Vetted Containerization Professionals

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across GCP and AWS: built FastAPI microservices on Cloud Run and delivered AWS Lambda + ECS Fargate systems with Terraform/GitHub Actions. Strong in data engineering (Glue/Spark, S3/Redshift) and modernization (SAS to Python/SQL), with proven reliability and incident ownership—including cutting a 20+ minute reporting query to under 2 minutes.”

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on ROS 2 autonomy experience on an obstacle-avoiding quadrotor (ROS 2 + Gazebo + PX4 + Nav2/SLAM), including custom work to extend Nav2 into a 3D aerial domain and output PX4 trajectory setpoints. Also built cost-saving ML infrastructure (PostgreSQL + AWS data-cleaning pipeline) and improved object detection accuracy by 40% using CUDA/PyTorch, with strong containerization and CI/CD practices (Docker + Kubernetes, aggressive version pinning) to prevent environment drift.”

“Built and productionized a multi-agent, LLM-powered document understanding system to replace manual review of long documents, using LangGraph orchestration plus RAG to reduce hallucinations. Implemented layered reliability controls (structured templates, checker agent, and human-in-the-loop feedback) and reported ~40% speed improvement after orchestration; also has hands-on Airflow experience for scheduled data pipelines.”

“LLM/ML platform engineer with hands-on experience taking an LLM document summarization prototype into a production-grade service on AWS EKS, emphasizing low-latency inference, drift monitoring, and safe CI/CD rollouts (canary + rollback). Strong in real-time debugging of agentic/RAG systems (tracing, retrieval/index drift fixes) and in developer enablement through practical workshops (Docker/Kubernetes/FastAPI) plus pre-sales support via demos and benchmarks to close pilots.”

“Founding AI engineer (June 2024) at Talon Labs who built and productionized an LLM-powered chatbot for interacting with proprietary supply-chain documents, deployed at large scale (25–100,000 users). Experienced with RAG/LLM orchestration (LangChain, LlamaIndex, Groq AI) and production ops tooling (Kubernetes, Docker, Kubeflow, Airflow), with a metrics-driven approach to evaluation, observability, and stakeholder alignment.”

“Backend/distributed-systems engineer (Amazon; also Bank of America) pivoting into robotics software. Built and owned an end-to-end cross-region event processing service for Aurora Global Databases, emphasizing correctness under latency/clock skew, fault tolerance, and strong observability; brings deep Docker/Kubernetes and CI/CD experience to robotics infrastructure and reliability work while ramping up on ROS 2.”

“Robotics software engineer with deep ROS/ROS 2 autonomy experience across warehouse fleets (Knapp delivery robots and quadrupeds), spanning SLAM, EKF-based sensor fusion localization, Nav2, and behavior-tree mission orchestration. Built a simulation-first testing approach using Isaac Sim Replicator with Dockerized, statistically analyzed repeat runs to catch nondeterminism, and personally owned real-world validation. Also developed a custom UR10 singularity-check ROS node based on manipulability.”

“Backend-focused Python/Flask engineer with strong performance and scalability experience across PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy optimization, caching, and async processing. Has implemented multi-tenant data isolation (schema/db per tenant with RBAC and encryption) and integrated TensorFlow-based ML inference behind a Flask REST API using Redis caching, batching, and async execution; reports measurable wins like cutting endpoints from 6–8s to ~2s and increasing throughput 3–4x via Celery queues.”

“Backend engineer with strong performance and security instincts: built a Flask API for readability metrics with clean, testable modular design; optimized SQLAlchemy/Postgres to eliminate N+1 issues (800ms to 120ms). Also implemented an LLM-powered natural-language travel search using Claude Sonnet + Amadeus with RAG and anti-exploitation safeguards, plus multi-tenant isolation via Postgres RLS and Redis caching that cut search latency from ~20s to ~4–5s while reducing storage costs.”

“Backend/AI workflow engineer with experience at AirKitchenz, Uber, and Vivma Software, building production systems on AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, Step Functions). Has a track record of major performance wins (DynamoDB latency 2s to <150ms; Postgres query 2s to ~180ms) and shipping LLM-powered onboarding and ticket-routing workflows with strong guardrails (schema validation, confidence thresholds, human-in-the-loop escalation).”

“Currently a startup CTO who thrives on building new technology stacks and rapidly turning technical ideas into products. Interested in partnering with a CEO/business team to commercialize embedded/edge concepts such as multi-sensor drone localization (video/audio/RF with SDR), low-cost solar+battery power nodes networked via LoRa, and an Amazon Sidewalk/LoRa connectivity device with cloud management.”

“Built and shipped production systems spanning real-time operational dashboards and an LLM-powered internal documentation assistant using RAG (embeddings + vector DB). Demonstrates strong focus on reliability and iteration: implemented guardrails and evaluation loops (human review, hallucination tracking, regression prevention) and improved performance/scalability through query optimization, caching, and retrieval tuning.”

