Vetted Azure Kubernetes Service Professionals

“Senior engineering leader with 8+ years of hands-on and people leadership experience across data-intensive enterprise platforms. He has led legacy-to-AWS modernization for mission-critical identity data workflows at Deep Sync, built and scaled teams rapidly, and previously helped create a 0-to-1 enterprise analytics platform at Kantar that later scaled to handle 10x more data with major performance gains.”

Bill Cheng

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in SaaS platforms and AI systems

Remote, USA26y exp

“Entrepreneurial candidate building an LLC focused on applying AI to improve call center customer service, with an early go-to-market focus on local government call centers. They are already in discussions with a government prospect and have a clear thesis around solving high turnover and low knowledge retention through AI-assisted training and support systems.”

“Open-source JavaScript library contributor/maintainer focused on performance and usability—uses profiling and user feedback to optimize large-dataset processing and modernize abstractions. Refactored a nested-callback event handling system into an observer-pattern dispatcher with batched event queues, reducing CPU usage and improving maintainability; also handles community-reported crashes by reproducing issues, fixing memory leaks, and updating docs.”

“Backend engineer with American Express experience maintaining an internal Python/Flask rewards simulation microservice used by product analysts and QA. Demonstrated strong performance and scalability work: moved batch simulations to Celery, added Redis caching to cut DynamoDB latency, and tuned Postgres/SQLAlchemy queries with EXPLAIN ANALYZE and composite indexes (bringing API responses under ~200ms by queueing jobs). Also has experience integrating ML via Flask-based model-serving APIs (scikit-learn/LightGBM packaged with joblib) and designing multi-tenant data isolation and tenant-specific configuration systems.”

“Backend/ML platform engineer in the insurance domain who built and shipped an AI-driven risk scoring/fraud detection service for underwriting. Runs containerized .NET Core and Python inference services on Azure (AKS + GPU nodes) with Terraform/ARM and Azure DevOps CI/CD, and has hands-on experience improving reliability under peak load plus implementing production AI guardrails (drift monitoring, fallbacks, human review, audit logs).”

“Cloud/DevOps engineer (6+ years) with healthcare domain experience who has owned production AWS systems end-to-end—building real-time data pipelines and an admission forecasting ML service delivered via API and Tableau. Led EMR modernization from on-prem/VMs to containerized AWS using phased migration and blue-green deployments, achieving ~99.5% uptime while cutting on-prem footprint ~30% and driving major automation gains (up to ~90% manual work reduction).”

Aishwarya Yenumula

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Java Engineer specializing in microservices, React, and Azure

Austin, TX5y exp

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership of a real-time loyalty rewards notification system at Dell, spanning React UI, Spring Boot/Node microservices, Kafka event processing, and Oracle/Postgres persistence. Strong production operations experience across AKS/Azure DevOps and AWS (EC2/RDS/S3, autoscaling, CloudWatch), including resolving peak-load Kafka lag and API latency incidents through scaling and performance tuning.”

“Data-focused engineer who has built near real-time trending news sentiment pipelines end-to-end (API/web ingestion, validation, transformations, and dashboard serving) and implemented reliability patterns like retries with exponential backoff and backfills. Also shipped Java/Spring Boot REST APIs backed by SQL with indexing/pagination, and stood up an early-stage QR-based attendance MVP using Firebase with iterative hardening via logging and validation.”

“Healthcare AI engineer with hands-on ownership of production ML and LLM systems at McKesson, spanning clinical risk prediction and RAG-based documentation tools. Stands out for combining deep clinical-data experience, HIPAA-aware deployment practices, and measurable impact through reduced readmissions, clinician workflow gains, and 20% to 30% faster ML delivery for engineering teams.”