Vetted GitLab CI Professionals

“Backend/AI engineer with experience in both high-scale financial services (JP Morgan trade compliance analytics API on Java/Spring Boot/Postgres/Elasticsearch on AWS EKS processing 1M+ trades/day) and applied LLM systems for legal research (LangChain/OpenAI + Weaviate semantic search). Demonstrated strength in reliability/performance engineering, data consistency during migrations, and production-grade workflow orchestration with observability and human-in-the-loop guardrails.”

“Built production LLM systems including a real-time customer feedback analysis and workflow automation platform using RAG and multi-agent orchestration with confidence-based human escalation, addressing privacy and legacy integration challenges. Also automated ML operations with Airflow/Kubernetes (e.g., daily churn model retraining) cutting retraining time to under 30 minutes, and demonstrates a rigorous testing/monitoring approach plus strong non-technical stakeholder collaboration.”

“QA automation engineer with end-to-end ownership of a loan-processing automation suite spanning UI, API, and database validations (Selenium/Playwright/TestNG/REST Assured; Java/Python). Caught and prevented high-impact financial defects (e.g., risk-calculation rounding errors) through CI-driven nightly regressions and API-to-DB checks, and has implemented maintainable Cypress patterns with flake reduction plus GitLab CI gating and Allure reporting.”

“Software engineer with Citi Bank experience building real-time fraud validation/scoring for loan processing, spanning Spring Boot microservices and a FastAPI Python service secured with OAuth2/JWT. Delivered React/TypeScript operations dashboards and deployed containerized services via Docker/Kubernetes with Jenkins CI/CD, while also tuning databases (Oracle/Postgres) and handling high-volume latency/scaling issues using ELK, caching, and autoscaling on AWS.”

“Cloud/Kubernetes-focused production engineer with experience running 99.95% uptime platforms across AWS/Azure/GCP. Strong in incident response and performance troubleshooting (including a 30% MTTR reduction), and in building secure CI/CD and Terraform-based IaC for AKS/GKE microservices with robust change controls and rollback practices. Notably does not have direct IBM Power/AIX/VIOS/HMC or PowerHA/HACMP ownership.”

“Senior software engineer with Amazon experience who owned end-to-end improvements to a real-time payment authorization service, rebuilding it as a reactive Spring WebFlux microservice with saga orchestration and Kafka event streaming, deployed on AWS EKS with strong observability. Also built React+TypeScript and Node/Express full-stack workflow apps (onboarding, campaign management, admin review) and has experience shipping quickly in ambiguous startup environments while maintaining reliability and data correctness.”

“Data engineer with end-to-end ownership of large-scale retail and clinical data ingestion/processing on AWS, including real-time streaming and batch pipelines. Delivered measurable outcomes: 20M daily transactions processed, latency cut from 4 hours to 5 minutes, ~70% fewer failures, and 120+ pipelines running at 99.8% reliability with full audit compliance.”

“Backend/AI engineer who owned a high-scale Java/Spring Boot microservice for a financial application (millions of requests/day) and led major reliability/performance fixes (including ORM/query and PostgreSQL tuning) achieving ~60% latency reduction. Also shipped application-layer LLM features for ops teams (summarization + tool-calling) with strong guardrails (PII redaction, validation, audit/feedback) and designed a state-driven agent workflow with retries, circuit breakers, and human escalation.”

“Backend engineer who designed and evolved an AWS-based event-processing system in Python/PostgreSQL, achieving a 60% p95 latency reduction while improving reliability during traffic spikes. Led a zero-downtime migration from a monolithic Django app to FastAPI microservices using feature flags, strong testing, and cross-team coordination, with production-grade observability (Prometheus/Grafana/CloudWatch) and security (JWT/OAuth2, RBAC, Postgres RLS).”

“Backend/data engineer who builds production FastAPI microservices and AWS serverless/Glue pipelines for SMS analytics and marketing segmentation. Led a legacy batch modernization into modular services (FastAPI + Glue/Athena + ClickHouse) using shadow-mode parity checks, feature flags, and incremental rollout. Demonstrated measurable performance wins (12s to sub-second SQL; ~40% CPU reduction) and strong incident ownership with proactive schema-drift prevention.”

