Vetted Microsoft Azure Professionals

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered RAG assistant for enterprise internal document search (PDFs, knowledge bases, structured data), addressing real-world issues like noisy documents, hallucinations, and latency with grounded prompting, retrieval-confidence fallbacks, and performance optimizations. Also partnered with compliance and business teams at JPMc to deliver a solution aligned with regulatory constraints, supported by monitoring, feedback loops, and systematic evaluation.”

“Full-stack developer who built a learning management web app end-to-end using React, Spring Boot, and MySQL, integrating APIs via Axios and validating/testing with Postman. Has experience handling data-heavy workloads (courses, quiz results) and improving performance with pagination, and is comfortable designing microservice-style endpoints with CI/CD considerations.”

“AI/ML engineer (Cognizant) who built a production, real-time credit card fraud detection platform combining deep-learning anomaly detection with an LLM-based explanation layer. Strong focus on regulated deployment: addressed class imbalance and feature drift, and added guardrails (SHAP/structured inputs, fine-tuning on analyst reports, rule-based validation) to keep explanations accurate and compliant. Orchestrated the full pipeline with Airflow + Databricks/Spark and used MLflow/Prometheus plus A/B and shadow deployments for measurable reliability.”

“Data/ML engineer with experience across pharma (Dr. Reddy Laboratories) and financial services (Cincinnati Financial, Capital One), building production NLP and entity-resolution systems that connect messy unstructured text with enterprise SQL data. Delivered semantic search with BERT + vector DB and domain fine-tuning (reported ~35% relevance lift), and builds robust pipelines using Airflow/dbt/Spark with strong validation, monitoring, and stakeholder-aligned rollout practices.”

“AI/full-stack engineer with experience delivering production-critical healthcare AI at Roche (digital pathology imaging platform using Microsoft Gigapath for cancer diagnosis) and building scalable LLM-backed products. Strong in designing async AI backends (Django/Celery/Postgres/Redis on GCP), reliability engineering (Datadog, incident response), and agent-style document analysis workflows with evaluation loops.”

Vivek Shrivastava

Screened

Director-level Technology Leader specializing in data platforms, AI, and media/AdTech transformation

Los Angeles, California24y exp

“Technology leader who built a unified platform for Fox live sports production operations starting in 2019, delivering an initial operational system on an ~18-month timeline while simultaneously scaling an in-house engineering team from a service-provider partnership. Led a security architecture for external vendors/partners using a separate Okta instance with zero-trust and passwordless authentication, and drove adoption through strong change management, documentation, and agile execution.”

Manaswini Gogineni

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and full-stack web development

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“Full-stack/platform engineer who has owned real-time analytics products end-to-end and built scalable TypeScript/React + Node.js systems using event-driven and microservices architectures (Kafka/RabbitMQ). Also created a widely adopted Go CLI that standardized AWS/Terraform provisioning across multiple teams, cutting environment setup from days to minutes through opinionated defaults, documentation, and cross-org partnerships.”

“Backend/microservices engineer with fintech loan-lifecycle experience operating low-latency (sub-250ms) services in production using Kafka, idempotent transaction design, and Datadog observability. Also built an end-to-end LLM chatbot (React + Flask) with a decoupled model integration layer (FLAN-T5 via Hugging Face) and has experience designing partner-facing REST APIs with OAuth2/JWT and Swagger documentation.”

Yash Nileshkumar Mirani

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI agents, data pipelines, and cloud systems

Sunnyvale, CA5y exp

“Generalist software engineer with recent contract work at Vertex Pharmaceuticals shipping a desktop-integrated RAG assistant for lab scientists (2000+ pages ingested; ~40% support-ticket reduction in pilot). Previously owned Python/AWS financial automation services at Amazon operating at multi-billion-dollar scale, with strong strengths in API design, observability, and database/performance tuning; also built a React/TypeScript AI contract analysis product (ContractsGuy).”

“Entrepreneurial operator with 30+ years of experience building internal startup-style business cases inside private companies, securing capital/OpEx funding, and turning proposals into delivered technology initiatives. Brings a strong venture-informed mindset, including familiarity with Series A/B/C funding dynamics, combined with hands-on strength in business planning, financial modeling, team building, and execution.”

William Freeling

Screened

Principal Software Engineer specializing in game engines, simulation, and cross-platform systems

Shattuck, OK40y exp

“Principal-level Unity engineer who has led cross-platform social and multiplayer feature development for Epic Games, including Unity native plugin work spanning PC, mobile, and major consoles. Also brings specialized VR/MR experience for government clients like the EPA and Homeland Security, with a strong track record in reusable architecture, platform integrations, and engineering team leadership.”

Jahnavi Rao

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in FinTech and enterprise web applications

Overland Park, KS5y exp

“Backend engineer currently at Bank of America with experience in scalable backend services, microservices, and event-driven systems. Stands out for using AI pragmatically as a productivity accelerator while maintaining strong engineering judgment around reliability, security, and production validation, and shows strong architectural intuition for multi-agent workflows through a distributed-systems lens.”

“Senior engineering leader with over 20 years of management experience and a hands-on background leading large-scale SaaS, eCommerce, CRM, and customer data platform systems serving millions of users. Stands out for combining deep technical architecture leadership with org-scale people management, including solving multi-tenant SaaS scaling issues, driving self-service product improvements from support patterns, and building governance models for cross-functional delivery.”

“Engineering leader focused on multi-cloud platform modernization, combining deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, and DevSecOps with management of 18-person DevOps/SRE/software teams. Particularly strong in building secure, scalable enterprise SaaS infrastructure and Spark/Databricks data platforms while driving cross-functional standardization, reliability, and faster release cycles.”

“Product leader with experience rebuilding large-scale search and AI-enabled workflow products at Amadeus and SignalWire. Stands out for combining AI strategy, UX simplification, and organizational alignment—driving measurable outcomes like 45% adoption growth, 42% revenue increase, and mentoring teams to stronger cross-functional execution.”

“Senior engineering leader who scaled a global organization from 15 to roughly 100 people and operates comfortably at both executive and hands-on architecture levels. Has led SaaS platform improvements, AI-based compliance workflow automation with LLM observability, and consumer-facing product modernization using analytics-driven UX decisions.”

Vijayagopalan Raveendran

Screened

Principal Enterprise Architect specializing in AI, cloud, data, and FinTech transformation

Jersey City, NJ20y exp

“Solutions/technical consulting professional with enterprise experience supporting major accounts including Costco, MasterCard, Delta Dental of Michigan, and Fannie Mae. Brings a blend of cloud migration, enterprise architecture, security/IAM integration, and business-case development, plus hands-on automation work in Python and GCP to modernize sales-related data processing.”

“ML/AI engineer with hands-on ownership of both classical ML and GenAI systems in production. They built an end-to-end churn prediction service on AWS and also shipped RAG-based document search/summarization features, with clear experience in monitoring, hallucination reduction, cost/latency optimization, and creating shared Python/LLM infrastructure used across teams.”

“GenAI/ML engineering leader (player-coach) who built and deployed an image-to-text production system for topology/resource diagrams, combining YOLO-based issue detection with an LLM to generate support-ready reports at scale. Heavy AWS stack (SageMaker, Step Functions, Lambda, CloudWatch, FastAPI, Kubernetes/Docker) with KPI-driven optimization (MTTR, P50), including ~21 custom labels and reported 30–50% faster issue identification while processing thousands of images in production.”