Hire the Best DevOps Engineers Near San Francisco

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Ryan Matthew Smith

Freelance DevOps Engineer
United StatesToptal Member 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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Haitham Gad

Freelance DevOps Engineer
United StatesToptal Member 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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Nicholas Ecton

Freelance DevOps Engineer
United StatesToptal Member Since September 9, 2022

Nick is a self-taught full-stack developer with years of experience in leading engineering teams and developing software for startups. His talents and passions have always aligned with the fast-paced do-it-yourself mindset of early startup culture. His most recent success includes onboarding as a founding engineer and eventually leading the company to an M&A exit as a director of engineering.

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Clark Winters

Freelance DevOps Engineer
United StatesToptal Member Since December 14, 2023

Clark is an experienced DevOps engineer with a strong background in systems integration and programming. He has expertise in web, cloud, and database ecosystems and an affinity for the Go programming language and tools like Terraform and Docker. Clark helps clients build scalable cloud infrastructure, web services, REST APIs, and automation scripts, prioritizing efficient, tailored solutions with a commitment to on-time delivery and quick adaptability to new projects.

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Allan Guan

Freelance DevOps Engineer
CanadaToptal Member Since February 14, 2023

As a solution architect, technology leader, and consultant, Allan has over 15 years of proven success in designing innovative solution architecture for clients in the public and private cloud across different industries. His technical expertise includes cloud platforms, DevOps, site reliability, big data, SaaS software development, and process automation. Allan excels in leading large-scale and complex digital enterprise transformation initiatives.

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Juan Tamariz

Freelance DevOps Engineer
MexicoToptal Member Since March 19, 2021

Juan is a senior DevOps engineer with over a decade of experience designing, testing, implementing, deploying, and supporting critical Infrastructure systems with DevOps culture and Agile methodology. He excels at ensuring security levels, data integrity, availability, configuration and change management, continuous integration, and deployment. Juan has successfully supported networks composed of 1,000+ nodes at headquarters with remote connections to 160+ branch offices around the world.

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Mark Lu

Freelance DevOps Engineer
United StatesToptal Member Since April 13, 2022

Mark is a versatile tech generalist interested in graphics, networks, and cloud systems. His broad understanding of all sorts of technology and his ability to quickly debug and decipher what's wrong even in the most complex systems allow him to come up with simple and elegant solutions to challenging problems. Mark's ultimate goal is to make technology more approachable and helpful for as many people as possible.

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Germán Pineda

Freelance DevOps Engineer
United StatesToptal Member Since October 8, 2021

Germán is a software engineer with six years of experience. He's currently focused on building interactive React and React Native applications that users enjoy using. Coming from an aerospace engineering background, Germán has strong problem-solving skills that allow him to break down complex problems and find creative and innovative solutions. He approaches everything he does with the following set of principles that guide him—responsibility, integrity, perseverance, balance, and enthusiasm.

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Antoine Pham

Freelance DevOps Engineer
United StatesToptal Member Since October 18, 2018

Antoine is a seasoned professional with a unique blend of skill and passion for software development, making him an invaluable asset in any environment. His expertise spans all stages of the development cycle, from building engineering teams in startups to managing budgets, architecture, and processes at Fortune 500 companies. His unwavering passion for software development fosters inventive thinking and collaboration, inspiring teams to reach new heights.

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Michael Walker

Freelance DevOps Engineer
United StatesToptal Member 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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Carlos Sanabria

Freelance DevOps Engineer
United StatesToptal Member 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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