Victor Martínez
Software Engineer · Backend Infrastructure & Automation · Azure
16+ years at Microsoft building backend services, data pipelines, and automation that replace manual work. I specialize in moving legacy systems to modern Azure-native architectures with zero downtime, and in turning operational data into dashboards leaders actually use.
Open to Senior Software Engineer roles in backend, cloud infrastructure, and data/automation.
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Experience
AxioEdge · Jan – Feb 2026
AI model evaluation
- Benchmarked 7 open-source multimodal LLMs against a labeled dataset and built YOLO-based detection baselines.
- Showed the top LLMs (MiniCPM, LLaMA 3.2) had 40% count deviation at ~10 s per image, while YOLO reached ~80% accuracy with proper training data.
- Delivered a data-backed go/no-go recommendation in one month, with reproducible experiments and a documented handoff repo.
EFC Technology · Mar – Apr 2026
Power Platform solution for a Dallas government recycling department
- Designed and built a Dataverse database and Power Apps mobile/web app to replace paper-based purchase-order tracking.
- Enabled staff to enter data from phones, tablets, or computers, and answer new audit requests quickly.
- Built Power BI reports on top of the Dataverse data.
Microsoft · Redmond, WA · Software Engineer · 2008 – Jul 2025
Backend services & APIs
- Led a zero-downtime migration of legacy release systems to a new REST Web API for Azure Update approvals.
- Moved release systems and Azure Data Factory pipelines to Managed Identities, eliminating manual token rotation and meeting Zero Trust requirements.
- Designed a Producer-Consumer service that scaled Copilot and Office release-notes delivery.
- Built an Azure Data Factory pipeline and Power BI report that cut a monthly metrics task from 8 hours to 1 (87% reduction).
- Engineered build-verification and scheduling tools (.NET, SQL, HTML/CSS) that automated multi-language validation, saving thousands of manual hours.
Data & telemetry
- Built Power BI dashboards (30+ views/day) giving leadership real-time visibility into pipeline health and rollout status.
- Analyzed millions of records with Kusto (KQL) and Cosmos (Scope) to report tenant-level rollout status for Microsoft Teams and Outlook on the web.
DevOps & reliability
- Maintained release definitions and GitHub validation automation, including self-healing pull-request logic via the GitHub API.
- Migrated Azure DevOps pipelines to YAML so every pipeline change goes through code review and approval.
Skills
- Languages & frameworks: C#, .NET / .NET Core, Python, SQL, KQL, REST APIs
- Azure: Functions, Data Factory, Logic Apps, App Service, Cosmos DB, Managed Identities
- DevOps: Azure DevOps & GitHub CI/CD, YAML pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, BVT automation
- Data & AI: Power BI, Azure Data Explorer (Kusto), Power Apps / Dataverse, LLM benchmarking, YOLO
- Practices: Zero Trust security, Scrum / Sprint Master
Education
- B.S. Computer Systems Engineering — ITESO, Mexico
- System Design & Design Patterns — University of Washington
The best way to reach me is you@email.com or LinkedIn.