Vetted GitLab CI Professionals

“Backend developer (recent co-op at Ticker) building and architecting financial backend services with near real-time data needs, including third-party API integrations. Improved performance and reliability via Redis caching (tiered refresh + TTL) and PostgreSQL query tuning (EXPLAIN ANALYZE + composite indexes), and has exposure to AI-agent/RAG concepts for validating stock-market information against trusted sources.”

Muhammad Waqas Ashraf

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI, cloud infrastructure, and DevOps

Lahore, Pakistan7y exp

“Frontend engineer focused on building and scaling data-heavy, real-time dashboards with React/Next.js/TypeScript. Emphasizes performance and reliability at scale through modular architecture, centralized state (Zustand/Redux), strict API contracts, automated testing, and production monitoring (Grafana/CloudWatch), and has experience shipping quickly with feature-flagged rollouts and rapid iteration from user feedback.”

“New grad focused on AI systems and agent-based development, with hands-on experience using LLMs as a coding partner and building RAG-based document processing workflows. Stands out for practical experimentation with semantic chunking, retrieval optimization, and multi-agent architectures, including redesigning a RAG workflow by adding a reasoning agent to improve response accuracy and reliability.”

Chukwunonso Azuka

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in secure backend systems and re-engineering

Remote16y exp

“Founder of LexaBooks, an active bootstrapped startup being built with scalability, recurring revenue, and investor readiness in mind. Participated in the 2024 Startup Wise Guys accelerator and has continued training across SaaS, AI, and fintech, giving them a strong understanding of early-stage growth and venture dynamics.”

“Paid media performance marketer managing $50K+/month spend across Meta and Google for eCommerce and lead-gen, with a strong creative-testing orientation (UGC/video vs static) that produced ~25–30% lower CPA and ~35% higher ROAS when scaled. Builds full-funnel systems across Meta/TikTok (demand gen) and Google Search/PMax (high-intent capture), using marginal ROAS/CPA, frequency-based fatigue signals, and statistically grounded testing to scale or cut campaigns.”

“Software engineer experienced delivering customer-facing, real-time industrial monitoring dashboards (motors/shafts/turbines) by partnering directly with end users to refine charts, alerts, and performance. Strong in API/platform integrations and production troubleshooting—uses feature flags, logging, validation/mapping, containerization, and performance testing to keep systems stable while iterating quickly.”

“DevOps engineer (State Farm) with hands-on ownership of Python backend services and data pipelines, deploying microservices and workers on Kubernetes using GitOps (Argo CD). Has led complex cloud-to-on-prem/hybrid migrations with staged cutovers and rollback planning, and built Kafka-based real-time streaming pipelines with schema governance, autoscaling, and strong observability.”

Anudeep Reddy Veerla

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices

Boston, MA3y exp

“Built and shipped both a solo real-time multiplayer Spades game (TypeScript monorepo with shared client/server engine) and a production internal LLM-powered document Q&A tool for a SaaS company. Demonstrates strong RAG pipeline design (Pinecone + embeddings + reranking), rigorous eval/regression practices, and pragmatic data ingestion/observability work across Confluence, Notion, and messy PDFs/OCR—backed by clear metric improvements (P@1 61%→78%, escalations 40%→22%).”

Ronit Shetty

Screened

Entry-level Robotics Engineer specializing in SLAM, sensor fusion, and embedded avionics

Boston, MA1y exp

“Robotics software engineer focused on perception/SLAM and systems integration, recently built a quasi-dynamic mapping pipeline to track and reconstruct articulated objects (e.g., drawers) from RGB video using SAM2, COLMAP SfM, and 3D Gaussian Splatting. Also has strong ROS2 sensor-pipeline experience (custom messages, MCAP rosbag deserialization, tf2) and demonstrated real-time performance tuning by accelerating an ICP-based LiDAR SLAM component ~30x (from ~3s to <100ms per frame).”

Pranav Gaikwad

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native platforms and supply chain systems

Atlanta, GA8y exp

“Backend and platform engineering leader with deep supply chain and warehouse systems experience, including building a company-wide MDM platform across five ERP systems and supporting a 72-microservice warehouse execution environment. Particularly compelling for AI-forward logistics roles: currently pursuing an AI-focused PhD, has published supply chain AI research, and holds a utility patent for AI-driven predictive analysis.”

“Co-founder at Skarbe who built “Oskar,” an autonomous sales agent that handles inbound email, lead qualification, and automated follow-ups using a multi-agent architecture (OpenAI Agents SDK) with a human-in-the-loop learning phase for reliability. Also owned scaling and reliability of Gmail/Outlook sync, including a Node.js-to-Rails migration and incident response during a Product Hunt launch that generated hundreds of signups and a ~2M-email queue.”

