Vetted Distributed Systems Professionals

“Backend/DevOps engineer pivoting into robotics/space, building hands-on ROS2 (Humble) skills via Gazebo simulations and experimenting with Nav2 and slam_toolbox. Brings strong distributed-systems and real-time debugging practices (profiling, instrumentation, QoS/retry patterns) and is actively learning perception and control fundamentals to transition into autonomous robotics.”

“Internship experience at Qualitest building and deploying an LLM-powered test automation system that reduced manual test creation and improved efficiency (~40%). Demonstrates strong production engineering for LLM systems (timeouts/retries/monitoring/caching, prompt optimization, batching) and has scaled workflows to 100+ concurrent jobs; also has orchestration experience with AWS Step Functions and Kubernetes.”

“Backend engineer who has shipped production LLM-powered features, including an AI-assisted developer tool on AWS (Spring Boot) and a blog platform capability using embeddings + Elasticsearch for semantic retrieval and LLM-generated summaries/recommendations. Demonstrates practical tradeoff management (quality/latency/cost), guardrails to reduce hallucinations, and evaluation-driven iteration using real user queries and observability via ELK.”

“At Inertia Systems, built a production LLM-powered ingestion pipeline that converts heterogeneous sources (PDF/JSON/IFC/SQL and financial tables) into standardized text and uses GraphRAG to construct a knowledge graph with verified dependency relationships. Also has hands-on HPC orchestration experience with SLURM, including creating a custom wrapper process manager to improve resource utilization under restrictive scheduling policies.”

“Software engineer with experience at Walmart and Amex building customer-facing backend services and microservices at scale (RabbitMQ). Built an internal developer tooling platform integrating Figma with GitHub Copilot to automate consistent React component creation, adopted across multiple teams; emphasizes fast, safe iteration using metrics, feature flags, gradual rollouts, and automated testing.”

“Backend engineer focused on high-throughput Python/Flask systems on AWS, with strong scaling and performance tuning experience (e.g., PostgreSQL join reduced from ~3s to <200ms; background aggregation cut from 10 minutes to <90 seconds with 8x throughput). Has also integrated ML model serving into production APIs (churn prediction) using Celery/Redis batching and AWS Lambda/S3, and designed secure multi-tenant architectures with PostgreSQL schema isolation and row-level security.”

“Developer with experience across Drupal and Java/Spring Boot applications using React/jQuery for UI and API-driven features. Has handled production issues by tuning reverse proxy timeouts for login problems and troubleshooting data pipeline inaccuracies by fixing database queries, with a focus on performance and careful verification before changes.”

“Backend/ML engineer working on a battery energy storage system operations dashboard: built a Flask backend integrated with OAuth and a separate FastAPI optimization/simulation service, deployed via Docker CI/CD to Azure Container Apps. Strong in productionizing ML (AzureML to batch endpoints) and in performance/scalability patterns (Postgres indexing/JSONB, per-unit data isolation, async throttling + caching for year-long CPU-intensive simulations across 40+ scenarios).”

“Backend/platform engineer who led an end-to-end Python (FastAPI) transaction analytics microservice for real-time financial monitoring, including SQS ingestion, scoring/aggregation, and low-latency APIs. Strong AWS + Kubernetes/GitOps background (EKS, ArgoCD, Jenkins, ECS/ECR, CloudWatch) with hands-on experience scaling event-driven systems and executing phased on-prem to AWS migrations.”

“Backend/data engineering candidate specializing in Python/Flask services and ML-enabled systems, deploying containerized workloads on AWS ECS/EKS with strong observability (Prometheus/Grafana) and PostgreSQL performance tuning. Built multi-tenant architectures with row- and schema-level isolation and optimized a Kubernetes-based Airflow + Spark nightly ETL pipeline for an e-commerce client, improving performance by 250%+ and reliably beating morning reporting deadlines; also contributed to Apache Airflow (SQLAlchemy/PostgreSQL area).”

“Engineering leader with hands-on coding time who has driven major commerce and data-platform transformations: defined goop’s omnichannel strategy, unified payments to Square, and rebuilt real-time NetSuite inventory flows plus forecasting tools. Currently reorganized engineering into Product/Data/Support teams to hit aggressive seasonal roadmaps, and led a data-lake/medallion ELT refactor feeding embedded analytics (Tinybird) with improved reliability and cost efficiency; also accelerates onboarding via AI coding tools in a serverless, event-driven architecture.”

“Enterprise Principal/Lead CSM with experience owning high-profile tech, fintech, and government accounts end-to-end, including regulated AWS high-side deployments for a GPU-accelerated query engine. Built onboarding and VoC programs from the ground up, drove 90% adoption in 2 months, and influenced roadmap changes delivering 10x performance gains. Previously led Cloudera’s Apple relationship across 40+ teams and delivered 125% NRR through cloud/hybrid expansion and POCs.”

