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Haitham Gad

Freelance Software Developer

United StatesFreelance Software Developers 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. His 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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Oto Ciulis

Freelance Software Developer

United StatesFreelance Software Developers Developer at Toptal Since February 6, 2020

Over the past two decades, Oto has created full-stack, cross-platform desktop applications with deep hardware integration. He specializes in .NET, C++, and JavaScript development, focusing on 3D graphics and computer vision. Oto works with stakeholders to define amazing products and delivers high-quality solutions on time and within budget.

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Michael Walker

Freelance Software Developer

United StatesFreelance Software Developers Developer at Toptal Since November 16, 2021

Michael is a builder who has owned the entire front-end services at AWS. He loves working with go-to-market teams and UX teams collaborating on creative products. Michael is passionate about solving problems for clients and providing robust solutions to delight customers. He specializes in full-stack applications as well as ML and IoT development.

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Danilo Favorati

Freelance Software Developer

United StatesFreelance Software Developers Developer at Toptal Since May 23, 2023

Danilo is a highly experienced Android mobile engineer with a proven track record of over a decade, adept at constructing innovative product features and proficient in performing comprehensive analytics and testing. He's passionate about initiating projects from inception and collaborating closely with senior leadership to advance initiatives.

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Antoine Pham

Freelance Software Developer

United StatesFreelance Software Developers Developer at Toptal Since October 18, 2018

Antoine's combination of skill and passion make him an ideal candidate. He is a seasoned professional that has gone through all stages of the development cycle. He has worked in startup environments, building out engineering teams to budgeting, architecture, and process management at multiple Fortune 500 companies.

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Eric Freiling

Freelance Software Developer

United StatesFreelance Software Developers Developer at Toptal Since August 4, 2018

Eric is a senior data scientist based in San Diego, and prior to his current career, spent six years in the defense industry. He has a strong academic background culminating in a master's degree in mathematics and a PhD in electrical engineering. Some of the areas that he's worked in are algorithm development, signal/image processing, and machine learning.

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Zachary A. Goodman

Freelance Software Developer

United StatesFreelance Software Developers Developer at Toptal Since August 25, 2022

Zachary is a silicon-valley experienced and PhD educated data scientist with expertise in experiments, causal effect estimation, and cloud data tools. He holds a PhD in economics with a research focus on estimating causal effects using big data. Zachary has over six years of experience using Python, SQL, R, and Stata to answer questions using data. He is a tech lead that enjoys building data pipelines in Google Cloud and BigQuery and automated dashboards and reports using Looker.

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Carlos Sanabria

Freelance Software Developer

United StatesFreelance Software Developers Developer at Toptal Since April 4, 2023

Carlos is a highly skilled problem solver passionate about cloud technology, automation, and empowering others to grow. With over seven years of experience designing and deploying cloud-native solutions for large enterprise customers at AWS and Google Cloud, he possesses a deep understanding of the technical landscape and a talent for finding innovative solutions to complex problems. Carlos's commitment to excellence and collaboration makes him an invaluable partner to clients and colleagues.

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Leif Gensert

Freelance Software Developer

United StatesFreelance Software Developers Developer at Toptal Since February 14, 2018

For the past eleven years, Leif has worked as a full-time developer focusing on back-end development utilizing Ruby or Elixir. He's worked for giant consulting firms and newly founded startups. Through side projects and open source contributions, he makes sure he stays up to date on the latest tech. A healthy sense of pragmatism keeps him grounded to choose the technology that makes sense as opposed to going with whatever is hip right now.

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Philip Aelion-Moss

Freelance Software Developer

United StatesFreelance Software Developers Developer at Toptal Since August 10, 2020

Phil is a generalist who uses code to help people solve real-world problems efficiently. He developed an automatic processing pipeline that processed and started 10s of thousands of 3D prints without operator intervention. Working at Microsoft taught him best practices and honed his adaptability, communication, and pragmatism. That experience aided his success in a greatly expanded role at a startup where he owned business-critical projects across web development areas to robotics.

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Sean McCall

Freelance Software Developer

United StatesFreelance Software Developers Developer at Toptal Since May 14, 2019

Sean is a senior developer with a broad and versatile skillset who works heavily in React, React Native, and Node.js. He has an entrepreneurial spirit and a midwest work ethic and has worked with a large range of companies of different sizes and scopes. His strong theoretical and practical background in software architecture, UI design, DevOps, and business consulting makes him extremely capable of bringing success to projects of any size.

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The developers I was paired with were incredible -- smart, driven, and responsive. It used to be hard to find quality engineers and consultants. Now it isn't.

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Radeeus

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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As a small company with limited resources we can't afford to make expensive mistakes. Toptal provided us with an experienced programmer who was able to hit the ground running and begin contributing immediately. It has been a great experience and one we'd repeat again in a heartbeat.

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We used Toptal to hire a developer with extensive Amazon Web Services experience. We interviewed four candidates, one of which turned out to be a great fit for our requirements. The process was quick and effective.

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Photo Kharma

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.

Derek Minor, Senior VP of Web Development

Networld Media Group

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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

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