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Ben Mishkin

Freelance Startup Developer
United States
Toptal Member Since March 10, 2017

Ben is a seasoned engineering leader with 20 years of experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and security. He specializes in ML/AI and LLMs and holds certifications in AWS and GCP. He has led teams across various industries, including healthcare, social networks, eCommerce, and video games. With computer science, machine learning, and finance expertise, Ben has HIPAA, PCI, and SOC2 compliance experience. He excels in writing code and architecting buildouts and migrations.

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Brian Weber

Freelance Startup Developer
United States
Toptal Member Since May 23, 2024

Brian is a principal engineer with a solid architectural and development background in enterprise data management, services, and mobile development. With expertise in data and application security, Brian has worked with many Fortune 100 companies to achieve their technology objectives. Brian specializes in automating and verifying large-scale cloud application integration and cloud data migrations across varied data sources in high-availability scenarios and business continuity.

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Justin Villalpando

Freelance Startup Developer
United States
Toptal Member Since May 16, 2022

Justin is a senior front-end architect with a broad and deep technological foundation. Over the last 10 years, he gained experience dealing with diverse tasks and challenging problems, including building front-end infrastructures and designing and optimizing numerous projects. Justin focuses on developing complete solutions from the ground up using modern JavaScript frameworks and blockchain technologies.

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Patrick Cason

Freelance Startup Developer
United States
Toptal Member Since July 29, 2022

Patrick is a full-stack JavaScript developer passionate about building web and mobile applications, UI component libraries, and open-source software. He is a highly competent UI/UX designer proficient in Figma, Sketch, and Adobe Creative Suite. Patrick has five years of engineering management experience and has worked with startups and enterprises in the fintech, healthcare, artificial intelligence (AI), music, and civics industries for the last 15 years.

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Gabriel Breahna

Freelance Startup Developer
Romania
Toptal Member Since September 15, 2022

Gabriel has 20 years of experience installing, managing, and using SQL, NoSQL (key-value, columnar, graph), time-series, spatial, in-memory, and cloud databases. He's worked with 10TB OLTP databases, 10TB data warehouses, tables with 10+ billion rows, and databases with 10,000+ tables. He's built greenfield and brownfield apps, managed acquisitions, mergers, and spin-offs, and is proficient in Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, Synapse, MongoDB, Cassandra, and DynamoDB.

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Andrew Craver

Freelance Startup Developer
United States
Toptal Member Since June 8, 2020

Andrew is a senior automation engineer and SDET (software development engineer in test) with a demonstrated history of successfully working as an individual contributor, team lead, and manager of several projects. With over nine years of experience, Andrew knows the ins and outs of QA and test automation, including having designed, developed, and implemented several test automation frameworks himself. Andrew can learn new tech quickly and enjoys expanding upon previously gained knowledge.

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Muhammad Naeem Ahmed

Freelance Startup Developer
United States
Toptal Member Since June 18, 2020

Muhammad brings nearly 15 years of IT experience in data warehousing solution implementation. He delivers reliable, maintainable, and efficient code using SQL, Python, Perl, Unix, C/C++, and Java. His work helped eBay increase its revenue and Walmart improve processes. Muhammad has a strong focus on big data-related technologies, automating redundant tasks to improve workflow, and understanding how to achieve exciting, efficient, and profitable client solutions.

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Diego Alfarache

Freelance Startup Developer
United States
Toptal Member Since June 7, 2023

Diego is a seasoned software engineer specializing in mobile apps and embedded projects, with a knack for resurrecting troubled projects. He has excellent communication skills, significant customer-facing experience, and top-notch programming, debugging, and technical skills. With hands-on leadership and a passion for creating great products and teams, Diego brings 20 years of experience building software solutions for consumer electronics, medical, scientific, and enterprise communities.

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Tim Langseth

Freelance Startup Developer
United States
Toptal Member Since October 28, 2022

Tim has over 20 years of software development experience. He also spent 15+ years working freelance for various-sized companies, from large organizations and enterprises to startups that needed him to bring their idea to reality. He specializes in ASP.NET, .NET, C#, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), MySQL, and Python. Tim's robust background allows him to ramp up on projects of all sizes quickly and efficiently.

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Oriol Fabregas

Freelance Startup Developer
Panama
Toptal Member Since September 28, 2022

Oriol is a system engineer with over 10 years of experience. He is an expert in all DevOps disciplines and loves infrastructure at scale. Alongside his technological career, he has built and led teams. He likes to translate business goals to technical value as per his recent business studies and relations with high-level directors in past companies. Oriol has helped save thousands of dollars in infrastructure costs and made developer tasks more productive, reducing market time.

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Mark Ventimiglia

Freelance Startup Developer
United States
Toptal Member Since July 15, 2022

Mark has over two decades of experience as a team leader and an individual contributor in results-driven, highly adaptive environments. He is adept at defining technical vision and business strategy and developing products and solutions that deliver immediate value for companies. He is a proven communicator and team builder and an expert in the modern technologies and frameworks used in full-stack, back-end, and embedded development environments.

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I am more than pleased with our experience with Toptal. The professional I got to work with was on the phone with me within a couple of hours. I knew after discussing my project with him that he was the candidate I wanted. I hired him immediately and he wasted no time in getting to my project, even going the extra mile by adding some great design elements that enhanced our overall look.

Paul Fenley

Director

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.

Ryan Rockefeller

CEO

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.

Jason Kulik

Co-Founder

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.

Stuart Pocknee

Principal

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