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Jonathan Rhone

Freelance Data Scientist

United StatesToptal Member Since January 3, 2014

Jonathan is a full-stack engineer who's as comfortable working on large-scale distributed systems as he is on client-facing single-page web apps. Jon also excels at working with big data, and has frequently worked on a petabyte scale.

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Lawrence Zhou

Freelance Data Scientist

United StatesToptal Member Since June 27, 2018

Lawrence is a software developer and quantitative analyst with over 12 years of experience in software development and quantitative modeling. He's worked at Citigroup, Traxis Partners, as well as co-founding a Y-Combinator funded startup. Lawrence prefers projects that use both his financial and programming backgrounds, but he also enjoys working with and analyzing data—either in analysis, visualization, or machine learning.

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Matthew Alhonte

Freelance Data Scientist

United StatesToptal Member Since June 20, 2018

Matt has officially worked as a Python-based data scientist for the past six years; however, he's spent the last ten at the intersection of stats and programming (before the term data scientist had caught on). He combines strong technical skills with a rigorous background in experiment design and statistical inference. More recently, he's been focusing on machine learning, including some natural language processing and computer vision.

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Vimal Vachhani

Freelance Data Scientist

United StatesToptal Member Since April 17, 2019

Vimal is a senior enterprise data architect with an extensive background in database and business intelligence fundamentals. He has over 14 years of experience across industries as a user experience architect, data modeler, data architect, solutions developer, and business analyst. Vimal brings in-depth knowledge to projects with BI tools, including SQL Server, analysis, integration and reporting services, as well as big data fundamentals.

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Brian Todd

Freelance Data Scientist

United StatesToptal Member Since May 20, 2019

Brian is an experienced data scientist and machine learning engineer with a track record of researching and deploying a wide range of models for natural language processing (NLP) tasks, computer vision algorithms, classical machine learning algorithms, Bayesian statistical models, time series analysis models, and large-scale data mining algorithms.

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Abraham Bruck

Freelance Data Scientist

United StatesToptal Member Since February 14, 2017

Abraham's been working with databases since 1984, including Oracle, PostgreSQL, MS Access, MySQL, and more in Unix, Windows, and AWS (cloud) environments. His work experience runs the gamut from data analysis, modeling, migration, conversion, integration, aggregation, mining, optimization, performance tuning, warehousing to extensive, varied, and detailed reporting.

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Paul Butler

Freelance Data Scientist

United StatesToptal Member Since September 7, 2020

Backed by 20 years of experience, Paul has served as a principal architect, technical project manager, and engineer for various software development focus areas such as SFA, CRM, business intelligence, data warehousing, forecast modeling, reporting, data visualization, data science, and web apps. He focuses on creating innovative solutions, which are highly aligned to business value. A keen strategist, Paul enjoy spanning business and technical expertise to create high impact solutions.

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Hegler Tissot

Freelance Data Scientist

United StatesToptal Member Since November 13, 2020

Hegler has over 30 years of computer science and commercial application systems development experience, mainly focused on designing large transactional and analytical database projects over different industry sectors, including healthcare, telecom, manufacturing, quality control, and transport logistics. More recently, Hegler has been focusing his experience on applying knowledge embedding representation to build predictive models from structured and unstructured data.

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Liang Kuang

Freelance Data Scientist

United StatesToptal Member Since June 1, 2020

Liang has a Ph.D. with a strong background in numerical computation, machine learning, deep learning, neural network, big data mining, visualization, and multiple programming. He developed the largest financial regulatory database in the world and a Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT), handling up to 400 billion records per trade day. He brings deep technical insights in designing algorithms and end-to-end analytic platforms, including data lakes and predictive ML/AL models for system optimization.

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Laura Michela

Freelance Data Scientist

United StatesToptal Member Since November 18, 2016

Laura is a data-driven strategist with expertise in turning data into actionable insights. Laura fell in love with Tableau 7.0 in her MBA business analytics program and never looked back. Now, she is a Tableau certified professional and spends her days telling stories with data to influence business decisions.

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Darron Fuller

Freelance Data Scientist

United StatesToptal Member Since May 21, 2019

Darron has 15 years experience as a client-facing lead engineer of infrastructure and mission-critical advanced analytics software for notable clients in the renewable energy industry and U.S. Department of Defense. He has degrees in data analytics and computer science, covering machine learning and decision optimization.

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Guide to Hiring a Great Data Scientist

What makes a great data scientist? The answer depends on the branch of data science in question and your specific needs, but all data scientists inevitably share a core set of skills. This comprehensive hiring guide outlines critical skills and explains how to pick the right data scientist for the job.

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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.

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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.

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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

How to Hire Data Scientists Near NYC

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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 data scientist for your project. Average time to match is under 24 hours.
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Work with your new data scientist for a trial period (pay only if satisfied), ensuring they're the right fit before starting the engagement.

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