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Marcus Young
Back-end Developer
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.

Tudor Vlad
Back-end Developer
Tudor is a senior IT professional with over 15 years of experience, focused on creating meaningful impact via software. He is an Agile practitioner and a team player. He has architected, led, and/or co-managed the development of four SaaS products and one physical asset procuring and leasing service since 2015. As an architect and senior back-end engineer, Tudor works closely with clients across various industries, including finance, payments, fintech, insurtech, and eCommerce.

Adam Bernot
Back-end Developer
Adam is a software engineer specializing in back-end development, with additional expertise in DevOps and front-end development. He loves working with Go, Kubernetes, and cloud-native applications. Adam has extensive experience in leadership, diverse issues, collaboration, and compassion. He believes it's the people who make the work fantastic.

Frank Ji
Back-end Developer
Frank is a seasoned professional currently working as a software engineer at Amazon. He previously served as the VP of engineering at Penfield.AI, a Toronto AI startup pioneering in empowering human-machine intelligence in the cybersecurity space. Frank also worked as a senior engineer at Meta's enterprise trust organization, helping to build Facebook's privacy and compliance software infrastructures. He also worked on IBM WebSphere Java Runtime, which powered many Fortune 500 Java applications.

David Grigorian
Back-end Developer
David is a seasoned full-stack software engineer specializing in back-end development. As the lead engineer, he's led the development of a truck and load scheduling platform now used by the largest US trucking company. As the back-end architect and co-founder of ParcelRobin, David has driven the startup to six-figure annual revenue with over a thousand loyal users. He delivers impactful solutions, leveraging his extensive experience to innovate and optimize software development processes.

Xiao Huang
Back-end Developer
Xiao is a software engineer with several years of professional experience in developing large-scale software primarily in automotive, including autonomous driving, navigation systems, etc. Xiao's primary language is C++, but he also has development experience in Python, MATLAB, and CUDA. Other than delivering products, Xiao has worked on build systems and continuous integration pipelines.

Marco Martins Castanho
Back-end Developer
Marco is a software engineer with nine years of experience in IT, focusing on both back-end and front-end development. After graduating with an MSc in electrical engineering and computer science, he worked as an IT consultant in Lisbon, Portugal. He accepted the challenge of moving to France to gather experience working in international contexts. Since then, Marco has worked as a software engineer, technical lead, and scrum master on various projects.

Vlad Berindei
Back-end Developer
Vlad is a highly skilled software engineer with an extensive background in algorithms and computer science. He has 5+ years of experience working on back-end services and distributed systems at Google. Vlad is looking for new and challenging projects that would allow him to show his proficiency in C, C++, Python, SQL, and other languages.

David Sumegi
Back-end Developer
Backed by several years of hands-on experience, David is a software developer who excels at building Java back-end services, relational databases, and software architecture. His solid testing background makes him the type of developer who prevents incidents early on via automated tests with 100% code coverage. David is also an enthusiast of SOLID principles, clean code, clean architecture, and design patterns.

Emil Stoev
Back-end Developer
Emil is an engineering lead with over 20 years of experience in software development and team management. He has a proven track record in leading agile teams and optimizing processes. Emil has expertise in a wide range of technologies, including .NET, C#, C++, Python, Azure, and AWS.

Vadim Ovcearenco
Back-end Developer
Vadim is an accomplished senior software engineer with over 20 years of experience. Vadim has a solid technical background and extensive expertise in both front- and back-end web development, interactive web applications, and more, enabling him to deliver exceptional results across various projects.

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Toptal gave us access to the best designers out there, saving us a lot of time and allowing us to build the best possible product.
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Toptal’s talent is really excellent. They are able to work through large business problems and code incredibly efficiently.
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The kind of people we looked for were hard to find. Toptal helped us achieve our goals by bringing high quality resources to bear on very short notice.
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If you’ve tried working with other vendors, Toptal is going to be a different type of company to work with; they’re going to meet you where your needs are.
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