Vetted Datadog Professionals

Ramya Sree Kanijam

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend systems, cloud, and AI pipelines

Remote, USA3y exp

“Built and owned an end-to-end AI-driven content enrichment pipeline for a news workflow, using n8n, LLM agents, and external APIs to automate ingestion, deduplication, categorization, and approval routing. Stands out for production-minded AI systems work: they improved reliability with schema validation, retries, idempotency, and monitoring, while automating 90% of processing and cutting duplication errors by 95%+.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience building Python FastAPI services and AWS-native data pipelines. Has delivered containerized and serverless workloads (ECS/EKS/Lambda) with Terraform-based IaC, strong reliability patterns (JWT/RBAC, retries/circuit breakers, observability), and AWS Glue ETL into S3/Redshift. Demonstrated measurable SQL performance wins (40–50s to <4s) and owned real pipeline incidents through detection, mitigation, and prevention.”

“Backend/platform engineer with production experience building a Python SDK over a microservices ecosystem, emphasizing reliability (JWT auth, retries/timeouts, custom exceptions) and integration testing. Has delivered AWS EKS microservices with Jenkins+Helm CI/CD, strong secrets/config separation using AWS Secrets Manager, and set up Datadog APM/deployment/change monitoring. Also modernized legacy VB applications to C#/.NET WPF via incremental migration with parity testing and stakeholder sign-off.”

“Senior/Lead Frontend/Full-Stack engineer in Toronto with proven experience shipping high-stakes, real-time and regulated products across healthcare, legal/compliance, and fintech. Built a real-time compliance dashboard that survived a 400% data spike and a no-code workflow builder supporting 500+ nodes, with strong emphasis on performance engineering, type-safe architecture, and automated quality/rollout practices.”

“LLM-focused engineer with end-to-end experience shipping an OpenAI-powered edtech teacher assistant into production, using Humanloop-driven prompt iteration, rigorous observability (Datadog), and A/B testing tied to real learning metrics (25% comprehension lift). Also led adoption-driving technical demos at SiriusXM (event-driven AWS Lambda/Kotlin/CDK pipeline cutting processing from 24 hours to seconds) and partnered with sales at Spresso.ai to close eCommerce SDK deals and boost activation from 40% to 85%.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based AI assistant for sales reps to unify access to product info, pricing, and internal documents across multiple systems. Implemented ETL pipelines for normalization/chunking/embeddings, integrated the assistant into internal React/TypeScript UIs with user-specific context, and enforced security with private vector storage and permission-filtered retrieval.”

“Backend engineer with cloud-native Python/Flask experience building high-throughput financial platforms (loan origination intelligent document processing and real-time fraud detection). Has scaled microservices on AKS with event-driven Azure messaging, delivered measurable performance gains (e.g., 700ms→180ms query latency; ~40% API improvements), and implemented strong security controls (OAuth2/JWT, Azure AD RBAC, audit logging, AES-256/TLS) for sensitive regulated data.”

“IBM Power/AIX infrastructure engineer with hands-on production experience across Power8/Power9 frames, VIOS and HMC, including resolving a production LPAR outage caused by vFC mapping issues. Has operated PowerHA clusters for critical finance workloads, running quarterly failover tests and handling an unplanned failover triggered by a network adapter failure, then improving resilience with redundancy and monitoring automation.”

“Production infrastructure engineer from Textron Systems who owned IBM Power/AIX 7.2 environments supporting manufacturing-critical automated RF test workloads. Deep hands-on experience with VIOS/HMC, DLPAR performance issues, SAN/vFC failures and failover recovery, plus modern DevOps practices (Azure DevOps CI/CD, Key Vault) and Terraform-based AWS infrastructure with remote state/locking and drift controls.”

“Software engineer focused on backend and full-stack development who is already integrating AI deeply into day-to-day engineering workflows. Stands out for experimenting with multi-agent setups where separate agents handle planning, coding, review, testing, and documentation, while maintaining strong human oversight around quality, security, and performance.”

“Systems Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services with hands-on ownership of enterprise logistics microservices (Spring Boot) using Kafka integrated with Azure Event Hubs, including partitioning strategies and operational handling of consumer lag/duplicate events. Also built a full-stack road-accident blackspot detection application using Python-based spatial clustering and model evaluation with a JavaScript/Mapbox frontend.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong ownership in fast-moving environments: designed and shipped a pre-order/campaign inventory system (NestJS + Strapi + Datadog) that freed 34% warehouse space and reduced stock risk to ~5.7%. Also built rapid, high-impact logistics features (Spot Sales) that drove last-mile cost to ~0 in ~40 days, and has hands-on AWS/Terraform/CI-CD experience including deploying a global RAG system with Pinecone, Datadog, and PagerDuty.”

