Vetted Kubernetes Professionals

“Solutions Engineer focused on application and platform security for enterprise cloud-native deployments, advising customers on threat modeling and secure CI/CD practices across AWS and Kubernetes. Has implemented SCA/container scanning and vuln checks in pipelines, tuned thresholds to reduce false positives, and driven outcomes like faster security approvals and smoother production rollouts. Troubleshot high-load Kubernetes failures (OOMKills, registry throttling) and turned fixes into a standard tuning guide.”

“Full-stack engineer who built and owned an AI-assisted job-matching dashboard in Next.js App Router/TypeScript, keeping LLM logic server-side and improving performance via deduplication, caching/revalidation, and streaming (35% fewer duplicate LLM calls; 40% faster first render). Also has strong data/backend chops: designed Postgres models and optimized queries at million-record scale (1.8s to 120ms) and built durable AWS multi-region telemetry workflows with idempotency, retries, and monitoring.”

“Software engineer with experience at Striim and Amazon who ships end-to-end production systems across UI, backend, ML, and operations. Built a real-time PII detection capability for a streaming data platform by integrating Python ML inference into a Java monolith via gRPC sidecars, achieving ~3M events/hour throughput and ~93% accuracy, and helped drive enterprise adoption (Fiserv, CVS). Also modernized internal Amazon tooling for multi-region scale with modularization and fully automated deployments.”

“Backend/platform engineer with payroll domain depth who built high-volume payroll processing microservices (Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis) on AWS Kubernetes and debugged major peak-cycle latency by redesigning transaction boundaries and moving to async Kafka processing (>50% latency reduction). Also shipped an LLM-powered HR assistant using RAG with strong security/guardrails (RBAC, PII masking, audit logs) that cut support tickets by 40%, and designed reliable multi-step agent workflows with retries, circuit breakers, and idempotency.”

“Backend/AI workflow engineer with PayPal experience building workflow-driven financial compliance systems (Python/Java, Postgres, AWS/EKS) at thousands of executions/day. Has shipped production LLM-powered document extraction with strict schema/rule validation, auditability, and human-in-the-loop fallbacks, and has deep expertise in reliability (idempotency, locking, state machines) and Postgres performance tuning.”

“Full-stack engineer at Bank of America who built and iterated a real-time transaction monitoring/fraud detection system processing 50K+ daily transactions, improving latency (25%), dashboard performance (30%), and reducing manual investigation time (40%) while meeting PCI DSS via OAuth2 and RBAC. Also built a scalable ETL pipeline for messy financial data with strong reliability/observability (ELK, retries, DLQ), boosting data integrity from 87% to 99% and sustaining 99.8% uptime.”

“Backend/platform engineer with experience across edtech, logistics, and AWS internal systems—owned a production course recommender end-to-end (model serving + APIs + caching/observability), delivering +30% CTR and -20% latency. Has scaled real-time delivery visibility/rerouting on Kubernetes/EKS to sub-200ms P95 during demand spikes and built billion-events/day telemetry pipelines on AWS (Kinesis Firehose, Lambda, S3, Redshift) with schema evolution, dedupe, and replay support.”

“Application-focused software engineer with experience at Amazon and Motorola shipping production systems ranging from developer monitoring/on-call tooling (Alcazar, ~40% MTTR improvement) to consumer AI features used by 100K+ users. Currently building an AI/ML-driven platform with a Python/FastAPI backend on AWS (ECS/RDS/S3) and has handled real production latency/scaling incidents end-to-end.”

“Backend/LLM engineer who built a production-critical Amazon Bedrock + RAG correction and compliance layer for employee communications, integrating tightly with existing Spring Boot/AWS microservices to reduce manual review while keeping outputs explainable and auditable. Also designed an event-driven system processing 10M+ events/day (SQS/Lambda/DynamoDB/Elasticsearch) and handled on-call incidents with strong observability and reliability patterns (idempotency, retries, hotspot mitigation).”

“Infrastructure/DevOps engineer with primary ownership in enterprise Linux and AWS/Azure production environments (including financial systems). Built secure, repeatable CI/CD pipelines deploying containerized workloads to EKS/ECS and implemented Terraform/CloudFormation IaC with drift detection and rollback practices; lacks direct IBM Power/AIX/PowerHA experience.”

“Backend/ML systems engineer with Stripe payments experience who built an asynchronous processing upgrade handling millions of API requests, cutting peak latency ~20–25% while preserving strict financial consistency via idempotency-safe retries and robust validation/fallbacks. Also built scalable ETL pipelines for messy CSV/Excel/API data with strong observability (structured logging/monitoring) and reliability mechanisms.”

