Vetted Microsoft Azure Professionals

Sai Prudhivi

Screened

Mid Software Engineer specializing in full-stack microservices and cloud platforms

New York, NY4y exp

“Backend-focused engineer with experience building high-volume policy management and enterprise pricing systems, including Django/FastAPI/Flask services, Kafka-based async workflows, and Prometheus/Grafana observability. While they have not yet shipped a customer-facing AI agent or production LLM integration, they bring strong cloud, API, reliability, and scalable system design fundamentals that translate well to responsible AI infrastructure work.”

“Backend/platform engineer with strong ownership of production systems, including a full Azure migration from a VM-based monolith to a containerized, event-driven microservices architecture. They combine cloud infrastructure, LLM/RAG optimization, and pragmatic stakeholder management, with measurable wins including 90% infra cost reduction, faster deployments, and significantly improved latency and token efficiency.”

Sri Mounika Jammalamadaka

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in GenAI, LLMs, and data platforms

Fairfax, VA6y exp

“Built and helped deploy a production RAG-based LLM assistant for HVAC anomaly diagnostics, partnering closely with field engineers and operations teams to make AI outputs trustworthy in real workflows. Stands out for practical post-launch optimization work—improving retrieval quality, reducing hallucinations, and stabilizing non-deterministic behavior—which contributed to roughly a 40% reduction in diagnosis time.”

“New grad candidate with graduate research experience building a multi-agent RAG pipeline from scratch, including worker-coach orchestration and an evaluation framework. Most notably, they improved structural similarity from 67% to 98% by designing validation and retry logic to reduce hallucinations, showing strong practical depth in agentic AI systems.”

“AI engineer focused on production-grade LLM systems rather than prompt-only solutions, with hands-on experience building citation-grounded RAG products and multi-agent workflows. Most notably built a financial document intelligence system for SEC filings and contracts that achieved ~92% recall@5, cut latency below 2 seconds, reduced hallucinations, and turned analyst research from hours into seconds.”

“Engineering leader with hands-on architecture depth who has improved team delivery cadence to weekly releases by redesigning SDLC ownership and validation workflows. Currently leading AI/LLM product work around meeting-transcript intelligence for sales use cases, with a strong emphasis on observability, prompt tuning, and iterative UX refinement.”

“Full-stack engineer who built an early-stage social platform for scriptwriters (Scriptscape) from scratch, owning everything from React Native/React UX to Node/Postgres APIs and AWS deployment. Demonstrates strong production-minded engineering with CI/CD, observability, and scalability patterns (cursor pagination, indexing, background jobs), plus experience hardening flaky third-party integrations with idempotency and backfills.”

“Backend engineer with fintech/AI startup experience who built an Azure serverless, event-driven pipeline for large-scale crypto sentiment analysis and semantic search (OCR/NLP to vector search) and integrated LLM + blockchain data for predictive insights. Demonstrated measurable impact (25% lower retrieval latency, 10% fewer data errors, 15% higher engagement) and has led safe microservices migrations with strong security and reliability practices.”

“Research assistant who single-handedly built and integrated an indoor autonomous wheelchair system using NVIDIA Jetson Nano, LiDAR, and a stereo camera. Implemented a multi-sensor perception pipeline (OpenCV/PCL) with ROS-based modular nodes, TF frame management, and robust debugging via RViz/rosbag, plus simulation testing in Gazebo and Dockerized environments for portability.”

“Backend engineer who has designed and evolved high-traffic event/activity management systems using Node/Express and PostgreSQL, prioritizing scalability and reliability with a layered architecture. Has led zero-downtime refactors/migrations using parallel runs, dual writes, and rigorous validation/monitoring, and brings a security-focused API approach (JWT, RBAC/ABAC, rate limiting, DB-enforced tenant/RLS filters).”

“Backend/data engineer with strong production experience across Python microservices (FastAPI) and AWS serverless/data platforms (Lambda, API Gateway, Glue, Redshift). Demonstrates reliability and incident ownership (rate limits, retries/circuit breakers, monitoring) and has delivered measurable SQL performance gains (12–15s to <800ms, ~60% CPU reduction). Seeking fully remote work and not open to relocation/onsite meetings.”

