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Dan Borstelmann

Freelance Back-End Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since September 6, 2018

Daniel has worked in startups and enterprise companies doing full-stack web and mobile development for the last five years. He is passionate about quality software, valuable user experience, and team delivery of great products. As a freelancer, Daniel uses the best practices he has learned to help his clients achieve their goals.

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Tao Zhang

Freelance Back-End Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since February 24, 2015

Tao is a senior full-stack developer/architect who has been working in a large-scale (14M+ line of code) real-time acquisition software projects for more than 11 years, primarily on the back end. His expertise is mainly at C++/C#, Java, Python web development, performance optimization, and troubleshooting in Azure and AWS.

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Eran Cahana

Freelance Back-End Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since March 16, 2020

With a passion for building software and over two decades of experience, Eran has worked on a multitude of projects for startups, Fortune 500 companies, and the military. He's successfully held versatile development roles ranging from designing information systems, integrations, and eCommerce to security-related research and low-level and embedded coding. Eran currently focuses on back-end server development, primarily in ASP.NET/Core and Scala.

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Christopher Smith

Freelance Back-End Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since September 14, 2016

Christopher is an expert JVM developer with solid experience building with Spring, Groovy, and the JVM ecosystem in general. He has managed the full software lifecycle from requirements to deployment, along with systems administration and networking (CCDP/CCNP). He is a proactive guy who's looking for projects that involve back-end engineering, infrastructure questions, networking, orchestration, and harder functional programming.

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Joe Cavazos

Freelance Back-End Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since February 2, 2016

Joe is a Java application developer with over eight years of experience working with enterprise and small-scale applications. He is well versed in relational databases, application servers, REST APIs, and testing.

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Dustin Ginther

Freelance Back-End Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since May 13, 2020

Dustin is a professional problem solver who brings together a wide breadth of experiences and executable knowledge. More often than not, this manifests in planning and building web-based applications using PHP frameworks like Drupal and WordPress. The prospect of continuing to work on new and exciting challenges is the reason Dustin freelances. He loves working with newer startups and companies branching into new endeavors.

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Philip Riley

Freelance Back-End Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since June 13, 2016

Over the last 14 years, Phil has proven again and again his ability to get things done, whether it's extending and improving an existing project, or developing one from scratch. He is able to move smoothly between technologies, and has an exceptional ability to dive into a new field and start contributing immediately. He's a great team player, mentor, and thought leader, but also has the discipline to fly solo.

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Josiah Bryan

Freelance Back-End Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since April 1, 2020

Josiah is a dynamic and passionate engineer and communicator, and he thrives on creation and innovation. He has grown companies by more than 25% year over year and earned respect from customers and coworkers for my combined engineering knowledge and excellent communication skills. Josiah works equally well with CEOs, VPs, and senior/junior engineers because he can grasp problems quickly, is a self-starter, and is passionate about his work and problems that he can solve.

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Timothy Mensch

Freelance Back-End Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since April 7, 2015

Tim is a senior software architect/engineer generalist. He has built the technology stack for multiple startups from the ground up. He also has experience rescuing projects and turning train wrecks into successful launches. He has worked in many domains, including retail, banking, internet of things, high-performance servers, machine learning, gamification, and scalable application server design. He has worked with cloud servers from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Azure.

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Star Ford

Freelance Back-End Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since September 14, 2016

Star has been consulting and developing software for twenty years, with special skills in capturing and communicating requirements, data modeling, and modeling business processes. Her experience largely focuses on media production workflow management, and she has an interest in optimization and complexity reduction in enterprise-level data systems. Her primary platform choices are C# and related Microsoft tools.

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Sean Shillo

Freelance Back-End Developer

United StatesToptal Member Since February 26, 2020

Sean is a senior full-stack developer and architect who has delivered many web and mobile projects, including ones that needed to be robust enough to process heavy data workloads. He's worked with several front-end and back-end frameworks including but not limited to Python, Ruby, JavaScript, TypeScript, Rails, Django, Node.js, and PostgreSQL. Sean's worked both as an individual and as a manager, and he's capable of contributing quickly with little guidance as well as advising on best practices.

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Testimonials

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

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

WhatAdsWork.com

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.

Greg Kimball, Co-Founder

nifti.com

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A Toptal director of engineering will work with you to understand your goals, technical needs, and team dynamics.
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Within days, we'll introduce you to the right back-end developer for your project. Average time to match is under 24 hours.
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Work with your new back-end developer for a trial period (pay only if satisfied), ensuring they're the right fit before starting the engagement.

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    All of our talent are seasoned experts who ramp up quickly, readily contribute as core team members, and work with you to minimize onboarding time.

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    We have a knack for matching you with the right fit. Start working with your new hire on a no-risk trial period, paying only if satisfied.

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    Hire in under 2 weeks and scale your team up or down as needed, no strings attached.

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    We handle all aspects of billing, payments, and NDA’s. Let us take care of the overhead while you focus on building great products.

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    Choose the engagement type that suits your needs — hourly, part-time, or full-time — with the ability to change anytime.

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    Focus on your project and enjoy support from your dedicated account executive and expert talent matcher.

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