Vetted Infrastructure as Code Professionals

“GenAI/ML engineer who has shipped production agentic systems in highly regulated and high-throughput environments, including an AWS Bedrock-based fraud/compliance workflow at U.S. Bank with PII redaction and hallucination detection that cut investigation time by 50%+. Also built and evaluated RAG and recommendation systems at Target, using RAGAS-driven testing, hybrid retrieval with re-ranking, and SHAP explainability dashboards to align model behavior with merchandising business KPIs.”

“Built and deployed a production compliance automation RAG system (at Citi) that generates citation-backed, schema-validated risk summaries for regulatory document review. Emphasizes regulated-environment reliability with retrieval-only grounding, abstention, confidence thresholds, and immutable audit logging, plus orchestration using LangChain/LangGraph and Airflow. Reported ~60% reduction in compliance review effort while maintaining high precision and traceability.”

“Senior technology/executive leader with 30+ years building and scaling mission-critical platforms across blockchain, cloud, cybersecurity, and fintech, including leading 100+ person global teams and managing $100M P&Ls. Founded Pharus (2022) after driving Web2-to-Web3/DeFi/metaverse initiatives at SDK Co, using a first-principles, PoC-driven approach to deliver secure, compliance-aware transformations (GDPR/NYDFS) and multi-million-dollar optimizations, with a focus on quantum-resistant Web3 and ethical AI governance.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered internal operations automation platform using LangChain RAG (Pinecone) and FastAPI microservices, deployed on AWS EKS, serving 10k+ daily interactions. Implemented a rigorous evaluation/observability stack (golden datasets, prompt regression tests, MLflow, retrieval metrics, hallucination monitoring) that drove hallucinations below 2% and improved reliability, and partnered closely with non-technical ops leaders to cut manual lookup work by 60%+.”

“Backend/platform engineer with production ownership of high-volume transaction analytics and fraud monitoring services built in Java/Spring Boot. Has scaled data processing platforms (including healthcare datasets) and operated Kafka-based event pipelines with schema versioning, deduplication, and replay/backfill workflows, using strong observability via CloudWatch/Grafana and CI/CD with Jenkins.”

“Software engineer with hands-on ownership of both fintech checkout improvements (saved payment methods/one-click checkout with tokenization and feature-flag rollouts) and production LLM/RAG systems for customer support. Demonstrates strong operational rigor via guardrails, evaluation loops integrated into CI/CD, and scalable data pipelines handling messy PDFs/CSVs/logs with reliability and observability.”

Bryan West

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI, cloud infrastructure, and full-stack development

Chantilly, VA17y exp

“ML/NLP engineer who built a production system that converts large-scale unstructured text into a connected, searchable knowledge base using spaCy + Sentence Transformers/FAISS and a Neo4j knowledge graph, with BERTopic and XGBoost for organization/labeling. Strong focus on production-grade Python workflows (FastAPI/Celery, Pydantic validation, Docker, AWS ECS/Lambda) and robust entity resolution with measurable precision/recall and human review for low-confidence matches.”

UMESH KAMISETTY

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in cloud lakehouse and streaming platforms

Seattle, WA5y exp

“Data engineer focused on building production-grade pipelines on AWS (Kafka/Kinesis/Glue/S3) through to curated serving layers in Snowflake and Delta Lake. Emphasizes automated data quality validation (PySpark + CI/CD), modular dbt transformations for analytics (customer spending, risk metrics), and operational reliability with CloudWatch and DLQs; data consumed by BI tools and ML pipelines for fraud detection and risk analytics.”

Jhansi D

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in cloud-native microservices

Chicago, Illinois4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with experience building secure, cloud-native document/workflow platforms handling high-volume customer and medical data across microservices on Kubernetes. Demonstrated impact improving performance via event-driven AWS architectures (Lambda + DynamoDB Streams) and strengthening compliance/security for S3-stored documents using IAM and KMS. Has delivered end-to-end APIs and UIs using Java/Spring Boot with Angular/React, plus Docker and CI/CD.”

Mohan Naik Megavath

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in real-time pipelines and cloud data platforms

Remote, USA4y exp

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience building secure Python/Flask services (sessions, JWT, RBAC) and optimizing PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy performance, including custom SQL using CTEs/window functions profiled via EXPLAIN ANALYZE. Also integrates LLM features via OpenAI/Azure into backend systems and improves scalability with RabbitMQ-driven async processing, caching, and multi-tenant data isolation patterns.”

