Vetted Azure Data Factory Professionals

UMESH KAMISETTY

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in cloud lakehouse and streaming platforms

Seattle, WA5y exp

“Data engineer focused on building production-grade pipelines on AWS (Kafka/Kinesis/Glue/S3) through to curated serving layers in Snowflake and Delta Lake. Emphasizes automated data quality validation (PySpark + CI/CD), modular dbt transformations for analytics (customer spending, risk metrics), and operational reliability with CloudWatch and DLQs; data consumed by BI tools and ML pipelines for fraud detection and risk analytics.”

Harshitha Parupalli

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in multi-cloud real-time and batch data pipelines

Jersey City, NJ4y exp

“Data engineer with healthcare domain experience who owned 100M+ record pipelines end-to-end (Kafka/Kinesis/ADF → PySpark/dbt validation → Spark SQL transforms → Snowflake/Power BI serving). Built production-grade reliability practices (Airflow orchestration, CloudWatch/Grafana monitoring, pytest + contract/regression tests, idempotent ingestion/backfills) and delivered measurable improvements: 35% lower latency and 40% better query performance.”

MOUNIKA SAI MEKALA

Screened

Junior Data Analyst specializing in financial and operational analytics

Kansas, USA3y exp

“Analytics professional with experience at KPMG turning messy operational and financial data from SQL Server and AWS S3 into clean reporting datasets and automated Python workflows. They combine SQL, Python, Power BI, and experimentation methods to deliver stakeholder-aligned KPI dashboards and marketing performance insights with a strong focus on data integrity and reproducibility.”

SAITEJA MALLEMPUDI

Screened

Senior Data Scientist and AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI and cloud ML

Chicago, IL6y exp

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on experience owning systems from experimentation through deployment and monitoring, including a Bank of Montreal project that improved timely interventions by 12%. Also brings GenAI/RAG experience with evaluation and safety guardrails, plus clinical NLP pipeline work extracting medication data from notes for patient risk prediction.”

“Data/analytics-focused engineer who builds end-to-end KPI reporting and validation products used daily by plant leads and leadership to track yield, downtime, and defects. Combines Python/SQL + Power BI data pipelines with strong data-quality practices (automated validation, monitoring/alerts) and has experience designing scalable frontend architecture in TypeScript/React and working in distributed/microservices-style data systems.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience building secure Django/DRF APIs (JWT RS256 + rotating refresh tokens), background processing with Celery, and strong reliability practices (timeouts, retries/backoff, structured logging, audit trails). Has delivered AWS solutions spanning Lambda + ECS with IaC/CI-CD and built Glue/PySpark ETL pipelines with schema evolution and data-quality quarantine patterns; also modernized a legacy SAS pipeline to Python/PySpark with parallel-run parity validation and phased rollout.”

“Built and deployed production LLM-powered document summarization/classification systems using embeddings, vector databases (RAG-style retrieval), and automated evaluation (BERTScore/ROUGE), with a focus on monitoring and scalable cloud pipelines. Also partnered with a fraud analytics team to deliver a transaction anomaly detection solution, translating model outputs into Power BI dashboards and actionable KPIs while iterating on thresholds and alerts based on stakeholder feedback.”

“LLM/GenAI engineer with US Bank experience building a production financial-document intelligence platform using LangChain/LangGraph, GPT-4, and Amazon OpenSearch. Delivered a RAG-based assistant for compliance/audit teams with grounded, cited answers, focusing on reducing hallucinations and latency, and deployed securely on AWS (SageMaker/EKS) with CI/CD and evaluation tooling (LangSmith, RAGAS).”

“Healthcare data/ML practitioner with experience at UnitedHealth Group building production ETL and streaming pipelines (Python, BigQuery, Kafka) that unify EHR, IoT device, and lab data for patient risk prediction. Also implemented embedding-based semantic search/linking for noisy clinical notes via domain adaptation and rigorous validation with clinical stakeholders; previously built churn prediction at DirecTV using XGBoost.”

“Data engineer with experience at Wells Fargo and Accenture owning end-to-end production pipelines processing hundreds of millions of transactional/risk records daily. Strong focus on data quality and reliability (reconciliation checks, schema drift detection, CloudWatch alerting) plus Spark performance tuning and idempotent backfills using Delta Lake/merge logic across AWS (S3/EMR/Databricks/Redshift) and Azure (ADF/Azure DevOps/Azure Monitor).”

“LLM/agent engineer who shipped a two-stage AI recruitment screening platform at Foursquare that automated resume ingestion through behavioral assessment, delivering an 85% reduction in screening time across 5,000+ applications with auditability and confidence-gated decisions. Also built a multi-agent benchmarking framework using MCP tool interfaces and a RAGAS + LangSmith evaluation/observability stack, including async re-architecture that cut production latency by 50%.”

“Data engineer at CenterPoint Energy who built and operated multiple production-grade GCP data systems: a daily Snowflake→BigQuery replication framework (150+ tables) with Monte Carlo/Atlan-driven observability and schema-drift protection, plus a FastAPI metrics service for pipeline health. Demonstrated measurable impact (40% faster dashboard queries, 70% less manual refresh work, zero data loss) and strong operational rigor (scaling Cloud Run jobs, SAP SLT reconciliation, quarantine patterns, CI/CD via GitHub Actions + Terraform).”

