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Srinivas Pendyala

Cloudera Developer
UTC-06:00
United States
Toptal Member Since June 7, 2024

Srinivas is a multifaceted cloud and data solutions architect with 27 years of leadership experience across engineering, pre-sales, and professional services. He drives digital transformation and modernization through solution design, architecture, and deployment of highly scalable distributed computing. Srinivas uses GenAI/ML and big data for engineering, analytics, data lakes, and data warehousing, orchestrating microservices with Kubernetes in public, private, and hybrid clouds.

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Randall Vaughn Shane

Cloudera Developer
UTC-06:00
United States
Toptal Member Since October 22, 2025

Randall is an AI systems architect with 30+ years building enterprise-grade data and intelligence systems across healthcare, finance, retail, and defense. He designs production agentic AI—tool-using agents, MCP-based orchestration, and RAG over knowledge graphs—on cloud-native data foundations (AWS, Databricks, S3 lakehouse with Parquet/Iceberg). He pairs deep data engineering and governance (ownership, security, lineage, FHIR/HL7) with explainable GenAI built for regulated environments.

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Ishita Mukherjee

Cloudera Developer
UTC-05:00
Canada
Toptal Member Since August 19, 2026

At Royal Bank of Canada, Ishita led the architecture and delivery of an enterprise agentic AI platform supporting 100+ business users. She is a principal engineer and architect with over 15 years of experience in data and AI/ML for financial services and healthcare. Ishita's expertise spans AWS, Databricks, and Python; she reduced infrastructure costs by 60% while at RBC.

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Baris Ergun

Cloudera Developer
UTC+00:00
United Kingdom
Toptal Member Since October 26, 2020

Baris is a qualified and experienced software developer and technical architect with over 18 years of development and technical leadership experience. He has a proven track record in leading development teams and architecting high-performance applications for various IT and software needs. Baris has technical and interpersonal competencies, with over ten years of Java and five years of Scala commercial experience. He has worked for SMBs, enterprises, and Fortune 500 companies.

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Alexander Smirnov

Cloudera Developer
UTC+00:00
United Kingdom
Toptal Member Since October 6, 2016

Alexander is a skilled IT professional with 20 years of solid experience in software development, software architecture design, and project management. An industrious person, he has a passion for problem solving, writes excellent code, and is always punctual, delivering high quality products even on a tight schedule.

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Tomislav Delas

Cloudera Developer
UTC+01:00
Croatia
Toptal Member Since July 16, 2020

Tomislav is a seasoned IT expert in the software industry dating back to 1996. Most of his expertise is focused on data engineering, including the development of DWH and BI solutions, database and SQL optimization, and database administration. Tomislav has deep knowledge of SQL programming, database administration, Big Data technologies, cloud databases and services across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, as well as ETL pipeline development using Python, REST APIs, Informatica, and DataStage.

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Drappeau Samia

Cloudera Developer
UTC+01:00
France
Toptal Member Since May 7, 2020

Samia is an accomplished astrophysicist turned full-stack data scientist. She has a PhD in astronomy/astrophysics and leverages her critical and creative thinking with industry-oriented problem-solving skills. She offers innovative approaches to solving data strategy and data-driven problems using custom-built machine learning and deep learning approaches. Samia has published a dozen peer-reviewed articles and a book and developed specialized apps and predictive prototypes for clients.

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Adel Abu Hashim

Cloudera Developer
UTC+03:00
Saudi Arabia
Toptal Member Since April 8, 2024

Adel is a data architect and senior data engineer with 6+ years in telecom and fintech, designing warehouses, lakehouses, and pipelines on Teradata, Oracle, Cloudera, AWS, and Databricks. At STC, he rebuilt a national telecom platform's archival layer, reclaiming 250+ TB and cutting query latency 80%; at Paymob, he cut Redshift cost 20% while doubling query speed. He holds CDMP, AWS Data Engineer, and Microsoft Fabric certifications, and has delivered 120+ freelance projects at a 5-star average.

