Vetted Serverless Architecture Professionals

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who ships AI-enabled products end-to-end: built CodeChat, a production internal codebase Q&A tool using RAG with Pinecone and a model-agnostic wrapper across OpenAI/Anthropic/AWS Bedrock, cutting AWS costs ~50% and latency ~45%. Also built and operated RealityStream, a Flask-based real-time forecasting API with JWT/RBAC, MLflow model versioning, and Prometheus/Grafana observability, including handling a real production latency incident via rollback, preloading, and caching.”

“Former co-founder at PreConception (acquired) who partnered closely with Operations, Legal, and Medical teams to deliver a HIPAA-compliant product meeting technical and regulatory requirements. Motivated by mission and team fit, and interested in a Venture Studio CTO path with a focus on 0-to-1 building and early validation via beta testing/PMF.”

“Built and shipped production RAG-based LLM agents automating multi-step document query workflows, emphasizing reliability via monitoring, retries, structured exception handling, and fallback retrieval (alternative embeddings/keyword search). Demonstrated measurable gains (18% latency improvement, 25% retrieval efficiency, 12% precision) and has experience integrating agents with messy tax and transaction data at RSM using validation/cleaning and idempotent design.”

“Data engineer/backend data services builder with end-to-end ownership of production pipelines for a Pfizer client, combining Python/SQL ingestion and transformation with strong data quality controls. Delivered measurable performance gains (~30% faster queries) and improved reliability through monitoring/alerting (Splunk, Prometheus/Grafana), structured logging, and incident response; also built internal REST APIs with versioning and caching and set up GitLab-based CI/CD with containerized deployments.”

Ram Usarty

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native distributed systems

USA4y exp

“Backend/platform-focused engineer who has shipped production LLM agents for messy research dataset submissions, turning manual validation into an automated, reliable ingestion pipeline. Strong on production hardening (streaming large uploads, strict schema/function-calling outputs, idempotency, RBAC) plus eval/monitoring loops that improved data quality, reduced support burden, and increased adoption.”

“Full-stack engineer with deep production experience across healthcare, e-commerce, and financial systems, including early-stage startup architecture work and large-scale enterprise platforms. Stands out for driving a Spring Boot/RabbitMQ microservices migration that stabilized healthcare claims processing and for leading React modernization work supporting 50M+ weekly e-commerce transactions.”

“Engineering director and hands-on architecture leader who combines people management with strong systems design depth across performance optimization, serverless event-driven platforms, and developer-facing AI tooling. Notable wins include cutting API latency 30%, reducing shipping time 20%, and refactoring a product into a Claude Code-native workflow optimized for token efficiency and developer context management.”

“Full-stack engineer with production experience across React/TypeScript, Node/Express, and Java/Spring Boot, operating containerized systems on AWS (EKS/ECS/EC2/RDS/S3) with strong observability (CloudWatch/Grafana). Notable for fixing a real checkout/order-placement failure end-to-end by adding frontend submission guards and backend idempotency with Redis + Kafka deduplication, then validating impact via technical metrics and business KPIs. Has also built Kafka-based integrations/pipelines with robust retry/backfill/reconciliation patterns in retail and banking contexts.”

“Software engineer/product owner who has led end-to-end delivery of AI and content-management platforms, including building RAG-based reliability improvements and migrating fragile systems to containerized AWS ECS/Kubernetes with Terraform-managed CI/CD. Experienced designing event-driven microservices (SQS/SNS/RabbitMQ), scaling queue consumers with autoscaling, and creating internal Python tooling to standardize data connectors (e.g., BigQuery/Airtable/internal APIs) to speed iteration.”

“Backend engineer currently building an AWS Lambda/FastAPI inventory recommendation system using a LangChain + GPT-4 RAG pipeline and MongoDB vector search; drove major cost optimization via Redis caching (60% reduction) while sustaining 10k+ daily requests under 2s latency. Previously deployed Node.js microservices on AWS OpenShift with Jenkins/Helm at UnitedHealth Group and led a zero-downtime monolith-to-microservices migration at Verizon, including RabbitMQ-based real-time messaging with DLQs and idempotency.”

“AI/ML Engineer with 4+ years of experience (Capital One, Odin Technologies) and a master’s in Data Analytics (4.0 GPA) who has deployed LLM/RAG systems to production for compliance/risk and document review. Strong in orchestration and MLOps (Airflow, Kubernetes, MLflow, GitHub Actions) and in tackling real-world LLM constraints like latency, context limits, and data privacy, with measurable impact (20%+ manual review reduction; 33% faster release cycles).”

