Vetted CI/CD Professionals

“Product-focused full-stack engineer who built and shipped subscription/billing features end-to-end (FastAPI + React/TypeScript), including a self-serve cancellation flow with save-offers that reduced support tickets and improved churn insights. Experienced operating on AWS (ECS/EC2, RDS, S3/CloudFront) and handling real production scaling incidents through DB/query optimization, idempotent API design, and strong observability practices.”

“QA automation engineer with end-to-end ownership of a regression suite for a warehouse loan management platform (.NET/Angular), using Selenium (Java/Cucumber/POM) and Cypress. Improved suite stability and expanded risk-based coverage (DB/API/SQL, RBAC approval workflows), catching critical financial defects like EMI calculation errors and cutting regression effort by ~50% while gating releases via GitLab CI/CD with actionable Slack reporting.”

“LLM/RAG engineer who has shipped production systems in high-stakes domains (fraud analytics at Mastercard and security compliance as a CI/CD gate). Strong focus on reliability: hybrid retrieval for latency, citation-backed outputs for trust, and code-driven eval/regression pipelines using golden datasets. Also built scalable OCR-based ingestion for messy classroom artifacts (handwriting, PDFs, whiteboard photos) using Go/Python and cloud services.”

“Infrastructure reliability/capacity-focused engineer with hands-on IBM Power/AIX (LPAR/DLPAR, HMC, VIOS) performance troubleshooting and modern cloud-native delivery experience. Built production CI/CD and Terraform-managed AWS/EKS environments, and has led real incident recoveries spanning Kubernetes autoscaling and AWS quota constraints with concrete RCA and prevention improvements.”

“QA/automation engineer with experience at Riot Games’ player platform, owning E2E automation for mission-critical authentication/account flows using Playwright/JavaScript plus API automation. Built CI merge gates and nightly verification with Slack reporting, and repeatedly caught backend-driven session/authorization regressions before production. Known for stabilizing flaky UI tests via selector strategy and network intercepts, and for influencing design early with testability hooks and telemetry.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with Walmart experience building and operating high-volume media upload and processing systems. Strong in Java/Spring Boot, Postgres performance tuning (EXPLAIN/ANALYZE), and durable workflows using Kafka/Spring Batch with retries and idempotency, plus production ownership via monitoring and optimization; familiar with Next.js/TypeScript and modern React performance patterns.”

“Full-stack engineer with production ownership across React/TypeScript, Node/Express, and Postgres, including zero-downtime releases and rollbackable migrations. Demonstrated measurable performance wins (20% response-time reduction) through DB query profiling and batching, plus hands-on AWS operations (ECS/Lambda/CloudWatch) and reliability patterns for ETL (retries, DLQs, idempotency). Experience shipping microservices quickly in ambiguous, fast-paced environments (Deloitte).”

“Full-stack engineer with recent JPMorgan experience building GPT-4-powered customer sentiment/feedback analytics products (Next.js 14 App Router + FastAPI + Postgres) and owning them post-launch with CloudWatch/Datadog observability. Also implemented Temporal-based transaction reconciliation workflows with strong reliability patterns (idempotency, retries, DLQ, versioning) and has prior high-scale healthcare dashboard experience at Optum.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered RAG document intelligence/Q&A system for healthcare prior authorization, reducing manual medical document review time and improving decision efficiency. Strong in end-to-end LLM application engineering (LangChain/LangGraph), retrieval quality improvements (hybrid search, embedding tuning, chunking strategies), and rigorous evaluation/monitoring for reliability.”

“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.”

“Player-coach engineering leader focused on buyer/distribution product lines, building scalable purchasing/planning frameworks and modernizing workflows. Drove performance and reliability improvements via queue-based async architectures, external API redundancy, and CI/CD automation, and has led production incident response (cache-related) with follow-up playbooks and monitoring. Experienced in high-growth/startup environments, combining hands-on delivery with mentoring, 1:1s, and performance coaching.”

“UE5 UI engineer who built a production-ready, modular training/procedure framework with editor tooling so curriculum designers and technical trainers could author content without Unreal expertise. Deep hands-on ownership across C++/Slate/UMG/CommonUI, including MVVM architecture, cross-platform input/navigation, and rigorous UI profiling/debug tooling that can be stripped from shipping builds.”