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Vishant Thareja

Cloudera Developer
UTC+04:00
United Arab Emirates
Toptal Member Since April 29, 2026

Vishant has 12+ years of experience building enterprise data platforms, lakehouses, real-time streaming, and RAG pipelines that make business data talk to LLMs. He started with Oracle and PL/SQL, moved through Cloudera and Hadoop, and is now deep in Azure Databricks, Snowflake, DBT, Delta Lake, Kafka, AWS Glue, and Databricks Vector Search. Vishant built data teams from scratch and delivered across 8+ business verticals.

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Hafiz Shehbaz Ali

Cloudera Developer
UTC+04:00
United Arab Emirates
Toptal Member Since February 27, 2026

Hafiz is a senior data engineer with more than 11 years of experience building large-scale data platforms, real-time pipelines, and cloud-native architectures. He specializes in PySpark, SQL, Databricks, open-source big data technologies, and distributed systems. Across banking, financial services, and enterprise analytics environments, Hafiz delivers high-quality, reliable data products that enable scalable and data-driven operations.

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Shahida R. Khan

Cloudera Developer
UTC+04:00
United Arab Emirates
Toptal Member Since June 1, 2026

Shahida is a lead data infrastructure engineer with 12+ years of enterprise experience scaling cloud-native financial platforms and distributed lakehouses. She specializes in real-time streaming, transactional ledger reconciliation, and petabyte-scale ingestion. With a proven track record of establishing strict governance frameworks and driving deep FinOps optimizations that slash compute waste, Shahida excels at leading cross-functional engineering squads to deliver high-impact systems.

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  • Typically, you can hire Cloudera developers with Toptal in about 48 hours. For larger teams of talent or full end-to-end project delivery, timelines may vary. Our talent matchers are highly skilled in the same fields they’re matching in—they’re not recruiters or HR reps. They’ll work with you to understand your goals, technical needs, and team dynamics, and match you with ideal candidates from our vetted global talent network.

    Once you select your Cloudera developer, you’ll have a no-risk trial period to ensure they’re the perfect fit. Our matching process has a 98% trial-to-hire rate, so you can rest assured that you’re getting the best fit every time.

  • To hire the right Cloudera developer, it’s important to evaluate a candidate’s experience, technical skills, and communication skills. You’ll also want to consider the fit with your particular industry, company, and project. Toptal’s rigorous screening process ensures that every member of our network has excellent experience and skills, and our team will match you with the perfect Cloudera developers for your project.

  • At Toptal, we thoroughly screen our Cloudera developers to ensure we only match you with the highest caliber of talent. Of the more than 200,000 people who apply to join the Toptal network each year, fewer than 3% make the cut.

    In addition to screening for industry-leading expertise, we also assess candidates’ language and interpersonal skills to ensure that you have a smooth working relationship.

    When you hire Cloudera developers with Toptal, you’ll always work with world-class, custom-matched Cloudera developers ready to help you achieve your goals.

  • You can hire Cloudera developers on an hourly, part-time, or full-time basis. Toptal can also manage the project end-to-end based on your specific requirements as part of our Consulting and Services offerings. Whether you hire a Cloudera developer for a full- or part-time position, you’ll have the control and flexibility to scale your team up or down as your needs evolve. Our Cloudera developers can fully integrate into your existing team for a seamless working experience.

  • We make sure that each engagement between you and your Cloudera developer begins with a trial period of up to two weeks. This means that you have time to confirm the engagement will be successful. If you’re completely satisfied with the results, we’ll bill you for the time and continue the engagement for as long as you’d like. If you’re not completely satisfied, you won’t be billed. From there, we can either part ways, or we can provide you with another Cloudera developer who may be a better fit and with whom we will begin a second, no-risk trial.

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    We want to be sure your engagement is a total success, so we offer a no-risk trial period. Work with your new hire for up to two weeks and pay only if you’re satisfied.

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