Vetted ETL Professionals

“Backend/data engineer with experience at Assurant and Capgemini, focused on reliability and performance at scale. Improved high-latency backend APIs by adding and iterating on a Redis caching layer driven by CloudWatch/monitoring metrics, and built scalable BI pipelines that normalize messy multi-source enterprise data with strong observability and error handling. Familiar with LLM/RAG architecture and practical guardrails, though has not yet shipped an LLM feature to production.”

“Frontend-focused engineer with enterprise Angular experience integrated with .NET APIs, emphasizing production-ready practices (reusable components, modular architecture, TypeScript standards, Jasmine unit tests, and CI/CD). Has not built Unreal Engine UI systems yet, but articulates how they would translate web UI modularity, separation of concerns, and testing/automation practices to Unreal/CommonUI workflows.”

“Full-stack engineer with strong production ownership: built and operated a real-time transaction monitoring/fraud-alerting system using Java Spring Boot, Kafka, Docker, and AWS with CI/CD. Demonstrates metrics-driven operations (latency, stability, consumer lag, true/false positives) and reliability patterns for integrations (idempotency, retries/backoff, DLQs, reconciliation/backfills), plus modern React/TypeScript + Node/Postgres architecture experience.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience building Python FastAPI services and AWS-native data pipelines. Has delivered containerized and serverless workloads (ECS/EKS/Lambda) with Terraform-based IaC, strong reliability patterns (JWT/RBAC, retries/circuit breakers, observability), and AWS Glue ETL into S3/Redshift. Demonstrated measurable SQL performance wins (40–50s to <4s) and owned real pipeline incidents through detection, mitigation, and prevention.”

“AI Backend Engineer in MetLife’s claims technology group who built and deployed a production LLM-based decision support system that helps claim adjusters quickly find relevant policy rules from long PDFs and historical notes. Designed it as multiple production-grade services with retrieval-first guardrails, continuous validation, and Airflow-orchestrated pipelines for ingestion, embeddings, and vector index updates to keep the system reliable as policies and data evolve.”

“Backend/cloud engineer who built an AWS serverless IoT system that computes Bluetooth beacon locations from telemetry using heavy scientific Python (NumPy/SciPy/pandas) packaged as Dockerized Lambda, integrated with Java microservices and scheduled batch orchestration. Has deep AWS delivery experience (CI/CD with Code* tools, CloudFormation, cost controls) and has led high-severity incident response including CloudTrail forensics and infrastructure recovery after a compromised-keys crypto-mining attack.”

“Engineer with startup experience who emphasizes disciplined Agile execution (requirements analysis, Jira tasking, sprint planning) and production readiness (testing/QA/PR review). Uses profiling/logging for high-observability debugging and prioritizes incidents by impact. Has demoed engineering processes and worked directly with a client (Canadian music service) to position product capabilities and future extensions to drive adoption.”

“GenAI/LLM engineer who built and deployed a production RAG system for enterprise document search and decision support, cutting manual lookup time by 40%+. Experienced with LangChain/LangGraph agent orchestration plus Airflow/Prefect for ingestion and incremental reindexing, with a strong focus on reliability (testing, observability) and stakeholder-driven metrics.”

“Forward-deployed engineer who built a production AI drone-control chatbot that lets users fly a drone via natural language while viewing a real-time feed. Implemented RAG over drone SDK documentation (vector DB + top-k retrieval) and LoRA fine-tuning, with a focus on latency, token efficiency, and cost reduction, and regularly works with non-technical clients to integrate and explain AI system architecture.”

“ML/LLM engineer with Meta experience building production AI systems for near real-time user-report classification and summarization under strict latency (<250ms), safety, cost, and privacy constraints. Has hands-on MLOps/orchestration experience (Airflow, Spark, MLflow, Kubernetes, Docker, GitHub Actions) plus observability (Prometheus/Grafana) and applies rigorous evaluation, staged rollouts, and A/B testing to keep agent workflows reliable in production.”

“Built and owned UPS tracking/reporting and operations workflow dashboards, delivering customer-facing APIs and real-time React/TypeScript UIs backed by .NET Core. Experienced in high-volume microservices using IBM MQ/Azure Service Bus with strong reliability patterns (idempotency, retries, DLQ) and Azure-based observability, plus performance tuning across frontend and SQL-backed services.”

“LLM/MLOps engineer who has shipped a production RAG-based technical documentation assistant (FastAPI) cutting manual review by 45%, with deep hands-on retrieval optimization in Pinecone/LangChain (HNSW, hybrid + multi-query search, caching). Also brings healthcare domain experience—building Airflow-orchestrated EHR pipelines and delivering FDA-auditability-friendly predictive maintenance solutions using SHAP/LIME explainability surfaced in Power BI.”

