Kentucky · Remote-friendly · US Citizen

Phillip Wilkins

AI Solutions Engineer — I build production GenAI systems: RAG applications, AI agents, LLM APIs, and the data platforms underneath them.

15+ years delivering Azure analytics, ML, and enterprise software for Microsoft and Fortune 500 clients. Certified Azure AI Engineer (AI-102), Data Scientist (DP-100), and Data Engineer (DP-203).

Phillip Wilkins, AI Solutions Engineer

Flagship project: M365 Setup Expert

An AI agent used in production by Microsoft 365 customers. I conceived, architected, and built the "Ask Expert" assistant in the M365 Accelerator — guided, conversational help for deploying and configuring Microsoft 365.

  • RAG done right: retrieval over indexed Microsoft Learn and YouTube content via Azure AI Search, grounding answers in trusted documentation to reduce hallucinations.
  • Agent orchestration: Semantic Kernel with multiple selectable personas, Microsoft Graph integration for customer-specific configuration help, and a critiquer agent reviewing generated code.
  • Responsible AI built in: Azure AI Content Safety, PII filtering, red-teaming workflows, and golden-dataset groundedness evaluation.
  • Stack: React · FastAPI · Semantic Kernel · Azure AI Foundry · Azure AI Search · Microsoft Graph.

Try it live: open the M365 Accelerator and click "Ask Accelerator Expert".

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Selected work

App Guardian — AI-escalated monitoring

Full-stack app and infrastructure monitoring platform: configurable collectors, health rollups, and directive-driven AI agent escalation to email, chat, webhooks, ITSM, Azure DevOps, and Event Grid.

React 18 · TypeScript · FastAPI · PostgreSQL · Playwright · Docker · Azure AI Foundry

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ML automation framework

Reusable framework automating feature engineering, model selection, tuning, and validation — Deep Feature Synthesis, Recursive Feature Elimination, genetic feature selection, Azure AutoML.

Python · Azure ML · Azure AutoML

M365/O365 analytics platforms

BI, KPI reporting, monitoring, alerting, and incident-management platforms for Microsoft M365/O365 engineering, used by Fortune 500 and federal customers. Predictive analytics with Azure ML and SSAS.

Azure Synapse · Databricks · Spark · Power BI · Azure Data Factory · SQL

AI content pipeline with approval gates

Local-first pipeline producing long-form videos and Shorts with review workflow, human approval gate, automated upload, publish checks, and QC.

FastAPI · RQ/Redis · PostgreSQL · Next.js · ffmpeg

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Spreadsheet-to-app builder

Upload CSV/Excel, edit in the browser, get AI-suggested reports from sheet metadata, and deploy to Azure.

Next.js · Drizzle · PostgreSQL · Azure OpenAI · Docker

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NLP & text intelligence

Sentiment analysis, key-phrase detection, and topic modeling for customer and internal intelligence in Databricks and Azure Synapse.

Python · Databricks · Azure Synapse · NLP

Experience

AI Solutions Engineer / Senior Data Scientist — CloudFit Software (Microsoft vendor)

2009 – 2026 · Remote / Kentucky (incl. Composable Systems LLC, joined CloudFit)

Architected and delivered AI/ML, GenAI, analytics, and Azure cloud solutions for Microsoft and enterprise clients across healthcare, retail, manufacturing, government, and M365 engineering. Built LLM APIs across Azure OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, and open-source models; designed RAG and AI-search patterns with retrieval evaluation; shipped containerized services with Docker and Kubernetes.

Earlier roles

Charter Communications (2006–2008): built a VB.NET troubleshooting tool cutting support call time from 45 minutes to under 5. Mercer (2005–2006): automated a monthly reporting process from 1+ month to 15 minutes.

Skills & certifications

GenAI / LLM: Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Search, RAG, AI agents, Semantic Kernel, LangChain, prompt engineering, function calling, LLM evaluation & guardrails, embeddings, vector search

Engineering: Python, FastAPI, TypeScript, React/Next.js, C#/.NET, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps

Data: Azure Synapse, Databricks, Spark, Azure Data Factory, Power BI, SSAS, SQL/T-SQL, Azure ML, forecasting, NLP

Certifications: Microsoft Certified Azure AI Engineer Associate (AI-102) · Azure Data Scientist Associate (DP-100) · Azure Data Engineer Associate (DP-203) · MCSD Web Applications

Get in touch

I'm exploring senior GenAI / AI engineering roles — remote or hybrid in the Kentucky / Louisville area.

Best option: message me on LinkedIn. Recruiters and hiring managers reach me there most often, and your message stays on a professional channel.

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