Vetted PostgreSQL Professionals

“DevOps/Cloud engineer with experience supporting large-scale enterprise infrastructure (AT&T: 50+ Power8/Power9 frames and 2,000+ AIX 7.1/7.2 LPARs) and strong hands-on delivery in AWS/Kubernetes. Built secure Jenkins-to-EKS pipelines with SonarQube/Trivy gates and resolved a widespread CVE-driven build outage by patching the Debian base layer. Also created reusable Terraform modules with remote state/locking and automated drift detection to provision full mirror environments in under an hour.”

“Full-stack product engineer who has shipped polished customer-facing experiences across iOS (SwiftUI), web (Next.js/React/TypeScript), and Python backends. Built systems ranging from an escalating smart-reminder engine to a sub-200ms search UI over 6M+ court records, and owned AWS production operations including resolving a real DB-connection-exhaustion incident with scaling and architectural hardening.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-powered support/knowledge pipeline using embeddings and retrieval (RAG) to deliver more grounded, higher-quality responses while reducing manual effort. Focused on real-world reliability and performance—adding structured validation/guardrails, optimizing vector search and context size for latency/scale, and monitoring failure patterns in production. Experienced with orchestration via LangChain for LLM workflows and Airflow for production data/ML pipelines, and iterates closely with operations stakeholders through demos and feedback.”

“Backend engineer with production experience building and scaling a Java/Spring Boot payment processing API on AWS (PostgreSQL/Redis) handling a few thousand RPS, including deep performance debugging (connection exhaustion) and observability (CloudWatch, Actuator, Zipkin). Also shipped application-layer AI features (OpenAI email summarizer with feedback loop, ~40% faster agent response times) and designed reliable multi-step workflow orchestration with retries and manual escalation, plus strong SQL tuning and Python engineering practices.”

“Full-stack engineer with healthcare and finance experience who has owned end-to-end production systems across Azure and AWS. Built a real-time clinical dashboard at Centene (React + FastAPI + Azure Event Hubs) that cut data latency from ~12 minutes to under 1 minute and was associated with a 30% reduction in intervention delays. Also delivered MVPs in high-ambiguity environments at Accenture during monolith-to-microservices migration, improving uptime and maintainability with measurable results.”

“Game/tools-focused QA professional with experience at Playable Worlds, Disney, and Metaplace, emphasizing CI-driven quality (Jenkins PR gating, unit tests, Slack/JIRA visibility) in live production environments. Has hands-on defect isolation experience using developer tools to diagnose hard-to-repro player issues and improve turnaround by providing reliable repro steps and clear QA workflows.”

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped production RAG systems (including a 250K-document compliance knowledge tool on AWS) and focuses on reliability via citations, guardrails, and rigorous evaluation (Ragas/Opik/DeepEval). Also built a LangGraph-orchestrated webcrawler agent that cut research paper extraction from hours to minutes, and collaborated with clinical teams to deliver patient volume forecasting with an optimization layer for staffing.”

“QA automation engineer who owned an end-to-end test suite for a financial payments application, building cross-layer E2E coverage (UI/API/DB) and integrating it into CI with smoke-on-commit and nightly regression. Caught high-impact issues including duplicate payments caused by missing idempotency in backend retry logic and an RBAC authorization gap, and has hands-on experience stabilizing flaky Cypress tests via network-call synchronization.”

“Founding/solo engineer who rebuilt an early-stage product from the ground up: Ask NETA, an AI assistant for electricians to answer complex electrical code questions. Delivered a full-stack TypeScript system (React web + React Native iOS/Android, Express API, Postgres on AWS) with CI/CD, observability, and a Vertex AI RAG pipeline, reaching 3,000 MAUs in the first month; also built a real-time distributed scoring system handling unreliable hardware data with sequencing and retries.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer with experience at Walmart, Qualtrics, and American Express, shipping secure partner-facing API platforms and internal monitoring dashboards. Strong in AWS production operations (ECS/Fargate, RDS/Postgres, CloudWatch) plus rigorous testing/security practices, with measurable delivery and performance improvements (35% faster releases; ~30–40% latency reductions).”

“TypeScript backend/full-stack engineer who owned an internal business workflow platform end-to-end in production, including API/data design, relational DB integration, and enterprise integrations. Has hands-on experience operating workflow processing services with Kafka-style event-driven patterns, idempotency, exponential backoff retries, dead-letter queues, and strong observability, plus API design with OpenAPI/Swagger and token-based auth.”

“End-to-end engineer who has productionized AI automation and RAG capabilities, building full-stack systems (React/Node/Redis/Postgres + vector DB) with evaluation-driven quality gates and monitoring. Reported ~60% reduction in manual ops time and major turnaround improvements, and has experience modernizing legacy systems safely via feature flags and parallel runs while working across product, data, and ops teams (System1).”

