Vetted CI/CD Professionals

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with production experience in both healthcare (claims enrichment/interoperability at Abacus) and finance (Goldman Sachs pricing/risk APIs + React dashboards). Built an event-driven AI grading platform using Postgres Debezium CDC + Kafka + FastAPI on AWS that cut manual grading ~70% and served 1000+ students, with strong emphasis on reliability, testing, and performance tuning.”

“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.”

“Built Nexthire-AI, shipping an end-to-end LLM-powered resume–job description matching product (React + Node.js) using embeddings and retrieval to generate match scores and skill-gap recommendations. Improved post-launch engagement by making feedback cleaner and more actionable, and added production guardrails (validation, timeouts, fallbacks) to handle messy resume formats and AI API instability.”

“QA automation engineer who owned and transformed a JavaScript/WebdriverIO UI automation suite into a reliable CI release gate by refactoring to POM, adding API validations, cross-browser coverage, and aggressively reducing flakiness. Demonstrated strong security mindset by uncovering a critical RBAC gap where restricted users could trigger billing actions via direct API calls, and helped reshape product requirements early through detailed acceptance-criteria questions (e.g., CSV upload partial failures).”

“QA automation engineer who owned end-to-end test automation for a web-based enterprise application, building and scaling suites in Selenium/Java/TestNG and Cypress/JavaScript. Strong in CI/CD integration with PR gating and actionable reporting, and has prevented high-severity auth/session regressions by catching role-based login/token issues early via automated CI runs.”

“Software engineer with payments-domain experience (Visa) building real-time transaction monitoring and analytics systems. Strong end-to-end ownership across Spring Boot/Kafka microservices, PostgreSQL modeling, and AWS/Kubernetes operations, plus React+TypeScript dashboards—focused on low-latency processing, secure APIs, and zero-downtime production releases.”

“Full-stack engineer (~2.6 years) with strong Java/Spring Boot backend experience and React/Angular frontend exposure, who has worked on enterprise-scale systems at Dell processing ~1.8M daily transactions/events. Built secure, partner/internal-facing APIs (OAuth2/JWT) across 14 integrations and implemented Kafka-based order/payment workflows with idempotency and sub-700ms processing targets, plus CI/CD and Selenium-based release validation.”

“Software engineer with experience across TCS, Rakuten, and USC who has owned production integrations and data pipelines end-to-end. Notably improved a trading platform payment flow by replacing fragile polling with a webhook-driven status system with robust fallbacks, and has shipped LLM-assisted design-to-webpage automation plus evaluation-driven prompt iteration (NYT Connections).”

“Cross-functional product/engineering leader with startup and enterprise experience (Whimstay, Wells Fargo, Leap AI Technologies). Has owned end-to-end delivery including UI and payment architecture—built a multi-customer reservation payment flow using pre-auth plus event/timer-driven reminders and handled tricky edge cases like date changeover. Also introduced lightweight process (Jira, sprints, team/module structuring) to increase delivery speed in an early-stage AI document-matching startup.”

“Internship at ActiveVM where they tackled large-scale Spring Boot 2→3/library migrations across hundreds of downstream products by combining OpenRewrite (AST-based recipes) with an LLM/RAG-based classifier that routed risky files to human experts. Reported ~70% reduction in manual effort and 90%+ accuracy after testing across multiple branches and cutovers; also built a CTR-driven book recommendation capstone showcased at the Google office in Cambridge.”

“Full-stack engineer who built and supported production features in a productivity/task-tracking app using Next.js App Router + TypeScript (server components for initial render, client components for interactivity, API route handlers for mutations). Also designed and optimized Postgres data models/queries and implemented resilient, event-driven payment processing with idempotency, retries, audit logs, and strong testing/observability practices.”

“Full-stack engineer with fintech trading-platform experience who shipped and operated a real-time portfolio P&L/performance feature end-to-end (React + Node/WebSockets + MongoDB) on AWS, including significant performance tuning under peak trading load. Also built a Spark-based trading analytics pipeline with idempotency and reconciliation for auditability, and has a personal React/TS + Node/Express project (Artsy) with JWT auth and schema-evolution practices.”

“Built and owned a hackathon project (Gritto) with a Python/FastAPI backend that routes user text through a sequence of Gemini agents to produce structured JSON outputs. Has hands-on production deployment experience using Docker/Docker Compose, GitHub Actions CI/CD, AWS App Runner, MongoDB, and secrets management (Doppler + migration to AWS Secrets Manager), plus implemented a chat-like experience via multiple HTTP requests when SSE wasn’t viable.”

“Backend/platform engineer who has built and scaled production Java/Spring Boot + Kafka services on AWS/Kubernetes (1M+ msgs/day) and led reliability/performance fixes that restored SLAs (25–30% latency improvement; 99.9% uptime). Also shipped an AI customer-support chatbot end-to-end using retrieval + guardrails and rigorous evaluation/observability, improving resolution time 40% and satisfaction 25%, with a strong plan/execute/verify approach to agentic workflow reliability.”

“Full-stack engineer who shipped an end-to-end speech capability for an LLM chatbot UI, integrating OpenAI APIs and publishing via Google Apigee with client documentation. Has experience operating deployments with Jenkins/Kubernetes/Docker and monitoring with Datadog, and has worked in an innovation-center environment building rapid prototypes under ambiguity with tight stakeholder feedback loops.”

“Backend/AI engineer who has built and shipped two products: Know Founder (Python/SQL/AWS) scaling to 2,000+ users in the first month, and Unifr (unifr.online), an AI search visibility engine that queries multiple LLMs and turns responses into structured brand insights. Strong in production reliability/performance (Redis caching, indexing, precomputation) and in designing agentic workflows with guardrails, validation, retries, and human escalation.”

“Enterprise platform engineering leader who identified platform engineering as a major opportunity at Kyndryl and built an entire internal practice around it by codifying the offering and evangelizing it across leadership. Now exploring founding an agentic AI developer platform aimed at reducing variance and improving consistency in building/deploying cloud-native applications; has not raised capital yet.”

“Backend-focused engineer at Wells Fargo owning production payments features end-to-end, including Spring Boot REST services, CI/CD + containerized AWS deployments, and CloudWatch-based observability. Has hands-on experience stabilizing high-traffic transaction workflows and building reliable ingestion/integration flows using idempotency, retries/backoff, and reconciliation.”

“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.”

“Master’s CS candidate with backend internship experience modernizing live operational workflows at NatWest/NetWess, focusing on reliability improvements, safer CI/CD deployments, and incremental refactors using feature flags and rollback paths. Built FastAPI-based APIs with strong security patterns (JWT + 2FA/TOTP, centralized authorization, RLS) and demonstrated attention to edge cases like idempotency and data consistency in a Netflix-clone project.”

“Verizon engineer who productionized an LLM-based personalization capability for a customer-facing digital platform, owning the path from success metrics through scalable APIs, A/B validation, and post-launch monitoring (latency/accuracy/drift). Experienced in diagnosing and fixing real-time LLM/RAG workflow issues under peak load, and in enabling adoption via tailored technical demos/workshops and sales support materials.”

“Insurtech R&D leader turned CTO with 25+ years across telecom, DoD, automotive, and commercial insurance. Built patented AI-driven insurance document ingestion (>95% accuracy with 1–3 samples) and led Azure-based backend/service development while managing up to 15 engineers at a commercial P&C MGA that reached a ~$60M book of business (~30 loss ratio) before run-off due to paper issues. Known for hands-on discovery (including field inspections) and rapid MVP delivery, including a risk-inspection iPad app that auto-generated draft reports.”