Vetted Linux Professionals

“Built and shipped an LLM-powered support assistant for a fintech payment reconciliation system that automated failed-transaction analysis at scale. Delivered measurable production outcomes (40% less manual reconciliation, 25% better detection accuracy, 99%+ uptime) and implemented strong reliability patterns (Prometheus/Grafana monitoring, retries/fallbacks, idempotency, Resilience4j circuit breakers) plus iterative retraining driven by real error analysis.”

“Backend engineer with strong payments and high-stakes transaction experience, including owning an Apple Pay/Google Pay integration via Stripe end-to-end in production for 100,000+ users. Particularly compelling for teams that need someone who can balance speed, security, and reliability in checkout or other sensitive backend workflows, and who has hands-on incident ownership in production.”

Chuks Onwuneme

Screened

Executive technology leader specializing in Healthcare IT, AI, and regulated SaaS

Seattle, WA24y exp

“Founder who raised friends-and-family capital in 2024, used it to build an initial product and develop patent-backed IP, then pivoted from AI impersonation detection to authorization and trust infrastructure for agentic workflows. Demonstrates strong strategic thinking around infrastructure products, customer-driven repositioning, and venture-backed startup dynamics.”

Saumya Pailwan

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in applied AI and audio ML

Evanston, IL2y exp

“Engineer with unusually mature experience leading AI-assisted development, including orchestrating multiple coding agents across a data pipeline feature as if managing a small engineering team. Stands out for balancing aggressive adoption of AI tools with disciplined judgment around architecture, security, and merge quality, and for translating that experience into stronger tech leadership.”

“Candidate has built multiple zero-to-one AI/full-stack products spanning bioinformatics search, rental marketplace semantic search, and an SDR agent for a hospitality startup. Particularly strong at turning LLM/embedding concepts into usable products with modular workflows, explainable outputs, and production-minded infrastructure.”

Abhinita Sanabada

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML systems and FinTech platforms

San Jose, CA9y exp

“Master’s student in Data Science at San Jose State University with prior software engineering experience at JPMorgan Chase and Zap Labs. She combines enterprise backend reliability work in financial systems with hands-on full-stack AI workflow projects, including a recruiting automation system built with React/Next.js, FastAPI/Node, Kafka, and WebSockets, with a strong emphasis on observability, human-in-the-loop controls, and maintainability.”

Ilya Kravchenko

Screened

Executive engineering leader specializing in AI-enabled SaaS and internet-scale platforms

Thousand Oaks, CA20y exp

“Engineering leader with a rare blend of SaaS, robotics, and AI systems experience, most recently leading a 21-engineer org under the CTO. They pair strong people/process leadership with hands-on architecture depth, driving dramatic delivery improvements while also building grounded LLM support tooling for warehouse operations where accuracy directly impacts physical execution and customer outcomes.”

“Revamped a university academic calendar system into a Python-based calendar generation service, turning a weeks-long manual scheduling workflow into software that generates dozens of valid calendar combinations in under a minute. Also contributed to an Amazon search ML classifier by introducing precision/recall evaluation to better surface critical failure modes and improve prediction quality.”

Vasudev Konde

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in APIs and cloud microservices

Phoenix, AZ5y exp

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped a production document-intelligence agent that automated internal support workflows using RAG, tool calling, and robust fallback controls. Stands out for combining hands-on architecture with measurable business impact: 85% faster query resolution, 35% lower LLM cost, 40% fewer LLM calls, and enough automation to avoid adding 2-3 support engineers.”

“Banking infrastructure engineer who owns large-scale IBM Power/AIX (AIX 7.x, VIOS, HMC/vHMC) environments with hundreds of LPARs and deep PowerHA/SAN recovery experience. Also builds modern cloud delivery platforms—Azure DevOps/Jenkins CI/CD and Terraform for AWS/Azure (EKS/AKS, networking, security)—bridging legacy mission-critical systems and cloud-native automation.”

Kumar Shashi

Screened

Senior Program & Operations Manager specializing in AI, semiconductor NPI, and regulated manufacturing

Palo Alto, CA12y exp

“Operations and customer-facing leader with deep last-mile logistics expertise from running a critical extra-large Amazon logistics hub end-to-end (inventory accuracy, throughput, yard efficiency), including scalable process improvements adopted across Amazon XL sites. Strong cross-functional and partner management (DSPs/carriers, engineering ops) with rapid incident resolution and VOC-to-product translation (geofence/map fixes). Also demonstrates land-and-expand growth motion from Cisco, expanding a standardized software platform across multiple global sites.”

Jonathan Tucker

Screened

Mid-level Esports & Game Operations Leader specializing in strategy, analytics, and live events

San Francisco, CA9y exp

“Game designer with shipped multiplayer FPS experience on XDefiant, owning end-to-end mode design and tuning (Capture the Flag) and co-designing the Hardpoint spawn system across maps. Builds and iterates prototypes directly in Unreal Engine 5 using Blueprints, and has navigated real console/engine performance constraints and post-launch fixes while maintaining competitive integrity.”

“Full-stack engineer focused on high-throughput document/financial data platforms, building Angular/React front ends and Spring Boot microservices with Python/Flask services for heavy processing. Experienced in designing non-blocking, asynchronous workflows (Celery/RabbitMQ) and deploying containerized systems to AWS ECS with auto-scaling and CloudWatch monitoring.”

Bradley Willson

Screened

Senior Linux Systems Engineer specializing in hardware qualification and Bash test automation

Seattle, WA14y exp

“Former software tester with historical exposure to AIX 5.2 and Solaris 9 (circa 2001) and extensive Linux experience dating back to 1994. They indicated their background is primarily in testing and server hardware validation rather than IBM Power/AIX/Solaris operations and migrations.”

Kamal Virk

Screened

Senior Site Reliability Engineer specializing in cloud-native DevOps and Kubernetes

New City, NY13y exp

“IBM Power/AIX engineer with hands-on ownership of large AIX 7.1/7.2 environments (VIOS, HMC/vHMC) supporting enterprise middleware/back-end workloads. Demonstrated real production incident handling: identified CPU entitlement underprovisioning after a DLPAR change and restored performance via live CPU rebalancing, plus PowerHA failover execution and runbook/process hardening. Also builds secure CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/GitLab/Azure DevOps with CyberArk) and Terraform IaC with drift management and controlled rollouts.”