“Full-stack engineer with e-commerce experience who shipped and owned an order history dashboard using Next.js App Router/TypeScript, combining server components for SEO/perf with client-side interactivity via React Query. Has backend reliability experience (Temporal order-processing workflows, Postgres modeling/indexing, and payment API idempotency keys), and emphasizes production stability, observability, and zero-incident launches.”

“Backend/platform engineer who has built and run production Python/Flask + Kafka microservices processing RFID and camera/RFID fusion streams for near-real-time retail cart updates at ~4–5M events/day. Strong in reliability/performance debugging (p99 latency, Kafka lag, Cosmos DB RU hot partitions) with measurable impact including ~30% database cost reduction, and has also shipped an end-to-end vulnerability scanning workflow with DynamoDB-backed state, idempotency, and robust retry/verification guardrails.”

“Full-stack/AI-focused builder who shipped a production Career Advisor app using LLMs + RAG + vector DB (React/Node/MongoDB/Claude API) and grew it to 2000+ users, handling real deployment issues and CI/CD on Vercel/Render. Also developing an AI-powered iOS “3D World Explorer” (text-to-3D) and has cloud experience across Azure and AWS (S3/SageMaker/EC2).”

“UPenn robotics researcher who architected a real-time autonomous driving decision-making engine, integrating LSTM trajectory prediction with MPC in CARLA and adding conformal prediction to deliver 95% statistical safety guarantees under strict latency constraints. Also built and debugged an autonomous quadrotor stack with ESKF-based 6-DoF tracking and optimized A*/Dijkstra planning to eliminate latency-induced instability, with experience bridging heterogeneous simulation/control systems.”

“UCLA RoMeLa research assistant (since Oct 2025) building an embedded control and sensor-data platform for multi-robot coordination in a simulated warehouse. Deep hands-on experience with ROS on NVIDIA Jetson under RTOS constraints, secure MQTT/TLS telemetry, and SLAM performance optimization (including ORB-SLAM3) validated in Gazebo and deployed via Docker/Kubernetes and CI/CD.”

“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.”

“Robotics/control-focused engineer who built and validated a series elastic actuator control stack end-to-end (dynamic modeling, torque/position control, simulation, and experimental real-time debugging on hardware). Deep simulation background (OpenFOAM/COMSOL/Abaqus) and practical reproducibility tooling (Docker/CI), with conceptual ROS/ROS2 knowledge and confidence ramping into ROS-based stacks.”

“Backend/platform engineer who built a high-scale audience segmentation and real-time targeting system using Spark/Glue + S3/Hudi and low-latency API services backed by Redis/relational stores. Demonstrates strong production rigor: Spark performance tuning to eliminate OOM failures, API idempotency/caching to cut p95 latency ~40%, and careful dual-run/feature-flag migrations with reconciliation and rollback runbooks. Experienced implementing layered security with JWT/OAuth, RBAC/ABAC, and database row-level security to prevent privilege escalation.”

“AI/ML engineer who built a production agentic system to automate computational research experiments (simulation execution, parameter exploration, and numerical analysis) and mitigated context-window failures using constrained tool-calling/prompt-chaining patterns in LangChain with OpenAI tool-enabled models. Also has adtech/big-data pipeline experience at InMobi, orchestrating Spark jobs in Airflow to filter bot-like user IDs and publish clean IDs to an online NoSQL store for live serving, plus Apache open-source collaboration experience.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-driven Dungeons & Dragons game where the model acts as a dungeon master, adding a structured combat system and a macro-state tree to ensure campaigns converge to a clear ending. Fine-tuned Gemini 2.5 Flash on Vertex AI and deployed on GCP with Kubernetes, using RAG over DnD rules/spells plus multi-agent orchestration (intent-based routing between narrative and combat agents) to reduce hallucinations and improve reliability.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience building a fraud-transaction monitoring system in Python/Flask, architected as Dockerized microservices and integrated with Kafka for high-volume streaming. Demonstrates strong performance and reliability chops across PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy tuning (EXPLAIN ANALYZE, N+1 fixes, bulk ops), multi-tenant data isolation, and scaling via background workers + Redis caching, plus real-time ML inference deployment using TensorFlow on AWS.”