
Hire the Top 3% of Lua Developers in 48 Hours
Hire vetted Lua developers, programmers, and architects on demand. Leading companies choose Lua freelancers from Toptal for their most important development projects.
Toptal's work was a crucial milestone that enabled us to scale our engineering teams and systems in step with our rapid growth.
Mark Marcantano, Calm
Trusted by leading brands and startups
Meet Lua Developers in our Exclusive Network
Featured Talent

Renan Almeida de Miranda Santos
Lua Developer
Renan is a software developer with seven years of business and research experience. He specializes in developing backend systems, programming languages, and formal proofs. He is enthusiastic about backend development and programming languages. Renan's experience is backed by a bachelor's, master's, and PhD degree in computer science.

Travis Stokes
Lua Developer
Travis is a creative architect and .NET/MS SQL developer with extensive and varied experience who excels at rapid integration of new technologies. As a consultant, he has worked with every stage of the development process from initial discovery and requirements analysis to development and delivery.

Vadim Panov
Lua Developer
Vadim is a software engineer with 15+ years of experience in embedded systems, Unix, networking, and cryptography. He has owned and brought products to market, combining skills in C++, C, Lua, JavaScript, Python, and more. Vadim acquired an EMBA to gain better equilibrium between tech and business challenges.

Marius Petcu
Lua Developer
Marius is a developer who knows the web—both front and back end—and is familiar with the ins and outs of the JavaScript ecosystem, particularly Node.js, TypeScript, and React. Marius is also comfortable with native development, more specifically game technologies like C++, OpenGL, and Lua and with iOS/macOS development. A career highlight is when Marius co-founded his own indie game development studio.

Eugene Mikhalev
Lua Developer
Eugene has over 10 years of experience in software engineering, specializing in Go, microservices, and high-load development. He has worked with enterprise-level companies such as Lazada and Alibaba and leading Russian IT companies Ozon and Mailru. Eugene has also worked for European companies like Westwing, one of the Rocket Internet startup projects.

Kim Wing Fung
Lua Developer
Kim is a software engineer with more than 15 years of experience developing front-end and back-end technologies, user interfaces, and tools for a wide range of applications, including video games, augmented reality, mobile platforms, and web apps. He has worked with various programming languages, including JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Kotlin, Java, Lua, C, and C++. Kim is fluent in software development approaches, including Agile, Waterfall, and XP.

Nguyen Truong Minh
Lua Developer
Minh is a back-end developer with ten years of experience in various application domains. His solid knowledge of server-side applications proves valuable in the success of products. From scratch, he creates very stable CI/CD pipelines on GitHub, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that have been used in many projects. His simple yet effective approach to problems garners the trust of his clients.

Denis Dorozhkin
Lua Developer
Denis is a back-end developer with experience leading teams of up to six and working for enterprises (like Mail.ru Group)—specializing in high-load web development using Go and Python. Denis also excels at working with multiple systems for the management, consumption, and processing of big pipelines or data or handling a high number of requests. Thanks to a passion for performance optimization, Denis also knows quite a few algorithms. He's also comfortable with all modern web development tools.

Vache Katsadze
Lua Developer
Vache is a software engineer who has developed numerous C and C++ applications for different companies, including Microsoft. He has led efforts to build public transportation payment system software with up to 500,000 daily active users. Vache's diverse working experience and strong academic background make him a significant contributor to any team.

Levon Hovhannisyan
Lua Developer
Levon is a back-end developer with over six years of professional experience, mainly using C++. Last year, he delved into TypeScript and AWS and designed and implemented several serverless applications. He has extensive knowledge of algorithms, data structures, design patterns, cloud computing services, and cross-language infrastructure. Thanks to his experience in leading, designing, and implementing various projects, Levon can efficiently solve complex problems.

Roman Petrov
Lua Developer
Romain is a software developer with 17 years of professional experience. He's worked with many languages and technologies throughout his career—this solid foundation in computer science helps him learn new ones quickly. Roman's current main specialization is mobile application development. As a developer, he likes clean code, good architecture, and challenging tasks.

Hiring Made Easy
Share your needs
Choose your talent
Start your risk-free talent trial
Toptal Lets You Hire Fast,
With Unparalleled Success
Trusted Experts Only
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.
Your New Team Member
We are so sure you will love your new team member that you can try working with them for a few days. Pay only if satisfied.
Scale as Needed
Hire talent within 48 hours. Scale your team up or down exactly when you need it, no strings attached.
Seamless Hiring
We handle all aspects of billing, payments and NDAs. Let us take care of the overhead while you focus on building great products.
Flexible Engagements
Choose the engagement type that suits your needs – hourly, part-time, or full-time – with the ability to change anytime.
Expert Talent Matcher
Focus on your project and enjoy support from your dedicated account executive and expert talent matcher.
Our Developer Screening Process
26.4%Pass Rate
Excellent technical communication
7.4%Pass Rate
Core skills and algorithms
3.6%Pass Rate
Proactive problem-solving
3.2%Pass Rate
End-to-End project execution
3%Pass Rate
Continued excellence
Try Talent Before You Hire
We have a 98% trial-to-hire success rate.
Up to two weeks to try talent and evaluate if they’re the right fit
No obligation to pay or hire at the end of the two weeks
Get an alternative candidate quickly if you’re not satisfied
Why Organizations Choose Toptal®

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.
Thierry JakircevicGeneral Manager, Digital Solutions, Bridgestone

Toptal’s talent is really excellent. They are able to work through large business problems and code incredibly efficiently.
Emily LemonSenior Director, Cleveland Cavaliers

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.
Elmar PlatzerDigital Transformation Leader, CSR

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.
Matthew SchumacherSenior Product Manager, Alpha - Precision Drilling
Top Lua developers are in high demand. Ready to get started?