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Ram Verma

Freelance Linux Developer
United States
Toptal Member 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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Andu Nguyen

Freelance Linux Developer
United States
Toptal Member 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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Nicholas Ecton

Freelance Linux Developer
United States
Toptal 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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Phoebe Beckinger

Freelance Linux Developer
United States
Toptal Member Since April 15, 2020

Phoebe is a full-stack developer with over nine years of experience building software across a range of industries and company sizes. Her primary focus has been server-side development, but she also enjoys working with modern UI solutions. Phoebe is meticulous about her code, a passionate advocate for best practices, and knows how fundamental communication is in delivering exceptional products.

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Rajini Karthik

Freelance Linux Developer
United States
Toptal Member Since December 10, 2020

Rajini is a passionate and highly motivated software developer and an architect with strong experience in building a broad range of software solutions. She has deep expertise from contributions to developing distributed enterprise applications, cloud-native applications, open-source cloud development, and automation of infrastructure and software deployment development projects. Rajini has a strong ability to innovate and lead teams to make an impact while learning from new challenges.

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Clark Winters

Freelance Linux Developer
United States
Toptal 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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Lukas Grasse

Freelance Linux Developer
Canada
Toptal Member Since November 23, 2021

Lukas has a B.Sc. in Computer Science, M.Sc. in Neuroscience and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the University of Lethbridge. He has experience in machine learning, robotics, and other industries. His current research focus is on speech recognition in noisy environments. Prior to starting graduate school, Lukas worked at a company called GuildOne as a software developer. Throughout his schooling, he has also worked as a freelance developer on various projects.

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Juan Tamariz

Freelance Linux Developer
Mexico
Toptal 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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Andrew Ho

Freelance Linux Developer
United States
Toptal Member Since January 2, 2023

Andrew has eight years of experience developing high-performance back-end systems from scratch. He has led the development of internal APIs for derivatives trading, genomics and proteomics machine learning pipelines for AI-driven biotech, and infrastructure to support rapid delivery of on-chain data to front-end user interfaces. Andrew is very flexible and has worked both independently and led projects with up to ten people.

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Sumeet Agarwal

Freelance Linux Developer
United States
Toptal Member Since September 6, 2019

Sumeet has over a decade of experience, including long-term stints at Yelp.com and Remind.com, leading large cross-team projects. He does superbly clean engineering work and is an organized project planner. He excels at communication with both technical and non-technical colleagues, leveling up fellow engineers, and making sense out of the computer jargon.

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Mark Lu

Freelance Linux Developer
United States
Toptal 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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