Vetted Cloud-Native Architecture Professionals

“DevSecOps/AWS infrastructure engineer at Madison Logic who owns a 15-account AWS footprint and treats nearly all AWS resources as code (Terraform/CloudFormation). Led a CI/CD platform migration (Bitbucket → GitLab + GitHub Actions) supporting WordPress and containerized microservices, improving release frequency to weekly/daily, and has hands-on production incident response experience on ECS Fargate using Datadog with fast rollback via immutable ECR tags and task definition revisions.”

“Backend-focused Python engineer who owned high-traffic internal services end-to-end (FastAPI/Django) including REST/GraphQL APIs, PostgreSQL optimization, async task processing via SQS, and full CI/CD. Strong Kubernetes-on-EKS and GitOps (ArgoCD + Helm) experience, plus Kafka real-time streaming work and phased cloud-to-on-prem migration support.”

Tanisha Pradeep Bhola

Screened

Mid-level Software Development Engineer specializing in backend, cloud, and microservices

Dayton, Ohio4y exp

“Accenture engineer with hands-on experience taking an NLP sentiment analysis system from prototype to production, emphasizing robustness to noisy data, scalability, and observability (dashboards for latency/error/throughput). Also supports customer-facing teams with demos and PoCs, translating client requirements into secure, scalable architectures and troubleshooting LLM/agent workflows via logs and step-level traces.”

Frank Albanese

Screened

Executive CTO & Engineering Leader specializing in AI/ML and distributed systems

New York, NY10y exp

“Founder of Essence, a wisdom and memory preservation platform with early testing indicating mental health benefits and positive impact for hospice patients. Has raised $25K to date and reports prior capital-raising experience through Y Combinator and the Berkeley Angel Network, with a GTM plan starting in hospice and expanding to the general public.”

Sai Prudhivi

Screened

Mid Software Engineer specializing in full-stack microservices and cloud platforms

New York, NY4y exp

“Backend-focused engineer with experience building high-volume policy management and enterprise pricing systems, including Django/FastAPI/Flask services, Kafka-based async workflows, and Prometheus/Grafana observability. While they have not yet shipped a customer-facing AI agent or production LLM integration, they bring strong cloud, API, reliability, and scalable system design fundamentals that translate well to responsible AI infrastructure work.”

“Backend/data engineer with strong production experience across Python microservices (FastAPI) and AWS serverless/data platforms (Lambda, API Gateway, Glue, Redshift). Demonstrates reliability and incident ownership (rate limits, retries/circuit breakers, monitoring) and has delivered measurable SQL performance gains (12–15s to <800ms, ~60% CPU reduction). Seeking fully remote work and not open to relocation/onsite meetings.”

Jason Sipula

Screened

Executive Technology Leader & Strategic Architect specializing in cloud-native platforms

Sacramento, CA15y exp

“Technology leader with experience driving multi-year transformations at Jewelry Supply, including migrating a legacy custom e-commerce platform to SaaS and leading a 3-year ERP program from requirements through implementation and training. Also led a major architecture shift from self-hosted virtualized infrastructure to cloud Kubernetes with a strong DevOps/DevEx focus, emphasizing stakeholder buy-in and scalable processes for distributed engineering teams.”

“Full-stack engineer with recent hands-on work across scientific data infrastructure and enterprise analytics. Notably drove a Crossref-to-DataCite DOI migration at CUAHSI, owning metadata mapping, Django integration, ROR funder handling, and safe production rollout, and has contributed broadly to HydroShare, a research data platform used by thousands of researchers.”

“Full-stack engineer at an early-stage startup (AirKitchenz) who owned the hourly booking/availability and first paid booking flow end-to-end—React/TypeScript frontend, Node backend, Postgres modeling, and Stripe payments/webhooks. Experienced operating production on AWS (EC2/Elastic Beanstalk, Docker, RDS, CloudWatch) and building reliable, idempotent integrations while iterating quickly in a pre-PMF environment through direct host/renter feedback.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience in financial payroll, tax, and compensation platforms, building Python microservices and AWS-based data pipelines for high-volume, peak-driven workloads. Strong reliability focus (OAuth2 auth, retries/timeouts, structured logging, incident response) and proven performance wins, including cutting complex report queries from ~8 minutes to under 30 seconds.”

Anudeep Reddy Veerla

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices

Boston, MA3y exp

“Built and shipped both a solo real-time multiplayer Spades game (TypeScript monorepo with shared client/server engine) and a production internal LLM-powered document Q&A tool for a SaaS company. Demonstrates strong RAG pipeline design (Pinecone + embeddings + reranking), rigorous eval/regression practices, and pragmatic data ingestion/observability work across Confluence, Notion, and messy PDFs/OCR—backed by clear metric improvements (P@1 61%→78%, escalations 40%→22%).”

