Vetted Event-Driven Architecture Professionals

“Software intern at BestWork who owned an AI-powered sales performance chatbot end-to-end: React/Material UI frontend, TypeScript AWS Lambda backend, and AWS Bedrock (Llama 3) + OpenSearch knowledge base over Salesforce/HubSpot data with Slack-based weekly summaries. Worked directly with the CTO in a high-ambiguity environment, including building an audio bot from scratch just in time for a client demo, and implemented metadata-based retrieval to handle multi-team knowledge base constraints.”

“Full-stack engineer with cloud and GenAI experience who has owned production features end-to-end, including a reporting dashboard optimized from 14s to 5s using query/API refactoring and monitored via AWS CloudWatch. Also productionized an OpenAI-powered chatbot using LangChain with prompt design, guardrails, and evaluation via production logs and user feedback, and has led incremental legacy-to-microservices modernization with parallel run to avoid regressions.”

“At Delta Airlines, built and shipped a production LLM-powered semantic search/troubleshooting assistant over maintenance logs and operational documentation using OpenAI embeddings and a vector database. Implemented hybrid ranking, query enrichment, and structured filters to improve relevance ~35% while optimizing latency via caching and vector tuning. Also designed a scalable Kafka + AWS (Lambda/SQS) ingestion pipeline with strong reliability/observability and an eval loop using real engineer queries and human review.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Recent master’s graduate who led a team project building an LLM-based chatbot with RBAC-controlled information disclosure and a focus on reducing hallucinations. Also has hands-on embedded robotics experience (Arduino obstacle-avoiding robot using ultrasonic sensors) and practical DevOps/cloud deployment exposure with Docker, Terraform, Jenkins, and AWS (EKS/ECS/CodePipeline).”

“Unity developer with hands-on Meta Quest VR experience from a funded prototype for Meta, including on-headset testing, custom debugging tools, interaction-heavy mechanics, and performance optimization. Recently served as the sole developer on a multiplayer card-game-inspired Unity prototype, delivering a playable demo in ~2 months with extensible ScriptableObject-driven systems and an abilities framework.”

“Software engineer who built and owned an internal workflow automation + analytics platform end-to-end (TypeScript/React/Node) with a microservices, RabbitMQ-based async architecture. Drove adoption by shipping iterative prototypes and prioritizing reliability/performance (Redis caching, query optimization), delivering ~30–35% latency improvements and ~30–40% reduction in manual operational work.”

“LLM-focused engineer with end-to-end experience shipping an OpenAI-powered edtech teacher assistant into production, using Humanloop-driven prompt iteration, rigorous observability (Datadog), and A/B testing tied to real learning metrics (25% comprehension lift). Also led adoption-driving technical demos at SiriusXM (event-driven AWS Lambda/Kotlin/CDK pipeline cutting processing from 24 hours to seconds) and partnered with sales at Spresso.ai to close eCommerce SDK deals and boost activation from 40% to 85%.”

“Built and owned end-to-end ordering and inventory/order management systems for a wholesale distributor, delivering an MVP quickly and iterating based on direct observation of daily users. Experienced with TypeScript/React + Node.js layered architectures and microservices using RabbitMQ, including real-world scaling issues (duplicates, backpressure) and observability practices (correlation IDs, structured logging).”

“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.”

“Backend/platform engineer who built real-time connected-vehicle telemetry analytics at Subaru, spanning Kafka streaming, Python/FastAPI ETL, and low-latency WebSocket delivery (minutes to <2s). Strong Kubernetes + GitOps practitioner across AWS EKS and Azure AKS (Helm, ArgoCD, Jenkins/GitLab) and has led major on-prem-to-cloud migrations for financial microservices using Terraform and AWS DMS with measurable cost and reliability gains.”

“Software engineer/SME who owned customer-facing features in a tanker planning/scheduling domain, spanning UI, database migrations, and REST APIs. Drove major performance improvements by shifting complex pairing logic from a React/TypeScript frontend into a backend BFF (cutting load time from ~3 minutes to ~30 seconds) and led cross-team event-driven integrations using RabbitMQ and hexagonal architecture. Also built an internal OpenLayers-based mapping library adopted across multiple apps via Nexus.”

“Software engineer with hands-on experience building and maintaining a React accessibility utility/component library (open-source-style) used across university portals, emphasizing WCAG 2.2 compliance, robust focus/keyboard behavior, and Jest/React Testing Library coverage. Also built and maintained .NET Core microservices at the Florida Department of Transportation, including integrating AI-driven features, with strong ownership around observability, incident response, and performance-focused refactoring.”

“Front-end engineer with experience at Optum and Wells Fargo maintaining internal React/Angular component libraries and design-system-aligned UI modules used across multiple apps. Known for stabilizing shared libraries via semantic versioning, Jest test automation, and high-quality documentation, plus measurable performance wins (≈40% faster dashboard loads) through profiling-driven React and API optimizations.”

“Backend/platform engineer focused on real-time financial fraud detection and transaction monitoring, building low-latency FastAPI + Kafka systems with strong reliability patterns (DLQs, idempotency) and cloud observability. Has hands-on Kubernetes delivery across AWS EKS and Azure AKS with automated CI/CD and GitOps-style deployments, plus experience migrating legacy C# / Java monoliths to containerized microservices using Terraform/ARM and zero-downtime rollout strategies.”

“Backend engineer who built a stateless Python/Flask service supporting a healthcare-document ETL pipeline, offloading heavy processing to Celery workers and adding strong observability (metrics, structured logs, audits). Demonstrates practical performance/reliability work: batch chunking, priority queues, autoscaling by queue depth/CPU, DLQ routing, and PostgreSQL tuning (indexes, pagination) to cut slow API responses. Also has experience deploying real-time ML classification via TensorFlow Serving behind a FastAPI wrapper and integrating models via REST/gRPC.”

“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.”

“IBM Power/AIX infrastructure engineer with hands-on production experience across Power8/Power9 frames, VIOS and HMC, including resolving a production LPAR outage caused by vFC mapping issues. Has operated PowerHA clusters for critical finance workloads, running quarterly failover tests and handling an unplanned failover triggered by a network adapter failure, then improving resilience with redundancy and monitoring automation.”

“Backend/full-stack Java engineer at PNC Bank specializing in real-time fraud detection systems. Built event-driven Spring Boot + Kafka microservices with PostgreSQL/Redis performance tuning, and shipped a production LLM-powered RAG feature for fraud analysts with strong guardrails (grounded internal data, structured prompts with references, human-in-the-loop) plus an evaluation loop using labeled historical fraud cases.”

“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.”

“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.”