“Undergraduate robotics researcher who built a crowd-aware motion planning system to navigate safely and efficiently through dynamic pedestrian environments, implementing the full pipeline in ROS (move_base, global planning, SLAM/localization) and validating via 2D crowd simulation. Also brings modern software delivery experience from web apps, including Docker/Kubernetes-based cloud deployment and CI/CD with automated testing.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience building high-concurrency customer engagement platforms at KomBea on AWS (EKS + Lambda) using FastAPI/Django, PostgreSQL, Redis, and strong observability. Has modernized legacy batch systems into modular Python services with parallel-run parity validation and phased rollouts, and has delivered resilient AWS Glue ETL pipelines with schema evolution and data quality controls.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across FastAPI/PostgreSQL APIs and AWS (Lambda, ECS) delivered via Terraform + GitHub Actions. Built Glue-based ETL pipelines into Redshift with schema evolution and data quality checks, modernized legacy reporting into Python microservices, and has demonstrated measurable SQL performance wins (multi-second query reduced to sub-300ms).”

“Amazon engineer who owned customer-facing Alexa features and built automation-heavy delivery practices (API/service-level testing in CI/CD) to ship quickly without sacrificing stability. Also built an internal self-service feature management/beta access platform (Angular + Spring Boot + event publishing) that replaced a multi-team ticket workflow with instant, auditable operations, and has deep microservices/Kafka experience with strong observability and reliability patterns.”

“Full-stack/platform engineer who has owned real-time analytics products end-to-end and built scalable TypeScript/React + Node.js systems using event-driven and microservices architectures (Kafka/RabbitMQ). Also created a widely adopted Go CLI that standardized AWS/Terraform provisioning across multiple teams, cutting environment setup from days to minutes through opinionated defaults, documentation, and cross-org partnerships.”

“Java full-stack developer who has owned data-intensive, customer-facing and internal web products end-to-end (React/Angular + Spring Boot), including CI/CD and production support. Demonstrates deep microservices experience with RabbitMQ/event-driven architecture, idempotency, DLQs, and compensating logic to maintain reliability and data consistency at scale, plus a track record of replacing spreadsheet-based ops reporting with an adopted real-time internal tool.”

“Built a production agentic AI system to automate data science work using a layered architecture (executive-summary handling, tool-based execution, and on-the-fly code generation). Demonstrates strong end-to-end agent development practices including RAG with vector databases, prompt engineering, and multi-method evaluation (LLM-as-judge/human/code-based), plus Airflow-based orchestration for ML data pipelines and close collaboration with business end users.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG fraud investigation system to replace manual investigator workflows, combining transaction data, historical cases, and policy documents with agent-style steps and LoRA fine-tuning. Demonstrates strong reliability engineering (grounding, citations, abstention paths), performance optimization (retrieval/indexing/caching), and end-to-end MLOps orchestration using Azure ML Pipelines/MLflow plus Kubernetes/Argo with canary and rollback deployments.”

“Backend/platform engineer building HIPAA-compliant, real-time healthcare systems: owned a Python/Flask API layer for an AI-enabled patient engagement and risk scoring service, implemented PHI-safe logging and cross-service auditability, and delivered Kubernetes microservices via ArgoCD GitOps. Also has experience with Kafka streaming pipelines and hybrid cloud-to-on-prem migrations in regulated healthcare/fintech environments.”

“LLM/MLOps engineer who has shipped production systems for complaint intelligence and contact-center NLU, including LoRA/RLHF-tuned LLaMA models deployed on GKE with vLLM and Vertex AI batch pipelines to BigQuery. Demonstrates strong practical focus on hallucination control, data imbalance mitigation, and production monitoring (Langfuse) with regression testing and canary rollouts, plus experience orchestrating complex workflows with AWS Step Functions.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered RAG assistant for enterprise internal document search (PDFs, knowledge bases, structured data), addressing real-world issues like noisy documents, hallucinations, and latency with grounded prompting, retrieval-confidence fallbacks, and performance optimizations. Also partnered with compliance and business teams at JPMc to deliver a solution aligned with regulatory constraints, supported by monitoring, feedback loops, and systematic evaluation.”

“Full-stack developer who built a learning management web app end-to-end using React, Spring Boot, and MySQL, integrating APIs via Axios and validating/testing with Postman. Has experience handling data-heavy workloads (courses, quiz results) and improving performance with pagination, and is comfortable designing microservice-style endpoints with CI/CD considerations.”