Vetted Observability Professionals

“Software engineer in the mortgage/financial services domain (Freddie Mac) who builds end-to-end loan origination and credit risk capabilities using Spring Boot microservices, Angular dashboards, and data pipelines. Delivered measurable impact (30% reduction in underwriting turnaround time) and emphasizes production reliability/compliance with strong guardrails, observability, and evaluation loops for risk scoring systems.”

“GenAI/ML engineer with production experience building multilingual LLM systems (English/Spanish) and RAG-based clinical documentation summarization at Walgreens, combining prompt engineering, structured output validation, and rigorous evaluation (ROUGE + pharmacist review). Also orchestrated end-to-end ML pipelines for demand forecasting using Apache Airflow, PySpark, and MLflow with scheduled retraining and production monitoring.”

“Built and shipped an end-to-end podcast recommendation system exposed via a Flask API and React UI, explicitly balancing relevance, diversity (MMR), and safety constraints while meeting ~200ms latency targets. Also implemented a production-style RAG/information-extraction pipeline using web retrieval, spaCy NER, and fine-tuned SpanBERT with guardrails and evaluation loops (precision/recall/F1) to tune confidence thresholds and improve reliability.”

“AIX/IBM Power Systems engineer with hands-on production incident leadership in a regulated banking environment, using deep OS-level tooling to diagnose CPU entitlement and memory pressure issues. Experienced with HMC/vHMC, VIOS, and zero-downtime DLPAR resizing, plus PowerHA/HACMP clustering and validated failover testing. Also drives migration readiness via Bash/Python automation (60% manual-effort reduction) and phased AIX cloud/hybrid cutovers.”

“Customer-facing technical/product professional with hands-on experience delivering an LLM-driven document processing feature from design to production, including monitoring, logging, and LLM evals. Demonstrates a pragmatic approach to agentic/LLM workflows (using deterministic logic where possible), strong stakeholder alignment, and sales enablement through demos, tutorials, and direct customer calls; has presented to principal engineers (Intuit) and taught coding bootcamps (eBay).”

“Serial venture builder/operator across ad tech, media delivery, search engines, international content management, and ecommerce; has raised up to $150M and been involved in 8 acquisitions or IP-acquisition events. Known for refactoring/re-engineering smaller or troubled platforms into higher-value businesses, including building yield-management algorithms and a Kafka-like system to improve ad delivery profitability.”

“Backend/data engineer with strong AWS production experience across containers (ECS) and serverless (API Gateway/Lambda/SQS), plus Glue-based ETL to Parquet for Athena/Redshift. Demonstrates hands-on reliability and security depth (Cognito OAuth2/JWT with JWKS rotation, idempotency/DLQs, monitoring) and measurable performance wins (Redis caching + query tuning), along with legacy-to-services modernization using parallel-run parity and feature-flagged cutovers.”

“GenAI/ML engineer from Lucid Motors who built and productionized an LLM-powered RAG diagnostic assistant for manufacturing and maintenance teams, deployed on AWS with Docker/Kubernetes and MLflow. Demonstrates end-to-end ownership from retrieval/prompt design to scalability, monitoring, and workflow integration via APIs, plus production ML pipeline orchestration with Kubeflow (Spark/Kafka + TensorFlow) for predictive maintenance use cases.”

“Backend engineer at Goldman Sachs who deployed internal LLM-powered utilities to summarize operational logs/tickets, with a strong emphasis on data sensitivity and reliability. Built deterministic workflows with template-based prompts, confidence checks, and rule-based fallbacks, and used monitoring plus failure-rate metrics to tune performance; also has hands-on Temporal orchestration experience for resilient async backend jobs.”

“AI/ML engineer with production experience building an LLM-powered resume-to-job matching and feedback product using RAG, with a strong focus on latency, hallucination control, and scalable deployment. Experienced orchestrating ML inference and backend services on Kubernetes and applying rigorous evaluation/guardrail practices; also partnered with business/product stakeholders at Walmart to improve an NLP-based supplier support system.”

“Customer-facing technical professional experienced in productionizing complex systems (including LLM/agentic workflows) and high-volume cloud data pipelines. Built and hardened a near-real-time data extraction/caching solution that significantly reduced latency and became a reusable pattern for other enterprise use cases; also runs developer demos/workshops with hands-on test environments and has driven 30–50% latency improvements.”

