Vetted Terraform Professionals

Swathi Sankaran

Screened

Senior Python Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud, data engineering, and ML/GenAI

New York, NY10y exp

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building FastAPI services on AWS and implementing strong reliability/observability (CloudWatch, ELK, correlation IDs, alarms). Has delivered serverless + container solutions with IaC (CloudFormation/Terraform) and Jenkins CI/CD, and built AWS Glue/PySpark pipelines into S3/Redshift with schema-evolution and data-quality safeguards; demonstrated large-scale SQL tuning (45 min to 3 min on a 500M-row workload).”

“Founder/CTO-type startup leader who has built cloud-native data and AI platforms from scratch while owning both technical vision and product direction. Brings rare end-to-end startup experience spanning zero-to-one building, growth-stage execution, and fundraising from early stage through exit, with a strong ability to translate technical complexity into clear investor narratives.”

Abhishek Adinarayanappa

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in backend, cloud, and machine learning systems

Miami, FL3y exp

“Built Digipulse, a university project that ingested and clustered Bluesky tweet data at scale and used Gemini to generate near-real-time topic summaries, processing 1M+ tweets per day. Also brings Intel experience with Prometheus and Kubernetes, including production monitoring and incident troubleshooting.”

Vinay Naidu

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in Healthcare and FinTech

5y exp

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered incident assistant integrated with monitoring, logs, and metrics systems that reduced triage time by 30–40% and improved MTTR. Stands out for a strong reliability-first approach to agent design, including deterministic orchestration, strict schemas, fallback flows, grounding checks, and safeguards for messy operational data.”

“Built and deployed an AI-powered insurance claims fraud platform end-to-end using Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, OpenAI, pgvector, and AWS EKS. Stands out for combining LLM/RAG architecture with production-grade scalability and observability, delivering measurable impact including 62% less manual review, 40% better fraud precision, 37% higher throughput, and 99.95% uptime.”

Ming Wang

Screened

Entry-level Software Engineer specializing in AI and FinTech

Hong Kong, Hong Kong1y exp

“Recent college graduate and software engineer who relies heavily on AI-assisted development, reporting that roughly 85% of code in a recent initiative was AI-generated and then manually reviewed. Has built customer-facing AI features including personalized recommendations and an internship chatbot tied to product advertising, with exposure to API communication, database checks, and conversation monitoring.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience building event-driven Java/Spring Boot and Kafka systems, plus AI-assisted document-classification workflows in enterprise environments. Stands out for a thoughtful, risk-aware approach to AI: uses it to accelerate delivery, but emphasizes validation layers, confidence thresholds, observability, and human review before AI can affect downstream business actions.”

“Senior engineering executive who has spent the last decade leading large-scale platform modernization while staying deeply hands-on in architecture, debugging, and code reviews. He has led 120+ person organizations, built cloud-native SaaS and identity platforms across regulated and enterprise domains, and ties engineering decisions directly to revenue outcomes, including contributing to Wind River's $1B+ milestone.”

“Software engineer with Intuit experience shipping an end-to-end real-time financial insights product on AWS, using event-driven architecture with Kafka and Spark Streaming to process millions of records with low latency. Also delivers customer-facing React + TypeScript dashboards and has hands-on production operations experience, including resolving a database scaling incident via read replicas, query tuning, and connection pooling.”

“AI/ML practitioner with Northern Trust experience who has shipped production LLM systems (internal support assistant) using RAG, vector databases, orchestration (LangChain/custom pipelines), and rigorous monitoring/feedback loops. Also built AI-driven fraud detection/risk monitoring solutions in a regulated financial environment, emphasizing explainability (SHAP), audit readiness, and stakeholder trust through dashboards and clear communication.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered personalized client engagement assistant in the financial domain, balancing real-time recommendations with strict privacy/compliance requirements. Demonstrates strong MLOps/LLMOps depth (Airflow + MLflow, containerized microservices, drift monitoring) and a privacy-by-design approach validated in collaboration with risk and compliance teams.”

“Enterprise platform engineer/product owner who led end-to-end delivery of customer-facing ServiceNow Service Catalog/workflow solutions, emphasizing reliability, security, and fast iteration. Built React/TypeScript portals with Node.js and Spring Boot backends, and improved microservices reliability at scale using Kafka, monitoring, and robust retry/timeout patterns.”

