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Haitham Gad

Freelance Software Developer
United StatesFreelance Software Development Developer at Toptal Since July 15, 2022

Haitham is a technical leader with over 15 years of experience building products and services for several enterprises. Before starting his AWS consultancy, he spent over five years at AWS, where he helped build Amazon GuardDuty, AWS's intelligent threat detection and security monitoring service. Haitham's work was instrumental in accelerating GuardDuty's adoption by thousands of AWS customers like Snap, HBO Max, Siemens, Volkswagen, and Southwest Airlines.

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Jeff Yaeger

Freelance Software Developer
United StatesFreelance Software Development Developer at Toptal Since August 29, 2022

Jeff is a senior full-stack developer with over five years of experience. He specializes in clean coding practices, thoughtful refactoring, and code reusability. Jeff has worked on many high-volume applications, creating optimal algorithms for the best performance and data flow.

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Ryan Matthew Smith

Freelance Software Developer
United StatesFreelance Software Development Developer at Toptal Since September 12, 2018

Throughout his career, Ryan has consistently worked with startups and small software shops where each milestone was make-it or break-it. He loves infrastructure as code managed with Terraform in AWS. Ryan found his niche writing DevOps tooling in Go and Bash and contributes to the open-source community regularly. Ryan is also an expert working with Docker to deploy and maintain Kubernetes systems. Ryan excels at working as a technical leader or alongside a team, depending on the project's needs.

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PhyongNam Kim

Freelance Software Developer
United StatesFreelance Software Development Developer at Toptal Since September 19, 2019

Kim is an accomplished front-end developer committed to building outstanding websites and mobile apps, with some back-end experience. With his expertise in React, React Native, Vue, and other technologies, he creates visually stunning, user-friendly, secure, and performant experiences. Kim's impressive track record includes developing large-scale projects from scratch, updating existing ones to ensure high quality, and enhancing them with new features and pages.

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Hang Guo

Freelance Software Developer
United StatesFreelance Software Development Developer at Toptal Since May 20, 2021

Hang is a data and database engineer who excels at writing programs and obtaining data insights. He's worked with a variety of data sources and destinations, including on-premise databases (such as SQL Server and PostgreSQL), cloud databases (such as AWS Redshift), and big data technologies (such as Spark). Hang also has experience working with application teams for back-end database development, ETL, and data pipelines and in creating business intelligence solutions with the analytics team.

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Andu Nguyen

Freelance Software Developer
United StatesFreelance Software Development Developer at Toptal Since November 5, 2021

Andu is a seasoned software engineer and technology leader with nine years of experience, including five years as a senior engineer at Tesla. He has owned and led technical projects from start to finish, including designing, developing, and deploying platforms to support machine learning models. Andu excels at working on complex projects across multiple teams, owning major technical decisions and tradeoffs, delivering excellent customer experiences, and proactively managing conflicts.

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Kevin Lo

Freelance Software Developer
United StatesFreelance Software Development Developer at Toptal Since June 21, 2023

Kevin has extensive experience in hands-on development in the Android mobile native space and with technical project and product management. His technical knowledge and cross-functional skills have been honed throughout his career in various startup and larger-sized companies, with a proven track record of delivering results that drive business growth.

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Ram Verma

Freelance Software Developer
United StatesFreelance Software Development Developer at Toptal Since July 22, 2021

Ram has over four years of professional experience architecting and leading the development of engineering solutions with an emphasis on object-oriented design and software infrastructure debugging. He specializes in Java and Python back-end development of large-scale systems, cloud migrations, microservices, and data pipeline processes. Ram's expertise includes developing business plans and requirements specifications and leading technical projects with strong inter-team communication.

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Dmytro Korobov

Freelance Software Developer
United StatesFreelance Software Development Developer at Toptal Since April 21, 2023

Dmytro is an experienced Android developer skilled in Kotlin, Java, and MVVM. He stays on top of Android's latest trends and best practices and utilizes design principles and Material Design guidelines. Dmytro excels in back-end engineering and is passionate about creating efficient and effective server-side logic. His programming and data management expertise enables him to develop high-quality software solutions that meet business needs.

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Derek Owens-Oas

Freelance Software Developer
United StatesFreelance Software Development Developer at Toptal Since January 21, 2020

Derek has a PhD in statistical science from Duke and has worked as a data scientist and software developer at Xylem. He's the founder of Tech Smart Magic. Published in the Journal of Classification and a TA of the year, he's an expert in research and teaching. He provides interactive apps, visualizations, and reports. Derek's Python and R programming, top AI and ML methods, and ability to communicate make him an asset to any company. His specialties include text data and online social networks.

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Alec Peters

Freelance Software Developer
United StatesFreelance Software Development Developer at Toptal Since March 26, 2018

Alec works at the intersection of data and software development. With over four years of professional software development experience, he primarily focuses on writing full-stack web applications and data processing pipelines in various technologies including Python and .NET. He also is experienced in data analysis and telling stories with interactive visualizations, dashboards, and reports.

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