Vetted Bash Professionals

“AI/ML engineer at Cigna Healthcare building a production, HIPAA-compliant LLM-powered clinical insights platform that summarizes unstructured medical notes using a fine-tuned transformer + RAG on AWS. Demonstrates strong end-to-end MLOps and cloud optimization (distillation, Spot/Lambda/Auto Scaling) with quantified outcomes (~28% accuracy lift, ~40% less manual review, ~25% lower ops cost) and strong clinician-facing explainability via SHAP and dashboards.”

“Founder of an LLC operating as a consulting firm providing fractional CTO services to startups, giving them parallel exposure to multiple early-stage companies. Has direct experience with MVP development, building org structures from scratch, and supporting early fundraising, and is exploring a pivot from consulting into a scalable product business while staying engaged with the VC/accelerator ecosystem.”

“Azure cloud platform engineer with strong enterprise Linux operations background who designs multi-region HA/DR on Azure (and AWS) using Azure Site Recovery, Traffic Manager, AKS autoscaling, and geo-replicated Azure SQL. Built secure Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for .NET/Python microservices to AKS/VMs and provisions full environments via Terraform modules with remote state, drift checks, and staged rollouts; has not directly owned IBM Power/AIX at scale.”

“Currently at Huntington Bank, built a production-grade RAG system that helps business/operations teams get grounded answers from large volumes of internal enterprise documents. Owns ingestion and FastAPI backend, tuned hybrid BM25+vector retrieval and chunking for relevance, and evaluates reliability with metrics and observability (LangSmith, CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana) while partnering closely with non-technical stakeholders.”

“Robotics software engineer with 2+ years across ROS1/ROS2 projects spanning humanoid behavior engines and agricultural robots. Built an LLM-driven, ROS2-lifecycle-based decision system plus micro-ROS firmware on Teensy for modular sensors/motors, adding health monitoring that improved reliability 10x. Strong simulation/testing and deployment discipline (Gazebo, 95% coverage, Docker + AWS Greengrass/ECR, CI/CD) and demonstrated localization expertise with EKF sensor fusion achieving <0.5% error.”

“Robotics engineer with Honeywell and Tata Motors experience deploying ROS/ROS2 autonomous mobile robot fleets into live factory environments, integrating sensors, safety PLCs, and on-prem services. Known for solving end-to-end latency and stability issues (including network spikes under load) using gRPC, Docker, and improved diagnostics—cutting diagnosis time from hours to minutes and achieving sub-150 ms control response.”

“Built and deployed a fine-tuned Qwen 2.5 14B model into production at Dextr.ai as the backbone for hotel-operations agentic workflows, running on AWS EKS with Triton and TensorRT-LLM. Demonstrates strong cost-aware LLM engineering (QLoRA, FP8/BF16 on H100) plus rigorous benchmarking/observability (Prometheus, LangSmith) with reported sub-30ms TTNT. Previously handled long-running ETL orchestration with Airflow at GE Healthcare and Lowe's.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience building a SaaS analytics platform: FastAPI-based microservices with Redis caching and reliability patterns (RBAC, retries/backoff, centralized error handling). Also delivered AWS data pipelines (Glue/PySpark to Redshift) and owned real production incidents using CloudWatch/SNS, plus hands-on PostgreSQL query tuning on multi-million-row reporting workloads.”

“Full-stack engineer (5+ years with Java/Spring Boot and React) who has built and deployed AWS-based microservices platforms using Kafka for real-time rewards/promotions and large-scale telemetry analytics. Demonstrates hands-on scalability expertise (partitioning, consumer groups, durability/acks, idempotency) and production-minded delivery practices (CI/CD, Docker, testing, Swagger, monitoring).”

“Support engineer with IBM DFSMS OAM experience who restored a production TS7770 environment during a TS7760→TS7700 migration by using logs, SLIP traps, and dump analysis to pinpoint an SMS configuration (SCDS) issue, then partnering with the customer to redo the migration successfully. Also built a personal agentic news selector system and emphasizes documentation improvements and customer education to prevent recurring incidents.”

“AI engineer who deployed a production LLM-powered safety system for an education platform, combining rule-based checks, multi-LLM verification, and selective context (prompt+image vs image-only) to prevent explicit prompts/images from getting through. Strong focus on reliability via benchmarking, trace-based failure analysis, and continuous improvement driven by stakeholder feedback and manual review.”

“Full-stack engineer with customer-facing delivery experience who built and deployed a multi-platform social media automation product (Next.js/Node/MongoDB) and optimized it using BullMQ/Redis background jobs, retries, and rate limiting for reliable posting at scale. Also delivered an AI-powered false-positive analysis service in a cybersecurity context, resolving production pipeline stalls via log-driven debugging, parallelization, caching, and LLM guardrails.”

