Vetted UNIX Professionals

“Backend/platform engineer who has owned real-time reporting and streaming analytics systems end-to-end, combining FastAPI/Postgres APIs with Kafka consumers, Celery background jobs, and Redis caching. Strong DevOps/GitOps experience deploying Python/Node microservices to AWS EKS with Helm, ArgoCD/FluxCD, and CI pipelines, and has supported phased on-prem to AWS migrations using Terraform and traffic cutovers.”

“Hands-on engineering leader with early-stage startup experience who balances coding with executive alignment and delegation. Has delivered offline-capable SaaS mobile demos under tight timelines, built monetization-ready mobile architectures (dynamic cloud assets + in-app purchases), and increased product velocity via component-based game architecture plus stakeholder self-serve tooling.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM conversational AI system at OpenAI supporting chat, summarization, and semantic search at 1M+ requests/day, driving major latency (40%) and accuracy (25%) improvements through Pinecone optimization and tighter RAG with re-ranking. Also has Amazon experience improving recommendation systems by translating ML metrics into business terms to boost CTR and conversions, with strong MLOps/orchestration depth (Airflow, MLflow, SageMaker, Kubeflow).”

“Google backend engineer with strong experience in large-scale identity, membership, and access-control systems. Notable work includes reconciling customer IDs across 2B+ roster records and leading a 0-to-1 Drive sharing feature to classify external users as crossover members, with a strong emphasis on correctness, rollout safety, and low-latency service design.”

“Built a production LLM-powered data ingestion workflow at Provi, an online alcohol marketplace, to clean and match millions of distributor inventory items against a product catalog. Their experience is strongest in applying LLMs to real-world, large-scale data operations with AWS Glue, S3, batching, API integration, human review, and drift detection.”

“Backend engineer who scaled a food delivery platform by migrating from a single-service architecture to Spring Cloud microservices with an API gateway and Kafka-based event-driven order pipeline. Reported outcomes include ~50% latency reduction, stable ~2K RPS throughput, and 99.8% uptime, with strong emphasis on safe migrations (dual writes, canaries, schema versioning) and security (JWT/RBAC/Postgres RLS).”

Ahmed Sadaqat

Screened

Senior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in production ML and predictive analytics

Los Angeles, CA7y exp

“ML/AI engineering leader who has owned end-to-end production systems from experimentation through deployment, monitoring, and iteration at meaningful scale. They describe running a 1M+ records/day prediction platform with 99.9% availability, shipping a RAG-based conversational AI feature for 50,000 active users, and consistently improving precision, latency, reliability, and cost with measurable business impact.”

“Technology/architecture leader with Accenture experience delivering data- and AI/ML-driven products, including a legal contract search solution and customer sales analytics for AWS. Known for scaling distributed teams (onshore/offshore), making pragmatic architecture decisions, and solving hard data problems (proprietary sources, data quality) while implementing scalable integrations like Redshift-to-Salesforce via parallelized pipelines.”

“Backend/AI engineer who built a production GPU-backed real-time inference API at Nvidia and debugged burst-induced tail latency, cutting P95 by ~29% through dynamic batching and backpressure. Also shipped an end-to-end RAG + agentic operational diagnostics assistant with strict tool controls, evidence citation, confidence gating, and strong production guardrails, plus demonstrated hands-on Postgres optimization (900ms to 40–60ms).”