Vetted Docker Professionals

“AI/ML engineer who has shipped both a safety-critical mental health RAG chatbot (Mistral 7B + Pinecone) with automated faithfulness/toxicity monitoring and a deep Q-learning investment recommendation engine at Lincoln Financial Group. Strong in production MLOps and orchestration (AWS Lambda/CloudWatch/SageMaker, Docker, AKS) and in translating regulated-domain requirements (clinical reliability, fiduciary duty) into measurable model constraints and monitoring.”

“Built and shipped a production multi-agent, voice-based conversational assistant for older adults’ daily health management using Vertex AI, FastAPI, Firebase/Firestore, and Cloud Run, with a custom cross-session memory design to keep responses context-aware at low latency. Also partnered with caregivers/elderly users and health officials, translating needs into workflows and explaining HIV risk predictions with SHAP and dashboards.”

“AI engineer at Anote.ai who built and shipped a production multi-agent LangGraph/LangChain/Ray RAG platform for enterprise search and workflow automation, supporting 3 commercial products and 100+ developers. Drove measurable gains (30% accuracy improvement, lower latency) and improved reliability with Redis-based state checkpointing, message-queue synchronization, and Milvus retrieval optimizations, while partnering with PMs/clients to add transparency features like confidence scores and real-time logs.”

“Infrastructure/operations engineer with hands-on IBM Power/AIX administration (LPAR/DLPAR, HMC, RMC) and PowerHA cluster failover experience, plus modern DevOps tooling across CI/CD, Kubernetes/Helm, and IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation/Ansible). Emphasizes controlled change management, drift prevention via Git-as-source-of-truth, and observability practices using Prometheus/Grafana.”

Sumaya Shakir

Screened

Executive Technology Leader specializing in SaaS platforms, data ecosystems, and product engineering

24y exp

“Technology leader who drove end-to-end modernization at Dogtopia—building a proprietary SaaS POS/CRM and operations platform plus an AI-powered customer app—using OKR-driven roadmaps and Agile/DevOps delivery. Previously at GE, led a cloud-native AWS data fabric re-architecture with strong security/governance (RBAC, classification, encryption, lineage, virtualization), cutting processing time 60%+ and enabling AI workloads tied to $400M in business value.”

Pranav Puranik

Screened

Senior AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and multimodal NLP

Austin, TX5y exp

“Built a production LLM/RAG assistant for insurance/health claims agents that ingests 100–200 page patient PDFs via OCR (migrated from local Tesseract to Azure Document Intelligence) and delivers grounded claim detail retrieval plus summaries with PII/PHI guardrails. Experienced orchestrating large workflows with Celery worker pipelines and AWS Step Functions (S3-triggered, Fargate-based batch inference/accuracy aggregation), and collaborates closely with non-technical SMEs (claims agents/nurses) through shadowing, iterative demos, and SME-defined evaluation.”

Feras Alsaiari

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AWS data platforms and event-driven systems

4y exp

“Capital One engineer leading the architecture and delivery of a large-scale AWS Glue/Spark/Delta Lake batch messaging pipeline that decoupled batch from real-time flows, added multi-region failover and automated retries, and delivered ~40% AWS cost savings with ~3x performance gains. Currently building an LLM-powered Slack bot using RAG to automate message investigations by querying CloudWatch, Snowflake, and internal documentation with privacy-aware masking of NPI/PII.”

Manjory saran

Screened

Senior Backend & Infrastructure Engineer specializing in cloud-native distributed systems

5y exp

“LLM infrastructure engineer who built a production-critical real-time personalization and memory retrieval system for a user-facing product, adding <100ms P99 latency while improving relevance ~20–25% and holding SLA through 3x traffic. Experienced designing tiered retrieval backends (Redis + vector store), deploying on Kubernetes with autoscaling/circuit breakers, and running rigorous observability, incident response, and agent evaluation (shadow traffic, A/B tests, regression/replay).”

Rojin Bakhti

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in Edge AI and ML deployment

San Diego, CA3y exp

“Qualcomm engineer building Android applications that run on Qualcomm AI accelerators, with hands-on experience in C++ concurrency, chipset stress testing, and power/performance tuning. Has deployed on-device AI models and built deployment/log post-processing workflows using Docker/Kubernetes and CI/CD; interested in translating this embedded AI/performance background into robotics (perception/real-time systems).”

Hitesh Bhojwani

Screened

Mid-level Robotics Software Engineer specializing in SLAM and 3D computer vision

4y exp

“Robotics software engineer focused on outdoor mobile robot localization and navigation, building ROS1/ROS2 systems with NavSat+EKF sensor fusion and custom Nav2/Costmap2D extensions for 3D obstacle clearance. Demonstrates strong real-world troubleshooting by tracing localization drift to a failing IMU connector, repairing it, and then creating sensor-health monitoring tooling; experienced taking features from Gazebo simulation through field testing to Docker/Kubernetes deployment with CI via GitHub Actions.”

