Vetted Microsoft Azure Professionals

Connor White

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in GPU-accelerated computer vision

College Station, TX5y exp

“Robotics software lead from Texas A&M Aggie Robotics who built WoopLib, a SLAM-based vision/navigation library using PID pure pursuit. Has hands-on ROS/ROS2 and Jetson Nano experience integrating Intel RealSense (T265/D435i) with wheel odometry for accurate state estimation, including compiling deprecated sensor support from source and optimizing by moving to Python with C++ bindings and serial streaming to a microcontroller.”

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).”

Krishnamraju Penumatsa

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in cloud data platforms and streaming pipelines

Fort Worth, TX6y exp

“Data engineer currently at American Airlines who built and owned end-to-end flight operations and booking data pipelines (batch + real-time) using Azure Data Factory, Kafka, Spark/Databricks, Synapse, and Snowflake—processing hundreds of GBs/day. Strong focus on reliability and data quality (idempotency, checkpointing, retries, validation/alerts) and delivered near-real-time analytics powering Power BI dashboards; previously helped stand up an early-stage data platform at Sysco on AWS (Glue/S3/Redshift) with Airflow and Jenkins CI/CD.”

“Former founding engineer and eventual CTO at 2Plus2 Partners (25 years ago) with additional experience in two private-equity-backed companies (apex analytix and HICX). Interested in helping build another company before retirement; comfortable with entrepreneurial risk but cannot self-fund significant capital.”

Vishal Kodakanchi

Screened

Director of AI Platforms & Architecture specializing in enterprise GenAI and AI Centers of Excellence

Mountain View, CA20y exp

“Software industry veteran (20 years) pursuing entrepreneurship; currently building an MVP software product aimed at solving specific finance and accounting problems for nano, micro, and small enterprises. Plans to run a metrics-driven pilot to validate demand before refining the product and raising capital; leveraging Google for Startups and exploring AWS for Startups.”

“Analytics-focused candidate with experience owning end-to-end data projects across AI transcription, retail forecasting, and transportation revenue analytics. They combine strong SQL/Python pipeline skills with dashboarding and stakeholder alignment, citing measurable impact including 60% lower ETL latency, 18% better forecast accuracy, and 25% operational efficiency gains.”

“Healthcare-focused data analyst with hands-on experience at Molina Healthcare building SQL and Python workflows for retention and churn analytics. They combined enrollment, CRM, and claims data into Power BI reporting, automated predictive churn analysis, and tied their work to measurable outcomes including faster processing, better reporting accuracy, and reduced churn.”

“Enterprise NetSuite Financials professional with hands-on ownership of GL configuration, month-end close, reporting, and production support in a multi-subsidiary environment at Bank of America. Particularly strong in stabilizing finance operations under deadline pressure, improving close efficiency, and building audit-ready reporting and controls across NetSuite and integrated systems.”

Anthony Thanpoovong

Screened

Entry-level Software Engineer specializing in cloud, AI, and full-stack development

Toronto, Canada1y exp

“Backend/AI engineer with hands-on experience building LLM-powered data products and AI platform workflows, including a project that turns tabular datasets into graphs, summaries, and chat-based insights with 1-2 second latency. Also contributed at TELUS to a Sovereign AI Factory self-serve onboarding platform tied to 100+ NVIDIA H200 GPUs, giving them an interesting mix of applied LLM, platform, and infrastructure exposure.”

“Senior technology leader who has served as the top tech executive at a venture-backed SaaS company and is motivated by the pressure and complexity of early-stage environments. Also co-founded an ecommerce business with his wife, giving him both operator and hands-on entrepreneurial experience.”

Rami Jaloudi

Screened

Senior Applications Engineer specializing in legal technology and eDiscovery

New York, NY16y exp

“Early-stage founder candidate exploring an AI-enabled legal tech startup focused on document intelligence, secure workflows, and enterprise automation. Brings a rare blend of technical architecture fluency and product/business thinking, with clear firsthand insight into legal and document-heavy operational pain points.”

“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.”

“Built and deployed an agentic RAG assistant in production to automate enterprise knowledge search and multi-step workflows with tool calling, tackling real-world issues like hallucinations, retrieval accuracy, and latency. Demonstrates strong LLMOps and orchestration depth (MLflow, Airflow, LangGraph/LangChain/LlamaIndex) plus a metrics-driven approach to agent testing/evaluation and cross-functional delivery with business stakeholders.”

Sai Sreenath Kalva

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in AI and Healthcare IT

Rosemead, CA5y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong AI architecture experience in regulated healthcare environments, including a HIPAA-compliant conversational reporting assistant for LA County Department of Public Health and clinical workflow features for Oracle Health/Cerner PowerChart. Stands out for combining LLM/RAG system design, healthcare compliance, and production-grade reliability practices across Azure, AWS, and Kubernetes.”

“Healthcare analytics candidate with hands-on experience turning messy claims and clinical data into validated SQL/Python pipelines and Power BI dashboards. They have delivered measurable impact in revenue cycle operations, including 15-18% improvement in reimbursement accuracy and 40-45% reduction in manual reporting effort.”

“Backend engineer in healthcare data systems who has owned production pipelines end-to-end, from ingesting patient and claims data to serving it through secure APIs. Brings a strong mix of Python, SQL, microservices, cloud deployment, and data reliability practices, with measurable performance gains and experience building resilient integrations with external data sources.”

VINAY KUMAR VIPPALA

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in FinTech backend systems

Seattle, WA5y exp

“Full-stack product engineer with hands-on ownership from React UI through Spring Boot APIs and SQL data layers, focused on transaction-heavy fintech workflows. Built both a transaction reconciliation system and a 0-to-1 AI-based anomaly detection workflow at LeisurePay, combining performance-minded frontend engineering with pragmatic product delivery.”

“Founding engineer at an edtech startup who combines hands-on engineering leadership with advanced AI-native development workflows. They’ve built an AI grading pipeline and a multi-agent SDLC tool, and stand out for treating AI agents like an engineering team with planning, parallel execution, QA, and rigorous validation.”

“Full-stack engineer focused on AI-powered enterprise document automation, especially transforming unstructured financial documents into structured outputs. Stands out for treating LLMs and agents as components within robust production systems, with emphasis on validation, security, observability, and scalable multi-agent architecture.”

“Software engineer with unusually mature AI-native development practices, using Claude/GPT/Copilot across requirements, implementation, testing, and documentation. At Anzenna, they effectively acted as a tech lead for a multi-agent setup spanning four repos, creating specialized agent workflows and maintaining top-level cross-repo documentation to coordinate complex work.”

“Data science and AI professional with Capital One experience building churn prediction and GenAI-powered document intelligence solutions. Stands out for pairing hands-on technical depth in NLP, LLMs, and analytics with strong business communication, including driving adoption across teams and contributing to a 25% reduction in customer churn.”

Rishabh Goyal

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in backend microservices and FinTech

USA4y exp

“Python backend engineer focused on real-time e-commerce analytics systems, building FastAPI + Kafka microservices with strong idempotent processing patterns (Postgres upserts, manual offsets, Redis caching). Has hands-on Kubernetes (EKS) and GitOps delivery with Argo CD/GitHub Actions, plus experience migrating containerized services from on-prem VMs to AWS using Terraform and blue-green cutovers.”

“Backend-focused engineer with production experience across finance and healthcare, currently building real-time payment microservices at JPMorgan Chase handling 3M+ transactions daily and 100k TPS peak. Stands out for combining high-scale distributed systems design, measurable database and ETL performance wins, and strong compliance-minded architecture in regulated domains.”

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.”