Vetted Azure Machine Learning Professionals

“Built and deployed a production NLP sentiment analysis system at Piper Sandler to turn noisy, finance-specific customer feedback into scalable insights. Demonstrates strong end-to-end MLOps: fine-tuning BERT, improving label quality, monitoring for language drift, and automating retraining/deployment with Airflow and Docker (plus Kubeflow exposure).”

“Backend/Node.js-focused engineer who improved a widely used shared config/logging utility library by fixing a real-world async race condition (single disk read under concurrency) and adding stronger validation/testing, resulting in more deterministic services and faster startup/build/CI times. Also builds internal platform automation spanning Python/Go/TypeScript with strong documentation practices and security-conscious customer onboarding (e.g., sensitive Kubernetes clusters, HashiCorp Vault access issues).”

Meng Yang

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Staff Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems, cloud platforms, and IoT

Columbus, OH21y exp

“CTO/Chief Architect who rebuilt an IoT platform from a fragile legacy stack into an AWS-based, multi-tenant cloud-native system supporting 50k+ connected devices and 10M+ monthly events, then layered in real-time data pipelines and ML anomaly detection. Known for tightly aligning roadmaps and OKRs to business KPIs (onboarding speed, uptime, velocity) and for scaling teams into domain-focused pods; previously led a shift from LAMP to event-driven Node.js microservices using MQTT and message queues.”

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped production systems end-to-end, including a note-taking product (Notey) combining audio/image capture, ASR, summarization, and a semantic chat agent over past notes. Also has applied ML experience in healthcare, collaborating directly with doctors to validate an EEG seizure-detection pipeline, and uses Kubernetes to optimize GPU usage for LLM training.”

“AI/ML manager who has deployed production NLP in healthcare—mining unstructured clinical notes and combining them with structured patient data to predict readmissions, with strong emphasis on data alignment and terminology normalization. Also experienced operationalizing ML with Airflow/MLflow and AWS Step Functions/SageMaker, plus stakeholder-facing Power BI dashboards (e.g., marketing customer segmentation).”

“Backend-focused Python engineer who owned high-traffic internal services end-to-end (FastAPI/Django) including REST/GraphQL APIs, PostgreSQL optimization, async task processing via SQS, and full CI/CD. Strong Kubernetes-on-EKS and GitOps (ArgoCD + Helm) experience, plus Kafka real-time streaming work and phased cloud-to-on-prem migration support.”

Monthir Ali

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG, and VR/XR multimodal systems

Salt Lake City, UT8y exp

“PhD researcher (University of Utah) who built a production RAG-powered Virtual Reality Research Assistant to answer lab research questions with concrete citations. Implemented an end-to-end LangChain pipeline using PyPDFLoader, chunking strategies, OpenAI embeddings, and ChromaDB, with emphasis on grounding to reduce hallucinations and ensure research-grade accuracy. Collaborated closely with a non-technical PhD advisor to scope requirements, manage cost constraints, and demo iterative progress.”

“Senior AI/ML engineer with hands-on experience building production LLM systems in healthcare, including RAG-based clinical question answering and end-to-end MLOps on Vertex AI and Kubernetes. They combine strong platform engineering with applied GenAI work, citing a 35% improvement in factual accuracy and a 30% boost in internal team productivity through modular Python services and CI/CD.”

“ML/AI engineer with strong healthcare insurance domain depth who has owned fraud detection and LLM claims products end-to-end in production. Stands out for combining modern MLOps and RAG architecture with measurable business impact, including millions in fraud savings, 40% faster analysis, and reusable platform tooling that accelerated multiple teams.”

“Built and productionized a clinical NLP + patient risk stratification platform at Dermanture, combining Spark/PySpark pipelines with BERT/BioBERT for entity extraction and text classification and downstream risk models in TensorFlow/scikit-learn. Experienced running regulated, auditable ML workflows with Airflow and AWS SageMaker, emphasizing data validation (Great Expectations), drift monitoring, and explainability (SHAP) to drive clinician trust and adoption.”

“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.”

“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.”

Jaykumar Kotiya

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning & AI Engineer specializing in Generative AI, NLP, and MLOps

Boston, MA6y exp

“Built and deployed production LLM systems for summarizing sensitive legal and financial documents, emphasizing GDPR-aligned privacy controls and scalable hybrid cloud architecture. Experienced with Kubernetes/Airflow orchestration and rigorous testing/monitoring practices, and has delivered measurable business impact (18% conversion lift) by translating AI outputs for non-technical marketing stakeholders.”

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.”

“ML engineer with hands-on experience building banking AI systems end-to-end, including a customer-targeting model that improved campaign response rates by about 10%. Also shipped a RAG-based banking FAQ/support feature with safety guardrails and production optimizations around retrieval quality, latency, and cost, plus reusable Python services that reduced duplicate work for other engineers.”

“AI/LLM engineer with production experience building an LLM-powered investment recommendation system using RAG and chatbots, deployed via Docker/CI/CD and scaled on Kubernetes. Demonstrated measurable performance wins (sub-200ms latency) through QLoRA fine-tuning and TensorRT INT8/INT4 quantization, plus strong MLOps/orchestration background (Airflow ETL + scoring, MLflow monitoring) and stakeholder-facing delivery using demos and Tableau dashboards.”