Vetted Microsoft Azure Professionals

“Platform-focused engineer/technical program leader working in silicon/wafer validation environments, with hands-on experience securing access to sensitive test results and engineering tooling. Has implemented RBAC/least-privilege controls with Azure Entra ID, Key Vault, PAM and integrated Checkmarx into dev workflows, while also deploying ML services on AKS using Bicep/Helm/Docker and Azure DevOps CI/CD with strong monitoring and incident response practices.”

“Software engineer with strong end-to-end ownership of search and listing systems (React/TypeScript frontend with Node.js + Spring Boot backends), focused on shipping fast while managing risk via feature flags, testing, and metrics. Demonstrated measurable UX/performance wins (reduced latency and search abandonment) and built internal observability tooling (dashboard + alerts) that improved incident response. Experienced with microservices reliability patterns including idempotency and dead-letter queues.”

“Senior frontend engineer with experience leading high-impact React/TypeScript products at HelloFresh and CAA, including an A/B-tested onboarding flow shipped across multiple international brands. Modernized a legacy .NET frontend to Next.js using SSR and performance techniques (caching/memoization/lazy loading) and implemented robust testing/monitoring (Cypress, Honeycomb, GA) in fast-paced, production-deploy environments.”

“Backend engineer focused on building production-ready Python services (Flask/FastAPI) with strong performance and scalability instincts—Celery/Redis background processing, robust multi-tenant isolation (Postgres RLS), and pragmatic CI/Docker operations. Demonstrated measurable DB optimization impact (cut a critical analytics query from ~1–2s to ~100–150ms) and has hands-on experience integrating LLM/ML workflows (OpenAI, LangChain, embeddings, Redis/FAISS vector stores) without degrading API responsiveness.”

“ML/NLP engineer with experience at Flatiron Health building a production NLP platform that processed millions of clinical notes, using BERT/BiLSTM-CRF and spaCy to extract and normalize entities from noisy EMR text with oncologist-in-the-loop validation. Also built scalable retail ML workflows (Spark + Kubernetes + feature store caching) and applied vector databases plus contrastive-learning fine-tuning to improve retrieval relevance and recommendations.”

“Backend/DevOps-focused engineer with healthcare and financial systems experience, including an ICU readmission risk platform delivering real-time ML scores via a secure FastAPI service (PyTorch model serving, PostgreSQL, Celery/Redis) deployed on AWS with strong observability. Has hands-on Kubernetes GitOps delivery (Helm, ArgoCD, HPA) and has supported a JPMC on-prem-to-AWS microservices migration using phased validation and blue-green cutovers, plus Kafka/Avro streaming for real-time transaction processing.”

“CTO who ties technology strategy directly to business outcomes, building multi-year roadmaps with measurable ROI. Led major modernization (cloud, data platform, unified API, microservices + CI/CD) delivering 5x faster releases/deployments, 99.8% uptime, and 40% user growth without headcount increases, while scaling engineering from 15 to 80+ in ~18 months.”

“Software engineer with hands-on experience building a distributed ticketing system on AWS (Terraform, Go, MySQL) focused on high-concurrency reliability (locks/queues to prevent duplicate ticket confirmations) and load-tested performance. Also independently owned and shipped an Airflow automation script to stop/restart workflows during deployments with email notifications, reducing manual operational effort.”

“Full-stack engineer with fintech/trading domain experience (Fidelity) and startup SaaS CRM/billing platform work (Zoho), building real-time portfolio analytics and trade-processing systems. Strong in microservices, event-driven architectures (Kafka/WebSockets), and AWS/Kubernetes operations with measurable performance gains (~34–35% latency reduction) and maintainability improvements (~40% faster deployments). Targeting a founding full-stack engineer role in NYC with meaningful equity.”

“CTO candidate with experience supporting startups targeting Series A/Series B funding and a strong grasp of how funding choices affect ownership. Emphasizes building clean-slate architecture and organizations, and uses market/UX research plus AI-enabled rapid prototyping and architectural trade-off analysis to validate ideas quickly.”

“Built and operated a production TypeScript backend for a stateful conversational quoting chatbot at Tringapps, orchestrating multi-step workflows and session state while integrating with Salesforce and NetSuite. Implemented validation/retry logic, modular architecture, and strong logging/observability to handle real-world edge cases and external API failures.”

“Software engineer with strong end-to-end ownership across frontend, backend, data, and infrastructure, including real-time systems (Kafka/Postgres) and observability (Datadog). Built and productionized an AI-native RAG support assistant (OpenAI embeddings + Pinecone) with prompt/guardrail design, achieving 48% agent adoption and 30% faster responses. Experienced in legacy modernization and reliability work using feature flags, event/transaction replay, and rapid embedded delivery.”

“Built GoEngineer’s first production AI systems, including an end-to-end RAG pipeline for SolidWorks technical support using Azure Blob Storage, Azure AI Search, and Azure OpenAI, plus an AI summarization feature adopted by sales/customer success. Strong in productionizing LLM workflows with evaluation harnesses (golden sets, LLM-as-judge, red teaming, shadow deploys) and Azure infrastructure integrations (Redis, Service Bus, App Insights), and has also implemented a custom MCP server for agentic monitoring.”