“Backend engineer who has shipped production LLM-powered features, including an AI-assisted developer tool on AWS (Spring Boot) and a blog platform capability using embeddings + Elasticsearch for semantic retrieval and LLM-generated summaries/recommendations. Demonstrates practical tradeoff management (quality/latency/cost), guardrails to reduce hallucinations, and evaluation-driven iteration using real user queries and observability via ELK.”

“At KPMG, built and productionized a secure RAG-based LLM assistant that lets business and risk stakeholders query data warehouses in natural language, reducing dependence on data engineers for ad-hoc analysis. Demonstrates strong production rigor (Airflow orchestration, CI/CD, containerization), retrieval/embedding tuning (rechunking, semantic abstraction for structured data), and reliability controls (confidence thresholds, refusal behavior, monitoring and canary evals).”

“Built and deployed a production agentic LLM knowledge assistant that answers complex questions over internal documents, APIs, and databases using a RAG architecture (FAISS/Pinecone) and LangChain/LangGraph orchestration. Emphasizes production-grade reliability and hallucination control through grounding, confidence thresholds, validation, retries/fallbacks, and full observability (logging/metrics/traces) with continuous evaluation and feedback loops.”

“Backend/AI engineer with experience in both high-scale financial services (JP Morgan trade compliance analytics API on Java/Spring Boot/Postgres/Elasticsearch on AWS EKS processing 1M+ trades/day) and applied LLM systems for legal research (LangChain/OpenAI + Weaviate semantic search). Demonstrated strength in reliability/performance engineering, data consistency during migrations, and production-grade workflow orchestration with observability and human-in-the-loop guardrails.”

“Backend engineer focused on high-throughput Python/Flask systems on AWS, with strong scaling and performance tuning experience (e.g., PostgreSQL join reduced from ~3s to <200ms; background aggregation cut from 10 minutes to <90 seconds with 8x throughput). Has also integrated ML model serving into production APIs (churn prediction) using Celery/Redis batching and AWS Lambda/S3, and designed secure multi-tenant architectures with PostgreSQL schema isolation and row-level security.”

“Engineering/technology leader who stays hands-on while driving executive-level roadmap execution, with deep experience modernizing cloud-based LIMS/LIS platforms and building AI-driven lab analytics. Led a monolith-to-microservices cloud migration with containerization and CI/CD, and delivered a reported 30% reduction in lab turnaround time while strengthening compliance.”

“Backend engineer who built Flask-based microservices for a high-throughput risk engine, using Kafka for streaming decoupling and Redis for low-latency caching, with PostgreSQL + Cassandra for mixed relational and time-series needs. Has hands-on experience productionizing ML inference (Azure OpenAI/TensorFlow) behind REST APIs with async queues, batching, and caching, plus multi-tenant isolation via schema separation and RBAC with per-tenant rate limiting.”

“Backend engineer with PayPal experience owning a high-throughput, low-latency fraud detection pipeline processing billions of transactions/day, integrating LLM-based models into real-time Kafka streams and payment decisioning APIs. Strong Kubernetes + GitOps practitioner (declarative, auditable deployments; autoscaling/probe tuning) with migration experience modernizing legacy systems onto AKS/OpenShift.”

“AI engineer who built and shipped a production AI document-understanding/search system at Sumeru Inc, including a full RAG + LLMOps evaluation stack (MLflow, DeepEval, RAGAS) deployed on GCP. Also developed LangChain/LangGraph multi-agent workflows for UAV flight-log analysis and has experience presenting AI solutions to non-technical stakeholders and prospect clients to drive POCs.”

“Built a production-oriented multimodal RAG "Fix Assistant" with FastAPI, Tavily search, BM25 + cross-encoder reranking, and a local Phi-3.5 model, emphasizing strict grounding and fallback/verification modes to prevent hallucinations. Also has hands-on federated learning experience using STADLE to orchestrate edge-node training and aggregation for EV telemetry data, plus experience communicating AI results to non-technical stakeholders (traffic RL/congestion outcomes).”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered biomedical knowledge extraction pipeline that processed millions of papers to identify tools/techniques and produce a unified knowledge graph via active learning NER (Prodigy + spaCy transformers) and entity linking (Bio-tools/Wikidata). Addressed hard NLP engineering challenges like WordPiece span-offset alignment and scaled inference over ~1.5M documents using batching/caching, containerized services, async workers, and orchestration with Prefect/Airflow.”

“Robotics software engineer with real customer deployment impact at Dematic, improving AGV front-guided steering, localization sensor fusion, and control-loop performance while integrating with Beckhoff PLC safety systems. Also built a multi-robot ROS milling cell in graduate work, combining URDF/Gazebo simulation, MoveIt/OMPL planning, ROS performance profiling, and CNN-based defect detection to drive coordinated robotic milling.”