Vetted Microsoft Azure Professionals

Dale Durham

Screened References

Principal Software Engineer specializing in SaaS architecture and cloud platforms

Hammond, IN23y exp

“Veteran B2B SaaS engineer/technical leader with 13+ years in production systems across medical, legal, and academic conference markets. Stands out for combining hands-on full-stack and microservices architecture work with measurable business impact, including leading an early startup internationalization effort that more than doubled revenue in under a year and modernizing a declining conference platform into the market leader in its niche.”

“Frontend engineer focused on scalable architecture and long-term maintainability, emphasizing modular component design in React + TypeScript. Has experience building reusable component libraries (including Storybook and shared repos) and collaborating with design/product to refine UX workflows, reducing development time over successive iterations.”

“Data engineer in financial services (Northern Trust) who has worked across ingestion, transformation, data quality, orchestration, and serving on AWS (S3/Glue/EMR) with Airflow. Highlights include processing ~15M transactions with validation/anomaly detection for regulatory reporting and improving Snowflake query performance by 27% for risk/compliance reporting. Also built a personal real-time streaming service (FastAPI, Kafka, Redis, Cassandra) and uses production reliability patterns like blue-green/atomic swaps and robust retry strategies.”

Rangel Koli

Screened

Entry-level Software Engineer specializing in backend and cloud systems

New York City, NY1y exp

“Backend engineer who built and scaled a zero-to-one social product backend using Supabase (Postgres, Edge Functions, Auth, Realtime) plus Neo4j for graph-based friend recommendations. Demonstrates strong production rigor: staged rollouts with metrics, incident rollback/postmortems, and complex schema refactors using expand-contract/dual-write with reconciliation and feature flags. Notably proactive about edge cases like geo-boundary realtime delivery and idempotent retry safety.”

“AI-focused engineer with Infosys experience building Azure/.NET chatbot applications and recent hands-on work with FastAPI/LangChain. Built a hackathon multi-agent legal counsel system showcasing agent orchestration, and emphasizes production readiness via Docker, GitHub Actions CI/CD, pytest automation, and adversarial simulations for auditable AI behavior. No direct robotics/ROS experience to date.”

“Customer-facing platform support professional focused on application security and reliability for SaaS integrations, with hands-on experience troubleshooting API auth failures and data update issues using Linux/app/DB logs, SQL, and monitoring. Demonstrates strong security fundamentals (least privilege, TLS/access controls, credential rotation) and can design secure AWS agent integrations while also supporting Azure containerized REST API deployments via CI/CD.”

sai anuragh Sangoju

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in fraud detection, credit risk, and NLP

Dallas, Texas4y exp

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered university support chatbot on Azure using a RAG pipeline, focusing on reducing hallucinations, improving latency, and handling ambiguous queries via confidence checks and clarification prompts. Also has hands-on orchestration experience (Airflow/Azure Data Factory), including hardening a demand-forecasting ingestion workflow with sensors, retries, and automated alerts, and uses a metrics-driven testing/monitoring approach for reliable AI agents.”

Mark Wlodawski

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Senior Unity Developer specializing in AI/LLM systems and multiplayer VR

Orlando, FL11y exp

“Backend/data engineer focused on AWS-native Python systems: built a FastAPI microservice on ECS/Fargate serving real-time analytics at millions of daily requests with strong reliability (OAuth2/JWT, retries/timeouts, correlation IDs) and autoscaling. Also delivered Glue/PySpark ETL pipelines to curated S3 Parquet/Athena with schema evolution + data quality controls, owned Airflow pipeline incidents, and has a track record of measurable performance and cost optimizations (e.g., ~80%+ query latency reduction; reduced logging/NAT/Fargate spend).”

“Built a production RAG chatbot for Worcester Polytechnic Institute that indexes 500+ webpages using FAISS + Llama 3, with strong grounding/hallucination controls (confidence thresholds and citations). Also has internship experience orchestrating multi-step ETL pipelines with AWS Step Functions and delivered a 30x faster fraud/claims triage workflow at Munich Re using association rules and stakeholder-friendly dashboards.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered RAG knowledge system to unify operational/policy information across PDFs, wikis, and databases, emphasizing auditability and low-latency/cost performance. Improved answer relevance at scale by moving from pure vector search to hybrid retrieval with metadata filtering and reranking, and partnered closely with healthcare operations/compliance to define acceptance criteria and human-in-the-loop guardrails.”