Vetted Azure Functions Professionals

Sai Prudhivi

Screened

Mid Software Engineer specializing in full-stack microservices and cloud platforms

New York, NY4y exp

“Backend-focused engineer with experience building high-volume policy management and enterprise pricing systems, including Django/FastAPI/Flask services, Kafka-based async workflows, and Prometheus/Grafana observability. While they have not yet shipped a customer-facing AI agent or production LLM integration, they bring strong cloud, API, reliability, and scalable system design fundamentals that translate well to responsible AI infrastructure work.”

“AI engineer focused on production-grade LLM systems rather than prompt-only solutions, with hands-on experience building citation-grounded RAG products and multi-agent workflows. Most notably built a financial document intelligence system for SEC filings and contracts that achieved ~92% recall@5, cut latency below 2 seconds, reduced hallucinations, and turned analyst research from hours into seconds.”

“Full-stack engineer who built an early-stage social platform for scriptwriters (Scriptscape) from scratch, owning everything from React Native/React UX to Node/Postgres APIs and AWS deployment. Demonstrates strong production-minded engineering with CI/CD, observability, and scalability patterns (cursor pagination, indexing, background jobs), plus experience hardening flaky third-party integrations with idempotency and backfills.”

“Backend engineer with fintech/AI startup experience who built an Azure serverless, event-driven pipeline for large-scale crypto sentiment analysis and semantic search (OCR/NLP to vector search) and integrated LLM + blockchain data for predictive insights. Demonstrated measurable impact (25% lower retrieval latency, 10% fewer data errors, 15% higher engagement) and has led safe microservices migrations with strong security and reliability practices.”

“Built a production "Mini RAG Assistant" for internal document Q&A, focusing on grounded answers (anti-hallucination), retrieval quality, and latency/cost optimization. Uses LangChain/LangGraph for orchestration and applies a metrics-driven evaluation loop (including reranking and semantic chunking improvements) while collaborating closely with product stakeholders.”

“Accenture engineer who built and shipped a production RAG-based automation/chatbot for SAP incident triage and troubleshooting, embedding thousands of runbooks/logs/tickets into a semantic search pipeline and integrating it into Teams/Slack. Reported major productivity gains (30–60% time reduction), >90% validated answer accuracy, and sub-2-second responses, with strong orchestration (Airflow/Prefect/LangGraph) and reliability practices (guardrails, testing, monitoring).”

“Full-stack engineer focused on data-heavy platforms, building Spring Boot microservices and Angular/React dashboards end-to-end. Has hands-on experience improving large-scale API and UI performance (including cutting 8–10s response times) and ensuring cross-service consistency using Kafka, idempotent consumers, and strong validation/transaction patterns on AWS with CI/CD and observability (Prometheus/ELK).”

“LLM/RAG-focused engineer who repeatedly takes agentic workflows from impressive demos to dependable production using rigorous evals, SLOs, and deep observability. Has led high-impact incident mitigation (22-minute MTTR during a major sale) and developer enablement workshops, and partnered with sales to close a $410k ARR enterprise deal with a tailored RAG pilot (FastAPI/pgvector/Okta/InfoSec-ready).”

“Backend/AI engineer who has shipped production LLM systems end-to-end, including an AI request-routing service (FastAPI + BART MNLI + OpenAI/Gemini) that improved accuracy ~25% after launch via eval-driven prompt/category iteration. Also built an enterprise document intelligence/RAG platform on Azure (Blob/SharePoint/Teams ingestion, OCR/NLP chunking, embeddings in Azure Cognitive Search) with PII guardrails (Presidio), confidence gating, and scalable event-driven pipelines handling millions of documents.”

Likhith Kumar Yaramala

Screened

Junior Backend/Cloud Software Engineer specializing in microservices and DevOps

India2y exp

“Cloud/DevOps-focused engineer with strong Linux production operations experience, deploying microservices to AWS on Docker/Kubernetes. Has built and operated secure CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Jenkins) and Terraform IaC workflows with approvals, remote state, and drift detection, and has hands-on incident recovery experience in containerized environments; limited direct IBM Power/AIX/PowerHA exposure.”

“Full-stack product engineer who builds and owns production features across Next.js/React/TypeScript and Java Spring Boot, with strong Postgres data modeling and performance tuning. Has delivered measurable improvements (60%+ faster renders, 2s→100ms queries, 50% lower workflow latency) and built reliable Kafka-based workflows with robust observability (Prometheus/Grafana/Alertmanager) and high test coverage.”

