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Sophia Bouchama

@sophiabouchama1

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I’m an AI Engineer leading Azure AI platforms and agentic LLM solutions to drive enterprise analytics.

United Kingdom

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to build and scale secure agentic AI and LLM systems on Azure—paired with strong evaluation, reliable data pipelines, and real business impact. I value teams that move fast while maintaining production rigor.

I’m an AI Engineer focused on building secure, high-performing AI systems on Azure—especially agentic LLM platforms, interactive analytics, and production-grade data layers.

At FOIL AI, I lead the backend architecture for Coca-Cola’s Azure AI retail analytics platform, including a voice-enabled AI assistant built with FastAPI and SQLAlchemy over Databricks. I also architected and implemented secure Azure infrastructure for Intersurgical’s Agentic AI platform using Bicep, Azure DevOps CI/CD, VNets, Private Endpoints, Private DNS, and App Service VNet Integration.

Previously at AVANADE, I delivered enterprise GenAI solutions such as RAG chatbot assistants, OCR document processing, and bias-aware job description generation with OpenAI and secure SharePoint retrieval. I built multi-agent AI workflows with AutoGen, implemented a regulatory LLM for complaint handling, and created a Databricks evaluation pipeline using stochastic LLM experiments, similarity semantic scoring, and variance-based confidence metrics. I’m backed by a BSc Computer Science and Microsoft AI Engineer (AI-102), plus RHCSA.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

AI Engineer

Current

Foil AI

Feb 2026 - Present (5 months)

Leads backend architecture and data layer for an Azure AI retail analytics platform, enabling interactive sales and revenue uplift dashboards with a voice-enabled AI assistant. Architected secure Azure infrastructure for an agentic AI platform and developed AI capabilities including a manufacturing rules engine and intranet web scraping pipelines for knowledge ingestion.

Azure Azure AI fastAPI SQLAlchemy Databricks Bicep Private Endpoints App Service VNet Integration Polars Agentic AI AI Agents Intranet Web Scraping Voice AI

AI Engineer

Avanade

Mar 2024 - Feb 2026 (1 year 11 months)

Delivered enterprise GenAI solutions including RAG chatbot assistants, OCR document processing, and bias-aware job description generation with OpenAI using secure SharePoint knowledge retrieval. Developed multi-agent AI workflows with AutoGen and built a regulatory LLM system to automate complaint handling, including multi-format text extraction and a Databricks evaluation pipeline using stochasti

GenAI RAG Chatbot OpenAI SharePoint AutoGen Multi Agent Pipelines Text Extraction LLM Evaluation Databricks Semantic Similarity Scoring Variance Based Confidence Metrics LLM Behavior Non Determinism Testing

Data Scientist / Developer

Trueology

Apr 2023 - Feb 2024 (10 months)

Built analytical dashboards and backend web applications using Django, Azure Storage, and MongoDB. Delivered NLP and sentiment analysis solutions using clustering and decision trees, and developed Power BI analytics solutions for enterprise clients.

Django Azure Storage MongoDB NLP Sentiment Analysis Clustering K Means Decision Trees Power BI Data Science Dashboarding

Innovation / Project Manager

Dololo

Oct 2021 - Dec 2021 (2 months)

Led innovation programmes and designed technical training initiatives to strengthen Namibia's technology ecosystem as part of the CodeCave. Managed a gap-year innovation and training project during the Oct–Dec 2021 period.

Innovation Program Technical Training Project Management

Associate Consultant

Red Hat | IBM

Sep 2019 - Sep 2021 (2 years)

Delivered enterprise OpenShift solutions across NHS, HSBC, and London Metal Exchange. Automated infrastructure deployment using Ansible and supported enterprise cloud migrations.

OpenShift Ansible Infrastructure Deployment Cloud Migration

Junior Infrastructure/Software Engineer

Nomura Bank

Jun 2017 - Jun 2018 (1 year)

Designed and built an end-to-end TLS certificate automation platform in Python and MySQL for SSL certificate lifecycle management. Adopted the platform as Nomura’s standard solution for handling TLS/SSL certificate lifecycles.

Python MySQL TLS SSL Certificate Automation SSL Certificate Management