Vetted Microsoft SQL Server Professionals

“LLM/GenAI engineer who built a production AI-powered credit risk policy summarization and compliance alerting platform at HCL Tech, focused on factual accuracy and auditability for a financial client. Implemented a multi-retriever LangChain RAG architecture with citations-only prompting, fallback agents, and human-in-the-loop legal review—cutting manual review time by 35% and scaling to 12 teams.”

“Engineering/technology leader with experience at Evocative and through a merger with Hivelocity, aligning tech roadmaps to managed services growth. Led multi-region self-hosted cloud and automation initiatives that cut delivery time from days to hours/minutes and informed cost-saving infrastructure decisions (reported $500K OPEX savings). Known for scaling teams with pod ownership, agile/intake governance, and disciplined rollout practices that protect uptime and security.”

“LLM/agentic AI builder who led end-to-end integration of an LLM system into a business intelligence product, creating a scalable, metadata-driven RAG/agent pipeline with an orchestrator that routes queries to specialized agents (including DB-backed quantitative querying). Also built an LLM-to-SQL chatbot and partnered with non-technical stakeholders to capture domain context and improve SQL generation, using automated LLM-based testing to evaluate reliability.”

“AI/ML practitioner in healthcare/insurance (Blue Cross Blue Shield) who built and deployed a production NLP system to classify patient risk from unstructured clinical notes. Experienced in end-to-end pipeline orchestration (Airflow, AWS Step Functions/Lambda/SageMaker) and real-time optimization (BERT to DistilBERT on AWS GPUs), with strong clinician collaboration to drive adoption.”

“Full-stack engineer with hands-on production ownership across Angular/.NET/SQL and React+TypeScript/Node/Postgres stacks, including CI/CD and AWS operations (EC2/ECS, RDS, S3, CloudWatch). Delivered an internal insurance document upload and tracking feature end-to-end, adding audit/history and async processing, then validated success through monitoring metrics and reduced support tickets. Comfortable shipping MVPs in ambiguous environments using feature flags, strong validation, and backward-compatible database migrations.”

“Long-time Call of Duty mod/game-mode creator (Call of Duty Frontlines/Rio) who designed 40+ gametypes, including “Swarm” later released officially as MW3’s Team Defender. Known for deep tuning/balance iteration and for overcoming engine constraints (e.g., expanding limited model slots via load-time model merging to ship large amounts of new weapons/vehicles/enemies). Currently building an UE5 game (Comando Rio) on Lyra, implementing custom audio systems and camera/movement features, collaborating with Gooseman (Counter-Strike creator).”

“IBM Power/AIX infrastructure engineer with hands-on production experience across Power8/Power9 frames, VIOS and HMC, including resolving a production LPAR outage caused by vFC mapping issues. Has operated PowerHA clusters for critical finance workloads, running quarterly failover tests and handling an unplanned failover triggered by a network adapter failure, then improving resilience with redundancy and monitoring automation.”

“Full-stack engineer who built an oil & gas analytics dashboard backend using FastAPI, MongoDB, and Redis with a metadata-driven design for dynamic plotting. Shipped an LLM-powered chatbot (LangChain + tool/function calling) to let engineers query analytics in natural language, and also built a multi-step university chatbot workflow with Azure logging, confidence scoring, and human-in-the-loop review.”

“QA automation engineer focused on end-to-end quality for a CMS lien registration workflow, owning a Playwright-based regression suite covering high-risk paths (creation, amendments, cancellation, batch file validation). Demonstrated impact by catching a UI change that bypassed required-field validation pre-release, stabilizing flaky CI tests using network-response signals, and driving clearer acceptance criteria and observability improvements (request IDs in logs) through cross-functional collaboration.”

“Software engineer who delivered a dynamic service-fee system for a Belgian online grocery e-commerce platform by carving out a Spring Boot microservice from a monolith, integrating Google distance APIs, Redis caching, and CI/CD for production rollout. Also built an OpenAI-powered university chatbot with agent/workflow orchestration during academia, emphasizing availability and fallback behavior.”

“Data/Backend engineer who has owned end-to-end merchant analytics systems on AWS: orchestrated multi-source ingestion (FISERV/Shopify/Clover) with Step Functions/Lambda, enforced strong data quality gates, and served curated datasets via Redshift and a FastAPI layer. Also built an early-stage Merchant Insights AI agent that converts natural language questions into SQL using OpenAI models, with full CI/CD and observability.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on production Python and AWS: built FastAPI REST services and a containerized ECS Fargate + Lambda architecture deployed via Terraform/CI-CD. Strong in data engineering (Glue/S3/Parquet/RDS) and operational reliability (CloudWatch/SNS, retries, schema-evolution handling), with experience modernizing legacy SAS reporting into Python microservices using feature flags and parity validation.”