Vaishnavi M

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in MLOps and Generative AI

5y exp

“At Liberty Mutual, built a production underwriting decision assistant combining LLM reasoning with quantitative models and strong auditability. Implemented a claims-based response verification pipeline that cut hallucinations from 18% to 3% and materially improved user trust/validation scores. Experienced orchestrating ML/LLM workflows end-to-end with Airflow, Kubeflow Pipelines, and Jenkins, including SLA-focused pipeline hardening.”

“Python backend engineer (BetterWorld Technology) who owns microservice systems end-to-end on Azure, including Kubernetes deployments, CI/CD, and production monitoring/alerting. Has hands-on experience integrating SQL/NoSQL (including Cosmos DB with vector search/graph workflow) and has built a Kafka + Spark Streaming pipeline to Snowflake with a reported 40% latency reduction.”

“DevOps engineer (State Farm) with hands-on ownership of Python backend services and data pipelines, deploying microservices and workers on Kubernetes using GitOps (Argo CD). Has led complex cloud-to-on-prem/hybrid migrations with staged cutovers and rollback planning, and built Kafka-based real-time streaming pipelines with schema governance, autoscaling, and strong observability.”

Sangat Shah

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AWS serverless and React/Node.js

Los Angeles, CA5y exp

“Backend engineer who built and evolved a serverless AWS platform for large-scale live screening events with real-time chat/feedback and streaming (API Gateway/Lambda/DynamoDB/WebSockets/IVS, IaC via Pulumi). Led production refactors and phased migrations using feature flags and dual-write strategies, and has hands-on experience implementing JWT auth, RBAC, and database-enforced row-level security for multi-tenant systems.”

“Full-stack product engineer who has built AI-assisted CRM and agent workflows in Project SARA and operational systems like payroll for a staffing platform. Stands out for combining React/TypeScript, Django/Postgres, real-time systems, and LLM orchestration with strong product instincts—delivering measurable gains in response time, conversion, and engineering leverage.”

Saswata Deb

Screened

Mid Backend Engineer specializing in AI systems and LLM infrastructure

India4y exp

“Early-to-growth-stage B2B SaaS engineer from Sentisum who combined Python backend, data pipeline, and applied AI work with direct customer-facing product input. Particularly compelling for startup roles: they owned systems end-to-end, migrated transcription infrastructure to cut costs by ~93%, and built scalable async export and data-processing workflows over large enterprise conversation datasets.”

“Data/ML engineer from HCLTech who modernized enterprise data by linking fragmented financial and supply-chain data across SAP/SQL Server/Snowflake using NLP entity linking and embeddings (FAISS). Delivered measurable impact including ~40% reduction in manual error-log triage and entity-linking accuracy improvements from ~86% to ~93%, with results surfaced in Power BI for real-time analytics.”

“Full-stack .NET/Azure engineer with end-to-end ownership of policy management microservices (React/TypeScript + C#/ASP.NET Core + Kubernetes) delivering significant performance and quality improvements (e.g., response time -35%, defects -30%, CSAT +18%). Also productionized an AI-assisted analyst workflow using Azure OpenAI with a RAG pipeline on Azure Cognitive Search, including rigorous prompt versioning, guardrails, and measurable impact (review time -40%, errors -55%). Led incremental legacy modernization via Strangler Fig and dual-write migrations with zero production regressions.”

“Cloud/infrastructure engineer with strong production operations background across AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes, supporting 30+ enterprise workloads for ~40,000 users. Demonstrated incident leadership (hybrid AKS-to-AWS routing outage) with a reported 60% MTTR reduction, plus hands-on CI/CD (Jenkins) and Terraform-based IaC for AWS (VPC/EC2/EKS). Lacks direct IBM Power/AIX/PowerHA experience but emphasizes transferable ops and troubleshooting skills.”

“Data engineer who has owned production pipelines end-to-end—from Kafka/Airflow ingestion through SQL/Python validation and dbt transformations into Redshift/BI. Also built and operated a large-scale distributed web scraping platform (50–100 sites daily, ~5–10M records/day) with Kubernetes, Kafka queues, robust retries/DLQ, anti-bot measures, and backfill-safe raw HTML storage.”

Eric Kerney

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in geospatial and AI platforms

Kalamazoo, MI16y exp

“Full-stack product engineer with a strong geospatial/mapping focus who has built marketplace features, AI-enabled mapping MVPs, and Python API tooling in startup and client-services environments. Notable for combining React/Next.js front-end work with Python, spatial databases, and practical architecture/debugging decisions for enterprise-facing products used by customers such as Walmart and UPS.”

“Full-stack engineer currently building an employee management system end-to-end with React, Node/Express, and PostgreSQL, including JWT auth and RBAC. Previously worked at TCS on large-scale State Bank of India web applications, applying Redis caching, server-side pagination/filtering, and async job offloading to improve performance and reliability.”