Vetted GitLab Professionals

“AI/ML engineer with healthcare domain depth who led a HIPAA-compliant, production LLM system at McKesson to automate clinical document understanding—extracting entities, summarizing provider notes, and supporting authorization decisions. Hands-on across Spark/Python ETL, Hugging Face + LoRA/QLoRA fine-tuning, RAG, and cloud-native MLOps (Airflow/Kubernetes/Step Functions, MLflow, blue-green on EKS/GKE), with explicit work on PHI handling and hallucination reduction.”

“Backend engineer who has delivered large, measurable performance wins (10x throughput, 67% latency reduction) by combining Flask microservices, Redis caching, and AWS autoscaling/observability. Has hands-on depth in SQLAlchemy/Postgres optimization and production scaling pitfalls (cache consistency, connection exhaustion), plus experience deploying real-time ML inference (XGBoost) on AWS Lambda and building secure multi-tenant Kubernetes isolation.”

“Infrastructure/DevOps engineer (Vidmob) focused on AWS + containers, owning GitLab CI/CD and Terraform-managed environments. Led a high-impact CI incident by correlating runner queue time, Docker pull latency, and NAT egress; implemented ECR pull-through caching and VPC endpoints to restore performance and then standardized the fix in Terraform for future scale-ups.”

“QA professional from enterprise SaaS/cloud environments (Exeter; previously Boeing programs) with strong UI and end-to-end workflow testing experience. Known for rigorous defect investigation and validation across UI/API/DB layers (including SQL checks) and disciplined tooling/workflow in Jira/Azure DevOps/ALM Octane; has QA lead experience supporting release readiness and go/no-go decisions. No professional game studio/AAA shipping experience yet, but experience maps to complex, high-pressure release cycles.”

“Backend/platform engineer who has owned end-to-end production systems in financial/claims domains, including a transaction analytics microservice platform processing ~10M daily operations and cutting latency from ~150ms to <70ms. Also productionized an LLM-powered monitoring/alerting capability (Llama 3 + FastAPI) with prompt design, guardrails, and production evaluation, and led monolith-to-microservices modernization on AWS using feature flags and parallel runs.”

Jaideep bommidi

Screened

Senior ML Engineer & Data Scientist specializing in LLM agents, retrieval/ranking, and MLOps

Denton, TX8y exp

“Machine Learning Engineer currently at Webster Bank building an enterprise-scale LLM agent for Temenos Journey Manager/Maestro, using RAG-style multi-stage retrieval with FAISS/Pinecone, hybrid dense+sparse search, and LoRA fine-tuning optimized via NDCG/MAP and A/B testing. Previously handled messy incident/telemetry data at Deuta Werke GmbH with deterministic + fuzzy entity resolution, and has strong production data engineering experience across Spark/Hadoop and Python ETL systems.”

Bryan West

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in AI, cloud infrastructure, and full-stack development

Chantilly, VA17y exp

“ML/NLP engineer who built a production system that converts large-scale unstructured text into a connected, searchable knowledge base using spaCy + Sentence Transformers/FAISS and a Neo4j knowledge graph, with BERTopic and XGBoost for organization/labeling. Strong focus on production-grade Python workflows (FastAPI/Celery, Pydantic validation, Docker, AWS ECS/Lambda) and robust entity resolution with measurable precision/recall and human review for low-confidence matches.”

Hetvi Shah

Screened

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Developer specializing in React/Angular and Node.js

Toronto, Ontario6y exp

“Frontend lead who owned architecture and quality for TELUS’s Next Generation Sales Platform, building a modular React+TypeScript experience that scaled across wireline/wireless products and channels. Experienced in hardening UIs against unreliable backend integrations (API abstraction, retries/fallbacks, caching, logging) and delivering real-time dashboards via WebSockets, with strong CI/CD testing and blue-green release practices for high-stakes launches like Black Friday.”

“Data/streaming engineer in capital markets who led an end-to-end trade settlement data product (Kafka→MongoDB→data lake) with rigorous data-quality logic and ~$175K first-year operational impact. Also built a low-latency Go-based CME market data engine feeding SOFR curve generation, using MSK on EKS with performance tuning (idempotency, compression, partitioning) to achieve sub-100ms delivery.”

MOUNIKA SAI MEKALA

Screened

Junior Data Analyst specializing in financial and operational analytics

Kansas, USA3y exp

“Analytics professional with experience at KPMG turning messy operational and financial data from SQL Server and AWS S3 into clean reporting datasets and automated Python workflows. They combine SQL, Python, Power BI, and experimentation methods to deliver stakeholder-aligned KPI dashboards and marketing performance insights with a strong focus on data integrity and reproducibility.”

Jessy Kattupalli

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Java Developer specializing in enterprise web applications

West Haven, CT4y exp

“Backend/full-stack engineer with hands-on experience building enterprise-scale real-time log analysis platforms using Spring Boot, Kafka, React, and observability tooling. Stands out for using AI tools heavily but responsibly—treating them as accelerators while relying on rigorous testing, architectural review, retry/DLQ patterns, and monitoring to ensure production reliability.”