“Backend/data engineer who builds Python (FastAPI) data-processing API services for internal analytics/reporting, emphasizing modular architecture, async performance tuning, and reliability patterns (health checks, retries, observability). Also migrated legacy on-prem ETL pipelines to Azure using ADF/Data Lake/Functions and implemented a near-real-time ingestion flow with Event Hubs plus watermarking to handle late events and deduplication.”

“Backend/infrastructure engineer with experience across API development (FastAPI/MySQL/SQLAlchemy), Kubernetes deployments, and large-scale data processing—built a Dockerized Python pipeline to pre-aggregate ~1B Graylog events for efficient querying. Has enterprise infrastructure automation background at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (Datafabric) using Terraform/Ansible with fail-fast and rollback practices, plus Kafka-based sensor streaming prototypes to Google Cloud with Java workers and autoscaling.”

“AI/NLP-focused practitioner who built a zero-/few-shot LLM event extraction system on the long-tail Maven dataset, combining prompt-structured outputs with LoRA/QLoRA fine-tuning and rigorous F1 evaluation. Also implemented entity resolution/data cleaning pipelines and embedding-based semantic search using Sentence-BERT + FAISS, and has healthcare experience delivering a multilingual speech/translation mobile prototype using HIPAA-compliant Azure Cognitive Services.”

“AI/ML practitioner in healthcare/insurance (Blue Cross Blue Shield) who built and deployed a production NLP system to classify patient risk from unstructured clinical notes. Experienced in end-to-end pipeline orchestration (Airflow, AWS Step Functions/Lambda/SageMaker) and real-time optimization (BERT to DistilBERT on AWS GPUs), with strong clinician collaboration to drive adoption.”

“Backend engineer with cloud-native Python/Flask experience building high-throughput financial platforms (loan origination intelligent document processing and real-time fraud detection). Has scaled microservices on AKS with event-driven Azure messaging, delivered measurable performance gains (e.g., 700ms→180ms query latency; ~40% API improvements), and implemented strong security controls (OAuth2/JWT, Azure AD RBAC, audit logging, AES-256/TLS) for sensitive regulated data.”

“Full-stack engineer with banking-domain experience (Cognizant/Kotak) building and optimizing high-usage transaction/account APIs on Spring Boot/Node/PostgreSQL in AWS/Docker, including peak-load performance fixes. Also built an end-to-end retail demand-forecasting feature during a master’s program, spanning data pipelines, ensemble models, dashboards, and operational guardrails like validation and fallbacks.”

“Worked on taking an LLM-based system at Soundmakr from prototype to production by adding prompt constraints, validation/guardrails, deterministic ranking, and robust logging/monitoring with feedback loops. Also partnered with product/marketing during an internship on Thea: Study Smart to analyze onboarding drop-offs and run A/B tests on AI-driven flows, translating results into actions that improved retention and conversion.”

“Data/Backend engineer who has owned end-to-end merchant analytics systems on AWS: orchestrated multi-source ingestion (FISERV/Shopify/Clover) with Step Functions/Lambda, enforced strong data quality gates, and served curated datasets via Redshift and a FastAPI layer. Also built an early-stage Merchant Insights AI agent that converts natural language questions into SQL using OpenAI models, with full CI/CD and observability.”

“Full-stack engineer in an early-stage startup who built an EV charger monitoring and payments dashboard from scratch, owning UI/UX (Figma), React frontend, Node/Postgres APIs, and production deployment/ops (Firebase + AWS). Demonstrated measurable impact (40% fewer reconciliation errors) and strong reliability chops through multi-source energy/payment ingestion, idempotent pipelines, and CloudWatch-driven incident resolution.”

“Backend/ML engineer who built a job-search automation SaaS using a modular Selenium ETL pipeline, rigorous testing/observability, and a cost-optimized two-pass LLM ranking approach. Has led high-integrity data extraction from messy multi-city PDF records (95% integrity) and managed modular production rollouts for a 20+ engineer team, with a strong security focus (deny-by-default, row-level access control) in an AI-assisted grading platform.”

“Software engineer with robotics and data-platform experience from CVS Health, spanning Java/Spring Boot microservices, secure APIs, React dashboards, and Snowflake/SSIS ETL optimization. Hands-on ROS 2 developer who built real-time LiDAR obstacle-detection nodes, improved SLAM performance, and coordinated multi-robot communication using DDS, with simulation/testing via Gazebo and CI/CD deployments using Docker and Jenkins.”

“Backend engineer with health-tech AI platform experience who designed a modular FastAPI/PostgreSQL architecture supporting real-time user data and swap-in AI workflows. Has hands-on production experience with observability (CloudWatch, structured logging, LangSmith/LangGraph/LangChain tracing), secure auth (OAuth2/JWT, RBAC, RLS), and careful data-pipeline migrations using parallel runs and rollback planning.”