Awet AI
A Career, Mapped

Awet Banks-Hagos

Power Platform Solution Architect · Technical Program Manager · Human + AI

I've spent the last 10 years driving technology, product, and AI initiatives, including the last several years building and scaling AI-powered solutions that solve real-world business challenges. What excites me most is simplifying great ideas and combining them with emerging technology to create outcomes that genuinely improve how people work.

2,700+ hours of manual work automated away every year, measured in production
Personal Philosophy

The Canvas

Awet Banks-Hagos's skills, experience, and measurable impact, mapped in one view.
Skills & TechKey Resources

Technically fluent end to end, with enough depth to shape the architecture and steer delivery across low-code and engineering teams.

  • A decade inside real enterprise process: architecture and security judgment that doesn't come from a prompt.
  • Azure · Power Platform · Fabric · Azure SQL serverless · Python.
  • Power BI · semantic models · DAX · row-level security.
  • Infrastructure as Code · Logic Apps · Container Apps · Dataverse.
  • Continuous learning across cloud, data, and AI tooling, sharpening the human-plus-AI workflow.
SummaryValue Proposition

I find the manual process everyone has accepted as inevitable, and make it disappear. I shape the architecture, the data model, and the security, drive it into production, and stay accountable there.

My path ran from data analyst, to metric architect for a $99B business line, to data platform owner, to end-to-end owner of production automation used by operations, compliance, and digital safety teams.

Since 2025, AI has been a genuine collaborator in that work: I use it daily across architecture, delivery, and documentation, and mentor engineers on AI-assisted delivery.

Collaboration & DomainsKey Partners · Customer Segments

Who I work with

  • AI as a daily collaborator across architecture, delivery, and documentation.
  • Operations, Compliance & Digital Safety leadership.
  • Engineers I mentor on AI-assisted delivery.

Who I build for

  • Government regulatory: automated reporting at 99.45% SLA.
  • Operations & Compliance: Federal / Non-Federal data isolation.
  • Digital Safety & Finance: case reporting and launch-planning intake.
  • Partners: first partner-facing self-serve reporting across a $5.9B scope.
ExperienceKey Activities
  • Architect event-driven platforms: inbound triggers → automated parsing, case creation, API reporting.
  • Model data: star schemas and Dataverse for reporting and compliance.
  • Own the security model: row-level security, Entra ID, Managed Identity, zero secrets.
  • Deliver through self-service intake tools, event-driven platforms, and real-time tracking dashboards.
  • Own end-to-end and stay accountable in production, backed by 20/20 perfect 5-star demo ratings across six cycles.
  • Mentor engineers on AI-assisted delivery.
Impact & Key ResultsBy the numbers
  • 2,700+ hours / year of manual work automated away, measured in production, not estimated.
  • 99.45% SLA achieved for government regulatory reporting.
  • 250+ hours / week returned by the data platform migration; 50% compute cost cut.
  • Request turnaround 15 → 7 days after intake redesign.
  • Manual regulatory reporting 20% → <1% after automation.
  • 20/20 perfect 5-star stakeholder ratings across six demo cycles.

Recent Projects

A selection of Awet Banks-Hagos's recent work showcasing human–AI collaboration in production. Click a card to expand, or open More details for the full project canvas.

Event-driven regulatory reporting platform: inbound government emails trigger automated parsing, case creation, and API reporting. New countries onboard through configuration, with zero code changes.

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Root-cause analysis and corrective-action management for operations compliance: approval workflows, star-schema reporting, and Federal / Non-Federal data isolation with enhanced MFA.

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Replaced fragmented request channels with a single self-service intake tool and automated workflow for finance launch planning, now the enterprise default channel.

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Centralized intake and real-time tracking for all technical development requests across the org, replacing manual spreadsheets with configurable self-service tooling.

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Designed a cross-org quality metric, then shipped the first partner-facing self-serve reporting of its kind, with row-level security guaranteeing zero cross-partner data exposure.

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Led the move from six legacy DataMarts to a single governed platform on Fabric and Azure SQL serverless, then trained the analyst team on the new pipelines.

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What Leaders & Partners Say

Unedited feedback from managers, stakeholders, and teammates across performance cycles.

You've delivered transformative impact across multiple priorities — from automating critical Digital Safety workflows to building scalable intake and reporting solutions. Your ability to combine technical excellence with a growth mindset and strong collaboration has driven measurable outcomes.
— Manager, Fusion Development — Microsoft Business Operations
Awet brings so much technical skill coupled with business acumen, and is a huge asset to the Fusion Dev team and wider organization. Delivered impact against all expectations — and in many cases above.
— Manager, Fusion Development — Microsoft Business Operations
You are showing your thought leadership and anticipating the future needs of the organization.
— Manager, Data Analytics — Microsoft
Thank you for all you have delivered this year across your designated projects while always ensuring security compliance is 100% at all times.
— Manager, Fusion Development — Microsoft Business Operations
This is exactly what we wanted and needed.
— Finance stakeholder, on the intake platform
Your ability to bring clarity and structure to complex projects is truly remarkable.
— Engineering partner
The rigor, the iterations with data, and the problem-solving skills Awet brought to the table is what stood out. A valuable analytics partner to the business.
— Program management partner
You sure know how to explain complex elements in a simple way. THANK YOU!
— Business stakeholder
An incredible mentor… You consistently break down complex problems into understandable steps. I always know I can count on you.
— Mentee, Microsoft

Feedback collected across performance cycles from 2023–2026. Shared with context removed to protect internal details.

Technologies I've Worked With
  • AI
  • ClaudeClaude
  • OpenAIOpenAI
  • GitHub CopilotGitHub Copilot
  • Microsoft 365 CopilotMicrosoft 365 Copilot
  • AZURE
  • AzureAzure
  • Entra IDEntra ID
  • Azure Key VaultAzure Key Vault
  • Azure SQLAzure SQL
  • Azure DevOpsAzure DevOps
  • Azure Logic AppsLogic Apps
  • Azure Container AppsContainer Apps
  • Microsoft FabricMicrosoft Fabric
  • POWER PLATFORM
  • Power BIPower BI
  • Power AutomatePower Automate
  • Power AppsPower Apps
  • DataverseDataverse
  • Copilot StudioCopilot Studio
  • DEV TOOLS
  • GitHubGitHub
  • Visual Studio CodeVisual Studio Code
  • PythonPython
  • SQLSQL
  • KQLKQL
  • BUSINESS APPS
  • ExcelExcel
  • PowerPointPowerPoint
  • SharePointSharePoint
  • Dynamics 365Dynamics 365
  • ServiceNowServiceNow

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