Vetted CI/CD Professionals

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer from ADP’s Global View team who owned major backend components of an enterprise payroll dashboard, including a fault-tolerant multi-step payroll processing workflow and error visibility features. Strong in Java/Spring Boot + PostgreSQL schema design and Redis caching, with additional production experience in Python services (JWT, testing, SonarQube) and AWS deployments via Terraform/Jenkins with autoscaling.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer with finance domain experience (State Street) who built and shipped a Kafka-based real-time trade validation system handling 50k+ trades/sec and cut latency by 42%. Also delivered real-time React dashboards (Redux Toolkit/React Query/WebSockets) and operates AWS EKS microservices with GitOps/ArgoCD; has built a FastAPI + LangChain/GPT-4 intelligent document processing service with JWT/RBAC.”

“Full-stack engineer at an early-stage startup with hands-on production experience spanning Angular frontend features, backend safety checks for an image-generation workflow (OpenAI Safety), and AWS operations. Built CI/CD to ECS with GitHub Actions, implemented CloudWatch observability, and improved release reliability via Blue/Green deployments with automatic rollback.”

“QA/automation engineer with hands-on experience spanning web UI automation (Cypress/JavaScript) and hardware/firmware validation (BIOS/BMC, FPGA). Has delivered high-impact reliability and throughput improvements in server/HPC environments, including automation that enabled booting across ~250 servers and requirement clarification that unblocked firmware work for ~550 servers.”

“Software engineer with experience at Freddie Mac shipping a production workflow tracking and daily summary dashboard that replaced spreadsheet/email-based operational processes. Worked across frontend (React/JavaScript), backend (Java), Oracle relational data, and CI/CD, with emphasis on stakeholder collaboration and post-deploy testing/monitoring/performance tuning.”

“Led the creation of a software department at a hardware startup and designed/built a platform to manage fleets of hexacopter drones, including tackling the challenge of streaming high volumes of data from many IoT edge devices. Prefers greenfield work with high autonomy, combining hands-on architecture with structured planning, cost estimation, and risk-driven execution.”

“Infrastructure/operations engineer with hands-on production IBM Power/AIX (AIX 7.x, VIOS, HMC) and PowerHA/HACMP clustering experience, including DLPAR changes, failover testing, and incident recovery. Also delivers modern cloud DevOps work—GitHub Actions CI/CD for Docker-to-Kubernetes on AWS and Terraform-based provisioning of core AWS infrastructure (VPC/EKS/RDS/IAM) with controlled rollouts and drift checks.”

“Backend/AI engineer who has built production Spring Boot APIs on AWS (JWT auth, Redis/MySQL) and solved a real-world silent data integrity issue by implementing idempotency keys plus DB constraints/transactions. Also shipped an LLM-based document Q&A feature using a RAG pipeline with evaluation + human review, and designed multi-step agent workflows with verification, retries, and escalation guardrails.”

“DevOps/Cloud engineer with experience supporting large-scale enterprise infrastructure (AT&T: 50+ Power8/Power9 frames and 2,000+ AIX 7.1/7.2 LPARs) and strong hands-on delivery in AWS/Kubernetes. Built secure Jenkins-to-EKS pipelines with SonarQube/Trivy gates and resolved a widespread CVE-driven build outage by patching the Debian base layer. Also created reusable Terraform modules with remote state/locking and automated drift detection to provision full mirror environments in under an hour.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-powered support/knowledge pipeline using embeddings and retrieval (RAG) to deliver more grounded, higher-quality responses while reducing manual effort. Focused on real-world reliability and performance—adding structured validation/guardrails, optimizing vector search and context size for latency/scale, and monitoring failure patterns in production. Experienced with orchestration via LangChain for LLM workflows and Airflow for production data/ML pipelines, and iterates closely with operations stakeholders through demos and feedback.”

“Full-stack engineer with healthcare and finance experience who has owned end-to-end production systems across Azure and AWS. Built a real-time clinical dashboard at Centene (React + FastAPI + Azure Event Hubs) that cut data latency from ~12 minutes to under 1 minute and was associated with a 30% reduction in intervention delays. Also delivered MVPs in high-ambiguity environments at Accenture during monolith-to-microservices migration, improving uptime and maintainability with measurable results.”

“Game/tools-focused QA professional with experience at Playable Worlds, Disney, and Metaplace, emphasizing CI-driven quality (Jenkins PR gating, unit tests, Slack/JIRA visibility) in live production environments. Has hands-on defect isolation experience using developer tools to diagnose hard-to-repro player issues and improve turnaround by providing reliable repro steps and clear QA workflows.”

