Vetted DevOps Professionals

“AWS Cloud DevOps Engineer focused on production Linux environments, building secure CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/GitHub) to deploy Dockerized services to AWS ECS and automating infrastructure with Terraform/CloudFormation. Strong in operational troubleshooting and scaling (CloudWatch-driven performance remediation, Auto Scaling/ELB, multi-AZ HA patterns), but explicitly does not have IBM Power/AIX or PowerHA/HACMP experience.”

“Full-stack TypeScript engineer who has owned a real-time workflow/communication platform end-to-end in production (Node/TS + React, Postgres/Redis, Kafka, Docker/CI/CD). Demonstrates strong distributed-systems pragmatism—designing for failure with retries, DLQs, idempotency keys, and atomic writes—plus operational practices like structured logging, monitoring, and zero-downtime deployments.”

“Repeat founder/CTO with hands-on experience raising capital from friends and family, angels, corporate sources, federal grants, private equity, and venture capital. Built a startup in a software business incubator, later sold the company, and went on to serve as an Engineering Manager at the acquirer inside the Plug and Play accelerator ecosystem.”

“Backend/data platform engineer who owned an enterprise Django REST + PostgreSQL reporting backend and built Python ETL pipelines to normalize 3M+ legacy customer records, improving data reliability by 85%. Strong Kubernetes/GitOps practitioner (Helm, ArgoCD, Jenkins/GitHub Actions) with real-world production debugging experience, plus Kafka streaming at 5M events/day and a zero-downtime monolith-to-event-driven microservices migration on AWS that cut infra costs by 42%.”

“Data engineer with ~4 years of experience building Python-based data ingestion/processing services and real-time streaming pipelines (Kafka/PubSub + Spark Structured Streaming). Has deployed containerized data applications on Kubernetes with GitLab CI/Jenkins pipelines and applied GitOps to cut deployment time ~40% while reducing config drift. Also supported a legacy on-prem data warehouse/backend migration to GCP using phased migration and parallel validation to meet strict reliability/SLA needs.”

Michael Asadoorian

Screened

Executive CTO specializing in cloud-native SaaS, multi-cloud infrastructure, and AI/ML

Los Angeles, CA28y exp

“Hands-on infrastructure and engineering leader (Director of Global Infrastructure / CTO) who has run double-digit multi-million dollar data center expansion and cloud migration programs and scaled teams rapidly (including offshore/nearshore). Strong AWS and microservices background (Lambda/SQS/SES), with experience balancing deep technical architecture work alongside investor/VC communications and fundraising-related responsibilities.”

“Built and deployed a production, multi-tenant modular agentic AI platform at Easybee AI, using LangChain/LangGraph with Redis-backed durable state to make agents reusable, traceable, and auditable. Emphasizes reliability via strict tool schemas, deterministic controllers, tenant-level policy enforcement, and regression testing derived from real production failures; also delivered AI automation for legal/finance workflows (attorney draw and expense automation) with explainable, deterministic payouts.”

“Backend/AI engineer who has built and operated production Node.js/Express services on AWS (Postgres/Redis) and has hands-on experience shipping an AI-powered support agent using RAG (Pinecone + LLM) with grounding checks and evaluation for hallucination rate. Demonstrates strong production reliability/performance debugging, including reducing peak latency from ~2s back to sub-300ms through query and caching optimizations, plus designing agent workflows with retries and human-in-the-loop escalation.”

Michael Knott

Screened

Executive CTO specializing in AI, FinTech, robotics, and regulated platforms

Singapore, Singapore20y exp

“CTO/co-founder who spent the last 6 years running a Singapore venture studio (Undercurrent Capital), performing technical and business due diligence and leading ventures from ideation through growth. Notably built a MAS-regulated bond issuance platform (Cache) for a commodities brokerage, integrating onboarding, back-office, margin calls, and regulated money flows, attracting $120M USD in the first month.”

“Infrastructure/platform engineer with hands-on experience building and operating AWS Kubernetes environments with Terraform, including blue/green upgrade strategies and observability (Grafana/Prometheus). Modernized a mission-critical PostgreSQL system from legacy Sun SPARC hardware to x86/KVM with SAN and then redesigned it for load-balanced HA failover, and has operated hybrid on-prem (vSphere) to AWS connectivity using BGP/VPN and later Direct Connect, including post-incident improvements to centralized network config management.”