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Prashant Singh

Freelance Back-End Developer

United KingdomToptal Member Since December 3, 2018

Prashant is a full-stack developer with a broad and versatile coding skill set. He quickly helps startups and enterprises with prototypes and ideas by efficiently building those things into reality. His expertise lies in building MVPs, apps, enterprise software, scalable microservices, web crawlers, REST and Socket APIs, infrastructure modeling, AWS, and deployments. Prashant is the go-to guy for any of your development needs.

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Ben Carey

Freelance Back-End Developer

United KingdomToptal Member Since December 27, 2017

With more than seventeen years of development experience, accompanied by over a decade of building and consulting with tech startups, Ben is a seasoned veteran and brings with him an abundance of specialized skills. He also held the position of vice president of partnerships and product strategy at one of Europe's leading startup accelerators for over two years. The combination of coding and strategic experience that Ben brings is unrivaled.

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Andrzej Doyle

Freelance Back-End Developer

United KingdomToptal Member Since August 10, 2020

Andrzej is a senior back-end developer with fifteen years of experience in JVM languages, Java and Scala, including ten years' work for demanding financial clients such as IHS Markit and GSA Capital. He is adept at delivering a complete software project from conception to deployment, focusing on thoroughly understanding the underlying business problem.

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Yilu Zhu

Freelance Back-End Developer

United KingdomToptal Member Since May 16, 2020

Yilu is a back-end developer who has been using Python for over 13 years. He has gained invaluable experience within the finance industry over the last 10 years. He worked with leading companies such as JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, UBS, Fidelity, and IHS Markit during his career. Besides the financial sector, Yilu is keen on data science and AI.

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Slava Solovei

Freelance Back-End Developer

United KingdomToptal Member Since May 24, 2020

Slava has 20 years of industry experience, the last ten as a technical lead, and CTO. He has built several products from idea to profitability and has a solid understanding of what it takes to grow a software startup from an idea, to MVP, and beyond. He built an insurance platform with a fully automated DevOps process that handles 12 million+ requests a day. He excels at SASS, cloud, DevOps, strategy, and leadership, and writes stable, robust code.

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Hari Honor

Freelance Back-End Developer

United KingdomToptal Member Since October 8, 2019

Hari is a pioneering full-stack web and mobile developer with 16+ years of experience. He has worked with leading brands and companies such as X Factor (the TV show), Universal Pictures, and NatWest Bank, plus many startups. His specialties are iOS (Swift/Obj-C), Ruby/Rails, and JavaScript (pure, React, Node, TypeScript), and projects with rich interactive visual experiences such as AR. Hari has led projects that have millions of users, and he's known for clear, insightful communication.

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Omar Fahmy

Freelance Back-End Developer

United KingdomToptal Member Since January 12, 2020

Omar is a back-end developer specializing in Scala and functional programming. Omar previously worked at iManage, where he was responsible for delivering performance-intensive back-end services for the iManage AI platform, which is trusted by the world's top law firms, in challenging on-premise deployments. Omar is passionate about delivering well-tested, clean code that fulfills requirements while being considerate of future developers by leaving behind a maintainable and robust codebase.

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Alejandro Santos

Freelance Back-End Developer

United KingdomToptal Member Since January 3, 2020

Alejandro is a computer scientist and software professional with an MSc in computer science. Over the past 15 years, Alejandro's worked on several projects in a variety of industries—including the private sector, scientific endeavors, and research—for a range of companies and institutes including CERN, where he recently developed software in Java and integrated it in a database system while working agile. Alejandro enjoys working within distributed teams and values clear communication.

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Andrew Miller

Freelance Back-End Developer

United KingdomToptal Member Since August 27, 2019

Andrew is a full-stack software engineer with eight years of experience in Python, Django, and JavaScript. Recently, he picked up static site generators such as Jekyll and GatsbyJS in combination with React. His expertise includes automation, migrations, architecture, deployments, and team management. Andrew is passionate about building out ideas, especially when they empower others to improve their quality of life.

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Ilker Karan

Freelance Back-End Developer

United KingdomToptal Member Since April 22, 2020

Ilker is an accomplished software engineer, highly skilled in both front-end and back-end web development. He is a friendly, cooperative, and adaptive individual, which allows him to blend into any team and project with ease. He is also a highly motivated and hardworking person who can focus on delivering outstanding work in an organized, reliable, and consistent manner.

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Kristian Whittick

Freelance Back-End Developer

United KingdomToptal Member Since April 19, 2020

Kristian is a solution architect who excels at building elegant, pragmatic solutions for business challenges—whether it be technical, operational, or within a team. With 30 years of IT experience, Kristian's amassed a wealth of expertise and skills, including leading and mentoring architecture/dev teams and technically leading projects (1 to 4 years in length). He's skilled in major patterns, platforms, languages (Java, C++, JS), libraries (TIBCO, Node.js), and paradigms (SOA, microservices).

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Testimonials

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.

Brantley Pace, CEO & Co-Founder

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.

Stuart Pocknee , Principal

Site Specific Software Solutions

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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A Toptal director of engineering will work with you to understand your goals, technical needs, and team dynamics.
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Within days, we'll introduce you to the right back-end developer for your project. Average time to match is under 24 hours.
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Work with your new back-end developer for a trial period (pay only if satisfied), ensuring they're the right fit before starting the engagement.

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    Choose the engagement type that suits your needs — hourly, part-time, or full-time — with the ability to change anytime.

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    Focus on your project and enjoy support from your dedicated account executive and expert talent matcher.

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