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped production RAG systems (including a 250K-document compliance knowledge tool on AWS) and focuses on reliability via citations, guardrails, and rigorous evaluation (Ragas/Opik/DeepEval). Also built a LangGraph-orchestrated webcrawler agent that cut research paper extraction from hours to minutes, and collaborated with clinical teams to deliver patient volume forecasting with an optimization layer for staffing.”

“QA automation engineer who owned an end-to-end test suite for a financial payments application, building cross-layer E2E coverage (UI/API/DB) and integrating it into CI with smoke-on-commit and nightly regression. Caught high-impact issues including duplicate payments caused by missing idempotency in backend retry logic and an RBAC authorization gap, and has hands-on experience stabilizing flaky Cypress tests via network-call synchronization.”

“Founding/solo engineer who rebuilt an early-stage product from the ground up: Ask NETA, an AI assistant for electricians to answer complex electrical code questions. Delivered a full-stack TypeScript system (React web + React Native iOS/Android, Express API, Postgres on AWS) with CI/CD, observability, and a Vertex AI RAG pipeline, reaching 3,000 MAUs in the first month; also built a real-time distributed scoring system handling unreliable hardware data with sequencing and retries.”

“Infrastructure/DevOps engineer with strong production ownership across AWS and Kubernetes, including leading real outage recoveries and building governance-heavy IaC/CI/CD in regulated environments. Has designed DR failover testing programs and implemented policy-as-code and peer-reviewed deployment gates to prevent repeat incidents; experience cited at Rackspace, Strategic Systems, and CTS.”

“Full-stack engineer with ~3.5 years of Java Spring Boot and React experience who built an end-to-end banking transaction platform using microservices, Kafka streaming, AWS RDS, and Dockerized CI/CD. Demonstrates strong performance and reliability engineering (async processing, DLQ/retries, idempotency, caching) plus secure cloud deployment practices; has also worked across banking, healthcare, and insurance domains.”

“Data engineer with Charter Communications experience modernizing large-scale AWS data lake pipelines: ingesting S3 data, validating against legacy systems, transforming with PySpark/Spark SQL, and serving via Iceberg/Delta tables. Worked at 50M–300M record scale, delivered >99.5% data match, and built monitoring/alerting (CloudWatch/SNS) plus retry orchestration (Step Functions) and data quality gates (Great Expectations).”

“Backend engineer who built an AI-driven "Smart Feedback Analyzer" API (Flask → FastAPI) that processes user feedback with NLP (Hugging Face + OpenAI) and returns structured insights. Demonstrates strong production-minded architecture: stateless services, Cloud Run + Docker deployment, Redis/Celery background processing, and Postgres/SQLAlchemy performance tuning (EXPLAIN ANALYZE, indexing, N+1 fixes), plus multi-tenant data isolation via JWT/API-key derived tenant IDs.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on production experience building real-time customer-facing features (order tracking + push notifications) across React/React Native and Node/Spring Boot with Postgres/MySQL. Demonstrates strong reliability patterns (transactional outbox, background workers, idempotent webhook ingestion) and has deployed/operated systems on AWS (ECS/Fargate/ALB, CloudWatch, CodePipeline) with structured observability and environment separation.”

“Founding engineer at Novum AI building a real-time call analytics/suggestion backend (transcription + sentiment/tone + context retrieval) using a serverless architecture. Drove major latency improvements (about 4s down to sub-1.5s) and has practical experience hardening production APIs (FastAPI/Pydantic, auth with Cognito/Redis) and payment systems (Stripe) by surfacing overlooked subscription and multi-tenant billing edge cases.”

“Built and productionized an LLM/RAG-based credit case triage system that indexes credit bureau narratives and delivers structured, source-linked summaries for analysts. Emphasizes production reliability (data masking, human-in-the-loop review, abstention/fallbacks, monitoring) and reports >99% uptime plus ~30% efficiency gains, with iterative improvements driven by offline/online evaluation and schema-aware validation.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership of real-time, Kafka-driven systems in production, spanning React/TypeScript frontends, Spring Boot/Node backends, and AWS (EKS/ECS/EC2) operations. Notable for modernizing legacy batch workflows into event-driven architectures with measurable impact (35% faster risk calculations, 30% better accuracy) and scaling to 2x volume using reliability patterns like idempotency, retries, and staged rollouts.”