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A Guide to Managing Foreign Exchange Risk

This useful guide by Toptal Management Consultant Paul Ainsworth draws on 30+ years of experience as a CFO of large multinational companies to lay out the menu of options companies face in order to deal with foreign exchange exposure and manage risk effectively.

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Paul Ainsworth

Paul Ainsworth

An international CFO with experience at large multinationals, Paul has led simplification projects across geographically disparate teams.

Data-driven Design and Generative Design – An Overview

Data-driven and generative design are two important design processes that can be exploited at the same time to create better product designs and user experiences.

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Shane Ketterman

Shane Ketterman

Shane comes from a background in architecture and design, information technology, and content marketing, and has a passion for UX research.

What Is Branding? Everything Is Branding.

From personal brands to anti-brands, we’ve entered an age of incessant brand awareness. Branding is everywhere, but is everything branding?

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Micah Bowers

Micah Bowers

Micah helps businesses craft meaningful engagement through branding, illustration, and design.

My Five Worst WordPress Development Mistakes

Join an expert in a look back in horror at his most embarrassing mistakes in his early days as a WordPress developer. He discusses general PHP bugs, WordPress-specific bugs, and also mistakes made at a managerial level while supervising other developers.

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Scott Fennell

Scott Fennell

Having developed a theme and plugin framework for the largest law firms in the world, Scott is no stranger to WordPress at scale.

Zero Downtime Jenkins Continuous Deployment With Terraform on AWS

When your app’s next iteration is ready to deploy, you have two choices: either stop the entire application and deploy the new version manually every time or build an automated zero downtime CI/CD deployment pipeline once.

In this article, Toptal Freelance DevOps Engineer Gaurav Kohli demonstrates the latter using the Jenkins-powered continuous deployment pipeline of a three-tier web application built in Node.js, deployed on AWS Cloud, and using Terraform as an infrastructure orchestrator.

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Gaurav Kohli

Gaurav Kohli

Gaurav has 12+ years cumulative experience working as a developer, scrum master, senior consultant, and product owner.

Who, What, and Why: A Guide to User Testing Methods

The fundamental purpose of user testing is to better understand and empathize with people who are the core users of a digital product.

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Jeff Bryant

Jeff Bryant

Jeff’s UX career has produced award-winning mobile applications, enterprise applications, and user-centric products owned by millions.

Three Principles of Data Warehouse Development

Data warehouses aren’t exactly a new concept, but industry demand for data science services, coupled with the rise of AI and machine learning, is making them more relevant than ever.

In this post, Toptal Data Warehouse Developer Chamitha Wanaguru outlines three basic principles you need to keep in mind when developing a new data warehouse.

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Chamitha Wanaguru

Chamitha Wanaguru

Chamitha is an IT veteran focused on the design and development of sustainable, value-focused data systems. He specializes in data warehouse system architecture, data engineering, business analysis, and project management. He has provided leadership and strategic program governance at finanical services firms including Morgan Stanley and UBS.

How to Value a Fintech Startup

Compared to traditional financial services businesses, fintech startups require different valuation approaches. This article explores these differences and the best practices to apply when appraising a fintech investment.

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Nirvikar Jain

Nirvikar Jain

Nirvikar has helped raise $20+ billion of capital and built lines of business as an experienced CEO, banker, and strategist.

UI Design Best Practices for Better Scannability

Scannability is often an overlooked usability factor, but it is one of the most impactful. These UI design tips make it easy for designers to convert a brief visitor to a long-lasting user.

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Nemanja Banjanin

Nemanja Banjanin

Nemanja is a designer who creates distinctive and visually appealing UI/UX. He leads large-scale user-centric and result-driven projects.

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