Vetted Microsoft Azure Professionals

“CoreAI intern at The Home Depot who improved the Magic Apron Assistant by building a production video ingestion + RAG retrieval system for long videos (uploads and YouTube), including a graph-based retrieval module to speed up and improve relevance. Experienced with Kubernetes orchestration (HPA) and production reliability practices like caching, monitoring, regression testing, and stakeholder-driven requirements.”

“Deployed a real-time LLM-driven call center summarization and agent-assist platform at Fifth Third Bank, combining transformer models (BERT/GPT) with FastAPI inference on AKS and vector storage (ChromaDB/PostgreSQL). Emphasizes production-grade reliability (autoscaling, CI/CD, monitoring) and measurable evaluation (A/B testing), and translates model outputs into business-facing Power BI insights for call center leadership.”

“ML/AI engineer who built and productionized an NLP system at PurevisitX, orchestrating end-to-end ML workflows with Airflow (S3 ingestion through auto-retraining) and optimizing for drift and low-latency inference. Also partnered with Citibank risk teams on a fraud detection model, translating results via dashboards and iterating thresholds based on stakeholder feedback.”

“Built a production LLM-RAG system at McKesson to let internal healthcare operations teams query large volumes of unstructured operational documents via natural language with source-backed answers, designed with HIPAA/FHIR compliance in mind. Demonstrated strong production engineering across hallucination mitigation, retrieval quality tuning, and latency/scalability optimization, using LangChain/LangGraph and Airflow plus rigorous evaluation/monitoring practices.”

“Backend engineer who owned an order management API built with Python/FastAPI and PostgreSQL, integrating payment and shipping providers with strong reliability patterns (idempotency, async workers, retries/backoff, circuit breakers). Experienced deploying services to Kubernetes using a GitOps model with ArgoCD (auto-sync, self-healing, pruning, rollbacks) and building high-volume Kafka streaming pipelines. Has also supported phased cloud-to-on-prem migrations with a focus on security monitoring/SIEM log continuity.”

“Built ReflectlyAI, an AI-powered interview coach, implementing a low-latency Python/Flask backend with modular LLM/Whisper services, retries/fallbacks, caching/batching, and async/background processing. Demonstrates strong PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy performance tuning (EXPLAIN ANALYZE, composite indexes, selectinload) and multi-tenant isolation patterns (tenant-scoped schemas, tenant_id middleware), reporting ~50% response-time reduction.”

“JavaScript/React engineer with hands-on open-source library contribution experience, including thoughtful PRs that improved error handling, API flexibility, and added features backed by tests and documentation. Demonstrates a profiling-first approach to UI/runtime performance (memoization, component splitting, render-path optimization) and strong community support skills—reproducing edge cases, delivering sustainable fixes, and communicating workarounds and releases.”

“Healthcare AI/ML engineer with Epic experience who built and deployed a HIPAA-compliant GPT-4 RAG clinical assistant over large medical document sets, emphasizing privacy controls and low-latency performance. Also automated end-to-end retraining and deployment of patient risk models using orchestration/CI-CD (Jenkins, SageMaker, MLflow), cutting deployment time from hours to minutes while improving reliability.”

“Full-stack developer with strong cloud/on-prem focus (AWS, VPC networking) who has improved production reliability by bringing manually created IAM/security group resources under Terraform and standardizing environments. Demonstrated end-to-end troubleshooting across app + infrastructure + networking (traffic capture revealed proxy response truncation) and delivered Python-based monitoring/reporting enhancements that improved ops visibility and turnaround.”

“ML/NLP engineer with healthcare and industrial IoT experience: built an Optum pipeline that converted 2M+ physician notes into structured entities and linked them with claims/pharmacy data to create an actionable patient timeline. Deep hands-on expertise in production NER, entity resolution, and hybrid search (Elasticsearch + embeddings/FAISS), plus robust data engineering practices (Airflow, Spark, data contracts, auditability) and experimentation-to-production rollout via shadow mode and feature flags.”

“Built and productionized an LLM/RAG question-answering service over technical documentation, focusing on retrieval quality (reranking + IR metrics), latency, and scaling. Experienced orchestrating end-to-end ETL/ML workflows with Airflow/Prefect/AWS Step Functions and improving reliability via parallelism, retries, and shadow testing. Also delivered an explainable healthcare risk-flagging classifier with a stakeholder-friendly dashboard for a non-technical program manager.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience at Cummins owning production features end-to-end (React/TypeScript + Node + Postgres) and operating them in AWS (EC2/RDS/S3/IAM) with CloudWatch-based observability. Also built resilient ETL and third-party integrations, including an AWS Glue–S3–Redshift pipeline hardened with validation, idempotent UPSERTs, retries/backfills, and quarantine handling to prevent bad or duplicate data.”