“Built a web-based online Sudoku game in JavaScript (multiplayer format supporting up to 6 teams with up to 5 players each) and demonstrates strong product/analytics orientation. Uses a KPI-driven approach (DAU/WAU, ARPU, session duration, LTV) and structured prioritization methods (MoSCoW, story mapping, cost of delay, DFV) to iterate toward targets; seeking a remote role around $70k/year.”

“Backend-focused engineer working primarily with Python/Django who also handles full-stack responsibilities. Has hands-on experience deploying containerized Python/Java microservices to Kubernetes using Helm and GitOps (ArgoCD), plus building Kafka-based event streaming with reliability controls (acks, consumer groups, DLQ). Also supported major on-prem to cloud/hybrid migrations using Terraform/Ansible with blue-green cutovers and data replication to minimize downtime.”

“Backend engineer with fintech/banking experience (e.g., Canara Bank) building secure Python/Flask microservices for financial reporting and unified data access. Strong in Postgres/SQLAlchemy performance optimization (including materialized views) and in productionizing ML services on AWS (Lambda/ECS/CloudWatch) with Docker, model registries, and blue-green deployments, plus multi-tenant isolation via JWT-based middleware.”

“QA automation engineer with Barclays digital banking experience who owned an end-to-end regression suite across UI, API, and database layers (Selenium/TestNG, REST Assured, SQL) and integrated it into CI/CD (Jenkins/GitLab). Known for preventing high-impact financial defects like duplicate transaction postings by adding backend SQL validations, negative/edge-case coverage, and converting production issues into automated regression tests; also strong in Cypress flake reduction using cy.intercept/cy.session and stable selectors.”

“LLM/agent workflow engineer with production experience at T-Mobile, focused on scalable agent architecture and robust real-time evaluation/monitoring pipelines. Partnered closely with marketing and product to automate customer engagement and other business workflows, translating AI capabilities into measurable KPI impact via dashboards and continuous performance tracking.”

“Full-stack engineer who has shipped and owned production analytics dashboards using Next.js App Router + TypeScript, combining server components for data-heavy pages with client components for interactive charts/filters. Also built a Temporal-orchestrated payment reconciliation workflow with versioning, idempotency, and exponential-backoff retries, and has hands-on Postgres query/index optimization using EXPLAIN ANALYZE.”

“Software engineer with experience at Goldman Sachs and Arizona State University’s Learning Engineering Institute, shipping production backend systems including a vendor equities invoice-generation service designed for extensibility across multiple vendors. Built Django REST + PostgreSQL backends with JWT auth and Pytest coverage, and delivered data-heavy, responsive Angular dashboards; also has exposure to AWS EC2 deployments and GitLab CI/CD automation.”

“Data engineer focused on building reliable, production-grade pipelines and external data collection systems on AWS (S3/Lambda/SQS/Glue/EMR) using PySpark/SQL, serving curated datasets to Snowflake/Redshift for finance and fraud teams. Has operated a large-scale crawler ingesting millions of records/day with anti-bot tactics, schema versioning/quarantine, and CloudWatch/Datadog monitoring, and also shipped a versioned REST API with caching and query optimization.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building reliable Python FastAPI services on Kubernetes and delivering AWS EKS + Terraform CI/CD with strong secrets isolation and rollback practices. Also built AWS Glue ETL pipelines into S3/Redshift with schema-evolution handling and data-quality controls, modernized legacy analytics into modular Python services with parallel-run parity validation, and has demonstrated SQL tuning impact (minutes to seconds) plus ownership of batch pipeline incidents end-to-end.”

“Software engineer/QA automation leader with Lowe’s experience owning automation quality strategy for a customer-facing platform supporting large contractor orders. Built TypeScript/React dashboards backed by Spring Boot microservices (MongoDB) and RabbitMQ async messaging, with strong CI/CD test automation and production monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana). Also created an internal automated test reporting dashboard that improved QA workflow through training-led adoption and iterative refinement.”