Yijun Chen

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in IoT and cloud systems

Toronto, ON4y exp

“Frontend-focused engineer who built a full movie recommendation system from concept to production, comparing classic collaborative filtering with LLM-based recommendation approaches on AWS. Emphasizes scalable architecture, strict TypeScript data contracts, and high-quality Next.js/React UI patterns (defensive states, scoped state management, performance optimization) with disciplined QA and feature-flagged rollouts.”

“Data engineer with experience at Capital One and HSBC building and operating GCP-based data platforms. Led an end-to-end Oracle-to-BigQuery migration processing ~200–300GB/day using Dataflow/Beam, Airflow, Dataproc/PySpark, and Looker, achieving ~99.5% pipeline success and ~30% fewer data quality issues. Strong in production reliability, schema drift handling for external APIs, and BigQuery performance/serving patterns (materialized views, authorized views, versioned datasets).”

Dhriti Kanchan

Screened

Mid-level Data Analyst specializing in healthcare and financial analytics

Texas, USA5y exp

“Analytics-focused candidate with hands-on experience turning messy CRM, e-commerce, payments, and support data into trusted reporting datasets using SQL and Python. They have owned end-to-end churn and retention analytics work, including RFM-based segmentation, dashboard delivery, and metric standardization across sales, marketing, and finance.”

“At KPMG, built and productionized a secure RAG-based LLM assistant that lets business and risk stakeholders query data warehouses in natural language, reducing dependence on data engineers for ad-hoc analysis. Demonstrates strong production rigor (Airflow orchestration, CI/CD, containerization), retrieval/embedding tuning (rechunking, semantic abstraction for structured data), and reliability controls (confidence thresholds, refusal behavior, monitoring and canary evals).”

“Built production LLM systems including a real-time customer feedback analysis and workflow automation platform using RAG and multi-agent orchestration with confidence-based human escalation, addressing privacy and legacy integration challenges. Also automated ML operations with Airflow/Kubernetes (e.g., daily churn model retraining) cutting retraining time to under 30 minutes, and demonstrates a rigorous testing/monitoring approach plus strong non-technical stakeholder collaboration.”

“ML/GenAI engineer with recent CVS Health experience building a production RAG system over unstructured financial/research documents using LangChain, FAISS, and Pinecone, plus LoRA/PEFT fine-tuning of GPT/LLaMA for domain-aware summarization. Demonstrates strong applied MLOps and data engineering skills (Airflow/Prefect, Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD, MLflow) and measurable impact (sub-second retrieval, ~40% better context retrieval, ~25% entity matching improvement).”

“Healthcare-focused data engineer/ML practitioner with experience at Lightbeam Health Solutions and Humana building production entity-resolution and semantic similarity pipelines across EMR, lab, and claims data. Uses NLP/ML (spaCy, scikit-learn, BioBERT/LightGBM) plus Snowflake/Airflow and vector search (Pinecone) to improve linkage accuracy (reported 90%) and semantic match quality (reported +12–15%), while reducing manual cleanup by 40%+.”

“Cloud/Kubernetes-focused production engineer with experience running 99.95% uptime platforms across AWS/Azure/GCP. Strong in incident response and performance troubleshooting (including a 30% MTTR reduction), and in building secure CI/CD and Terraform-based IaC for AKS/GKE microservices with robust change controls and rollback practices. Notably does not have direct IBM Power/AIX/VIOS/HMC or PowerHA/HACMP ownership.”

“GenAI/LLM ML engineer (currently at Webprobo) building an enterprise GenAI platform with document intelligence and automation on AWS and blockchain. Has hands-on experience with RAG, LLM evaluation tooling, and orchestrating production LLM workflows with Apache Airflow, plus deep exposure to reliability challenges in globally distributed/edge deployments. Also partnered with business/marketing stakeholders at a banking client to deliver an AI-driven customer retention insights solution.”

“Data engineer focused on reliable, scalable analytics pipelines and external data collection. Has owned end-to-end pipelines processing 5–10M records/day, serving Snowflake data marts to Power BI/Tableau, and reports ~99% reliability through strong validation/monitoring. Also shipped versioned REST APIs for curated data with query optimization and caching.”

Sreelekha Vuppala

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in Generative AI, MLOps, and cloud data platforms

USA4y exp

“GenAI/ML engineer (CitiusTech) who has deployed production RAG systems for compliance/operations document Q&A, using Pinecone + FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes with strong monitoring and guardrails. Also built a GenAI-powered incident triage/routing solution in collaboration with non-technical stakeholders, achieving 35% faster response times and 40% fewer misclassified tickets, and has hands-on orchestration experience with Airflow and AutoSys.”

“Data engineer with Optum experience building end-to-end healthcare data pipelines for HL7/FHIR, processing millions of records daily across Kafka streaming and Databricks/Spark batch. Strong focus on data quality (schema enforcement/validations), reliability (Airflow monitoring/alerts), and analytics-ready serving in Snowflake powering Power BI/Tableau, with CI/CD via Git and Jenkins.”