Vetted Microsoft SQL Server Professionals

“Cloud/ML engineer with production deployment experience on Azure (Dockerized models, managed APIs, data pipelines) who has repeatedly stabilized unreliable systems—e.g., taking an API-driven analytics pipeline from ~60% to 98% reliability and an Azure ML service from ~80% to 97% by addressing rate limits, container memory, and gateway timeouts. Also built an explainable contract-risk model for entertainment bookings (Transformers + SHAP) and integrated it into a legacy booking system via a Flask REST API, plus prior IoT work at Nissan processing CAN bus sensor streams for diagnostics/anomaly insights.”

“Customer-facing software engineer who rapidly turns business requirements into Figma prototypes and PoC applications, using workflow prioritization and frequent client reviews to stay aligned. Has hands-on experience integrating with existing authentication/user APIs, building MongoDB-backed caching, and implementing robust fallback/retry mechanisms. Comfortable working on-site with customers and resolving production issues in AWS (e.g., DNS/EC2 traffic routing) in collaboration with DevOps.”

“AI/ML engineer who has shipped production LLM and ML systems, including a RAG pipeline that ingested ~500k insurance/client documents to help adjusters answer questions faster and more consistently. Experienced in handling messy real-world document formats, tuning retrieval/chunking, and reducing latency via vector search optimization, precomputed embeddings, and caching. Also built orchestrated fraud-detection deployment workflows using AWS Step Functions and SageMaker, and partners closely with non-technical operations teams on NLP automation.”

“Built and deployed a RAG-based student/faculty support chatbot at a university that answers from official syllabus/policy documents and now supports 4,000+ students while reducing repetitive support requests. Hands-on with LangChain, LangGraph, and CrewAI to orchestrate reliable agentic workflows, with a strong focus on testing/monitoring in production and cross-functional delivery (e.g., marketing analytics automation at Steve Madden).”

“Full-stack JavaScript developer in small-company environments building PCB manufacturing web tooling. Owned and delivered blob-storage upload/download infrastructure (including an internal developer library) and a training/compliance tracking tool. Implemented secure, broadly compatible SSO for a customer portal under a <1 month deadline tied to an 8-figure customer deal, despite having no prior authentication experience.”

“Built and deployed a production RAG system for financial/compliance teams using GPT-4, Claude, and local models to retrieve and summarize thousands of internal documents with strong security controls (role-based retrieval, PII masking). Drove significant operational gains (30+ hours/week saved, ~35% productivity lift, ~45% faster responses) and orchestrated end-to-end ingestion/embedding/index refresh pipelines with Airflow, S3, and SageMaker while partnering closely with compliance stakeholders on auditability and traceability.”

“Full-stack engineer in the healthcare domain (Humana) who owned an end-to-end member portal for benefits/claims/appointments, built with React and Spring Boot microservices on AWS. Notably migrated legacy batch data flows to a Kafka streaming pipeline and tuned consumers/partitions/backpressure to improve real-time consistency and achieve ~12% processing performance gains.”

“Master’s-program backend engineer with strong Java/Spring Boot industry experience who also owned a Python analytics service (Flask/Postgres, JWT, Celery/Redis) and optimized large-dataset performance via SQL/batching. Has hands-on Kubernetes microservices deployment and GitLab+Terraform CI/CD/GitOps workflows, plus experience supporting phased on-prem to AWS migrations and building Kafka-based real-time streaming pipelines.”

“ML/LLM engineer with production experience building a RAG-based LLM support assistant (FastAPI, Redis, Kafka) with multi-layer validation and human-in-the-loop feedback loops to improve accuracy over time. Has orchestration and MLOps depth using Airflow and Kubeflow on Kubernetes (autoscaling, alerting, monitoring) and delivered measurable ops impact (40% ticket efficiency improvement) by partnering closely with customer support teams.”

“Graduate project contributor/maintainer in the open-source JavaScript ecosystem who built “Intersect,” a blockchain-based certification verification platform. Developed a front-end component library integrating QR generation/scanning and Ethereum smart contract interactions, and improved real-world QR scan reliability across devices via custom image preprocessing and performance profiling-driven React optimizations.”

“NLP/ML engineer with hands-on healthcare and support-ticket text experience, building clinical-note structuring and semantic linking systems using spaCy, BERT clinical embeddings, and FAISS. Emphasizes production-grade delivery (Airflow/Databricks, PySpark, Docker, AWS/FastAPI/Lambda) and rigorous validation via clinician-labeled datasets, retrieval metrics, and user feedback.”

“ML/NLP practitioner with healthcare payer experience at HCSC, focused on connecting messy unstructured clinical notes to structured claims/provider data to improve fraud-analytics workflows. Has hands-on experience fine-tuning transformers in AWS SageMaker, building large-scale embedding search with FAISS, and implementing robust entity resolution using golden datasets, precision/recall calibration, and production monitoring for drift.”

“Gameplay engineer with hands-on ownership of real-time C++/UE5 systems, including an end-to-end ability system and a networked dash feature using client prediction and server reconciliation. Strong in performance profiling/optimization (object pooling, collision-check gating) and applied math for projectile motion validated via debug visualization and QA/playtesting; particularly interested in soccer/football gameplay mechanics and feel.”

“Full-stack engineer focused on application-layer product work (70–75%), with production experience building real-time operational dashboards (React/TypeScript + Node/Express + WebSockets + Postgres) and measurable impact (50% reduction in data entry time). Also owned a Flask backend for a SaaS product with token auth/RBAC, versioning, observability, and performance tuning, and has operated containerized apps on AWS (EKS, RDS/Aurora, S3, API Gateway) including handling a real latency/scaling incident end-to-end.”

“Backend/ML engineer with healthcare experience at Kaiser Permanente building HIPAA-compliant Java/Spring Boot + GraphQL APIs integrated with Epic HealthConnect, including hands-on reliability/performance debugging using Prometheus/Grafana and resolver-level N+1 elimination. Also built an end-to-end malaria parasite detection ML feature (CNN/R-CNN) with evaluation, guardrails, and workflow integration, and has experience designing robust state-machine-based automation with retries, DLQs, and alerting.”

“LLM/agentic-systems practitioner who has repeatedly taken LLM-driven pricing/decision services from prototype to production using pilots, guardrails, observability, and staged rollouts. Demonstrates strong real-time incident troubleshooting (dependency timeouts, cached fallbacks) and post-incident hardening (isolation/async/alerts), and also supports go-to-market via developer workshops, technical demos, and sales-aligned POCs.”

“Backend engineer working on Plumas Bank’s digital modernization, building a FastAPI-based loan origination/processing system with OAuth2/JWT security, AWS Lambda-driven PDF document generation to S3, and MongoDB integration. Has led a legacy workflow migration to a new microservice using dual-write/dual-read and monitoring, and emphasizes multi-tenant isolation via layered API controls plus row-level security.”

“Backend Java engineer with strong platform/DevOps experience: modernized an insurance claims legacy monolith into DDD-aligned microservices, deployed containerized services on Kubernetes with Jenkins CI/CD and static analysis gates, and implemented GitOps using ArgoCD. Also led major AWS migration planning with dependency mapping and network monitoring to uncover hidden dependencies, and built Kafka-based real-time event streaming with schema-registry-driven evolution.”