Vetted Azure Functions Professionals

“Backend/data platform engineer who has built and operated a cloud-native media ingestion/processing platform in Python (Django/DRF, FastAPI) with Kafka, Postgres, and Redis, emphasizing multi-tenant security and reliability. Delivered AWS production systems combining EKS and Lambda with Terraform + GitHub Actions/Helm, and built Glue-based ETL pipelines with strong schema-evolution and data-quality practices; also modernized SAS analytics into Python on AWS. Seeking fully remote roles with a $120K–$140K base range.”

“Backend/data platform engineer who owned end-to-end production services for a fleet analytics/GenAI platform, spanning FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes and AWS (EKS + Lambda) event-driven workloads. Strong in reliability/observability (OpenTelemetry, circuit breakers, idempotency), data pipelines (Glue/Airflow/Snowflake), and measurable performance/cost wins (SQL 10s to <800ms P95; ~30% compute cost reduction).”

“Backend/web API engineer with hands-on experience deploying .NET Core APIs to Azure App Service and stabilizing production systems through disciplined log-driven troubleshooting, environment configuration management, and SQL performance tuning (execution plans, query rewrites, indexing). Has also debugged cross-layer incidents involving DB locks and network latency, and modifies Python/XML automation scripts to meet customer-specific requirements while improving logging and performance.”

“Robotics software engineer who built the software layer for an autonomous warehouse sorting system, spanning navigation/path planning, task scheduling, and backend services. Deep hands-on ROS 2 Foxy experience (Nav2/costmaps) and real-time multi-robot debugging, using simulation-driven analysis plus incremental/partial re-planning to handle dynamic obstacles in production-like warehouse environments.”

“Backend engineer who built and optimized a high-traffic e-commerce platform in Python/Flask, focusing on scalability and reliability through service decomposition, Redis caching, and Celery-based background processing. Also integrated an AI intent-classification chatbot as a separately deployable inference service on AWS and has hands-on experience designing multi-tenant data isolation strategies in PostgreSQL.”

“Data engineer with Cigna experience building and operating an end-to-end AWS-based healthcare claims pipeline processing ~2TB/day, using Glue/Kafka/PySpark/SQL into Redshift. Strong focus on data quality and reliability (schema validation, monitoring/alerting, retries/checkpointing/backfills), reporting improved accuracy (~99%) and reduced latency, plus experience serving real-time Kafka/Spark data to downstream analytics with documented data contracts.”

Siddhartha Alapati

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in Java/Spring microservices and full-stack web apps

Denton, TX4y exp

“Software/full-stack engineer focused on deploying and integrating microservice applications into production AWS and hybrid cloud/on-prem industrial environments. Demonstrated end-to-end troubleshooting by tracing intermittent user failures to network routing/packet loss caused by load balancer and NIC misconfiguration, then adding monitoring to prevent recurrence. Also delivers customer-specific Python extensions with strong validation, testing, and backward compatibility.”

Shivani Sharma

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in Cloud, DevOps, and MLOps

Boston, MA3y exp

“Built and productionized a recommendation system from notebook prototype into a low-latency, scalable Cloud Run service using Docker, FastAPI, Terraform, CI/CD (GitHub Actions), and MLOps tooling (Vertex AI, MLflow). Experienced diagnosing real-time workflow issues using structured logging/ELK and GCP metrics, including resolving intermittent 504s by fixing unbounded SQL and adding caching. Also partners with sales/customer teams (Wasabi) to deliver tailored demos, troubleshoot, and drive onboarding/adoption.”

Zubair Shaik

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in AI-driven FinTech platforms

Remote, USA4y exp

“Built and productionized an LLM-powered loan decisioning agent at Bank of America, integrating RAG with microservices to automate creditworthiness assessment and recommendations. Emphasizes real-world reliability and governance (EKS autoscaling, observability, SOC2/PCI security controls), and drove measurable outcomes including 20% faster loan decisions and a reduction in agent failures/fallbacks to under 2% through schema enforcement and confidence-based routing.”

“Senior data scientist with ~5 years’ experience building production ML/NLP systems in finance (Wells Fargo) and deep learning for sensor analytics in connected vehicles (Medtronic). Has delivered end-to-end platforms combining time-series forecasting with transformer-based NLP, including automated drift monitoring/retraining (MLflow + Airflow) and standardized Docker/CI/CD deployments; achieved a reported 22% precision improvement after domain fine-tuning.”

“Backend/ML systems engineer who built a Flask + PostgreSQL internal ticketing platform and demonstrates strong database/ORM performance depth (indexes, partitioning, RLS multi-tenancy). Notably optimized a high-throughput attachment OCR/embedding pipeline with batching, deduplication, and Redis caching, cutting median latency from 45s to 10s and reducing worker cost by 35% while increasing throughput 4x.”

“Full-stack Python engineer who has owned internal automation products from requirements through production, including a financial reporting platform that improved deployment time by 45% and raised reporting efficiency to 98%. Also built an AI-powered movie recommendation engine using collaborative and content-based filtering, with hands-on experience across frontend, backend, data pipelines, and ML evaluation.”

