Vetted Microsoft Azure Professionals

“Application Engineer supporting customers in a financial trading context, experienced in coordinating urgent patch upgrades and stakeholder communications to minimize downtime. Has hands-on production incident response experience troubleshooting a critical dashboard outage caused by a bad SQL execution plan, escalating with DBAs and deploying a fast fix, then documenting full RCA via problem tickets.”

“Currently at Huntington Bank, built a production-grade RAG system that helps business/operations teams get grounded answers from large volumes of internal enterprise documents. Owns ingestion and FastAPI backend, tuned hybrid BM25+vector retrieval and chunking for relevance, and evaluates reliability with metrics and observability (LangSmith, CloudWatch, Prometheus/Grafana) while partnering closely with non-technical stakeholders.”

“Software engineer with payments-domain experience (Visa) building real-time transaction monitoring and analytics systems. Strong end-to-end ownership across Spring Boot/Kafka microservices, PostgreSQL modeling, and AWS/Kubernetes operations, plus React+TypeScript dashboards—focused on low-latency processing, secure APIs, and zero-downtime production releases.”

“Software engineer with experience across TCS, Rakuten, and USC who has owned production integrations and data pipelines end-to-end. Notably improved a trading platform payment flow by replacing fragile polling with a webhook-driven status system with robust fallbacks, and has shipped LLM-assisted design-to-webpage automation plus evaluation-driven prompt iteration (NYT Connections).”

“Internship at ActiveVM where they tackled large-scale Spring Boot 2→3/library migrations across hundreds of downstream products by combining OpenRewrite (AST-based recipes) with an LLM/RAG-based classifier that routed risky files to human experts. Reported ~70% reduction in manual effort and 90%+ accuracy after testing across multiple branches and cutovers; also built a CTR-driven book recommendation capstone showcased at the Google office in Cambridge.”

“Engineer with production experience in both high-throughput banking risk systems and LLM agent platforms. Built a real-time transaction risk scoring middleware at JPMorgan Chase (1M+ requests/day) emphasizing HA, observability, and audit/PII compliance, and also architected multi-step LLM agents with strict schema-based tool calling, evaluation loops, and safety guardrails for messy enterprise data.”

“Data engineer focused on high-volume transaction pipelines (2M+ per day) using Snowflake/Snowpipe, Spark/PySpark, Kafka, and Airflow, with a strong emphasis on schema/data-quality enforcement and reliability improvements. Also built a greenfield compliance-focused RAG solution, using CloudWatch monitoring and adding ingestion validation to prevent malformed OCR documents from degrading search quality.”

“Cloud/platform engineer with hands-on ownership of AWS EKS Kubernetes platforms built and upgraded via Terraform, including AWS networking/security, EBS/EFS/S3 storage integration, and reliability validation through CloudWatch plus Prometheus/Grafana. Also has on-prem VMware/vSphere administration experience and day-to-day hybrid on-prem-to-AWS operations (VPN/Direct Connect), with examples of resolving pod instability from an application memory leak and fixing a production connectivity drop via routing/firewall troubleshooting.”

“Data engineer in healthcare (HCA) who owned end-to-end Azure-based pipelines at very large scale (50M+ daily claims/patient records). Strong focus on reliability: schema-drift fail-fast validation, quarantine layers, and Python/SQL data quality checks that reduced issues ~25%, plus performance tuning in Databricks/PySpark and versioned serving in Synapse for downstream consumers.”

Cristian Vega

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and RAG

California, null9y exp

“ML/NLP practitioner at Morf Health focused on unifying fragmented healthcare data by linking structured patient/encounter records with unstructured clinical notes. Has hands-on experience with transformer embeddings, vector databases, and domain fine-tuning, plus rigorous evaluation (precision/recall) and human-in-the-loop validation with clinical SMEs to make pipelines production-grade.”

Sravanti Dandu

Screened

Mid-level Cloud Engineer specializing in AWS & Azure infrastructure automation

Arizona, USA6y exp

“Backend/platform engineer (American Express) who built a Flask-based orchestration layer to automate infrastructure provisioning and integrated Azure AD/JWT RBAC security. Strong in PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy performance optimization (70%+ query-time reduction) and scalable async/event-driven architectures, including ML inference pipelines (SageMaker/Azure ML/Hugging Face) and high-throughput job queues (Celery/Redis) with reliability patterns like DLQs and idempotency.”

Fnu Pallavi Sharma

Screened

Intern Data Scientist specializing in ML, NLP, and MLOps for healthcare and enterprise AI

Madison, WI1y exp

“Built a production multi-cloud LLM-driven IT ticket automation system using LangGraph, Azure + Pinecone RAG, and an Ollama-hosted LLM on AWS, with Terraform-managed infra and PostgreSQL audit/state tracking for reliability. Also partnered with UW School of Medicine & Public Health students to deliver a glioma survival risk-ranking model, translating clinical feedback into practical pipeline improvements (imputation, site harmonization) and stakeholder-friendly visualizations.”

