Vetted GitLab Professionals

Nikita Papenkov

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Engineer specializing in frontend, Web3, and data visualization

Russia7y exp

“Frontend engineer with hands-on ownership of a complex blockchain launchpad UI, including a solo refactor that unified Solana and Monad flows under one architecture. Their work emphasized feature-flag-driven multi-chain support, real-time data handling, and major bug reduction, with team feedback strong enough that they nearly received a promotion.”

“Backend-focused software engineer building distributed, event-driven Java/Spring Boot microservices with Kafka for low-latency, high-frequency processing. Has hands-on experience modernizing a legacy Java system into containerized microservices deployed on Kubernetes with GitHub Actions CI/CD, and has integrated retrieval-based AI components into production workflows; no ROS/robot hardware experience yet.”

“Backend-leaning full-stack engineer from Valcom who maintained Django/PostgreSQL services for mass-notification/paging servers used by education/commercial/government customers. Notable for hardening authentication and reliability (JWT refresh + rotation tokens, WebSockets/EventStream) and for modernizing a legacy Ext.js/PHP stack into a React + Django architecture with strong CI/testing and production incident ownership.”

“Unity game developer who built a context-sensitive movement and camera system for a grid-based dungeon crawler and used DOTween for key gameplay animations. Worked at Chimera Entertainment on Songs of Silence, contributing via bug fixes, working within an existing Photon Fusion protocol, and implementing a UI-heavy in-game lexicon; also leverages AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT) to accelerate editor/tooling and gameplay scripting.”

“ML/NLP engineer with hands-on experience building production systems for unstructured insurance claims and customer data linking. Delivered measurable impact at scale (millions of documents), combining transformer-based NLP, vector search (FAISS/Pinecone), and human-in-the-loop validation, and has strong production workflow/observability practices (Airflow, AWS Batch, Grafana/Prometheus).”

Swati Swati

Screened

Senior Data Scientist/Software Engineer specializing in ML systems and cloud DevOps

Florida, United States5y exp

“AI software engineer with experience spanning LLM/RAG production systems and regulated fintech infrastructure. Built an end-to-end natural-language-to-SQL analytics assistant (Weaviate + GPT-4 + Supabase) shipped as an API with 92% accuracy and major time savings for non-technical users, and also owned demand-forecasting and CI/CD/containerization improvements for a Bank of America core banking deployment at Infosys.”

Haritha Kuraparthi

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in cloud data engineering and analytics

West Haven, CT4y exp

“Software developer with hands-on experience owning customer-facing work end-to-end (requirements, implementation, testing, and feedback-driven iteration) using Python and React.js. Also described remodeling an internal legacy page/tool to improve performance and accuracy, and has exposure to microservices and RabbitMQ plus ETL-based system work.”

Soham Ravindra Lokhande

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in agentic automation and AI platforms

Washington, DC2y exp

“Backend-leaning founding/early engineer who built automation platforms end-to-end: FastAPI/Python services integrated with a Next.js/TypeScript frontend, including a production VNC streaming URL endpoint for cloud-instance desktop viewing. Also designed core Postgres user/workflow data models and built an agentic orchestration system with LangChain/LangGraph (sub-agents, validators, pause/resume), plus made scalability tradeoffs like S3 pre-signed uploads to keep microservices responsive.”

Nidhip Patel

Screened

Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in AI/ML and full-stack development

United States3y exp

“Backend Java engineer with strong platform/DevOps experience: modernized an insurance claims legacy monolith into DDD-aligned microservices, deployed containerized services on Kubernetes with Jenkins CI/CD and static analysis gates, and implemented GitOps using ArgoCD. Also led major AWS migration planning with dependency mapping and network monitoring to uncover hidden dependencies, and built Kafka-based real-time event streaming with schema-registry-driven evolution.”

“Full-stack Java developer from Cognizant who built a real-time transaction monitoring and tracking platform for operations and customer visibility. Stands out for combining Spring Boot, React/TypeScript, Kafka, and CI/CD tooling to ship near real-time dashboards, while also working directly with users to refine requirements and improve performance in high-volume transaction environments.”

“AI Backend Engineer in MetLife’s claims technology group who built and deployed a production LLM-based decision support system that helps claim adjusters quickly find relevant policy rules from long PDFs and historical notes. Designed it as multiple production-grade services with retrieval-first guardrails, continuous validation, and Airflow-orchestrated pipelines for ingestion, embeddings, and vector index updates to keep the system reliable as policies and data evolve.”

“Built and owned UPS tracking/reporting and operations workflow dashboards, delivering customer-facing APIs and real-time React/TypeScript UIs backed by .NET Core. Experienced in high-volume microservices using IBM MQ/Azure Service Bus with strong reliability patterns (idempotency, retries, DLQ) and Azure-based observability, plus performance tuning across frontend and SQL-backed services.”

