Vetted Monitoring Professionals

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production AWS experience spanning serverless APIs (Chalice/Lambda/API Gateway/Cognito) and data pipelines (Glue PySpark + Step Functions). Has modernized a legacy SAS reporting system into AWS microservices and implemented schema-drift detection and incident prevention for ETL workflows, plus measurable SQL tuning wins (30 min to <10 min runtime).”

“Backend owner at Apple for an AI workflow orchestration service, with hands-on experience stabilizing peak-traffic production systems using OpenTelemetry-style tracing, bounded async concurrency, and database performance tuning. Built and shipped a Python LLM-agent orchestration layer to automate multi-step operational workflows, emphasizing guardrails, auditability, and deterministic fallbacks to keep non-deterministic AI behavior production-safe.”

“Gameplay engineer with hands-on ownership of a real-time C++ combat ability system, including diagnosing and eliminating large-scale combat frame spikes by refactoring hit detection to an event-driven, animation-notify approach (cut collision checks ~80%). Also implemented UE5 networked abilities (dash) with client-side prediction and server-authoritative reconciliation, plus projectile ballistics validated through debug spline visualizations and unit tests.”

“Infrastructure/platform engineer with hands-on experience running production and non-production Amazon EKS clusters, including upgrade processes and reliability monitoring via Prometheus/Grafana. Also administered on-prem VMware vSphere/vCloud Director and handled a significant vSwitch/VLAN outage, and uses Terraform + Terragrunt with S3 remote state and release-based drift detection across dev/stage/prod.”

“Technical lead who shipped a production GPT-4-powered customer support agent for Square, serving a large fintech customer base through a React chat interface with tool-using orchestration, guardrails, and live handoff paths. Brings strong real-world experience in agent reliability, evaluation, observability, and workflow orchestration using Temporal, Sidekiq, Pinecone, Datadog, and Snowflake.”

Andrew Hoyt

Screened

Executive technology leader specializing in SaaS, cloud platforms, and enterprise engineering

Atlanta, GA14y exp

“Enterprise software CTO with rare breadth across deep architecture, large-scale org leadership, and AI transformation. He has led 250+ teams at Aderant and previously a 2000-person global engineering org at NCR, while still personally driving re-architecture, prototyping, debugging, and AI-native product innovation across legal, retail, and restaurant platforms.”

“Internship experience deploying cloud-based services into production, including navigating security/resource provisioning and coordinating approvals across impacted teams. Built a Python backend for a local Ollama-based app using open-source models, and has hands-on distributed systems experience implementing and debugging Paxos with extensive logging/state tracing.”

“Built a production internal knowledge assistant using a RAG pipeline over large spreadsheets, PDFs, and support documents, using transformer embeddings stored in FAISS. Focused on real-world production challenges—format normalization, retrieval quality, hallucination reduction (context-only + citations), and latency—using hybrid retrieval, quantization, and containerized deployment, and communicated the workflow to non-technical stakeholders using simple analogies.”

Jordan Lineberry

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in Healthcare SaaS and supply chain systems

New York, NY11y exp

“Backend engineer with healthcare platform experience at Thirty Madison, combining Django for secure, data-heavy core services with FastAPI async microservices for real-time patient monitoring. Led Kubernetes migration with Istio service mesh, autoscaling (HPA), and stateful storage patterns, and implemented GitOps CI/CD using ArgoCD. Also built real-time Kafka streaming pipelines with reliability patterns like idempotent producers and offset management.”

Tejaswini Manjunatha

Screened

Mid-level Reliability Engineer specializing in incident response and LLM-driven support automation

Palo Alto, USA4y exp

“Customer Success Services / Support professional working on Palantir Foundry who productionizes customer integrations (secure OAuth2, scheduled pipelines) and builds LLM-driven support automation (runbook matching) with monitoring and evaluation suites. Also leads developer workshops/demos on Foundry packaging/installation workflows, using live debugging techniques to make concepts concrete.”

“Senior frontend engineer focused on complex internal operations and payment products, with deep experience building React/TypeScript dashboards for payments, subscriptions, and observability workflows. Stands out for going beyond UI implementation to shape API contracts, real-time architectures, performance strategy, and product behavior across support, finance, and engineering use cases.”