Diana Ramirez

Screened

Director of Customer Success specializing in enterprise SaaS implementations and AI platforms

San Francisco, CA25y exp

“Enterprise CSM/program lead specializing in AI-powered search and workflow automation, who owned an end-to-end generative AI chatbot rollout that replaced manual Excel-based RFP processes and achieved 4.5/5 CSAT. Leveraged outcomes to expand the account into two additional use cases (tripling ARR) and has a track record of influencing product priorities (UI personalization) and driving Voice AI expansions tied to operational support workflows.”

Akshay Danthi

Screened

Senior AI Engineer specializing in production GenAI systems

San Francisco, CA8y exp

“AI engineer who has shipped production LLM systems end-to-end, including a natural-language-to-SQL analytics copilot for career advisors that achieved ~95% query success through schema grounding, access controls, and automated regression testing with golden queries. Also builds LangGraph-orchestrated multi-step agents (resume analysis, recommendations) and RAG pipelines (PDF ingestion + FAISS) and partners closely with non-technical users to drive adoption and trust.”

“Built and shipped LLM-powered agents including a production RAG research assistant that cut research lookup time from ~20 minutes to ~10–20 seconds using caching, retrieval thresholds, and citation-enforced grounded answers. Also designed multi-step, tool-calling workflows with stateful critique/revision loops and pragmatic monitoring (retry/schema-failure/low-confidence signals) plus normalization/validation layers for messy notes/spreadsheet-style data.”

shivapriya pillalamarri

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in financial analytics and production ML systems

Boston, MA4y exp

“Analytics candidate with experience in financial transaction and fraud detection projects, combining SQL data preparation, Python-based automation, and dashboarding. They have owned projects from stakeholder alignment and metric definition through rollout, with emphasis on reducing false positives, improving operational efficiency, and making analytics outputs easy for business teams to adopt.”

“Analytics professional at Santander Bank with hands-on experience building SQL and Python workflows for transaction reporting, reconciliation, and monitoring across messy multi-source financial data. They combine strong data validation and exception-handling practices with stakeholder-friendly dashboards, and also bring digital analytics experience from a Google Analytics UI optimization project focused on funnel drop-off and engagement.”

“Startup-oriented product/technology leader targeting CTO roles, with experience evaluating and scoping high-impact product expansions. At Crelate, helped assess and shape a contract timekeeping/invoicing initiative that expanded TAM by hundreds of millions and increased ACV 2-3x, contributing to successful market traction and the company’s path to Series C.”

“Analytics professional with healthcare and operations experience who turns messy enterprise data from platforms like Teradata, GCP, SQL Server, and Snowflake into trusted reporting layers and reproducible analysis workflows. They combine SQL, Python, PySpark, Power BI, and Tableau to improve reporting accuracy and performance, including a 30% dashboard refresh improvement and 20-25% accuracy gains in healthcare reporting.”

“Analytics professional with Dell experience unifying global online sales, web analytics, SAP, and planning data across 20+ countries into scalable reporting pipelines and Power BI dashboards. Stands out for combining deep SQL/ETL work with Python automation, KPI design, and experimentation—delivering measurable outcomes like 80% less manual effort, a 2% conversion lift worth millions, and faster business decision-making.”

Gnaneswar Markat

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native distributed systems

Charlotte, NC4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with Bank of America experience building and owning a customer portfolio dashboard end-to-end, from requirements through launch and ongoing iteration. They combine React/Spring Boot/PostgreSQL implementation with strong performance tuning, real-time data handling, and UX improvements, and cite adoption by roughly 12,000 active internal users.”

Pavan Punna

Screened

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

Dallas, TX5y exp

“Built and owned a production GPT-4 RAG assistant for clinical and enterprise query resolution, taking it from initial experiment to deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement. Their work cut resolution time from 45 minutes to under 2 minutes, achieved roughly 95% accuracy, and scaled to thousands of additional monthly queries while emphasizing safety and trust in a sensitive clinical domain.”

“ML/AI engineer with production experience at S&P Global and Accenture, focused on regulated, enterprise-grade systems. Built end-to-end financial risk and credit default models with >90% precision and 12% fewer false positives, and is currently developing secure RAG pipelines on AWS SageMaker for enterprise insight extraction.”

ASHISH DONDAPATI

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI for Financial Services

San Francisco, USA6y exp

“ML/AI engineer with strong financial-services domain experience who has built production systems spanning trade anomaly detection, investment-research RAG, and agentic LLM workflows. Particularly compelling for teams needing someone who can take ML/GenAI from prototype to monitored production while balancing compliance, latency, cost, and reliability.”