“Security-focused engineering leader working with an MSP and internal teams to tighten tenant security (least privilege/global admin reduction, conditional access, MFA) while maintaining operational responsiveness. Has implemented and operated Rapid7, Expel, Microsoft Defender/Entra, and Cisco Umbrella, and led a challenging Microsoft Copilot rollout integrating SharePoint and Salesforce with strong Jira/KB/postmortem practices.”

Vamshi Korra

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and cloud-native microservices

Remote, USA5y exp

“Open-source React dashboard/visualization library maintainer focused on runtime performance and API clarity. Led a significant effort to eliminate severe render lag on large live-updating datasets through profiling-driven refactors (normalized state, memoized selectors) and locked improvements in with CI, linting, and documentation that reduced regressions and improved external contributor onboarding.”

“Entry-level software engineer who independently built an AI-powered feedback aggregation and analytics dashboard end-to-end using Cloudflare Workers, D1, and React. Stands out for combining serverless backend design, LLM-based categorization, and thoughtful UI/UX polish, with a practical approach to production debugging and data reliability.”

“Junior developer with over a year of experience who is already applying AI-assisted engineering practices in production, including GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, SonarQube, and OpenAI-based workflows. On a Citibank public portal built with .NET 8 and Angular, they used AI tooling plus CI/CD quality gates to speed delivery and reportedly reduce post-deployment bugs by 30-40% while maintaining strict security and compliance standards.”

Koushik Ravikumar

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud-native Java and AI platforms

Kyle, TX4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong cloud and platform experience spanning React, Go, AWS, Kafka, and Terraform. Has led complex migrations from monolithic/containerized systems to microservices and cloud deployments, built compliance-oriented logging infrastructure, and improved a broken frontend codebase to achieve a 3x performance gain while making it easier for other developers to extend.”

“Backend-leaning engineer at Coforge with strong experience in subscription lifecycle and billing platforms, combining PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Azure, Kubernetes, and messaging systems. Stands out for owning production systems end to end and driving an event-driven architecture shift that reduced failures by 30%+ and improved response times by 40%.”

“Backend engineer who built the core backend for Air Kitchens’ discovery/booking platform on AWS (Node + Python, DynamoDB, SQS/Lambda), optimizing for fast user-facing APIs and scalable async workflows. Introduced an AI matching service with a deterministic pre-filter + LLM ranking approach to balance latency vs quality, and has hands-on experience with production security (JWT/RBAC/RLS), CI/CD, and blue-green, staged migrations from Django to modular services.”

“Full-stack engineer who owned end-to-end delivery of a customer-facing financial services web platform and built internal tooling for engineering teams. Strong in microservices and event-driven systems (Kafka/RabbitMQ), distributed transaction management (saga), and production performance/observability—achieving ~40% backend response-time improvement through database and query optimization.”

“At CVS Health, the candidate productionized a RAG-based LLM solution in a regulated healthcare setting, emphasizing reliable data pipelines, LoRA fine-tuning, monitoring, safety guardrails, and A/B testing. They have hands-on experience troubleshooting real-time RAG failures (e.g., chunking/embedding issues) and regularly lead developer-focused demos/workshops while translating technical architecture into business value for stakeholders.”

“Cloud/Kubernetes-focused engineer with production ownership in multi-account AWS environments (GE) and EKS-based platforms (Lumeus.ai). Strong in incident response and reliability—diagnosed IAM-driven serverless failures (SQS/Lambda) and Kubernetes deployment issues (CrashLoopBackOff, memory pressure) with rollbacks, policy fixes, and improved monitoring. Built secure Jenkins CI/CD and delivered infrastructure via CloudFormation and Terraform for serverless and EKS stacks.”

“Cloud/DevOps-focused engineer with production experience in Linux, AWS, Kubernetes, and cloud-native architectures. Has built GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines for containerized Kubernetes deployments and implemented Terraform-based AWS infrastructure with modular design and remote state/locking (S3 + DynamoDB) plus PR/CI-driven change control.”

Jorge Mendoza

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Developer specializing in Python, AWS serverless, and data workflows

Remote11y exp

“Backend/data engineer from ALDI Tech Hub who modernized legacy analytics (Excel/SAS) into production-grade Python services on AWS serverless (FastAPI on Lambda behind API Gateway with Step Functions). Strong in reliability and operations (Cognito auth, retries/timeouts, structured logging, CloudWatch alarms) and data pipelines (Glue ETL with schema evolution); delivered measurable SQL tuning gains (30s to 2s, 70% CPU reduction).”