Jungwoo Park

Screened

Senior Product Manager specializing in enterprise platforms, developer learning, and AI

McKinney, TX7y exp

“Product leader at Microsoft Learn who has taken multiple education and cloud initiatives from ambiguity to deployment, including the zero-to-one launch of Microsoft Apply Skills. They combine product strategy with hands-on technical problem solving across APIs, cloud infrastructure, AI prototyping, and abuse prevention, with measurable wins like 300,000 activations in 3 months, a 15% lift in certification conversion, and quiz coverage growth from 15% to 50%.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience at Walmart and HealthSnap building Python services and data pipelines on AWS (EKS, Lambda, Glue, Airflow). Strong reliability and operations focus—implemented idempotency + circuit breakers for peak-traffic consistency issues, GitOps CI/CD, and observability. Demonstrated measurable performance wins (Postgres p95 45s to <5s, ~60% CPU reduction) and modernized SAS batch workflows to Python with parallel-run parity validation and feature-flagged rollout.”

“Backend/data engineer who has owned production Python APIs and high-throughput async workflows on AWS (FastAPI, Docker, ECS/EKS/Lambda) with mature reliability practices like idempotency, bounded retries, circuit breakers, and strong observability. Also built AWS Glue ETL into an S3/Redshift lakehouse and modernized legacy batch systems via parallel-run parity testing and feature-flagged migrations, including a SQL tuning win cutting a multi-minute query to under 10 seconds.”

“Full-stack engineer (Snowflake) who shipped an AI/LLM-powered data exploration product end-to-end, spanning Spring Boot/Python services and a polished React UI with streaming responses and robust fallbacks. Experienced operating high-scale AWS deployments (Docker/Kubernetes, SNS/SQS, RDS Postgres, CloudWatch, Jenkins CI/CD) supporting thousands to tens of thousands of concurrent users, including handling real traffic-spike scaling incidents.”

Sandeep Rohilla

Screened

Principal Platform Engineer specializing in AI-driven document automation

San Francisco, CA20y exp

“Backend engineer who built an event-driven, multi-service resume review system integrating AI/ML workflows. Demonstrated strong performance engineering (e.g., composite indexing dropping latency from ~600ms to ~35ms and major P95 gains) and high-throughput pipeline optimization via caching, batching, and worker concurrency tuning, with multi-tenant isolation implemented across DB and Redis.”

“Backend engineer with end-to-end ownership of scientific and AI-powered systems, including neuron imaging pipelines at Monell Chemical Senses Center and an LLM-based structured information extraction platform for Wharton and PSG. Stands out for turning messy, compute-heavy workflows into reliable production backends with measurable impact, including saving researchers over 50 hours per week.”

Chaithanya Konda

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in multi-cloud analytics platforms

Waltham, MA6y exp

“Data engineer with hands-on GCP platform experience spanning BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Dataflow, and Cloud Composer, including both production operations and cloud migration work. They led a migration from legacy SQL Server/Oracle systems to a cloud-native BigQuery architecture and cite measurable impact: processing reduced from hours to minutes, query latency improved 60%+, and ingestion time improved 40%.”

“Senior software engineer candidate who uses AI and multi-agent workflows thoughtfully to speed up development while preserving engineering rigor for production-critical decisions. Stands out for a clear risk-based framework: leveraging agents for boilerplate, refactoring, testing, and debugging, while relying on fundamentals, metrics, and human review for system design and scalability.”

“Software engineer with experience spanning early-stage startup architecture and large-scale Amazon product development. They’ve driven search and data-platform decisions in a 20-person startup, built full-stack React/Python tools that automate internal workflows, and shipped marketplace expansion and personalization features impacting 200k sellers and millions of end users.”

“Built internal banking operations products spanning full-stack dashboards and AI-assisted workflow tools. Shipped a RAG-based assistant using PostgreSQL/Redis retrieval with OpenAI and Claude APIs, and used audit-log measurement plus evals/traces to drive a reported ~30% reduction in manual review time.”