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Michael Harvey, Freelance Linux Programmer for Hire.

Michael Harvey

Verified Expert in Engineering
32 Years of Experience

Linux Developer

Mike is a senior developer with three decades of experience building software for embedded systems and cloud platforms, including more than 15 years at Intel. He has substantial experience with Linux, C, C++, Python, and Java and has worked with media technologies, networking, eCommerce, and payments. Mike is an experienced technical lead.

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Element Green, Linux Freelancer.

Element Green

Verified Expert in Engineering
28 Years of Experience

Linux Developer

Element has 35+ years of software development experience, including Linux and embedded systems and website, Android, and graphical user interface (GUI) development. He specializes in D, C, C++, and Python and possesses various other technical and creative skills, including SQL, VHDL on FPGAs, schematic capture, PCB layout, Django, and 3D CAD. Element is self-motivated, enjoys learning new tech, has exemplary communication skills, and prides himself on delivering quality work.

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Chris Kottaridis, Freelance Linux Developer for Hire.

Chris Kottaridis

Verified Expert in Engineering
32 Years of Experience

Linux Developer

Chris has 25 years of experience in Linux environments. Most of those years were spent in operating system development, such as writing device drivers and embedded Linux systems. His most recent tasks have been in the cloud computing world, where he was on IBM Cloud's core development team. He's currently interested in both Linux and FreeRTOS-based embedded systems.

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Ming Rutar, Senior Linux Programmer and Consultant.

Ming Rutar

Verified Expert in Engineering
21 Years of Experience

Linux Developer

Ming is an experienced software and DevOps engineer with almost two decades of experience in various industries. She is proficient with Python, TypeScript, shell scripting, Terraform, Java, C++, C, C# languages, and Linux and Windows operating system. Ming has hands-on experience with AWS programming, cloud management, network configuration and management, Docker and Docker Compose creation, CI/CD pipelines automation, TensorFlow, HMMLearn, Jupyter Notebook, Matplotlib, Pandas, and NumPy.

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Charlie Hileman, Senior Linux Programmer and Consultant.

Charlie Hileman

Verified Expert in Engineering
33 Years of Experience

Linux Developer

Charlie is a full-stack engineer with extensive back-end experience and a scientific background, having recently worked in medical technologies. He's proficient in cloud services such as AWS, in addition to Linux, Docker, and DevOps. Charlie possesses exemplary communication skills and excels at working with both technical and non-technical teams.

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Mirosław Opoka, Freelance Linux Programmer for Hire.

Mirosław Opoka

Verified Expert in Engineering
26 Years of Experience

Linux Developer

Mirosław is a senior software engineer and consultant with over 25 years of experience in embedded systems, industrial software, and back-end development. Pragmatic and outcome-driven, he focuses on delivering maintainable solutions without unnecessary complexity. Mirosław excels at translating technical details into business decisions and business goals into clear engineering requirements, clarifying scope, defining interfaces, and keeping teams aligned.

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Louis Rubet, Linux Engineer.

Louis Rubet

Verified Expert in Engineering
28 Years of Experience

Linux Developer

Louis is an embedded systems architect and a C and C++ expert. He has mainly worked on IoT projects under Linux and low-level and time-critical high-integrity projects for IoT, defense, and railway industries. As a smart building startupper, he has gained four years of experience in team building, engineering, and workflow management.

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Jan Kratochvíl, Toptal Linux Developer.

Jan Kratochvíl

Verified Expert in Engineering
23 Years of Experience

Linux Developer

Jan is a back-end developer with 20+ years of experience, specializing in server-side code in C++11 (and higher) and previously in building C++ debuggers and Linux dev tools. He is an expert in DWARF debugging format and has been fixing large codebases such as LLDB and GDB debuggers. Jan's experience spans Interactive Brokers C++ API; disassembling and reverse engineering; and troubleshooting, programming, and configuring networks, embedded devices, Linux servers, RHEL, CentOS, and Fedora.

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Aleksander Korzynski, Senior Linux Programmer and Consultant.

Aleksander Korzynski

Verified Expert in Engineering
19 Years of Experience

Linux Developer

Aleksander is a veteran Linux engineer who helps organizations achieve strategic software delivery goals, such as agility, reliability, and security. As a Toptal and Google contractor, he designed a CD pipeline supporting almost 1,000 developers. At the University of Cambridge, he tuned the performance of applications in a >£1 million Linux HPC cluster. Aleksander can configure the cloud, CI/CD, and release automation.

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Denis Makarov, Linux Coder.

Denis Makarov

Verified Expert in Engineering
15 Years of Experience

Linux Developer

Denis is an embedded system developer with 10+ years of experience in designing, developing, and maintaining complex software and hardware systems. He holds a PhD in electronics and has professional expertise in C, C++, STL, Qt, Linux, and FreeRTOS. Along with solid experience in embedded systems, information security, cryptography, and networks, Denis is enthusiastic about developing high-load real-time systems for his clients.

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Neil Gulati, Expert Linux Programmer for Hire.

Neil Gulati

Verified Expert in Engineering
21 Years of Experience

Linux Developer

Neil has over 25 years of experience in network and application programming, recently focusing on Python REST APIs using DRF, Redis, RabbitMQ, Apache Pulsar, and CouchDB. He also has solid expertise in JavaScript, C, C++, PHP, Perl, CSS, and HTML. He has pushed the Django object-relational mapper to the limit and has used Postgres, MySQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle, and IBM DB2. Neil thrives in the Linux CLI environment using Vim, Tmux, and Bash and embraces the DevOps revolution and Kubernetes.

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