“Database/platform engineer with hands-on ownership of large-scale GCP data systems in financial services, including customer-facing SaaS investment products with strict SLAs. Stands out for leading an on-prem-to-GCP modernization using Spanner, AlloyDB, Bigtable, and BigQuery, and for building Terraform/Python automation that cut provisioning time by ~70% while improving reliability and self-service.”

“Full-stack/product-minded engineer with strong distributed systems depth, spanning Spring Boot/Kafka microservices, Kubernetes observability, and large-scale React/TypeScript frontends. Particularly compelling for teams building real-time operational products: they describe owning payment/inventory services, designing telemetry dashboards for 150+ services, and helping move claims tracking from polling to event-driven architecture.”

“Backend engineer with TaskRabbit experience building and operating payment/booking services in Python/Django on AWS (ECS + Lambda) with Kafka/SQS eventing. Demonstrates strong production reliability and incident ownership in high-stakes payment flows (idempotency, strict timeouts, retries, monitoring/alerting) plus data/ETL work in AWS Glue and measurable SQL performance wins.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across GCP and AWS: built FastAPI microservices on Cloud Run and delivered AWS Lambda + ECS Fargate systems with Terraform/GitHub Actions. Strong in data engineering (Glue/Spark, S3/Redshift) and modernization (SAS to Python/SQL), with proven reliability and incident ownership—including cutting a 20+ minute reporting query to under 2 minutes.”

“Full-stack engineer who built an internal user-activity tracking and reporting system end-to-end using React/TypeScript, Node/Express, and Postgres, deployed on AWS (EC2/ALB, S3/CloudFront) with CloudWatch observability. Emphasizes reliability and data correctness via idempotent ingestion, retries with exponential backoff, backfills/reconciliation, and performance tuning as data scales, and has experience shipping quickly in ambiguous early-stage startup conditions.”

“AI/LLM engineer who built a production content-generation system for nursing education, combining multimodal RAG over proprietary PDFs (including images) with structured Cosmos DB data and external sources. Strong focus on production reliability—prompt-chaining with LangChain, validation/guardrails, and Azure-based monitoring/observability—plus experience designing Azure AI agents with tool integrations like Bing Search.”

“Full-stack engineer who built a policy management and notifications platform end-to-end: Java/Spring Boot microservices with PostgreSQL plus a React/Redux UI, deployed on AWS with Docker and Jenkins CI/CD. Demonstrates strong real-world scaling and reliability practices (Redis caching, Kafka, query/index tuning, ACID transactions, locking, and idempotent processing) to handle high-volume concurrent workloads.”

“Backend-focused Python/Flask engineer with strong performance and scalability experience across PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy optimization, caching, and async processing. Has implemented multi-tenant data isolation (schema/db per tenant with RBAC and encryption) and integrated TensorFlow-based ML inference behind a Flask REST API using Redis caching, batching, and async execution; reports measurable wins like cutting endpoints from 6–8s to ~2s and increasing throughput 3–4x via Celery queues.”

“LLM/GenAI engineer with US Bank experience building a production financial-document intelligence platform using LangChain/LangGraph, GPT-4, and Amazon OpenSearch. Delivered a RAG-based assistant for compliance/audit teams with grounded, cited answers, focusing on reducing hallucinations and latency, and deployed securely on AWS (SageMaker/EKS) with CI/CD and evaluation tooling (LangSmith, RAGAS).”

“At HPE, led and deployed an enterprise-grade LLM document intelligence platform for an insurance client, automating extraction from highly variable PDFs/scans/emails and raising field accuracy from 74% to 93%. Built a LangChain/Pinecone/OpenSearch RAG framework to cut hallucinations by 37% and operationalized LangSmith evals in CI, driving a 41% triage accuracy lift and >33% fewer incorrect resolutions while partnering closely with claims operations via HITL workflows.”

“Backend/data engineer focused on AWS-based, event-driven systems—building Golang microservices and serverless pipelines with strong data validation, observability (CloudWatch/Splunk/New Relic), and reliability patterns (retries/DLQs). Has also operated distributed web scraping/data collection with schema versioning and Step Functions backfills, and ships well-documented, versioned REST/WebSocket APIs for internal and external consumers.”

Soham Patil

Screened

Junior Cloud & AI/ML Engineer specializing in AWS GovCloud and MLOps

Washington, DC2y exp

“Robotics software engineer with hands-on ROS 2 autonomy experience on an obstacle-avoiding quadrotor (ROS 2 + Gazebo + PX4 + Nav2/SLAM), including custom work to extend Nav2 into a 3D aerial domain and output PX4 trajectory setpoints. Also built cost-saving ML infrastructure (PostgreSQL + AWS data-cleaning pipeline) and improved object detection accuracy by 40% using CUDA/PyTorch, with strong containerization and CI/CD practices (Docker + Kubernetes, aggressive version pinning) to prevent environment drift.”