Vetted GitLab Professionals

Jaykumar Kotiya

Screened

Mid-level Machine Learning & AI Engineer specializing in Generative AI, NLP, and MLOps

Boston, MA6y exp

“Built and deployed production LLM systems for summarizing sensitive legal and financial documents, emphasizing GDPR-aligned privacy controls and scalable hybrid cloud architecture. Experienced with Kubernetes/Airflow orchestration and rigorous testing/monitoring practices, and has delivered measurable business impact (18% conversion lift) by translating AI outputs for non-technical marketing stakeholders.”

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.”

kieran mcgovern

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Senior Software Developer specializing in Unity VR and mobile apps

London, United Kingdom17y exp

“Unity/VR developer who shipped a Meta Quest wireless conversion of a previously wired VR product, owning research, network troubleshooting (2.4 vs 5 GHz), performance tuning, and reworking hand tracking. Also built a British Airways cabin crew training application largely solo and deployed it across iOS, Android, PC, WebGL, and Web Player with platform-specific optimization strategies.”

“Backend-leaning engineer who has significantly owned the architecture behind complex browser-based internal analytics dashboards for enterprise operations teams. Stands out for connecting Python/FastAPI/Django backend design, async processing, PostgreSQL optimization, and browser performance improvements to make real-time monitoring UIs faster and more usable.”

“Software engineer experienced delivering customer-facing, real-time industrial monitoring dashboards (motors/shafts/turbines) by partnering directly with end users to refine charts, alerts, and performance. Strong in API/platform integrations and production troubleshooting—uses feature flags, logging, validation/mapping, containerization, and performance testing to keep systems stable while iterating quickly.”

“Internship experience at Paycom owning an end-to-end personalized course recommendation feature for an LMS, spanning SQL-based data pipelines, ML integration, and FastAPI REST services for real-time recommendations. Focused on production tradeoffs (latency vs. accuracy), scaling/SQL optimization, and post-launch iteration driven by engagement metrics.”

Moore Macauley

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Intern Backend Developer specializing in AI, multi-agent systems, and computer vision

0y exp

“Backend-focused Python engineer who built core systems for an AI beauty-advice product: converting facial-recognition landmarks into usable facial measurements and dynamically shaping chatbot context for personalized guidance. Also worked on high-volume data ingestion at AINVESTgroup, improving agent context selection via a RAG database when upstream tags were unreliable, and has strong Git/GitOps + automated testing practices from rapid-deadline delivery environments.”

Hari Krishna Kona

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Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in Generative AI and LLM-powered NLP

Boston, MA3y exp

“LLM/AI engineer who built a production automated document-understanding pipeline on Azure using a grounded RAG layer, designed to reduce manual review time for unstructured financial documents. Demonstrates strong real-world scaling and reliability practices (Service Bus queueing, Kubernetes autoscaling, observability, retries/circuit breakers) plus rigorous evaluation (shadow testing, replaying traffic, multilingual edge-case suites) and stakeholder-friendly, evidence-based explainability.”

Pranav Gaikwad

Screened

Senior Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native platforms and supply chain systems

Atlanta, GA8y exp

“Backend and platform engineering leader with deep supply chain and warehouse systems experience, including building a company-wide MDM platform across five ERP systems and supporting a 72-microservice warehouse execution environment. Particularly compelling for AI-forward logistics roles: currently pursuing an AI-focused PhD, has published supply chain AI research, and holds a utility patent for AI-driven predictive analysis.”

Alex Archer

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Staff Full-Stack Engineer specializing in Python, AI systems, and cloud SaaS

Anna, TX8y exp

“Full-stack startup engineer from a 20-30 person company who led a legacy monolith breakup into microservices, improving response times by 30% and database performance by 20%. Has hands-on experience across React/Next.js, TypeScript, Go, Python, and AI/data pipeline work, including building AI-driven platforms for freight and publisher-focused B2B SaaS products.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience across Python/Flask microservices and AWS serverless/data platforms (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, Glue/PySpark). Demonstrated strong reliability and operations mindset (JWT/RBAC, retries/timeouts/circuit breakers, CloudWatch/SNS alerting) and measurable performance wins (SQL report runtime cut from 10 minutes to 30 seconds). Seeking ~$150k base and cannot travel for onsite meetings for the next 5–6 months due to family medical constraints.”

“Backend/data engineer with hands-on production experience building a real-time notification API on Flask/Celery/Postgres and scaling it on AWS with Docker, Redis queuing, and SQLAlchemy query optimization. Also delivered AWS serverless deployments (Lambda) using Terraform + GitHub Actions and built AWS Glue ETL pipelines from S3 to Redshift with CloudWatch monitoring and DataBrew data quality checks.”

