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Aitizaz Khan

Freelance Ruby on Rails Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since December 4, 2015

Aitizaz is a full-stack engineer with expertise in Ruby on Rails and Java. He is keenly interested in algorithm-level efficiency and has experience working both with front-end and back-end technologies as well as frameworks. Aitizaz is also a competitive programmer who actively participates in different online challenges. He loves learning about anything, especially if it make him better at his craft.

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Sumeet Agarwal

Freelance Ruby on Rails 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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Alex Katkova

Freelance Ruby on Rails Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since June 9, 2022

Alex is a senior Ruby on Rails developer with extensive experience building APIs, working with and extending third-party integrations, and building proof of concept software. She is pragmatic and detail-oriented, leverages the right tool for the job, and delivers projects on time.

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Max Bruce

Freelance Ruby on Rails 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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James Koshigoe

Freelance Ruby on Rails Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since February 27, 2014

James is a software engineer and consultant focused on web development. He has over a decade of experience in both startup and enterprise business environments building solutions where full-stack skills, creative thinking, and high attention to detail are key, and fast turnaround is paramount.

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Matt Fulton

Freelance Ruby on Rails Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since January 8, 2018

Matt is a full-stack web developer, former CTO, Google engineer, and YCombinator alum. He has built systems with a large variety of technologies and has deep experience in systems architecture, product strategy, and managing engineering teams. He has reduced query latencies from 10s of seconds to 100s of milliseconds saving vast amounts of time. His work has helped companies safely migrate, expand, and resolve critical issues that directly helped their bottom line and customer experience.

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Matthew Dick

Freelance Ruby on Rails Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since January 24, 2022

Matthew is a die-hard Ruby on Rails full-stack developer who loves new and existing projects alike. Clean and readable code is his mission, and code coverage is his baseline. Matthew is passionate about programming, and he is eager to combine forces to build something beautiful!

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Cliff Crosland

Freelance Ruby on Rails Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since September 15, 2017

Cliff is a full-stack software engineer who has had the opportunity to work on some remarkable technology, including systems to crawl the web and process hundreds of millions of extracted profiles from web-pages. He's passionate about building elegant APIs and processing systems as well as beautiful front-end web experiences.

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Hank Holiday

Freelance Ruby on Rails Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since June 2, 2020

Hank has worked as a consultant for over a decade—designing, architecting and building complex business applications for dozens of companies across a wide array of industries as both an individual contributor and a team lead. Hank is a trained electrical engineer with a background in machine learning and an accomplished cloud architect. Hank is also one of the first 500 certified Salesforce administrators and has coded in Apex since its initial releases and spoken at Dreamforce.

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Todd Kummer

Freelance Ruby on Rails Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since November 11, 2020

Todd's best fit is a client looking for an expert Ruby on Rails architect to help build out a new solution, or conversely, someone to help rescue a code base that has gone astray. His long history of product development—for software companies, internal business applications, and consumer websites—helps him find the right balance between short-term and long-term requirements and put in place best practices that will help guide the project for its full lifecycle.

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Aaron Silverman

Freelance Ruby on Rails Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since December 28, 2021

Aaron is a team player who will throw himself at an interesting problem and not give up until it is solved. He is a quick read and can learn new technologies and workflows extremely fast. Aaron holds a Bachelor's degree in mathematics, is conversationally fluent in German, and speaks and reads Japanese at an intermediate level.

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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.
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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.
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Livepress

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