Vetted Microsoft Azure Professionals

“Software engineer with experience at Amazon and Agora building end-to-end systems: a knowledge-base AI chatbot (React/TypeScript UI + retrieval/response backend + Docker deployment) and an internal approval governance platform using AWS Step Functions and DynamoDB. Emphasizes fast iteration without sacrificing trust via feature-flag rollouts, citation-required answers, abstention on low-confidence retrieval, regression query sets, and strong observability (request IDs, structured logs, latency/error monitoring).”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production AWS experience spanning serverless APIs (Chalice/Lambda/API Gateway/Cognito) and data pipelines (Glue PySpark + Step Functions). Has modernized a legacy SAS reporting system into AWS microservices and implemented schema-drift detection and incident prevention for ETL workflows, plus measurable SQL tuning wins (30 min to <10 min runtime).”

“Internship experience at Intuit building an LLM-grounded QA system for internal microservice data across 100+ microservices, using a graph database approach (evaluated Neo4j and selected AWS Neptune for production alignment). Also has UC Berkeley research experience (including work with Prof. Dawn Song / Berkeley Eye Research Lab) and cross-functional collaboration with bioinformatics/biology teams to deploy software systems on research servers.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM pipeline for nursing home Medicare reimbursement (PDF OCR + fact extraction + keyword RAG + QA) that reportedly increased payouts by ~$1K/month per patient. Strong in LLM ops/benchmarking (ground truth, LLM-as-judge, cost/I-O tracking) and pragmatic optimization—swapped retrieval approaches, fine-tuned a small model to cut OCR cost 90%, and migrated workloads to Azure/Temporal to scale nightly processing 10x.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered risk assistant for KPMG and Freddie Mac that lets analysts query a confidential Neo4j risk graph in natural language (no Cypher), turning multi-day analysis into minutes with traceable, cited answers. Implemented rigorous guardrails, deterministic verification, RBAC/security controls, and a full eval/observability stack, cutting query error rate by ~50% and iterating through weekly UAT with non-technical risk analysts.”

“Backend owner at Apple for an AI workflow orchestration service, with hands-on experience stabilizing peak-traffic production systems using OpenTelemetry-style tracing, bounded async concurrency, and database performance tuning. Built and shipped a Python LLM-agent orchestration layer to automate multi-step operational workflows, emphasizing guardrails, auditability, and deterministic fallbacks to keep non-deterministic AI behavior production-safe.”

“Gameplay engineer with hands-on ownership of a real-time C++ combat ability system, including diagnosing and eliminating large-scale combat frame spikes by refactoring hit detection to an event-driven, animation-notify approach (cut collision checks ~80%). Also implemented UE5 networked abilities (dash) with client-side prediction and server-authoritative reconciliation, plus projectile ballistics validated through debug spline visualizations and unit tests.”

“Data/ML engineer who has owned end-to-end systems across email deliverability/segmentation and production LLM apps. Built a Spark+Airflow segmentation engine that materially improved deliverability (99.9%) and open rates (>50%), and shipped a PDF-to-quiz RAG product using LangChain/Vertex AI/Chroma with strong guardrails and an eval loop that cut hallucinations to <5%.”

“Platform and distributed-systems leader (player-coach) who owned architecture and reliability for an Amazon analytics/data platform serving ~100K internal users at exabyte scale. Built an ML-driven “Lakeflow” optimization layer that cut pipeline completion times ~20–25% and reduced compute waste >15%, and led major incident response/redesign efforts (e.g., deletion storm) with strong rollout/observability/rollback practices.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience across Magna, C3.ai, and Amazon, building GenAI-enabled products and finance transaction systems. Has shipped Next.js (App Router) + TypeScript features backed by Go/Python RAG pipelines, and emphasizes production quality via load testing, Selenium regression coverage, LLM-aware integration testing, and Azure observability. Also built LangGraph-orchestrated multi-step content generation workflows with robust retry/idempotency strategies.”

“CMU IoT coursework project builder who implemented an end-to-end TinyML gesture recognition system on a Particle Photon + ADXL345, streaming data via MQTT/Node-RED to a real-time Node.js frontend and deploying a quantized logistic regression model on-device. Also explored multi-drone coordination, implementing leader-follower offset control and a pivot/arc turning strategy to avoid collisions, and brings practical Docker/Kubernetes plus CI/CD workflow experience from internships.”

“Internship experience deploying cloud-based services into production, including navigating security/resource provisioning and coordinating approvals across impacted teams. Built a Python backend for a local Ollama-based app using open-source models, and has hands-on distributed systems experience implementing and debugging Paxos with extensive logging/state tracing.”

