Vetted Microsoft Azure Professionals

“Backend/data engineer with production experience in financial payroll, tax, and compensation platforms, building Python microservices and AWS-based data pipelines for high-volume, peak-driven workloads. Strong reliability focus (OAuth2 auth, retries/timeouts, structured logging, incident response) and proven performance wins, including cutting complex report queries from ~8 minutes to under 30 seconds.”

“Early-career backend engineer and solo builder of FrameFindr, an AI/OCR-based marathon photo tagging product used at live events. Demonstrated pragmatic scaling under tight infrastructure constraints (2GB VPS) and hands-on ownership of architecture, API design, auth (Google OAuth/JWT), and a MongoDB-to-MySQL migration with data-integrity safeguards.”

“ML/computer-vision practitioner who shipped a CycleGAN-based bilingual handwriting translation demo (English↔Telugu) for low-resource scripts using unpaired datasets, focusing on preserving handwriting style and real-time deployment via Gradio. Also delivered a medical imaging pipeline by fine-tuning ResNet-50 and ViT-B/16 for pneumonia detection, emphasizing reproducibility, measurable evaluation, and stakeholder-friendly iteration.”

“Python backend engineer (BetterWorld Technology) who owns microservice systems end-to-end on Azure, including Kubernetes deployments, CI/CD, and production monitoring/alerting. Has hands-on experience integrating SQL/NoSQL (including Cosmos DB with vector search/graph workflow) and has built a Kafka + Spark Streaming pipeline to Snowflake with a reported 40% latency reduction.”

“Software engineer experienced delivering customer-facing, real-time industrial monitoring dashboards (motors/shafts/turbines) by partnering directly with end users to refine charts, alerts, and performance. Strong in API/platform integrations and production troubleshooting—uses feature flags, logging, validation/mapping, containerization, and performance testing to keep systems stable while iterating quickly.”

“DevOps engineer (State Farm) with hands-on ownership of Python backend services and data pipelines, deploying microservices and workers on Kubernetes using GitOps (Argo CD). Has led complex cloud-to-on-prem/hybrid migrations with staged cutovers and rollback planning, and built Kafka-based real-time streaming pipelines with schema governance, autoscaling, and strong observability.”

“Applied AI/ML engineer with hands-on production experience building a RAG-based AI assistant for pharmaceutical maintenance troubleshooting using LangChain + FAISS/Pinecone, including a custom normalization layer to handle inconsistent terminology and duplicate document revisions. Also built Airflow-orchestrated pipelines for document ingestion/embeddings and predictive maintenance workflows (SCADA ETL, drift-based retraining), and partnered closely with production supervisors/quality engineers via Power BI dashboards and real-time alerts.”

“LLM/RAG engineer who has built and shipped production assistants, including a RAG-based teaching assistant (Marvel AI) using LangChain/LlamaIndex/ChromaDB with OpenAI embeddings and Redis vector search, achieving ~30% accuracy gains and ~35% latency reduction. Also deployed FastAPI services on Google Cloud Run with observability and prompt-level monitoring, and partnered with non-technical ops stakeholders to deliver an internal policy-document RAG assistant.”

“QA tester with experience across PC, mobile, and Oculus/Meta VR, focused on functional, regression, and exploratory testing. While new to console testing, they demonstrate a clear plan to ramp quickly on platform certification/compliance (TRC/XR/LOT) and apply strong issue triage practices under deadline pressure, leveraging AI tools to streamline QA documentation and log analysis.”

“Backend engineer who built a Node.js + SQL service integrating with the Google Ads API to periodically upload online and offline conversions via Azure Logic Apps, persisting upload records for ROI reporting. Implemented PII hashing, token validation, redundancy, and detailed failure/status logging for reliability and debuggability. Currently scoping an LLM/agent workflow (likely LangChain) to let marketing bulk-update e-commerce product data using SEO keywords without developer involvement.”

“Startup-focused tech leader with 20+ years of experience who has led engineering teams across multiple startups and pitched inside VC firms. Currently building infrastructure for managing physical wealth—creating a canonical data layer that integrates with wealth management systems to account for precious metals and other tangible assets—and is prepared to raise capital to align with the right partners.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer who has owned production TypeScript systems in both fintech-style transaction/rewards flows and HIPAA-regulated healthcare platforms. Deep focus on correctness and reliability (idempotency, retries/DLQs, reconciliation, observability) plus strong infra automation (Docker/Terraform/CI-CD) and measurable performance wins (40% query improvement, 90% test coverage).”

Christopher Peacock

Screened

Executive CIO and Enterprise Architect specializing in cloud, security, and IT governance

Remote5y exp

“Fractional CIO/founder-type operator at AHDX Inc, a hybrid-cloud/primary storage solutions startup with a compliance focus targeting healthcare; MVP has completed beta and the company has seed funding while pursuing additional investment. Has supported multiple startups (OmniHR, Combat Connect, 3BX) and cites tangible results tied to DoD/security, Medicare/Medicaid, and Air Force LMS contracts, positioning them as a hands-on "fixer" for early-stage technical strategy and architecture.”

