Vetted GitLab Professionals

“Early major technical hire who helped build fintech startup Ugami from MVP to near Series A, while supporting bridge round and Series A fundraising with technical materials for leadership. Also grew from intern to lead engineer at a venture-backed product shop, giving him firsthand exposure to investor expectations, startup incubation, and practical AI opportunities with tight scope and strong unit economics.”

“Frontend engineer with hands-on experience building a production crime analysis mapping dashboard for public safety operations using React, TypeScript, and Leaflet. Stands out for combining geospatial visualization, performance tuning at scale, and UX design for dense operational data in a sensitive, compliance-oriented environment.”

Furqan Munir

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Mid-level Full-Stack MERN Engineer specializing in AI-integrated web platforms

Lahore, Pakistan4y exp

“Early-stage startup engineer who operated with little structure, worked directly with clients, and helped turn Deloitte and Informatica into permanent clients. More recently, they built an AI-enabled HVAC project bidding and estimation platform using FastAPI, LangChain, React, TypeScript, and PostgreSQL, including prompt tuning and UAT-driven improvements.”

“Frontend engineer with hands-on experience building complex React/TypeScript analytics and map-based visualization products, including a global trade visualization platform at Trademo. Stands out for deep performance optimization work on large datasets, using profiling tools, virtualization, memoization, and event-driven refactors to keep heavy dashboards and interactive maps responsive at scale.”

SAUD SALEEM

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Senior Python Engineer specializing in scalable backend and distributed systems

Stockton, CA6y exp

“Senior Software Engineer who has operated in a functional implementation capacity on B2B SaaS projects, especially identity verification and infrastructure intelligence platforms. Stands out for translating stakeholder and compliance requirements into APIs, workflow logic, data mappings, and UAT processes, with experience supporting utility-focused asset risk and maintenance decision platforms at scale.”

“Full-stack engineer who has shipped and operated generative-AI chat/QA features end-to-end, including a RAG-based pipeline with guardrails and cost/latency monitoring in production. Experienced with React/TypeScript + Node/Postgres architectures, Dockerized deployments to AWS (EC2) via GitHub Actions CI/CD, and building reliable ingestion/ETL systems with idempotency, backfills, and reconciliation.”

“Software/product engineer who owns customer-facing internal platforms end-to-end, with deep experience building data pipeline health and data quality tooling (near-real-time alerting and ops dashboards). Strong in React/TypeScript + Python REST architectures and microservices with RabbitMQ, emphasizing reliability patterns (idempotency, DLQs, correlation IDs) and fast, safe iteration via feature flags, testing, and observability.”

“Backend engineer who owned the API layer for an AI trust/analytics dashboard (trust scores, stability checks, public verification endpoints) using Python/FastAPI and Postgres. Has hands-on DevOps experience deploying FastAPI and Node.js services to AWS Kubernetes with GitHub Actions + ArgoCD GitOps, plus Kafka-based real-time event streaming and careful staged migration practices (shadow traffic/dual writes, rollback planning).”

“Game QA professional with AAA open-world shipping experience, owning high-impact quality risks like save-data corruption, progression blockers, performance drops, and multiplayer desync. Demonstrates strong systems thinking and exploit prevention (e.g., reproduced and helped fix a reward-duplication race condition using network interruption + rapid input), with disciplined JIRA/TestRail workflows and evidence-driven bug reporting.”

“Cloud/DevOps-focused engineer with hands-on experience building Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for containerized applications deployed to AKS, including security scanning, approvals, versioned artifacts, and rollback. Also implemented Terraform-based IaC for Azure (VNets/subnets/NSGs/AKS) with modular design, remote state/locking, and drift detection; resolved a real deployment outage caused by an Azure RBAC permission change.”

Varun Mahankali

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Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in React, Node.js, AWS, and Generative AI

3y exp

“Built and production-deployed a Streamlit-based PDF RAG chatbot using LangChain (FAISS, embeddings, prompt templates) and OpenAI, optimizing Streamlit’s stateless behavior by caching vector DB + chat history to cut latency and API cost. Demonstrates a rigorous evaluation mindset (gold datasets, unit tests, LLM-as-judge, groundedness KPIs) and has experience communicating privacy/accuracy safeguards (RBAC, data masking, citations) to a non-technical client at Kalven Technologies.”

Uzair Asif

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Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in cloud-native web, mobile, and AI features

8y exp

“Frontend lead for a consumer-facing social platform, owning architecture through release. Built scalable React/TypeScript systems (Redux Toolkit, Remix) with a shared Storybook component library and strong quality gates (CI, Jest/Cypress). Experienced modernizing legacy codebases incrementally with feature flags and shipping major dashboard features with staged rollouts and close QA collaboration.”