“Backend Python engineer who has built an LLM agentic tutoring/assignment helper with a custom pipeline for parsing visually complex textbooks (integrating AlibabaResearch VGT and implementing missing preprocessing from the paper), improving RAG grounding with ~90% cleaner extracted text. Also led major platform scaling work by refactoring monolithic image processing into Celery-based async microservices on AWS (GPU/CUDA + S3), and implemented Kafka streaming for payment webhooks with strict ordering, idempotency, and multi-zone fault tolerance.”

“Healthcare-focused ML/LLM engineer who built a production hybrid RAG workflow to automate prior authorization by retrieving from medical guidelines/historical cases (FAISS) and generating grounded rationales for clinicians. Strong in operationalizing ML with Airflow/Kubeflow/MLflow on SageMaker, optimizing latency (ONNX/quantization/async), and reducing hallucinations via evidence-only prompting; also partnered closely with clinical ops to deploy a readmission prediction tool used in daily rounds.”

“UE5 gameplay scripter (Blueprint-focused) from small startup teams who specializes in setting up core project architecture (game loop/data flow, controller, game instance, UI/menu) and building modular systems reused across multiple games. Rebuilt a save-system architecture from scratch to replace a problematic asset and improve scalability/maintainability, and has hands-on performance optimization experience (profiling, level streaming, Nanite-to-LOD tradeoffs). Also implemented a realistic cricket match simulation using Markov chains and transition matrices.”

“Full-stack .NET/Azure engineer with end-to-end ownership of policy management microservices (React/TypeScript + C#/ASP.NET Core + Kubernetes) delivering significant performance and quality improvements (e.g., response time -35%, defects -30%, CSAT +18%). Also productionized an AI-assisted analyst workflow using Azure OpenAI with a RAG pipeline on Azure Cognitive Search, including rigorous prompt versioning, guardrails, and measurable impact (review time -40%, errors -55%). Led incremental legacy modernization via Strangler Fig and dual-write migrations with zero production regressions.”

Keeravani Chekuri

Screened

Mid-level AI/ML Engineer specializing in LLM systems and MLOps

Boston, MA3y exp

“Built and deployed an AI tutoring assistant end-to-end at Nexora School, spanning discovery with school districts, multi-agent LangGraph/RAG architecture, AWS Bedrock migration, and post-launch stabilization. Stands out for combining hands-on LLM systems engineering with strong educator-facing trust building, FERPA-driven architecture decisions, and disciplined production practices around evals, logging, and messy document ingestion.”

“Frontend engineer with experience modernizing a large healthcare platform from Adobe Flex to React/TypeScript using micro frontends while keeping legacy systems live during migration. Brings strong performance tuning skills for data-heavy UIs and real-time map applications, including profiling-driven React optimization, Next.js SSR, and WebSocket-based live tracking.”

“Full-stack product engineer with strong web3/blockchain experience, having built invoicing/tokenization, transaction explorer, and no-code workflow products across React, Node.js/serverless, and SQL. Stands out for combining deep technical execution with product thinking—improving onboarding completion by ~40%, shipping quickly under ambiguity, and creating reusable platform primitives for auditability and multi-tenant customization.”

“Built Meet.AI end-to-end and made concrete architecture/performance decisions (RPC with type-safe integration; SSR + query prefetching for instant data display). Also created a Python tool at Abbott to resynchronize Ansible inventories and eliminate manual intervention by scheduling it in a Jenkins pipeline; has hands-on Docker/microservices experience including serving a pretrained LLM.”

“Freelance Unity/XR developer with multiple Meta Quest projects (including non-game XR apps) and a 1st-place win at Meta’s Sense AI hackathon in Barcelona for an AI camera-access VR assistant for vehicle repairs. Built a VR Spanish-learning experience solo and has hands-on experience optimizing VR performance (culling, view restriction) and integrating voice recognition for language interactions.”

“Unity lead/gameplay engineer who built and shipped Explottens (Apple Arcade) from scratch, including a custom 2D physics system and performance-focused pooling; reports the title generated seven-figure USD revenue. Also integrated an LLM/RAG-driven conversational avatar experience (English/Arabic TTS with lip sync) via a reliability-focused backend layer, and has hands-on Unity Netcode multiplayer experience solving desync and precision issues with deterministic predicted trajectories.”

Joseph Whissel

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Director-level Engineering Leader specializing in scalable SaaS, cloud, and embedded systems

12y exp

“Startup-experienced builder exploring an ambitious “internet 2.0” concept: a decentralized wireless mesh network using custom hardware nodes, with a security-first communications goal. Has thought through adoption mechanics via at-cost node distribution, usage-based crypto incentives, and an AR area-control game to drive network growth; also brings practical insight into what VCs value from working at startups including one owned by a PE firm.”

“Junior web developer turned applied AI builder who has shipped both user-facing web UX improvements (Vue.js + Drupal/Twig) and production LLM systems. Built a Google Cloud-hosted Llama/Ollama RAG customer-service chatbot with citation-based guardrails and a metrics-driven eval loop, and also delivered a large-scale Python pipeline analyzing 14M Amazon consumer reviews for flavor-trend detection.”