Harsh Chauhan

Screened

Junior AI Engineer specializing in Generative AI, RAG, and NLP

Remote, US3y exp

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped a production RAG platform at Ticker Inc. on GCP (Qdrant + Postgres) delivering sub-second retrieval over 550k+ items, with measurable gains in latency and answer quality (HNSW optimization, MMR re-ranking). Also built an asynchronous LangChain/LangGraph multi-agent research system (10x faster cycles) and partnered with Indiana University doctors on synthetic patient records and ML error analysis using clinician-friendly F1/loss dashboards.”

Jai Vilatkar

Screened

Junior AI/ML Developer specializing in GenAI, LLM agents, and RAG systems

Pune, India2y exp

“Built and shipped an agentic RAG chatbot module for NexaCLM to answer questions across large volumes of contracts while minimizing hallucinations and incorrect legal interpretations. Implemented routing between vector retrieval and ReAct-style agent retrieval plus an automated grading/validation layer (cosine-similarity thresholds, retries) and deployed via GitHub Actions to Azure Container Apps, partnering closely with legal stakeholders to define risk/clause-focused objectives.”

Anudeep Reddy Veerla

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices

Boston, MA3y exp

“Built and shipped both a solo real-time multiplayer Spades game (TypeScript monorepo with shared client/server engine) and a production internal LLM-powered document Q&A tool for a SaaS company. Demonstrates strong RAG pipeline design (Pinecone + embeddings + reranking), rigorous eval/regression practices, and pragmatic data ingestion/observability work across Confluence, Notion, and messy PDFs/OCR—backed by clear metric improvements (P@1 61%→78%, escalations 40%→22%).”

Sujay Surendranath Pookkattuparambil

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in computer vision and reinforcement learning

Chicago, IL3y exp

“Early-stage engineer with hands-on embedded prototyping experience (Arduino/Raspberry Pi) who helped build an award-winning smart glasses project enabling phone notifications via Bluetooth. Strong computer vision performance optimization background, including accelerating 120 FPS inference by moving from TensorFlow to PyTorch and deploying through ONNX + TensorRT quantization, plus Docker-based GPU deployment and CI/ML practices.”

Sangat Shah

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AWS serverless and React/Node.js

Los Angeles, CA5y exp

“Backend engineer who built and evolved a serverless AWS platform for large-scale live screening events with real-time chat/feedback and streaming (API Gateway/Lambda/DynamoDB/WebSockets/IVS, IaC via Pulumi). Led production refactors and phased migrations using feature flags and dual-write strategies, and has hands-on experience implementing JWT auth, RBAC, and database-enforced row-level security for multi-tenant systems.”

Vishesh Kumar

Screened

Intern Software & AI Engineer specializing in distributed systems and LLM applications

Palo Alto, CA1y exp

“Stony Brook Fall 2024 capstone contributor who built a ROS2-based warehouse mobile robot prototype, owning perception and SLAM integration end-to-end. Strong in real-time robotics optimization on Jetson Orin (TensorRT/CUDA, ROS2 tracing/Nsight) and in distributed ROS2 communications (DDS discovery/QoS, MAVLink-to-ROS2 bridging), with a full simulation/testing/deployment toolchain (Gazebo, CI tests, Docker/K3s).”

Hari Krishna Kona

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and LLM-powered NLP

Boston, MA3y exp

“LLM/AI engineer who built a production automated document-understanding pipeline on Azure using a grounded RAG layer, designed to reduce manual review time for unstructured financial documents. Demonstrates strong real-world scaling and reliability practices (Service Bus queueing, Kubernetes autoscaling, observability, retries/circuit breakers) plus rigorous evaluation (shadow testing, replaying traffic, multilingual edge-case suites) and stakeholder-friendly, evidence-based explainability.”

Purva Chakravarti

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in scalable web apps, cloud, and blockchain/AI

Chino, California11y exp

“Full-stack engineer with strong production ownership across React/TypeScript, Node.js, and AWS (EC2/ECS/RDS/CloudWatch), including CI/CD, observability, and incident response. Delivered a secure RBAC workflow module end-to-end and achieved measurable gains (~30–40% latency reduction, ~50% error reduction) that lowered infra/ops costs. Comfortable in high-ambiguity startup environments—shipped a payment module within 2 days of joining with no documentation.”

“Full-stack product engineer who has built AI-assisted CRM and agent workflows in Project SARA and operational systems like payroll for a staffing platform. Stands out for combining React/TypeScript, Django/Postgres, real-time systems, and LLM orchestration with strong product instincts—delivering measurable gains in response time, conversion, and engineering leverage.”

“Currently acts as a tech lead for a team of AI agents building a mobile application, with agents handling requirements, design, development, testing, documentation, and JIRA/Confluence updates. Stands out for combining multi-agent orchestration with strong human-in-the-loop review and a clear interest in AI governance and authorization controls.”