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Bhavesh Kakwani

Freelance AI Engineer
CanadaToptal Member Since May 5, 2020

Bhavesh is an award-winning developer with a strong foundation in math and electronics. His professional experience includes end-to-end embedded software development and hardware design. His code runs on SpaceRyde's gondola and rocket, McMaster University's launched satellite, Quanta Vici's Bluetooth gloves, and Ecobee's IoT lightswitch. These projects are on embedded Linux and microcontrollers (both bare metal and RTOS) and are written in C, C++, and Python.

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Parham Hamouni

Freelance AI Engineer
CanadaToptal Member Since March 14, 2022

Parham is a data and applied research scientist with 4+ years of machine learning (ML) and deep learning experience. With solid understanding and hands-on experience in Graph ML, natural language processing (NLP), computer vision, time series, generative adversarial networks (GAN), and statistics, he has been teaching Graph ML online and publishing academic papers. Parham successfully led projects using data engineering, clarifying ambiguous problems, and driving insight for the client.

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Igor Stankevich

Freelance AI Engineer
United StatesToptal Member Since March 16, 2020

Igor is a results-driven quantitative development professional with progressive industry experience in commodities, deep learning, computer vision, and data science. He has demonstrated hands-on financial and AI software development experience with in-depth knowledge of Python. Igor consistently attempts to find the best value-add opportunities and contribute to the team as a whole.

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Joseph Miano

Freelance AI Engineer
United StatesToptal Member Since December 1, 2022

Joseph is a data scientist with 3+ years of experience in computer vision, NLP, and tabular datasets. He's worked on analytics for large-scale medication adherence outreach programs, multi-task neural networks for brain microscopy image segmentation, and NLP models to detect COVID-19 outbreaks from news articles. He's also familiar with model explainability for credit risk assessment and fraud detection models. Joseph holds an MS in Computer Science with a specialization in machine learning.

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Diego Kiedanski

Freelance AI Engineer
UruguayToptal Member Since February 8, 2023

Diego is a Computer Engineer specializing in internet measurements and data analytics for internet traffic patterns. He has worked as a machine learning consultant on projects ranging from price optimization for insurance companies to remote sensing and computer vision to detect schools in remote areas for UNICEF. Diego has worked on three continents, from Yale University (USA) to national train companies (Luxembourg) and South America.

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Julien St-Pierre Fortin

Freelance AI Engineer
CanadaToptal Member Since November 13, 2019

Julien's expertise is deploying software solutions in data and AI. He is passionate about helping clients create innovative products and gain valuable insights from data. He genuinely cares about his clients and goes above and beyond to ensure highly successful projects.

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Saher Sajid

Freelance AI Engineer
CanadaToptal Member Since July 18, 2023

Saher is an experienced computer vision engineer with an extensive ability to synergize traditional machine learning methods and contemporary approaches. Excelling in object detection, recognition, and visual data synthesis, she has an impressive track record of thriving solutions: creating an innovative speed estimator using stereo vision at Hazen.ai and contributing to Saudi Arabia's e-governance program at Addo.ai. Saher aspires to improve model accuracy and reduce training time continuously.

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Suhail Singh Bains

Freelance AI Engineer
CanadaToptal Member Since October 6, 2020

Suhail is a talented MuleSoft professional passionate about updating, refreshing, and modernizing legacy architecture. He developed a safety app that sends information to the local police with the touch of a button, providing a link to the IMEI number for tracking and a timestamp of the location. Suhail has contributed to MuleSoft documents and communities, giving countless presentations and talks on Azure, GitHub, and MuleSoft, inspiring others to work with MuleSoft and Salesforce technologies.

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Reza Fazeli

Freelance AI Engineer
CanadaToptal Member Since October 19, 2023

Reza is a highly skilled machine learning engineer with eight years of experience. Currently working at IBM, he has developed and deployed cutting-edge machine learning algorithms to enhance virtual assistant products. His research at the University of Toronto focused on numerical modeling techniques for solving multiphase flow problems. With a strong background as a machine learning engineer and data scientist, Reza's expertise lies in natural language processing and computer vision.

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Tetyana Loskutova, PhD

Freelance AI Engineer
CanadaToptal Member Since June 17, 2022

Tetyana is a technology entrepreneur who strives to provide clients with end-to-end service when creating new software solutions or revamping old ones. Some of the projects she has completed include financial and accounting systems, ML-powered systems for NLP, forecasting, and anomaly detection. Tetyana has worked for clients in several countries and in various industries, such as energy, government, education, and biotechnology.

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Matthew de Marte

Freelance AI Engineer
United StatesToptal Member Since August 2, 2022

Matthew is a data scientist who has worked primarily in professional baseball, an incredibly fast-paced and demanding industry. He has utilized R and SQL databases with strengths relying on machine learning and predictive modeling to provide better data-driven decisions. Matthew is a fantastic problem solver with a data science skill set that can communicate technical findings to non-technical audiences.

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