Vetted Azure DevOps Professionals

“Backend/platform engineer who owned a real-time customer analytics microservice stack in Python/FastAPI with Kafka streaming into PostgreSQL, including schema enforcement (Avro) and high-throughput optimizations. Strong Kubernetes + GitOps practitioner (EKS/GKE, Helm, Argo CD) who has handled CI/CD reliability issues with automated pre-deploy checks and rollbacks, and supported major migrations (on-prem to AWS; VM to EKS) with blue-green cutover planning.”

“Backend engineer with Citi Bank experience building and operating a Python/Flask Personal Finance Manager platform at 1M+ transactions/month. Strong in secure API design, database performance tuning (PostgreSQL/Azure SQL), and production reliability (92%+ test coverage, load testing, monitoring). Also integrated an NLP expense-tagging microservice with caching, background workers, autoscaling, and multi-tenant isolation via RLS and tenant-aware JWT.”

“AI/ML engineer with production experience building a RAG-based internal analytics assistant (Databricks + ADF ingestion, Pinecone vector store, LangChain orchestration) deployed via Docker on AWS SageMaker with CI/CD and MLflow. Strong focus on real-world constraints—latency/cost optimization (LoRA ~60% compute reduction), hallucination control with citation grounding, and enterprise security/governance. Previously at Intuit, delivered an interpretable churn prediction system (PySpark/Databricks, Airflow/Azure ML) that improved retention targeting ~12%.”

“Executive-operations/program leader who supports senior leadership through multiple concurrent, high-visibility initiatives (tech rollout, cost optimization, growth strategy). Known for creating portfolio dashboards, operating cadences, and decision logs that reduce initiative sprawl, accelerate executive decision-making, and keep cross-functional teams aligned while maintaining strict confidentiality during sensitive changes like leadership restructures.”

“QA engineer intern experience at Amazon (Alexa Daily Essentials) owning end-to-end quality for AI-powered timer/stopwatch features at massive scale. Demonstrates disciplined Jira-based workflow, automation-driven regression coverage, and strong device-matrix verification (Echo Show generations), with concrete examples of finding and driving resolution of complex UI/backend synchronization bugs.”

“AI/ML engineer who built a production RAG-based internal document intelligence assistant (LangChain + Pinecone) to let employees query enterprise reports in natural language. Demonstrated hands-on pipeline orchestration with Apache Airflow and tackled real production issues like retrieval grounding and latency using tuning, caching, and token optimization, while partnering closely with non-technical business stakeholders through iterative demos.”

“QA automation engineer with Barclays digital banking experience who owned an end-to-end regression suite across UI, API, and database layers (Selenium/TestNG, REST Assured, SQL) and integrated it into CI/CD (Jenkins/GitLab). Known for preventing high-impact financial defects like duplicate transaction postings by adding backend SQL validations, negative/edge-case coverage, and converting production issues into automated regression tests; also strong in Cypress flake reduction using cy.intercept/cy.session and stable selectors.”

“Data engineer focused on building reliable, production-grade pipelines and external data collection systems on AWS (S3/Lambda/SQS/Glue/EMR) using PySpark/SQL, serving curated datasets to Snowflake/Redshift for finance and fraud teams. Has operated a large-scale crawler ingesting millions of records/day with anti-bot tactics, schema versioning/quarantine, and CloudWatch/Datadog monitoring, and also shipped a versioned REST API with caching and query optimization.”

“Data engineer/platform builder who has owned production pipelines end-to-end processing millions of records/day, with strong emphasis on data quality (quarantine workflows) and reliability (monitoring, retries, incremental loads). Also designed large-scale external data collection/crawling with anti-bot handling and backfills, and shipped versioned REST data services optimized for performance and developer usability in an early-stage environment.”

Sharan Raj Sivakumar

Screened

Senior Software Developer specializing in AI/ML automation and cloud-native systems

New York City, NY6y exp

“ML/MLOps practitioner who built production systems for telecom network analytics, including an automated labeling + multi-label Random Forest solution that cut labeling effort by 90% and sped up RCA. Led an Ericsson auto-deployment platform using Airflow, Azure IoT Hub, Docker, and Celery to orchestrate 120+ containerized ML/rule-based deployments, saving ~80 hours of setup per deployment.”

