Vetted GitHub Professionals

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience building Python/Flask microservices using PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy, JWT auth, Docker, and GitHub Actions CI/CD. Strong in performance and scalability work—migrated heavy processing to Celery/Redis, tuned queries with EXPLAIN ANALYZE and indexing, and delivered 50%+ API latency reduction. Also integrates AI workflows (OpenAI APIs) with batching/caching/fallbacks and has implemented multi-tenant data isolation patterns.”

Pavanika Thotakura

Screened

Senior Data Engineer specializing in cloud big data pipelines and real-time streaming

Seattle, WA6y exp

“Amazon data engineer who built a real-time fraud detection pipeline for AWS Lambda, tackling multi-region telemetry quality issues and scaling stream processing for billions of daily requests. Strong in production-grade data/ML workflows on AWS (EMR, Glue, Kinesis, SageMaker) with hands-on entity resolution and anomaly detection.”

Deekshit Myakala

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud automation and data/ETL platforms

Arlington, Virginia6y exp

“Backend engineer with AWS multi-region production experience building APIs and workflow automation for data center/storage hardware operations (firmware orchestration, maintenance checks, ticketing, dashboards). Also shipped an internal AI chat tool that parses hardware runbooks and incorporates user feedback to retrain the model, and has a strong testing/quality discipline (95%+ coverage) plus database performance tuning via indexing and query monitoring.”

Kevin Allen

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in conversational and generative AI

Austin, TX12y exp

“Built and productionized an LLM-based support assistant end-to-end, including RAG, APIs, monitoring, guardrails, and agent feedback loops. Stands out for translating GenAI prototypes into reliable production systems with structured evaluation, safety controls, and reusable Python infrastructure that improved both support quality and engineering velocity.”

“Research Extern at Google DeepMind and former AWS Software Development Engineer Intern with a strong focus on practical, trustworthy AI engineering. Built a multi-agent RAG system for personalized news headline generation using a fine-tuned Flan-T5 model, parallel critic agents, FAISS retrieval, and style embeddings, while also leading a 3-person team on the project.”

“Backend/data engineering candidate with Netflix experience designing and migrating analytics platforms from batch to real-time streaming (Kafka/Flink) across AWS and GCP. Delivered measurable improvements (40% lower data delay, 99.9% accuracy) using phased rollouts, automated data validation (Great Expectations), and strong observability (Prometheus/Grafana), and proactively hardened pipelines with idempotency to prevent duplicate Kafka processing.”

“Backend/distributed-systems engineer with Uber experience building real-time telemetry and safety signal pipelines. Strong in Kafka-based event-driven architectures, low-latency processing under peak load, and production reliability via monitoring, retries, and fallback logic; has Docker/Kubernetes and CI/CD deployment experience.”

“Safety-critical firmware validation engineer with Tesla autonomous vehicle experience who built Python-based HIL/SIL automation and dashboards, cutting regression time by 30% while maintaining an auditable risk-tradeoff process with safety and engineering teams. Also deployed an inventory management system across 8+ R&D teams in 3 countries at FUJIFILM, troubleshooting a major cross-site sync issue to a timezone root cause with strong documentation and interim mitigations.”

“IBM Power/AIX infrastructure engineer who has owned a large enterprise footprint (40 Power8/9 frames, 400+ AIX LPARs) with deep hands-on VIOS/HMC, NIM, performance tuning, and PowerHA recovery. Demonstrated high-impact incident response (avoided DB reboot saving ~4 hours; restored clustered services in <20 minutes) plus strong RCA and preventative remediation. Also brings modern DevOps/IaC experience building GitHub Actions pipelines and Terraform-managed AWS EKS/VPC/RDS/S3 environments.”

Andrew Liang

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and AI/ML systems

2y exp

“Software engineer with experience at Amazon and Agora building end-to-end systems: a knowledge-base AI chatbot (React/TypeScript UI + retrieval/response backend + Docker deployment) and an internal approval governance platform using AWS Step Functions and DynamoDB. Emphasizes fast iteration without sacrificing trust via feature-flag rollouts, citation-required answers, abstention on low-confidence retrieval, regression query sets, and strong observability (request IDs, structured logs, latency/error monitoring).”

“Built and shipped a production agentic RAG system for healthcare analysts that automated compliance/operations knowledge retrieval across PDFs, reports, and databases. Emphasizes production reliability (monitoring, retries, fallbacks, async queues), strong evaluation/iteration loops, and measurable impact (3–10s responses and ~98% top-k retrieval accuracy).”

Asrith Velireddy

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in MLOps, LLMs, and scalable ML systems

Harrison, NJ4y exp

“ML/LLM engineer at Adobe who deployed a transformer-based personalization and campaign-targeting recommender system end-to-end, including PySpark/Airflow pipelines processing 12M+ events/day and containerized inference on AWS SageMaker (Docker/Kubernetes). Also has hands-on LLM workflow experience (RAG, semantic search, prompt optimization, hallucination mitigation) with a metrics-driven approach to reliability, drift monitoring, and reproducible retraining via MLflow.”