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Benjamin Li

Freelance Data Engineer

Canada

Toptal Member Since November 3, 2021

Benjamin has over two decades of software and big data development experience, including data modeling and data warehouse design. His active toolset includes Spark, Python, Scala, AWS, Azure, SQL, Hive, Linux, Microsoft BI solutions, C#.NET, and Java. His orientation to detail and strong analytical and problem-solving skills make him an excellent addition to any team. A kind and intentional communicator, Benjamin always produces high-quality work.

Data Engineering SQL Server Hadoop Spark Data Modeling SQL Bash SSIS Big Data Architecture Data Warehouse Database Database Design Business Intelligence Development

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Steven Rouk

Freelance Data Engineer

United States

Toptal Member Since October 6, 2021

Steven is an expert Python and SQL data engineer with strong data science and data analysis capabilities and eight years of experience. He has led the development of technical solutions, and his most recent role was as a senior member of a data engineering team at a Fortune 100 company. The team processed billions of rows of data in a Snowflake ecosystem with thousands of tables, and the client regarded Steven as one of the highest contributing members of the 10+ member team.

Data Engineering Python SQL Pandas

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Leah Sapan

Freelance Data Engineer

United States

Toptal Member Since August 31, 2015

Leah is a product-minded software engineer with over 15 years of professional software development experience. She has an extensive background in tech lead and architect roles with various clients spanning healthcare, fintech, eCommerce, and more. Leah takes pride in building products that delight users and exceed her client's expectations.

Data Engineering PyCharm Xcode System Security REST API Back-end Developers Authentication AWS Web Scraping Ansible PostgreSQL Linux Docker

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Daniel Stahl

Freelance Data Engineer

United States

Toptal Member Since August 25, 2021

Daniel is a full-stack developer with nine years of real-world experience in financial modeling and analytics and three years of experience developing big data applications in Spark and Hadoop. He currently leads a machine learning operations team that designs continuous delivery services for machine learning applications. While professionally focused on data and analytics, Daniel has a passion for building delightful interfaces to enable the broad consumption of complex mathematical models.

Data Engineering Spark Git MLOps

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Jameson Edgeworth

Freelance Data Engineer

United States

Toptal Member Since June 22, 2022

Jameson brings together a blend of business knowledge and mathematics. With skills in data modeling and statistical analysis, Jameson has helped companies from small businesses to the Fortune 500 understand their business operations and analyze trends through data.

Data Engineering Statisticians SQL Business Intelligence Development Data Warehouse ETL Excel Development

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Maxuel Reis

Freelance Data Engineer

Brazil

Toptal Member Since January 19, 2024

Maxuel is a data scientist and engineer with proven end-to-end data solution experience who quickly adapts to new technologies. He is skilled in batch and real-time machine learning, cloud computing (AWS, GCP, and Azure), big data (Hive and Spark), and data streams. He expertly combines data science and engineering for effective data management and business-aligned strategies. With an acting background, Maxuel has unique communication abilities that enhance teamwork and management.

Data Engineering SQL Python PySpark AWS Lambda AWS Glue AWS AWS RDS Data Analysis Machine Learning Data Visualization Freelance Programming Database

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Renan Tomazoni Pinzon

Freelance Data Engineer

Brazil

Toptal Member Since July 14, 2023

Renan is a skilled data engineer with a software engineering background and 15 years of experience. He has worked with Zenvia, PagoNxt, and Neogrid, leading the creation of a Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance data platform and architecting new data solutions on AWS and Azure. Proficient in Scala, Java, Spark, Flink, Hadoop, Kafka, AWS, and Azure, Renan is a valuable asset in any organization.

Data Engineering Spark Apache Scala Java Hadoop NoSQL SQL AWS Big Data Architecture Software Engineering Computer Science RDBMS

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Naman Jain

Freelance Data Engineer

India

Toptal Member Since June 24, 2020

Naman is a highly experienced cloud and data solutions architect with more than six years of experience delivering data engineering services to multiple Fortune 100 clients. He has delivered on multiple Petabyte-scale data migrations and big data infrastructures via Azure Cloud, AWS Cloud, and Snowflake or DBT, creating a step order of efficiency in their use cases in many instances. Naman fundamentally believes in over-communication, establishing trust, and taking ownership of deliverables.

Data Engineering Git Azure Spark Data Warehouse Data Migration ETL Database Big Data Architecture Databricks Scala SQL Play Framework

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Dmitry Kozlov

Freelance Data Engineer

Canada

Toptal Member Since February 24, 2021

Dmitry is a senior big data architect with 16+ years of experience in data warehousing, BI, ETL, analytics, and the cloud. He's led teams in the delivery of 24 projects in the industries of finance, insurance, telecommunications, government, education, mining, manufacturing, and retail. Dmitry thrives in high-paced environments, has demonstrated the ability to lead effectively, manage, and support teams, and has consulted on several projects as a BI, data warehouse, and big data expert.

Data Engineering SQL ETL Big Data Architecture Business Intelligence Development Data Warehouse Hadoop Tableau Development Erwin Data Dev Team Leads PL/SQL DB2 Oracle Development

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Vivek Ramaswamy

Freelance Data Engineer

Canada

Toptal Member Since February 22, 2022

Vivek is an IT professional with 15 years of experience in designing and building systems, the last five years in big data systems. He excels in multiple tools, technologies, and programming languages, including SQL, .NET, Java, Scala, and JavaScript. Vivek has worked with data in Excel, VBA, Access, RDBMS, and distributed systems.

Data Engineering Apache Kafka HDFS SQL ETL

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Shashank Ranadive

Freelance Data Engineer

Canada

Toptal Member Since October 4, 2021

Shashank is a results-oriented data and business intelligence professional with 20+ years of experience and a consistent track record delivering enterprise-scale data platforms and BI solutions. In the last five years, he worked as a lead architect, designer, and lead developer to architect, design and build several BI solutions for provincial government using Microsoft cloud-based advanced analytics stack.

Data Engineering Python SQL Databricks Business Intelligence Development Azure SQL Server Azure Functions Git Data Warehouse Excel Development REST API

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