Vetted Containerization Professionals

“Data engineer/backend engineer with healthcare domain experience at Centene, where they owned an end-to-end claims processing pipeline handling over 1 million monthly records. They combine Python/SQL pipeline work with API and event-driven service development, and cite a measurable 35% reduction in incident detection time through automated monitoring and validation.”

“Senior engineering leader with a rare blend of principal-level technical depth and large-scale people management, spanning identity/auth modernization, platform architecture, and cloud integration work. At Paylocity, they helped transform a legacy .NET/SQL environment into a more modular, microservices-oriented platform and dramatically reduced deployment times, while also leading teams as large as 80+.”

Sharath Amula

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI and FinTech

Dallas, TX2y exp

“Frontend engineer with experience in both healthcare and financial services, building high-stakes production interfaces such as AI-powered clinician care planning workflows and real-time fraud investigation dashboards. Stands out for combining React/TypeScript performance optimization with strong UX thinking in regulated, data-dense environments.”

“Full-stack/backend-leaning engineer with experience spanning fintech platforms, internal AI/RAG assistants, real-time analytics systems, and a zero-to-one academic web platform. Stands out for combining hands-on backend and infrastructure work with product ownership, team guidance, and measurable impact like cutting troubleshooting lookup time from 30 minutes to under 8 minutes and creating reusable UI components adopted across multiple projects.”

“Candidate brings a pragmatic, production-focused approach to AI-assisted software development, using AI as a pair programmer and conceptually applying multi-agent workflows across coding, testing, and review. They stand out for putting strong guardrails around AI usage—manual review, testing, SonarQube, peer review, and keeping critical logic manual—to improve speed without compromising security or code quality.”

“Data/analytics-focused engineer who builds end-to-end KPI reporting and validation products used daily by plant leads and leadership to track yield, downtime, and defects. Combines Python/SQL + Power BI data pipelines with strong data-quality practices (automated validation, monitoring/alerts) and has experience designing scalable frontend architecture in TypeScript/React and working in distributed/microservices-style data systems.”

“Runs two lean real estate companies remotely by building local on-the-ground contact networks and leveraging free-tier technology to keep total annual business costs under $100. Brings a cost-elimination and MVP/validation-first mindset, preferring to join an established company unless a clearly viable business idea emerges.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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).”

“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/data engineer focused on AWS-based, event-driven systems—building Golang microservices and serverless pipelines with strong data validation, observability (CloudWatch/Splunk/New Relic), and reliability patterns (retries/DLQs). Has also operated distributed web scraping/data collection with schema versioning and Step Functions backfills, and ships well-documented, versioned REST/WebSocket APIs for internal and external consumers.”

Rushir Bhavsar

Screened

Intern AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, MLOps, and distributed training

1y exp

“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.”

Mukundan Sridharan

Screened

Executive Technology Leader (CTO) specializing in IoT sensing, AI/ML, and RF/embedded systems

Rockville, MD22y exp

“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.”

Soham Patil

Screened

Junior Cloud & AI/ML Engineer specializing in AWS GovCloud and MLOps

Washington, DC2y exp

“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.”

Prateek Sahay

Screened

Senior Robotics Software Engineer specializing in autonomous navigation and robotic manipulation

Tucson, AZ7y exp

“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.”

“Has worked across multiple startup stages from pre-funding through Series D and emphasizes rigorous idea validation through direct conversations with both end users and purchasing decision-makers. Interested in applying NLP to automate summarization/abstracting of highly technical articles, with a balanced view of entrepreneurship that prioritizes health and family.”

“Built and shipped a production Python service integrating with a helium mass spectrometer for real-time sensing and remote control/monitoring. Combines hardware integration, observability, and Playwright-based automation expertise, with a strong track record of turning brittle or ambiguous real-world processes into reliable systems— including reducing dashboard automation failures from about 20% to under 2%.”

“Built an internal RAG assistant for financial documents using FastAPI, OpenAI APIs, and vector search, improving document search speed and reducing manual effort for the business team. Stands out for a pragmatic approach to AI engineering: uses AI heavily for productivity, but keeps human judgment central and has designed retrieval, validation, and summarization workflows end-to-end.”

“Senior engineering executive with 8+ years leading large-scale SaaS modernization across AI, compliance, ecommerce, streaming, IoT, and travel. Has led a 150+ global engineering org, modernized seven cloud-native platforms for a $400M business, and consolidated travel systems processing $1B+ annually while staying hands-on in architecture, incident response, and AI integration.”