Vetted Datadog Professionals

Samee Rauf

Screened

Junior AI/Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in ad automation and LLM systems

Dallas, Texas3y exp

“Full-stack engineer with deep ad-tech/marketing automation experience, building production tools that reduce programmatic ad waste and improve search ads performance. Shipped and operated AWS-deployed, Dockerized systems with Postgres/Redis and strong observability (Datadog/OpenTelemetry), and delivered measurable impact (25k campaigns processed, 50k sites negated, 3–4 hours/week saved). Built scalable abstractions for multi-platform ad integrations, enabling rapid onboarding of additional clients.”

“Early major technical hire who helped build fintech startup Ugami from MVP to near Series A, while supporting bridge round and Series A fundraising with technical materials for leadership. Also grew from intern to lead engineer at a venture-backed product shop, giving him firsthand exposure to investor expectations, startup incubation, and practical AI opportunities with tight scope and strong unit economics.”

“Candidate is actively using AI-assisted development tools, including MCP server integrations with Copilot, to generate boilerplate test scripts, validate code standards, and handle package updates. They also have hands-on experience choosing different agents based on task requirements and serving as an admin for AI tool access.”

“Cloud/DevOps-focused engineer with hands-on experience building Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for containerized applications deployed to AKS, including security scanning, approvals, versioned artifacts, and rollback. Also implemented Terraform-based IaC for Azure (VNets/subnets/NSGs/AKS) with modular design, remote state/locking, and drift detection; resolved a real deployment outage caused by an Azure RBAC permission change.”

Taruni Reddy Ampojwala

Screened

Mid-level GenAI Engineer specializing in LLM agents and RAG systems

Brooklyn, NY4y exp

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based LLM assistant that answers day-to-day operational questions from internal PDFs/SOPs, with strong emphasis on data consistency (metadata versioning, confidence thresholds, conflict handling) and low-latency retrieval at scale. Experienced designing and orchestrating multi-agent LLM workflows (retrieval/validation/generation) and pipeline orchestration for ingestion/embedding/vector-store updates, plus iterative delivery with non-technical operations/business stakeholders.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong production experience improving performance and reliability of data-heavy analytics products. Has shipped end-to-end features spanning Node/Express + PostgreSQL + Redis and React/TypeScript, deployed via Docker/GitHub Actions to AWS EKS with Helm, and monitored with Datadog/CloudWatch; also built a Python compliance automation backend for AWS security monitoring with RBAC, versioned REST APIs, and resilient throttling-aware processing.”

Sviatoslav Boichuk

Screened

Executive CTO / Engineering Leader specializing in Full-Stack Architecture and Cloud Delivery

Ivano-Frankivsk region, Ukraine11y exp

“Founder building a hiring-focused startup who has engaged with venture investors but is prioritizing direct end-user traction through email marketing and other outreach before returning to raise a seed round. Has experience working with startups that have already raised seed funding and demonstrates a structured approach to market validation (customer conversations, landing pages) prior to heavy development.”

Revanth P

Screened

Mid-level DevOps Engineer specializing in AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and GenAI infrastructure

Walnut Creek, CA4y exp

“Database/platform engineer with stronger hands-on experience in AWS and Azure than GCP, but able to speak credibly about cloud database architecture, automation, and reliability engineering. They led an on-prem MySQL to RDS/DynamoDB migration, built Terraform/Python-based zero-touch database operations, and described a performance incident where latency dropped from 2s to under 300ms while supporting 2x traffic.”

Antonio Walker

Screened

Senior Technical Lead and Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud, AI, and enterprise platforms

Irvine, CA13y exp

“Engineering leader and player-coach who says he joined Freeing Returns during a transition from sales-led services to SaaS, architected the platform from the ground up, and helped hire a 10+ person team across engineering, product, and delivery. He also describes leading an AI-based fraud detection system on Salesforce with data lake and pipeline architecture, combining startup build-from-scratch execution with hands-on technical leadership.”

Teja Puvvula

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in web apps, cloud, and data integrations

Florida, USA3y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong production ownership across frontend, backend, and cloud ops. Led an AdTech “Status Centre” initiative at Beautiful Code that automated DSP integrations (XML/SOAP/REST) and reduced manual work by 90%+, using an event-driven architecture with retries and OTEL/Datadog observability. Also built and hosted a MERN app (Onegrad), load-tested with k6, and has experience running large migrations (~8k users) with validation and alerting.”

“Unity/C# developer who has shipped multiple Steam titles and owned systems end-to-end, including a large-scale in-game automation feature (a configurable stock-bot) designed for performance with massive object counts. Also built an open-source Unity Editor CLI extension leveraging cloud/LLM-style code workflows, and has shipped multiplayer (Mirror) plus cross-platform VR (Meta Quest) and mobile (iOS/Android) applications, using Datadog for live issue monitoring.”