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Aitizaz Khan

Freelance API Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since December 4, 2015

Aitizaz is a full-stack engineer with expertise in Ruby on Rails and Java. He is keenly interested in algorithm-level efficiency and has experience working both with front-end and back-end technologies as well as frameworks. Aitizaz is also a competitive programmer who actively participates in different online challenges. He loves learning about anything, especially if it make him better at his craft.

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Alexander Price

Freelance API Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since February 8, 2016

Since 2013, Alexander has been in the software development field. He has about a dozen apps in production with over a million monthly users. Most recently, he's created a merchant onboarding experience for Affirm—bringing about a 25% increase in the number of merchants year over year (YOY).

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Juliano Penna

Freelance API Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since April 18, 2018

From a fast-paced environment at his startup in Brazil to the corporate environment at Volkswagen China, Juliano has extensive experience developing apps for a wide range of requirements and different constraints. He is driven by process optimization, product improvement, new technologies, and a disbelief in the impossible. His startup was selected to join the Brazilian SEED acceleration program beating out more than other 1,400 startups.

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Shawn Rucker

Freelance API Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since June 18, 2019

Over the past 20+ years, Shawn has worked on and managed some fantastic teams building software that some thought not possible to build! He loves working with smart, dedicated people that both give and take advice for the betterment of the project as a whole. He is a dedicated developer and architect that does whatever it takes to get a project finished to the best of the team's ability!

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Robin Jayaswal

Freelance API Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since April 8, 2019

Robin graduated in the top 2% of his class from Dartmouth College and went straight from graduation to YCombinator in San Francisco with his startup. He has since raised over a million dollars in VC funding and his startup's clients include global banks, public companies, and political organizations. At his startup, he manages an engineering team and has built from the ground up a production tech stack that supports tens of thousands of daily users and millions of survey responses a month.

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Hank Holiday

Freelance API Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since June 2, 2020

Hank has worked as a consultant for over a decade—designing, architecting and building complex business applications for dozens of companies across a wide array of industries as both an individual contributor and a team lead. Hank is a trained electrical engineer with a background in machine learning and an accomplished cloud architect. Hank is also one of the first 500 certified Salesforce administrators and has coded in Apex since its initial releases and spoken at Dreamforce.

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Carlos Ramirez III

Freelance API Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since October 29, 2014

Carlos is a professional software engineer and full-stack web developer specializing in the Ruby on Rails framework. He has worked with tech companies for over a decade, helping to build technology-based businesses from the ground up. He has a bachelor's degree in computer science from Williams College.

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Phil Greenberg

Freelance API Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since March 29, 2017

Phil started his career as a software engineer but quickly discovered that his true passion centered around product management. Over the course of his career, he's successfully occupied a variety of roles across product and engineering—managing teams of up to 12 people and three different SaaS products from idea through launch.

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Piotr Rzemieniewski

Freelance API Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since December 15, 2016

Piotr has over a decade of experience developing apps on the .NET platform, including having been part of the development team at Microsoft, where he was developing a social portal (Codeguru.pl) for computer science students and .NET developers. He communicates extremely well and has worked in teams of all sizes. For past few years, he's been a part of the virtual team implementing the remote healthcare platform for a Canadian company.

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Manish Das

Freelance API Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since October 18, 2016

Manish has been working for startups since his own "startup" as a graduate of computer science. He's very passionate about new tech and innovation, and is a quick and enthusiastic learner. To date, he has ten years of experience building scalable microservices and web apps and has a good command of all the usual tools and platforms.

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Tripcents wouldn't exist without Toptal. Toptal Projects enabled us to rapidly develop our foundation with a product manager, lead developer, and senior designer. In just over 60 days we went from concept to Alpha. The speed, knowledge, expertise, and flexibility is second to none. The Toptal team were as part of tripcents as any in-house team member of tripcents. They contributed and took ownership of the development just like everyone else. We will continue to use Toptal. As a start up, they are our secret weapon.

Brantley Pace, CEO & Co-Founder

Tripcents

In addition to sharp technical skills, Faruk had a great attitude and is a really exceptional communicator. He always let us know where he was with his work, thoroughly and reliably. That's not always the case, and it made working remotely considerably easier. He was an easy integration into the team.

Leif Abraham, Co-Founder

AND CO Ventures Inc

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

K Dunn & Associates

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

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.

Jason Kulik, Co-Founder

ProHatch

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

Site Specific Software Solutions

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.

Abner Guzmán Rivera, CTO and Chief Scientist

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

Toptal's developers and architects have been both very professional and easy to work with. The solution they produced was fairly priced and top quality, reducing our time to launch. Thanks again, Toptal.

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

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Within days, we'll introduce you to the right API developer for your project. Average time to match is under 24 hours.
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