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Leo Thorp

Freelance Front-end Developer

United StatesFreelance Front-end Developer at Toptal Since January 8, 2016

Leo is an experienced engineer with exceptional skills throughout the full stack. Effective on teams of any size or alone, his work has included React SPAs for a major media publisher, full-stack architecture of a complex healthcare product in C#, and multiplayer games in Node. He takes pride in writing high-quality code, having a product-focused mindset, and finishing ahead of schedule.

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Marshall Shen

Freelance Front-end Developer

United StatesFreelance Front-end Developer at Toptal Since September 13, 2022

Marshall is an accomplished technical leader with a strong background in building AI software and leading engineering teams. He has delivered innovative solutions for tech companies of all sizes in fintech and healthcare. With over three years of experience running startups, he has led engineering teams of over 20 people, including offshore teams in China. As a software architect at Venmo, he builds scalable payment systems, mentors engineers, and builds a resilient engineering organization.

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Sam House

Freelance Front-end Developer

United StatesFreelance Front-end Developer at Toptal Since July 31, 2020

Sam is a full-stack developer who excels at Node.js and React projects with experience at both small startups and established companies. He rolled out a React on Rails site that shares information about water utility companies across the globe in under four weeks. Sam thrives on finding elegant and extensible solutions to challenging problems and has a principled approach to testing, ensuring that edge cases are captured and that code is robust and reliable.

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Kartik Pandit

Freelance Front-end Developer

United StatesFreelance Front-end Developer at Toptal Since April 13, 2022

Kartik is a React specialist experienced with fast-paced startup environments. He has implemented front-end solutions in the healthcare, eCommerce, and automotive industries. Kartik grew his B2B startup from zero to over a hundred thousand in profit, developed a B2B app used by stores and restaurants, and has led all facets of development, from initial design, architecture, deployment, and integrations with payment platforms. He focuses on creative problem solving and minimizing technical debt.

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Sakina Shivji

Freelance Front-end Developer

United StatesFreelance Front-end Developer at Toptal Since October 21, 2022

Sakina is a front-end developer with five years of professional experience. She built components for multiple CMS platforms, such as IBM CoreMedia, Sitecore, and Sitefinity, using HTML, CSS, and React. Sakina has extensive experience translating designs into fully functioning front-end components and is willing to embrace new professional challenges.

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David James Schuler

Freelance Front-end Developer

United StatesFreelance Front-end Developer at Toptal Since April 6, 2023

David is a highly skilled OutSystems architect, tech lead, and developer with significant project management experience. He also has scrum master and Waterfall methodology certifications and is an expert in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Visual Basic, C, and other programming languages. Throughout his career, David has designed and implemented OutSystems-based mobile apps, ERP software, and algorithms in government organizations and various industries, including insurance, manufacturing, and eCommerce.

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Sam Gates

Freelance Front-end Developer

United StatesFreelance Front-end Developer at Toptal Since June 3, 2020

Sam is a developer with five years of experience in web development and WordPress. He's worked on various projects—WordPress shops, websites, apps, and plugins—for multiple industries, including music festivals and sports gear, among others. Sam has the experience, knowledge, and decision-making skills to evaluate new tech and know when you don't need them and when you sometimes do. Sam takes pride in his projects and strives to build useful, maintainable, and accessible tools.

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Albert Portnoy

Freelance Front-end Developer

United StatesFreelance Front-end Developer at Toptal Since June 23, 2022

Albert is an experienced software engineer with 5+ years of full-stack development on scalable SaaS applications and open source projects. He specializes in MERN—MongoDB, Express.js, React, Node.js—and utilizes TypeScript to provide readable, well-documented code. Albert enjoys contributing to GitHub repositories and highly scalable bot and communications applications from the ground up.

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Mark Ventimiglia

Freelance Front-end Developer

United StatesFreelance Front-end Developer at Toptal Since July 15, 2022

Mark has over two decades of experience as a team leader and an individual contributor in results-driven, highly adaptive environments. He is adept at defining technical vision and business strategy and developing products and solutions that deliver immediate value for companies. He is a proven communicator and team builder and an expert in the modern technologies and frameworks used in full-stack, back-end, and embedded development environments.

