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Andrey Zaytsev

Freelance Linux Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since August 7, 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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Ethan Drower

Freelance Linux Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since November 22, 2016

Ethan has a unique blend of development and infrastructure experience. Chicago based, he has multiple years of hard-earned experience in the dynamic electronic trading industry both as a developer and a Linux engineer. His experience in fast-paced environments enables him to jump in and provide technical value in almost any situation. Today, Ethan works primarily with Python and JavaScript technologies and focuses on web scraping.

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Eleanor Thomas

Freelance Linux Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since August 15, 2019

Eleanor is an analytics professional with 7+ years of experience, mostly in financial services/quantitative research and more recently with a healthcare social network. She is proficient in Python and SQL and comfortable with a variety of other programming languages and analytical tools. Her academic background is in mathematics, and she is also experienced with more advanced analytical models and machine learning techniques.

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Frans Jozsef Elliott

Freelance Linux Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since October 2, 2018

Passionate about robotics, Frans is an avid programmer with a broad skillset including embedded systems, robotics, vision processing, professional back-end web development, and server administration and configuration, GPU programming, and more. Concerning programming languages, he's partial to Python and C++ though they are not the only programming languages he can work with.

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Geoffrey Paul

Freelance Linux Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since March 21, 2020

Geoffrey is a Linux developer with extensive expertise in modeling and simulation supporting the US Army and Missile Defense Agency. He specializes in developing real-time software for high-performance, scientific computing. He has written software scaling from low-end desktops and 8-core workstations up to high-powered servers with hundreds of cores.

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Byron Formwalt

Freelance Linux Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since March 24, 2014

Byron has 20 years of experience in highly technical algorithm development. He holds a PhD in electrical engineering and offers extensive knowledge of machine learning and video/image processing. Byron also has Toptal specializations in AI and data science. His skillset includes full-stack iOS and macOS desktop application development.

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Josh Reynolds

Freelance Linux Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since March 27, 2016

A Herculean nerd with hustle, Josh is committed to authentic engagement, intrinsic motivation, and epic betterment of projects, people, and plans. His passion for clean code, automated test, and continuous delivery has led to highly efficient success.

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Seth Stone

Freelance Linux Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since July 13, 2014

Seth is a cloud solutions architect and software developer specializing in AWS, DevOps automation, and API Integrations. He's had previous full-time system architect and developer positions with Pine Cove, CoNetrix, and Walmart. Seth is a certified AWS solutions architect and developer and is proficient in CloudFormation, CFML, JavaScript, PHP, and SQL.

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Christopher Smith

Freelance Linux Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since September 14, 2016

Christopher is an expert JVM developer with solid experience building with Spring, Groovy, and the JVM ecosystem in general. He has managed the full software lifecycle from requirements to deployment, along with systems administration and networking (CCDP/CCNP). He is a proactive guy who's looking for projects that involve back-end engineering, infrastructure questions, networking, orchestration, and harder functional programming.

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Matthew Keas

Freelance Linux Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since July 13, 2013

Matthew is an enthusiastic student of computer science, distributed computing, compiler theory, computer security, self-configured Linux systems, and functional theory. Recent projects involve cross-cloud and private-cloud architecture, configuring multiple Kubernetes clusters, Rancher cluster manager, Longhorn distributed block-storage management, Apache Kafka, and IoT edge-computing.

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Phoebe Beckinger

Freelance Linux Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since January 13, 2020

Phoebe is a full-stack developer with over nine years of experience building software across a range of industries and company sizes. Her primary focus has been server-side development, but she also enjoys working with modern UI solutions. Phoebe is meticulous about her code, a passionate advocate for best practices, and knows how fundamental communication is in delivering exceptional products.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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