Vetted GitLab CI Professionals

“AI/back-end engineer at Canon who helped build and operate an internal production LLM platform that acts as a secure middle layer between users and models, defending against jailbreaks/prompt injection while enabling RAG, memory, and grounded responses over company data. Experienced with LangChain/LangGraph orchestration, vector DB retrieval, and reliability practices (testing, monitoring, adversarial prompts) to run high-throughput, low-latency AI workflows in production.”

Iangolana Riantsoa RAMELSON

Screened ReferencesStrong rec.

Mid-level Full-Stack JavaScript Developer specializing in React, Next.js, and TypeScript

Madagascar, Madagascar5y exp

“Frontend engineer who led end-to-end delivery and scaling of an internal HR product (Easy Time), owning architecture decisions (React/TypeScript, Redux Toolkit, Tailwind/shadcn). Experienced building complex dashboard UIs with advanced filters and real-time interactions, collaborating directly with design (Figma) and shipping quickly via incremental delivery and GitLab CI-driven deployments.”

“Backend engineer focused on reliability and production operations, with hands-on experience implementing an outbox pattern to keep database updates and downstream events consistent. They also described diagnosing transaction-related latency under heavy client traffic and using monitoring data to validate performance improvements, showing a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to scaling integrations.”

“Frontend engineer who led Curion’s end-to-end UI architecture for a real-time meetings/elections product, emphasizing scalability, testing, and CI/CD. Has built complex React+TypeScript dashboards (Redux) and improved a Flutter codebase with DDD and dependency injection, enabling smoother third-party swaps like Zoom to LiveKit and rapid delivery of Brazil-specific payment methods (PIX/Boleto).”

Ernest Dejda

Screened

Senior Unity Developer specializing in XR (VR/AR) and tools/pipeline engineering

Warsaw, Poland6y exp

“Unity game developer with AR RPG experience who owned a flexible mission/scenario system and created tooling to dramatically speed up mission testing by skipping steps while maintaining dependent dialogs/NPC/item state. Currently in an R&D team building AI-enabled developer productivity tools, including an in-house CI code review bot, and regularly uses LLM workflows (ChatGPT/Gemini) integrated into Rider.”

“Frontend-leaning full-stack engineer who discusses building production React features integrated with backend APIs, Redux, and Algolia search. Shows strong awareness of maintainability and release safety through TypeScript modeling, feature flags, Sidekiq for async processing, and post-launch monitoring of traffic and pod memory.”

Yatin Rajkumar Kalra

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud-native AI and Healthcare IT

Remote6y exp

“Built AIO, a 7-agent system that automatically fixes failed GitLab CI/CD pipelines in under 60 seconds using Redis queues, typed TypeScript contracts, and strong observability. Heavy AI user who still applies rigorous human review for logic, security, scalability, and code quality, and has made deliberate architectural choices rather than relying blindly on frameworks.”

“Fullstack engineer who independently built and shipped an internal sales proposal platform end-to-end, translating undocumented leadership knowledge into a scalable workflow with centralized pricing, PDF generation, testing, and AWS deployment. Also has TypeScript experience across React, React Native, Node, and PostgreSQL on a deals platform, with strong evidence of hands-on product building in ambiguous environments.”

“Frontend engineer who has led customer-facing React + TypeScript products end-to-end, building complex dashboards with robust async state patterns (caching, deduping, cancellation, optimistic updates) and strong quality practices (TypeScript standards, layered testing, production monitoring). Experienced modernizing inherited codebases through modularization and performance work (code splitting/memoization) while aligning stakeholders and shipping safely via feature flags and staged rollouts.”

“Full-stack engineer from Clairvoyant who led end-to-end delivery of a cloud-native, event-driven platform: Spring Boot microservices + Kafka real-time streams with an Angular UI, migrated and containerized on AWS, and automated CI/CD with Jenkins/Maven/Git. Demonstrates depth in distributed consistency challenges (partitioning, consumer lag/duplicates) and database performance tuning across SQL/NoSQL under heavy workloads.”

“Built and shipped production AI search and RAG features for a university portal, including an embeddings-based semantic search layer and a documentation-grounded assistant with citations and anti-hallucination prompting. Also developed scalable, reliable data pipelines integrating Google Ads/GA4/Meta APIs for automated reporting, with strong focus on evaluation loops and retrieval quality improvements (hybrid search, chunking, query-log driven iteration).”

Ian Li

Screened

Senior Test Automation Engineer specializing in mobile UI/API automation and CI/CD

7y exp

“QA automation engineer (Tencent experience) who extended Android Monkey testing to dramatically increase activity coverage (~300%) and cut runtime from 8 hours to ~1 hour per app. Strong in Cypress/JS test architecture and CI/CD gating (GitLab + Kubernetes parallel runs), and has a track record of reproducing and documenting high-impact reliability issues (e.g., silent failures in a cloud-native mobile automation platform under network loss).”

“Built and owned a production-grade RAG/LLM support automation system on AWS using GPT-4, Pinecone, FastAPI, and Redis, taking it from initial experimentation through deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement. Their work reduced support workload and ticket volume by about 40%, improved CSAT and self-service resolution, and they also created shared Python/LLM infrastructure that accelerated other teams' delivery from weeks to days.”

“Early major technical hire who helped build fintech startup Ugami from MVP to near Series A, while supporting bridge round and Series A fundraising with technical materials for leadership. Also grew from intern to lead engineer at a venture-backed product shop, giving him firsthand exposure to investor expectations, startup incubation, and practical AI opportunities with tight scope and strong unit economics.”

“Candidate is actively using AI-assisted development tools, including MCP server integrations with Copilot, to generate boilerplate test scripts, validate code standards, and handle package updates. They also have hands-on experience choosing different agents based on task requirements and serving as an admin for AI tool access.”

“Founding frontend developer for StockEdge, a cross-platform stock market analytics SaaS, where they owned UI, branding, frontend architecture, and deployment across web, Android, and iOS. Most compellingly, they helped take the product from 0 to 1 million unique users and 10,000 paid subscribers while building data-heavy, near-real-time financial experiences in React and TypeScript.”

Furqan Munir

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack MERN Engineer specializing in AI-integrated web platforms

Lahore, Pakistan4y exp

“Early-stage startup engineer who operated with little structure, worked directly with clients, and helped turn Deloitte and Informatica into permanent clients. More recently, they built an AI-enabled HVAC project bidding and estimation platform using FastAPI, LangChain, React, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL, including prompt tuning and UAT-driven improvements.”

“Game QA professional with AAA open-world shipping experience, owning high-impact quality risks like save-data corruption, progression blockers, performance drops, and multiplayer desync. Demonstrates strong systems thinking and exploit prevention (e.g., reproduced and helped fix a reward-duplication race condition using network interruption + rapid input), with disciplined JIRA/TestRail workflows and evidence-driven bug reporting.”

Srikar Tharala

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and RAG systems

Remote, USA4y exp

“Currently at ProShare and reports building an AI/LLM-powered system deployed to production, aimed at helping with status-related difficulties and reducing misunderstandings across transactions. Also cites prior collaboration at Porsche with marketing teams, focusing on translating marketing goals into technical requirements and communicating solutions clearly to non-technical stakeholders.”