Serge Ahranovich

Screened

Executive CTO / Platform Architect specializing in IoT, telematics, and EV charging infrastructure

Los Angeles, CA20y exp

“Founder of TimeTick (timetick.io), an AI-powered diagnostics platform for IoT combining device simulation, automated testing, and real-time monitoring—initially focused on EV charger diagnostics. Former VP of Engineering with a track record of building IoT systems from scratch and applying AI to detect protocol-failure patterns that drive downtime; currently supporting existing customers and converting pilots (with leads like Siemens and ABB) into paid subscriptions.”

Manali Patil

Screened

Senior Software Engineer & Engineering Manager specializing in cloud backend and manufacturing MES

Santa Clara, CA9y exp

“Customer-facing engineer who led recurring midnight ERP data-feed/B2B integrations from prototype to production, building reusable APIs and using Hangfire for job scheduling. Known for tight weekly customer iteration, strong documentation and test coverage (80%+), and cross-functional problem-solving with Operations/Quality/NPI to resolve data-collection and manufacturing-process constraints; has 2 customers live on the integration.”

Haritha Peddi

Screened

Mid-level SOC Analyst specializing in SIEM detection, threat hunting, and incident response

USA5y exp

“Backend/AI engineer with production experience in payments/reporting systems and high-scale Node/NestJS services on AWS (ECS/ALB) using PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Prisma, and Datadog. Shipped applied AI features including a Zendesk-embedded support copilot (summarization, draft replies, internal doc retrieval, playbook next steps) and an LLM-driven ops workflow agent with robust error taxonomy, retries/escalation rules, and auditability.”

Nilesh Bhoi

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack web apps and real-time systems

Austin, TX3y exp

“Software engineer who has owned and improved a customer-facing quote flow in a Vue/Nuxt app, using production observability to reduce latency and improve reliability via caching and request-handling fixes. Also shipped an internal LLM Q&A tool using embeddings + RAG over approved company docs and past support tickets, with guardrails, logging, and an evaluation loop that drove retrieval/prompt improvements. Seeking ~$110k base and requires H1B transfer sponsorship.”

“Data engineer focused on large-scale financial data platforms, with hands-on ownership of an AWS + Databricks + Snowflake pipeline processing ~2TB/day. Strong in data quality (Great Expectations), schema drift automation, and production reliability (99.9%), plus measurable performance/cost wins (4h→1.2h, ~25% cost reduction). Also built an async Python crawling/ingestion framework with anti-bot mitigation, retries, and Airflow-driven backfills.”

“QA engineer with 12 years of experience in SaaS/platform releases (not AAA games), partnering closely with developers and product through standups, 1:1s, and Three Amigos. Owned high-risk areas like payment data integrity and critical user journeys, running CI-based full regression to support go/no-go decisions. Notably caught a production EV charging receipt defect (zero charge shown) and drove it to resolution with strong Jira documentation and cross-functional escalation.”

“Data/analytics engineer focused on finance and e-commerce integrations, building end-to-end pipelines and services across Odoo, QuickBooks, Snowflake, and Tableau. Replaced a costly third-party Walmart connector with a serverless AWS Lambda pipeline deployed via Terraform/GitHub and monitored with CloudWatch/Datadog, and shipped a bi-directional Odoo↔QuickBooks invoice sync with distributed locking plus Slack-based finance approvals.”

Rupini Polavarapu

Screened

Senior DevOps Engineer specializing in AWS cloud infrastructure and CI/CD automation

Atlanta, GA10y exp

“AWS platform/infra engineer with hands-on ownership of EKS cluster lifecycle (upgrades, node scaling, networking/ingress, and EBS-backed stateful storage) and reliability validation using Datadog plus CI/CD smoke tests. Also supported on-prem VMware environments and operated a hybrid on-prem-to-AWS setup over site-to-site VPN, including incident response and implementing change-controlled firewall processes and proactive connectivity health checks.”

Bhanu Akepogu

Screened

Mid Software Engineer specializing in backend, full-stack, and AI systems

USA3y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong fintech/financial-systems experience who built an automated reconciliation and reporting system end-to-end (Python/Django/FastAPI + React, Docker on AWS), cutting reconciliation time by ~25% and improving audit traceability. Experienced designing typed REST APIs and Postgres data models, operating production workloads on AWS (EC2/Lambda/RDS/DynamoDB/CloudWatch), and building reliable ETL/integration pipelines with idempotency, retries, and reconciliation.”

Luke Evers

Screened

Director-level engineering leader specializing in full-stack product and e-commerce systems

Remote12y exp

“Candidate is an aspiring founder currently exploring startup ideas and potential collaborators, with firsthand experience as an early employee at VC-backed companies, including joining a current company shortly after seed funding. They have not raised capital themselves but bring early-stage operating exposure and a strong desire to build something they own with a high-trust team.”