Vetted Batch Processing Professionals

“Data engineering-focused candidate (internship/project experience) who built end-to-end pipelines processing a few million transactional records/day for fraud detection and reporting, using Airflow, Python/SQL, and PySpark with strong emphasis on data quality gates, idempotency, and monitoring. Also implemented an external web/API data collection system with anti-bot tactics and schema-change quarantine, and shipped a versioned Flask API to serve curated warehouse data.”

Sai Charan Kolla

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and MLOps on AWS

TX, USA5y exp

“LLM engineer who built a production document intelligence/RAG pipeline to extract structured data from thousands of unstructured PDFs, cutting manual review time by 60%. Experienced with LangChain and Airflow orchestration plus rigorous evaluation (labeled datasets, prompt testing, HITL review, monitoring) to improve accuracy and reduce hallucinations while partnering closely with non-technical operations stakeholders.”

John Hoffman

Screened

Senior Data Engineer specializing in Databricks, Spark, and AWS for government healthcare data systems

Windsor Mill, MD12y exp

“Python/AWS engineer focused on batch-processing and data workflows, including building reusable S3/boto3 utilities with reliability features and IAM-based auth. Has led low-risk legacy modernizations using parity testing plus a month of parallel production runs, and has owned production issues end-to-end (including fixing a client-side Excel macro) while contributing to significant AWS cost reductions (~$10k/month).”

“Backend/data engineer with strong AWS production experience across containers (ECS) and serverless (API Gateway/Lambda/SQS), plus Glue-based ETL to Parquet for Athena/Redshift. Demonstrates hands-on reliability and security depth (Cognito OAuth2/JWT with JWKS rotation, idempotency/DLQs, monitoring) and measurable performance wins (Redis caching + query tuning), along with legacy-to-services modernization using parallel-run parity and feature-flagged cutovers.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience scaling a Python/Flask incident-logging platform processing thousands of daily logs. Strong in performance tuning (PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy query optimization, partitioning, summary tables) and reliability patterns (Redis caching, Celery background workers, Docker + Jenkins CI/CD), with some multi-tenant data isolation experience via separate DBs/schemas.”

“Founder/builder of an EdTech startup (robograde.io) who personally conducted on-site classroom discovery with teachers and rapidly iterated the product based on real-world feedback. Implemented a Canvas LMS integration and refined it through weeks of in-person testing, and handled a live production grading failure by quickly debugging and deploying a fix, then adding fault-tolerant/backup API design.”

“Software engineer with experience at Molina Healthcare and Target, owning production features end-to-end across backend, data pipelines, and UI. Built an event-driven claims validation system (Python/Java/Spring Boot/Kafka) with strong observability, and shipped embeddings-based semantic product search with evaluation loops (CTR/top-k + human review) and guardrails like keyword-search fallback.”

Ruthvik Bacha

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in financial data pipelines and reliability

North Carolina, USA7y exp

“Systems/robotics-oriented software engineer focused on real-time orchestration and reliability: built a central control layer coordinating multiple concurrent agents with safe state machines, failure isolation, and recovery. Has hands-on ROS/ROS 2 integration experience in simulation (DDS/QoS, lifecycle, nodes in Python/C++) and emphasizes observability (structured JSON logs, correlation IDs) and low-latency control-loop performance under load.”

Jen-Hung Chang

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and distributed systems

Hsinchu, Taiwan4y exp

“Backend/platform engineer who built an AI RAG system on FastAPI/Postgres/AWS with 10+ microservices, vector search optimization (ANN + two-stage re-ranking), and GitOps-driven CI/CD that cut deploy time from hours to minutes. Also deployed Java identity services on Kubernetes at TSMC for 200K+ users using ArgoCD/Azure Pipelines, and built a reliable real-time IoT pipeline (MQTT/Node/MongoDB) with strong consistency controls.”

“Data platform engineer focused on large-scale, real-time fraud systems, with hands-on ownership of streaming architectures using Kafka, Spark, Snowflake, and Databricks. Stands out for combining performance tuning and platform automation with LLM/RAG-based enrichment, delivering measurable gains in latency, fraud accuracy, false positives, and analyst decision speed.”

“Built and stabilized production data pipelines in clinical genomics, including integrating a qPCR step into Baylor Genetics' workflow with a focus on reliability, turnaround time, and reducing manual intervention. Also has hands-on LLM production experience, creating a Python/OpenAI-based translation evaluation pipeline that reduced manual review time by 70% and improved scoring consistency.”

