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Ethan Millstein

Freelance API Developer

United States

Toptal Member Since November 1, 2024

Ethan is a lead software developer with over seven years of experience building startups and new products. Specializing in React Native, Vue, and Node.js, he has successfully launched mobile apps and full-stack solutions for industries ranging from fintech to real estate. Ethan combines strong technical expertise with a deep understanding of product strategy and has a proven track record of delivering impactful solutions for clients and businesses.

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Pedro Solá

Freelance API Developer

Mexico

Toptal Member Since May 23, 2022

Pedro is an experienced full-stack engineer and tech lead. He is very comfortable in the fast-paced world of startups and consulting. Pedro has worked on everything, from building prototypes to systems design, scaling platforms, and handling large-scale data migrations. From back end, front end, or mobile, he's done it all.

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Michael Truog

Freelance API Developer

United States

Toptal Member Since April 4, 2016

Michael is a top architect, engineer, developer, and entrepreneur with a proven ability to develop efficient, scalable, and fault-tolerant server solutions for complex problems. He has extensive experience and skills with all levels of software and architecture.

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Danish Shrestha

Freelance API Developer

United States

Toptal Member Since May 5, 2021

Danish is a full-stack software engineer with over a decade of experience building scalable enterprise software systems. He developed a pricing engine to reduce a renewable project bid from weeks to just two hours and led a team of 20 engineers to deliver a multi-year project in just three months. Danish has extensive experience in a startup-like environment where requirements evolve constantly and have aggressive timelines.

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Owen Lopez

Freelance API Developer

United States

Toptal Member Since July 16, 2018

Owen has 16 years of experience in QA working for companies in healthcare with Anthem, Anthem.ai, Madison Reed, and Allergan Data Labs, in the public sector with U.Group, in entertainment with Endeavor Holdings Group and Zynga, and in fintech with EY. He has worked on data science, data quality testing, ioT integrations, CI/CD pipelines, mobile application development with release cycles, load testing/performance testing, API testing, and more.

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Alex Katkova

Freelance API Developer

United States

Toptal Member Since July 13, 2022

Alex is a senior Ruby on Rails developer with extensive experience building APIs, working with and extending 3rd-party integrations, and building proof-of-concept software. Alex is pragmatic and detail-oriented, leverages the right tools for the job, and delivers projects on time.

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Marcus Young

Freelance API Developer

United States

Toptal Member Since June 19, 2024

Marcus is a senior engineering leader with 15+ years of overall experience and 7+ years of experience leading back-end software development. As a staff software engineer in the fintech industry, he focused primarily on building cloud-native distributed systems and AI/ML pipelines to facilitate loan origination, payments, and fraud detection. Having recently worked on LLM-backed systems, he is looking forward to tackling the challenges associated with deploying and supporting LLMs in production.

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Jay Brown

Freelance API Developer

United States

Toptal Member Since October 7, 2019

With over 25 years of software development experience, Jay has focused on designing and building enterprise back-end and mid-tier applications, protocols, and APIs for Fortune 1000 companies. He has multiple US patents, has authored the Manning book on Apache OpenCMIS API development, and has presented technical subjects at several IBM international conferences. Jay currently designs and builds distributed systems with Go for his various clients.

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Charles Grady

Freelance API Developer

United States

Toptal Member Since September 26, 2022

Charles is primarily a back-end developer specializing in Python. He has more than 16 years of experience developing RESTful APIs, high-throughput computations, and cluster interfaces in an open source environment. Charles published papers, gave conference presentations, and taught domestic and international workshops showcasing the tools he created, the community infrastructure, and his research projects.

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Andrew Miller

Freelance API Developer

United States

Toptal Member Since September 24, 2018

Andrew has over 25 years of web development experience with a focus on WordPress development since 2012, which includes custom plugins and theme development, API and data integrations, troubleshooting, malware removal, and migrations. With a deep understanding of the WordPress codebase, Andrew provides services to clients who require more than an off-the-shelf solution.

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Brian Weber

Freelance API Developer

United States

Toptal Member Since May 23, 2024

Brian is a principal engineer with a solid architectural and development background in enterprise data management, services, and mobile development. With expertise in data and application security, Brian has worked with many Fortune 100 companies to achieve their technology objectives. Brian specializes in automating and verifying large-scale cloud application integration and cloud data migrations across varied data sources in high-availability scenarios and business continuity.

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