“Full-stack engineer with ~3.5 years of Java Spring Boot and React experience who built an end-to-end banking transaction platform using microservices, Kafka streaming, AWS RDS, and Dockerized CI/CD. Demonstrates strong performance and reliability engineering (async processing, DLQ/retries, idempotency, caching) plus secure cloud deployment practices; has also worked across banking, healthcare, and insurance domains.”

“Data engineer with Charter Communications experience modernizing large-scale AWS data lake pipelines: ingesting S3 data, validating against legacy systems, transforming with PySpark/Spark SQL, and serving via Iceberg/Delta tables. Worked at 50M–300M record scale, delivered >99.5% data match, and built monitoring/alerting (CloudWatch/SNS) plus retry orchestration (Step Functions) and data quality gates (Great Expectations).”

“Backend engineer who built an AI-driven "Smart Feedback Analyzer" API (Flask → FastAPI) that processes user feedback with NLP (Hugging Face + OpenAI) and returns structured insights. Demonstrates strong production-minded architecture: stateless services, Cloud Run + Docker deployment, Redis/Celery background processing, and Postgres/SQLAlchemy performance tuning (EXPLAIN ANALYZE, indexing, N+1 fixes), plus multi-tenant data isolation via JWT/API-key derived tenant IDs.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on production experience building real-time customer-facing features (order tracking + push notifications) across React/React Native and Node/Spring Boot with Postgres/MySQL. Demonstrates strong reliability patterns (transactional outbox, background workers, idempotent webhook ingestion) and has deployed/operated systems on AWS (ECS/Fargate/ALB, CloudWatch, CodePipeline) with structured observability and environment separation.”

“Founding engineer at Novum AI building a real-time call analytics/suggestion backend (transcription + sentiment/tone + context retrieval) using a serverless architecture. Drove major latency improvements (about 4s down to sub-1.5s) and has practical experience hardening production APIs (FastAPI/Pydantic, auth with Cognito/Redis) and payment systems (Stripe) by surfacing overlooked subscription and multi-tenant billing edge cases.”

“Data engineer with HCA Healthcare experience building and operating end-to-end AWS-based pipelines for clinical and operational reporting (50–100 GB/day), serving curated data into Redshift/Snowflake for Power BI/Tableau. Emphasizes production reliability (Airflow SLAs/retries/alerting, logging/observability) and strong data quality controls (reconciliations, schema/null/duplicate checks), and has shipped versioned REST APIs to expose warehouse data to downstream systems.”

“Built and productionized an LLM/RAG-based credit case triage system that indexes credit bureau narratives and delivers structured, source-linked summaries for analysts. Emphasizes production reliability (data masking, human-in-the-loop review, abstention/fallbacks, monitoring) and reports >99% uptime plus ~30% efficiency gains, with iterative improvements driven by offline/online evaluation and schema-aware validation.”

“Unity game developer who built a quest system for a Hearthstone-like card game where completing quests upgrades and expands card abilities, increasing build flexibility and improving player experience. Has general networking experience via socket servers and HTTP requests, and uses Cursor/ChatGPT to accelerate animation work while keeping core logic and code quality under manual control.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer who has owned production retail and order/inventory systems end-to-end, using Spring Boot microservices with Kafka event-driven workflows. Strong in production correctness patterns (idempotency, retries/DLQs, schema versioning) plus observability (Prometheus/Grafana) and developer-facing API design (Swagger, OAuth2/JWT, versioning/deprecation). Also built TypeScript/React SPAs and cited ~40% UI performance improvement.”

“Engineering leader focused on developer platforms and identity: led a 5-person team building a multi-tenant IAM framework extending Duende IdentityServer, including governance, API standards, and multi-language SDKs. Drove major API architecture improvements by introducing GraphQL alongside REST, cutting client calls from 4 to 1 and reducing payload size by 60% within 6 months, with strong emphasis on stability (semver, E2E tests, feature flags, blue-green deploys).”

“Infrastructure/Platform engineer with deep production ownership of large IBM Power/AIX estates (70 LPARs, dual VIOS, HMC across two data centers), including live DLPAR tuning and PowerHA clustering for Oracle/WebSphere. Also brings modern DevOps/IaC experience—built GitHub Actions pipelines deploying to Kubernetes with OIDC/Vault secrets and implemented Terraform to provision AWS EKS/VPC/IAM/ALB/RDS with drift detection and controlled rollouts.”

“Serial entrepreneur and software engineer currently ideating a B2B vertical AI SaaS company with seed funding secured, using a custom-built AI agent to generate and vet startup ideas. Previously sold a software product (AskDiagnostic) into physician offices and spun an observed workflow gap into an in-house compounding solution, including a <3-minute dispensing process and supporting software for inventory, compliance, labeling, reorders, billing, and reporting.”