Vetted Infrastructure as Code Professionals

Sai Prudhivi

Screened

Mid Software Engineer specializing in full-stack microservices and cloud platforms

New York, NY4y exp

“Backend-focused engineer with experience building high-volume policy management and enterprise pricing systems, including Django/FastAPI/Flask services, Kafka-based async workflows, and Prometheus/Grafana observability. While they have not yet shipped a customer-facing AI agent or production LLM integration, they bring strong cloud, API, reliability, and scalable system design fundamentals that translate well to responsible AI infrastructure work.”

Sasi Kanduri

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in backend systems and workflow platforms

Sacramento, CA7y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong React and Python backend depth who has owned complex analytical products end-to-end, from performant UIs to FastAPI services, SQLAlchemy data models, Redis caching, and production observability. Particularly compelling is their 0→1 automation work in the water systems domain, where they built Airflow- and LLM-powered workflows that reduced manual notification and correction work by 90%.”

“Backend engineer with fintech/AI startup experience who built an Azure serverless, event-driven pipeline for large-scale crypto sentiment analysis and semantic search (OCR/NLP to vector search) and integrated LLM + blockchain data for predictive insights. Demonstrated measurable impact (25% lower retrieval latency, 10% fewer data errors, 15% higher engagement) and has led safe microservices migrations with strong security and reliability practices.”

“Backend engineer with deep experience modernizing a provider credentialing/compliance platform with multiple upstream/downstream integrations. Focused on building predictable, scalable REST APIs (primarily ASP.NET Core; framework-agnostic approach applicable to FastAPI), improving performance via DB/query optimization, and hardening workflows with idempotency, transactions, feature flags, and strong auth/RBAC patterns.”

“Built a production "Mini RAG Assistant" for internal document Q&A, focusing on grounded answers (anti-hallucination), retrieval quality, and latency/cost optimization. Uses LangChain/LangGraph for orchestration and applies a metrics-driven evaluation loop (including reranking and semantic chunking improvements) while collaborating closely with product stakeholders.”

“ML/NLP engineer with banking domain experience who built a GenAI-powered fraud detection and risk intelligence system at Origin Bank, combining RAG (LangChain + FAISS), fine-tuned BERT NER, and GPT-4/Sentence-BERT embeddings. Delivered measurable impact (25% higher fraud detection accuracy, 40% less manual review) and emphasizes production-grade pipelines on AWS SageMaker/Airflow with strong data validation and scalable PySpark processing.”

Raghavendra Dubey

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in Java microservices and cloud-native systems

CA, USA5y exp

“Enterprise workflow/product engineer (DXC) who owned a customer-facing workflow application for 500+ users and improved performance ~30% through API/SQL optimization, caching, and CI/CD-backed iteration. Experienced designing React/TypeScript + Java/Spring Boot systems and operating microservices with RabbitMQ/Kafka-style messaging, emphasizing reliability via DLQs, backpressure, and strong observability. Also built an internal automation dashboard adopted by support/ops teams to cut manual work and reduce SLA misses.”

Likhith Kumar Yaramala

Screened

Junior Backend/Cloud Software Engineer specializing in microservices and DevOps

India2y exp

“Cloud/DevOps-focused engineer with strong Linux production operations experience, deploying microservices to AWS on Docker/Kubernetes. Has built and operated secure CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins) and Terraform IaC workflows with approvals, remote state, and drift detection, and has hands-on incident recovery experience in containerized environments; limited direct IBM Power/AIX/PowerHA exposure.”

Jason Sipula

Screened

Executive Technology Leader & Strategic Architect specializing in cloud-native platforms

Sacramento, CA15y exp

“Technology leader with experience driving multi-year transformations at Jewelry Supply, including migrating a legacy custom e-commerce platform to SaaS and leading a 3-year ERP program from requirements through implementation and training. Also led a major architecture shift from self-hosted virtualized infrastructure to cloud Kubernetes with a strong DevOps/DevEx focus, emphasizing stakeholder buy-in and scalable processes for distributed engineering teams.”

Ravinder Reddy Mamidi

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in Java Spring Boot and React

Remote, US3y exp

“Full-stack engineer who built a cloud-native customer servicing platform at Synchrony using React 18/Next.js (SSR) and Spring Boot microservices on AWS. Experienced with high-volume, event-driven systems (Lambda/SNS/SQS) and strong distributed-systems rigor around data integrity (idempotency, DynamoDB conditional writes) plus production-grade security/observability (JWT/OAuth2, WAF, Actuator, Splunk).”

Sam Fish

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in web platforms, cloud infrastructure, and data systems

Culver City, CA5y exp

“Full-stack/product-leaning engineer who owned an end-to-end AI Tutor feature (Claude-powered) shipped simultaneously to iOS/Android/web via Expo, with Cloudflare Workers backend and PostHog analytics. Built the company’s GitHub-based CI/CD to coordinate app store releases with backend blue/green deployments. Also has significant data engineering experience (including ~8TB/day workloads) using dbt/Fivetran plus sharding and hashing-based diffing for correctness.”

Vedant Singh

Screened

Junior Cloud Platform Software Engineer specializing in AWS, Kubernetes, and CI/CD

Concord, CA2y exp

“Cloud/platform engineer with hands-on delivery across Azure and AWS, including standing up a CIS-compliant Azure environment and integrating Azure OpenAI Foundry to automate finance invoicing. Has scaled platform capabilities across large org footprints (dynamic CI/CD pipelines for ~94 teams across 200+ repos) and replaced a $1M/year vulnerability patching vendor by building an internal AWS-based patching and monitoring solution for ~1000 servers.”

