Vetted Kubernetes Professionals

“DevOps/Cloud engineer with experience supporting large-scale enterprise infrastructure (AT&T: 50+ Power8/Power9 frames and 2,000+ AIX 7.1/7.2 LPARs) and strong hands-on delivery in AWS/Kubernetes. Built secure Jenkins-to-EKS pipelines with SonarQube/Trivy gates and resolved a widespread CVE-driven build outage by patching the Debian base layer. Also created reusable Terraform modules with remote state/locking and automated drift detection to provision full mirror environments in under an hour.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-powered support/knowledge pipeline using embeddings and retrieval (RAG) to deliver more grounded, higher-quality responses while reducing manual effort. Focused on real-world reliability and performance—adding structured validation/guardrails, optimizing vector search and context size for latency/scale, and monitoring failure patterns in production. Experienced with orchestration via LangChain for LLM workflows and Airflow for production data/ML pipelines, and iterates closely with operations stakeholders through demos and feedback.”

“Backend engineer with production experience building and scaling a Java/Spring Boot payment processing API on AWS (PostgreSQL/Redis) handling a few thousand RPS, including deep performance debugging (connection exhaustion) and observability (CloudWatch, Actuator, Zipkin). Also shipped application-layer AI features (OpenAI email summarizer with feedback loop, ~40% faster agent response times) and designed reliable multi-step workflow orchestration with retries and manual escalation, plus strong SQL tuning and Python engineering practices.”

“Full-stack engineer with healthcare and finance experience who has owned end-to-end production systems across Azure and AWS. Built a real-time clinical dashboard at Centene (React + FastAPI + Azure Event Hubs) that cut data latency from ~12 minutes to under 1 minute and was associated with a 30% reduction in intervention delays. Also delivered MVPs in high-ambiguity environments at Accenture during monolith-to-microservices migration, improving uptime and maintainability with measurable results.”

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped production RAG systems (including a 250K-document compliance knowledge tool on AWS) and focuses on reliability via citations, guardrails, and rigorous evaluation (Ragas/Opik/DeepEval). Also built a LangGraph-orchestrated webcrawler agent that cut research paper extraction from hours to minutes, and collaborated with clinical teams to deliver patient volume forecasting with an optimization layer for staffing.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with experience at Walmart, Qualtrics, and American Express, shipping secure partner-facing API platforms and internal monitoring dashboards. Strong in AWS production operations (ECS/Fargate, RDS/Postgres, CloudWatch) plus rigorous testing/security practices, with measurable delivery and performance improvements (35% faster releases; ~30–40% latency reductions).”

“Infrastructure/DevOps engineer with strong production ownership across AWS and Kubernetes, including leading real outage recoveries and building governance-heavy IaC/CI/CD in regulated environments. Has designed DR failover testing programs and implemented policy-as-code and peer-reviewed deployment gates to prevent repeat incidents; experience cited at Rackspace, Strategic Systems, and CTS.”

“Full-stack engineer with ~3.5 years of Java Spring Boot and React experience who built an end-to-end banking transaction platform using microservices, Kafka streaming, AWS RDS, and Dockerized CI/CD. Demonstrates strong performance and reliability engineering (async processing, DLQ/retries, idempotency, caching) plus secure cloud deployment practices; has also worked across banking, healthcare, and insurance domains.”

“Backend engineer who built an AI-driven "Smart Feedback Analyzer" API (Flask → FastAPI) that processes user feedback with NLP (Hugging Face + OpenAI) and returns structured insights. Demonstrates strong production-minded architecture: stateless services, Cloud Run + Docker deployment, Redis/Celery background processing, and Postgres/SQLAlchemy performance tuning (EXPLAIN ANALYZE, indexing, N+1 fixes), plus multi-tenant data isolation via JWT/API-key derived tenant IDs.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on production experience building real-time customer-facing features (order tracking + push notifications) across React/React Native and Node/Spring Boot with Postgres/MySQL. Demonstrates strong reliability patterns (transactional outbox, background workers, idempotent webhook ingestion) and has deployed/operated systems on AWS (ECS/Fargate/ALB, CloudWatch, CodePipeline) with structured observability and environment separation.”

“Founding engineer at Novum AI building a real-time call analytics/suggestion backend (transcription + sentiment/tone + context retrieval) using a serverless architecture. Drove major latency improvements (about 4s down to sub-1.5s) and has practical experience hardening production APIs (FastAPI/Pydantic, auth with Cognito/Redis) and payment systems (Stripe) by surfacing overlooked subscription and multi-tenant billing edge cases.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer who has owned production retail and order/inventory systems end-to-end, using Spring Boot microservices with Kafka event-driven workflows. Strong in production correctness patterns (idempotency, retries/DLQs, schema versioning) plus observability (Prometheus/Grafana) and developer-facing API design (Swagger, OAuth2/JWT, versioning/deprecation). Also built TypeScript/React SPAs and cited ~40% UI performance improvement.”

“Engineering leader focused on developer platforms and identity: led a 5-person team building a multi-tenant IAM framework extending Duende IdentityServer, including governance, API standards, and multi-language SDKs. Drove major API architecture improvements by introducing GraphQL alongside REST, cutting client calls from 4 to 1 and reducing payload size by 60% within 6 months, with strong emphasis on stability (semver, E2E tests, feature flags, blue-green deploys).”

“Infrastructure/Platform engineer with deep production ownership of large IBM Power/AIX estates (70 LPARs, dual VIOS, HMC across two data centers), including live DLPAR tuning and PowerHA clustering for Oracle/WebSphere. Also brings modern DevOps/IaC experience—built GitHub Actions pipelines deploying to Kubernetes with OIDC/Vault secrets and implemented Terraform to provision AWS EKS/VPC/IAM/ALB/RDS with drift detection and controlled rollouts.”

“Full-stack engineer who led an end-to-end rebuild of a service-agent case management app (React SPA + backend/DB updates) and added Datadog monitoring, improving agent throughput by ~1 case/hour and saving roughly $15K/month. Experienced in incremental legacy modernization (including moving a legacy React frontend toward a Rails-based approach) with heavy unit/E2E testing and strong cross-team stakeholder communication.”

“Serial healthcare entrepreneur who has founded three ventures across nuclear pharmacy and radiology/imaging, including building a nuclear pharmacy in a 500-mile underserved region and personally managing NRC regulatory compliance. Also built an early virtual radiology practice with remote radiologists and SaaS-only infrastructure, using a highly metrics-driven approach to opportunity assessment and capital formation via strategic partnerships.”