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Nigel Chang

Freelance Machine Learning Engineer

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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Ryan Zotti

Freelance Machine Learning Engineer

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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Jack Kwok

Freelance Machine Learning Engineer

United StatesToptal Member Since May 23, 2019

Jack has 20 years of experience developing complex software systems. He is experienced in applying deep learning techniques to solve Computer Vision problems, including object detection, multi-object tracking, instance segmentation, etc. Jack has worked on state-of-the-art Computer Vision models to solve healthcare and autonomous driving problems. He is also skilled in natural language processing and traditional ML techniques and has an expert rating at Kaggle.

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Shane Keller

Freelance Machine Learning Engineer

United StatesToptal Member Since April 22, 2020

Shane is a machine learning engineer with skills in data science, data engineering, and cloud automation. He has a track record of developing big data applications and experience with all aspects of building production-grade machine learning systems, including big data collection, model development, model deployment, and infrastructure.

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James Arnemann

Freelance Machine Learning Engineer

United StatesToptal Member Since August 2, 2019

James is an experienced data scientist and machine learning engineer with several years of industry experience and publications in leading journals. He's held positions researching and deploying machine learning and deep learning models at UC Berkeley, Intel, National Laboratories, and others.

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David Grayson

Freelance Machine Learning Engineer

United StatesToptal Member Since January 1, 2021

David is an experienced data and ML scientist with a PhD and demonstrated success at large and small companies. He published 12+ papers on computational neuroimaging, designed and built real-time ML apps for QuickBooks, improving product experience for over a million users. He led multiple initiatives at a biotech startup predicting neurological disease using novel computer vision, analytics, and ML methods. David is passionate about helping clients leverage data and AI to maximize their impact.

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Jey Kottalam

Freelance Machine Learning Engineer

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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Andrew Ho

Freelance Machine Learning Engineer

United StatesToptal 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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Russell Horton

Freelance Machine Learning Engineer

United StatesToptal Member Since March 14, 2018

Russell builds data-driven products and data-driven teams. He has more than 15 years of experience inventing, rapidly prototyping, and deploying products driven by machine learning and natural language processing. Russell loves consulting on data science projects in the early stages.

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Andrew Nisbet

Freelance Machine Learning Engineer

United StatesToptal Member Since September 6, 2019

Andrew is a developer with four years of experience developing production machine learning pipelines and efficiently communicating results. He also has an MSc in mathematics with a thesis in deep learning. Andrew is very knowledgable about his field and is quick to gather information and communicate to deliver the product on time and within budget.

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Vardhan Agrawal

Freelance Machine Learning Engineer

United StatesToptal Member Since July 20, 2021

Vardhan has 7+ years of experience in iOS development and UI/UX design. He is the author of Mastering Machine Learning with Core ML and Python and the founder of TheOpenCode Foundation, through which he aspires to bridge the digital divide. In addition to tinkering with new projects and ideas on his own, Vardhan makes it possible for others to do the same by teaching them to code. He is also a member of tutorial teams at raywenderlich.com, Envato Tuts, Heartbeat, and freeCodeCamp.

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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

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.

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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.

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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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