Vetted High Availability Professionals

“Solutions Architect with 5+ years leading pre- and post-sales engagements, focused on taking complex tooling from test/prototype to secure production through a structured discovery-to-deployment approach. Experienced in LLM workflow troubleshooting using tools like Langfuse/Gopher and in developer enablement via concise, hands-on workshops (e.g., Jenkins on Kubernetes at scale). Has navigated internal and external blockers to drive adoption and keep enterprise deals moving (including a Jenkins sale to Love's).”

“Full-stack engineer from seed-stage Violet Labs who owned an end-to-end production "compare push results" feature for external integrations, including solving tricky false-positive success cases by validating against internal entity hashes and confirmed integration events. Experienced building React/TypeScript SPAs with a Node + Postgres backend, deploying via AWS/Kubernetes, and setting up CloudWatch logging/metrics/alarms with SNS paging.”

“Full-stack engineer focused on application-layer product work (70–75%), with production experience building real-time operational dashboards (React/TypeScript + Node/Express + WebSockets + Postgres) and measurable impact (50% reduction in data entry time). Also owned a Flask backend for a SaaS product with token auth/RBAC, versioning, observability, and performance tuning, and has operated containerized apps on AWS (EKS, RDS/Aurora, S3, API Gateway) including handling a real latency/scaling incident end-to-end.”

“Brazil-based tech leader who helped build Bankly’s end-to-end Banking-as-a-Service platform—delivering a plug-and-play solution in 6 months and architecting for ~5k requests/second; Bankly later became the largest BaaS in Brazil. Also runs a closed, personal-capital private trading group focused on automating investment decisions with AI trading bots, but is currently prioritizing international career growth over entrepreneurship.”

“Backend-focused software engineer building distributed, event-driven Java/Spring Boot microservices with Kafka for low-latency, high-frequency processing. Has hands-on experience modernizing a legacy Java system into containerized microservices deployed on Kubernetes with GitHub Actions CI/CD, and has integrated retrieval-based AI components into production workflows; no ROS/robot hardware experience yet.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on AWS-native Python systems: built a FastAPI microservice on ECS/Fargate serving real-time analytics at millions of daily requests with strong reliability (OAuth2/JWT, retries/timeouts, correlation IDs) and autoscaling. Also delivered Glue/PySpark ETL pipelines to curated S3 Parquet/Athena with schema evolution + data quality controls, owned Airflow pipeline incidents, and has a track record of measurable performance and cost optimizations (e.g., ~80%+ query latency reduction; reduced logging/NAT/Fargate spend).”

“Accenture engineer who built real-time smart mobility products (Verra Mobility) used by both consumers and government agencies, spanning React/TypeScript frontends and Node.js/GraphQL microservices with Kafka. Demonstrated strong delivery and reliability practices (CI/CD, feature flags, automated testing, CloudWatch observability) and achieved a ~20% GraphQL performance improvement supporting 50,000+ daily transactions, plus built an internal ops/support dashboard adopted into daily workflows.”

“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.”

“AIX/IBM Power veteran (30 years) with hands-on experience across the full stack—hardware installs, HMC/vHMC, VIOS, LPAR/DLPAR, NIM, and PowerHA fundamentals. Led SEV1 performance incidents (including Ethernet adapter tuning) and helped re-platform a large AIX estate to AWS (77 servers to ~120 EC2s) with extensive pre-cutover testing and operational automation (mksysb + sudo provisioning).”

“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.”

“Engineering/technology leader with experience at Evocative and through a merger with Hivelocity, aligning tech roadmaps to managed services growth. Led multi-region self-hosted cloud and automation initiatives that cut delivery time from days to hours/minutes and informed cost-saving infrastructure decisions (reported $500K OPEX savings). Known for scaling teams with pod ownership, agile/intake governance, and disciplined rollout practices that protect uptime and security.”

“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.”

“Production infrastructure engineer from Textron Systems who owned IBM Power/AIX 7.2 environments supporting manufacturing-critical automated RF test workloads. Deep hands-on experience with VIOS/HMC, DLPAR performance issues, SAN/vFC failures and failover recovery, plus modern DevOps practices (Azure DevOps CI/CD, Key Vault) and Terraform-based AWS infrastructure with remote state/locking and drift controls.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience scaling a CVE processing platform by re-architecting it into a Kafka-based distributed system, boosting throughput to 200k+ records/min while designing for HA, deduplication, and fault tolerance. Also led a Flyway-driven migration affecting 15M+ records with staged dev→stage→prod rollout, and has implemented production security patterns (Auth0, OAuth2/HTTPS, AWS IAM RBAC) including least-privilege hardening.”

“Defense-domain AI engineer who built a production ReAct-style RAG system for military training data/material generation, scaling to ~1000 users and cutting generation time by 50%. Also has experience designing GPU-cluster parallel computation with PyTorch and handling production incidents involving database performance and schema design.”

“Backend engineer with airline operations domain experience who modernized flight-ops systems from batch updates to real-time streaming on AWS (Kafka + Spring Boot microservices), improving latency and stability through metric-driven tuning and idempotency. Also shipped a production LLM decision-support component using RAG over operational logs and internal procedures, with strong guardrails and an evaluation/regression loop to reduce hallucinations and enforce grounding.”

“Cloud/DevOps engineer operating across AWS and Azure, running Kubernetes workloads with secure CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps) and Terraform IaC. Has supported AIX/PowerHA systems in hybrid environments—handling failover testing, incident recovery, and performance troubleshooting (including multipath/storage-path issues)—and has led cutovers by managing dependencies, rollback, and stabilization.”

“Dedicated engineer supporting the T-Mobile enterprise account at Gigamon, leading annual large-scale device upgrade initiatives (2000+ devices in 1–2 months) with an emphasis on zero production traffic disruption and strong stakeholder communication. Known for consistently high CSAT (4.8+) and for driving operational improvements in Salesforce that cut support Time to Close by 50%.”

“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.”

“Data/ML and product leader with large-scale consumer and enterprise experience (including Walmart) who blends hands-on prototyping with executive stakeholder alignment. Has delivered measurable outcomes across personalization, semantic search/knowledge graphs, and fraud/security architecture, and has scaled organizations rapidly (30→180 in 12 months) by upskilling and building modern data/ML engineering capabilities.”