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Daniel T Wood
Design Lead
Daniel is a UX design and strategy expert with 25+ years of experience bringing products, apps, eCommerce, and websites to life. By molding ambiguity, asking hard questions, and championing data, he helps teams design more usable, accessible, and delightful products. Daniel has worked with many of the world's top brands (including Adidas, Walmart, Samsung, and Capital One), B2B SaaS (Salesforce, HP, Asana), and early-stage startups, helping them find better ways to meet and exceed expectations.




Gertruda Fon Narcco
Design Lead
Gertruda is a highly skilled principal product and UX designer with over 13 years of experience in UI/UX, including eight years in product design and art direction. She has a proven track record of creating successful product strategies, enhancing the user experience, and improving product communication to end audiences. Gertruda mentors early-stage startups and medium-sized businesses to guide them through product development and ensure a highly functional and winning product.




Antonija Skugor
Design Lead
Antonija is a product designer with 15+ years of experience taking products from positioning and research to shipped interfaces. She leads with strategy and pairs product UX with brand identity and art direction, a mix most product designers don't bring. Her work spans enterprise SaaS, AI-native interfaces, data-dense dashboards, and consumer apps, with clean design systems for dev handoff. Antonija uses AI to prototype and validate fast, treating it as sharper judgment, not a shortcut.




Adrien Castelain
Design Lead
Adrien is an award-winning product designer and digital art director with 17 years of experience crafting beautiful, meaningful digital experiences. He specialises in UX/UI design, design systems, and prototyping—turning complex workflows into interfaces that solve real problems and feel delightful to use. His clients hire him for his ability to go deep on the problem, deliver polished, dev-ready output, and stay embedded with teams through to implementation.




Hannu Salonen
Design Lead
Hannu is a designer with 15+ years of experience ranging from UI and UX design to design leadership. His strong side is B2B and data-heavy, business-critical web apps. Hannu loves learning new domains, dissolving complex problems, and creating enjoyable experiences for serious use. In addition to his primary design skills, Hannu has a software development background with Adobe Creative Suite studies at the university level. He has pushed web projects into Java, PHP, and even Perl.




Levi Csanyi
Design Lead
Levi has over 27 years of experience in user-centered design, from high-level processes to design delivery. He has a proven track record of driving highly complex projects across many business units and disciplines and solid expertise in implementing cutting-edge technology in fast-moving and highly innovative Agile or Lean environments. Levi's strong leadership and organizational skills span coaching and mentoring designer teams in UX and UI design with excellent business partnering skills.




Carrie Webster
Design Lead
UX design leader with 20+ years of experience across UX, UI, and product design, and a Master of Information Architecture. Skilled in delivering end-to-end design for startups, enterprise, and consulting environments. Hands-on with research, prototyping, and design, while mentoring teams and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders. Industry experience spans fintech, fraud prevention, education, real estate, and telecoms, with roles at Deloitte Digital, NBN, GBG, Equifax, and Optus.




Warren Lebovics
Design Lead
Warren is a product designer with a decade of design leadership and consulting experience. Warren has led design in-person and remote teams and projects at companies large and small, including LinkedIn, Sony, Blackberry, Jumpstart, and more. Warren also has experience co-founding companies and taking companies through funding and acquisitions. He communicates extremely well and can lead and execute with teams of all sizes.




Christopher Barklem
Design Lead
Christopher is one of the most experienced creative minds in the industry, with over two decades in product design. Over 25 million users utilize his interactions on a day-to-day basis. His award-winning work is integrated into over 700 banks worldwide (100 million users), in small to enterprise companies, as seen in SaaS, B2B, B2C, C2C, government, and education. Christopher is a creative leader with over a decade of experience building and managing creative teams.




Sanyam Hazare
Design Lead
Sanyam Hazare (San) is a senior brand strategist and product designer with 20+ years of experience designing digital products, websites, and brand identities for startups, scale-ups, and Fortune 500 companies. His work spans AI, SaaS, fintech, logistics, healthcare, and eCommerce, including projects for Snapchat, Prudential, ACS, and YC-backed startups. He turns complex ideas into intuitive products, scalable systems, and brands that build trust and drive growth.




Adam Rotmil
Design Lead
With over 15 years of experience, Adam brings a wealth of product design and strategy insights to any challenge. He loves to lead by example and has design expertise in finance, wealth and trading, digital transformation, process and culture change, and digital health. He has led design at biotech AstraZeneca and Fjord Accenture. Adam studied at SCAD, Art Institute Boston, Basel HGK Switzerland, and Harvard University and teaches product design at MICA.




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Why Organizations Choose Toptal®

Toptal gave us access to the best designers out there, saving us a lot of time and allowing us to build the best possible product.
Thierry JakircevicGeneral Manager, Digital Solutions, Bridgestone

Toptal’s talent is really excellent. They are able to work through large business problems and code incredibly efficiently.
Emily LemonSenior Director, Cleveland Cavaliers

The kind of people we looked for were hard to find. Toptal helped us achieve our goals by bringing high quality resources to bear on very short notice.
Elmar PlatzerDigital Transformation Leader, CSR

If you’ve tried working with other vendors, Toptal is going to be a different type of company to work with; they’re going to meet you where your needs are.
Matthew SchumacherSenior Product Manager, Alpha - Precision Drilling
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