Chukwunonso Azuka

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in secure backend systems and re-engineering

Remote16y exp

“Founder of LexaBooks, an active bootstrapped startup being built with scalability, recurring revenue, and investor readiness in mind. Participated in the 2024 Startup Wise Guys accelerator and has continued training across SaaS, AI, and fintech, giving them a strong understanding of early-stage growth and venture dynamics.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across Python/Flask microservices and AWS serverless/data platforms (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Glue/PySpark). Demonstrated strong reliability and operations mindset (JWT/RBAC, retries/timeouts/circuit breakers, CloudWatch/SNS alerting) and measurable performance wins (SQL report runtime cut from 10 minutes to 30 seconds). Seeking ~$150k base and cannot travel for onsite meetings for the next 5–6 months due to family medical constraints.”

“At Unar Labs, built and operationalized LLM capabilities inside a cloud-native SaaS product, emphasizing production reliability (fallbacks, observability, cost/latency/quality monitoring) and iterative improvement from user feedback. Also acts as a customer-facing technical lead—running developer demos/workshops and supporting sales through discovery, pilots/POCs, and technical walkthroughs to drive production adoption.”

“Python backend engineer (BetterWorld Technology) who owns microservice systems end-to-end on Azure, including Kubernetes deployments, CI/CD, and production monitoring/alerting. Has hands-on experience integrating SQL/NoSQL (including Cosmos DB with vector search/graph workflow) and has built a Kafka + Spark Streaming pipeline to Snowflake with a reported 40% latency reduction.”

“Backend/cloud engineer with hands-on ownership of a climate data extraction pipeline (BeautifulSoup + Pandas ETL + CRON) that automated 50k+ monthly data points and removed ~20 hours/week of manual work. Also built a multi-AZ Kubernetes deployment for a Node.js system using Terraform and GitHub Actions (blue-green, rollbacks) and has Kafka/FastAPI experience from a healthcare plan management project.”

Isaiah Johnson

Screened

Senior DevSecOps/Cloud Engineer specializing in secure AWS delivery for federal environments

Alexandria, VA8y exp

“Cloud-focused DevSecOps/infra engineer with strong AWS production ownership (EC2/EKS/ECS) and hands-on CI/CD (Jenkins->ECR->Helm on Kubernetes). Demonstrated end-to-end outage recovery (ALB 503s caused by Helm env var misconfig) with rapid rollback plus pipeline guardrails, and deep Terraform experience (modular IaC, remote state with S3/DynamoDB, drift detection) supporting federal cloud modernization efforts.”

Anudeep Reddy Veerla

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices

Boston, MA3y exp

“Built and shipped both a solo real-time multiplayer Spades game (TypeScript monorepo with shared client/server engine) and a production internal LLM-powered document Q&A tool for a SaaS company. Demonstrates strong RAG pipeline design (Pinecone + embeddings + reranking), rigorous eval/regression practices, and pragmatic data ingestion/observability work across Confluence, Notion, and messy PDFs/OCR—backed by clear metric improvements (P@1 61%→78%, escalations 40%→22%).”

Sangat Shah

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AWS serverless and React/Node.js

Los Angeles, CA5y exp

“Backend engineer who built and evolved a serverless AWS platform for large-scale live screening events with real-time chat/feedback and streaming (API Gateway/Lambda/DynamoDB/WebSockets/IVS, IaC via Pulumi). Led production refactors and phased migrations using feature flags and dual-write strategies, and has hands-on experience implementing JWT auth, RBAC, and database-enforced row-level security for multi-tenant systems.”

“Full-stack intern at Rebel who owned backend work on a cross-platform music platform using Python/Django with MongoDB, implementing user-focused REST APIs end-to-end. Also built CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/GitHub Actions) to containerize and deploy to AWS, and has experience integrating Kafka-based real-time event processing with reliability and observability practices.”

“Built a production lead-generation system using AI agents that researches the internet for relevant leads and integrates RAG-based contact enrichment/shortlisting aligned to existing CRM data, enabling sales reps to focus more on selling. Also has hands-on AWS data orchestration experience (Glue, Step Functions) moving raw data into Redshift and evaluates agent performance with human-in-the-loop plus BLEU/perplexity metrics.”

“Engineering leader who modernized infrastructure by migrating a ~100-server co-location setup to AWS/GCP with IaC, auto-scaling, and fault-tolerant design, reducing hardware upgrade burden. Also led a key analytics architecture shift from MySQL to ClickHouse to enable highly granular ad revenue attribution and profitability insights, while scaling the dev org from 2–3 to ~12 with stronger CI/testing and review processes.”

“Security-focused engineer/customer-facing technical lead with SaaS platform experience at Ipsilon Lab, advising customers on API security and secure SDLC improvements. Has implemented production AppSec tooling (SAST/SCA), designed AWS least-privilege agent/scanning deployments, and led Kubernetes CI/CD security-agent integrations with Secrets Manager and PR gating. Strong track record troubleshooting complex customer integrations end-to-end (logs/metrics/traces through DB execution plans) and driving measurable stability/security posture improvements.”