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I am an Enterprise AI & Data Engineer with 5+ years of Azure-focused experience, building production-grade Generative AI platforms, MLOps pipelines, and cloud data infrastructure for regulated financial services and insurance organizations. At Equitable Life of Canada I built the organization's AI/ML infrastructure from the ground up, including GPT-powered call intelligence, RAG knowledge assistants, and automated MLOps on Azure AI Foundry. I pride myself on bridging concept and production — delivering secure, governance-compliant AI solutions that scale while meeting strict regulatory requirements. My work emphasizes reliability, observability, and measurable business outcomes.…I am an Enterprise AI & Data Engineer with 5+ years of Azure-focused experience, building production-grade Generative AI platforms, MLOps pipelines, and cloud data infrastructure for regulated financial services and insurance organizations. At Equitable Life of Canada I built the organization's AI/ML infrastructure from the ground up, including GPT-powered call intelligence, RAG knowledge assistants, and automated MLOps on Azure AI Foundry. I pride myself on bridging concept and production — delivering secure, governance-compliant AI solutions that scale while meeting strict regulatory requirements. My work emphasizes reliability, observability, and measurable business outcomes.

Udeme Akpausoh

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I am an Enterprise AI & Data Engineer with 5+ years of Azure-focused experience, building production-grade Generative AI platforms, MLOps pipelines, and cloud data infrastructure for regulated financial services and insurance organizations. At Equitable Life of Canada I built the organization's AI/ML infrastructure from the ground up, including GPT-powered call intelligence, RAG knowledge assistants, and automated MLOps on Azure AI Foundry. I pride myself on bridging concept and production — delivering secure, governance-compliant AI solutions that scale while meeting strict regulatory requirements. My work emphasizes reliability, observability, and measurable business outcomes.…I am an Enterprise AI & Data Engineer with 5+ years of Azure-focused experience, building production-grade Generative AI platforms, MLOps pipelines, and cloud data infrastructure for regulated financial services and insurance organizations. At Equitable Life of Canada I built the organization's AI/ML infrastructure from the ground up, including GPT-powered call intelligence, RAG knowledge assistants, and automated MLOps on Azure AI Foundry. I pride myself on bridging concept and production — delivering secure, governance-compliant AI solutions that scale while meeting strict regulatory requirements. My work emphasizes reliability, observability, and measurable business outcomes.

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I am an Enterprise AI & Data Engineer with 5+ years of Azure-focused experience, building production-grade Generative AI platforms, MLOps pipelines, and cloud data infrastructure for regulated financial services and insurance organizations. At Equitable Life of Canada I built the organization’s AI/ML infrastructure from the ground up, including GPT-powered call intelligence, RAG knowledge assistants, and automated MLOps on Azure AI Foundry.

I pride myself on bridging concept and production — delivering secure, governance-compliant AI solutions that scale while meeting strict regulatory requirements. My work emphasizes reliability, observability, and measurable business outcomes.

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Senior AI & Data Engineer at Equitable Life of Canada

September 1, 2025 - Present

Architected and deployed enterprise AI/ML infrastructure on Azure AI Foundry, integrating Azure OpenAI (GPT-4o), embedding models, Azure AI Search, Vision, and Document Intelligence to support production workloads used by hundreds of daily users. Built secure MLOps pipelines with CI/CD, Bicep IaC, Azure DevOps, and Grafana observability, shortening AI model release cycles by ~70% and ensuring governance-compliant deployments across Dev/UAT/Prod. Built an enterprise RAG knowledge assistant with Next.js, vector + hybrid retrieval, and Azure Speech AI, improving knowledge retrieval times for 200+ customer service agents. Implemented enterprise AI governance (RBAC, Azure Policy, Key Vault, Microsoft Purview data lineage) and deployed observability stacks achieving 99.5%+ SLA and faster incident response times.

Azure Cloud Data Platform Engineer at Equitable Life of Canada

August 1, 2023 - August 1, 2025

Designed and deployed enterprise Data Hub on Azure integrating Synapse Analytics, ADLS Gen2, Azure Functions, Key Vault, Microsoft Purview, and Azure Policy into a unified governance-aligned data foundation. Built CI/CD pipelines automating code promotion across Dev/UAT/Prod, eliminating manual deployment steps and reducing release cycle time by ~65%. Implemented automated ETL with embedded data quality checks; configured Microsoft Purview for data lineage and regulatory compliance; deployed Grafana + Azure Monitor for real-time visibility, achieving 99.9% uptime and MTTR reduction ~55%.

Data Engineer at Abijossy Technologies

January 1, 2020 - December 1, 2022

Delivered end-to-end data engineering and analytics solutions; architected and optimized ETL pipelines, improving data integration efficiency by 30% through automation and processing optimization. Reduced reporting data errors by 40% via structured data validation and quality checks. Built interactive KPI dashboards in Power BI and Tableau for multiple stakeholders, reducing ad hoc reporting requests by ~35%.