Vetted Containerization Professionals

“Backend/data engineer who has maintained high-traffic FastAPI microservices and delivered a hybrid AWS serverless+containers platform using Terraform and GitHub Actions, with secrets managed via Secrets Manager/SSM. Also led modernization of a mission-critical 10,000+ line SAS financial reporting engine into Python microservices and built AWS Glue ETL pipelines feeding a centralized data lake.”

“AI/ML engineer with CVS Health experience deploying production LLM systems in regulated healthcare settings, including a large-scale RAG solution (1M+ documents) built for compliance-grade, auditable policy/regulatory Q&A with strong anti-hallucination controls. Also delivered an NLP summarization system for physician notes/case narratives by partnering closely with non-technical care operations stakeholders and iterating via prototypes, dashboards, and feedback loops.”

“Data engineering / ML practitioner with experience at MetLife building transformer-based sentiment analysis over large unstructured datasets and productionizing pipelines with Airflow/PySpark/Hadoop (reported 52% efficiency gain). Also implemented embedding-based semantic search using Pinecone/Weaviate to improve retrieval relevance and enable RAG for customer support and document matching use cases.”

“Backend engineer/technical lead with experience building and operating real-time blockchain analytics systems at Merkle Science. Owned high-traffic Django/DRF services and Kafka streaming pipelines processing millions of events daily, with deep focus on performance (N+1 fixes, indexing, caching) and reliability (DLQs, retries, monitoring). Also led containerization and Kubernetes/GitOps-style CI/CD on Google Cloud, including a migration off Google App Engine to reduce cost and improve scalability.”

“Backend engineer at Discover who built and scaled Python/Flask services for a card dispute resolution platform, tackling long-running external network validations with Celery+Redis and delivering measurable gains (response time ~3s to <300ms; throughput +40%). Experienced in high-scale PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy optimization (partitioning, read replicas, N+1 avoidance), event-driven systems with Kafka, and integrating ML fraud detection using AWS SageMaker/Lambda/ECS with clear separation of real-time vs batch processing.”

“Built an LLM-powered academic research assistant for a professor (LangChain + OpenAI + arXiv) focused on synthesizing papers quickly, with emphasis on reliability (ReAct prompting, citation verification) and cost control (caching). Has production MLOps/orchestration experience at Cisco and HCL Tech using Kubernetes, plus MLflow and GitHub Actions for lifecycle management and CI/CD.”

“AI/ML Engineer who built a production RAG-based LLM system for insurance policy documents, turning thousands of messy PDFs into a searchable index using LangChain, Azure AI Search vectors, hybrid retrieval, and FastAPI. Strong focus on evaluation (MRR/precision@k/recall@k, REGAS) and performance optimization (vLLM), with prior clinical NLP experience using BERT-based NER validated on ground-truth datasets.”

“Recent J&J intern who built a conversational RAG agent and led a shift from a monolithic model to a modular RAG workflow, cutting response time from several days to under a second by tackling data fragmentation, context retention, and embedding/latency optimization. Also worked on a large (7B-parameter) multimodal VQA pipeline for healthcare research and stays current via NeurIPS/ICLR and open-source contributions.”

“ML/AI practitioner with hands-on experience deploying models to production and optimizing for low-latency inference using pruning/quantization, with deployments on AWS SageMaker and Azure ML. Has orchestrated end-to-end ML pipelines with Airflow and Kubeflow (ingestion through evaluation) and emphasizes reproducibility via containerization and version-controlled artifacts, while effectively partnering with non-technical stakeholders using dashboards and business-aligned metrics.”

“AI/ML engineer who has deployed transformer-based NLP systems to production via Python REST APIs and Kubernetes on AWS/Azure, with a strong focus on latency optimization (p95), reliability, and scalable orchestration. Demonstrates pragmatic model tradeoff decision-making and strong stakeholder collaboration—improving adoption by making outputs more actionable with summaries, extracted fields, and confidence indicators.”

“Backend engineer with American Express experience maintaining an internal Python/Flask rewards simulation microservice used by product analysts and QA. Demonstrated strong performance and scalability work: moved batch simulations to Celery, added Redis caching to cut DynamoDB latency, and tuned Postgres/SQLAlchemy queries with EXPLAIN ANALYZE and composite indexes (bringing API responses under ~200ms by queueing jobs). Also has experience integrating ML via Flask-based model-serving APIs (scikit-learn/LightGBM packaged with joblib) and designing multi-tenant data isolation and tenant-specific configuration systems.”

“Cloud/DevOps engineer (6+ years) with healthcare domain experience who has owned production AWS systems end-to-end—building real-time data pipelines and an admission forecasting ML service delivered via API and Tableau. Led EMR modernization from on-prem/VMs to containerized AWS using phased migration and blue-green deployments, achieving ~99.5% uptime while cutting on-prem footprint ~30% and driving major automation gains (up to ~90% manual work reduction).”

