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Our back-end developers focus on building the engine that powers your applications. With expertise in server-side logic, database management, and API creation, they craft scalable systems to handle high traffic, complex workflows, and advanced functionalities with ease.
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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Artem Sukiasyan
Back-end Developer
Artem is a senior software engineer with 20+ years of career history focused on supporting different software systems. He has experience-backed expertise in back-end system creation with different technology stacks as well as strong skills in analysis, design, development, testing, and implementation of various applications. Artem is a supportive and enthusiastic team player who never gives up and prides himself on his efficient problem-solving abilities.

Nicolas Paton
Back-end Developer
Nicolas, a seasoned developer with nearly 20 years of experience, specializes in web, mobile, and server development. With expertise in Go, Rust, TypeScript, React, databases, and APIs, he excels in crafting back-end systems, API integration, and scaling strategies. A startup mentor, Nicolas bridges the gap between technical and non-technical clients, delivering optimized solutions. His UI/UX proficiency ensures visually appealing, user-focused interfaces.

Yasitha Pandithawatta
Back-end Developer
Yasitha, a staff engineer at Dropsuite, boasts over a decade of software development experience. With a keen focus on API integrations, back-end development, and solid front-end skills, he excels in catering to the needs of startups and small businesses, ensuring robust web application development.

Francis Brassard
Back-end Developer
Francis has built and led teams that have successfully developed robust and efficient web applications and ecosystems. He brings over a decade and a half of hands-on experience with high-availability, high-traffic applications in both monolithic and micro-service architectures. Francis strives for agility and efficiency, utilizing available resources to their best to adhere to the highest and greatest delivery standards.

Julius Datoc Pabular
Back-end Developer
Julius is an accomplished lead Java developer and engineering manager with expertise in Java back-end development. He has 19+ years of experience delivering innovative and efficient software solutions and a proven ability to design, develop, and maintain robust and scalable software applications in various industries, including finance, banking, healthcare, travel, consulting, and eCommerce. Julius is an expert in coding RESTful APIs and web services, code reviews, mentoring, and agile delivery.

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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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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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