Vetted Microsoft Azure Professionals

Bhanu Gummadi

Screened

Mid-level Backend Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and FinTech

Bellevue, WA4y exp

“Backend-focused engineer with Mastercard experience building and operating high-volume transaction-processing microservices. Has owned customer-facing banking services end-to-end and built an internal on-call analytics tool that centralized logs/metrics with real-time filtering to speed root-cause analysis and reduce incident investigation time.”

“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.”

“Founding engineer at Novum AI building a real-time call analytics/suggestion backend (transcription + sentiment/tone + context retrieval) using a serverless architecture. Drove major latency improvements (about 4s down to sub-1.5s) and has practical experience hardening production APIs (FastAPI/Pydantic, auth with Cognito/Redis) and payment systems (Stripe) by surfacing overlooked subscription and multi-tenant billing edge cases.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on ownership of real-time, Kafka-driven systems in production, spanning React/TypeScript frontends, Spring Boot/Node backends, and AWS (EKS/ECS/EC2) operations. Notable for modernizing legacy batch workflows into event-driven architectures with measurable impact (35% faster risk calculations, 30% better accuracy) and scaling to 2x volume using reliability patterns like idempotency, retries, and staged rollouts.”

Harikiran Jangam

Screened

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

California, USA3y exp

“Backend engineer who built and evolved a PHI-compliant RAG system (FastAPI + LangChain + embeddings/FAISS) for internal document search and summarization, delivering <400ms p95 latency at ~2,500 daily requests and measurable impact (30% faster investigations, +17% retrieval relevance). Demonstrates strong security and rollout discipline (RBAC/RLS/JWT, redaction/audits, shadow mode, dual writes, canaries) and a focus on reducing hallucination risk via grounded guardrails and confidence-based fallbacks.”

Abhishek Soni

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in React and scalable web applications

Mumbai, India3y exp

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across FastAPI microservices and AWS data platforms. Has delivered serverless and Glue/EMR-based ETL pipelines with strong observability (Prometheus/Grafana/Sentry, CloudWatch/SNS), schema-evolution resilience, and measurable SQL performance wins (5 min to <30 sec). Open to onsite meetings in the Bethesda, MD area and flexible on remote arrangements.”

Nisarg Shah

Screened

Junior Machine Learning Engineer specializing in geospatial analytics and computer vision

Tempe, Arizona1y exp

“Built and evolved a geospatial ETL + API platform that processes pixel-wise satellite imagery in PostgreSQL/PostGIS into low-latency farm-level time-series metrics for an interactive dashboard, using precomputed hotspot analysis to reduce latency by 75–80%. Experienced in FastAPI-style API contract design (OpenAPI), caching, server-side filtering/compression, and production-minded security patterns (RBAC, session-derived authorization, password hashing) with disciplined rollback/versioning practices.”

Tejas Kolpek

Screened

Mid-level Solutions Architect/Engineer specializing in AI and data integrations

Mountain View, CA5y exp

“Solutions Engineer specializing in taking LLM copilots from demo to production, with a strong emphasis on enterprise security (RBAC/OAuth), grounded RAG behavior (cite-or-refuse), and operational readiness (eval loops, logging, runbooks). Experienced in real-time diagnosis of agentic/LLM workflow failures and in partnering with Sales/CS to run integration-first POCs that clear security and reliability concerns and accelerate rollout.”

Rajesh Sivakumar

Screened

Senior Software Engineering Manager specializing in cloud-native distributed systems (FinTech & Healthcare)

San Francisco, CA26y exp

“Engineering leader/player-coach who has led 40+ developers across multiple teams on large financial services web applications (Wells Fargo) and previously delivered a banking mobile app MVP in 6 months with a junior team by setting patterns and CI/CD foundations. Strong in production reliability practices (Splunk monitoring, feature flags, throttled rollouts) and has driven measurable quality/velocity wins, including a 60% faster E2E test framework and a rapid 2-day hotfix during a React 16→18 migration.”

Nithish Nelagal

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in data engineering and cloud platforms

Bentonville, AR3y exp

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who has shipped production-critical data/reporting features at Walmart and built an end-to-end workflow automation product (FastAPI + React/TypeScript + PostgreSQL) deployed on AWS. Strong in performance/reliability engineering (parallel ETL, batch DB operations, indexing via EXPLAIN ANALYZE), secure API design (JWT/RBAC), and pragmatic incident-driven scaling (separating workers from API layer).”

Mahesh Kota

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in cloud-native FinTech and Healthcare platforms

New York, NY5y exp

“Backend engineer with production experience building and scaling a Java/Spring Boot payment processing API on AWS (PostgreSQL/Redis) handling a few thousand RPS, including deep performance debugging (connection exhaustion) and observability (CloudWatch, Actuator, Zipkin). Also shipped application-layer AI features (OpenAI email summarizer with feedback loop, ~40% faster agent response times) and designed reliable multi-step workflow orchestration with retries and manual escalation, plus strong SQL tuning and Python engineering practices.”