“SRE-oriented infrastructure engineer who built an internal Vertex AI/Gemini knowledge chatbot to centralize product and development documentation, cutting routine support questions from 10+ daily to roughly 2. Also brings hands-on experience debugging Kubernetes production incidents and monitoring ETL/data-quality issues in Dataflow-based pipelines.”

“Database/platform engineer with hands-on ownership of large-scale GCP data systems in financial services, including customer-facing SaaS investment products with strict SLAs. Stands out for leading an on-prem-to-GCP modernization using Spanner, AlloyDB, Bigtable, and BigQuery, and for building Terraform/Python automation that cut provisioning time by ~70% while improving reliability and self-service.”

“Engineer with experience in small, high-pressure innovation environments and enterprise healthcare platforms, spanning distributed systems, search, and database optimization. At RJ Lee Group, he helped pivot an Air Force document-processing platform from Pig/MapReduce to Apache Storm, enabling near-real-time results, and also built a full-stack natural-language search application that cut analyst investigations from months to weeks or days.”

“Backend engineer with experience at Comcast and in healthcare/pharmacy automation (PrimeRx), building Python/Flask services that orchestrate large-scale batch workflows (Airflow) and high-throughput event processing (Kafka). Demonstrated measurable performance wins (cut provisioning latency to ~150–200ms) and strong multi-tenant isolation strategies (Postgres RLS, partitioning), plus practical integration of ML model outputs into production systems with validation and fallback controls.”

“IBM Power/AIX engineer with hands-on ownership across compute and SAN, including resolving a high-severity ERP latency incident by tracing it to SAN slow-drain on Cisco switches and orchestrating a port redistribution fix. Experienced running production HA/DR with HACMP and LPAR mobility (quarterly failover tests plus annual SunGard DR simulations) and building Bash-based monitoring/alerting automation to prevent outages.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience building secure Django/DRF APIs (JWT RS256 + rotating refresh tokens), background processing with Celery, and strong reliability practices (timeouts, retries/backoff, structured logging, audit trails). Has delivered AWS solutions spanning Lambda + ECS with IaC/CI-CD and built Glue/PySpark ETL pipelines with schema evolution and data-quality quarantine patterns; also modernized a legacy SAS pipeline to Python/PySpark with parallel-run parity validation and phased rollout.”

“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.”

“Technically oriented operator with experience driving a strategic migration to Microsoft Azure to modernize a company toward microservices and CI/CD, improving scalability and positioning for long-term optimization. Evaluates product ideas through an operational lens (efficiency, decision support, process optimization) and emphasizes building viable products with paying customers while maintaining revenue resilience.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on AWS-based, event-driven systems—building Golang microservices and serverless pipelines with strong data validation, observability (CloudWatch/Splunk/New Relic), and reliability patterns (retries/DLQs). Has also operated distributed web scraping/data collection with schema versioning and Step Functions backfills, and ships well-documented, versioned REST/WebSocket APIs for internal and external consumers.”

“Data engineer at CenterPoint Energy who built and operated multiple production-grade GCP data systems: a daily Snowflake→BigQuery replication framework (150+ tables) with Monte Carlo/Atlan-driven observability and schema-drift protection, plus a FastAPI metrics service for pipeline health. Demonstrated measurable impact (40% faster dashboard queries, 70% less manual refresh work, zero data loss) and strong operational rigor (scaling Cloud Run jobs, SAP SLT reconciliation, quarantine patterns, CI/CD via GitHub Actions + Terraform).”

Tuukka Luolamo

Screened

Executive Technology Leader (CTO) specializing in AI, cloud, and distributed platforms

Remote14y exp

“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.”

Sri Lalitha

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Java Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and FinTech

California, USA6y exp

“Backend engineer who owned a Python task management API with JWT auth, async notifications, and performance work (DB optimization/caching) to handle high volumes. Led an on-prem to Azure private cloud migration at Morgan Stanley using GitOps and IaC (Terraform/ARM) with phased rollout and rollback planning. Also built a Kafka real-time streaming pipeline with exactly-once/idempotent consumers and Prometheus/Grafana monitoring.”

Mukul Sai Pendem

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and DevOps

United States (Remote)4y exp

“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.”

Ramtin Kazemi

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Django, AWS, and AI/ML

San Diego, California1y exp

“Full-stack engineer who built and owned an AI-powered personal statement editor in Next.js (App Router + TypeScript), including dynamic routing, server-side data fetching, and typed API route handlers. Post-launch, they handled production monitoring/debugging and shipped reliability/performance upgrades (rate limiting, retries, rollback, DB indexing), and report a 40% latency reduction using Suspense/streaming and React concurrency patterns. Also implemented a durable Temporal-orchestrated AI document workflow with robust retry/idempotency strategies.”