“Built and productionized an autonomous research agent (AutoGPT) in a Docker/Kubernetes environment with Pinecone-based long-term memory and custom Python tools for analysis, visualization, and report drafting. Implemented layered guardrails (prompt templates, automated validation, self-critique loops, and monitoring) and achieved ~25% reduction in manual report generation time while scaling the workflow to support multiple concurrent users.”

“Built and productionized an NLP-powered customer support assistant at JPMorgan Chase for digital banking, focused on reducing response time for repetitive client queries. Strong in real-world AI deployment challenges—sensitive data handling, low-latency FastAPI services, and AWS/Kubernetes operations with CI/CD—plus a metrics- and guardrails-driven approach to reliable AI workflows.”

“Backend/platform engineer with payments domain experience, having owned core services for MasterCard’s global card tokenization and settlement platform. Built Django/Celery microservices plus Kafka/Redis real-time fraud streaming, delivering 27% latency improvement, sub-100ms fraud checks, and 18% fewer false positives. Strong DevOps/IaC background across Kubernetes, AWS ECS, Terraform, GitHub Actions, and GitOps practices for high-scale transaction systems (including UPI at PhonePe).”

“Backend engineer with experience at Comcast and in healthcare/pharmacy automation (PrimeRx), building Python/Flask services that orchestrate large-scale batch workflows (Airflow) and high-throughput event processing (Kafka). Demonstrated measurable performance wins (cut provisioning latency to ~150–200ms) and strong multi-tenant isolation strategies (Postgres RLS, partitioning), plus practical integration of ML model outputs into production systems with validation and fallback controls.”

“Built a lightweight internal JavaScript analytics tracker capturing user interactions (clicks, page views, custom events) with debounced batching, automatic session tracking, and offline event caching via a localStorage-backed append-only queue. Demonstrates practical performance optimization mindset (profiling, memoization/caching) and React performance tuning.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Data engineering-focused candidate (internship/project experience) who built end-to-end pipelines processing a few million transactional records/day for fraud detection and reporting, using Airflow, Python/SQL, and PySpark with strong emphasis on data quality gates, idempotency, and monitoring. Also implemented an external web/API data collection system with anti-bot tactics and schema-change quarantine, and shipped a versioned Flask API to serve curated warehouse data.”

“Senior software engineer (5+ years) from Walmart Global Tech who owned and operated high-scale supplier inventory submission systems, including a microservice handling submissions up to 500k items and a data platform processing ~10TB/day. Strong in AWS/Kubernetes (EKS), Kafka/Spark streaming + batch pipelines, and production operations (on-call, metrics/alerting), with demonstrated performance wins (30% faster responses, 50% faster processing).”

Allan Farinas

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Python and AWS

West Covina, CA11y exp

“Backend/data engineer who has built production Python microservices (FastAPI) and AWS-native platforms for event ingestion and analytics, combining ECS/Fargate + Lambda with CloudFormation-driven environments and strong secrets/IAM practices. Experienced modernizing legacy logic with parallel-run parity validation and safe phased cutovers, and has demonstrated measurable SQL tuning wins (20–30s down to 1–2s) plus incident ownership in Glue/Step Functions ETL pipelines.”

Bhumika Shah

Screened

Mid-level Product Manager specializing in data-driven product strategy and analytics

TX, USA3y exp

“Procurement/sourcing professional with hands-on experience selecting and rolling out an analytics dashboard vendor end-to-end—using stakeholder discovery, POCs, and a scoring matrix—then negotiating a ~26% cost reduction and waiving implementation fees. Also demonstrates strong trade compliance instincts by catching and correcting an incorrect tariff code that would have increased duties ~18%, and uses structured milestone/risk tracking (RAG) to keep OTD and approvals on track.”

Pooja Dokuri

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI, RAG pipelines, and cloud MLOps

Remote, USA4y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM + vector search clinical decision support system at UnitedHealth Group, retrieving medical evidence and patient context in real time for prior authorization and risk scoring. Strong in end-to-end RAG architecture (Hugging Face embeddings, Pinecone/FAISS, SageMaker, Redis) plus orchestration (Airflow/Kubeflow) and rigorous evaluation/monitoring, with demonstrated ability to align solutions with clinical operations stakeholders.”