“Machine learning/NLP engineer with deep Azure stack experience (Data Factory, Databricks/Spark, Delta Lake, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search) who built end-to-end production systems for semantic clustering, entity resolution, and hybrid search. Demonstrated measurable gains from embedding fine-tuning (~15% retrieval precision, ~10–12% nDCG@10) and designed scalable, quality-checked pipelines with MLOps best practices.”

“Frontline support engineer in IT infrastructure monitoring (Micro Focus/HPE, now OpenText) who evolved into a hybrid support/TAM role. Experienced advising security-conscious customers (government/banking) on TLS upgrades and vulnerability response, coordinating dev and sales to meet regulatory deadlines while providing practical interim mitigations and clear customer communications.”

“Startup and early-internet product leader with repeated experience building in new companies and executing pivots. Helped transform a web-based calendar business into a CMS + RBAC platform that became best-in-breed for US K-12 organizations within about three years, emphasizing ROI-driven prototyping and market validation to conserve resources.”

“Product-focused full-stack engineer (70% application-layer) who has shipped multi-tenant RBAC for a formerly single-tenant platform, cutting infrastructure costs by 50%. Built high-impact customer-facing features including analytics dashboards (40% retention lift) and a React/TypeScript scheduling grid that reduced navigation time by 60% and setup time by 80%, with solid AWS operations and Postgres performance tuning experience.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who led a legacy monolith-to-microservices migration (OAuth, Redis, ActiveMQ) while shipping incrementally via CI/CD to avoid user disruption. Strong in search/filter experiences and performance tuning (Solr schema + relevance boosting) with measurable impact (login reduced to ~5s), plus React/TypeScript UI work including configuration-driven filters and shareable URL state.”

“Application-focused full-stack engineer in the clinical/health domain who shipped an LLM-powered clinical note summarization workflow end-to-end (FastAPI + Postgres + Kafka workers + React/TypeScript UI) with strong attention to security, auditability, and clinician trust. Has hands-on AWS/EKS operations experience and has resolved real production latency/scaling issues through async processing, query/index tuning, caching, and horizontal scaling.”

“Robotics/AV perception engineer who built a semantic-segmentation road detection system and integrated it into a ROS-based real-time pipeline (ROS bag camera feed to live monitor) achieving ~12 FPS. Strong in practical deployment work: solved multi-library versioning issues (ROS/OpenCV/TensorFlow), containerized the stack with Docker, and optimized inference by shifting runtime to C++ for large latency gains on NVIDIA hardware.”

“Full-stack engineer in healthcare and enterprise analytics who has shipped event-driven, near-real-time systems (Spring Boot microservices + Kafka + AWS) and large-scale patient/provider portals (50k+ users). Strong in production reliability and performance—measurably reduced claims latency (27%), cut support tickets (25%), and handled real AWS scaling incidents end-to-end. Also built a Python REST control plane for SDN routing integrated with external reinforcement learning agents.”

“Built and monetized an object-identification app end-to-end (FastAPI backend, HTML/JS frontend, SQLite→Postgres, auth, and an iOS wrapper via Capacitor/Xcode with Apple privacy/policy compliance). Also productionized an AI-native geospatial metadata/QA assistant using LLM+RAG plus deterministic Python validation, measuring impact via time-to-first-pass review and rework rate, and has experience modernizing legacy GIS workflows and delivering across USDA/FEMA-style teams with disciplined Jira-based execution.”

“Senior full-stack engineer with strong healthcare domain experience who has shipped an Azure OpenAI RAG-based patient medication support chatbot to production, driving ~10K queries/month and a reported 38% reduction in call center volume. Also builds polished real-time React/TypeScript pharmacy tooling and operates large-scale Python/Spark ETL pipelines (~12M records/day) with strong API design, observability, and cloud deployment experience across Azure/Kubernetes and AWS.”

“Senior technology leader focused on joining existing organizations to build and scale products rather than founding at all costs. Has turned a recurring manual data-process bottleneck into a production platform by validating via user interviews, integrating with legacy systems through phased decoupling, and improving reliability with strong data validation/observability while driving cross-team adoption.”

“Longtime S-Corp founder (20+ years) who evolved from running a web agency to becoming a Shopify expert contracted by agencies/brands to upskill teams and lead enterprise eCommerce builds. Recently built and launched a payment-links/QR-code web app in weeks that gained 20 users on day one without advertising; now looking to pivot toward building a scalable product business not tied to hourly contracting.”