Vetted Datadog Professionals

Pavan Devulapalle

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud platforms and AI-integrated full-stack development

Seattle, WA3y exp

“Backend engineer who built Flask-based internal APIs supporting GenAI-driven provisioning/diagnostics (Outpost/AWS Outposts-like environment), with deep hands-on optimization across Postgres/SQLAlchemy (2s to <200ms endpoint improvement). Experienced integrating ML/LLM workflows via AWS SageMaker and Bedrock, and designing multi-tenant isolation plus high-throughput Redis-backed background task pipelines (minutes to seconds).”

“CTO-level technology leader with experience building end-to-end tech strategy and roadmaps, modernizing legacy environments in healthcare (GenesisCare), and scaling engineering into large global teams (Amadeus). Built a DevOps organization at Syniverse for the Visibility Suite, implementing Kubernetes/Terraform/Chef automation that drove ~75% faster deployments, and is known for staying hands-on (including data center work) while leading strategically.”

“Platform/infra engineer with strong ownership of Kubernetes on VMware and day-to-day hybrid on-prem-to-AWS operations. Has hands-on experience automating infrastructure delivery with Terraform/Ansible/CI-CD, and has resolved real production issues spanning CSI storage reattachment during upgrades, vSphere storage-latency performance degradation, and hybrid connectivity/routing failures with improved validation, monitoring, and failover.”

“Senior engineering leader in healthcare AI who combines org scaling with deep hands-on architecture work. At DriveHealth.ai, they helped evolve isolated workflows into a production-grade intelligent platform, standardizing a shared RAG+DCE architecture while leading teams of 50+ across engineering, AI, platform, QA, and DevOps.”

“Amazon experience integrating LLM-powered chat automation into Amazon Connect contact-center workflows, taking prototypes to production with compliance-minded guardrails, schema/policy validation, and robust fallbacks. Regularly supports rollout and adoption via developer workshops, integration guides, and customer calls, with strong production triage and observability practices.”

“Healthcare-focused full-stack/platform engineer with recent hands-on experience in Go, React, Python, Kubernetes, and AWS. They have worked in high-reliability, compliance-heavy environments, driving infrastructure modernization, internal operational tooling, and observability improvements that reduced troubleshooting friction for clinician platform and support teams.”

“Solo technical founder building LabInsights, a healthcare middleware platform aimed at reducing missed follow-ups for abnormal lab results by layering AI-driven flagging, patient-friendly education, and prioritized care-team workflows on top of existing hospital systems. Currently validating in Bangalore with a former hospital CEO advisor, focusing on unit economics and securing LOIs/paid pilots; attracted to a venture studio to fill GTM, fundraising, and ops gaps.”

“Built and architected ML-integrated payment processing systems for PlayStation at Sony Interactive Entertainment, covering fraud determination, provider routing optimization, and model-training feedback loops in production. Brings a strong reliability and observability mindset, with concrete experience designing fallbacks, retries, correlation-ID tracing, and statistically grounded evaluation for non-deterministic systems.”

“Frontend-leaning product engineer who has owned complex, data-heavy interfaces across Stitch Fix, Amplitude, Salesforce, and C3Drone. Stands out for modernizing legacy UIs into React, improving performance for large and real-time datasets, and stepping beyond frontend into backend sync logic, middleware, and query/parser work to ship collaborative product features.”

“Senior full-stack engineer with seed-stage fintech experience who has led payment API development, implemented compliance-related standards, and built production systems across React, Go, Python, Node.js, and PostgreSQL. Notable impact includes enabling a first major client launch, reducing logistics response times by 30%, improving page load times by 40%+, and cutting analytics report generation from minutes to seconds.”

“Data engineer/backend developer with experience owning end-to-end, high-volume data pipelines for ML/analytics using Python, Airflow, SQL, and PySpark, reporting ~30% error reduction through improved reliability and data quality checks. Has also built Django-based REST APIs with caching/pagination and strong versioning practices, and operated external data collection/web scraping pipelines with anti-bot measures, monitoring, retries, and idempotent backfills.”

“Built and deployed a production AI/ML SRE copilot that uses RAG over real-time Splunk signals plus deployment/runbook data to generate grounded incident summaries and next steps, cutting time-to-contact by 30%. Treats the knowledge corpus like a production dataset (quality gates, semantic chunking, metadata enrichment) and runs golden-dataset automated evals to ensure reliability, while partnering closely with ops/support leaders through discovery sessions and metric-driven demos.”

“Entrepreneur building a bootstrapped AI-based personal agent (inspired by Claude desktop) aimed at making AI assistance accessible to non-technical users. Motivated by improving individuals' daily lives by helping them organize their day and offload simple, repeatable tasks; plans to explore VC/accelerator options but has not raised capital yet.”

Neha Baadadmath

Screened

Executive Software Engineering Leader specializing in Trading, Payments, and FinTech platforms

Phoenix, AZ18y exp

“Entrepreneurially minded operator with experience in trading-platform environments who prototyped a vector-database layer to generate contextual incident narratives and reduce MTTR/escalations. Also building a non-tech venture: luxury wine distribution into India and broader Asian markets, sourcing directly from wineries with a Master of Wine and planning tier-1 launch via restaurant-owner connections while navigating complex import duties and licensing.”

“Engineer with hands-on experience shipping production Python integrations and designing for reliability from day one, including idempotency, retries, dead-letter handling, contract checks, and full observability. Also brings web automation experience with Puppeteer and has implemented high-availability failover using load balancer liveness checks, backup environments, and cold standby architecture.”

Christopher Kirby

Screened

Executive engineering leader specializing in platform engineering, AI systems, and SaaS

Detroit, MI24y exp

“Senior engineering executive who has repeatedly rebuilt and scaled product engineering organizations in high-growth environments, including restarting Rocket Auto’s stack from scratch and hiring 100+ engineers during StockX’s hypergrowth phase. Particularly differentiated by being unusually hands-on for an executive leader, with active open source work and a strong focus on AI-native engineering workflows, developer automation, and modern architecture transformation.”