Vetted Linux Professionals

“Cloud/DevOps engineer (6+ years) with healthcare domain experience who has owned production AWS systems end-to-end—building real-time data pipelines and an admission forecasting ML service delivered via API and Tableau. Led EMR modernization from on-prem/VMs to containerized AWS using phased migration and blue-green deployments, achieving ~99.5% uptime while cutting on-prem footprint ~30% and driving major automation gains (up to ~90% manual work reduction).”

“Software engineer with experience building and iterating high-volume Spring Boot microservices on AWS (Docker/Kubernetes) and integrating with React front-ends. Also delivered an LLM-powered document summarization system using embeddings + retrieval (RAG) with grounding/guardrails and built evaluation loops that directly drove retrieval and chunking improvements. Has scaled Kafka-based pipelines processing millions of messy financial/infrastructure records with reliability and cost/latency tradeoff management.”

“Software engineer who built and launched an end-to-end Ad Scheduler that automated campaign creation across Google Ads and Meta using Azure Functions/Service Bus, PostgreSQL, and a React frontend—reducing manual marketing ops work. Also shipped a production internal RAG chatbot leveraging a data warehouse + Cube semantic layer, Gemini embeddings, vector search, and Claude, with Langfuse tracing and brand-based access controls; work was cut short due to layoffs.”

“Serial entrepreneur since leaving corporate in 2009, working largely for equity on multiple startups. Building (1) academically rigorous, anti-overfitting quant/backtesting tools for retail investors (with potential applicability to smaller hedge funds lacking quant staff) and (2) a partner-led “social-as-a-service” platform for verticals like real estate/PropTech (including FSBO use cases) focused on first-party data capture vs. big tech.”

“Data engineer focused on AWS-based enterprise data platforms, owning end-to-end pipelines from multi-source batch/stream ingestion (Glue/Kinesis/StreamSets/Airflow) through PySpark transformations into curated datasets for Redshift/Snowflake. Emphasizes production reliability with strong monitoring/observability and data quality gates, and reports ~30% performance improvement plus improved SLAs and latency after optimization.”

“Technology leader focused on business-aligned roadmaps and integration-heavy ecommerce platforms. Recently delivered an on-time launch for lutusooking.com (a premium Hamilton Beach brand) by coordinating UX/UI, component-based middleware, BigCommerce, Algolia search, personalization/recommendations, payments, and supply chain integrations, and later improved scalability via a Jitterbit iPaaS approach proven during Black Friday/Cyber Monday traffic.”

“Backend engineer with deep experience building and evolving financial-services workflow systems where correctness, data integrity, and reliable state transitions outweigh raw throughput. Emphasizes idempotent, contract-driven FastAPI APIs with defense-in-depth security (JWT + row-level security) and careful, low-blast-radius migrations using feature flags, dual writes/shadow reads, and incremental rollout.”

“Full-stack engineer with recent experience at Amgen building an internal healthcare data validation/transformation and workflow automation service: Python/FastAPI backend with REST APIs plus a React UI, designed around a canonical contract-first model to handle inconsistent upstream data. Operates production systems on AWS (EC2/ELB/S3/CloudFront) with strong focus on observability (structured logs, correlation IDs) and safe CI/CD-driven migrations; also has experience shipping quickly in ambiguous environments at TCS.”

“Robotics software builder who developed a solo fault-adaptive robotic arm: current-based joint health monitoring feeding an ESP32, ROS 2/MoveIt 2 motion planning that adapts to joint failures, and a custom brute-force IK solver to overcome URDF/MoveIt singularity issues. Also worked on real-time 12-microphone sensor-fusion audio processing for drone navigation, resolving buffer/noise problems with multithreading and chunked sampling; experienced with Webots/CoppeliaSim and learning Isaac Sim.”

“Backend engineer who built and launched a warehouse locations/inventory microservice for Walmart, supporting a new product rollout with on-call war-room ownership and now running across all US distribution centers. Emphasizes reliability and correctness (background syncs, 2PC concepts, alerting) plus design-first API development in Python/FastAPI with OAuth/JWT and RBAC, and has led staged legacy-to-microservice migrations with continuous data integrity verification.”

“Backend engineer focused on Node.js (Express/Fastify) and MongoDB who designed a multi-stage bill-approval workflow system for a manufacturing company, emphasizing RBAC, auditability, and scalability across multiple factory units. Also improved system robustness by catching a MongoDB connection leak in an Excise department project and has experience executing low-risk, incremental backend refactors with monitoring and rollback.”

