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Max Bruce

Freelance Linux Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since September 9, 2019

Max is a self-taught engineer with over 10 years of experience on a variety of platforms. Max has worked within large teams and led small teams to develop products from the ground up, and maintained, improved, and iterated upon existing products both user-facing and infrastructure. He comes from a self-taught background with some formal education, along with a ton of open source work and contributions.

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Ryan Zotti

Freelance Linux Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since April 4, 2019

A data scientist and data engineer, Ryan can take projects from concept to deployment. He is a machine learning expert with a knack for impactful data visualizations. Ryan has collaborated with innovators in diverse fields, presented at tech conferences, and co-authored groundbreaking research papers in respected journals such as the Lancet. He is also the author of a popular autonomous vehicle project on GitHub.

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Sumeet Agarwal

Freelance Linux Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since March 19, 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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Yifeng Huang

Freelance Linux Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since April 7, 2020

Yifeng is a systems engineer with a passion for high-performance, low-latency cloud systems. He has experience in top Silicon Valley companies delivering demanding video pipelines using modern technology, resulting in polished and delightful products for the customer. Yifeng is ready to help you bring out the next level of performance and reliability from your services.

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Jey Kottalam

Freelance Linux Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since February 15, 2020

Jey is a computer scientist specializing in high-performance system software, machine learning, mathematical optimization, and related areas. He has created predictive tools, libraries for conducting massive data analysis, contributed to the development of frameworks, and worked as a research engineer at the University of California, Berkeley. Jey is an accomplished software engineer proficient across a multitude of back-end technologies.

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Jianfeng Wang

Freelance Linux Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since January 22, 2016

Jianfeng has over 10 years of experience as a full-stack engineer with a focus on back-end systems. He's worked at both big companies like Oracle, Yahoo, a few small startups, Adify, and GrowMobile. He has built scalable web apps, ad serving systems, and AWS management systems.

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Cory Massaro

Freelance Linux Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since August 5, 2019

Cory worked at Google for four years. He last worked on a multimodal visual/linguistic information retrieval system. Before that, he worked on internationalization and language modeling for the Speech and Keyboard team. Cory holds a master's degree in natural language processing and has built various information extraction systems as an intern during his time in graduate school.

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Alex Baretta

Freelance Linux Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since March 16, 2020

Alex is a versatile technologist with a deep academic background in computer science (Ecole Polytechnique), electrical engineering (Politecnico di Milano), and quantitative finance (Bocconi University). He has experience building search engines (Wink/MyLife), quantitative insurance risk and pricing models (The Climate Corporation), trading algorithms (Xambala/Final Strategies), stochastic optimization algorithms (KCG/Virtu). Alex is also the co-founder of two startups.

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Alexis Wilke

Freelance Linux Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since October 19, 2018

Over the past 14 years, Alexis has been running Made to Order Software, mainly as a contractor, doing software development for customers in Sacramento, San Francisco, LA, the Netherlands, and more. Alexis specializes in PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, JSON, HTML/CSS, XML, XSLT2, C/C++, Assembly, CUDA, Microsoft Access, and a broad range of other technologies. He has created and manages many websites and worked on an embedded medical device.

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Roxana Chiorean

Freelance Linux Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since March 26, 2019

Roxana is a senior back-end engineer with nearly a decade of professional experience in both large corporations and startups. After being an open source contributor for the OpenStack cloud framework while at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, she joined a healthcare startup where she specialized in big data processing technologies. Roxana is a friendly individual with a passion for building great multicultural teams.

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Kiran Sugana

Freelance Linux Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since June 5, 2018

Kiran is a strong team and departmental leader with excellent problem solving, communication, organizational, and technical skills. He has over a decade of software development experience, working in a variety of roles and projects for YP.com (Yellowpages). Kiran is ultra professional, communicates extremely well, and has worked with teams of all sizes.

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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.

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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

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

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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

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

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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