Vetted GitLab CI Professionals

Mounika Gunturu

Screened

Senior Python Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud-native microservices and data platforms

New York, NY9y exp

“Backend/data engineer from Oliver Wyman who built and ran production Python (FastAPI) services on AWS (ECS/Lambda/API Gateway) supporting risk modeling and regulatory reporting. Strong in reliability/observability, Glue-based ETL with data quality controls, and legacy SAS-to-Python modernization with rigorous parity validation; also demonstrated measurable SQL performance wins and cost-control improvements in serverless scaling. Based in Raleigh, NC and can travel onsite for important Bethesda-area meetings.”

Swathi Sankaran

Screened

Senior Python Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud, data engineering, and ML/GenAI

New York, NY10y exp

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building FastAPI services on AWS and implementing strong reliability/observability (CloudWatch, ELK, correlation IDs, alarms). Has delivered serverless + container solutions with IaC (CloudFormation/Terraform) and Jenkins CI/CD, and built AWS Glue/PySpark pipelines into S3/Redshift with schema-evolution and data-quality safeguards; demonstrated large-scale SQL tuning (45 min to 3 min on a 500M-row workload).”

John Krikorian

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AR, UI/UX, and interactive applications

12y exp

“AR/Unity-focused engineer who built a multi-user whiteboarding app for smart glasses, including vector-based collaborative drawing, spatial object persistence, and a voice-driven AI assistant that could manipulate the scene through custom tools. Their work spans real-time networking, spatial UX, and LLM integration, with systems robust enough that some features were reused by other developers internally.”

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience building event-driven Java/Spring Boot and Kafka systems, plus AI-assisted document-classification workflows in enterprise environments. Stands out for a thoughtful, risk-aware approach to AI: uses it to accelerate delivery, but emphasizes validation layers, confidence thresholds, observability, and human review before AI can affect downstream business actions.”

“Software engineer with Intuit experience shipping an end-to-end real-time financial insights product on AWS, using event-driven architecture with Kafka and Spark Streaming to process millions of records with low latency. Also delivers customer-facing React + TypeScript dashboards and has hands-on production operations experience, including resolving a database scaling incident via read replicas, query tuning, and connection pooling.”

“Built and shipped a production LLM-powered personalized client engagement assistant in the financial domain, balancing real-time recommendations with strict privacy/compliance requirements. Demonstrates strong MLOps/LLMOps depth (Airflow + MLflow, containerized microservices, drift monitoring) and a privacy-by-design approach validated in collaboration with risk and compliance teams.”

“Software engineer in the mortgage/financial services domain (Freddie Mac) who builds end-to-end loan origination and credit risk capabilities using Spring Boot microservices, Angular dashboards, and data pipelines. Delivered measurable impact (30% reduction in underwriting turnaround time) and emphasizes production reliability/compliance with strong guardrails, observability, and evaluation loops for risk scoring systems.”

“Game developer with experience on DreamCraft and KartRider Rush+, focused on Unity/C# gameplay systems, AI behavior, and multiplayer synchronization. Stands out for building a modular character customization system shared across teams and for tuning AI karts to feel more human while supporting different player skill levels.”

Adithi Anugu

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in API and data-driven applications

Florida, USA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer with internship experience at Sports Excitement and AI systems work at the University of Florida, combining React/TypeScript, Node.js, and PostgreSQL with applied AI workflow tooling. Stands out for shipping measurable product improvements—30% faster pagination and 40% higher engagement—and for building observability, eval, and human-review layers around AI-assisted data extraction systems.”

“AIX/IBM Power Systems engineer with hands-on production incident leadership in a regulated banking environment, using deep OS-level tooling to diagnose CPU entitlement and memory pressure issues. Experienced with HMC/vHMC, VIOS, and zero-downtime DLPAR resizing, plus PowerHA/HACMP clustering and validated failover testing. Also drives migration readiness via Bash/Python automation (60% manual-effort reduction) and phased AIX cloud/hybrid cutovers.”

“Software engineer working on an e-commerce platform, currently building a RAG-based recommendation system with a team new to the technology. Has delivered an end-to-end React/TypeScript website for a local car dealer and built an internal "encryption as a service" tool to secure sensitive data across repositories and through release/UAT, with experience debugging microservices integration issues.”

“Built and owned major parts of a real-time distributed AI fraud-detection pipeline (ingestion, inference microservice integration, and automated action layer), optimizing latency and observability and reducing false positives by ~35%. Understands ROS/ROS2 concepts (nodes/topics/services) and planned hands-on ramp-up via ROS2 pub/sub exercises and Gazebo simulation, but has not worked on physical robots or ROS in production.”