“AI/ML engineer with healthcare domain depth who led a HIPAA-compliant, production LLM system at McKesson to automate clinical document understanding—extracting entities, summarizing provider notes, and supporting authorization decisions. Hands-on across Spark/Python ETL, Hugging Face + LoRA/QLoRA fine-tuning, RAG, and cloud-native MLOps (Airflow/Kubernetes/Step Functions, MLflow, blue-green on EKS/GKE), with explicit work on PHI handling and hallucination reduction.”

“Built and deployed a GPT-based RAG enterprise search system for healthcare clinicians, emphasizing low-latency performance and reduced hallucinations while maintaining end-to-end HIPAA compliance. Demonstrates deep applied experience with PHI-safe data governance (detection/redaction/de-identification), secure Azure ML deployment patterns, and orchestration of production LLM workflows using LangChain and Airflow.”

“Enterprise IT operations and identity governance professional (Atlassian) who partners closely with security teams to reduce risk through RBAC/Conditional Access automation, endpoint compliance, and vulnerability remediation workflows. Demonstrated ability to balance strict security controls with engineering productivity via phased rollouts, pilots, and KPI-driven stakeholder alignment, plus hands-on troubleshooting of complex Azure AD authentication failures and secure AWS integration design.”

“Infrastructure/DevOps engineer (Vidmob) focused on AWS + containers, owning GitLab CI/CD and Terraform-managed environments. Led a high-impact CI incident by correlating runner queue time, Docker pull latency, and NAT egress; implemented ECR pull-through caching and VPC endpoints to restore performance and then standardized the fix in Terraform for future scale-ups.”

“GenAI/ML engineer who has shipped production agentic systems in highly regulated and high-throughput environments, including an AWS Bedrock-based fraud/compliance workflow at U.S. Bank with PII redaction and hallucination detection that cut investigation time by 50%+. Also built and evaluated RAG and recommendation systems at Target, using RAGAS-driven testing, hybrid retrieval with re-ranking, and SHAP explainability dashboards to align model behavior with merchandising business KPIs.”

“Backend-focused engineer with production experience building Spring Boot services for automated workflow and data-processing platforms, using queues plus retry and idempotency patterns. Also uses Python to automate data processing; emphasizes testing and peer review for maintainability.”

“Backend/platform engineer who has owned end-to-end production systems in financial/claims domains, including a transaction analytics microservice platform processing ~10M daily operations and cutting latency from ~150ms to <70ms. Also productionized an LLM-powered monitoring/alerting capability (Llama 3 + FastAPI) with prompt design, guardrails, and production evaluation, and led monolith-to-microservices modernization on AWS using feature flags and parallel runs.”

“Runs two lean real estate companies remotely by building local on-the-ground contact networks and leveraging free-tier technology to keep total annual business costs under $100. Brings a cost-elimination and MVP/validation-first mindset, preferring to join an established company unless a clearly viable business idea emerges.”

“Backend/distributed-systems engineer who built a Golang distributed key-value store on AWS using Multi-Paxos, WAL, and non-blocking gRPC replication (cutting write latency ~40%) and proactively addressed tricky failure modes like leader-election livelock. Also developed a Python/Kubernetes cost-optimization scaling engine deployed with Helm/Terraform, delivering ~$40K annual savings while sustaining 99.99% uptime, and drives contract-first API development (OpenAPI/Swagger) to speed frontend integration.”

“IBM Power/AIX engineer with hands-on ownership across compute and SAN, including resolving a high-severity ERP latency incident by tracing it to SAN slow-drain on Cisco switches and orchestrating a port redistribution fix. Experienced running production HA/DR with HACMP and LPAR mobility (quarterly failover tests plus annual SunGard DR simulations) and building Bash-based monitoring/alerting automation to prevent outages.”

“FDE at Bland.ai and founder of Fi (incident-response agent) who routinely takes LLM/agentic concepts from prototype to production. Has hands-on experience reverse-engineering undocumented systems to deliver integrations, building LLM testbeds for voice-agent reliability, and rapidly shipping RAG/semantic search solutions (e.g., Confluence runbooks) after deep customer discovery with DevOps/SRE teams.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on ROS 2 autonomy experience on an obstacle-avoiding quadrotor (ROS 2 + Gazebo + PX4 + Nav2/SLAM), including custom work to extend Nav2 into a 3D aerial domain and output PX4 trajectory setpoints. Also built cost-saving ML infrastructure (PostgreSQL + AWS data-cleaning pipeline) and improved object detection accuracy by 40% using CUDA/PyTorch, with strong containerization and CI/CD practices (Docker + Kubernetes, aggressive version pinning) to prevent environment drift.”