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Ryan Matthew Smith
Go Engineer
Throughout his career, Ryan's consistently worked with startups and small software shops where each milestone was make-it or break-it. He loves infrastructu...re as code managed with Terraform in AWS. Ryan found his niche writing DevOps tools in Go and contributes to the open-source community regularly. Ryan has worked with Docker for years deploying and maintaining Kubernetes systems—and, most importantly, he's a fun guy to work with!
Jay Brown
Go Engineer
With over 25 years of software development experience, Jay has focused on designing and building enterprise back-end/mid-tier applications, protocols, and A...PIs for Fortune 1000 companies. He has multiple US patents, has co-authored the Manning book on Apache OpenCMIS development, and has presented technical subjects at several IBM international conferences. Currently, he is designing and building distributed systems at Veritone corporation.
Brad Peabody
Go Engineer
Brad likes to build and improve software that solves real-world business problems and creates a positive experience for users, as well as having a positive... business impact for the organization. He is inspired by a high-productivity/innovative work culture—walking the line between perfection and a getting-it-done mentality.
Adam Hanna
Go Engineer
Adam a full-stack developer that has worked mostly with startups for the past seven years. Adam has a non-traditional background coming from the world of co...nsulting and is well rounded with an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Jess Mahan
Go Engineer
Jess is a veteran engineer who’s particularly skilled in Go (3 years), C (13 years), and Python (10 years); he’s also experienced in site reliability develo...pment and DevOps. He is a professional who has exceptional communication skills and has experience working freelance. Jess joined Toptal to find cutting-edge projects and talented people to work with.
Edgar Lee
Go Engineer
Edgar has over three years of experience developing full-stack web applications with Ruby on Rails APIs and Ember.js as a front-end client. He has worked on... teams of all sizes, both on-site and remotely, and has excellent communication and presentation skills.
Ken Brooks
Go Engineer
After working six years in industry, Ken branched out to work as a freelancer and has done that ever since. His strength is not merely coding, but the whole... process from thorough problem analysis to completed coding. He's good at strong, clean system design and especially clean user interfaces.
Matt Ho
Go Engineer
Matt is a solution-oriented technologist with two decades in the industry. During his career, he's helped a number of clients with tight deadlines and abstr...act requirements to successfully deliver projects. He also founded Kieden which was later acquired by Salesforce.com. Matt has worked in teams of all sizes ranging from early-stage startups to large enterprises like Salesforce.com, Inc.
C. Dylan Shearer
Go Engineer
Dylan has been a software engineer for about nine years, and has worked for both large companies and small Silicon Valley startups. He has a master's degree... in computer security, as well as broad, full-stack experience, ranging from writing performance-critical components in C to designing and implementing customer-facing UIs in Angular. He is also the lead developer for a successful open-source project written in Go.
Nikhil Bhargava
Go Engineer
Nikhil enjoys building things more than anything else. After trying his hand at the startup game, Nikhil moved to Dropbox where he was a Product Manager for... a few years. Since then, he has moved to MIT and is pursuing a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence but still enjoys consulting and working on side projects.
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