cloud data platforms and real-time streaming
Senior Backend Software Engineer specializing in cloud platforms and event-driven systems
Senior Software Engineer specializing in DevOps and CI/CD infrastructure reliability
Upender Mula
Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems, real-time data pipelines, and FinTech
“Backend/platform engineer who has owned real-time reporting and streaming analytics systems end-to-end, combining FastAPI/Postgres APIs with Kafka consumers, Celery background jobs, and Redis caching. Strong DevOps/GitOps experience deploying Python/Node microservices to AWS EKS with Helm, ArgoCD/FluxCD, and CI pipelines, and has supported phased on-prem to AWS migrations using Terraform and traffic cutovers.”
Andrew Coven
Executive Software Engineering Leader specializing in AI/ML products and large-scale platforms
“Engineering leader who drove Lightroom Mobile’s roadmap at Adobe by enforcing reuse of Photoshop imaging tech to deliver RAW, non-destructive mobile editing with full Creative Cloud compatibility. In startup environments, has repeatedly scaled and professionalized engineering orgs (career ladders, evaluation systems, delivery process) and led high-stakes cloud/platform transformations—migrating off Heroku and consolidating fragmented AWS/GCP usage into a single GCP platform—improving reliability, deploy speed, and cutting cloud costs by 20%+.”
Kevin Wang
Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and distributed systems
“Amazon engineer focused on productionizing LLM-powered developer workflows, including code assistance, debugging automation, and internal AI tooling. Stands out for combining hands-on ML systems work with strong platform engineering, including an orchestration engine that reportedly saved about $10K/day and reduced a manual workflow from 12 hours to under a second.”
Sudheer Bommichetty
Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in NLP, MLOps, and Generative AI
“Built and deployed a production LLM conversational AI system at OpenAI supporting chat, summarization, and semantic search at 1M+ requests/day, driving major latency (40%) and accuracy (25%) improvements through Pinecone optimization and tighter RAG with re-ranking. Also has Amazon experience improving recommendation systems by translating ML metrics into business terms to boost CTR and conversions, with strong MLOps/orchestration depth (Airflow, MLflow, SageMaker, Kubeflow).”
Gabriel Aguiar
Entry-Level Software Engineer specializing in AWS cloud infrastructure and distributed systems
“Robotics software engineer with hands-on ROS 2 experience who helped build an autonomous 5-DOF robotic arm that plays Backgammon, owning perception (OpenCV) and game-logic while adding robustness features like lighting tolerance and auto-calibration. Also worked on a Raspberry Pi/LiDAR car project, improving mapping accuracy through data-logged calibration and contributing to multi-robot collision-avoidance coordination via a server-based pub/sub system.”
Pradeep Nadella
Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM optimization and real-time fraud/risk modeling
“ML engineer with 5 years at Stripe building and productionizing real-time fraud detection at massive scale (3M+ transactions/day; $5B+ annual payment volume). Delivered measurable impact (22% accuracy lift, 18% loss reduction, +3–5% authorization rates) and has strong MLOps/orchestration experience (Docker, Kubernetes, Airflow, MLflow, CI/CD, monitoring/rollback) plus a structured approach to LLM agent/RAG evaluation.”
Muneendra M
Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in event-driven backend and AI-enabled systems
“Full-stack engineer at Stripe who owned a webhook monitoring and retry platform end-to-end, spanning backend services, React dashboards, and production operations. Stands out for combining strong distributed-systems judgment with product polish, including a reported 31% improvement in webhook delivery reliability and UI improvements that reduced support burden.”
Muhammad Shoaib
Senior Site Reliability & DevOps Engineer specializing in multi-cloud Kubernetes platforms
“IBM Power/AIX infrastructure engineer who has owned large-scale Power9/AIX 7.x estates across primary/DR (VIOS/HMC/vHMC) and has deep hands-on experience with DLPAR, shared processor pool governance, and PowerHA recovery. Also brings modern DevOps/IaC capability—built Azure DevOps/GitHub CI/CD for Terraform + Kubernetes/Helm with strong security controls and resolved a production Terraform state-lock failure by redesigning backend locking and pipeline concurrency.”