Vetted Confluence Professionals

“Backend/data engineer focused on production-grade Python services and AWS platforms: builds FastAPI microservices on EKS with strong reliability patterns, CI/CD, and observability. Also delivers AWS Glue/Redshift analytics pipelines with schema-evolution and data-quality safeguards, and has modernized legacy batch processing into maintainable services with parallel-run parity validation and feature-flagged rollouts.”

“Lifecycle and growth marketer with partnership experience at Kobo Rakuten, including co-marketing promotions with ebook/anime authors measured via CTR and conversions. Has led GTM user-acquisition initiatives across paid media partnerships and lifecycle marketing, using CAC/LTV/retention to optimize campaigns and referral incentive loops, and leverages a personal network to accelerate pilots and reduce sales-cycle time.”

“IT-industry partnerships professional focused on sourcing and negotiating vendor relationships based on customer needs, using quoting workflows to structure mutually beneficial deals. Has leveraged vendor relationships to generate inbound client requests and used email + LinkedIn outreach to reach target audiences; no direct experience in gaming or creator ecosystems.”

“Frontend engineer (Cyderes) specializing in security analytics/SOC dashboards, building complex multi-tenant React + TypeScript interfaces for near real-time authentication and MFA monitoring. Known for scaling quality via strict TS, shared contracts, CI-enforced multi-level testing, and performance optimization, plus pragmatic incremental refactors and gated rollouts that protect active customer workflows.”

“Customer-facing software engineer who rapidly turns business requirements into Figma prototypes and PoC applications, using workflow prioritization and frequent client reviews to stay aligned. Has hands-on experience integrating with existing authentication/user APIs, building MongoDB-backed caching, and implementing robust fallback/retry mechanisms. Comfortable working on-site with customers and resolving production issues in AWS (e.g., DNS/EC2 traffic routing) in collaboration with DevOps.”

“Full-stack JavaScript developer in small-company environments building PCB manufacturing web tooling. Owned and delivered blob-storage upload/download infrastructure (including an internal developer library) and a training/compliance tracking tool. Implemented secure, broadly compatible SSO for a customer portal under a <1 month deadline tied to an 8-figure customer deal, despite having no prior authentication experience.”

“Full-stack engineer in the healthcare domain (Humana) who owned an end-to-end member portal for benefits/claims/appointments, built with React and Spring Boot microservices on AWS. Notably migrated legacy batch data flows to a Kafka streaming pipeline and tuned consumers/partitions/backpressure to improve real-time consistency and achieve ~12% processing performance gains.”

“Backend/ML platform engineer who owns end-to-end delivery of ML-serving APIs (FastAPI + TensorFlow) and runs them reliably on Kubernetes using ArgoCD GitOps. Has hands-on experience solving production-only issues (probe tuning for model warm-up, resource profiling) and building scalable Kafka streaming pipelines, plus supporting phased on-prem to AWS migrations with dependency discovery and recreation of hidden jobs/workflows.”

“AI/ML engineer who led production deployment of a multimodal (text/video/image) RAG system on GCP using Gemini 2.5 + Vertex AI Vector Search, scaling to 10M+ documents with sub-second latency and +40% retrieval accuracy. Strong MLOps/orchestration background (Kubernetes, CI/CD, Airflow, MLflow) with proven impact on reliability (75% fewer incidents) and deployment speed (92% faster), plus experience delivering explainable ML (XGBoost + SHAP + Tableau) to non-technical retail stakeholders.”

“Former CEO of GravyWork with hands-on experience building an org-wide strategic plan and modernization roadmap for a growing company. Uses Michael Gerber’s innovation/orchestration/quantification framework and structured as-is/gap/to-be analysis to drive cost reduction, automation/outsourcing decisions, and leadership alignment through change.”

“Software engineer with experience at Synchrony and HCL delivering end-to-end production systems: a secure, Kafka-driven transaction processing microservice with React real-time status tracking, containerized and deployed on AWS Kubernetes via Jenkins with ELK/CloudWatch monitoring. Has hands-on incident ownership and performance tuning (DB/query/index/pooling) driving ~20–30% latency improvements, plus built internal Python monitoring APIs with strong reliability and observability.”

“QA automation engineer with 7+ years across finance/healthcare/utility/services, specializing in Selenium + Cucumber and building automation frameworks. Has tested machine-learning-powered claims prediction features and uncovered complex timing/concurrency failures in subscription payments by simulating delayed webhooks and parallel execution, then driving production fixes end-to-end using disciplined Jira workflows.”

