Vetted Elastic Stack (ELK) Professionals

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered document Q&A system using a strict RAG pipeline (LangChain-style orchestration + FAISS) to help users query large internal document sets. Demonstrates strong reliability focus through hallucination mitigation, curated offline evaluation with grounding checks, and production monitoring (latency/fallback rates) plus stakeholder alignment via demos and business metrics.”

“Unity developer who has shipped VR games on Meta Quest/Oculus Go and demonstrates strong performance engineering for constrained hardware (multithreading, Unity Job System, Jump Point Search). Has built multiple games largely solo (e.g., Tap & Conquer), handling UI/flow, core gameplay, and save systems, and uses AI to speed up build/test/backup automation via shell scripting.”

“Backend Java developer who built an end-to-end upcoming payments feature: Spring Boot/Hibernate microservices with MySQL query/index optimization and Kafka event publishing, plus a web UI timeline component enabling users to view, skip, and edit scheduled payments with clear status indicators.”

“Backend/AI engineer who built production-grade intelligence systems in high-stakes domains including tax/legal document analysis and brain tumor MRI workflows. Stands out for combining LLM/RAG product delivery with strong engineering rigor around retrieval evaluation, grounding, validation, observability, and safe fallbacks—turning impressive demos into systems users could actually trust.”

Victor Iagnov

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Executive engineering leader specializing in SaaS platforms and AI-enabled architecture

Windermere, FL9y exp

“Engineering executive and former CTO of 3DWORLD who helped scale the business through roughly 22x revenue growth and 15x customer growth over four years while building a 20+ remote cross-functional org. Unusually for a senior leader, they remain hands-on in architecture and production debugging, with recent depth in AI-powered support systems, retrieval-based knowledge workflows, and scalable full-stack platform design.”

“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.”

“Software/product engineer who owns customer-facing internal platforms end-to-end, with deep experience building data pipeline health and data quality tooling (near-real-time alerting and ops dashboards). Strong in React/TypeScript + Python REST architectures and microservices with RabbitMQ, emphasizing reliability patterns (idempotency, DLQs, correlation IDs) and fast, safe iteration via feature flags, testing, and observability.”

“Game QA professional with AAA open-world shipping experience, owning high-impact quality risks like save-data corruption, progression blockers, performance drops, and multiplayer desync. Demonstrates strong systems thinking and exploit prevention (e.g., reproduced and helped fix a reward-duplication race condition using network interruption + rapid input), with disciplined JIRA/TestRail workflows and evidence-driven bug reporting.”

“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.”

“Backend/data engineer who has owned end-to-end production pipelines and data services, processing ~500K–1M records/day from APIs/logs into MySQL and serving via REST APIs. Strong focus on reliability and data quality (ELK + structured logging/monitoring), with measurable improvements (~30% reduction in bad data, ~20% query performance gains) and experience operating external data collection/scraping systems with anti-bot and schema-change resilience.”

Srikar Tharala

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Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and RAG systems

Remote, USA4y exp

“Currently at ProShare and reports building an AI/LLM-powered system deployed to production, aimed at helping with status-related difficulties and reducing misunderstandings across transactions. Also cites prior collaboration at Porsche with marketing teams, focusing on translating marketing goals into technical requirements and communicating solutions clearly to non-technical stakeholders.”

“Product-minded full-stack engineer with experience in fintech identity verification and industrial analytics, focused on turning repeated operational pain points into reusable platforms. Built real-time KYC/KYB dashboards, secure cross-platform web components, and a multi-tenant workflow engine that cut onboarding from 2 weeks to 1 day while materially improving conversion, reliability, and developer speed.”

“Senior full-stack developer who has operated in lean, multi-product engineering environments with significant end-to-end ownership. Strongest in JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and Next.js, with hands-on experience building a custom media player and internal business operations platforms that improved efficiency through dashboards, RBAC, search, and performance optimization.”

“Frontend engineer with hands-on experience building production React/TypeScript dashboards for operations teams, including real-time ETL and service monitoring. Stands out for combining maintainable component design with practical performance optimization and map-based visualization work in data-heavy applications.”

“Senior backend/data engineer who has built and maintained HIPAA-compliant, real-time clinical FastAPI services on AWS, orchestrating ML/LLM and vector DB calls with strong reliability patterns (auth, timeouts/retries, graceful degradation, idempotency). Also delivered AWS IaC/CI-CD (Terraform/Helm/GitHub Actions) across EKS/Lambda/SageMaker and built Glue/Spark ETL with schema evolution and data quality controls, plus demonstrated large SQL performance wins (15 min to <9 sec) and hands-on incident ownership.”

“Software engineer with hands-on production experience deploying Spring Boot services to AWS using Docker and Jenkins CI/CD, focused on stable releases, easy rollback, and performance improvements through monitoring/logging and query optimization. Has proven cross-layer troubleshooting skills (identified packet loss causing intermittent timeouts via network traces) and experience collaborating on-site with operators in industrial/IoT-style environments, including working alongside robotics/PLC teams.”