“Solo technical founder building LabInsights, a healthcare middleware platform aimed at reducing missed follow-ups for abnormal lab results by layering AI-driven flagging, patient-friendly education, and prioritized care-team workflows on top of existing hospital systems. Currently validating in Bangalore with a former hospital CEO advisor, focusing on unit economics and securing LOIs/paid pilots; attracted to a venture studio to fill GTM, fundraising, and ops gaps.”

“Backend-focused engineer who uses AI pragmatically as a force multiplier rather than a substitute for engineering judgment. They stand out for applying structured, agent-style workflows to code generation, debugging, and production log analysis while maintaining strong emphasis on correctness, performance, and reliability in backend and microservices environments.”

“Built and architected ML-integrated payment processing systems for PlayStation at Sony Interactive Entertainment, covering fraud determination, provider routing optimization, and model-training feedback loops in production. Brings a strong reliability and observability mindset, with concrete experience designing fallbacks, retries, correlation-ID tracing, and statistically grounded evaluation for non-deterministic systems.”

“Software engineer at Paradigm who is deeply hands-on with agentic development workflows and AI-assisted coding. He built an in-house OAuth layer to replace a third-party service and reduce projected integration costs, and also created an "ambient agent" that proactively responds to user behavior on the website. He stands out for combining full-stack architecture thinking with a disciplined, model-aware workflow for designing, implementing, and reviewing AI-generated code.”

“Senior engineering leader from IBM who has built and scaled enterprise AI/GenAI platforms across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, combining executive-level org leadership with hands-on debugging of production distributed systems. Particularly compelling for Director/VP roles needing someone who can unify architecture, platform strategy, and engineering execution across multiple teams.”

Polat Akbiyik

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and trading systems

Remote4y exp

“Full-stack builder with strong product and AI systems ownership, spanning data infrastructure, React/TypeScript apps, and LLM-powered agents. Particularly notable for building a crypto analytics MVP with catalog-driven ETL, config-based charting, and AI-generated dashboards, plus an options-strategy agent and an ops automation tool that cut a 10-minute workflow down to 10 seconds.”

“Staff-level engineer with a track record of building greenfield, high-impact platforms inside major enterprises like Apple TV, CAA, and Disney. Particularly compelling for teams that need startup-style ownership with enterprise-grade execution: they’ve driven cross-department adoption, built AI and real-time systems hands-on, and delivered measurable operational gains in media, content, and ERP environments.”

“Senior full-stack engineer with seed-stage fintech experience who has led payment API development, implemented compliance-related standards, and built production systems across React, Go, Python, Node.js, and PostgreSQL. Notable impact includes enabling a first major client launch, reducing logistics response times by 30%, improving page load times by 40%+, and cutting analytics report generation from minutes to seconds.”

Shanay Wadhwani

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in NLP, computer vision, and applied ML

Washington, DC6y exp

“AI/ML engineer with impactful work for the World Bank across both LLM systems and computer vision, including a PRAI evaluator-assistance platform and a production UNet model for slum detection from multispectral satellite imagery. Earlier built multilingual NLP-based borrower segmentation and credit scoring at Creditmate through its acquisition by Paytm, showing strong experience in ambiguous, high-impact environments.”

“Data engineer/backend developer with experience owning end-to-end, high-volume data pipelines for ML/analytics using Python, Airflow, SQL, and PySpark, reporting ~30% error reduction through improved reliability and data quality checks. Has also built Django-based REST APIs with caching/pagination and strong versioning practices, and operated external data collection/web scraping pipelines with anti-bot measures, monitoring, retries, and idempotent backfills.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong AI systems and B2B SaaS experience across BrightOps, Zapier, Nordstrom, and Calendly. They’ve owned architecture for an AI-powered tutoring platform, improved retrieval quality with a hybrid vector-plus-keyword approach, and built Go services processing over 1 million student events per day. Particularly compelling for teams building data-intensive, reliability-critical products with LLM, workflow automation, or compliance-oriented use cases.”

“Built and shipped customer-facing AI systems in banking, including an AI fraud support workflow and virtual assistant at Citi/Citibank that handled over 1 million conversations per month. Combines full-stack engineering, LLM/RAG architecture, and strong compliance-minded design with PII masking, audit logging, confidence thresholds, and human escalation for regulated environments.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience building credit/fraud enrichment services and checkout pipelines on AWS (EKS + Lambda) using FastAPI, Kafka, Postgres, and Redis, with a strong focus on reliability patterns (timeouts/retries/circuit breakers) and observability. Has also built AWS Glue/PySpark ETL into S3/Redshift with schema evolution and data quality controls, and modernized legacy credit decisioning into Java/Node microservices with parallel-run parity validation and feature-flag rollouts.”

“Robotics/computer-vision engineer with industrial safety monitoring experience, building real-time pose estimation (TRTPose) and 2D-to-3D localization and optimizing pipelines to sustain 30+ FPS under heavy multi-entity load. Also brings edge-to-cloud distributed systems work (HoloLens + Google Vision/Translation) and production ML deployment experience using Docker/CI/CD across finance and edge camera environments.”