Vetted Azure Machine Learning Professionals

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of production recommendation and RAG systems at Northern Trust. They combine transformer modeling, latency optimization, cloud deployment, and monitoring with measurable business impact, including 14% accuracy gains, 12% engagement improvement, and 19% better query relevance.”

“Healthcare ML/AI engineer at Cigna who has owned a clinical RAG pipeline from prototype through production, monitoring, compliance, and iteration. Stands out for combining LLM product delivery with healthcare-grade safety and explainability, driving a 38% retrieval precision gain, 42% hallucination reduction, and meaningful improvements in team velocity and system reliability.”

“Built end-to-end ML and GenAI systems at Northern Trust, including a production RAG-based document intelligence platform for financial reports and contracts. Stands out for combining strong MLOps execution with practical product judgment—improving forecast accuracy by 22%, document review accuracy by 38%, and cutting deployment time by 45% while keeping latency and reliability production-ready.”

“Backend engineer in airport operations who built a highly customizable BFF-based system connecting airport staff workflows to a baggage sortation engine. Their architecture cut per-airport customization from 100-150 engineering hours to 1-5 hours, improved long-running operation performance by 45%, and shipped in 4 months instead of 6. They also explored AI-assisted backend customization with human validation and test-based safeguards.”

“ML/AI engineer with healthcare payer experience (Signal Healthcare, Cigna) who has shipped production fraud/claims prediction systems using Python/TensorFlow and exposed them via FastAPI/Flask microservices integrated with EHR and Salesforce. Emphasizes operational reliability and trust—Airflow-orchestrated pipelines with data quality gates plus SHAP-based interpretability, A/B testing, and drift/debug workflows—backed by reported outcomes of 22% lower false payouts and 17% higher model accuracy.”

“ML/AI engineer with defense and commercial analytics experience: deployed a real-time aerial object detection system at Dynetics (YOLOv5 + TorchServe in Docker on AWS EC2) with drift-triggered retraining and 99.5% uptime, tackling ambiguous targets and weather degradation. Previously at Fractal Analytics, built and explained a churn prediction model for marketing stakeholders using SHAP and delivered it via a Flask API into dashboards, driving a reported 22% attrition reduction.”

“ML/NLP practitioner focused on financial-services document intelligence and compliance workflows—built an end-to-end pipeline to classify documents and extract financial entities from loan applications, emails, and statements stored in S3/internal databases. Strong in entity resolution/record linkage and in productionizing pipelines with GitHub Actions CI/CD, testing, data validation, and Docker, plus semantic search using OpenAI embeddings and a vector database.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-powered support/knowledge pipeline using embeddings and retrieval (RAG) to deliver more grounded, higher-quality responses while reducing manual effort. Focused on real-world reliability and performance—adding structured validation/guardrails, optimizing vector search and context size for latency/scale, and monitoring failure patterns in production. Experienced with orchestration via LangChain for LLM workflows and Airflow for production data/ML pipelines, and iterates closely with operations stakeholders through demos and feedback.”

“Full-stack engineer with healthcare and finance experience who has owned end-to-end production systems across Azure and AWS. Built a real-time clinical dashboard at Centene (React + FastAPI + Azure Event Hubs) that cut data latency from ~12 minutes to under 1 minute and was associated with a 30% reduction in intervention delays. Also delivered MVPs in high-ambiguity environments at Accenture during monolith-to-microservices migration, improving uptime and maintainability with measurable results.”

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped production RAG systems (including a 250K-document compliance knowledge tool on AWS) and focuses on reliability via citations, guardrails, and rigorous evaluation (Ragas/Opik/DeepEval). Also built a LangGraph-orchestrated webcrawler agent that cut research paper extraction from hours to minutes, and collaborated with clinical teams to deliver patient volume forecasting with an optimization layer for staffing.”

“Backend engineer who built an AI-driven "Smart Feedback Analyzer" API (Flask → FastAPI) that processes user feedback with NLP (Hugging Face + OpenAI) and returns structured insights. Demonstrates strong production-minded architecture: stateless services, Cloud Run + Docker deployment, Redis/Celery background processing, and Postgres/SQLAlchemy performance tuning (EXPLAIN ANALYZE, indexing, N+1 fixes), plus multi-tenant data isolation via JWT/API-key derived tenant IDs.”

Sai Rahul Dasari

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI, NLP, and healthcare RAG systems

USA3y exp

“Built and deployed a production clinical claim validation RAG system at GE HealthCare that automated nurses’ patient-history/claims checks, cutting manual review time by ~65%. Designed the full stack (retrieval, embeddings, Pinecone, prompt/verification guardrails, FastAPI backend) with PHI-compliant anonymization via NER and orchestrated pipelines using Airflow, Azure ML Pipelines, and MLflow with drift monitoring.”

“Accenture data engineer who greenfielded a supply-chain lakehouse platform, building an end-to-end medallion/Delta pipeline ingesting ~1.4TB/day from 17+ ERP/WMS/TMS/shipment sources. Delivered Gold datasets to Redshift/Synapse/Databricks SQL powering Power BI/Tableau with a 99.5% SLA, while cutting runtime 30% and cloud costs 16% through Spark/Delta optimizations and robust data quality controls.”

Shashank R

Screened

Senior Data Engineer specializing in cloud data platforms and real-time analytics

Las Vegas, NV6y exp

“Data engineer (Credit One) who built and owned real-time financial transaction and credit risk/fraud data systems end-to-end on AWS + Snowflake. Delivered high-scale pipelines (150k events/hour; ~2TB/week), raised data accuracy to 99%, and cut Snowflake costs 42% while adding strong observability, schema-drift handling, and production-grade APIs/documentation.”