“Platform-focused engineer experienced in productionizing ML/LLM systems: containerized a local prototype, implemented CI/CD, deployed to Kubernetes with scaling controls, and added monitoring/logging. Comfortable diagnosing real-time issues in LLM/agent workflows using logs/metrics and incident stabilization tactics, and supports sales calls by clearly explaining production scalability to unblock customer decisions.”

“Infrastructure reliability/capacity-focused engineer with hands-on IBM Power/AIX (LPAR/DLPAR, HMC, VIOS) performance troubleshooting and modern cloud-native delivery experience. Built production CI/CD and Terraform-managed AWS/EKS environments, and has led real incident recoveries spanning Kubernetes autoscaling and AWS quota constraints with concrete RCA and prevention improvements.”

“QA/automation engineer with experience at Riot Games’ player platform, owning E2E automation for mission-critical authentication/account flows using Playwright/JavaScript plus API automation. Built CI merge gates and nightly verification with Slack reporting, and repeatedly caught backend-driven session/authorization regressions before production. Known for stabilizing flaky UI tests via selector strategy and network intercepts, and for influencing design early with testability hooks and telemetry.”

“Built and deployed a production LLM-powered RAG document intelligence/Q&A system for healthcare prior authorization, reducing manual medical document review time and improving decision efficiency. Strong in end-to-end LLM application engineering (LangChain/LangGraph), retrieval quality improvements (hybrid search, embedding tuning, chunking strategies), and rigorous evaluation/monitoring for reliability.”

Daniel Panrong Dai

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in AI and full-stack development

New York, NY1y exp

“Consulting-background AI practitioner who led a production LLM pipeline on Snowflake Cortex to map hundreds of thousands of messy OCR/form-based contract fields into standardized Salesforce fields, including confidence scoring and an LLM-driven feedback loop. Strong focus on real-world constraints—token limits, cost control, and evaluation without ground truth—paired with frequent stakeholder-facing progress reporting.”

Akshaya Chiduruppa

Screened

Mid-level Quality Assurance Engineer specializing in AI/ML and Apple ecosystem testing

Seattle, WA4y exp

“QA automation engineer with end-to-end ownership of a regression suite for a warehouse loan management platform (.NET/Angular), using Selenium (Java/Cucumber/POM) and Cypress. Improved suite stability and expanded risk-based coverage (DB/API/SQL, RBAC approval workflows), catching critical financial defects like EMI calculation errors and cutting regression effort by ~50% while gating releases via GitLab CI/CD with actionable Slack reporting.”

“Full-stack engineer with recent JPMorgan experience building GPT-4-powered customer sentiment/feedback analytics products (Next.js 14 App Router + FastAPI + Postgres) and owning them post-launch with CloudWatch/Datadog observability. Also implemented Temporal-based transaction reconciliation workflows with strong reliability patterns (idempotency, retries, DLQ, versioning) and has prior high-scale healthcare dashboard experience at Optum.”

“Built and productionized an LLM-powered PDF document Q&A system to eliminate manual searching through long documents, focusing on scalability and answer reliability. Implemented semantic chunking (using headings/paragraphs/tables), overlap, and preprocessing/quality checks to reduce hallucinations, and orchestrated the end-to-end pipeline with Airflow using retries, alerts, and parallel tasks.”

“McKinsey data/ML practitioner who led production deployment of an entity resolution + semantic search platform for unstructured finance and healthcare data, integrating with legacy systems under HIPAA constraints. Deep hands-on stack across transformers (spaCy/HF BERT), embeddings + FAISS, and production MLOps/workflow tooling (Airflow, Docker, CI/CD, Prometheus/Grafana), with reported gains of +30% decision speed and +25% search relevance.”

“Backend engineer who built and owned an AI-powered SMS survey platform for a nonprofit serving at-risk communities (internet-limited users), using Cloudflare Workers + Twilio and a state-machine survey engine. Scaled it to ~10k active users with near-zero downtime, added English/Spanish support, and iteratively improved LLM behavior (Claude 3.7 Sonnet) to handle nuanced, real-world SMS responses reliably.”

“ML/AI engineer with production experience across retail and healthcare: built a real-time computer-vision shelf monitoring system at Walmart and optimized edge inference latency by ~30% using TensorRT/ONNX and pruning. Also partnered with CVS Health clinical/pharmacy teams to deliver a medication-adherence predictive model, using Streamlit explainability dashboards and achieving an 18% adherence improvement.”