“Cloud/Kubernetes-focused production engineer with experience running 99.95% uptime platforms across AWS/Azure/GCP. Strong in incident response and performance troubleshooting (including a 30% MTTR reduction), and in building secure CI/CD and Terraform-based IaC for AKS/GKE microservices with robust change controls and rollback practices. Notably does not have direct IBM Power/AIX/VIOS/HMC or PowerHA/HACMP ownership.”

“GenAI/LLM ML engineer (currently at Webprobo) building an enterprise GenAI platform with document intelligence and automation on AWS and blockchain. Has hands-on experience with RAG, LLM evaluation tooling, and orchestrating production LLM workflows with Apache Airflow, plus deep exposure to reliability challenges in globally distributed/edge deployments. Also partnered with business/marketing stakeholders at a banking client to deliver an AI-driven customer retention insights solution.”

“Robotics software engineer focused on production-deployed industrial automation, owning robot behavior end-to-end across integration and production support. Has hands-on experience coordinating multiple robots with PLC safety, conveyors, and vision, using state-machine orchestration, deep debugging (logging/I-O tracing), and performance tuning to achieve stable run-at-rate operation. Also builds ROS/ROS 2 distributed systems in C++/Python and tunes DDS/QoS for reliable multi-machine communication.”

“LLM/agent engineer who has deployed a production internal assistant to reduce employee inquiry resolution time while maintaining regulatory compliance. Experienced with RAG, hallucination risk triage, and graph-based orchestration (LangGraph) for enterprise/banking-style workflows, emphasizing schema-validated, citation-backed, tool-constrained agent designs and tight collaboration with non-technical business/compliance stakeholders.”

“Technical/presales engineer with experience at Grubhub and Appen, spanning LLM-adjacent data labeling workflows and production AI troubleshooting. Built an integrations platform at Grubhub and has hands-on experience diagnosing prompt-related AI failures via Splunk, adding JUnit tests and logging to prevent recurrence. Known for shipping customer-specific workflow adaptations (e.g., OCR annotation coordinate transformations for crop/rotation) while keeping timelines intact through iterative delivery and parallelization.”

“Backend/ML integration engineer with experience at Accenture and Walmart building Flask-based analytics and prediction APIs on PostgreSQL/MySQL. Strong focus on performance and scalability—uses precomputed aggregates, Redis caching, query tuning (indexes/partitioning/EXPLAIN), and async/background processing; also designs secure multi-tenant isolation with JWT and schema/db-per-tenant strategies.”

“Software engineer who built a reusable React component package (UI modules, auth helpers, API client wrappers) for an AI SaaS background-removal project, emphasizing performance (tree shaking/dynamic imports) and reliability (Jest + Storybook). Also delivered a unified REST API for Samsung Big Data Portal, resolving cross-team issues by standardizing schemas, improving validation/logging, and operating effectively amid shifting requirements.”

“Software engineer working on agentic AI SMS customer engagement flows and a Customer Data Profile service that unifies journey data across SMS/web/calls while enforcing precise consent management. Has hands-on production operations experience, including recovering a reporting-critical Elasticsearch outage by standing up a new cluster in Kubernetes, restoring from snapshots, and rewinding Kafka consumers to reprocess missed data.”

“Backend/Founding-Engineer-style builder who architected AESOP, a multi-agent distributed platform for biomedical literature evidence synthesis. Implemented an async FastAPI stack on AWS with LangGraph orchestration, Redis/Postgres+pgvector, and Celery-based background processing, plus defense-in-depth security (JWT refresh/rotation and DB-level isolation). Notable for hardening LLM workflows with multi-layer validation and convergence safeguards to prevent hallucinations and infinite agent loops.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong production ownership who built a "Problem Workspace" coding feature using Next.js App Router + TypeScript, combining Server Components for fast initial render with WebSocket-driven real-time execution updates. Demonstrates deep reliability and data-consistency expertise (idempotency keys, Postgres constraints/indexing, EXPLAIN ANALYZE) and has implemented durable async orchestration (Temporal-style workflows) to reduce failures and timeouts under load.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience designing and refactoring scalable Node.js/MongoDB systems and building Python/FastAPI services. Emphasizes production-grade security (JWT, refresh tokens, RBAC, Supabase Auth, RLS) and reliability practices like strong testing, monitoring, and rollback planning, including resolving concurrency and token/validation edge cases.”

“Full-stack/backend engineer with deep experience building real-time fraud and credit-risk systems. Shipped an event-driven fraud monitoring platform (Kafka→MongoDB/Redis→WebSockets) delivering sub-200ms updates to 3000+ concurrent internal users, and built a Java/Spring Boot credit risk decisioning API that improved turnaround time by 30–40%. Strong AWS production operations (ECS Fargate/RDS/Redis) with proven incident response and performance tuning.”