Vetted Microsoft SQL Server Professionals

“Data engineer with ~4 years of experience building Python-based data ingestion/processing services and real-time streaming pipelines (Kafka/PubSub + Spark Structured Streaming). Has deployed containerized data applications on Kubernetes with GitLab CI/Jenkins pipelines and applied GitOps to cut deployment time ~40% while reducing config drift. Also supported a legacy on-prem data warehouse/backend migration to GCP using phased migration and parallel validation to meet strict reliability/SLA needs.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered demand and churn forecasting system for an e-commerce client, combining open-source LLMs (LLaMA/Mistral) and Sentence-BERT embeddings to generate business-friendly explanations of forecast drivers. Strong focus on data quality and model trust (validation, baselines, segmented monitoring) and production reliability via Airflow-orchestrated pipelines with readiness checks, retries, and ongoing drift/A-B testing.”

“Backend engineer who owned and shipped a campaign analytics API (FastAPI/Postgres/Redis/Celery) with ingestion from Instagram/YouTube, JWT auth, tests, and Docker deployment; improved performance from >1s to <150ms using precomputed aggregates and composite indexes. Experienced with Kubernetes GitOps using GitHub Actions + ArgoCD (zero-downtime rollouts, one-click rollbacks), Prometheus/Grafana observability, hybrid cloud-to-on-prem migrations, and real-time notification streaming via Redis Pub/Sub + WebSockets.”

“Backend/AI engineer who has built and operated production Node.js/Express services on AWS (Postgres/Redis) and has hands-on experience shipping an AI-powered support agent using RAG (Pinecone + LLM) with grounding checks and evaluation for hallucination rate. Demonstrates strong production reliability/performance debugging, including reducing peak latency from ~2s back to sub-300ms through query and caching optimizations, plus designing agent workflows with retries and human-in-the-loop escalation.”

“Infrastructure/platform engineer with hands-on experience building and operating AWS Kubernetes environments with Terraform, including blue/green upgrade strategies and observability (Grafana/Prometheus). Modernized a mission-critical PostgreSQL system from legacy Sun SPARC hardware to x86/KVM with SAN and then redesigned it for load-balanced HA failover, and has operated hybrid on-prem (vSphere) to AWS connectivity using BGP/VPN and later Direct Connect, including post-incident improvements to centralized network config management.”