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Sumeet Agarwal

Freelance Linux Developer

United StatesToptal 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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Ryan Zotti

Freelance Linux Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since May 1, 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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Nigel Chang

Freelance Linux Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since April 1, 2019

Nigel is a senior software and data engineer on Cloud, Linux, AWS, GCP, Snowflake, Hadoop, and almost all computer and database platforms. He's led and contributed to eCommerce and self-driving startups as well as the world's largest brokerage, retail, semiconductor, communication, network, and storage enterprises on the data analytics, ETL data pipeline, transaction processing, self-driving, and data science teams.

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Yifeng Huang

Freelance Linux Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since May 1, 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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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 user-facing and infrastructureproducts. His background includes some formal education and a ton of open source work and contributions.

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Lily Riley

Freelance Linux Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since April 3, 2021

Lily is a senior software engineer and project manager with around 15 years of dedicated experience in the tech industry. She has done a bit of everything related to development, including front end, full stack, back end, firmware, mobile, virtualization, and game programming.

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Mark Lu

Freelance Linux Developer

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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Joseph Harder

Freelance Linux Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since November 21, 2022

Joseph is a data scientist with four years of experience in the dental, marketing, and government industries. He's also built standardized data storytelling tools. Most recently, he became the domain expert on operations data for Spin, an electric scooter company, a role that involves labor efficiency, scooter placement and use patterns, and geospatial data analysis. Joseph adds value by verifying and assessing needs and creating innovative quantitative solutions to answer meaningful questions.

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Eriel Marimon

Freelance Linux Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since October 6, 2022

Eriel is a full-stack developer who drives applications from concept to delivery with over 15 projects to date. At Facebook (Meta), he worked in Growth Pillar (user acquisition and retention), increasing daily active users by 500,000. In the Robotics team, he improved navigation. His strategic approaches have increased sales and saved money at Google, TransUnion, Lowe's Home Improvement, and Facebook. Eriel is proficient in a variety of technologies in engineering and DevOps.

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Christian Haumesser

Freelance Linux Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since June 4, 2022

Christian is an experienced DevOps and cloud software engineer who enjoys collaboration, teamwork, and problem-solving. A strong Python and Go developer, a GCP Professional Cloud Architect, and a happy teammate, he is excited by opportunities to explore new businesses and technologies and bring the benefits of cloud computing to companies of all shapes and sizes.

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Jey Kottalam

Freelance Linux Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since May 14, 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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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!

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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.

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Langlotz Patent & Trademark Works, Inc.

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Higgle

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Mxit

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Livepress

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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.

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