Keerthi Kalluri

Screened

Senior Full-Stack & GenAI Engineer specializing in healthcare and financial services

6y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered customer support assistant using a RAG backend in Python, focused on deflecting repetitive Tier-1 tickets and reducing resolution time. Demonstrates strong production engineering instincts around reliability (confidence scoring + human fallback), scalability/cost optimization (multi-stage pipelines), and workflow orchestration/observability (LangChain, custom DAGs, structured logging, step metrics).”

“Backend engineer with healthcare and financial services experience (Humana, PNC) who owned production-grade, high-volume ingestion-to-API pipelines end-to-end in C#/.NET and SQL. Strong focus on data quality, handling out-of-order/partial upstream records, and improving reliability/observability via structured logging and telemetry, plus significant SQL performance tuning to reduce peak-load issues.”

Anthony Thanpoovong

Screened

Entry-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud, AI, and full-stack development

Toronto, Canada1y exp

“Backend/AI engineer with hands-on experience building LLM-powered data products and AI platform workflows, including a project that turns tabular datasets into graphs, summaries, and chat-based insights with 1-2 second latency. Also contributed at TELUS to a Sovereign AI Factory self-serve onboarding platform tied to 100+ NVIDIA H200 GPUs, giving them an interesting mix of applied LLM, platform, and infrastructure exposure.”

“ML/AI engineer focused on taking LLM products from experiment to production, with hands-on ownership of a RAG-based customer support system that improved response quality by 35% and cut latency by 30%. Stands out for combining product impact with production rigor across retrieval tuning, safety guardrails, monitoring, and reusable Python/FastAPI services that accelerated adoption across teams.”

Sai Sreenath Kalva

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI and Healthcare IT

Rosemead, CA5y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong AI architecture experience in regulated healthcare environments, including a HIPAA-compliant conversational reporting assistant for LA County Department of Public Health and clinical workflow features for Oracle Health/Cerner PowerChart. Stands out for combining LLM/RAG system design, healthcare compliance, and production-grade reliability practices across Azure, AWS, and Kubernetes.”

VINAY KUMAR VIPPALA

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in FinTech backend systems

Seattle, WA5y exp

“Full-stack product engineer with hands-on ownership from React UI through Spring Boot APIs and SQL data layers, focused on transaction-heavy fintech workflows. Built both a transaction reconciliation system and a 0-to-1 AI-based anomaly detection workflow at LeisurePay, combining performance-minded frontend engineering with pragmatic product delivery.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building reliable Python FastAPI services on Kubernetes and delivering AWS EKS + Terraform CI/CD with strong secrets isolation and rollback practices. Also built AWS Glue ETL pipelines into S3/Redshift with schema-evolution handling and data-quality controls, modernized legacy analytics into modular Python services with parallel-run parity validation, and has demonstrated SQL tuning impact (minutes to seconds) plus ownership of batch pipeline incidents end-to-end.”

“GenAI/RAG engineer who has deployed a production policy/regulatory search assistant for a financial client using LangChain + Vertex AI, FastAPI, Docker/Kubernetes, and Airflow-orchestrated data pipelines. Demonstrated measurable impact with 50–60% latency reduction and 70% fewer pipeline failures, plus KPI-driven grounding evaluation (90%+ target) and strong cross-functional collaboration with compliance/business teams.”

NIEVES Moya

Screened

Executive engineering leader specializing in DevSecOps and enterprise transformation

Allen, TX15y exp

“Candidate is exploring a DevSecOps consultancy built around deploying experienced consultants to establish clients' DevSecOps foundations across multiple industries. They show strong domain credibility, a thoughtful services model designed for both handoff and recurring relationships, and a pragmatic, values-driven approach to entrepreneurship.”

“QA automation engineer with Silicon Valley Bank experience owning end-to-end test automation for customer onboarding and payments. Built a hybrid framework (Playwright UI, REST Assured API, Python + SQL backend validation) integrated into Azure DevOps CI/CD with PR gating and nightly regressions, catching high-risk issues like silent API contract breaks and missing payment ledger entries before release.”

“Senior project/program leader with 19+ years of experience delivering enterprise B2B and SaaS implementations across highly regulated and operationally complex industries. Brings broad cross-domain expertise spanning CRM, IAM, IoT/fleet, data migration, and platform modernization, with repeated ownership of multi-project portfolios, executive governance, and go-live readiness for high-visibility enterprise releases.”