Vetted Microsoft Azure Professionals

“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.”

“Candidate describes a development approach centered on AI-assisted coding, testing, and agent-driven workflows, including production exposure to multi-agent systems and governance-oriented logging. They appear particularly focused on combining AI speed with structured validation through unit tests, boundary tests, and edge-case monitoring.”

Yashwanth J

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and full-stack systems

Seattle, WA4y exp

“Engineer with Apple experience building LLM-powered internal workflow orchestration systems using Python, LangGraph, FastAPI, Redis, vector search, and Kubernetes. Stands out for a highly pragmatic, production-focused approach to agentic systems: deterministic state management, strong guardrails, observability, and human review for high-risk actions.”

“Senior frontend engineer focused on complex internal operations and payment products, with deep experience building React/TypeScript dashboards for payments, subscriptions, and observability workflows. Stands out for going beyond UI implementation to shape API contracts, real-time architectures, performance strategy, and product behavior across support, finance, and engineering use cases.”

“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 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.”

“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.”

greg farhadian

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud data platforms and Java microservices

Remote4y exp

“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.”

Sandeep Rohilla

Screened

Principal Platform Engineer specializing in AI-driven document automation

San Francisco, CA20y exp

“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.”

“Enterprise-focused SDR candidate with experience prospecting into some of the largest companies in the world using multi-channel outbound, personalized trigger-based messaging, and multithreaded stakeholder outreach. They report never missing quota, worked toward quarterly goals of 20 meetings and $1M in pipeline, and are especially motivated by founding SDR environments where they can help build the pipeline engine from scratch.”

Richard Ferguson

Screened

Executive technology leader specializing in government, cloud, and cybersecurity

Reno, NV31y exp

“Founder with a bootstrapped startup who navigated early hiring and scaling by leveraging contractor talent before converting key contributors to full-time employees. Active in Northern Nevada's startup ecosystem through Generator and StartupNV, and notably declined angel/VC offers to preserve equity because of strong conviction in a differentiated product and its market fit.”

Chaithanya Konda

Screened

Mid-level Data Engineer specializing in multi-cloud analytics platforms

Waltham, MA6y exp

“Data engineer with hands-on GCP platform experience spanning BigQuery, Cloud SQL, Dataflow, and Cloud Composer, including both production operations and cloud migration work. They led a migration from legacy SQL Server/Oracle systems to a cloud-native BigQuery architecture and cite measurable impact: processing reduced from hours to minutes, query latency improved 60%+, and ingestion time improved 40%.”

“Software engineer with practical, day-to-day experience embedding AI into development workflows across coding, testing, code review, and AWS data pipelines. Uses tools like Claude, Cline, JUnit, Mockito, and Amazon Bedrock, and stands out for having a realistic, mature view of agent limitations, hallucinations, and the need for strong prompting and human validation.”

“Enterprise transformation project/program leader with deep experience in SAP, Ariba, and Coupa implementations for large multinational organizations. Has grown from techno-functional consulting into full PM/OCM ownership, leading multimillion-dollar programs across finance transformation, asset management, and procure-to-pay environments with complex governance and executive stakeholder demands.”

Ethan Hu

Screened

Entry-level Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and embedded systems

Seattle, WA1y exp

“Backend/full-stack engineer on Qualtrics' Online Samples team working on audience sampling systems and APIs used by researchers. They have hands-on ownership of TypeScript/React/Express services, emphasize multi-layer testing and production observability with Splunk/VictorOps, and have built APIs for both internal and external developers.”

“Solutions engineer with recent experience in semiconductor and manufacturing SaaS, spanning pre-sales demos, SOW/POC authoring, on-site deployments, and production integrations. Particularly notable for bridging factory-floor equipment, on-prem Java applications, and Azure cloud systems, while also operating in highly regulated NIST 800-53 defense environments.”

Josh Rhoades

Screened

Executive Technology Leader (CTO) specializing in AI-enabled SaaS and regulated platforms

Los Angeles, CA30y exp

“Senior engineering leader with experience at Disney and BlackLine who drives business-aligned technology roadmaps through deep Product/Engineering partnership (two-in-a-box) and pragmatic prioritization frameworks. Has led major modernization initiatives—private-to-public cloud migration to GCP with multi-cloud evolution, data-layer performance improvements (Mongo/Redis, caching/query optimization), and tooling upgrades (VSS to GitHub)—while scaling teams with strong quality and accountability culture.”