Vetted Infrastructure as Code Professionals

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building FastAPI Python APIs and AWS-native platforms (Lambda/API Gateway, SQS, ECS Fargate) with Terraform + GitHub Actions CI/CD and strong reliability practices (JWT/RBAC, retries/timeouts, structured errors/logging). Also built AWS Glue ETL pipelines (S3/RDS to curated S3/Athena) with schema evolution and data quality controls, modernized legacy processing via parallel-run validation and phased cutovers, and has demonstrated SQL tuning impact (seconds to <200ms) plus incident ownership for batch pipeline SLAs.”

“Former CTO at Enodo who led development of programmatic parsers to extract unstructured data from real-estate financial documents (rent rolls and T12s), validating with users via prototypes before productionizing. Emphasizes accuracy-driven engineering and scalable test-suite growth based on real user samples, and has experience scoping complex product ideas (e.g., browser-based narrative editor) down to an MVP.”

Lavrenti DeLavrenti

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level Technology Leader specializing in cloud-native platforms, AI/ML, and SaaS

Remote15y exp

“Engineering leader (Director/VP level) who has repeatedly aligned product and engineering through ROI-driven quarterly roadmaps and strong stakeholder communication, including board presentations. Built a parallel cloud team to migrate an on-prem product to the cloud, credited with delivering $9M ARR, and led a Python monolith-to-serverless event-driven microservices transformation. Currently manages distributed teams across Mexico, India, and the US using pod-based structures, clear KPIs, and a supportive accountability culture.”

Joshua Smith

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive engineering leader specializing in AI automation and enterprise transformation

Banks, OR23y exp

“Technology leader with deep accelerator and zero-to-one product experience across the Department of Defense, Fortune 100 enterprises, academia, and GovTech. Most notably, they built a seven-tier solution that generated over $10M in first-year savings and was adopted by 300+ DoD organizations, positioning them as a strong CTO-type operator for mission-driven startups and complex enterprises.”

“Fintech startup veteran (8+ years) building TrustRelay, a control-plane product between ERPs and banks to verify vendors, enforce pre-flight payout policies, automate reconciliation, and produce deterministic audit evidence. Currently at MVP stage and planning to pursue Founders Institute Boston Sprint 2026 while lining up design partners and raising pre-seed/seed.”

“Backend engineer at Cerebrone.ai building cloud-native Flask microservices for an AI-driven automation platform on GCP (Cloud Run/App Engine), including dedicated inference services integrating OpenAI and internal ML pipelines. Demonstrated strong performance and scalability wins across Postgres/SQLAlchemy optimization, multi-tenant (healthcare/HIPAA-grade) data isolation, and high-throughput background processing with Celery/Redis/RabbitMQ, with multiple quantified latency/CPU/throughput improvements.”

“Backend engineer with recent Barclays experience building a Python asyncio + Kafka risk reporting service for trading desks, including a major refactor from blocking batch processing to event-driven incremental pipelines to restore intraday/EOD performance. Also shipped an applied AI feature using OpenAI fine-tuning to classify risk-breach severity and generate trader/risk-manager summaries with robust retry/fallback handling, plus demonstrated strong database/query optimization (triggers, materialized views, partial indexes) in a risk-limits/breaches domain.”

“Azure cloud platform engineer with strong enterprise Linux operations background who designs multi-region HA/DR on Azure (and AWS) using Azure Site Recovery, Traffic Manager, AKS autoscaling, and geo-replicated Azure SQL. Built secure Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for .NET/Python microservices to AKS/VMs and provisions full environments via Terraform modules with remote state, drift checks, and staged rollouts; has not directly owned IBM Power/AIX at scale.”

“Internship at ActiveVM where they tackled large-scale Spring Boot 2→3/library migrations across hundreds of downstream products by combining OpenRewrite (AST-based recipes) with an LLM/RAG-based classifier that routed risky files to human experts. Reported ~70% reduction in manual effort and 90%+ accuracy after testing across multiple branches and cutovers; also built a CTR-driven book recommendation capstone showcased at the Google office in Cambridge.”

“Cloud/platform engineer with hands-on ownership of AWS EKS Kubernetes platforms built and upgraded via Terraform, including AWS networking/security, EBS/EFS/S3 storage integration, and reliability validation through CloudWatch plus Prometheus/Grafana. Also has on-prem VMware/vSphere administration experience and day-to-day hybrid on-prem-to-AWS operations (VPN/Direct Connect), with examples of resolving pod instability from an application memory leak and fixing a production connectivity drop via routing/firewall troubleshooting.”

