Vetted Cost Optimization Professionals

“Engineering leader who delivered a Magento-to-Shopify rebuild ahead of schedule while maintaining 100% team retention over 4 years at Hydrobuilder Holdings. Also built and ran a concert-listing platform (TourVolume) in production for 12+ years (Webby Honorable Mention) and later open-sourced the full codebase. Deep experience in auth/API platforms on AWS, including moving critical auth services from Lambda to ECS to eliminate cold-start latency.”

“Built production automations and LLM/RAG prototypes spanning enterprise and personal use cases: cleaned a 5TB Akamai storage estate via n8n + legacy REST APIs (20–25% deletion, cost savings) and developed an internal Qdrant-backed RAG chatbot evaluated with automated scoring plus user feedback. Also prototypes latency-sensitive agentic tools (e.g., automated hotline calling) and designs guardrails against prompt injection for email/PDF processing workflows.”

“Sourcing/PD leader with 15+ years in home categories (home textiles, furniture, area rugs, home decor) who has owned end-to-end programs for major US retail, including vendor qualification across China/Vietnam and trade-risk mitigation by diversifying sourcing to Vietnam/Malaysia. Known for disciplined milestone tracking (T&A calendars, ETD/ETA) and rebuilding supplier relationships to restore sampling and drive order placement.”

“Backend/data platform engineer who owned an enterprise Django REST + PostgreSQL reporting backend and built Python ETL pipelines to normalize 3M+ legacy customer records, improving data reliability by 85%. Strong Kubernetes/GitOps practitioner (Helm, ArgoCD, Jenkins/GitHub Actions) with real-world production debugging experience, plus Kafka streaming at 5M events/day and a zero-downtime monolith-to-event-driven microservices migration on AWS that cut infra costs by 42%.”

“Hands-on infrastructure and engineering leader (Director of Global Infrastructure / CTO) who has run double-digit multi-million dollar data center expansion and cloud migration programs and scaled teams rapidly (including offshore/nearshore). Strong AWS and microservices background (Lambda/SQS/SES), with experience balancing deep technical architecture work alongside investor/VC communications and fundraising-related responsibilities.”

“Technology veteran (28 years) building a security/infrastructure/AI startup with a working prototype and no capital raised yet. Demonstrated practical ROI-driven execution by uncovering SaaS license waste via API integrations, then enabling cost reduction through IT support guides and AI-based automation, using phased production-readiness planning and free-tier cloud resources.”

“Cloud/Linux infrastructure engineer focused on high-availability AWS platforms (EKS/EC2) with strong observability and incident response ownership. Has hands-on experience building secure CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins) and Terraform-based IaC at scale, including resolving real production issues like peak-traffic latency and Terraform remote state locking; transparent about not having direct IBM Power/AIX/PowerHA production ownership.”

“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.”

“Works on clinical trial applications and data pipelines, including AWS Lambda-based file transfer workflows for clinical study metadata. Has hands-on experience hardening production systems by adding observability, SSH/auth exception handling (Paramiko), retries/timeouts, and validating changes across SIT/UAT/prod. Also supports adoption through tailored technical demos for new teams and vendor partners integrating into their workflows.”