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Arbaaz Meghani

Freelance Front-end Developer

United StatesFreelance Front-end Developer at Toptal Since September 20, 2022

Arbaaz is a software engineer who has developed back-end systems that can scale to millions of users. He worked on data-intensive applications and financial products used by millions of users and built numerous other APIs. He started freelancing because he enjoys working with different people and teams, and freelancing enables him to do that. Arbaaz works on back-end projects using Java, Spring, and Node.js. For front-end projects, he is a React expert with TypeScript and JavaScript.

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Nick Landgrebe

Freelance Front-end Developer

United StatesFreelance Front-end Developer at Toptal Since March 22, 2017

Nick is a full-stack engineer and former CTO who builds API-driven apps with sleek, cutting-edge front-ends, drawing on a lifelong love of programming starting from the age of 12. In his work, he forms complex technological ideas into human concepts and interfaces for everyday people to understand and enjoy. Practice has made him a one-of-a-kind designer, too. Nick authors and maintains many open source libraries in his free time and loves writing detailed documentation.

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Guide to Hiring a Great Front-end Developer

Front-end developers are experts in the practice of creating HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and more for a website or web application while keeping an eye on UI and UX. The questions presented in this guide help identify those front-end developers with the experience to produce masterful results.

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Tripcents wouldn't exist without Toptal. Toptal Projects enabled us to rapidly develop our foundation with a product manager, lead developer, and senior designer. In just over 60 days we went from concept to Alpha. The speed, knowledge, expertise, and flexibility is second to none. The Toptal team were as part of tripcents as any in-house team member of tripcents. They contributed and took ownership of the development just like everyone else. We will continue to use Toptal. As a start up, they are our secret weapon.

Brantley Pace, CEO & Co-Founder

Tripcents

I am more than pleased with our experience with Toptal. The professional I got to work with was on the phone with me within a couple of hours. I knew after discussing my project with him that he was the candidate I wanted. I hired him immediately and he wasted no time in getting to my project, even going the extra mile by adding some great design elements that enhanced our overall look.

Paul Fenley, Director

K Dunn & Associates

The developers I was paired with were incredible -- smart, driven, and responsive. It used to be hard to find quality engineers and consultants. Now it isn't.

Ryan Rockefeller, CEO

Radeeus

Toptal understood our project needs immediately. We were matched with an exceptional freelancer from Argentina who, from Day 1, immersed himself in our industry, blended seamlessly with our team, understood our vision, and produced top-notch results. Toptal makes connecting with superior developers and programmers very easy.

Jason Kulik, Co-Founder

ProHatch

As a small company with limited resources we can't afford to make expensive mistakes. Toptal provided us with an experienced programmer who was able to hit the ground running and begin contributing immediately. It has been a great experience and one we'd repeat again in a heartbeat.

Stuart Pocknee , Principal

Site Specific Software Solutions

We used Toptal to hire a developer with extensive Amazon Web Services experience. We interviewed four candidates, one of which turned out to be a great fit for our requirements. The process was quick and effective.

Abner Guzmán Rivera, CTO and Chief Scientist

Photo Kharma

Sergio was an awesome developer to work with. Top notch, responsive, and got the work done efficiently.

Dennis Baldwin, Chief Technologist and Co-Founder

PriceBlink

Working with Marcin is a joy. He is competent, professional, flexible, and extremely quick to understand what is required and how to implement it.

André Fischer, CTO

POSTIFY

We needed a expert engineer who could start on our project immediately. Simanas exceeded our expectations with his work. Not having to interview and chase down an expert developer was an excellent time-saver and made everyone feel more comfortable with our choice to switch platforms to utilize a more robust language. Toptal made the process easy and convenient. Toptal is now the first place we look for expert-level help.

Derek Minor, Senior VP of Web Development

Networld Media Group

Toptal's developers and architects have been both very professional and easy to work with. The solution they produced was fairly priced and top quality, reducing our time to launch. Thanks again, Toptal.

