Vetted Datadog Professionals

“QA automation engineer who owned an end-to-end automated regression suite for a PlayStation digital store flow (login through checkout/payment), building a hybrid POM/data-driven framework from scratch with Selenium/TestNG/Cucumber and also using Playwright/TypeScript and Cypress. Integrated the suite into Jenkins CI/CD with nightly runs and reporting, improved coverage (happy + negative paths), and reduced release risk by catching critical issues like session timeout and transaction/payment defects before production.”

“IBM Power/AIX infrastructure engineer who has owned a large AIX 7.x/VIOS/HMC estate (hundreds of LPARs), handling provisioning, patching, tuning, and incident response. Demonstrated high-availability and recovery leadership with PowerHA failovers and SAN-path RCA/resiliency improvements, plus successful AIX 7.1→7.3 migrations with minimal downtime/no data loss. Also brings modern DevOps/IaC experience (Jenkins + Vault, Docker/Kubernetes, Terraform on Azure) with a focus on secure, repeatable deployments and drift control.”

“Financial data engineer who has built and operated high-volume batch + streaming pipelines (200–300 GB/day; 5–10k events/sec) using AWS, Spark/Delta, Airflow, Kafka, and Snowflake, with strong emphasis on data quality and reliability. Demonstrated measurable impact via 99.9% SLA adherence, major reductions in bad records/nulls, MTTR improvements, and significant latency/runtime/query performance gains; also built a distributed web-scraping system processing 5–10M records/day with anti-bot and schema-drift defenses.”

Anna Niedzialek

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and computer vision

Warsaw, Poland0y exp

“Backend-focused Python engineer who owned and deployed EcoHero, a recycling guidance app using FastAPI + Firebase with barcode lookup, ZIP-code-based state rules, and user history tracking backed by 50 state datasets. Has hands-on Kubernetes + Docker experience and uses GitHub Actions and GitOps-style PR workflows for consistent deployments, plus event-driven async processing patterns with idempotency and retries.”

Cia Hang

Screened

Executive IT and Operations leader specializing in digital transformation and security

Chicago, IL13y exp

“Candidate is very familiar with the venture capital and broader investment landscape, but is not interested in founding a company. They have worked with several TPG-backed or TPG-owned organizations, helping drive business scaling, cost reduction, and execution against investor governance requirements.”

“Backend engineer currently building an AWS Lambda/FastAPI inventory recommendation system using a LangChain + GPT-4 RAG pipeline and MongoDB vector search; drove major cost optimization via Redis caching (60% reduction) while sustaining 10k+ daily requests under 2s latency. Previously deployed Node.js microservices on AWS OpenShift with Jenkins/Helm at UnitedHealth Group and led a zero-downtime monolith-to-microservices migration at Verizon, including RabbitMQ-based real-time messaging with DLQs and idempotency.”

“AI/LLM engineer with production experience in legal tech: built a GPT-4 + LangChain RAG summarization system at Govpanel that reduced legal case-file review time by 50%+. Previously at LexisNexis, orchestrated end-to-end Airflow data/AI pipelines processing 5M+ legal documents daily, improving ETL runtime by 35% with robust validation, monitoring, and SLAs.”

“Full-stack/backend engineer with deep insurance claims domain experience who built and operated a microservices + ETL platform (Java/Spring Boot + Python + Kafka/Databricks) processing 1M+ daily transactions. Combines production-grade reliability (99.7% uptime, zero-downtime blue/green releases, strong observability) with customer-facing UI delivery (AngularJS/React+TS dashboards and a hackathon-winning research chatbot).”

“AI-native software developer who has built a highly structured workflow around Claude, Cursor, design agents, and SpecKit to plan, design, implement, and test features end to end. They also use multi-agent setups with sub-agents and git worktrees, and have experience acting as a tech lead for AI agents by assigning roles, guiding execution, and reviewing outputs.”

“Infrastructure engineer with hands-on ownership of a scaled IBM Power/AIX estate (AIX 7.x, VIOS, HMC; 2 frames/20+ LPARs) supporting critical middleware and database workloads, including live DLPAR changes and VIOS/SAN outage recovery. Also brings modern DevOps/IaC experience building GitHub Actions pipelines for Docker/Kubernetes deployments and provisioning AWS environments with Terraform (EKS/RDS/VPC/IAM) using modular, review-driven workflows.”

“Cloud/DevOps-focused engineer with production experience in Linux, AWS, Kubernetes, and cloud-native architectures. Has built GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines for containerized Kubernetes deployments and implemented Terraform-based AWS infrastructure with modular design and remote state/locking (S3 + DynamoDB) plus PR/CI-driven change control.”

“Full-stack engineer currently at Southern Glazer’s who built and owned a real-time commercial finance expense analytics dashboard end-to-end (Next.js App Router + TypeScript), including post-launch monitoring, data quality checks, and stakeholder-driven iteration. Strong data/analytics backend experience (Postgres modeling and Databricks Delta Lake pipelines) with demonstrated performance wins—e.g., cutting a key reconciliation query from 8–12s to <400ms and improving frontend load time ~40% with a 25% bounce-rate drop at Verizon.”

Bhakti Patel

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in .NET, Python, and cloud-native systems

Worcester, MA11y exp

“Full-stack engineer who owned an end-to-end production feature for a Piraeus Bank stock exchange module, spanning React/TypeScript, backend services, and cloud operations with Docker + CI/CD, delivering reported 90% faster API responses and improved uptime. Also built a Smartwound research MVP on AWS, creating a Python image-processing/scoring pipeline to ship despite unclear image-analysis specs.”

