Vetted Serverless Architecture Professionals

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership of a production AI knowledge assistant used by 10,000+ daily users. Combines React/Next.js frontend work with FastAPI, AWS serverless, and RAG architecture using GPT-4, LangChain, and Pinecone, with measurable impact on relevance, latency, uptime, and support deflection.”

Ethan Ligi

Screened

Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in web and cloud applications

Prospect, CT2y exp

“Frontend developer who described building a security-conscious admin dashboard login and event management interface using React, TypeScript, Astro Islands, Tailwind, and an AWS serverless stack. Notable for combining SEO-friendly frontend architecture with budget-aware infrastructure choices for a small-usage business application.”

“Full-stack and AI systems engineer who has built across ride-hailing, fintech, higher-ed support, and legal-tech workflows. Stands out for shipping production RAG/agent systems with careful grounding and human fallback, while also delivering hard backend architecture wins like geospatial dispatch scaling and cutting fintech payment latency from 60 seconds to 2 seconds.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across Python/Flask microservices and AWS serverless/data platforms (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Glue/PySpark). Demonstrated strong reliability and operations mindset (JWT/RBAC, retries/timeouts/circuit breakers, CloudWatch/SNS alerting) and measurable performance wins (SQL report runtime cut from 10 minutes to 30 seconds). Seeking ~$150k base and cannot travel for onsite meetings for the next 5–6 months due to family medical constraints.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on AWS-based, low-latency event processing for market data and social-signal sentiment systems. Has led a monolith-to-event-driven migration with feature-flagged incremental rollout, and emphasizes production-grade security (OAuth2/JWT, secrets management, Supabase RLS) and data integrity (deduplication/idempotency) under high-volume spike conditions.”

“Backend/data engineer with aerospace telemetry and reporting experience across RTX and other orgs, spanning Python/FastAPI microservices, AWS serverless/containers, and AWS Glue-to-Redshift analytics pipelines. Has led legacy modernization with parallel-run parity validation and incremental rollout, and demonstrates strong operational ownership (monitoring, incident response, and cost optimization).”

Ashay Panchal

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI-driven distributed systems

San Jose, CA4y exp

“Backend engineer who built a high-stakes, privacy-first platform at be Still Analytics for survivors of domestic violence, emphasizing anonymity, security, and reliability. Experienced with GenAI backends (LangChain + AWS Bedrock) including RAG to prevent hallucinations, plus cloud-native scaling (Docker/Kubernetes) and cost-saving migrations from legacy VMs to serverless (30% reduction).”

Keeravani Chekuri

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM systems and MLOps

Boston, MA3y exp

“Built and deployed an AI tutoring assistant end-to-end at Nexora School, spanning discovery with school districts, multi-agent LangGraph/RAG architecture, AWS Bedrock migration, and post-launch stabilization. Stands out for combining hands-on LLM systems engineering with strong educator-facing trust building, FERPA-driven architecture decisions, and disciplined production practices around evals, logging, and messy document ingestion.”

“Solo developer who built and operated an AI debate product end-to-end, from architecture and deployment through observability and post-launch stabilization. They show strong practical LLM production experience—using Vercel AI SDK, OpenAI, Langfuse, Mem0, and custom RAG—while improving latency to sub-4 seconds, driving failures near zero, and cutting LLM usage by 20%.”

“Built GRETA, a full-stack multi-agent AI platform for SEO content analysis and blog-writing support, combining React/TypeScript, serverless GCP Cloud Run workflows, and LLM/tool orchestration at scale. The system reportedly reduced manual analysis by 60%, and the candidate shows strong hands-on experience shipping AI products in ambiguous environments and refining them through internal user feedback.”

Henry Li

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in mobile, full-stack, and game development

California, USA2y exp

“Engineer with hands-on experience shipping production-critical AI-assisted workflows, including an internationalization system for a React Native/Expo mobile game that expanded from English-only to 15 languages. Stands out for pragmatic, safety-first use of AI: they design deterministic validation layers, constrain model scope, and prioritize architecture, QA, and maintainability over hype-driven agent complexity.”

Tao Chen

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI-powered web products

Mountain View, CA7y exp

“Backend/data engineer who has built production AI video generation services on AWS using a hybrid serverless + container architecture (FastAPI, Lambda, ECS, Postgres/Redis) with strong reliability practices (auth, retries/timeouts, structured logging, CloudWatch + Slack alerting). Also delivered AWS Glue ETL pipelines with schema evolution handling and modernized a legacy SAS healthcare reporting workflow to Python with parity validation and parallel-run migration.”

Joseph Whissel

Screened

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in scalable SaaS, cloud, and embedded systems

12y exp

“Startup-experienced builder exploring an ambitious “internet 2.0” concept: a decentralized wireless mesh network using custom hardware nodes, with a security-first communications goal. Has thought through adoption mechanics via at-cost node distribution, usage-based crypto incentives, and an AR area-control game to drive network growth; also brings practical insight into what VCs value from working at startups including one owned by a PE firm.”

“Built and shipped a personal LLM-powered news aggregation platform (Clear Brief) that scrapes ~200 articles per cycle, clusters them into ~15–30 consolidated stories, and supports on-demand deep dives via a Next.js API route. Emphasizes production-minded reliability (token/cost controls, timeouts, graceful frontend degradation) and database-backed orchestration using SQLite with retry + exponential backoff for burst processing.”

“Engineer with hands-on experience building adaptive assessment and LMS-style platforms across React/TypeScript, edge/serverless backends, and Postgres, with strong evidence of cross-layer debugging and performance optimization. Also brings ML product experience from a small-team internship, where they shipped a CatBoost-powered investor demo under ambiguity and created reusable inference infrastructure.”

“Built production LLM-powered mobile apps using OpenAI APIs on a serverless Firebase/Google Cloud Run stack, including a prayer app serving global users across five major religions with customized prayer generation. Stands out for adding reconciliation and scoring layers to validate non-deterministic AI outputs before showing them to users, and for iterating prompts based on logged failure patterns.”

“Product/backend engineer from Revinate with experience in a startup-like SaaS environment, working on B2B tools for hotel managers. Stands out for hands-on performance optimization work that cut core service response times from roughly 800ms to about 300ms using Redis caching and database query improvements, alongside full-stack JavaScript/TypeScript and Python experience.”

“AI/LLM engineer with crypto/social-data domain experience who built an end-to-end AI trading signals and analysis backend using Next.js, Inngest, Gemini, and Supabase, including real-time progress UX and robust rate-limit/reliability handling. Also published an MCP SDK on NPM for authenticated agent tool access and built autonomous Twitter-based AI agents; strengthened reliability at LunarCrush by adding CI-gated E2E testing across web and mobile (Cypress/Maestro).”

Jason Wadsworth

Screened

Principal/Chief Cloud Architect specializing in AWS serverless SaaS platforms

Overland Park, KS24y exp

“Interested in early-stage ideation and evaluating new ideas through market viability and values alignment. Emphasizes building focused MVPs with limited resources using a value-first prioritization approach, and prefers people-centered concepts rather than profit-only ventures.”