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Kenan Virtucio

Freelance Software Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since November 8, 2017

Kenan’s extensive knowledge and passion for DevOps makes him an ideal candidate. He is a seasoned professional with expertise in DevOps, automation, and cloud computing. He is eager to take on new projects and will work smart to provide great results.

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Thomas Tran

Freelance Software Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since December 31, 2015

Tom has over eight years of web development experience, ranging from being the first engineer at a business analytics company to building highly scalable and secure games at Zynga, including one that supported 9 million daily active users. He is completely self-reliant and self-motivated; you can count on him to handle everything including spec review, level-of-effort estimation, architecting, developing, and even deployment.

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Tristan Rasmussen

Freelance Software Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since September 3, 2019

Tristan has been programming since he got his first computer at the age of 10. He earned his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science from the University of Chicago. After graduating, he went to work at YouTube/Google, on the HTML5 video player, improving live streaming latency from 15 seconds to 2 seconds and enabling new uses cases like a gapless transition for ad videos.

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Aitizaz Khan

Freelance Software 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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Software DevelopersRubyAngularRuby on Rails (RoR)RubyMineAgile Software DevelopmentWebBack-endREST APIsjQueryGoogle Drive APISlackGoogle App Engine
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Garland Kan

Freelance Software Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since April 13, 2020

Garland is a DevOps software engineer and consultant that helps small to medium-sized startups run large-scale, reliable applications. For over the past five years, he’s worked with many development teams to architect, design, build, optimize, and operate the infrastructure in the cloud (AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure).

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Software DevelopersKubernetesDockerAWS S3AWSGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)
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Tom Waterman

Freelance Software Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since December 10, 2019

Tom is a data scientist from Facebook with more than five years of experience in the technology sector. He's also worked as a data engineer for fast-growing SaaS companies, helping to build and manage their data infrastructure. He started his career as an analyst at a data consulting firm after graduating from Boston University with a degree in mathematics and statistics. Tom is looking forward to working on new challenges that help clients achieve their goals.

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Software DevelopersPythonAWS AthenaApache AirflowFlaskPostgreSQLMySQLPandasData ScienceData ScrapingGitSQL
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Evan Hellmuth

Freelance Software Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since January 29, 2019

After graduating from Yale, Evan joined Salesforce to build products used by companies like Coca-Cola, Fitbit, and FedEx. Afterward, he helped grow revenue to eight figures as employee #20 at Mixmax before founding his own startup. Evan's varied experience has given him the skills to deliver beautiful, maintainable, and scalable web solutions quickly. He loves digging into problems to help businesses delight customers and grow.

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Navin Lal

Freelance Software Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since May 29, 2020

Navin is an experienced back-end engineer with over a decade of experience building high-performance web applications. He's worked on and led teams at several high-profile companies in Silicon Valley. Navin will get your project done on time and within budget. He will also ensure there are no security flaws, the project is well organized, and designed to be easily maintained, and he will work with you to get the details perfect.

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Steve Thomas

Freelance Software Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since June 15, 2020

Steve is a software engineer passionate about machine learning and automating data-intensive workflows. His goal is to free scientists and BI analysts from creating and maintaining complex cloud environments so they can focus on what they do best. He has experience collaborating with the interdisciplinary perception teams at some of the top autonomous vehicle companies and building tools to automate the model training lifecycle.

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Software DevelopersDeep LearningPythonTensorFlowPyTorchAWSDockerKubernetes
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Hafiz Hamid

Freelance Software Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since March 10, 2018

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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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.

Brantley Pace, CEO & Co-Founder

Tripcents

In addition to sharp technical skills, Faruk had a great attitude and is a really exceptional communicator. He always let us know where he was with his work, thoroughly and reliably. That's not always the case, and it made working remotely considerably easier. He was an easy integration into the team.

Leif Abraham, Co-Founder

AND CO Ventures Inc

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

ProHatch

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.

Stuart Pocknee , Principal

Site Specific Software Solutions

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.

Abner Guzmán Rivera, CTO and Chief Scientist

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

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