“Backend/platform engineer who built real-time connected-vehicle telemetry analytics at Subaru, spanning Kafka streaming, Python/FastAPI ETL, and low-latency WebSocket delivery (minutes to <2s). Strong Kubernetes + GitOps practitioner across AWS EKS and Azure AKS (Helm, ArgoCD, Jenkins/GitLab) and has led major on-prem-to-cloud migrations for financial microservices using Terraform and AWS DMS with measurable cost and reliability gains.”

“LLM/GenAI engineer who built a production AI-powered credit risk policy summarization and compliance alerting platform at HCL Tech, focused on factual accuracy and auditability for a financial client. Implemented a multi-retriever LangChain RAG architecture with citations-only prompting, fallback agents, and human-in-the-loop legal review—cutting manual review time by 35% and scaling to 12 teams.”

“Built and launched “Language AI,” a Next.js/TypeScript app that clones a user’s voice (via ElevenLabs) to deliver language lessons in their own voice, using Supabase for auth/Postgres/storage and hosting backend on Render. Post-launch, identified ElevenLabs voice-clone limits after initial users and reworked the pipeline to store audio assets and delete clones to support more concurrent users; also added Google auth to improve adoption. Previously worked in a high-growth startup environment (Study Park) taking concepts from ideation to production.”

Nicholas Huang

Screened

Mid-level Full-Stack Developer specializing in FinTech web applications

Cincinnati, OH6y exp

“Front-end engineer experienced modernizing legacy React/TypeScript applications, including building a highly customized navigation system controlled by feature flags and documenting it for cross-team adoption. Demonstrates strong performance optimization skills (profiling, provider refactors, memoization) and deep debugging ability, including resolving UI jank traced to Reach Router’s accessibility-driven focus behavior.”

Branden Lee

Screened

Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in React/TypeScript and Spring/Go

6y exp

“Software engineer/SME who owned customer-facing features in a tanker planning/scheduling domain, spanning UI, database migrations, and REST APIs. Drove major performance improvements by shifting complex pairing logic from a React/TypeScript frontend into a backend BFF (cutting load time from ~3 minutes to ~30 seconds) and led cross-team event-driven integrations using RabbitMQ and hexagonal architecture. Also built an internal OpenLayers-based mapping library adopted across multiple apps via Nexus.”

Oliver Lawrence

Screened

Senior Unity Developer specializing in multiplayer gameplay and cross-platform systems

Wolverhampton, UK5y exp

“Senior gameplay/core systems Unity programmer with hyper-casual mobile experience (Neon Play with Voodoo analytics partnership) and shipped F2P engagement mechanics like battle passes and reward/store loops. Built an optimized networked physics replication layer in Unity (compression, batching, interpolation/prediction) leveraging Jobs/Burst for scale, and has collaborated closely with designers, audio (FMOD), and international art teams on projects including Southfield and the Gorillaz Kong project.”

“Frontend-leaning full-stack product engineer with experience in insurance and financial analytics, combining UI design, React/TypeScript implementation, and backend integration. Stands out for shipping data-heavy dashboards, real-time collaborative features, and early generative AI document-analysis workflows using Spring Boot, LangChain, and AWS Bedrock.”

“Backend-focused engineer who owned an end-to-end Python/Flask service at Viasat powering a 1000+ user internal React app, including API design, Postgres performance tuning (~50% faster), Dockerization, and CI/CD. Demonstrated strong problem-solving by building custom EDN parsing logic and has built near real-time AWS SQS/Lambda pipelines with DLQs and autoscaling patterns; currently ramping on Kubernetes/GitOps (ArgoCD).”

“Software engineer with experience at Wipro Technologies and Wells Fargo building React-based SPAs, reusable component libraries, and developer documentation. Demonstrated strong performance engineering (React.memo, list virtualization, code splitting) with reported >50% rendering-time improvement, plus hands-on production support by diagnosing API outages via monitoring/logs and implementing traffic/server fixes. Comfortable leading workstreams in fast-changing environments using Kanban and tight stakeholder feedback loops.”

“Full-stack developer with strong cloud/on-prem focus (AWS, VPC networking) who has improved production reliability by bringing manually created IAM/security group resources under Terraform and standardizing environments. Demonstrated end-to-end troubleshooting across app + infrastructure + networking (traffic capture revealed proxy response truncation) and delivered Python-based monitoring/reporting enhancements that improved ops visibility and turnaround.”

“Software/ML engineer who built a production automated job-finding and cold-email personalization system for Fortune 500 outreach, using JobSpy for dynamic scraping, LangChain orchestration, and LLM+vector DB semantic search with grounding/relevance metrics and guardrails. Also delivered a predictive investment analytics platform for financial advisors, communicating results via Tableau dashboards and portfolio KPIs like Sharpe ratio and drawdowns.”

“Backend/platform engineer with State Farm experience modernizing and scaling an enterprise consolidated payment data platform and event-driven pipelines. Built cloud-native payment architecture (ECS->EKS) handling millions of financial transactions/day and high-volume telemetry (~100M events/day), with strong schema governance (Avro + schema registry) and production operations/incident mitigation driven by observability.”