Vetted Bash Professionals

“University Rover Competition autonomous-systems lead who architects and debugs a full ROS 2 autonomy stack (Nav2, vSLAM, EKF fusion) and backs it with strong engineering hygiene (Docker + GitHub Actions CI running headless Gazebo and colcon tests). Also has industry-facing ROS 2 hardware integration experience, building a ros2_control plugin for a Unitree G1 arm using CycloneDDS and optimizing real-time behavior via QoS tuning.”

Lane Flores

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Senior Backend Software Engineer specializing in payments and integrations

Atlanta, GA10y exp

“Engineer with a strong mix of telephony, backend API, database reporting, and full-stack web experience across B2B SaaS and healthcare payments. Particularly notable for reverse-engineering loosely documented FreeSWITCH/Event Socket Layer behavior to build an emergency response conferencing system, and for handling messy production data and evolving customer requirements with care.”

“Senior consultant in professional/managed services specializing in AIX on IBM Power Systems (Power9/10/11), handling multi-client work spanning LPAR builds, hardware refreshes (e.g., P8 to P10), storage/SAN migrations, and cloud migrations. Demonstrates strong operational depth across VIOS/HMC/vHMC, NIM + SUMA patching workflows, and PowerHA clustering, with a track record of scripting/automation (Jenkins + shell) to proactively monitor and streamline migrations.”

“DevOps/GCP-focused engineer with experience helping move complex/LLM-style prototypes toward production by clarifying requirements, hardening architecture, and driving OS-level test remediation to full pass rates. Debugs LLM/agentic workflow issues like distributed systems using GCP observability (Cloud Logging/Monitoring, GKE metrics) and implements alerting policies for proactive communication. Has delivered internal DevOps training from basics through end-to-end GCP infrastructure and deployment, improving engagement with real-world examples and analogies.”

“Backend engineer with experience in fraud reporting and billing systems, building Java/Spring Boot services behind a React frontend and improving performance 40%+ with caching and SQL optimization while maintaining 99.9% uptime. Has hands-on experience migrating a monolith to microservices with incremental rollout, clear data ownership boundaries, and production-grade API reliability/security practices (JWT/OAuth, RBAC, row-level scoping).”

“Backend engineer who built and evolved the real-time networking/messaging backend for a cross-platform professional networking app (Make Connexions), optimizing for low-latency delivery, privacy, and strong consistency. Experienced scaling Python/FastAPI APIs with async + Redis, and leading safe refactors via versioned endpoints, feature flags, and backward-compatible migrations; strong production auth/RLS expertise including refresh-token rotation edge cases.”

“Backend-focused Python engineer who has owned production FastAPI services deployed on Kubernetes, including CI/CD (GitLab CI to ECR) and GitOps delivery via ArgoCD/Helm. Has hands-on experience with complex reliability and infrastructure work—solving data inconsistency with validation/partial-data paths, fixing K8s liveness issues via lazy loading, and supporting a phased cloud-to-on-prem migration with dual-writes and monitoring. Also built Kafka-based real-time ingestion consumers handling bursty, high-throughput traffic with async processing and topic/retention tuning.”

“Frontend engineer with co-op experience at Nokia and prior work at Nimble, delivering React/TypeScript single-page onboarding flows and internal web apps. Builds from Figma to production React, emphasizes modular architecture and consistent UI via Material UI, and applies Jest-based unit/integration testing plus lazy loading to improve reliability and performance in both new and existing codebases.”

“ML engineer/data scientist who built and deployed a real-time fraud detection platform at Citi on AWS SageMaker, processing 3M+ daily transactions and improving fraud response by 28%. Combines unsupervised anomaly detection (autoencoders) with ensemble models (XGBoost/Random Forest) plus Airflow/Step Functions orchestration, drift monitoring, and explainability (SHAP) to keep models reliable and compliant in production.”

“Backend/ML platform engineer who owns end-to-end delivery of ML-serving APIs (FastAPI + TensorFlow) and runs them reliably on Kubernetes using ArgoCD GitOps. Has hands-on experience solving production-only issues (probe tuning for model warm-up, resource profiling) and building scalable Kafka streaming pipelines, plus supporting phased on-prem to AWS migrations with dependency discovery and recreation of hidden jobs/workflows.”

“Graduate project contributor/maintainer in the open-source JavaScript ecosystem who built “Intersect,” a blockchain-based certification verification platform. Developed a front-end component library integrating QR generation/scanning and Ethereum smart contract interactions, and improved real-world QR scan reliability across devices via custom image preprocessing and performance profiling-driven React optimizations.”

“ML engineer/data scientist who deployed a production credit risk + insurance claims triage platform at Hartford Financial, combining XGBoost default prediction with BERT-based document classification. Demonstrated strong MLOps by cutting inference latency to sub-500ms and building drift monitoring plus automated retraining/deployment pipelines (MLflow, CloudWatch, GitHub Actions, SageMaker) with human-in-the-loop review and SHAP-based explainability for underwriting adoption.”