Vetted Terraform Professionals

Dan Gervais

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Executive technology leader specializing in big data, AI/ML, and SaaS platforms

Escondido, CA28y exp

“Hands-on IT/engineering executive who has led high-impact architecture changes and compliance-driven data systems. Notably built an internally developed columnar database at Troparé (with dual-support UI for legacy/new DBs) and shipped an MVP in 3–4 months with dramatic performance improvements, and previously delivered PCI/opt-out compliant deletion workflows while addressing DB performance and migrations.”

Deeksha V

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in cloud data platforms and FinTech payments

Atlanta, GA4y exp

“Backend engineer focused on financial systems, having evolved payments and reconciliation platforms using Python/FastAPI and PostgreSQL with an emphasis on idempotency, validation, and consistency. Has led monolith-to-services migrations using feature flags and shadow traffic, and implements defense-in-depth security (OAuth2/JWT plus DB-level row security) for multi-tenant environments.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building FastAPI Python APIs and AWS-native platforms (Lambda/API Gateway, SQS, ECS Fargate) with Terraform + GitHub Actions CI/CD and strong reliability practices (JWT/RBAC, retries/timeouts, structured errors/logging). Also built AWS Glue ETL pipelines (S3/RDS to curated S3/Athena) with schema evolution and data quality controls, modernized legacy processing via parallel-run validation and phased cutovers, and has demonstrated SQL tuning impact (seconds to <200ms) plus incident ownership for batch pipeline SLAs.”

Mounika Nadendla

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Data Engineer specializing in cloud data platforms and real-time streaming

5y exp

“Data engineer focused on building reliable, production-grade data systems end-to-end: batch and real-time pipelines (Airflow/Kafka/Spark) with strong data quality, monitoring/alerting, and incident response. Has experience integrating external API/web data with retries, throttling, and schema-change handling, and serving curated datasets to analytics (Power BI) and backend consumers with performance optimizations like Redis caching.”

Mark Thomas

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level software architect specializing in cloud, distributed systems, and healthcare IT

McCalla, AL20y exp

“Startup veteran with experience at seven companies since 2004 and direct exposure to Birmingham's Innovation Depot accelerator through three different startups. Has worked closely with investment teams on MVPs and pitch decks and brings a pragmatic lens to evaluating ventures through need, margins, burn rate, cash position, and sales growth strategy.”

“Former CTO at Enodo who led development of programmatic parsers to extract unstructured data from real-estate financial documents (rent rolls and T12s), validating with users via prototypes before productionizing. Emphasizes accuracy-driven engineering and scalable test-suite growth based on real user samples, and has experience scoping complex product ideas (e.g., browser-based narrative editor) down to an MVP.”

Vigneshwari Shankiri

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Senior Java Full-Stack Developer specializing in microservices and cloud platforms

5y exp

“Frontend engineer who has led enterprise-scale UI delivery end-to-end on a microservices platform, designing modular Angular SPAs (v12-17) tightly aligned to Spring Boot REST APIs. Emphasizes quality and release velocity through layered testing (Karma/Jasmine), CI/CD automation (Jenkins/Azure DevOps), performance tuning with RxJS/lazy loading, and incremental rollouts with close product/design/QA collaboration.”

Fatema Tuzzohra

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in banking and healthcare platforms

Hicksville, NY12y exp

“Enterprise-focused full-stack/backend engineer with hands-on experience shipping a production LLM-powered document analysis platform for internal operations teams. They combine cloud-native microservices expertise across AWS/Azure with practical agent-system design, including async orchestration, model routing, observability, and safeguards for hallucinations, failures, and human-review fallbacks.”

Sandhya Yadavalli

Screened

Mid-level Cybersecurity Analyst specializing in SIEM, incident response, and Zero Trust

Remote, USA3y exp

“Cybersecurity/SOC-focused engineer with hands-on production experience integrating and tuning Splunk Enterprise Security for a zero-trust program, including CIM normalization, correlation/risk-based detection tuning, and performance optimization via forwarder-level filtering and index strategy. Has cross-disciplinary incident troubleshooting experience spanning SIEM, networking, and hardware, and has automated customer/team-specific security workflows using Python in Splunk playbooks; collaborated on-site with HSBC IT/SOC teams to deliver dashboards and security policies.”

Nithin Reddy

Screened

Mid-Level Software Development Engineer specializing in distributed systems and event-driven architectures

Santa Clara, California4y exp

“Built and maintained an internal JavaScript/React real-time event monitoring UI used by multiple Goldman Sachs teams (e.g., Private Wealth Management and Bulk Trading Systems). Focused on scaling performance under hundreds of events/sec—using profiling, memoization, batching, and debouncing—and paired it with strong internal documentation and disciplined incident diagnosis via synthetic load testing and logs/metrics.”

“Checkout-focused engineer with hands-on experience integrating many dependent microservices and Kafka event flows, including managing SLA/timeout issues with partner teams. Led a PayPal Braintree SDK migration across iOS/Android/web with strong testing discipline, and built an AWS Lambda automation to clean up stale CloudFormation test stacks to reduce monthly AWS spend.”

“Full-stack product engineer who owned a live-events digital ticketing platform end-to-end, including blockchain-based ticket validation and high-traffic booking flows. Stands out for combining Angular/React frontend work with Java/Spring Boot backend architecture, plus strong production reliability practices around concurrency control, queues, observability, and UX optimization.”