“Backend engineer with health-tech AI platform experience who designed a modular FastAPI/PostgreSQL architecture supporting real-time user data and swap-in AI workflows. Has hands-on production experience with observability (CloudWatch, structured logging, LangSmith/LangGraph/LangChain tracing), secure auth (OAuth2/JWT, RBAC, RLS), and careful data-pipeline migrations using parallel runs and rollback planning.”

“Customer-facing engineer who led recurring midnight ERP data-feed/B2B integrations from prototype to production, building reusable APIs and using Hangfire for job scheduling. Known for tight weekly customer iteration, strong documentation and test coverage (80%+), and cross-functional problem-solving with Operations/Quality/NPI to resolve data-collection and manufacturing-process constraints; has 2 customers live on the integration.”

“LLM/RAG practitioner building clinician-facing AI search and Q&A inside EHR workflows, focused on trust, latency, and safety (grounded answers with citations, PHI controls, encryption/audit logs). Demonstrated real-time incident response for production LLM systems (e.g., fixing a metadata-filter deployment regression to prevent irrelevant results/cross-patient leakage) and strong demo/enablement skills for mixed technical and clinical stakeholders; also shipped a multi-model RAG tool at OrbeX Labs with upload/search/audit features for day-to-day adoption.”

“Backend engineer who owned an order management API built with Python/FastAPI and PostgreSQL, integrating payment and shipping providers with strong reliability patterns (idempotency, async workers, retries/backoff, circuit breakers). Experienced deploying services to Kubernetes using a GitOps model with ArgoCD (auto-sync, self-healing, pruning, rollbacks) and building high-volume Kafka streaming pipelines. Has also supported phased cloud-to-on-prem migrations with a focus on security monitoring/SIEM log continuity.”

“Built an AI-powered loan automation dashboard using React and open-source JavaScript libraries, with hands-on experience improving real-world performance by reducing re-renders and optimizing/caching multiple API calls. Also produced developer-friendly API documentation for a voice assistant project, helping teammates integrate features faster with fewer errors.”

“Product-focused full-stack engineer (Spring Boot/Django + React/TypeScript) with deep experience building multi-tenant, enterprise workflow and supply-chain/order-tracking systems. Owned an end-to-end Workflow SLA Breach Prediction & Alerting feature integrating Azure ML for a cloud workflow platform used by ~10,000 enterprise users, and has hands-on AWS operations experience resolving real production latency/scaling incidents via query optimization and Redis caching.”

“ML/NLP engineer with healthcare and industrial IoT experience: built an Optum pipeline that converted 2M+ physician notes into structured entities and linked them with claims/pharmacy data to create an actionable patient timeline. Deep hands-on expertise in production NER, entity resolution, and hybrid search (Elasticsearch + embeddings/FAISS), plus robust data engineering practices (Airflow, Spark, data contracts, auditability) and experimentation-to-production rollout via shadow mode and feature flags.”

“Built and deployed a production multimodal language translation platform (text-to-text, speech-to-text, text-to-speech) using fine-tuned pretrained models (NLLB, XLSR), MLflow-orchestrated pipelines, and Docker/Kubernetes on AWS. Worked closely with non-technical linguists to tackle data cleaning and dialect variation in minority languages, improving accuracy through consistent evaluation and monitoring.”

“Full-stack engineer with experience at Cummins owning production features end-to-end (React/TypeScript + Node + Postgres) and operating them in AWS (EC2/RDS/S3/IAM) with CloudWatch-based observability. Also built resilient ETL and third-party integrations, including an AWS Glue–S3–Redshift pipeline hardened with validation, idempotent UPSERTs, retries/backfills, and quarantine handling to prevent bad or duplicate data.”

“Frontline support engineer in IT infrastructure monitoring (Micro Focus/HPE, now OpenText) who evolved into a hybrid support/TAM role. Experienced advising security-conscious customers (government/banking) on TLS upgrades and vulnerability response, coordinating dev and sales to meet regulatory deadlines while providing practical interim mitigations and clear customer communications.”

“Startup and early-internet product leader with repeated experience building in new companies and executing pivots. Helped transform a web-based calendar business into a CMS + RBAC platform that became best-in-breed for US K-12 organizations within about three years, emphasizing ROI-driven prototyping and market validation to conserve resources.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer who led a legacy monolith-to-microservices migration (OAuth, Redis, ActiveMQ) while shipping incrementally via CI/CD to avoid user disruption. Strong in search/filter experiences and performance tuning (Solr schema + relevance boosting) with measurable impact (login reduced to ~5s), plus React/TypeScript UI work including configuration-driven filters and shareable URL state.”