“Data engineer in healthcare (HCA) who owned end-to-end Azure-based pipelines at very large scale (50M+ daily claims/patient records). Strong focus on reliability: schema-drift fail-fast validation, quarantine layers, and Python/SQL data quality checks that reduced issues ~25%, plus performance tuning in Databricks/PySpark and versioned serving in Synapse for downstream consumers.”

Sravanti Dandu

Screened

Mid-level Cloud Engineer specializing in AWS & Azure infrastructure automation

Arizona, USA6y exp

“Backend/platform engineer (American Express) who built a Flask-based orchestration layer to automate infrastructure provisioning and integrated Azure AD/JWT RBAC security. Strong in PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy performance optimization (70%+ query-time reduction) and scalable async/event-driven architectures, including ML inference pipelines (SageMaker/Azure ML/Hugging Face) and high-throughput job queues (Celery/Redis) with reliability patterns like DLQs and idempotency.”

“Cloud-focused platform/infrastructure engineer centered on AWS and Kubernetes, with hands-on experience building EKS environments via Terraform/Terragrunt, bootstrapping clusters with Cilium and ArgoCD, and integrating persistent storage and backup tooling like EFS/EBS CSI and Velero. While no longer focused on on-prem or hybrid operations, they also bring prior VMware/Hyper-V and migration-to-AWS experience, making them strongest in modern cloud platform engineering roles.”

“Enterprise platform engineering leader who identified platform engineering as a major opportunity at Kyndryl and built an entire internal practice around it by codifying the offering and evangelizing it across leadership. Now exploring founding an agentic AI developer platform aimed at reducing variance and improving consistency in building/deploying cloud-native applications; has not raised capital yet.”

“Insurtech R&D leader turned CTO with 25+ years across telecom, DoD, automotive, and commercial insurance. Built patented AI-driven insurance document ingestion (>95% accuracy with 1–3 samples) and led Azure-based backend/service development while managing up to 15 engineers at a commercial P&C MGA that reached a ~$60M book of business (~30 loss ratio) before run-off due to paper issues. Known for hands-on discovery (including field inspections) and rapid MVP delivery, including a risk-inspection iPad app that auto-generated draft reports.”

“Embedded robotics software engineer specializing in C/C++ on ARM controllers, building sensor/actuator drivers and stabilizing real-time control loops under load using RTOS profiling and priority tuning. Strong ROS 2 integrator across microcontrollers and embedded Linux, with hands-on HIL testing (timing fixes, automated fault injection) and distributed robot comms via DDS, plus simulation (Gazebo/Webots) and Docker/CI/CD for reliable deployment.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across Python REST APIs and PostgreSQL, plus AWS containerized deployments using CloudFormation, Jenkins CI/CD, and CloudWatch monitoring/autoscaling. Has built data validation/ETL-style workflows with schema/version checks and targeted reprocessing, modernized legacy batch processing into Java services with phased parallel migrations, and delivered measurable SQL performance gains (~50% query runtime reduction).”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience building a SaaS analytics platform: FastAPI-based microservices with Redis caching and reliability patterns (RBAC, retries/backoff, centralized error handling). Also delivered AWS data pipelines (Glue/PySpark to Redshift) and owned real production incidents using CloudWatch/SNS, plus hands-on PostgreSQL query tuning on multi-million-row reporting workloads.”

“JavaScript/TypeScript engineer with proven open-source impact: delivered a major reliability upgrade to a retry/error-handling library (standardized typed errors, added exponential backoff, expanded Jest tests, and implemented GitHub Actions CI) that was merged and released. Demonstrates strong performance engineering and debugging skills (profiling-driven optimization; diagnosed a race condition causing inconsistent retries) plus a documentation-first approach to developer experience.”

“Infrastructure/DevOps engineer (Vidmob) focused on AWS + containers, owning GitLab CI/CD and Terraform-managed environments. Led a high-impact CI incident by correlating runner queue time, Docker pull latency, and NAT egress; implemented ECR pull-through caching and VPC endpoints to restore performance and then standardized the fix in Terraform for future scale-ups.”