Pranav Gaikwad

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native platforms and supply chain systems

Atlanta, GA8y exp

“Backend and platform engineering leader with deep supply chain and warehouse systems experience, including building a company-wide MDM platform across five ERP systems and supporting a 72-microservice warehouse execution environment. Particularly compelling for AI-forward logistics roles: currently pursuing an AI-focused PhD, has published supply chain AI research, and holds a utility patent for AI-driven predictive analysis.”

“Backend/data engineer with aerospace telemetry and reporting experience across RTX and other orgs, spanning Python/FastAPI microservices, AWS serverless/containers, and AWS Glue-to-Redshift analytics pipelines. Has led legacy modernization with parallel-run parity validation and incremental rollout, and demonstrates strong operational ownership (monitoring, incident response, and cost optimization).”

“Full-stack .NET/Azure engineer with end-to-end ownership of policy management microservices (React/TypeScript + C#/ASP.NET Core + Kubernetes) delivering significant performance and quality improvements (e.g., response time -35%, defects -30%, CSAT +18%). Also productionized an AI-assisted analyst workflow using Azure OpenAI with a RAG pipeline on Azure Cognitive Search, including rigorous prompt versioning, guardrails, and measurable impact (review time -40%, errors -55%). Led incremental legacy modernization via Strangler Fig and dual-write migrations with zero production regressions.”

Hammad Ur Rahman

Screened

Senior DevOps Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and CI/CD

Boston, Massachusetts11y exp

“IBM Power/AIX engineer who has owned a 150+ LPAR AIX 7.x estate with VIOS/HMC/vHMC and PowerHA in production, including real outage and failover recoveries. Also brings modern DevOps/IaC experience—built Jenkins pipelines deploying to AKS and implemented Terraform on AWS with remote state, locking, and drift management.”

Jyothsna V

Screened

Mid-level Backend Software Engineer specializing in Python/FastAPI and cloud-native microservices

USA4y exp

“Backend engineer who evolved Coca-Cola bottlers' Trade Promotion Optimization platform at Coke One North America, building domain-focused microservices in Node.js and Python (Flask/FastAPI) with PostgreSQL. Experienced in multi-tenant security (OAuth2/JWT, RBAC, row-level scoping by bottler/region), API contract/versioning discipline, and Azure DevOps-driven incremental rollouts with strong observability.”

“Full-stack software engineer with hands-on experience shipping AI-driven product experiences, including a conversational travel planner and a RAG-based PDF question-answering system. Has also built enterprise automation APIs at Accenture for network diagnostics, combining backend engineering, testing automation, and user-focused product simplification for non-technical operations teams.”

“Backend engineer experienced in evolving high-scale legacy on-prem systems into cloud-native, event-driven microservices on AWS/Kubernetes (noted peak traffic ~1.5M QPS). Strong focus on reliability engineering and operational excellence—SLO-driven observability, GitOps/canary rollouts, chaos testing, and preventing cascading failures (e.g., retry-storm mitigation).”

“Bootstrapped founder of FAMRO LLC with 15+ years spanning startups and corporate roles, including COO experience at an AI/ML startup that built a retail marketing analytics product using camera feeds. Also worked on a clean-tech venture, EnerIO, which won 1st position from Pakistan and was invited to pitch at the GCIP/GEF event in San Francisco in 2015.”

Rohit Viswakarma Pidishetti

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in real-time frontend systems

New York City Metropolitan Area, USA5y exp

“Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer who built and largely owned YAARI, a browser-based social media platform with real-time interactions, media handling, and AI-based content validation. Stands out for combining React performance tuning, real-time UX design, and security-conscious backend integration in a complex consumer-style application.”

“Full-stack/backend engineer with recent hands-on depth in Go, Python, React, and TypeScript, spanning telehealth, banking, and B2B workflow platforms. Particularly compelling for startup and scale-up environments: rebuilt core telehealth services to restore provider trust and support 150% user growth without adding servers, and has also delivered large-scale banking and compliance-sensitive systems in production.”

Anuj Kumar

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in GenAI and agentic AI

Abu Dhabi, UAE8y exp

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with startup experience owning core workflow automation services in a 10-15 person team. Built a scalable forms/workflow platform that cut process time from 30 days to 1 week, and has additional recent experience building agentic AI applications with FastAPI, Google ADK, and LiteLLM. Has worked on B2B SaaS products in solar digitization, construction/project management, and process automation.”