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Nikhil Bhargava

Freelance Python Developer

United StatesFreelance Python Developer at Toptal Since August 20, 2018

Nikhil enjoys building things more than anything else. After trying his hand at the startup game, Nikhil moved to Dropbox where he was a product manager for a few years. Since then, he has moved to MIT and finished a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence but still enjoys consulting and working on side projects.

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Jack Kwok

Freelance Python Developer

United StatesFreelance Python Developer at Toptal Since May 23, 2019

With 20 years of experience, Jack excels in developing complex software systems and custom deep-learning models for computer vision and natural language processing. He specializes in solving complex problems like 2D and 3D object detection, multi-object tracking, instance segmentation, and document understanding and classification. Jack has trained cutting-edge computer vision models for healthcare and autonomous driving problems, and he now focuses on LLM and generative AI.

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Viacheslav Zhenylenko

Freelance Python Developer

United StatesFreelance Python Developer at Toptal Since June 13, 2019

Viacheslav has seven years of experience in data science and software engineering. He is passionate about the insights gained from raw data and enjoys converting them to create exceptional business value. Viacheslav's primary expertise is Python, with production experience in Java and C++. To solve data-heavy projects, he has applied advanced machine learning techniques, such as computer vision, NLP, product recommendation systems, networking data, and classical data science.

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Hafiz Hamid

Freelance Python Developer

United StatesFreelance Python Developer at Toptal Since June 18, 2020

Hafiz is a seasoned software architect who's lead complex software projects for last 12 years at organizations like Bing (Microsoft), Lyft, and Salesforce.com in full-time roles—now, he's pursuing a freelancing career. His areas of expertise are back-end/server development, databases, big data, cloud computing, DevOps, web crawling, and search engines.

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Hugh Wimberly

Freelance Python Developer

United StatesFreelance Python Developer at Toptal Since June 7, 2018

Hugh has over thirteen years of professional experience developing software for scientific and business customers. He was one of the core developers on the graph database that powers Google's semantic interpretation of search queries and has worked on mission-critical software for Los Alamos National Laboratory. His focus is on building flexible high-performance architectures that scale well and adapt to changing needs.

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Lily Riley

Freelance Python Developer

United StatesFreelance Python Developer at Toptal 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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Ian Macartney

Freelance Python Developer

United StatesFreelance Python Developer at Toptal Since July 22, 2022

Ian is a Stanford graduate with degrees in computer science and mechanical engineering. He gained UI/UX sensibilities as an iOS developer, engineering and debugging rigor through firmware and hardware consulting, and technological breadth from freelancing. Ian enjoys collaborating with stakeholders and proactively identifies novel opportunities. Experienced in Greenfield and legacy environments, he is skilled in back-end best practices and scalable development after four years at Dropbox.

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Joseph Harder

Freelance Python Developer

United StatesFreelance Python Developer at Toptal 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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Cristian P

Freelance Python Developer

United StatesFreelance Python Developer at Toptal Since December 8, 2022

Cristian has four years of experience in Computer Vision (CV) and Machine Learning (ML). He has worked in natural language processing, autonomous driving at startups, and face tracking at Oculus. Running throughout the whole ML system lifecycle, from training models to testing and serving behind an application interface. Cristian enjoys curating datasets and can communicate with all teams to articulate results while researching tooling, frameworks, and papers needed for an optimal solution.

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Sinan Erdil

Freelance Python Developer

United StatesFreelance Python Developer at Toptal Since November 29, 2018

Since 2013, Sinan has been programming and developing software for various companies and startups, including Udemy. He is passionate about learning new technologies, taking on challenging projects to expand his knowledge and expertise, and building different types of high-quality software that touches people's lives.

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Steven Hazel

Freelance Python Developer

United StatesFreelance Python Developer at Toptal Since September 27, 2019

Steven began his career as a software developer with a keen interest in startups and new technologies, and a focus on shipping products. After many startup experiences, he decided to co-found his own company and has spent the past decade building Sauce Labs into a successful enterprise software company.

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