Vansh Amara

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI systems and robotics infrastructure

Madison, WI1y exp

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on ROS 2 experience building real-time perception/control infrastructure and multi-sensor fusion (radar/ultrasonic + GNSS/IMU) with deterministic latency and safety fallbacks. Debugged rover navigation drift via rosbag replay and timing analysis, improving state estimation by gating GNSS and switching to SLAM when GPS degraded. Also brings strong distributed-systems and build/CI tooling experience (gRPC/Protobuf, Docker, Bazel cross-compilation for ARM/RISC-V, GitHub Actions).”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered workflow assistant that automated internal marketing/production business tasks (document summarization, repeated Q&A, status updates). Demonstrates end-to-end applied LLM engineering: modular RAG architecture, hallucination/latency mitigation, automated evals to prevent prompt regressions, and Azure-based orchestration (Functions/Logic Apps) with monitoring and controlled rollouts.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on production-grade Python microservices and AWS platforms, including a hybrid Lambda + ECS Fargate architecture managed with Terraform and CI/CD. Has hands-on reliability experience (JWT/OAuth, timeouts, retries, centralized error classification) and built AWS Glue/PySpark ETL pipelines consolidating PostgreSQL/RDS, MongoDB, and S3 sources into curated partitioned Parquet datasets. Demonstrated measurable SQL tuning impact (8 minutes to 25 seconds) and disciplined legacy-to-modern migrations with parity validation and UAT sign-off.”

“Infrastructure/operations engineer with hands-on production IBM Power/AIX (AIX 7.x, VIOS, HMC) and PowerHA/HACMP clustering experience, including DLPAR changes, failover testing, and incident recovery. Also delivers modern cloud DevOps work—GitHub Actions CI/CD for Docker-to-Kubernetes on AWS and Terraform-based provisioning of core AWS infrastructure (VPC/EKS/RDS/IAM) with controlled rollouts and drift checks.”

Manikanta Kopparapu

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native web applications

TX, USA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer who has owned customer-facing and internal web portals end-to-end (API, database, React UI, and deployment). Experienced designing multi-service architectures with Node/Express and Java/Spring Boot plus RabbitMQ/Kafka messaging, emphasizing contract/versioning discipline, observability, and operational tooling that measurably reduces support load and manual work.”

Nithish Nelagal

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in data engineering and cloud platforms

Bentonville, AR3y exp

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who has shipped production-critical data/reporting features at Walmart and built an end-to-end workflow automation product (FastAPI + React/TypeScript + PostgreSQL) deployed on AWS. Strong in performance/reliability engineering (parallel ETL, batch DB operations, indexing via EXPLAIN ANALYZE), secure API design (JWT/RBAC), and pragmatic incident-driven scaling (separating workers from API layer).”

Mahesh Kota

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in cloud-native FinTech and Healthcare platforms

New York, NY5y exp

“Backend engineer with production experience building and scaling a Java/Spring Boot payment processing API on AWS (PostgreSQL/Redis) handling a few thousand RPS, including deep performance debugging (connection exhaustion) and observability (CloudWatch, Actuator, Zipkin). Also shipped application-layer AI features (OpenAI email summarizer with feedback loop, ~40% faster agent response times) and designed reliable multi-step workflow orchestration with retries and manual escalation, plus strong SQL tuning and Python engineering practices.”

Ganesh Pittala

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud-native platforms

New York, USA5y exp

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with experience at Walmart, Qualtrics, and American Express, shipping secure partner-facing API platforms and internal monitoring dashboards. Strong in AWS production operations (ECS/Fargate, RDS/Postgres, CloudWatch) plus rigorous testing/security practices, with measurable delivery and performance improvements (35% faster releases; ~30–40% latency reductions).”

“Platform/infra engineer with deep Kubernetes (EKS) and VMware vSphere experience who has led a monolith-to-microservices transition for a credit lending decision platform. Built GitOps-driven Terraform delivery with strong governance, and used LaunchDarkly-based progressive rollouts plus Datadog observability to safely ship multiple times per day (reported ~6x throughput and 1/3 the bugfix tickets vs legacy). Also operates hybrid on-prem/AWS networking (firewall + Transit Gateway, BGP) and has handled high-stakes datacenter migrations (100TB Storage vMotion) under Sev1 conditions.”

“Infrastructure/Platform engineer with deep production ownership of large IBM Power/AIX estates (70 LPARs, dual VIOS, HMC across two data centers), including live DLPAR tuning and PowerHA clustering for Oracle/WebSphere. Also brings modern DevOps/IaC experience—built GitHub Actions pipelines deploying to Kubernetes with OIDC/Vault secrets and implemented Terraform to provision AWS EKS/VPC/IAM/ALB/RDS with drift detection and controlled rollouts.”

Jeffrey Ren

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in React and Ruby on Rails SaaS

Henderson, NV4y exp

“Full-stack engineer who led an end-to-end rebuild of a service-agent case management app (React SPA + backend/DB updates) and added Datadog monitoring, improving agent throughput by ~1 case/hour and saving roughly $15K/month. Experienced in incremental legacy modernization (including moving a legacy React frontend toward a Rails-based approach) with heavy unit/E2E testing and strong cross-team stakeholder communication.”