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Daniel Stahl

Freelance Data Engineer

United States

Toptal Member Since August 25, 2021

Daniel is a full-stack developer with nine years of real-world experience in financial modeling and analytics and three years of experience developing big data applications in Spark and Hadoop. He currently leads a machine learning operations team that designs continuous delivery services for machine learning applications. While professionally focused on data and analytics, Daniel has a passion for building delightful interfaces to enable the broad consumption of complex mathematical models.

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Jameson Edgeworth

Freelance Data Engineer

United States

Toptal Member Since June 22, 2022

Jameson brings together a blend of business knowledge and mathematics. With skills in data modeling and statistical analysis, Jameson has helped companies from small businesses to the Fortune 500 understand their business operations and analyze trends through data.

Data Engineering Statisticians SQL Business Intelligence Development Data Warehouse ETL Excel Development

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Mikhail Fishzon

Freelance Data Engineer

United States

Toptal Member Since June 22, 2022

Mikhail is an alumnus of Google and Lyft and a data engineer who enjoys turning real-life business problems into scalable data platforms. Over the last two decades, he has helped companies architect, build, and maintain performance-optimized databases and data pipelines. Mikhail is knowledgeable in database optimization techniques and has achieved a 99% increase in slow-running query performance.

Data Engineering SQL Python Database PostgreSQL Redshift ETL AWS Data Science Data Warehouse MySQL AWS RDS Greenplum

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Peter Daniels

Freelance Data Engineer

United States

Toptal Member Since September 18, 2023

Peter is a seasoned data platform expert specializing in the Microsoft stack, including Azure. With skills ranging from data architecture and engineering to database administration and development, his 29 years of experience, multiple certifications, and passion for learning set him apart in addressing clients' diverse data requirements. Most recently, Peter helped a growing company migrate their on-premise data and AI estate into Azure as part of an ERP migration to Microsoft Dynamics 365.

Data Engineering SQL Server Database Design Data Warehouse Windows PowerShell Database Data Modeling SSIS SQL ETL Data Migration Cloud Engineering T-SQL

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Steven Rouk

Freelance Data Engineer

United States

Toptal Member Since October 6, 2021

Steven is an expert Python and SQL data engineer with strong data science and data analysis capabilities and eight years of experience. He has led the development of technical solutions, and his most recent role was as a senior member of a data engineering team at a Fortune 100 company. The team processed billions of rows of data in a Snowflake ecosystem with thousands of tables, and the client regarded Steven as one of the highest contributing members of the 10+ member team.

Data Engineering Python SQL Pandas

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Hang Guo

Freelance Data Engineer

United States

Toptal Member Since May 20, 2021

Hang is a skilled data and database engineer with a proven track record in writing programs and extracting valuable insights from data. He excels in back-end database development, ETL, data pipeline creation, and business intelligence solutions. Proficient in AWS technologies such as Lambda, Step Functions, EMR, DynamoDB, SES, and API Gateway, Hang is adept at working with on-premise databases (SQL Server, PostgreSQL), cloud databases (AWS Redshift), and big data technologies (Spark).

Data Engineering Python SQL ETL Amazon S3 PySpark Data Modeling SQL Server PostgreSQL AWS Lambda AWS Spark AWS RDS

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Ram Verma

Freelance Data Engineer

United States

Toptal Member Since July 22, 2021

Ram has over four years of professional experience architecting and leading the development of engineering solutions with an emphasis on object-oriented design and software infrastructure debugging. He specializes in Java and Python back-end development of large-scale systems, cloud migrations, microservices, and data pipeline processes. Ram's expertise includes developing business plans and requirements specifications and leading technical projects with strong inter-team communication.

Data Engineering Python Java Linux Debugging Git REST API SQL Integration Data Integration PostgreSQL Algorithms Cloud Engineering

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Leah Sapan

Freelance Data Engineer

United States

Toptal Member Since August 31, 2015

Leah is a product-minded software engineer with over 15 years of professional software development experience. She has an extensive background in tech lead and architect roles with various clients spanning healthcare, fintech, eCommerce, and more. Leah takes pride in building products that delight users and exceed her client's expectations.

Data Engineering PyCharm Xcode System Security REST API Back-end Developers Authentication AWS Web Scraping Ansible PostgreSQL Linux Docker

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Derek Owens-Oas

Freelance Data Engineer

United States

Toptal Member Since January 21, 2020

Derek has a PhD in statistical science from Duke and has worked as a data scientist and software developer at Xylem. He's the founder of Tech Smart Magic. Published in the Journal of Classification and a TA of the year, he's an expert in research and teaching. He provides interactive apps, visualizations, and reports. Derek's Python and R programming, top AI and ML methods, and ability to communicate make him an asset to any company. His specialties include text data and online social networks.

Data Engineering RStudio Shiny Data Science Data Visualization Pandas Data Cleaning ETL Analytics Development Algorithms NLP Data Modeling Database Automation

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Benjamin Li

Freelance Data Engineer

Canada

Toptal Member Since November 3, 2021

Benjamin has over two decades of software and big data development experience, including data modeling and data warehouse design. His active toolset includes Spark, Python, Scala, AWS, Azure, SQL, Hive, Linux, Microsoft BI solutions, C#.NET, and Java. His orientation to detail and strong analytical and problem-solving skills make him an excellent addition to any team. A kind and intentional communicator, Benjamin always produces high-quality work.

Data Engineering SQL Server Hadoop Spark Data Modeling SQL Bash SSIS Big Data Architecture Data Warehouse Database Database Design Business Intelligence Development

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Naman Jain

Freelance Data Engineer

India

Toptal Member Since June 24, 2020

Naman is a highly experienced cloud and data solutions architect with more than six years of experience delivering data engineering services to multiple Fortune 100 clients. He has delivered on multiple Petabyte-scale data migrations and big data infrastructures via Azure Cloud, AWS Cloud, and Snowflake or DBT, creating a step order of efficiency in their use cases in many instances. Naman fundamentally believes in over-communication, establishing trust, and taking ownership of deliverables.

Data Engineering Git Azure Spark Data Warehouse Data Migration ETL Database Big Data Architecture Databricks Scala SQL Play Framework

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