“Full-stack engineer who built a cloud storage app feature (file upload/management) with Next.js App Router + TypeScript and owned post-launch improvements. Also has internship experience building a geospatial AI chatbot: designed Postgres/PostGIS data models and optimized spatial queries, and implemented an LLM workflow orchestrated with LangChain/LangGraph plus a RAG pipeline grounded in OpenStreetMap data to reduce hallucinations.”

“Software engineer with experience building and iterating high-volume Spring Boot microservices on AWS (Docker/Kubernetes) and integrating with React front-ends. Also delivered an LLM-powered document summarization system using embeddings + retrieval (RAG) with grounding/guardrails and built evaluation loops that directly drove retrieval and chunking improvements. Has scaled Kafka-based pipelines processing millions of messy financial/infrastructure records with reliability and cost/latency tradeoff management.”

“Data engineer focused on AWS-based enterprise data platforms, owning end-to-end pipelines from multi-source batch/stream ingestion (Glue/Kinesis/StreamSets/Airflow) through PySpark transformations into curated datasets for Redshift/Snowflake. Emphasizes production reliability with strong monitoring/observability and data quality gates, and reports ~30% performance improvement plus improved SLAs and latency after optimization.”

“Robotics software/ML engineer who built perception and navigation-related ML systems for autonomous supermarket carts, including object detection, shelf recognition, and obstacle avoidance. Strong ROS/ROS2 practitioner who optimized real-time performance (reported 50% latency reduction) and deployed containerized ROS/ML pipelines at scale using Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD.”

“Backend/data platform engineer who has built and operated a cloud-native media ingestion/processing platform in Python (Django/DRF, FastAPI) with Kafka, Postgres, and Redis, emphasizing multi-tenant security and reliability. Delivered AWS production systems combining EKS and Lambda with Terraform + GitHub Actions/Helm, and built Glue-based ETL pipelines with strong schema-evolution and data-quality practices; also modernized SAS analytics into Python on AWS. Seeking fully remote roles with a $120K–$140K base range.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience modernizing high-volume transactional systems by decomposing monoliths into Spring Boot microservices on AWS, using Kafka for async workflows and Redis/SQL tuning for latency. Has built Python/FastAPI services with strong API contracts and production-grade security (OAuth2/JWT, RBAC, row-level security), and proactively hardened payment flows against race conditions and double-charging via idempotency.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered RAG system at Upstart enabling natural-language search across 50k+ scattered internal technical docs. Delivered sub-300ms p95 latency for ~50 active users with strong hallucination safeguards (retrieval-first, thresholds, citations) plus robust testing/monitoring and cost controls (prompt caching cutting API spend ~20%).”

“Backend/data platform engineer who owned end-to-end production services for a fleet analytics/GenAI platform, spanning FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes and AWS (EKS + Lambda) event-driven workloads. Strong in reliability/observability (OpenTelemetry, circuit breakers, idempotency), data pipelines (Glue/Airflow/Snowflake), and measurable performance/cost wins (SQL 10s to <800ms P95; ~30% compute cost reduction).”

“GenAI/ML engineer with production experience at Cognizant and Ally Financial, building end-to-end LLM/RAG systems and ML pipelines. Delivered a domain chatbot trained from 90k tickets and 45k docs, improving intent accuracy (65%→83%), scaling to 800+ concurrent users with 99.2% uptime and sub-150ms latency, and driving +14% customer satisfaction. Strong in Azure ML + DevOps CI/CD, Dockerized deployments, and explainable/PII-safe modeling using SHAP/LIME to satisfy stakeholder trust and GDPR needs.”

“LLM/agent builder who has shipped production AI systems in the wellness space, including an LLM-powered food tracking product used by 5000+ users and a voice/call-routing onboarding workflow using LangGraph/LangChain with LiveKit and Twilio. Strong focus on practical reliability work: latency reduction, retrieval/embedding tuning, and CI-driven evaluation with simulations and metrics.”

“Backend engineer focused on AI-enabled systems, having built a production-style RAG pipeline (vector search + LLM) exposed via Python/Flask endpoints with strong observability and hallucination-reduction techniques. Demonstrates deep performance work in PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy (5x faster analytics queries) and high-throughput optimization using Celery + Redis (800ms to 120ms latency, 3x throughput), plus schema-per-tenant multi-tenancy with tenant-aware middleware and logging.”

“Software engineer experienced owning internal, customer-facing dashboards and internal ops tools end-to-end, emphasizing fast iteration without sacrificing stability (CI/CD, automated tests, feature flags, monitoring). Built a TypeScript/React role-based dashboard backed by Java Spring Boot and has hands-on microservices experience with RabbitMQ, including production hardening with retries, dead-letter queues, logging, and health checks.”