“AWS engineer who productionized an internal ML-driven data pipeline from a notebook prototype into a scalable, observable Python service (schema validation, deduplication, idempotency, safe retries, versioned transforms, CloudWatch alarms), reducing manual effort and improving data accuracy/trust. Experienced diagnosing workflow issues in real time (e.g., upstream schema changes) and partnering with account managers/support to unblock adoption of seller-facing Marketplace features by demonstrating reliability with concrete metrics.”

“Senior engineering leader in the Bay Area with experience spanning VMware, Hortonworks/Cloudera, Barracuda, and Palo Alto Networks, including leading open-source work (Apache Knox) and architecting large-scale security platforms. Has driven disaster recovery and cloud security products, designed Python microservices for Microsoft 365 security, and scaled teams (3x) while formalizing enterprise readiness practices with automated documentation using Notebook LLM.”

“Engineering lead/player-coach at Sam's Club who drove major React Native Member Desk Returns changes (including Vision Center insurance refund flows) by coordinating Product/UX, QA, and API teams and leading a 3-engineer squad. Also led an e-commerce mobile OAuth migration, evolving a login experience from vanilla JS to a React SPA as security requirements (MFA, reCAPTCHA) emerged, and improved production reliability via better request flagging and analytics/log instrumentation.”

“Built and productionized a dual-agent LLM invoice-processing system for GFI Partners, adding guardrails and audit trails to earn stakeholder trust and drive adoption while cutting operational burden by 75%. Uses LangSmith observability to diagnose real-time workflow regressions and has experience teaching agentic AI concepts (e.g., at Carnegie Mellon) through hands-on, scaffolded demos.”

“Backend/data engineer with Optum healthcare claims domain experience building high-reliability Python microservices (FastAPI/Kafka/Postgres) and AWS data platforms (EKS, Glue, Redshift). Demonstrated strong production ownership: fixed duplicate Kafka processing via transactional outbox/idempotency, scaled to millions of daily events, and delivered major SQL performance gains (40+ min to <5 min, ~60% CPU reduction). Seeking remote-only work; targets $130k base.”

“Backend/data engineer with experience building Kafka-driven real-time pipelines that support ML code deployment and downstream integrations. Currently migrating high-throughput mainframe (COBOL/assembly) processing to Java, using Spark/Databricks to preserve performance and employing rigorous A/B testing across dev/pre-prod/prod with years of historical data.”

“Backend/data engineer with production experience at Walmart and HealthSnap building Python services and data pipelines on AWS (EKS, Lambda, Glue, Airflow). Strong reliability and operations focus—implemented idempotency + circuit breakers for peak-traffic consistency issues, GitOps CI/CD, and observability. Demonstrated measurable performance wins (Postgres p95 45s to <5s, ~60% CPU reduction) and modernized SAS batch workflows to Python with parallel-run parity validation and feature-flagged rollout.”

“Backend/data engineer who has owned production Python APIs and high-throughput async workflows on AWS (FastAPI, Docker, ECS/EKS/Lambda) with mature reliability practices like idempotency, bounded retries, circuit breakers, and strong observability. Also built AWS Glue ETL into an S3/Redshift lakehouse and modernized legacy batch systems via parallel-run parity testing and feature-flagged migrations, including a SQL tuning win cutting a multi-minute query to under 10 seconds.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-driven multi-agent platform (ciATHENA) at CustomerInsights.AI to automate analytics/ML/compliance workflows in healthcare and life sciences. Implemented LangGraph/LangChain orchestration with strong backend-style rigor (schemas, Pydantic validation, retries, auditability) and optimized latency/cost while keeping the system usable for non-technical users via guided natural-language interactions and structured/visual outputs.”

“Backend engineer who built an event-driven, multi-service resume review system integrating AI/ML workflows. Demonstrated strong performance engineering (e.g., composite indexing dropping latency from ~600ms to ~35ms and major P95 gains) and high-throughput pipeline optimization via caching, batching, and worker concurrency tuning, with multi-tenant isolation implemented across DB and Redis.”

“Full-stack engineer (Snowflake) who shipped an AI/LLM-powered data exploration product end-to-end, spanning Spring Boot/Python services and a polished React UI with streaming responses and robust fallbacks. Experienced operating high-scale AWS deployments (Docker/Kubernetes, SNS/SQS, RDS Postgres, CloudWatch, Jenkins CI/CD) supporting thousands to tens of thousands of concurrent users, including handling real traffic-spike scaling incidents.”