“Built and shipped production LLM/RAG systems at Mayo Clinic, including a conversational AI assistant for patient pre-consultation and a clinical-trial matching tool for doctors. Implemented HIPAA-compliant de-identification and guardrails, plus real-time feedback logging and fine-tuning that improved response accuracy by 15% and reduced admin workload by 25%.”

“Infrastructure/operations engineer with deep IBM Power/AIX experience (AIX 7.x, VIOS, HMC/vHMC) managing ~15–25 LPARs across production and DR, including live DLPAR changes and structured performance troubleshooting. Also hands-on with PowerHA/HACMP incident recovery and failover testing, plus broader DevOps delivery building Jenkins CI/CD for containerized microservices and Terraform/Ansible IaC across AWS and Azure, and leading Solaris SPARC to x86 migration cutovers.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered customer support triage/resolution agent that automated ~60% of tickets, cutting response times from hours to seconds and improving first-response resolution by ~40%. Experienced designing multi-tenant, tenant-isolated agent architectures with RAG, schema-based tool calling/strict JSON validation, and strong reliability practices (guardrails, retries, fallbacks, monitoring), including safe integration with messy ERP-like data.”

“Data engineer at Capital One building AWS-based real-time and batch pipelines and backend data services for financial/fraud use cases. Has owned end-to-end pipelines processing millions of records/day, implemented dbt/Great Expectations quality gates, and tuned Redshift/Snowflake workloads (cutting query latency ~22–25% and reducing pipeline failures ~30–40%) while supporting 15+ downstream consumers.”

“Healthcare data engineer with hands-on ownership of claims/member data pipelines on a cloud analytics platform, spanning batch and streaming ingestion (Airflow/Kafka/Spark/Databricks) through serving for reporting. Emphasizes reliability and data quality via embedded validation, schema-drift detection, deduplication, and operational monitoring/incident response, plus pragmatic CI/CD and observability setup in early-stage/ambiguous projects.”

“Data engineer/backend developer who owned end-to-end pipelines and external data collection systems, including API ingestion and large-scale web scraping. Worked at ~50M records/month scale, improving processing speed by 20% and reducing reporting errors by 15%, and shipped a Rust-based internal data API with versioning, caching, and strong validation/observability practices.”

Yasser Ali

Screened

Junior AI & ML Engineer specializing in agentic systems and full-stack AI products

San Francisco, CA2y exp

“Won a machine learning contest and was placed onto a Kaiser data science team, where they built ML models for hospital bottleneck prediction and resource allocation. They later built and deployed a full-stack LLM-based “data analyst agent” (with custom orchestration plus LangChain/OpenAI Agents experience) that generates analysis code, answers questions, and produces dashboards from uploaded datasets, emphasizing rigorous evaluation sets, robustness, and healthcare security/compliance integration.”

Dinesh Kumar Patibandla

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning Engineer specializing in LLMs and RAG for finance and healthcare

Texas, USA4y exp

“ML Engineer with recent Goldman Sachs experience building and deploying a production RAG/LLM assistant for summarization, drafting, and internal knowledge retrieval across financial, risk, and compliance documents. Designed for heavy regulatory constraints and scaled to 10,000+ concurrent users using Kubernetes-based orchestration, dynamic LLM routing, and rigorous testing (adversarial prompts, A/B tests, load simulations) with privacy controls like differential privacy.”

Anishkumar Mahalingam Iyer

Screened

Intern Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML infrastructure and applied machine learning

Palo Alto, CA2y exp

“Interned at Rivian where they built and deployed a production Whisper-based ASR + LLM real-time event labeling pipeline to help autonomous-vehicle engineers diagnose failures and route issues to triage teams. Also built a stateful multi-agent "Code Partner" developer assistant using LangGraph/LangChain (planner/router/coder/critique/tester) with evaluation, adversarial testing, and stakeholder-friendly communication practices.”

Sudhan Louis

Screened

Director of Enterprise Architecture specializing in digital transformation, AI, and API strategy

Rolling Hills Estates, CA26y exp

“Hands-on architect/technology leader who builds prototypes (including Agentic AI wellness/biomarkers) and then scales teams to execute. Led a ~$400M global e-commerce transformation spanning 95 countries with active-active US/EU multi-region resilience, microservices/MFE (MACH), and strong security patterns (service mesh + API gateway + Ping Identity), plus modern data foundations (customer hub/MDM/Snowflake, data fabric/medallion).”

Eduardo Diaz

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Python, FastAPI/Django, and Azure

Remote13y exp

“Backend/data engineer with production experience building real-time IoT telemetry pipelines for wind/solar assets at Siemens (FastAPI on Azure Event Hubs/Service Bus, Cosmos DB + SQL Server) and deploying GPS/fleet telematics microservices on AWS ECS Fargate with Terraform and blue/green CI/CD. Demonstrated strong reliability and performance chops, including a 30s-to-<100ms SQL optimization and owning a Kafka pipeline incident resolved in ~20 minutes.”