Vetted Azure Machine Learning Professionals

“Built and deployed a production RAG-based internal knowledge assistant that let analysts query company documents in natural language, using LangChain/LangGraph with Pinecone and a FastAPI service for integration. Emphasizes reliability in production through hallucination mitigation (retrieval tuning + prompt guardrails) and measurable evaluation/monitoring (accuracy, latency, task completion, hallucination rate), iterating based on user feedback.”

“Senior engineering executive with 8+ years leading large-scale SaaS modernization across AI, compliance, ecommerce, streaming, IoT, and travel. Has led a 150+ global engineering org, modernized seven cloud-native platforms for a $400M business, and consolidated travel systems processing $1B+ annually while staying hands-on in architecture, incident response, and AI integration.”

Sai Sri Kolanu

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and production ML systems

Dearborn, MI4y exp

“Built and shipped an AI-powered RAG diagnostic assistant at Ford for EV technicians, integrating GPT-based models with LangChain, FAISS, and SageMaker into real technician workflows. Stands out for combining strong production LLM architecture with practical safety guardrails, monitoring, and measurable impact: 45% better diagnostic accuracy and roughly 30 minutes saved per case.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who has shipped real-time, customer-facing dashboards and ticketing/payment features at Freshworks and Global Payments. Strong in Python API design (Django/Flask/FastAPI) and React/TypeScript UIs, with hands-on experience scaling PostgreSQL for high transaction volumes and operating services on AWS, including incident response and HIPAA-aligned security controls.”

“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).”

“Open-source JavaScript contributor focused on performance and maintainability in data visualization libraries—refactored legacy ES5 into modular ES6, added tests/docs, and delivered ~30% faster load times with positive community adoption. Also optimized a React dashboard (~40% load-time reduction) and took ownership in an ambiguous AI product initiative by setting milestones, standing up an initial ML pipeline, and shipping a prototype in ~6 weeks that became the basis for production.”

“Backend/ML engineer working on a battery energy storage system operations dashboard: built a Flask backend integrated with OAuth and a separate FastAPI optimization/simulation service, deployed via Docker CI/CD to Azure Container Apps. Strong in productionizing ML (AzureML to batch endpoints) and in performance/scalability patterns (Postgres indexing/JSONB, per-unit data isolation, async throttling + caching for year-long CPU-intensive simulations across 40+ scenarios).”

“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).”

“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.”

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.”

“Built a web-based online Sudoku game in JavaScript (multiplayer format supporting up to 6 teams with up to 5 players each) and demonstrates strong product/analytics orientation. Uses a KPI-driven approach (DAU/WAU, ARPU, session duration, LTV) and structured prioritization methods (MoSCoW, story mapping, cost of delay, DFV) to iterate toward targets; seeking a remote role around $70k/year.”

“Designed and deployed an enterprise LLM-powered clinical/pharmacy policy knowledge assistant at CVS Health, replacing manual searches across PDFs/Word/SharePoint with a HIPAA-compliant RAG system. Built end-to-end ingestion and orchestration (Airflow + Azure ML/Data Lake + vector index) with PHI masking, versioned re-embedding, and production monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana), and partnered closely with clinicians/compliance to ensure policy-grounded, auditable answers.”

“AI/LLM engineer with recent production experience at UnitedHealth Group building an end-to-end RAG system over structured EMR data and unstructured clinical notes, including evidence retrieval, GPT/LLaMA-based reasoning, and a validation layer for reliability. Strong in orchestration (Kubeflow/Airflow/MLflow), prompt engineering for noisy healthcare text, and rigorous evaluation/monitoring with gold-standard benchmarking, plus close collaboration with clinical operations stakeholders.”

“AI/LLM engineer with production experience building secure, scalable compliance-focused generative AI systems (GPT-3/4, BERT) including RAG over internal regulatory document bases. Has delivered end-to-end pipelines on AWS with PySpark/Airflow/Kubernetes/FastAPI, emphasizing privacy controls, monitoring, and iterative evaluation (A/B testing). Also partnered closely with bank compliance officers using prototypes to refine NLP summarization/classification and reduce document review time.”

“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%.”

“ML/LLM engineer at Charles Schwab who built a production loan-advisor chatbot integrated with internal knowledge and loan-calculator APIs, adding strict numeric validation to prevent rate hallucinations and optimizing context to control costs. Also runs ~40 Airflow DAGs orchestrating retraining/ETL/drift monitoring with an automated Snowflake→SageMaker→auto-deploy pipeline, and uses rigorous testing plus canary rollouts tied to business metrics and compliance constraints.”

Molli Dinesh

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in NLP, LLMs, and MLOps

Remote, USA4y exp

“Built an AI-driven insurance policy summarization platform at Marsh, taking it end-to-end from messy PDF ingestion/OCR and custom extraction through LLM fine-tuning and AWS SageMaker deployment. Delivered measurable impact (25% reduction in manual review time, 99% uptime) and demonstrated strong production MLOps/LLMOps practices with Airflow/Step Functions orchestration, rigorous evaluation (ROUGE + human review), and continuous monitoring for drift, latency, and hallucinations.”

Pravalika Kasojjala

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM, RAG/GraphRAG, and fraud analytics

Charlotte, NC5y exp

“LLM/agent engineer who has deployed a production internal assistant to reduce employee inquiry resolution time while maintaining regulatory compliance. Experienced with RAG, hallucination risk triage, and graph-based orchestration (LangGraph) for enterprise/banking-style workflows, emphasizing schema-validated, citation-backed, tool-constrained agent designs and tight collaboration with non-technical business/compliance stakeholders.”

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).”

Nikitha Margadi

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in cloud lakehouse, streaming, and MLOps

Texas, USA5y exp

“Data engineer at AT&T focused on large-scale telecom (5G/IoT) data platforms, owning end-to-end pipelines from Kafka/Azure ingestion through Databricks/Delta Lake transformations to serving analytics and ML. Has operated at very high volumes (~50+ TB/day) and delivered measurable performance gains (25–30% faster processing) plus improved reliability via Airflow monitoring, robust data quality checks, and resilient external data collection patterns (rate limiting, retries, dynamic schemas).”

“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.”

“Former Harris County leader turned consulting partner with strong public-sector transformation experience, including a $2.5M Azure-based analytics modernization for Harris County Public Health and governance-heavy infrastructure work on the Harris County Flood Warning System. Also managed multiple concurrent quantum computing optimization and machine learning engagements, showing an unusual blend of government modernization, executive stakeholder management, and frontier-tech delivery.”

Sowmya Medabalimi

Screened

Junior AI/ML Engineer specializing in generative AI and FinTech

Denton, TX3y exp

“Product-minded engineer/designer with hands-on experience shipping AI-powered web experiences, including a financial assistant at Intuit, a document verification platform at Mphasis, and a healthcare companion chatbot. Stands out for combining UX design, frontend implementation, and retrieval/LLM backend work to turn ambiguous AI concepts into simple, production-oriented user experiences.”