Vetted CI/CD Professionals

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered RAG assistant for enterprise internal document search (PDFs, knowledge bases, structured data), addressing real-world issues like noisy documents, hallucinations, and latency with grounded prompting, retrieval-confidence fallbacks, and performance optimizations. Also partnered with compliance and business teams at JPMc to deliver a solution aligned with regulatory constraints, supported by monitoring, feedback loops, and systematic evaluation.”

“Sole creator of a full-stack C++ 3D drone simulator/visualizer, including a self-contained flight stack (GNC, sensor simulation, flight manager) plus OpenGL-based graphics/UI. Built SITL-ready interfaces via MAVLink over UDP and ROS 2 Humble, and has embedded Linux CI/CD experience using CMake and Jenkins with automated unit/integration testing.”

“Robotics software engineer/researcher at Stanford PDML Lab building VisualFT, a ROS2-based visual-tactile sensing system for compliant force-control guidance in acupressure/ultrasound-style manipulation. Also interned at Neocis (dental robotics) improving safety-critical collision detection using Bullet Physics with automated validation and CI (Jenkins/CDash).”

“Engineer with Securonix experience deploying and operating production microservices and real-time data-processing systems at high throughput. Led AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, monitoring, and customer-driven customization for a threat-report classification solution, including rule adjustments and model retraining based on live client feedback.”

“Full-stack developer who built a learning management web app end-to-end using React, Spring Boot, and MySQL, integrating APIs via Axios and validating/testing with Postman. Has experience handling data-heavy workloads (courses, quiz results) and improving performance with pagination, and is comfortable designing microservice-style endpoints with CI/CD considerations.”

“Built a production assistive-vision iPhone app to help visually impaired users find grocery items, training a custom YOLO detector on 2,000+ self-collected/annotated images and deploying via CoreML with a cloud multimodal LLM for navigation instructions. Brings hands-on AWS serverless + ECS container deployment (CDK/GitHub Actions) and a disciplined approach to AI workflow reliability (state-machine design, offline evals, stress tests, logging/metrics), plus experience communicating model insights to non-technical stakeholders (MOTER Technologies).”

“AI/ML engineer (Cognizant) who built a production, real-time credit card fraud detection platform combining deep-learning anomaly detection with an LLM-based explanation layer. Strong focus on regulated deployment: addressed class imbalance and feature drift, and added guardrails (SHAP/structured inputs, fine-tuning on analyst reports, rule-based validation) to keep explanations accurate and compliant. Orchestrated the full pipeline with Airflow + Databricks/Spark and used MLflow/Prometheus plus A/B and shadow deployments for measurable reliability.”

“ML/LLM engineer who has shipped a production transformer-based document understanding system on AWS, owning the full pipeline from domain fine-tuning to Dockerized CI/CD deployment. Demonstrates strong production rigor—latency optimization (distillation/quantization, async batching, autoscaling), orchestration with Airflow/Step Functions/Azure Data Factory, and monitoring/drift detection—plus experience translating ops stakeholder needs into adopted AI automation via dashboards.”

“AI/LLM engineer with Fidelity Investments experience who built and shipped a production GraphRAG system that augmented prompts with codebase context, improving business analyst efficiency by 15% and saving ~$3.5M annually. Strong in AWS EKS/Kubernetes/Helm and enterprise IAM/OIDC patterns (including cross-account S3 access), with experience mentoring interns and collaborating with non-technical leaders to extend AI pipelines (e.g., adding SQL functionality during MVP).”

“Fractional CTO/lead engineer who shipped an end-to-end Next.js + FastAPI product experience (login, data processing results, chatbot Q&A) with an architecture designed to support future ML model integration. Has led large-scale engineering enablement (continuous delivery across ~150 devs/200 systems), owned production incident response with lasting test/contract improvements, and delivered a 3x productivity gain by fixing debugging/tooling bottlenecks while mentoring junior teams into independent delivery.”

“Backend-focused full-stack engineer who built an MVP at Neon AI for PhD students: a FastAPI backend integrating multiple cloud and local LLMs plus a RAG pipeline with session/identity management, designed to be modular and extensible across domains. Also has VMware experience debugging production issues and executing safe, API-compatible refactors with staged rollouts and strong security controls.”

“Technology leader who built a unified platform for Fox live sports production operations starting in 2019, delivering an initial operational system on an ~18-month timeline while simultaneously scaling an in-house engineering team from a service-provider partnership. Led a security architecture for external vendors/partners using a separate Okta instance with zero-trust and passwordless authentication, and drove adoption through strong change management, documentation, and agile execution.”

“Software engineer who owned an end-to-end self-service reporting workflow (secure APIs, async/batched processing, and React UI), improving report generation performance by ~30–40% and reducing manual support effort. Also built a RAG/embeddings prototype over internal docs and service logs with grounding-focused guardrails, and has a strong reliability/observability mindset (retries, DLQs, CI/CD validation, dashboards/tracing) for distributed workflows.”

“Associate Director in commercial technology leading Salesforce platform delivery (Sales Cloud + Health Cloud) for patient engagement and order management. Personally led secure integrations like Bartender Cloud label/barcode generation (PDF creation, encryption, malware scanning) and owned a major StreamSets-based Salesforce data sync incident triggered by a Salesforce region move, adding proactive monitoring and automated DR/failover. Experienced in scaling delivery via CI/CD, release cadence, and leading teams through architecture reviews, code reviews, and lead-to-cash automation.”

“Senior engineering leader with experience at Disney and BlackLine who drives business-aligned technology roadmaps through deep Product/Engineering partnership (two-in-a-box) and pragmatic prioritization frameworks. Has led major modernization initiatives—private-to-public cloud migration to GCP with multi-cloud evolution, data-layer performance improvements (Mongo/Redis, caching/query optimization), and tooling upgrades (VSS to GitHub)—while scaling teams with strong quality and accountability culture.”

“Game QA professional with ~5 years in embedded QA roles across major studios (Experis Game Solutions, Activision, Ubisoft, Meta), including ownership of the Weapons feature area on Ubisoft’s XDefiant and feature testing on Warzone. Known for risk-based, cross-system test coverage (matchmaking/party, progression, entitlements/MTX, performance across PC/console, live-service integrations) and for leading cross-discipline meetings and release readiness reviews.”

“Engineering leader (player-coach) recently at Autodesk driving a major sales-motion transformation spanning account hierarchy, commissions/quotas, and downstream financial/sales forecasting impacts. Led cross-functional design with enterprise architects and shipped the end-to-end release, using POCs and Anaplan what-if modeling to validate a risky hierarchy change while coordinating delivery across India/Singapore teams and instituting structured Jira-based tech debt/support tracking and automation (dbt, GitHub Copilot).”