Vetted GitLab Professionals

Preet Talati

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Junior Full-Stack Developer specializing in .NET Core and React

2y exp

“Full-stack engineer who has shipped end-to-end, customer-facing features in an education/student-population context, including an authorized incident-reporting workflow with RBAC and a PostgreSQL-backed data model. Has 0→1 React+TypeScript/Redux product experience (CTO at Jiffur) and hands-on production operations with CI/CD (Azure Pipelines/GitHub Actions), including resolving a real CPU-saturation outage via operational mitigation and scaling changes.”

“Frontend engineer (Capgemini experience) who has led products end-to-end and improved existing codebases for scalability and performance. Built complex React + TypeScript dashboards with real-time, multi-API data and stabilized them via centralized data handling, strict typing/validation, and performance techniques like debouncing/memoization. Emphasizes practical standards, incremental refactoring, and tight collaboration with design/product and QA to ship reliably under deadlines.”

“AI/LLM engineer who has shipped production systems end-to-end, including a note-taking product (Notey) combining audio/image capture, ASR, summarization, and a semantic chat agent over past notes. Also has applied ML experience in healthcare, collaborating directly with doctors to validate an EEG seizure-detection pipeline, and uses Kubernetes to optimize GPU usage for LLM training.”

Alireza Razinejad

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Senior Frontend Architect specializing in Angular, React, and FinTech web platforms

Yerevan, Armenia11y exp

“Fullstack engineer who has personally architected and implemented entire systems, including a clinic patient management platform and multi-tenant product capabilities. Stands out for combining domain-driven design with hexagonal architecture to keep fast-changing products maintainable, and for shipping customer-facing improvements that increased user satisfaction and helped drive revenue growth.”

Anand Gupta

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Senior Unity Engineer specializing in game development and simulation systems

India11y exp

“Unity/C# gameplay engineer who led development on Fantasti League 2.0, a real-time virtual sports platform, building a data-driven pipeline that connected backend results to 3D visualization and overlays. Brings hands-on experience in mobile optimization, reusable input systems, multiplayer with Photon, and engineering process improvements like CI/CD, testing, and QA analytics.”

“Backend engineer at Esurgi focused on real-time clinical workflow systems, improving API reliability, performance, and security. Has hands-on experience with FastAPI/Pydantic, JWT/RBAC and row-level data isolation, plus Kafka-based real-time processing—including fixing duplicate-processing edge cases via idempotency and offset management and rolling out refactors safely with feature flags and staged deployments.”

“LLM/AI practitioner focused on productionizing LLM assistants for customers, with emphasis on reliability, security, and data privacy (RAG architecture, guardrails, RBAC, data masking, monitoring and automated evals). Experienced in hands-on developer workshops and in partnering with sales to run tailored demos/pilots that drive broad customer adoption.”

“Backend-focused Python engineer who owned high-traffic internal services end-to-end (FastAPI/Django) including REST/GraphQL APIs, PostgreSQL optimization, async task processing via SQS, and full CI/CD. Strong Kubernetes-on-EKS and GitOps (ArgoCD + Helm) experience, plus Kafka real-time streaming work and phased cloud-to-on-prem migration support.”

Blessing Alfred

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Senior Frontend & Mobile Engineer specializing in React, Vue, and TypeScript

Lagos, Nigeria5y exp

“Frontend engineer who has led end-to-end builds of both e-learning and e-commerce platforms in Next.js/React + TypeScript, with a strong focus on scalable component architecture, pragmatic state management (Redux/Zustand), and quality enforcement (linting, conventions, Cypress). Notably pivoted from NextAuth to a custom server-auth flow to support backend-introduced 2FA, and has experience executing fast hotfix rollouts including urgent third-party provider switches.”

Jonathan Grebe

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Mid-level Robotics Software Engineer specializing in ROS, C++ and embedded Linux

Ottawa, Canada7y exp

“Robotics software lead at Icor who grew from intern to owning the end-to-end software lifecycle for a mobile manipulator platform deployed to 300+ customers globally. Deep hands-on ROS2/MoveIt2 and navigation-stack integration (URDF/TF, sensors, behavior engine) plus production infrastructure (CI/CD, OTA, field OS upgrades) and real-world performance tuning for motion planning in EOD multi-robot environments.”

Haytham Nasri

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Software Engineering Manager specializing in cloud-native mobility and enterprise Java

Amsterdam, The Netherlands15y exp

“Backend/architecture-focused player-coach who designed and built two partner-facing data APIs using a contract-first (OpenAPI) governance model in Java (Quarkus/Spring Boot). Strong in technical standards, incident response, and delivery systems—improved reliability under peak load (DB/index fix) and sped up delivery by streamlining PR/review processes while maintaining production stability.”