“Software engineer with connected-car/automotive production experience who owned an end-to-end remote door lock/unlock feature and introduced unit testing (GTest) plus rig/simulator validation. Also built and productionized an AI-native AWS cloud cost assistant (Lex + GPT-based LLM + Lambda + RAG/vector DB) with guardrails and achieved 94% evaluation accuracy. Helped replace a third-party solution with an in-house build, saving the company ~€9M.”

“Gameplay engineer with hands-on ownership of real-time C++/UE5 systems, including an end-to-end ability system and a networked dash feature using client prediction and server reconciliation. Strong in performance profiling/optimization (object pooling, collision-check gating) and applied math for projectile motion validated via debug visualization and QA/playtesting; particularly interested in soccer/football gameplay mechanics and feel.”

“Backend/ML engineer with healthcare experience at Kaiser Permanente building HIPAA-compliant Java/Spring Boot + GraphQL APIs integrated with Epic HealthConnect, including hands-on reliability/performance debugging using Prometheus/Grafana and resolver-level N+1 elimination. Also built an end-to-end malaria parasite detection ML feature (CNN/R-CNN) with evaluation, guardrails, and workflow integration, and has experience designing robust state-machine-based automation with retries, DLQs, and alerting.”

“Entrepreneur/fintech product builder who raised a $100K pre-seed from ex-Google/Microsoft execs and built a real-time, direct-to-vendor bill pay micropayments platform. Previously helped scale Norton LifeLock to 1M users (2003) and also created Karma LA, a fraud-resistant, verified donation system (including VA veteran verification) aimed at improving trust and conversion in giving.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on AWS-native Python systems: built a FastAPI microservice on ECS/Fargate serving real-time analytics at millions of daily requests with strong reliability (OAuth2/JWT, retries/timeouts, correlation IDs) and autoscaling. Also delivered Glue/PySpark ETL pipelines to curated S3 Parquet/Athena with schema evolution + data quality controls, owned Airflow pipeline incidents, and has a track record of measurable performance and cost optimizations (e.g., ~80%+ query latency reduction; reduced logging/NAT/Fargate spend).”

“JavaScript engineer and open-source contributor focused on runtime performance, reliability, and developer experience—refactored a widely used client-side API/state library to improve concurrent request handling, error consistency, and UI performance while adding tests and documentation. Also owned improvements to a core microservice at Velsa integrating multiple hospital systems, bringing structure to ambiguous priorities and delivering stability and performance gains from design through deployment.”

“Unity game developer who built a context-sensitive movement and camera system for a grid-based dungeon crawler and used DOTween for key gameplay animations. Worked at Chimera Entertainment on Songs of Silence, contributing via bug fixes, working within an existing Photon Fusion protocol, and implementing a UI-heavy in-game lexicon; also leverages AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT) to accelerate editor/tooling and gameplay scripting.”

“Cross-functional operator at Andium who led founder-level initiatives spanning next-gen product launch + legacy sunset, built decision-driven operating cadences (dashboards, memos, blocker tracking), and drove international expansion after a Series B led by Saudi Aramco. Also supported a $6M strategic opportunity in Australia by coordinating pricing, product feedback loops, and internal alignment across an AI-enabled SaaS + hardware business.”

“Director of Projects with experience owning HR operations processes from onboarding through exit and partnering with engineering to build/fix HRMS-related systems. Led cross-functional teams (engineering, QA, DevOps, operations, legal) to resolve data/tooling issues and improve operational rigor through Jira/Confluence documentation and multi-level code checks; also managed org-wide Jira licensing and user provisioning.”

“Forward-deployed, full-stack/platform engineer who owns production features end-to-end across frontend, backend, data, and infrastructure (AWS serverless, Terraform, React). Has modernized critical fintech/payment systems (zero-downtime monolith-to-microservices with Kafka event sourcing) and productionized AI-native support workflows (LLM + RAG on Pinecone) with measurable gains in latency, incidents, CSAT, and support efficiency.”

“Backend Java engineer with strong platform/DevOps experience: modernized an insurance claims legacy monolith into DDD-aligned microservices, deployed containerized services on Kubernetes with Jenkins CI/CD and static analysis gates, and implemented GitOps using ArgoCD. Also led major AWS migration planning with dependency mapping and network monitoring to uncover hidden dependencies, and built Kafka-based real-time event streaming with schema-registry-driven evolution.”