Vetted Cloud Infrastructure Professionals

“AI Software Engineer (student employee) at University of Washington IT who helped deploy "Purple," a governed, explainable LLM platform on Azure used by 100,000+ students/faculty/staff. Independently led scalable reliability efforts by building automated agent quality/load/red-team testing and CI/CD health validation (Playwright/Node.js, Azure DevOps), and previously built an explainable AI scheduling assistant for clinical operations at Proliance Surgeons.”

“Backend/platform engineer who has owned a real-time data ingestion/processing/reporting API built with FastAPI, Redis, and Celery, including performance tuning via query/index optimization, caching, and async workers. Strong Kubernetes + CI/CD + GitOps (ArgoCD) experience, plus hands-on monitoring/logging (Prometheus/Grafana/ELK) and a Kafka/Spark real-time streaming project from their master’s program.”

Ron Buchanan

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive technology leader specializing in cloud architecture and Healthcare IT

Summerville, SC20y exp

“Startup-focused builder currently developing a values-driven multi-platform mobile app in beta. Previously led a major technical turnaround at Lucina Analytics, taking the product from 0-to-1 and rebuilding it into an enterprise Azure-based SaaS platform that contributed to its acquisition by Unified Women's Health.”

“Backend/platform engineer who owned an end-to-end financial data ingestion and validation system (Python/Django/FastAPI, Postgres, AWS), including large-file performance tuning, auditability, and CI/CD. Strong Kubernetes/EKS + ArgoCD GitOps practitioner and has delivered both Kafka-based real-time transaction streaming and a legacy on-prem stack migration to AWS (ECS Fargate, RDS, S3, Secrets Manager) with controlled cutovers and data consistency validation.”

Job DelToro

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in SaaS, cloud infrastructure, and video platforms

Guadalajara, México8y exp

“Full-stack engineer working at the intersection of product engineering and applied AI, with hands-on experience shipping real-time user features, MCP server integrations, and LLM-powered support systems. Stands out for combining TypeScript-heavy full-stack execution with production AI practices like retrieval architecture, confidence-based routing, observability, and evals, while driving measurable outcomes such as a 25% DAU lift and reduced support load.”

“Exited Founder-CEO with deep-tech experience who raised capital and built a venture around making end-to-end encryption with cloud-level performance and data sovereignty feasible. Demonstrated first-principles technical rigor (network/TCP analysis) to prove scientific feasibility, then progressed from proof of concept to prototype and eventual exit, with a strong bias toward ultra-lean, customer-paid MVPs.”

George Platon

Screened

Principal Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI, DevOps, and cloud platforms

Romania, Romania16y exp

“Built a production end-to-end AI video-to-reels clip extraction system using a multi-agent architecture with transcription, captioning, effects generation, and centralized orchestration. Demonstrates unusually strong systems thinking around reliability, observability, evaluation, and production tradeoffs for LLM-powered workflows, including Kubernetes/Kafka-based deployment and regression-driven prompt governance.”

“Software engineer focused on backend/full-stack, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and AI-related work. Stands out for using AI and multi-agent workflows as an engineering accelerator while maintaining rigorous testing, logging, and system-level validation, including work on telemetry and monitoring platforms where reliability and correctness are critical.”

Visaj Kapadia

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Developer specializing in AWS and scalable web platforms

Santa Monica, CA5y exp

“Software engineer with hands-on AWS experience optimizing an email campaign delivery system—re-architected a monolithic worker into multi-threaded/multi-worker ECS components to boost throughput ~600% (5 to 35 emails/sec). Comfortable debugging production issues (e.g., SQS/EventBridge policy misconfiguration) and emphasizes maintainable delivery via design docs, TDD, versioned APIs, and strong test coverage.”

PremKumar Gandla

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in MLOps, NLP, and scalable model deployment

Texas, USA4y exp

“Built and deployed a production autonomous AI data analyst agent (LangChain + GPT + Streamlit on AWS) that turns natural-language questions into validated SQL, visualizations, and insights, cutting manual analysis time by ~50%. Emphasizes reliability and MLOps: schema-aware validation/guardrails to prevent hallucinations, scalable large-data processing, and Azure DevOps CI/CD + MLflow for automated deployment and experiment tracking.”

“Backend/data engineer who built a production booking platform on FastAPI microservices (Postgres/Redis/gRPC) and delivered AWS infrastructure spanning Lambda, ECS, SQS, and Glue-to-Redshift analytics. Demonstrated measurable SQL optimization (10 minutes to <40 seconds) and strong operational ownership through monitoring, incident response, and schema-evolution hardening.”

Mo Arab

Screened

Executive Technology Leader specializing in Cloud, Managed Services & AI/LLM integration

Los Angeles, CA25y exp

“Engineering/technology leader with experience at Evocative and through a merger with Hivelocity, aligning tech roadmaps to managed services growth. Led multi-region self-hosted cloud and automation initiatives that cut delivery time from days to hours/minutes and informed cost-saving infrastructure decisions (reported $500K OPEX savings). Known for scaling teams with pod ownership, agile/intake governance, and disciplined rollout practices that protect uptime and security.”

“Built a senior design project for Webquity LLC: a React/TypeScript Chrome extension and web app helping students with ADHD manage focus, tasks, and productivity across devices. Stands out for combining performance tuning, cross-device sync, accessibility-minded UX research, and polished UI touches like theming, weather-reactive backgrounds, and Lottie-based mascot animations.”

“Startup and early-internet product leader with repeated experience building in new companies and executing pivots. Helped transform a web-based calendar business into a CMS + RBAC platform that became best-in-breed for US K-12 organizations within about three years, emphasizing ROI-driven prototyping and market validation to conserve resources.”

Piyush Rajendra

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in production RAG systems and MLOps

Athens, GA4y exp

“Built and deployed a GPT-4 + Pinecone RAG system that lets users query large internal document collections with grounded, cited answers. Demonstrates strong applied LLM engineering (chunking experiments, hallucination controls, metadata recency boosting) plus production-minded evaluation/monitoring and performance tuning (rate-limit mitigation via pooling/batching). Also effective at translating complex AI concepts to non-technical stakeholders through prototypes and live demos, helping secure client sponsorship.”

Estelle Marcella Bouopda Meba

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in React and RESTful APIs

Gatineau, Canada4y exp

“Frontend React/TypeScript engineer who built a text-to-speech feature from scratch end-to-end, including frontend-backend communication and testing. Experienced improving existing React codebases through refactoring into reusable components, custom hooks, and performance optimizations, and collaborates closely with product/design using Figma, design systems, and early previews via staging/Storybook.”

Vivekananda Reddy

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Java, React, and AWS

Dallas, TX4y exp

“Backend engineer focused on cloud-native microservices on AWS, owning Python/Flask ingestion services integrated with S3/Lambda and deployed via Docker/Kubernetes with CI/CD. Has led phased migrations from manually managed EC2 setups to automated CloudFormation + pipeline-driven releases, and designed event-driven near-real-time pipelines with idempotency, retry/backoff, and strong observability.”