Vetted Microsoft SQL Server Professionals

“Founding Principal Engineer/Head of Engineering at Amberflo (Seed $5M Homebrew; Series A Norwest) who built and shipped an AI Gateway + real-time LLM cost metering/pricing MVP end-to-end (control plane/data plane, AWS infra, CI/CD). Known for extremely fast MVP cycles (often 1–2 weeks), scaling teams (50–60 hires), and driving major pivots (usage-based billing to FinOps) by repurposing an existing metering/pricing platform; based in Chicago and has led a Silicon Valley startup remotely with frequent Bay Area travel.”

“GenAI/ML engineer in Citigroup’s finance environment who has deployed production RAG systems for investment banking under strict privacy and model-risk constraints. Built an internal-VPC Llama2 + Pinecone + LangChain solution with NER redaction and citation-based verification to prevent hallucinations, delivering major time savings, and also partnered with global finance executives to ship an AI early-warning indicator for treasury/liquidity risk.”

“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.”

“LLM/RAG practitioner who productionized an LLM-driven customer communication and transaction understanding system at PayPal, emphasizing privacy/compliance guardrails and large-scale data normalization. Experienced in real-time debugging of hallucinations via retrieval pipeline tuning and in leading hands-on developer workshops and sales-aligned POCs to drive adoption.”

“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/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.”

“Backend/automation engineer who led the design of an OOP Python test automation framework for AWS infrastructure (Behave + Jenkins), cutting regression effort from weeks to a 3–4 hour run. Has hands-on cloud and DevOps experience across AWS (boto3, ECS, AMI automation via GitHub Actions) plus data/migration work including on-prem-to-cloud Oracle Retail DB migration with rollback planning and a Kafka + ML fraud-detection streaming pipeline.”

“Hands-on technical professional experienced in taking LLM/AI-adjacent integrations from prototype to production, using customer observation to refine UX and uncover edge cases. Diagnoses workflow issues in real time using logs and Sankey-style workflow analysis, and communicates fixes with clear short/long-term plans plus proactive alerting. Also partners cross-functionally to drive adoption and cost savings, including a POC around IBM Sterling Integrator that reduced licensing costs by $30K/year.”

“Technology executive (VP/SVP Engineering, CTO/co-founder) with ~17 years of roadmap execution and the last 7 in senior exec roles. Notably led an AI-first strategic pivot when generative AI emerged—creating the AI product strategy, reskilling teams, and shipping initial AI features—while also scaling engineering orgs using SPACE metrics and driving major architecture decisions (custom reporting with React + Redshift) to close competitive gaps.”

“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.”

“Full-stack TypeScript engineer who built and operated a production order/inventory platform (React + NestJS/Node + PostgreSQL) with Redis and RabbitMQ for performance and background workflows. Emphasizes correctness in production via idempotency, retries/backoff, DLQs, and observability, and has also delivered external-facing REST APIs (Swagger, versioning, JWT/RBAC) plus resilient checkout browser automations using Playwright/Puppeteer.”

“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.”

“Backend/full-stack engineer who has owned production systems end-to-end, including a Dockerized Node.js/TypeScript probabilistic fault-tree analysis service for nuclear safety research deployed on AWS. Also built and operated a FastAPI-based RAG pipeline over 200+ PDFs using FAISS, focusing on low-latency, idempotent workflows and strong observability; experienced with API design and Playwright E2E automation across React/Angular projects.”

“Backend-focused engineer with strong .NET/Angular experience building enterprise financial and healthcare systems, including microservice APIs deployed with Docker/Kubernetes and AWS ECS. Demonstrates production reliability skills across secrets management (Secrets Manager/IAM), incident response (CloudWatch + Kafka failover), and data engineering patterns from SSIS ETL (data quality, incremental recovery), plus proven SQL tuning with a 10-minute report reduced to under 30 seconds.”

“GenAI/LLMOps practitioner who deployed a production RAG-based customer service and knowledge retrieval system for a global bank using LangChain, FAISS/Azure Cognitive Search, GPT-4/Claude, and Guardrails—driving a reported 35% Q&A accuracy lift while reducing handle time and escalations. Also partnered with non-technical leaders at CVS Health to deliver ML-driven supply chain risk and inventory insights via anomaly detection, NLG summaries, and stakeholder-friendly dashboards.”

“Full-stack engineer focused on high-throughput document/financial data platforms, building Angular/React front ends and Spring Boot microservices with Python/Flask services for heavy processing. Experienced in designing non-blocking, asynchronous workflows (Celery/RabbitMQ) and deploying containerized systems to AWS ECS with auto-scaling and CloudWatch monitoring.”