Vetted Datadog Professionals

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of production recommendation and GenAI systems, spanning experimentation, deployment, monitoring, and iteration. Stands out for delivering measurable outcomes—22% CTR lift, 15% conversion lift, and a 30% reduction in support tickets—while demonstrating strong judgment on latency, cost, and safety tradeoffs in real-world systems.”

Phanindra Satya Tharun Gunturi

Screened

Mid-level DevOps/SRE Engineer specializing in cloud CI/CD, IaC, and Kubernetes

Nashville, TN5y exp

“Infrastructure engineer with deep production IBM Power/AIX experience (AIX 7.2/7.3, HMC, dual VIOS, PowerHA) supporting ~25–30 LPARs and handling live DLPAR tuning, HA failovers, and Power7→Power9 migrations. Also builds modern cloud delivery platforms—Azure DevOps CI/CD deploying Dockerized microservices to Kubernetes with Terraform-managed AWS infrastructure, strong controls around secrets, drift, and safe rollouts.”

“Serverless-focused engineer (5+ years) who has built and deployed AWS Lambda/API Gateway backends with CloudFormation-based IaC and Jenkins-driven CI/CD across dev/staging/prod. Has experience with AWS Glue/OpenSearch data pipelines and emphasizes data correctness via Golden Data automated tests; also modernized a regulated .NET account-confirmation workflow by eliminating an unreliable SMTP email dependency. Based in San Jose, seeking primarily remote work with quarterly travel to Bethesda, MD and targeting $200k base.”

“Full-stack + ML engineer who built “Finsight,” a real-time financial risk platform (React/FastAPI/MongoDB/AWS Lambda) processing 2M+ records monthly, using sharding and Redis caching (60% DB load reduction) plus async and batch optimizations. Also has healthcare product experience at Apollo Healthcare, partnering directly with clinicians/admins to design and iterate EHR dashboards via Figma prototyping and user testing, and demonstrates clear system design thinking for real-time voice-to-LLM architectures.”

“Software engineer with connected-car/automotive production experience who owned an end-to-end remote door lock/unlock feature and introduced unit testing (GTest) plus rig/simulator validation. Also built and productionized an AI-native AWS cloud cost assistant (Lex + GPT-based LLM + Lambda + RAG/vector DB) with guardrails and achieved 94% evaluation accuracy. Helped replace a third-party solution with an in-house build, saving the company ~€9M.”

Mohana pavan Vankayala

Screened

Mid-level Java Full-Stack Developer specializing in microservices and AWS

Overland Park, KS4y exp

“Full-stack engineer (HCL Tech) with 4 years building enterprise, high-throughput microservices on AWS/Azure using Java/Spring Boot and React. Demonstrated measurable performance gains (40% throughput) through Redis caching, deep SQL/query tuning, and Kafka-based async refactors, plus strong DevOps/observability practices with Jenkins/CloudFormation and Datadog/Splunk.”

Allen Saunders

Screened

Senior DevOps/Solutions Engineer specializing in CI/CD, cloud platforms, and API integrations

San Francisco, California11y exp

“Solutions Architect with 5+ years leading pre- and post-sales engagements, focused on taking complex tooling from test/prototype to secure production through a structured discovery-to-deployment approach. Experienced in LLM workflow troubleshooting using tools like Langfuse/Gopher and in developer enablement via concise, hands-on workshops (e.g., Jenkins on Kubernetes at scale). Has navigated internal and external blockers to drive adoption and keep enterprise deals moving (including a Jenkins sale to Love's).”

“GCP-focused database/infrastructure engineer with hands-on production support for Cloud SQL and Firestore, spanning provisioning, IAM, scaling, backups, and performance tuning. They also described supporting a hybrid GCP architecture for a monolithic on-prem PostgreSQL workload and resolving a major latency incident by tracing cascading failures and fixing indexing issues.”

“Built and shipped production AI features for Aiden, including a natural-language agent and a Knowledge Hub ingestion/retrieval system. Stands out for hands-on debugging of real LLM production issues across providers like OpenAI and AWS Bedrock, improving reliability and achieving 90% response/retrieval consistency through direct LiteLLM integration, validation, monitoring, and async system design.”

George Platon

Screened

Principal Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI, DevOps, and cloud platforms

Romania, Romania16y exp

“Built a production end-to-end AI video-to-reels clip extraction system using a multi-agent architecture with transcription, captioning, effects generation, and centralized orchestration. Demonstrates unusually strong systems thinking around reliability, observability, evaluation, and production tradeoffs for LLM-powered workflows, including Kubernetes/Kafka-based deployment and regression-driven prompt governance.”

“LLM/agentic-systems practitioner who has repeatedly taken LLM-driven pricing/decision services from prototype to production using pilots, guardrails, observability, and staged rollouts. Demonstrates strong real-time incident troubleshooting (dependency timeouts, cached fallbacks) and post-incident hardening (isolation/async/alerts), and also supports go-to-market via developer workshops, technical demos, and sales-aligned POCs.”

“Forward-deployed, full-stack/platform engineer who owns production features end-to-end across frontend, backend, data, and infrastructure (AWS serverless, Terraform, React). Has modernized critical fintech/payment systems (zero-downtime monolith-to-microservices with Kafka event sourcing) and productionized AI-native support workflows (LLM + RAG on Pinecone) with measurable gains in latency, incidents, CSAT, and support efficiency.”

“Backend-focused engineer with experience owning a production e-commerce platform end-to-end (TypeScript/Node/Express, React, MongoDB, Redis) including RBAC and contract-based API development. Also worked at Infosys on a large healthcare management system built with Spring Boot microservices, using Kafka for messaging/retries, circuit breakers for resilience, and OpenTelemetry/Swagger for observability and API documentation.”

“Infrastructure/DevOps engineer (Geico) focused on AWS and Kubernetes at production scale. Has hands-on experience building secure GitHub Actions CI/CD for EKS, provisioning core AWS infrastructure with Terraform/CDK, and leading end-to-end incident response with post-incident automation to prevent recurrence; no direct IBM Power/AIX/PowerHA experience.”

“Backend/platform engineer with Optum experience owning a production FHIR Member Access API aligned to CMS interoperability requirements. Built and scaled Spring Boot/HAPI FHIR microservices on AWS (Docker/Kubernetes) with zero-downtime CI/CD, and operated them with strong observability (Dynatrace, logs/metrics, alerting) and incident response. Also implemented a Kafka-based FHIR bulk data pipeline with schema versioning, idempotent processing, and reliable backfills/replays.”

Ramya Konda

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in healthcare ML and generative AI

Remote, USA5y exp

“AI/LLM engineer at Humana who built and deployed a HIPAA-aware RAG system for clinical record retrieval, cutting search time dramatically and improving retrieval efficiency by 30%. Experienced with Spark-scale data preprocessing, QLoRA fine-tuning, LangChain orchestration, and MLflow+SageMaker integration, with a strong testing/evaluation discipline (A/B tests, human eval) to hit 95%+ accuracy and production latency targets.”

Israel Sodano

Screened

Principal/Staff Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and FinTech platforms

São Paulo, Brazil13y exp

“Brazil-based tech leader who helped build Bankly’s end-to-end Banking-as-a-Service platform—delivering a plug-and-play solution in 6 months and architecting for ~5k requests/second; Bankly later became the largest BaaS in Brazil. Also runs a closed, personal-capital private trading group focused on automating investment decisions with AI trading bots, but is currently prioritizing international career growth over entrepreneurship.”