Umair Azam

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Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in Ruby on Rails and React

Lahore, Pakistan10y exp

“Frontend engineer with React/TypeScript experience who has led end-to-end UI work on a fintech product (React frontend with NestJS APIs), emphasizing performance (virtualized rendering, memoization, lazy loading, profiling) and quality at scale (unit tests and TDD). Also built and iterated on a snooker sports app, simplifying UX through audience-focused design decisions and streamlined onboarding.”

Merub SHAIKH

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Junior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack web development and test automation

Chicago, IL3y exp

“Full-stack engineer who built and owned a production workflow/kanban-style drag-and-drop system in Next.js (App Router) with Postgres/Prisma, including reusable component abstractions, Cypress E2E coverage, and post-launch performance/bug ownership. Notable for measurable impact (25% faster UI dev, ~30% query perf improvement) and for leading an incremental Express→NestJS migration that reduced technical debt (~40%) through better structure, docs, and team enablement.”

Ned Ned Zaidi

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Senior Full-Stack Engineer specializing in Python, Go, and cloud-native systems

Dumfries, VA9y exp

“Full-stack/backend-leaning engineer with hands-on experience spanning Python, Go, React, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, and Kubernetes. They stand out for building real-time analytics and decisioning systems, plus a healthcare-focused B2B SaaS compliance/data integration platform that combined high-throughput event processing, dashboarding, and third-party integrations in a startup-style, high-ambiguity environment.”

“Unity/C# gameplay engineer with strong hands-on experience architecting modular multiplayer FPS systems, especially weapon inventory/equipment flows built for server-authoritative networking. Also brings adjacent AI/computer vision integration experience with OpenCV plus shipped platform work across Meta Quest 2 VR, mobile, and WebGL, making them a versatile real-time systems developer.”

Anastasiia Sierbaieva

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Mid-level Software Engineer specializing in frontend data-driven web applications

Los Angeles, CA5y exp

“Frontend-leaning product engineer who has shipped manufacturing-focused web features end to end, spanning Figma-to-React implementation, API/data-shaping work, and production feedback loops. Stands out for translating complex CNC and reporting workflows into usable interfaces, and for improving signup performance by automating precomputed sample data across databases and Amazon S3.”

“Unity game developer with hands-on gameplay AI experience (FSM-driven monsters with customized NavMeshAgent movement) focused on creating readable, high-tension survival encounters through iterative tuning. Has shipped/created 4 Unity games solo end-to-end (UI, animations, architecture, state machines) and has also built a full Python game server; some exposure to Photon Fusion and strong client/server REST API implementation experience.”

“Unity lead developer who built a turn-based soccer game (Soccer Glory/Score Hero-like) with complex in-air ball simulation, AI reactions, and animation handling, then scaled production by creating an in-editor level/animation authoring tool that saves to JSON and shifted level setup from devs to designers. Strong multiplayer background across Photon PUN, Mirror, UNet, and Socket.IO, including a 100-user metaverse room and practical approaches to authoritative simulation and VR/mobile performance optimization (Meta Quest 90 FPS).”

“Backend Python engineer who owned the full backend build of an AI-driven platform for UK golf clubs, including FastAPI microservices, vector search, and a tuned LangChain+Pinecone RAG pipeline focused on cost and hallucination reduction. Experienced deploying Django/FastAPI/Flask stacks on AWS-backed Kubernetes with GitOps/ArgoCD-style delivery, plus executing legacy-to-AWS migrations and building Kafka-based real-time analytics pipelines.”

David Acosta

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Senior XR/Unity Developer specializing in AR/VR mobile and immersive experiences

Bogota, Colombia7y exp

“Unity/C# XR developer who shipped a HoloLens 1 medical congress experience from scratch (including modeling, animation, and full system architecture), later credited with driving retention/revenue and helping the client win an international best-practice award. Has VR (Meta Quest 2) experience integrating OpenAI-powered dialogue and has delivered cross-platform AR/VR interaction patterns across HoloLens and iOS/Android via AR Foundation and the Unity Input System.”

Pathapati aditya

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Mid-level Design Engineer specializing in product design and front-end implementation

New York City, NY4y exp

“Product designer-builder who codes, with a rare end-to-end profile spanning product strategy, UX, design systems, frontend engineering, and AI integration. Built PetCloud/PetClub as a fully solo product in Next.js/TypeScript/Supabase and has also driven measurable UX gains in company settings, including 25% higher engagement, faster design-to-dev handoff, and fewer UI bugs.”

Mila Chernik

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Executive strategy and operations leader specializing in SaaS, payments, and AI

New York, NY17y exp

“Operator and transformation leader with deep SaaS/payments experience across fintech, ecommerce, retail, and hospitality. Has led large cross-functional organizations through Agile, portfolio, and architecture transformations, including $20M ARR impact at Movex and major performance/cost gains at HS-Soft. Also brings founder-level strategic advisory experience, building ROI cases for growth and AI automation investments.”