Vetted GitLab Professionals

“Backend engineer with hands-on experience building Python/Flask microservices using PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy, JWT auth, Docker, and GitHub Actions CI/CD. Strong in performance and scalability work—migrated heavy processing to Celery/Redis, tuned queries with EXPLAIN ANALYZE and indexing, and delivered 50%+ API latency reduction. Also integrates AI workflows (OpenAI APIs) with batching/caching/fallbacks and has implemented multi-tenant data isolation patterns.”

Paul Liu

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native backend and web/mobile apps

Seattle, WA8y exp

“Backend engineer with Tesla experience building Python-based, serverless microservices for a supply chain portal, including a MongoDB-backed tracking/logging system and a reconciler Lambda to manage retries and failures. Has hands-on Kubernetes (EKS) and GitOps (Argo CD) experience, plus real-time Kafka pipelines for fleet/IoT telemetry and proxy-based migrations from monolith systems to AWS databases.”

Kevin Allen

Screened

Senior AI/ML Engineer specializing in conversational and generative AI

Austin, TX12y exp

“Built and productionized an LLM-based support assistant end-to-end, including RAG, APIs, monitoring, guardrails, and agent feedback loops. Stands out for translating GenAI prototypes into reliable production systems with structured evaluation, safety controls, and reusable Python infrastructure that improved both support quality and engineering velocity.”

“Backend/distributed-systems engineer with Uber experience building real-time telemetry and safety signal pipelines. Strong in Kafka-based event-driven architectures, low-latency processing under peak load, and production reliability via monitoring, retries, and fallback logic; has Docker/Kubernetes and CI/CD deployment experience.”

“Infrastructure/platform engineer with hands-on experience running production and non-production Amazon EKS clusters, including upgrade processes and reliability monitoring via Prometheus/Grafana. Also administered on-prem VMware vSphere/vCloud Director and handled a significant vSwitch/VLAN outage, and uses Terraform + Terragrunt with S3 remote state and release-based drift detection across dev/stage/prod.”

“Data engineer at Microsoft who owned an end-to-end subscription analytics platform processing 7TB+ daily across 40+ pipelines, combining ADF batch ingestion with Kafka/Spark streaming and rigorous Great Expectations quality gates. Built a Fabric-based self-service ingestion platform with CI/CD and observability, plus a Databricks feature store serving near-real-time ML inference with Delta Lake reliability and versioning.”

Sri Charan Reddy Mallu

Screened

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

Redwood City, CA5y exp

“Full-stack engineer with experience across Magna, C3.ai, and Amazon, building GenAI-enabled products and finance transaction systems. Has shipped Next.js (App Router) + TypeScript features backed by Go/Python RAG pipelines, and emphasizes production quality via load testing, Selenium regression coverage, LLM-aware integration testing, and Azure observability. Also built LangGraph-orchestrated multi-step content generation workflows with robust retry/idempotency strategies.”

“Built a production RAG-based natural-language-to-SQL system at Global Atlantic to replace slow, expensive manual analytics ticket workflows, focusing heavily on retrieval quality and measurable evaluation (200-question ground-truth set; recall@5 improved 0.65→0.78 via semantic chunking). Also built a custom MCP-style agent orchestrator for a personal project (arxiv-ai) to improve flexibility and Langfuse-aligned observability, and has hands-on experience with LangGraph, CrewAI, and n8n.”

“Senior engineering leader in the Bay Area with experience spanning VMware, Hortonworks/Cloudera, Barracuda, and Palo Alto Networks, including leading open-source work (Apache Knox) and architecting large-scale security platforms. Has driven disaster recovery and cloud security products, designed Python microservices for Microsoft 365 security, and scaled teams (3x) while formalizing enterprise readiness practices with automated documentation using Notebook LLM.”

“Backend/data engineer with Optum healthcare claims domain experience building high-reliability Python microservices (FastAPI/Kafka/Postgres) and AWS data platforms (EKS, Glue, Redshift). Demonstrated strong production ownership: fixed duplicate Kafka processing via transactional outbox/idempotency, scaled to millions of daily events, and delivered major SQL performance gains (40+ min to <5 min, ~60% CPU reduction). Seeking remote-only work; targets $130k base.”

Raghu Prabhudeva

Screened

Staff Embedded/Automotive Systems Architect specializing in IVI, ADAS, and digital cockpit platforms

USA

“Robotics-adjacent software engineer with hands-on ROS 2 experience building and integrating sensor nodes (IMU, GNSS, wheel encoder) and working with distributed pub/sub concepts via ROS IDL and DDS. Also has Gazebo exposure through Udacity coursework and uses Docker as a core development/deployment tool, with related experience in automotive camera-based solutions.”