diff --git a/app-constants.js b/app-constants.js
index 3c40c7e..27bcf46 100644
--- a/app-constants.js
+++ b/app-constants.js
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ const EVENT_ORIGINATOR = 'topcoder-member-api'
 const EVENT_MIME_TYPE = 'application/json'
 
 const TOPICS = {
+  MemberCreated: 'member.action.profile.create',
   MemberUpdated: 'member.action.profile.update',
   EmailChanged: 'member.action.email.profile.emailchange.verification',
   MemberTraitCreated: 'member.action.profile.trait.create',
diff --git a/src/services/MemberService.js b/src/services/MemberService.js
index bbf3a59..2ff4d53 100644
--- a/src/services/MemberService.js
+++ b/src/services/MemberService.js
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ function omitMemberAttributes (currentUser, mb) {
 async function getMember (currentUser, handle, query) {
   // validate and parse query parameter
   const selectFields = helper.parseCommaSeparatedString(query.fields, MEMBER_FIELDS) || MEMBER_FIELDS
+
   // query member from Elasticsearch
   const esQuery = {
     index: config.ES.MEMBER_PROFILE_ES_INDEX,
@@ -80,11 +81,24 @@ async function getMember (currentUser, handle, query) {
   }
   // Search with constructed query
   let members = await esClient.search(esQuery)
+
   if (members.hits.total === 0) {
-    throw new errors.NotFoundError(`Member with handle: "${handle}" doesn't exist`)
+    logger.debug(`Member ${handle} not found in ES. Lookup in DynamoDB...`)
+    try {
+      // Check if the member handle exists in DynamoDB
+      members = [ await helper.getMemberByHandle(handle) ]
+      // Memember was found in DynamoDB but not ES. Send message to member-processor-es
+      // to index the member in ES. It's safe to use the "create" topic since the processor
+      // will only create a new item of the item doesn't exist, otherwise it'll perform an update operation.
+      helper.postBusEvent(constants.TOPICS.MemberCreated, members[0].originalItem())
+    } catch (e) {
+      logger.debug(`Member ${handle} not found in DynamoDB.`)
+      throw new errors.NotFoundError(`Member with handle: "${handle}" doesn't exist`)
+    }
   } else {
     members = _.map(members.hits.hits, '_source')
   }
+
   // get the 'maxRating' from stats
   if (_.includes(selectFields, 'maxRating')) {
     for (let i = 0; i < members.length; i += 1) {
diff --git a/src/services/MemberTraitService.js b/src/services/MemberTraitService.js
index 49cc037..f70e1bc 100644
--- a/src/services/MemberTraitService.js
+++ b/src/services/MemberTraitService.js
@@ -51,6 +51,29 @@ async function getTraits (currentUser, handle, query) {
   // Search with constructed query
   const docs = await esClient.search(esQuery)
   let result = _.map(docs.hits.hits, (item) => item._source)
+
+  if (result.length == 0) {
+    logger.debug(`MemberTraits for member ${handle} not found in ES. Lookup in DynamoDB...`)
+    const resultDynamo = await helper.query('MemberTrait', { userId: { eq: member.userId } })
+    result = resultDynamo.map(traits => {
+      traits = traits.originalItem()
+      traits.traits = JSON.parse(traits.traits)
+
+      if (traits.createdAt != null) {
+        traits.createdAt = new Date(traits.createdAt).getTime()
+      }
+
+      if (traits.updatedAt != null) {
+        traits.updatedAt = new Date(traits.createdAt).getTime()
+      }
+
+      // index in ES so subsequent API calls pull data from ES
+      helper.postBusEvent(constants.TOPICS.MemberTraitUpdated, traits)
+
+      return traits
+    })
+  }
+
   // keep only those of given trait ids
   if (traitIds) {
     result = _.filter(result, (item) => _.includes(traitIds, item.traitId))