“Platform/infra engineer with deep Kubernetes (EKS) and VMware vSphere experience who has led a monolith-to-microservices transition for a credit lending decision platform. Built GitOps-driven Terraform delivery with strong governance, and used LaunchDarkly-based progressive rollouts plus Datadog observability to safely ship multiple times per day (reported ~6x throughput and 1/3 the bugfix tickets vs legacy). Also operates hybrid on-prem/AWS networking (firewall + Transit Gateway, BGP) and has handled high-stakes datacenter migrations (100TB Storage vMotion) under Sev1 conditions.”

“Software developer with hands-on experience refactoring a legacy .NET CMS into a newer API-driven application (ASP.NET MVC, JavaScript/HTML), including dynamic asset migration and resolving team merge conflicts in Bitbucket. Built automated tests with PyTest and used Postman for API validation, and leveraged Splunk for production issue detection; also worked on an end-to-end ticketing/workflow management project with prioritization and verification steps.”

“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.”

“Built and shipped production LLM agents including an AI patient appointment assistant for Kyron Medical that automated specialist matching and end-to-end booking with email/SMS confirmations and a voice mode. Strong focus on production reliability (double-booking prevention with DB constraints and pre-write checks), deterministic multi-step orchestration with LangGraph, and rigorous monitoring/evaluation using LangSmith trace replay for prompt regression testing.”

Ashish Kapoor

Screened

Director of Digital Solutions & Principal Architect specializing in composable DXP and AI transformation

Greater Philadelphia Area, USA20y exp

“Enterprise digital transformation technologist with SaaS and AI platform experience who positions themselves as a technical bridge for VC/startup contexts—focused on technical due diligence (scalability, technical debt, AI readiness) and helping portfolio companies build enterprise-grade, scalable platforms with AI-driven product development approaches.”

Medi Val

Screened

Executive technology leader specializing in AI, digital strategy, and business transformation

Toronto, Canada25y exp

“Candidate reports being highly familiar with the venture capital and accelerator landscape, citing past experience working with VC-related environments at WINR Games and BioSymetrics. The interview ended early when the candidate withdrew their application, so detail is limited.”

Ashrita Mishra

Screened

Mid-level Data Analyst specializing in analytics, ETL, and cloud data platforms

Jersey City, NJ4y exp

“Data analyst with 4 years of experience spanning banking and retail/marketing analytics. Has hands-on experience building churn analytics pipelines in SQL and Python, optimizing large-query performance, and turning stakeholder-aligned metrics into recurring dashboards and business actions.”

“Analytics professional with Intuit experience spanning modern data stack work, behavioral segmentation, and applied AI. They built dbt/Snowflake pipelines powering retention and churn dashboards, automated feedback classification with OpenAI/LangChain, and partnered closely with product and marketing teams to turn analytics into onboarding, targeting, and lifecycle messaging decisions.”

“Analytics professional with hands-on experience building SQL/Python pipelines, customer ID mapping logic, and self-serve BI dashboards across marketing/CRM and regulated aviation reporting environments. Particularly strong in turning messy multi-source data into trusted reporting assets, with repeated claims of major efficiency gains, faster decision-making, and high-confidence stakeholder adoption.”

“Built and owned VividCraft end-to-end, a production AI platform spanning a TypeScript/Next.js frontend and a Python backend with FastAPI, Celery, Redis, PostgreSQL, and AWS. Stands out for reliability-focused systems thinking: designed idempotent job orchestration across 9 AI providers, shipped with extensive automated test coverage, and reports zero production regressions after launch plus zero credit loss through provider outages.”

“Aspiring founder focused broadly on the AI space, with no startup yet and novice familiarity with venture capital and accelerators. They are actively acclimating to the startup ecosystem through hackathons and meetup groups and express a strong all-in commitment to entrepreneurship.”

“Built from scratch a social media analytics MVP featuring an LLM-powered semantic search agent that became a core part of the product experience within a 6-week deadline. Stands out for focusing on production readiness early—retrieval-first design, explicit tool constraints, structured outputs, idempotent services, and practical eval/monitoring loops rather than demo-only AI.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on experience building real-time operational products across banking, insurance, and startup e-commerce environments. They’ve owned features end-to-end—from React/TypeScript dashboards and Redux performance tuning to Spring Boot, Kafka, AWS Lambda, and production monitoring—and have also shipped 0→1 capabilities where business impact was immediate, such as reducing overselling through inventory visibility.”