“Backend engineer with end-to-end ownership experience on a real-time AI-driven payment authorization/orchestration platform at PayPal. They describe strong fintech systems depth across Java/Spring/Kafka microservices, database and latency optimization, and reliability engineering, with concrete impact including 35% fewer processing failures, latency reduced from 420ms to 140ms, 1,200+ weekly manual reviews eliminated, and 40% faster incident response.”

“Backend/data platform engineer who recently owned an end-to-end large-scale financial data platform delivering real-time decision support for finance and operations. Has hands-on experience modernizing legacy batch pipelines into AWS cloud-native ELT with parallel-run cutovers, strong data quality controls (dbt-style tests, reconciliation), and measurable improvements in runtime, cost, and SLA compliance. Also builds scalable, secure FastAPI microservices using Docker, ALB-based horizontal scaling, Redis caching, and managed auth with Cognito/Supabase plus Postgres RLS.”

“Interned at Zonda where he built an AI-driven semantic search solution over ~280M housing/builder records. Iterated from local LLMs via llama.cpp quantization to a vector-embedding retrieval system, then boosted semantic accuracy with a custom spaCy NER layer and re-ranking, optimizing for latency through precomputation. Collaborated with economics-focused stakeholders to reduce manual document/paperwork time by enabling natural-language search over internal data.”

“Full-stack engineer with primary depth in .NET Core and Python who has built and deployed end-to-end AWS applications (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CloudFront) and supported them in production. Experienced in scaling large, data-driven workloads using queues/background workers, batching, and database tuning, with strong focus on API contracts, observability, and resilience patterns; also has hands-on React/TypeScript and some Spring Boot exposure.”

“Data engineer/platform builder with experience across PwC and Liberty Mutual delivering high-volume, production-grade pipelines and real-time data services. Has owned end-to-end streaming + batch architectures on AWS and Azure, including web scraping systems, with quantified reliability gains (99.9% availability, 90%+ error reduction, 30% latency reduction) and strong observability/CI-CD practices.”

“Unreal Engine UI engineer focused on scalable, production-ready UI architecture (C++/Slate/UMG/CommonUI) with strong designer enablement via decoupled, interface-driven patterns and MVVM. Demonstrated measurable performance wins: replaced 200+ per-frame Blueprint bindings to cut UI prepass/paint from 4.2ms to 0.5ms and reduced VRAM by ~120MB using texture streaming proxies.”

“Infrastructure/operations engineer with enterprise-scale observability ownership across Linux plus exposure to Windows/AIX and AWS SaaS. Has led DR exercises and real incidents involving cross–data center traffic failover, with hands-on firewall policy management and automation (Chef/Ansible) for agent deployment and patching; experience includes Bank of America and Discover Financial Services.”

Harshavardhan Reddy

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Data Scientist specializing in NLP, computer vision, and risk analytics

Albany, NY5y exp

“ML/AI engineer with Capital One experience building production-grade customer segmentation and fraud detection systems combining NLP (transformers) and anomaly detection. Strong MLOps and orchestration background (PySpark ETL, MLflow, Airflow, Docker/Kubernetes, Azure ML) with real-time monitoring/alerting and performance optimizations like quantization and caching, plus proven ability to deliver business-facing insights through Power BI/Tableau for marketing stakeholders.”

Sankalp Tiwari

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in backend microservices and FinTech data pipelines

New York, NY4y exp

“Backend engineer at Goldman Sachs who built LLM-powered reconciliation/reporting services and high-throughput Kafka pipelines (8M+ events/day). Strong in production-grade Python/FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes with GitOps-style CI/CD, plus experience migrating legacy reporting/settlement services onto an internal Kubernetes platform using shadow deployments and gradual cutovers.”

“Built a production Python microservice around Grafana Loki focused on reliability, with checkpointing, idempotency, replay tooling, tracing, and alerting to prevent data loss and silent lag. Also has hands-on experience hardening brittle Playwright automations against dynamic UIs, auth expiry, rate limits, MFA, and bot-detection constraints, plus turning tribal-knowledge SOPs into explicit state-machine-driven workflows.”

“Data-engineering-oriented candidate with hands-on experience building an agentic AI product and operational automation workflows. They described automating inventory-to-ERP discrepancy reconciliation with anomaly detection and daily reporting, and also have practical scraping/automation experience dealing with Cloudflare-protected sites using Selenium and Puppeteer.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on AWS-based Python services and data pipelines: built a Django/DRF user management/auth platform deployed with serverless AWS (Lambda/API Gateway) and event-driven workflows (Step Functions/EventBridge), with CloudFormation + Jenkins for automated delivery and Secrets Manager/Parameter Store for secure config. Also delivered AWS Glue ETL from S3 to RDS with schema evolution controls and incident-driven improvements, and has demonstrated measurable SQL tuning impact (minutes-to-seconds).”