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Mike Stankavich

Freelance DevOps Engineer

United StatesToptal Member Since September 17, 2013

Mike is a senior data engineer and freelance architect experienced across the development stack. He has extensive cloud and infrastructure experience, with multiple certifications from Microsoft, ISC2, Powersoft, and more. He currently builds data back ends for web apps at scale on RDBMS or NoSQL platforms.

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Marius Ducea

Freelance DevOps Engineer

United StatesToptal Member Since June 26, 2020

Marius is an accomplished DevOps engineer with over 10 years of experience in designing and implementing automated, secure, and reliable systems for clients such as AdMob, Thumbtack, and Zillow. He specializes in DevOps culture-building through build/package/release automation, infrastructure coding on AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, configuration management, monitoring, and instrumentation.

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Brandon Williams

Freelance DevOps Engineer

United StatesToptal Member Since November 24, 2014

Brandon is a systems engineer who's passionate about creating highly available, fault-tolerant, secure, and scalable systems. Along with having worked as a software engineer, he knows the ins and out of the AWS ecosystem, having made the most of its capabilities since 2015. Brandon is an advocate of predictable, repeatable, and maintainable code and infrastructure as code.

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Bradley Eichenberg

Freelance DevOps Engineer

United StatesToptal Member Since July 24, 2014

In 2010, Brad graduated as a double major in CS and accounting. He designed web platforms for local businesses in college and has since proven to be an accomplished full-stack engineer with heavy experience in many of today's relevant frameworks. Recently, he's managed software development at a small startup company in Kansas City, designing multi-tenant platforms from scratch using the full web stack and AWS. Brad's recently created multiple COVID-19 React Native apps to benefit the community.

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Michael Cole

Freelance DevOps Engineer

United StatesToptal Member Since May 15, 2014

Michael is an expert full-stack web engineer, speaker, and consultant with over two decades of experience and a degree in computer science. He has led, consulted, and supported teams in startups, manufacturing, defense, film, and healthcare. Building MVPs, he has experience working on the front-end, back-end, and DevOps. He freelances and speaks to broaden his knowledge and participation in the future we are creating through technology.

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Allen Hillman

Freelance DevOps Engineer

United StatesToptal Member Since August 19, 2015

Allen has extensive experience across the entire stack of development from the database storage through various middleware implementations and front-end development as needed. He has been managing cloud-based services for many years including Kubernetes, centralized logging, as well as event management and storage. Allen is experienced in developing with multiple compiled and scripting languages including Go, Java, and JavaScript/Typescript, and he enjoys researching and learning new things.

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Remi Taffin

Freelance DevOps Engineer

United StatesToptal Member Since October 18, 2018

With six years of experience in DevOps, Remi understands that dev and ops teams have fundamentally different goals. Developers want their code released ASAP while sysops want to avoid system failure. He is a problem solver who strives to bridge the gap between both teams by delivering reliable and automated systems, leading to shorter release cycles, better communication, less conflict, lower IT costs, and lets you focus on growing your business.

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Andy Potanin

Freelance DevOps Engineer

United StatesToptal Member Since January 30, 2018

Andy is a businessman who understands the fundamentals of business and who knows how to code. Overall, he's very experienced in nearly all aspects of contemporary web development, deployment, DevOps, and the elements of building a solid stack that can scale. Early on in his career, he was a very early adopter of Docker and Node.js and has a strong development background with the WordPress API.

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Joseph Lombardo

Freelance DevOps Engineer

United StatesToptal Member Since October 29, 2019

Joseph is a cloud architect, application developer, and Linux administrator building on- and off-premises hybrid solutions. He designed and built a multi-cloud, global SD-WAN enterprise orchestration system and an OpenStack private cloud infrastructure across two private datacenters with multiple availability zones. Joseph is particularly interested in the co-mingled roles of development and operations, new technologies, and close interaction with the open-source community.

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Chris Green

Freelance DevOps Engineer

United StatesToptal Member Since April 17, 2018

Chris is a seasoned development leader who will hustle with unlimited intensity to achieve your objectives. Over the past two decades, he's delivered results and left lasting quantitative/qualitative SDLC improvements. Chris values transparency in information and openness in collaboration. He's well organized, works aggressively, and always wears a smile. Fail early. Keep it simple. Refactor, refactor, refactor. Test, test, test.

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Christopher J. Stobie

Freelance DevOps Engineer

United StatesToptal Member Since July 1, 2018

Chris is a seasoned principal DevOps engineer with several years of experience building and managing applications. Formerly the director of DevOps/SRE at an AI company, Veritone, in Costa Mesa, CA, and a solutions architect at AWS. Chris has led numerous large-scale cloud architecture designs and implementations including building a real-time serverless AI platform on AWS.

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Guide to Hiring a Great DevOps Engineer

DevOps is like full-stack development: Covering both development and system operations, it cuts across a very wide spectrum of tech. DevOps engineers can be expected to know everything from ad-hoc SQL data mining to automating Docker via Bash scripts. Recruit and interview DevOps engineers effectively with this handy hiring guide.

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Tripcents wouldn't exist without Toptal. Toptal Projects enabled us to rapidly develop our foundation with a product manager, lead developer, and senior designer. In just over 60 days we went from concept to Alpha. The speed, knowledge, expertise, and flexibility is second to none. The Toptal team were as part of tripcents as any in-house team member of tripcents. They contributed and took ownership of the development just like everyone else. We will continue to use Toptal. As a start up, they are our secret weapon.

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Tripcents

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.

Paul Fenley, Director

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.

Abner Guzmán Rivera, CTO and Chief Scientist

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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