“QA automation engineer with hands-on ownership of both UI and API test automation, including building an API test module from scratch to validate all Swagger-exposed endpoints with positive/negative coverage and pairwise optimization. Experienced stabilizing flaky Cypress tests through improved selectors (data-cy) and API-call synchronization, and integrating tiered test suites into GitLab CI with merge/release gates plus JUnit/HTML reporting and Slack notifications.”

“Cloud/infrastructure engineer with strong production operations background across AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes, supporting 30+ enterprise workloads for ~40,000 users. Demonstrated incident leadership (hybrid AKS-to-AWS routing outage) with a reported 60% MTTR reduction, plus hands-on CI/CD (Jenkins) and Terraform-based IaC for AWS (VPC/EC2/EKS). Lacks direct IBM Power/AIX/PowerHA experience but emphasizes transferable ops and troubleshooting skills.”

Hammad Ur Rahman

Screened

Senior DevOps Engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure and CI/CD

Boston, Massachusetts11y exp

“IBM Power/AIX engineer who has owned a 150+ LPAR AIX 7.x estate with VIOS/HMC/vHMC and PowerHA in production, including real outage and failover recoveries. Also brings modern DevOps/IaC experience—built Jenkins pipelines deploying to AKS and implemented Terraform on AWS with remote state, locking, and drift management.”

Mrudula Devaguptapu

Screened

Mid-Level Software/AI Engineer specializing in backend systems, data pipelines, and RAG automation

United States3y exp

“Backend engineer with experience modernizing high-traffic subscription and payment systems (TCS) by moving to event-driven Spring Boot microservices with Kafka, adding idempotency/state management to eliminate duplicate processing. Built and scaled FastAPI services for AI automation workflows (360DMMC) with versioned contracts, JWT security, and strong observability, and has led live refactors using feature flags, parallel runs, and data reconciliation.”

“Full-stack product engineer with strong web3/blockchain experience, having built invoicing/tokenization, transaction explorer, and no-code workflow products across React, Node.js/serverless, and SQL. Stands out for combining deep technical execution with product thinking—improving onboarding completion by ~40%, shipping quickly under ambiguity, and creating reusable platform primitives for auditability and multi-tenant customization.”

Shalini Jada

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in Applied AI

Bridgeport, CT4y exp

“Full-stack AI engineer focused on operational and healthcare analytics use cases, with hands-on experience building React/TypeScript frontends and Node/FastAPI/Flask backends for agentic systems. Stands out for combining LLM orchestration, retrieval grounding, and human-in-the-loop controls with measurable business impact, including a fraud detection dashboard that achieved 92% accuracy and cut manual review time by 85%.”

“Backend engineer experienced in evolving high-scale legacy on-prem systems into cloud-native, event-driven microservices on AWS/Kubernetes (noted peak traffic ~1.5M QPS). Strong focus on reliability engineering and operational excellence—SLO-driven observability, GitOps/canary rollouts, chaos testing, and preventing cascading failures (e.g., retry-storm mitigation).”

“Unity gameplay engineer with AAA experience who built a highly configurable weather/day-night system (clouds/rain/sun-moon/stars) that influenced core gameplay decisions (vehicles, time-of-day, farming/animal needs). Also has hands-on multiplayer experience with Photon Fusion (including client-backend communication and physics sync troubleshooting) and has set up CI/CD and build pipelines.”

Anita Bhagashetti

Screened

Mid-Level Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems and cloud microservices

3y exp

“Built and productionized a RAG-based semantic search system for video-derived data, focusing on measurable success metrics (p95 latency, reliability, cost/request) and strong observability (prompt versions, retrieved docs, tool calls, token usage). Experienced in diagnosing real-time issues in LLM/agentic workflows and in supporting go-to-market efforts through tailored technical demos, rapid POCs, and post-close onboarding.”

Rzwan Aziz

Screened

Senior Infrastructure Engineer and Linux System Administrator specializing in hybrid data centers

Fremont, CA11y exp

“Infrastructure/lab engineering professional who builds and troubleshoots production-grade LLM/agentic automation (n8n + MCP) with strong security isolation and human-in-the-loop CI/CD tied to Jira/PR workflows. Also partnered with business units at GlobalLogic to enable customer adoption by standing up and tuning Big Data PoC environments (Cisco UCS + Cloudera Hadoop) for high-confidence demos.”