“Senior AI/ML engineer with hands-on experience building production LLM systems in healthcare, including RAG-based clinical question answering and end-to-end MLOps on Vertex AI and Kubernetes. They combine strong platform engineering with applied GenAI work, citing a 35% improvement in factual accuracy and a 30% boost in internal team productivity through modular Python services and CI/CD.”

“AI/ML engineer with hands-on experience building a healthcare-focused generative AI application end-to-end, from architecture and data design through deployment, monitoring, and iterative improvement. Particularly strong in multi-agent LLM systems, fine-tuning, and safety guardrails, with measurable impact including a 20% accuracy lift to 91% and 10% latency improvement in a nutrition recommendation pipeline.”

“Solo full-stack builder who shipped a restaurant loyalty app across iOS and Android and independently built revenue-generating job data APIs on Apify. Combines product discovery with hands-on engineering, having grown his scraping/API products to 1,800+ MAUs, 1M+ monthly results, and over $8.5K in cumulative revenue.”

“Nontraditional founder-operator who chose entrepreneurship over an MBA and built multiple ventures across sustainability, design, technology, and professional services. He scaled an environmental design firm to 40+ projects before it was acquired by his next company, where as CBO/COO he built a data verification product, grew a fully remote team to 30, and led complex global supply chain and sustainability initiatives with corporates, NGOs, and investors.”

Joe Zayd

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Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in AI and cloud-native platforms

Woodbridge, VA8y exp

“Full-stack engineer who has operated in a very lean startup setting, helping a non-technical founder turn an AI-focused education product idea into a shipped MVP in roughly six weeks. Also brings B2B SaaS experience from a real estate rental platform with payment flows and Experian-based background and credit check integrations.”

“Backend engineer with deep experience modernizing a provider credentialing/compliance platform with multiple upstream/downstream integrations. Focused on building predictable, scalable REST APIs (primarily ASP.NET Core; framework-agnostic approach applicable to FastAPI), improving performance via DB/query optimization, and hardening workflows with idempotency, transactions, feature flags, and strong auth/RBAC patterns.”

“Built a production "Mini RAG Assistant" for internal document Q&A, focusing on grounded answers (anti-hallucination), retrieval quality, and latency/cost optimization. Uses LangChain/LangGraph for orchestration and applies a metrics-driven evaluation loop (including reranking and semantic chunking improvements) while collaborating closely with product stakeholders.”

“Engineer with experience in regulated healthcare and financial systems, including a United Health healthcare service migration to AWS. Built documentation-as-code for CI/CD (Jenkins/Docker/Kubernetes/Terraform + GitHub Actions) that accelerated release cycles from 3 weeks to 4 days and tied security configuration (Spring Security/OAuth2/JWT) directly to HIPAA/GDPR compliance. Strong in observability-led incident response (ELK/Prometheus/Grafana) and performance tuning (PostgreSQL, async processing), citing MTTR reduction from 3 hours to 50 minutes and support for 250K+ concurrent users.”

“Full-stack engineer focused on data-heavy platforms, building Spring Boot microservices and Angular/React dashboards end-to-end. Has hands-on experience improving large-scale API and UI performance (including cutting 8–10s response times) and ensuring cross-service consistency using Kafka, idempotent consumers, and strong validation/transaction patterns on AWS with CI/CD and observability (Prometheus/ELK).”

“Robotics software engineer who built a ROS/C++ workcell stack to automate coating wooden panels with a 6-DOF arm, including trajectory generation, MoveIt/OMPL planning, and a single launch/config setup that runs in both Gazebo and on real hardware. Strong in debugging real-world planning failures (e.g., intermittent aborted/no-plan regions) through logging, planner swaps, and collision/kinematics tuning, and in designing modular ROS/ROS2 systems with versioned interfaces and translation layers for heterogeneous robots.”

“ML/NLP engineer with banking domain experience who built a GenAI-powered fraud detection and risk intelligence system at Origin Bank, combining RAG (LangChain + FAISS), fine-tuned BERT NER, and GPT-4/Sentence-BERT embeddings. Delivered measurable impact (25% higher fraud detection accuracy, 40% less manual review) and emphasizes production-grade pipelines on AWS SageMaker/Airflow with strong data validation and scalable PySpark processing.”

Vinícius Samuel

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Senior Unity Game Developer specializing in mobile and VR experiences

Dublin, Ireland8y exp

“Unity developer with experience building an optimized comic-reader/content delivery system for Marvel HQ using Addressables—avoiding bulk downloads and dynamically loading/unloading pages to reduce mobile memory/disk usage and improve runtime performance. Also has multiplayer experience using server-authoritative Netcode with prediction and deterministic battle behavior, including real-time kinematic body tracking, and leverages AI tools (Cursor/Manus) to speed prototyping and refactoring.”