Vetted Terraform Professionals

“Internship experience building a production RAG+LLM pipeline to map messy card transaction descriptions to merchant brands, including a custom modified-ROUGE evaluation approach for weak/variant ground truth. Improved scalability and cost by moving from a managed LLM endpoint (e.g., Bedrock) to self-hosted vLLM, and orchestrated massive embedding backfills (5,000+ files, 10B+ rows) using an Airflow-triggered SQS + ECS worker architecture with robust retry/DLQ handling.”

“Backend/platform engineer from Fanatics sportsbook core team with deep experience in real-time ingestion systems (Kafka) and high-throughput performance optimization. Delivered an 87% latency reduction on a Java API handling hundreds of thousands of updates per second, and improved reliability of shared internal libraries via deterministic recovery logic, strong testing, and feature-flagged rollouts.”

“Engineering manager with recent hands-on technical leadership in vendor-based geo augmentation, including making a key pivot from a broken vendor SDK to an internal data ingestion approach. Previously shipped impactful Python microservice refactors that reduced unnecessary data processing/storage and improved runtime payload efficiency, and has owned on-call incidents through mitigation (scaling pods) and prevention process changes.”

“Backend engineer who has led major platform evolution to cloud-native microservices (Spring Boot on AWS with Terraform) and built scalable, secure FastAPI APIs. Demonstrates strong production rigor with metric-driven validation, canary/phased rollouts, and incremental migrations using shadow traffic/feature flags/parallel writes—achieving faster deployments, fewer incidents, and zero-downtime traffic spikes and migrations.”

“Backend-focused Python/Flask engineer who has built authentication/profile services with clean modular architecture (blueprints + service layer) and tuned SQLAlchemy/Postgres for scale using indexing, query rewrites, and pagination. Has production-style integration experience for AI/ML via TensorFlow Serving and OpenAI APIs (batching, rate limiting, caching), plus multi-tenant data isolation and high-throughput background processing with Celery/Redis and idempotent jobs.”

“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).”

“Backend/founding-engineer-style builder who designed and evolved a near-real-time customer churn prediction platform (FastAPI + AWS SageMaker/Lambda + Redis + MLflow) to enable real-time retention actions, reporting ~18% churn reduction. Demonstrates strong production engineering in secure API design, incremental migrations with data integrity safeguards, and robustness improvements in async pipelines (idempotency, DLQs, retry visibility).”

“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.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM/RAG risk-case summarization and triage system used by fraud/compliance analysts, with strong grounding controls (evidence-cited outputs and refusal on low confidence). Demonstrates end-to-end ownership across retrieval quality, Airflow-orchestrated indexing pipelines, and compliance-grade privacy (PII redaction, RBAC, encrypted redacted logging, and auditable prompt/model versioning) plus a tight feedback loop with non-technical domain experts.”

“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/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 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.”

“AI/ML engineer with production experience building LLM-powered document intelligence and customer support systems in healthcare/insurance, emphasizing high-accuracy RAG, long-document processing, and robust monitoring/fallback mechanisms. Also automates and scales ML lifecycle workflows using Apache Airflow and Kubeflow, and partners closely with non-technical operations stakeholders to drive adoption.”

“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.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM/RAG knowledge assistant integrating internal docs, wikis, and ticket histories to reduce tribal-knowledge dependency and repetitive questions. Emphasizes reliability via grounding + a validation layer, and achieved major latency gains (>50%) through vector index optimization, caching, quantization, and selective re-validation. Comfortable orchestrating end-to-end LLM/data workflows with Airflow, Prefect, and Dagster, including monitoring and alerting.”

“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.”

“ML/NLP practitioner with experience building a transformer-failure prediction system that combines sensor signals with unstructured maintenance comments using LLM-based extraction and similarity validation. Strong emphasis on production readiness—data leakage controls, SQL-driven data quality tiers, and rigorous bias/fairness validation (including contract/spec evaluation across diverse company profiles).”

“Red Hat ML/LLM engineer who designed and deployed a production LLM-powered customer support automation system using RAG, improving latency by 30% via PEFT and vector search optimization. Built security and governance into retrieval (access-level filtering, encrypted Pinecone/ChromaDB) and delivered SHAP-based explainability via a dashboard for non-technical stakeholders. Experienced orchestrating distributed ML/RAG pipelines across AWS SageMaker and OpenShift with Airflow/Prefect, plus multi-agent workflows using CrewAI and LangGraph.”

“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.”

“Serial entrepreneur who built Verb Technology from a garage startup to a Nasdaq IPO, raising multiple rounds of capital along the way. Invented interactive live streaming technology that was acquired by Amazon and demonstrated rapid product/market response during COVID by prototyping and launching a solution for users while tightly managing AWS costs.”

“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.”

“Product-focused full-stack engineer who built and shipped subscription/billing features end-to-end (FastAPI + React/TypeScript), including a self-serve cancellation flow with save-offers that reduced support tickets and improved churn insights. Experienced operating on AWS (ECS/EC2, RDS, S3/CloudFront) and handling real production scaling incidents through DB/query optimization, idempotent API design, and strong observability practices.”

“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.”