Vetted GitOps Professionals

“Built and launched a verified listings system for Burrow (student subleasing) after interviewing ~50 students about scam/fake listing concerns; chose a lightweight .edu-based verification approach to ship fast and then iterated with badges and clearer details, reducing churn from 15% to 7%. Also ran an LLM A/B test for auto-generating listing descriptions and improved trust/accuracy by updating prompts to prevent hallucinated details.”

“DevOps/Infrastructure engineer with hands-on production experience building Jenkins CI/CD pipelines that provision Kubernetes infrastructure and process data into a MapR cluster. Uses Terraform to provision AWS resources (EC2, S3, VPC, subnets) with remote state in S3, separate environment state files, and code review/validation practices; targeting $135k base.”

“LLM/RAG practitioner building clinician-facing AI search and Q&A inside EHR workflows, focused on trust, latency, and safety (grounded answers with citations, PHI controls, encryption/audit logs). Demonstrated real-time incident response for production LLM systems (e.g., fixing a metadata-filter deployment regression to prevent irrelevant results/cross-patient leakage) and strong demo/enablement skills for mixed technical and clinical stakeholders; also shipped a multi-model RAG tool at OrbeX Labs with upload/search/audit features for day-to-day adoption.”

“Built an AI-based voice interviewer platform at 7C Lingo to automate early-stage candidate screening, owning the full lifecycle from architecture through deployment and weekly production iterations. Implemented a TypeScript/Next.js recruiter dashboard with a Flask/Postgres backend and AWS S3, plus modular services for transcription/analytics/session management using state-driven async workflows. Also created an internal Whisper-powered transcription and editing tool that evolved into a collaborative, versioned, live-transcription system.”

“Backend-focused engineer who owned an end-to-end Python/Flask service at Viasat powering a 1000+ user internal React app, including API design, Postgres performance tuning (~50% faster), Dockerization, and CI/CD. Demonstrated strong problem-solving by building custom EDN parsing logic and has built near real-time AWS SQS/Lambda pipelines with DLQs and autoscaling patterns; currently ramping on Kubernetes/GitOps (ArgoCD).”

“Backend engineer who owned an order management API built with Python/FastAPI and PostgreSQL, integrating payment and shipping providers with strong reliability patterns (idempotency, async workers, retries/backoff, circuit breakers). Experienced deploying services to Kubernetes using a GitOps model with ArgoCD (auto-sync, self-healing, pruning, rollbacks) and building high-volume Kafka streaming pipelines. Has also supported phased cloud-to-on-prem migrations with a focus on security monitoring/SIEM log continuity.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who has built and operated event-driven microservices platforms (FastAPI/React/TypeScript, Kafka, Kubernetes) and internal DevOps tooling. Delivered measurable impact through user-feedback-driven iteration (WebSockets update mechanism cutting redundant API calls ~30%) and operational improvements (deployment monitoring dashboard reducing rollback time ~40%), with strong focus on reliability, observability, and data consistency at scale.”

“Backend engineer focused on cloud-native microservices on AWS, owning Python/Flask ingestion services integrated with S3/Lambda and deployed via Docker/Kubernetes with CI/CD. Has led phased migrations from manually managed EC2 setups to automated CloudFormation + pipeline-driven releases, and designed event-driven near-real-time pipelines with idempotency, retry/backoff, and strong observability.”

“Backend/DevX engineer with startup experience who built internal JavaScript SDKs for POS integrations, including a daily GMV calculation feature standardized across multiple POS providers. Strong in performance debugging (used Jaeger to resolve legacy WebSocket bottlenecks) and developer enablement—built a cronjob migration tool (ArgoWorkflow to internal platform) with documentation that let teams migrate in ~30 seconds, plus handled on-call and internal support.”

“Python backend engineer who owned an end-to-end Django/DRF authentication and account-management module (JWT, RBAC, email verification) and optimized token validation performance. Has hands-on Kubernetes + Helm delivery with GitOps via ArgoCD (multi-environment app-of-apps, drift detection/rollback) and has supported a cloud-to-on-prem migration using staged testing and phased cutover. Also built and scaled a Kafka-based real-time user activity tracking pipeline with reliability and backpressure controls.”

“IBM Power/AIX infrastructure engineer who owned a very large production estate (12 Power9 E980 frames and 400+ AIX 7.2 LPARs) with deep hands-on expertise in VIOS/vHMC, DLPAR, and PowerHA. Demonstrated strong incident response (zero-downtime DLPAR fix; split-brain prevention during storage failure) and modernization skills spanning Jenkins/Ansible CI/CD and Terraform automation for IBM Power Virtual Server/PowerVC.”

“Early-career cloud/appsec-focused engineer with hands-on experience building secure, observable microservice systems on AWS (IAM least privilege, KMS encryption, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, ALB) and troubleshooting autoscaling-related 500s down to connection pooling issues. Also deployed heavy ML workloads on Kubernetes by decomposing diffusion/transformer services, using workload identity to eliminate static credentials, and maintaining GitOps-style deployment audit trails.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on AWS data platform work (S3 + Glue + Lambda/Step Functions) and Kubernetes GitOps delivery (Argo CD + GitHub Actions). Has led ingestion and transformation of semi-structured event data, built internal APIs for ETL operations/monitoring, and implemented Kafka-based near-real-time streaming with enrichment and Elasticsearch for search/analytics, plus experience supporting an on-prem ERP migration to AWS.”