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Shelley Nason

Freelance Java Developer

United StatesFreelance Java Developer at Toptal Since January 15, 2015

Shelley is a full-stack engineer with 15 years experience building software in a variety of industries. She is comfortable starting with rough requirements and working with stakeholders to turn an idea into a useful, appealing piece of software. Shelley writes clean, fast, well-documented, and well-tested code, provides realistic estimates, and works well with teammates. As a student, Shelley spent several years in an AI Ph.D. program and she maintains a strong interest in that field.

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Marshall Shen

Freelance Java Developer

United StatesFreelance Java 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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Andrey Zaytsev

Freelance Java Developer

United StatesFreelance Java Developer at Toptal Since September 21, 2018

Andrey is a full-stack, mobile, and systems developer who's worked at top companies such as Google, Dropbox, Apple, and Jump Trading. He's also completed his master's degree in computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a focus on machine learning. He possesses in-depth knowledge of C++ and Python, having worked with them for over seven years, and has experience developing in Java, JavaScript, and Swift.

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Baterdene Odongerel

Freelance Java Developer

United StatesFreelance Java Developer at Toptal Since September 13, 2020

Baterdene is a full-stack software engineer with five years of experience playing a key role in elite technical teams, engaged in the development, upgrades, and maintenance of enterprise software. He has worked on a variety of projects using a number of technologies including JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, React, and AWS services. Baterdene strives to continuously learn new technologies to ensure he is providing the best solutions available.

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Ishola Babatunde Isaac

Freelance Java Developer

United StatesFreelance Java Developer at Toptal Since May 2, 2019

Isaac has experience developing and deploying machine learning solutions to problems across various domains including computer vision, signal processing, failure prediction, time series forecasting, network security, natural language processing, and 3D reconstruction. Isaac has worked in both small and large organizations and has led projects from idealization to product deployment.

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Arbaaz Meghani

Freelance Java Developer

United StatesFreelance Java 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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Andre Hildinger

Freelance Java Developer

United StatesFreelance Java Developer at Toptal Since February 29, 2016

André is a versatile and talented developer with more than 13 years of experience as a developer and 8 years as a web developer. He has worked mostly with Java, Spring, micro-services, Java EE, JavaScript (AngularJS, jQuery, and Ext JS), HTML, CSS (Bootstrap), and so on.

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Chris Schuster

Freelance Java Developer

United StatesFreelance Java Developer at Toptal Since February 10, 2021

Chris is a full-stack generalist well-practiced in delivering projects under extreme programming (XP) principles. He's spent several years implementing pair programming and test-driven development in several languages (Java, Kotlin, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, and a few others). Chris has also mentored or paired with dozens of client programmers over the years and served as the lead developer on most of his projects.

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Patrick Spizzo

Freelance Java Developer

United StatesFreelance Java Developer at Toptal Since February 16, 2016

Patrick has been a developer for over a decade now. First as a sole developer, then working on a growing Java team, and eventually leading two small teams within a larger organization. Most recently, he has designed and wrote a subscription-based web application for health practitioners. He is comfortable working with teams of any size, communicates very well, loves learning new skills, and tackling new challenges.

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Nolan McCafferty

Freelance Java Developer

United StatesFreelance Java Developer at Toptal Since August 3, 2022

Nolan has worked on everything from back-end web development, front-end web development, mobile development, and machine learning (ML). After graduating, he got a job as an automation engineer at Ford, where he made a significant impact by delivering an essential proof of concept (POC) for management. Now Nolan would like to take on new challenges and projects!

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Irakli Mghebrishvili

Freelance Java Developer

United StatesFreelance Java Developer at Toptal Since March 24, 2022

Irakli is an independent and self-motivated developer who is always looking for new challenges and is eager to learn more. He has worked with enterprise applications for over two years, using Java, Jakarta EE, and PostgreSQL. Irakli also has experience with Spring, Spring Boot, and React.

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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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nifti.com

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