Jeremy Wessels, CEO

Kognosi

We had a great experience with Toptal. They paired us with the perfect developer for our application and made the process very easy. It was also easy to extend beyond the initial time frame, and we were able to keep the same contractor throughout our project. We definitely recommend Toptal for finding high quality talent quickly and seamlessly.

Ryan Morrissey, CTO

Applied Business Technologies, LLC

I'm incredibly impressed with Toptal. Our developer communicates with me every day, and is a very powerful coder. He's a true professional and his work is just excellent. 5 stars for Toptal.

Pietro Casoar, CEO

Ronin Play Pty Ltd

Working with Toptal has been a great experience. Prior to using them, I had spent quite some time interviewing other freelancers and wasn't finding what I needed. After engaging with Toptal, they matched me up with the perfect developer in a matter of days. The developer I'm working with not only delivers quality code, but he also makes suggestions on things that I hadn't thought of. It's clear to me that Amaury knows what he is doing. Highly recommended!

George Cheng, CEO

Bulavard, Inc.

As a Toptal qualified front-end developer, I also run my own consulting practice. When clients come to me for help filling key roles on their team, Toptal is the only place I feel comfortable recommending. Toptal's entire candidate pool is the best of the best. Toptal is the best value for money I've found in nearly half a decade of professional online work.

Ethan Brooks, CTO

Langlotz Patent & Trademark Works, Inc.

In Higgle's early days, we needed the best-in-class developers, at affordable rates, in a timely fashion. Toptal delivered!

Lara Aldag, CEO

Higgle

Toptal makes finding a candidate extremely easy and gives you peace-of-mind that they have the skills to deliver. I would definitely recommend their services to anyone looking for highly-skilled developers.

Michael Gluckman, Data Manager

Mxit

Toptal’s ability to rapidly match our project with the best developers was just superb. The developers have become part of our team, and I’m amazed at the level of professional commitment each of them has demonstrated. For those looking to work remotely with the best engineers, look no further than Toptal.

Laurent Alis, Founder

Livepress

Toptal makes finding qualified engineers a breeze. We needed an experienced ASP.NET MVC architect to guide the development of our start-up app, and Toptal had three great candidates for us in less than a week. After making our selection, the engineer was online immediately and hit the ground running. It was so much faster and easier than having to discover and vet candidates ourselves.

Jeff Kelly, Co-Founder

Concerted Solutions

We needed some short-term work in Scala, and Toptal found us a great developer within 24 hours. This simply would not have been possible via any other platform.

Franco Arda, Co-Founder

WhatAdsWork.com

Toptal offers a no-compromise solution to businesses undergoing rapid development and scale. Every engineer we've contracted through Toptal has quickly integrated into our team and held their work to the highest standard of quality while maintaining blazing development speed.

Greg Kimball, Co-Founder

nifti.com

How to Hire Front-end Developers Near Chicago

1

Talk to One of Our Industry Experts

A Toptal director of engineering will work with you to understand your goals, technical needs, and team dynamics.
2

Work With Hand-Selected Talent

Within days, we'll introduce you to the right front-end developer for your project. Average time to match is under 24 hours.
3

The Right Fit, Guaranteed

Work with your new front-end developer for a trial period (pay only if satisfied), ensuring they're the right fit before starting the engagement.

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    All of our talent are seasoned experts who ramp up quickly, readily contribute as core team members, and work with you to minimize onboarding time.

  • The Right Fit

    We have a knack for matching you with the right fit. Start working with your new hire on a no-risk trial period, paying only if satisfied.

  • Scale as Needed

    Hire in under 2 weeks and scale your team up or down as needed, no strings attached.

  • Seamless Hiring

    We handle all aspects of billing, payments, and NDA’s. Let us take care of the overhead while you focus on building great products.

  • Flexible Engagements

    Choose the engagement type that suits your needs — hourly, part-time, or full-time — with the ability to change anytime.

  • Expert Talent Matching

    Focus on your project and enjoy support from your dedicated account executive and expert talent matcher.

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