Vetted Observability Professionals

Yoga Sundaram Rama Swamy

Screened

Senior GTM Engineer specializing in revenue systems and analytics

Ohio, USA8y exp

“Non-traditional Sales Engineer candidate with a strong technical GTM/RevOps and analytics background across Stripe, Bendix, and Amazon. Stands out for building revenue workflow automations and enterprise data integrations that materially improved sales execution, including 28% better outbound conversion and major reductions in manual planning and reporting effort.”

“Backend/data engineer with Optum healthcare claims domain experience building high-reliability Python microservices (FastAPI/Kafka/Postgres) and AWS data platforms (EKS, Glue, Redshift). Demonstrated strong production ownership: fixed duplicate Kafka processing via transactional outbox/idempotency, scaled to millions of daily events, and delivered major SQL performance gains (40+ min to <5 min, ~60% CPU reduction). Seeking remote-only work; targets $130k base.”

“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.”

Michael Kilgore

Screened

Mid-Level Software Development Engineer specializing in AWS data pipelines and forecasting systems

3y exp

“Built and deployed (via an Upwork contract) an LLM-powered agent for options trading that detects large options trade events, enriches them with market/filing data (price history, earnings transcripts, insider trading), and delivers recommendations via Telegram. Implemented schema-constrained outputs (Pydantic/Google GenAI), robust orchestration, logging, and error-notification handling, plus vector-DB-based reuse of prior outputs to improve consistency.”

Daksh Jain

Screened

Mid-Level Software Development Engineer specializing in AWS streaming media platforms

Portland, OR3y exp

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on Next.js App Router + TypeScript experience (built a RateMyProfessor-style platform end-to-end using RSC, dynamic routing, debounced search, and cache invalidation). Also has AWS backend depth—built a Step Functions-based wave rollout/feature access control framework for MediaPackage V2 with idempotency, retries, rollback, and ongoing correctness reconciliation.”

“Enterprise-focused SDR candidate with experience prospecting into some of the largest companies in the world using multi-channel outbound, personalized trigger-based messaging, and multithreaded stakeholder outreach. They report never missing quota, worked toward quarterly goals of 20 meetings and $1M in pipeline, and are especially motivated by founding SDR environments where they can help build the pipeline engine from scratch.”

Robert Davis

Screened

Staff Software Engineer specializing in backend and distributed systems

Remote, US19y exp

“Backend engineer who co-launched SkyKick’s Office 365 SharePoint/Exchange backup product, built the MVP, and then architected and led its design for 9 years. Stands out for high-scale systems expertise, including an algorithmic redesign that cut cloud costs by an order of magnitude, plus earlier experience integrating speech recognition systems in noisy real-world customer environments.”

“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.”

Ethan Hu

Screened

Entry-level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and embedded systems

Seattle, WA1y exp

“Backend/full-stack engineer on Qualtrics' Online Samples team working on audience sampling systems and APIs used by researchers. They have hands-on ownership of TypeScript/React/Express services, emphasize multi-layer testing and production observability with Splunk/VictorOps, and have built APIs for both internal and external developers.”

“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.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience spanning a lean startup at AppLovin and production financial systems at Vanguard. They’ve built core user-facing platforms from scratch, including a B2B advertiser/publisher dashboard and a resilient client onboarding system using Spring Boot, NestJS, Postgres, Kafka, Redis, and AWS. Particularly strong in ambiguous environments where they work directly with stakeholders and own delivery end to end.”

Kevin West

Screened

Executive engineering leader specializing in AI, cloud architecture, and startup product delivery

Phoenix, AZ15y exp

“Founding/backend engineering leader who built an AI product for car enthusiasts, recruited and managed cross-functional/offshore teams, and helped drive an $8M Series A after scaling a viral launch of 40k+ users in a weekend. Also built a sophisticated human-in-the-loop AI brand platform with agent orchestration and led a major AWS Step Functions migration that reduced platform costs from $30k/month to roughly $900/month.”

“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.”

Josh Rhoades

Screened

Executive Technology Leader (CTO) specializing in AI-enabled SaaS and regulated platforms

Los Angeles, CA30y exp

“Senior engineering leader with experience at Disney and BlackLine who drives business-aligned technology roadmaps through deep Product/Engineering partnership (two-in-a-box) and pragmatic prioritization frameworks. Has led major modernization initiatives—private-to-public cloud migration to GCP with multi-cloud evolution, data-layer performance improvements (Mongo/Redis, caching/query optimization), and tooling upgrades (VSS to GitHub)—while scaling teams with strong quality and accountability culture.”