“Built and productionized an enterprise retrieval-augmented generation platform for internal knowledge over large unstructured corpora, emphasizing trust via strict citation/grounding and hybrid retrieval (BM25 + FAISS + cross-encoder re-ranking). Demonstrates strong scaling and cost/latency optimization through incremental indexing/embedding and index partitioning, plus disciplined evaluation/observability practices. Has experience operationalizing pipelines with Airflow/Databricks/GitHub Actions and partnering closely with risk & compliance stakeholders on auditability requirements.”

“Built and led deployment of an autonomous, self-correcting multi-agent knowledge retrieval and validation system at HCA Healthcare to reduce heavy manual research/validation in clinical/compliance documentation. Deeply focused on production reliability and cost—used LangGraph StateGraph orchestration plus ONNX/CUDA/quantization to cut GPU costs by 25%, and partnered with the Compliance VP using real-time contradiction-rate dashboards to hit a 40% automation goal without compromising compliance.”

“AI/LLM engineer with production experience in legal tech: built a GPT-4 + LangChain RAG summarization system at Govpanel that reduced legal case-file review time by 50%+. Previously at LexisNexis, orchestrated end-to-end Airflow data/AI pipelines processing 5M+ legal documents daily, improving ETL runtime by 35% with robust validation, monitoring, and SLAs.”

“Full-stack engineer (4+ years) with Citigroup experience building a modular banking dashboard using React/TypeScript/Redux and a Java Spring Boot microservices backend (12+ services) integrated with Kafka. Strong in reliability/observability and cloud operations on AWS (EC2/S3/Lambda, CloudWatch, Prometheus, ELK, IaC with Terraform/CloudFormation), with quantified improvements in latency, development speed, and data pipeline correctness.”

Harshitha K

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack .NET Developer specializing in cloud-native microservices

Greensboro, NC5y exp

“Full-stack .NET engineer with cloud and applied GenAI experience who shipped a real-time policy status tracking module at Lincoln Financial using ASP.NET Core/.NET 8, Kafka, Angular, SQL Server, Redis, and AKS autoscaling. Also delivered a production internal LLM+RAG support assistant at Honeywell with strong security/guardrails (PII masking, RBAC) and a rigorous eval/regression loop built on a 200-question gold set.”

“AI/ML engineer with forensic analytics and healthcare claims experience (Optum), building production LLM/RAG systems to surface context-driven fraud patterns from unstructured claim notes and explain risk to investigators. Strong in large-scale retrieval performance tuning, legacy API integration with reliability patterns (SQS, circuit breakers), and MLOps orchestration on Airflow/Kubernetes with rigorous testing, monitoring, and stakeholder-friendly interpretability.”

“At CVS Health, the candidate productionized a RAG-based LLM solution in a regulated healthcare setting, emphasizing reliable data pipelines, LoRA fine-tuning, monitoring, safety guardrails, and A/B testing. They have hands-on experience troubleshooting real-time RAG failures (e.g., chunking/embedding issues) and regularly lead developer-focused demos/workshops while translating technical architecture into business value for stakeholders.”

“Infrastructure engineer with hands-on ownership of a scaled IBM Power/AIX estate (AIX 7.x, VIOS, HMC; 2 frames/20+ LPARs) supporting critical middleware and database workloads, including live DLPAR changes and VIOS/SAN outage recovery. Also brings modern DevOps/IaC experience building GitHub Actions pipelines for Docker/Kubernetes deployments and provisioning AWS environments with Terraform (EKS/RDS/VPC/IAM) using modular, review-driven workflows.”

“Cloud/DevOps-focused engineer with production experience in Linux, AWS, Kubernetes, and cloud-native architectures. Has built GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines for containerized Kubernetes deployments and implemented Terraform-based AWS infrastructure with modular design and remote state/locking (S3 + DynamoDB) plus PR/CI-driven change control.”

Sanjana Kirthi

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in backend platforms and cloud-native systems

USA3y exp

“Backend engineer from Emphasis who modernized legacy, tightly coupled workflow systems into observable, event-driven microservices using Kafka. Led a monolith-to-microservices refactor with shadow traffic, feature flags, canary rollout, dual writes, and reconciliation, and strengthened reliability with idempotent consumers, DLQ/replay, and an outbox pattern to prevent DB/event inconsistency. Strong focus on secure multi-tenant APIs (OIDC/JWT, RBAC/ABAC, Supabase-style RLS) and frontend enablement via OpenAPI and typed client generation.”

Aniket Dhanawade

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud-native and AI-powered applications

USA3y exp

“Candidate has a thoughtful, hands-on approach to AI-assisted software development, treating AI as a pair programmer while retaining ownership of architecture, tradeoffs, and final code quality. They have practical experience using multi-agent workflows to ship small features end-to-end, including planning, execution, and gap detection under human oversight.”

“Early-career/new-grad candidate who built TrendScout AI, an evidence-first market intelligence agent that ingests messy news, extracts entities/events, builds a Neo4j knowledge graph, and answers questions via RAG with citations. Achieved ~95% retrieval relevance by combining ChromaDB semantic search with graph-based retrieval and validating outputs through human evaluation and guardrails to prevent hallucinations.”