“Backend/data platform engineer who has built and operated a cloud-native media ingestion/processing platform in Python (Django/DRF, FastAPI) with Kafka, Postgres, and Redis, emphasizing multi-tenant security and reliability. Delivered AWS production systems combining EKS and Lambda with Terraform + GitHub Actions/Helm, and built Glue-based ETL pipelines with strong schema-evolution and data-quality practices; also modernized SAS analytics into Python on AWS. Seeking fully remote roles with a $120K–$140K base range.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered RAG system at Upstart enabling natural-language search across 50k+ scattered internal technical docs. Delivered sub-300ms p95 latency for ~50 active users with strong hallucination safeguards (retrieval-first, thresholds, citations) plus robust testing/monitoring and cost controls (prompt caching cutting API spend ~20%).”

“Entry-level software engineer who built an agentic AI backend in Python/FastAPI, including APIs for conversation history retrieval and user data storage, and worked through async/concurrency challenges for multiple agents querying simultaneously. Also has practical AWS experience using S3 for static hosting with Lambda and RDS for backend/data access.”

“Robotics software engineer who contributed to an autonomous bartender robot (mobile base + ReactorX200 arm), owning manipulation/grasping, Gazebo simulation, and a YOLOv6 object-detection pipeline built from a manually collected/labeled dataset. Also handled system-level hardware bring-up integrating Raspberry Pi to ESP32 over micro-ROS on ROS2 Foxy, and has additional ROS package experience in EKF sensor fusion (IMU+GPS) and an autonomous disaster response boat.”

“Software engineer who built and owned a centralized Asset Management platform at Hyundai Mobis used daily by multiple internal teams, delivering everything from UI/TypeScript React frontend to Spring Boot services, databases, deployment, and post-release support. Experienced in scaling microservices with Kafka-based async workflows, improving data consistency/real-time updates, and implementing reliability patterns like standardized API contracts, retries, DLQs, and targeted caching.”

“Backend-focused Python engineer who owned and deployed EcoHero, a recycling guidance app using FastAPI + Firebase with barcode lookup, ZIP-code-based state rules, and user history tracking backed by 50 state datasets. Has hands-on Kubernetes + Docker experience and uses GitHub Actions and GitOps-style PR workflows for consistent deployments, plus event-driven async processing patterns with idempotency and retries.”

“Software engineer with deep healthcare claims domain experience who has owned customer-facing portals end-to-end (Java/Spring Boot + React/TypeScript) and improved usability/performance based on real user feedback. Built microservices using REST and RabbitMQ with strong observability (Splunk/cloud metrics), and delivered an internal claims investigation dashboard that streamlined operations through centralized data, search, and filtering.”

“Built a live free-to-play web-based financial market simulation game (YouTube-channel stock market) as a hobby project, now serving 3000+ users. Implemented core F2P systems including gacha, timed progression gates, and analytics-driven monitoring of engagement and economy health using a TypeScript/Python stack with Redis and Postgres.”

“Built a college AI chatbot during a master’s program, owning the full Python/Flask backend plus Google Gemini integration and a Postgres persistence layer (course info + conversation history), including caching/performance tuning. Also deployed and migrated ETL/ELT workloads from AWS Lambda into Kubernetes/EKS with GitHub Actions-based GitOps CI/CD, IRSA permissions, and Secrets Manager/S3/Postgres connectivity.”

“Built and productionized a recommendation system from notebook prototype into a low-latency, scalable Cloud Run service using Docker, FastAPI, Terraform, CI/CD (GitHub Actions), and MLOps tooling (Vertex AI, MLflow). Experienced diagnosing real-time workflow issues using structured logging/ELK and GCP metrics, including resolving intermittent 504s by fixing unbounded SQL and adding caching. Also partners with sales/customer teams (Wasabi) to deliver tailored demos, troubleshoot, and drive onboarding/adoption.”

“Software/full-stack engineer focused on deploying and integrating microservice applications into production AWS and hybrid cloud/on-prem industrial environments. Demonstrated end-to-end troubleshooting by tracing intermittent user failures to network routing/packet loss caused by load balancer and NIC misconfiguration, then adding monitoring to prevent recurrence. Also delivers customer-specific Python extensions with strong validation, testing, and backward compatibility.”

“Backend engineer who built and optimized a high-traffic e-commerce platform in Python/Flask, focusing on scalability and reliability through service decomposition, Redis caching, and Celery-based background processing. Also integrated an AI intent-classification chatbot as a separately deployable inference service on AWS and has hands-on experience designing multi-tenant data isolation strategies in PostgreSQL.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on ownership of FastAPI/Django services using MongoDB and React integration, focused on production reliability and performance (Redis caching, Celery background jobs, automated testing). Has delivered AWS container deployments via GitHub Actions to ECR with scripted rollouts/health checks, and supported phased migrations with replication and rollback planning. Also built a real-time user-activity streaming pipeline addressing partition hot spots and consumer lag through partition-key strategy, idempotency, and monitoring.”