Vetted High Availability Professionals

“Runs two lean real estate companies remotely by building local on-the-ground contact networks and leveraging free-tier technology to keep total annual business costs under $100. Brings a cost-elimination and MVP/validation-first mindset, preferring to join an established company unless a clearly viable business idea emerges.”

“Engineering leader who stays hands-on in high-leverage technical areas (architecture, scalability, reliability) while operating at an executive level. Led StagePilot’s shift from a tightly coupled legacy system to a cloud-native, event-driven real-time platform proven at 1M+ concurrent users, and previously scaled multiple SRE teams at McGraw-Hill with SLOs, on-call, and blameless ops practices.”

“Operations/industrial automation engineer with several years supporting and upgrading controls, PLCs, networks, and IoT across 300+ North American sites. Led a zero-downtime IoT safety-device integration into an existing plant control/SCADA environment by building a parallel secure network and a Python/Flask + AWS/SQL telemetry pipeline, avoiding a major outage and saving ~$300K. Also co-founded an IoT + ML flood monitoring pilot shaped through direct collaboration with urban planners, emphasizing geospatial flood mapping for decision-making.”

“Backend engineer with strong Python/FastAPI microservices ownership, including an ML-serving service with embeddings, async DB access, and Redis caching to reduce latency under high load. Experienced deploying and operating containerized services on Kubernetes using GitOps (Argo CD/Helm) with automated CI/CD, plus hands-on Kafka streaming pipeline tuning and enterprise migration work (Infosys) using blue-green/active-passive strategies.”

“Backend-focused Python/Flask engineer with strong performance and scalability experience across PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy optimization, caching, and async processing. Has implemented multi-tenant data isolation (schema/db per tenant with RBAC and encryption) and integrated TensorFlow-based ML inference behind a Flask REST API using Redis caching, batching, and async execution; reports measurable wins like cutting endpoints from 6–8s to ~2s and increasing throughput 3–4x via Celery queues.”

“At HPE, led and deployed an enterprise-grade LLM document intelligence platform for an insurance client, automating extraction from highly variable PDFs/scans/emails and raising field accuracy from 74% to 93%. Built a LangChain/Pinecone/OpenSearch RAG framework to cut hallucinations by 37% and operationalized LangSmith evals in CI, driving a 41% triage accuracy lift and >33% fewer incorrect resolutions while partnering closely with claims operations via HITL workflows.”

“Hands-on engineering manager/lead focused on Azure application deployments and CI/CD automation. Has led design sessions and 1:1 code reviews, and owned a production performance incident end-to-end from measurement and test-environment setup through production validation, while coaching team members via regular 1:1s.”

“UNIX/IBM Power administrator with ~20 years of experience across AIX, Solaris, and Linux, including HMC/LPAR provisioning, NIM-based builds, and PowerHA (IBM Spectrum System Mirror) clustering with validated failover as part of rolling patching. Has led cross-team infrastructure work (network/storage/DB/SAP), built SOPs used by junior admins, and automated SLES patching and .GOV-aligned hardening checks; also supported an AWS re-platform migration that later reverted to on-prem ESXi due to cost.”

“Cloud/Kubernetes-focused production engineer with experience running 99.95% uptime platforms across AWS/Azure/GCP. Strong in incident response and performance troubleshooting (including a 30% MTTR reduction), and in building secure CI/CD and Terraform-based IaC for AKS/GKE microservices with robust change controls and rollback practices. Notably does not have direct IBM Power/AIX/VIOS/HMC or PowerHA/HACMP ownership.”

“Computer science capstone project: built a UE5 VR campus virtual-tour simulator using Blueprint scripting, including trigger-box interactions that display building/department info. Spent significant time in QA/playtesting to reduce motion sickness and improve UX, and handled a challenging asset pipeline by converting/optimizing high-detail AutoCAD/scan-derived building models via Blender—ultimately creating a custom plugin to help with conversion.”