Azure AI Consulting · Est. 2026

AI that ships, on the Microsoft stack you already run.

Independent consulting from a Microsoft Certified Solutions Architect. I help enterprises ship AI on Azure — including the regulated, complex, and .NET-heavy environments others avoid.

Practitioner
Jim Keeley
Senior Platform Engineer · Florida, USA
Certifications
Microsoft Certified — Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Microsoft Certified — Azure Administrator Associate
Currently
Platform engineer on a PCI-DSS multi-tenant fintech platform
Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Azure Administrator Associate
PCI-DSS production experience
10+ years enterprise .NET / Azure
§ 01 — Services

Most AI consulting treats the model as the hard part. In production, the hard parts are integration, security, cost, and the messy reality of existing systems.

01

Azure AI Foundry implementation

Architecture, deployment, and operationalization of Azure AI Foundry. Agent design, model selection, evaluation, and production deployment with proper observability and cost controls. For teams who have done a POC and need to get to production without a six-month detour.

02

RAG & knowledge platforms

Retrieval-augmented systems built on Azure AI Search, pgvector, and Azure OpenAI. Hybrid retrieval, structured citations, evaluation. Confluence, SharePoint, document corpora, or custom data sources — built to integrate with applications you already have.

03

AI integration into .NET environments

AI capabilities embedded into existing .NET applications without rewriting the platform. WebForms, MVC, .NET Core, Blazor — modernization paths that respect what you already have. For organizations with significant .NET investment that don't want to choose between AI and stability.

04

PCI-regulated & enterprise-secure AI

AI architectures that meet PCI-DSS and similar compliance requirements. Application Gateway WAF v2 with per-tenant policy, Azure Deployment Stacks for change control, Defender suite integration, hardened Container Apps deployments. Built from current production experience.

§ 02 — Selected work

A small selection of recent engagements, anonymized where required.

SOURCE SharePoint · HR docs RETRIEVAL Azure AI Search REASONING GPT-4o · Foundry DELIVERY .NET 10 Blazor · Entra ID OIDC
Case 01 · SharePoint RAG · Anonymized

Internal HR assistant over SharePoint

RAG-powered employee Q&A over an HR-policy corpus in SharePoint, behind enterprise SSO. Later promoted into Azure AI Foundry as a managed Agent.

SOURCE Confluence RETRIEVAL pgvector + AI Search REASONING Azure AI Foundry DELIVERY .NET 4.8 ASCX · Blazor · API
Case 02 · Confluence RAG · Anonymized

Conflux — Confluence RAG with .NET WebForms

End-to-end retrieval platform with a legacy .NET 4.8 WebForms control proving AI drops into existing intranets without a rewrite. Plus a separate AI item-prioritization service.

INGEST PDF · PdfPig · chunks RETRIEVAL pgvector · HNSW REASONING GPT-4o · cited DELIVERY YARP BFF · Blazor · SignalR
Case 03 · Technical manuals RAG · Anonymized

Custom-corpus RAG for technical manuals

RAG platform over uploaded technical PDFs with image-aware retrieval, real-time ingestion progress, and a YARP BFF security pattern.

BEFORE .NET Framework AFTER .NET Core · Microservices 12+ services · 30 pipelines
Case 04 · Modernization · Anonymized

Legacy .NET modernization at scale

200+ project codebase migrated to .NET Core. 25% reduction in infrastructure overhead.

§ 03 — About

Built like a senior IC. Runs like a consultant.

I take a small number of engagements at a time. The focus is shipping AI on the Microsoft stack — particularly when the environment is regulated, complex, or built on .NET.

I'm a senior platform engineer and Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert based in Florida. I've spent the last several years as the platform engineer on a multi-tenant fintech platform running real PCI-regulated workloads at production scale.

Early Bird Solutions is the consulting practice I run alongside that work. If you're considering working together, the easiest path is a short call.

More about my background