“Backend engineer with deep experience modernizing a provider credentialing/compliance platform with multiple upstream/downstream integrations. Focused on building predictable, scalable REST APIs (primarily ASP.NET Core; framework-agnostic approach applicable to FastAPI), improving performance via DB/query optimization, and hardening workflows with idempotency, transactions, feature flags, and strong auth/RBAC patterns.”

“Built and deployed a scalable, production-ready LLM knowledge assistant using a RAG architecture (LangChain + vector store/FAISS) to replace keyword search for internal documents. Demonstrates hands-on expertise in hallucination reduction and retrieval quality improvements through semantic chunking, similarity tuning, prompt design, and human-in-the-loop validation, plus strong stakeholder communication via demos and visual explanations.”

“Built a production "Mini RAG Assistant" for internal document Q&A, focusing on grounded answers (anti-hallucination), retrieval quality, and latency/cost optimization. Uses LangChain/LangGraph for orchestration and applies a metrics-driven evaluation loop (including reranking and semantic chunking improvements) while collaborating closely with product stakeholders.”

“Engineer with experience in regulated healthcare and financial systems, including a United Health healthcare service migration to AWS. Built documentation-as-code for CI/CD (Jenkins/Docker/Kubernetes/Terraform + GitHub Actions) that accelerated release cycles from 3 weeks to 4 days and tied security configuration (Spring Security/OAuth2/JWT) directly to HIPAA/GDPR compliance. Strong in observability-led incident response (ELK/Prometheus/Grafana) and performance tuning (PostgreSQL, async processing), citing MTTR reduction from 3 hours to 50 minutes and support for 250K+ concurrent users.”

“AI engineer who shipped a production KYC facial liveness/recognition pipeline (10k+ monthly verifications), including an on-prem, GPU-hosted Qwen3-VL vision-language fallback to detect spoofing/replay attacks. Also helped build a deterministic multi-agent orchestration layer powering a marketplace with Solana on-chain payments, abstracting blockchain complexity behind an API, and has experience translating real-world needs from non-technical stakeholders (construction) into practical document-reading solutions.”

“Accenture engineer who built and shipped a production RAG-based automation/chatbot for SAP incident triage and troubleshooting, embedding thousands of runbooks/logs/tickets into a semantic search pipeline and integrating it into Teams/Slack. Reported major productivity gains (30–60% time reduction), >90% validated answer accuracy, and sub-2-second responses, with strong orchestration (Airflow/Prefect/LangGraph) and reliability practices (guardrails, testing, monitoring).”

“Early-career CS/data professional with hands-on experience integrating analytics dashboards into a production MERN system, including a Redux state redesign and schema validation that delivered zero-downtime release and measurable performance gains (~30% faster APIs, 25% faster reporting). Previously a data analyst at Reliance Jio, where they extended Python-based reporting pipelines (CSV/MySQL) with automated validation and anomaly detection to improve KPI dashboard reliability and cut investigation time by ~30%.”

“Backend Python engineer who architected an event-driven order integration engine connecting EDI vendors to ERP/WMS/3PL systems, including a canonical order model and adapter framework to eliminate per-customer hardcoding. Has hands-on Kubernetes production experience (microservices, Celery workers, CronJobs, HPAs) and implemented GitOps/CI-CD using GitHub Actions, Docker, and ArgoCD, including moving deployments from on-prem to Azure.”

“Full-stack engineer focused on data-heavy platforms, building Spring Boot microservices and Angular/React dashboards end-to-end. Has hands-on experience improving large-scale API and UI performance (including cutting 8–10s response times) and ensuring cross-service consistency using Kafka, idempotent consumers, and strong validation/transaction patterns on AWS with CI/CD and observability (Prometheus/ELK).”

“LLM/RAG-focused engineer who repeatedly takes agentic workflows from impressive demos to dependable production using rigorous evals, SLOs, and deep observability. Has led high-impact incident mitigation (22-minute MTTR during a major sale) and developer enablement workshops, and partnered with sales to close a $410k ARR enterprise deal with a tailored RAG pilot (FastAPI/pgvector/Okta/InfoSec-ready).”

“Backend engineer who built an Emergency Alert System with Virginia Tech for the City of Alexandria, focusing on real-time ingestion, secure dashboards, and AI-assisted prioritization. Emphasizes high-stakes reliability with guardrails (hybrid rules+LLM, confidence-based fallbacks), scalable async processing, and defense-in-depth security (JWT/RBAC plus database row-level security).”