Vetted GitLab CI Professionals

“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.”

“Data engineer focused on reliable, scalable analytics pipelines and external data collection. Has owned end-to-end pipelines processing 5–10M records/day, serving Snowflake data marts to Power BI/Tableau, and reports ~99% reliability through strong validation/monitoring. Also shipped versioned REST APIs for curated data with query optimization and caching.”

Sreelekha Vuppala

Screened

Mid-level Data Scientist specializing in Generative AI, MLOps, and cloud data platforms

USA4y exp

“GenAI/ML engineer (CitiusTech) who has deployed production RAG systems for compliance/operations document Q&A, using Pinecone + FastAPI microservices on Kubernetes with strong monitoring and guardrails. Also built a GenAI-powered incident triage/routing solution in collaboration with non-technical stakeholders, achieving 35% faster response times and 40% fewer misclassified tickets, and has hands-on orchestration experience with Airflow and AutoSys.”

Prashant Salunke

Screened

Mid-Level Software Development Engineer specializing in full-stack and cloud-native systems

Chicago, IL4y exp

“Backend engineer who has shipped production LLM-powered features, including an AI-assisted developer tool on AWS (Spring Boot) and a blog platform capability using embeddings + Elasticsearch for semantic retrieval and LLM-generated summaries/recommendations. Demonstrates practical tradeoff management (quality/latency/cost), guardrails to reduce hallucinations, and evaluation-driven iteration using real user queries and observability via ELK.”

Deeresh Gajjala

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in Java/Spring Boot microservices and AWS payments systems

Dallas, TX6y exp

“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.”

Revanth Goli

Screened

Senior Data & Backend Engineer specializing in cloud data pipelines and LLM/RAG systems

Morrisville, NC6y exp

“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.”

“Data engineer who has owned end-to-end production pipelines processing a few million records/day, using Python/Airflow/SQL/PySpark with Snowflake serving to BI (Power BI). Built resilient external web data collection systems (anti-bot, schema-change detection, backfills) and shipped versioned REST APIs for internal consumers, improving pipeline success rates to 99% through monitoring, retries, and idempotent design.”

Ajay Desai

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and backend platforms

USA4y exp

“Built an AI-native legal research platform that automated analysis across 100,000+ dense legal documents, combining LLM workflows, async backend architecture, and conversational retrieval in production. Also brings cross-domain experience in investment-analysis agents and healthcare claims/billing systems, with a strong emphasis on reliability, deterministic orchestration, and safe handling of messy operational data.”

“Full-stack engineer with deep experience building enterprise compliance and certification systems at Paycom, including complex approval workflows, live migrations, and large-scale assignment processing. Particularly strong at turning ambiguous business rules into reliable backend workflow logic and at designing trustworthy GraphQL/AI-assisted user experiences backed by real-time system data.”

Sanket Mungikar

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in distributed backend and AI analytics platforms

California, USA4y exp

“Full-stack engineer at BigCommerce who combines customer-facing deployment ownership with hands-on AI/LLM systems work. Built and launched merchant analytics and predictive inventory workflows using React, TypeScript, FastAPI, Kafka, AWS, and RAG-style architectures, and has real production experience debugging non-deterministic AI issues caused by data pipeline freshness and event-ordering problems.”

“Platform/DevSecOps engineer who combines full-stack product ownership with practical LLM systems in production. They built a self-service secrets management portal that reduced DevOps bottlenecks while maintaining compliance, and shipped AI-powered deployment debugging and security-remediation workflows with strong guardrails, monitoring, and human-in-the-loop controls.”

“Built and owned an AI-powered real-time financial fraud detection and monitoring platform end-to-end, spanning product decisions, backend architecture, frontend dashboards, deployment, and production support. Their work scaled to 120M transactions/day and materially improved fraud detection accuracy from 78% to 94%, showing rare breadth across distributed systems, observability, and React-based operational analytics.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

Sri Chandana Topuri

Screened

Mid-level Java Full-Stack Developer specializing in Spring microservices and Angular

5y exp

“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.”

Arthi R

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and cloud-native microservices

Remote – Washington, D.C.5y exp

“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.”

Shruthi Nandakumar

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in FinTech and cloud-native microservices

St. Louis, MO5y exp

“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.”

Poorna Vishnu

Screened

Mid-level AI Engineer specializing in LLM workflows and agent-based systems

Texas City, TX4y exp

“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.”

Karan Javali

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FinTech and cloud-native web platforms

Salt Lake City, Utah5y exp

“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.”

“Platform/infrastructure engineer with hands-on ownership of Kubernetes, Terraform, VMware, and hybrid on-prem/AWS environments. Stands out for combining deep platform build/upgrade experience with strong incident response and reliability practices, including a Terraform redesign at H&R Block that reduced provisioning time by 40% and hybrid networking improvements that hardened Direct Connect failover.”