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Ramy Fekry

Freelance OpenAI Developer
Verified Expert in Engineering
United States
Toptal Member Since January 6, 2025

Ramy is an adept back-end and machine learning expert and a seasoned software engineer adept at navigating intricate technical environments. He spearheads cutting-edge machine learning projects while leveraging his expertise in Python programming and enterprise software solutions. With a wealth of firsthand experience, Ramy crafts solutions for large-scale and innovative projects, showcasing a proven ability to deliver sophisticated results.

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Ivan Novak

Freelance OpenAI Developer
Verified Expert in Engineering
United States
Toptal Member Since February 2, 2022

Ivan is a technical founder, principal engineer, and solution architect with 20 years of experience. He has participated in and founded multiple startups and is familiar with the highest highs and lowest lows that owners go through. Recently, he helped grow a startup from a $4 million to $87 million valuation in three years with a successful Series A round. Ivan's in-depth understanding and strategic approach have enabled him to deliver numerous products.

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Belal Esawe

Freelance OpenAI Developer
Verified Expert in Engineering
Canada
Toptal Member Since June 21, 2023

Belal is a senior machine learning (ML) engineer with over a decade of experience developing and deploying AI-driven systems. His work has spanned LLMs, multi-agent frameworks, classification, recommendation systems, and computer vision. He has been involved across the full ML lifecycle, including research, model development, deployment, and system optimization. Belal is experienced with technologies such as Claude Code, GPT, LangChain, LangGraph, LLama, AWS, NLP, and computer vision.

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Gianluca Vaccarini

Freelance OpenAI Developer
Verified Expert in Engineering
United States
Toptal Member Since January 28, 2022

Gianluca is a highly versatile full-stack software engineer. He has helped many companies take an idea and turn it into a product that serves thousands to millions of users. He's built the software that powers Tesla's service centers for scheduling from scratch and has worked at big tech companies such as Atlassian, Adobe, Snapchat, Starbucks, and T-Mobile. Known for building fast and exceptionally well, Gianluca can work on either end of the stack.

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George McIntire

Freelance OpenAI Developer
Verified Expert in Engineering
United States
Toptal Member Since January 31, 2024

George is a results-driven data scientist who brings a diverse skill set and rich experience to the table. His expertise lies in data translation and a versatile toolkit, including Python, SQL, and machine learning. George excels at distilling complex findings into actionable and comprehensible insights, making data accessible and impactful for stakeholders.

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Felipe Machado

Freelance OpenAI Developer
Verified Expert in Engineering
United States
Toptal Member Since June 13, 2019

Felipe is a senior AI, back-end, and cloud engineer with 10+ years of experience building production software for startups and product teams. He specializes in Python, FastAPI, React, TypeScript, GCP, LLM workflows, vLLM, Neo4j, and embeddings. Felipe is strongest when owning architecture, implementation, debugging, infrastructure, and delivery end-to-end.

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Horia Mărgărit

Freelance OpenAI Developer
Verified Expert in Engineering
United States
Toptal Member Since November 16, 2021

Horia's industry experience extends across digital health, consumer finance, internet search, engineering software, and transportation logistics. He has over 10 years of expertise applying AI methods and approaches to tackle businesses problems. Horia's predictions for business applications of AI have been featured in CIO magazine and Forbes. He earned a master of science degree in statistics at Stanford University and two BAs specializing in cognitive and computer science at UC Berkeley.

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Aidan Prehatny

Freelance OpenAI Developer
Verified Expert in Engineering
United States
Toptal Member Since August 27, 2025

Aidan is a senior full-stack engineer with 8+ years of experience who ships reliable, user-focused products. He builds React/Next.js UIs and Node.js/Python services, designs REST and GraphQL APIs, and runs on AWS or Vercel with solid CI/CD, observability, and security. Recent work spans real-time simulation at Slingshot Aerospace and consumer web apps at BannerWave. He has practical experience adding AI features with OpenAI and the Vercel AI SDK when they serve clear product goals.

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Delon Saks

Freelance OpenAI Developer
Verified Expert in Engineering
United States
Toptal Member Since March 6, 2025

Delon is an AI leader with a proven track record in driving innovation in generative AI and machine learning. He has led high-impact projects across energy, heavy asset industries, eCommerce, and sports. Working with major enterprises such as General Electric and the LA Dodgers, as well as innovative startups such as Cognite and Tachyus, Delon develops AI solutions that enhance decision-making, leveraging AI multi-agent systems, RAG pipelines, and deep learning to deliver business value.

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Salman Ahmed

Freelance OpenAI Developer
Verified Expert in Engineering
United States
Toptal Member Since August 11, 2022

Salman is a principal AI engineer with 13+ years of experience designing and implementing AI solutions in top Fortune 500 companies (Google, CVS Health, and Moss). He's skilled in designing and developing end-to-end solutions that align with business objectives. Salman is an effective leader who has led teams of 15+ and delivered estimated cost savings of $18 million per quarter.

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Alexander Chistyakov

Freelance OpenAI Developer
Verified Expert in Engineering
United States
Toptal Member Since December 30, 2025

Alexander is a senior full-stack ML engineer with 5+ years of experience. He has worked in quantitative finance, developing ML-based trading and arbitrage strategies, as well as quantitative sports betting. He has designed, deployed, and built robust data pipelines for GBDTs, regression models, and transformers. With extensive experience in PyTorch, LightGBM, XGBoost, and numerous other models, Alexander is skilled in deploying infrastructure and creating pipelines from scratch on bare Linux.

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Guide to Hiring a Great OpenAI Developer

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Within days, we'll introduce you to the right OpenAI developer for your project. Average time to match is under 24 hours.
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