“Backend/infra engineer with experience across Nestle, J.P. Morgan, and Capgemini, combining ML systems work (YOLOv8/PyTorch object detection with TFLite edge deployment) with production-grade cloud/Kubernetes operations. Has delivered measurable impact via AWS migrations (25% cost reduction, 99.9% availability), microservice modernization (35% faster processing), and low-latency Kafka streaming for financial dashboards (<100ms) using DLQs and idempotent consumers.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG chatbot at Wells Fargo for securely querying regulated financial and compliance documents, emphasizing low hallucination rates, explainability, and strict governance. Experienced with LangChain multi-agent orchestration plus Airflow/Prefect pipelines for ingestion, embeddings, evaluation, and retraining, and partnered closely with compliance/operations to drive adoption through demos and feedback-driven retrieval rules.”

“Built and owned major parts of a real-time distributed AI fraud-detection pipeline (ingestion, inference microservice integration, and automated action layer), optimizing latency and observability and reducing false positives by ~35%. Understands ROS/ROS2 concepts (nodes/topics/services) and planned hands-on ramp-up via ROS2 pub/sub exercises and Gazebo simulation, but has not worked on physical robots or ROS in production.”

“Backend engineer with strong AWS/CI/CD experience (multi-repo deployments, Lambda + core app, immutable ECR and image promotion) and a published master’s thesis building an ML framework for Solar PV energy prediction and CO2 reduction impact modeling using ensemble and meta-learning approaches benchmarked against SAM.”

“Founder/builder of an EdTech startup (robograde.io) who personally conducted on-site classroom discovery with teachers and rapidly iterated the product based on real-world feedback. Implemented a Canvas LMS integration and refined it through weeks of in-person testing, and handled a live production grading failure by quickly debugging and deploying a fix, then adding fault-tolerant/backup API design.”

“Built and deployed an AWS-based LLM/RAG ticket triage and knowledge retrieval system (Pinecone/FAISS + Step Functions + MLflow) that cut support resolution time by 20%. Demonstrates strong production focus on hallucination reduction, PII security, and low-latency orchestration, with measurable evaluation improvements (e.g., ~25% grounding accuracy gain via re-ranking) and proven collaboration with support operations stakeholders.”

“Customer-facing technical professional who designs solution architecture and builds PoCs for regulated customers, iterating via biweekly demos and direct feedback to reach production-ready implementations. Regularly delivers technical demos (~2/month for nearly a year) and partners with sales/customer-facing teams by refining technical implementations until they match customer requirements.”

“Built and shipped multiple production AI systems, including Auto DocGen (LLM-generated OpenAPI docs kept in sync via AST diffs, schema-constrained generation, and CI/CD on Render) and a multimodal sign-language recognition pipeline at USC orchestrated with FastAPI, MediaPipe, and PyTorch. Also partnered with Esri’s non-technical community team to fine-tune an LLaMA-based spam classifier with a review UI, cutting moderation time by 70%.”

“Platform-focused engineer experienced in productionizing ML/LLM systems: containerized a local prototype, implemented CI/CD, deployed to Kubernetes with scaling controls, and added monitoring/logging. Comfortable diagnosing real-time issues in LLM/agent workflows using logs/metrics and incident stabilization tactics, and supports sales calls by clearly explaining production scalability to unblock customer decisions.”

“Infrastructure-leaning engineer who has built real-time ML systems end-to-end: a Jetson-deployed adaptive Whisper ASR service (Flask + WebSockets, React/TS UI) and a high-throughput Postgres schema for live transcription. Also delivered customer-facing AI billing/OCR improvements for a dental startup (Dentite), boosting OCR performance by 38%, and has experience instrumenting open-source ML deployment stacks to add infrastructure visibility.”

“LLM/RAG engineer who has shipped production systems in high-stakes domains (fraud analytics at Mastercard and security compliance as a CI/CD gate). Strong focus on reliability: hybrid retrieval for latency, citation-backed outputs for trust, and code-driven eval/regression pipelines using golden datasets. Also built scalable OCR-based ingestion for messy classroom artifacts (handwriting, PDFs, whiteboard photos) using Go/Python and cloud services.”

“Infrastructure reliability/capacity-focused engineer with hands-on IBM Power/AIX (LPAR/DLPAR, HMC, VIOS) performance troubleshooting and modern cloud-native delivery experience. Built production CI/CD and Terraform-managed AWS/EKS environments, and has led real incident recoveries spanning Kubernetes autoscaling and AWS quota constraints with concrete RCA and prevention improvements.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with Walmart experience building and operating high-volume media upload and processing systems. Strong in Java/Spring Boot, Postgres performance tuning (EXPLAIN/ANALYZE), and durable workflows using Kafka/Spring Batch with retries and idempotency, plus production ownership via monitoring and optimization; familiar with Next.js/TypeScript and modern React performance patterns.”