IT Strategy Consulting – Maximize Your Technology Potential
Accelerate innovation with Toptal’s IT Strategy Consulting. We assess your business objectives and technology landscape, create strategic implementation plans, and deliver IT frameworks that position your organization for long-term success.
Navigate digital complexity with strategic IT services designed to align your technology infrastructure, innovation plans, and operational goals for maximum business impact.
Digital Transformation Consulting
Drive business growth by modernizing processes, technologies, and culture through tailored digital strategies.
IT Infrastructure Assessment
Evaluate current infrastructure to identify risks, close gaps, and guide modernization opportunities.
IT Infrastructure Optimization
Optimize your IT infrastructure to boost performance, reduce costs, and ensure seamless operations.
IT Solutions Consulting
Identify and implement technology solutions that align with your business needs and drive significant competitive advantage.
Cybersecurity Strategy and Planning
Develop a robust cybersecurity strategy to protect your business from threats and ensure compliance.
IT Support Advisory
Streamline IT operations and support with expert advisory services that enhance efficiency, reliability, and scalability.
IT Strategy
Align technology investments with business objectives through long-term IT strategies that enable growth.
Technology Roadmapping
Translate IT strategy into phased, actionable roadmaps that prioritize innovation, scalability, and delivery timelines.
Enterprise Architecture Design
Architect scalable, resilient systems that align business needs with technology infrastructure.
Cloud Strategy Consulting
Build secure, cost-effective cloud strategies that enable flexibility, scalability, and innovation.
IT Governance and Compliance
Establish policies and frameworks that support regulatory compliance and operational accountability.
IT Budget and Cost Optimization
Analyze and optimize IT spend to drive efficiency and ensure strategic resource allocation.
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Our IT strategy consultants, with experience at leading companies, develop and deploy tailored solutions to meet your business needs and unique industry demands for sustainable results and long-term success.
1
Discover
A leader from our team works with you to understand your business challenges, pain points, and strategic goals to uncover new opportunities and identify the options to reach your objectives.
2
Define
Toptal leaders collaborate with your team to define your specific goals and service needs, evaluating multiple approaches and aligning requirements with your strategic objectives to define the best solution.
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Develop
We will create your unique project timeline, process, and first drafts, whether you’re building an enterprise IT roadmap or planning a digital transformation initiative for your business.
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Deploy
Toptal will get to work, tracking quality assurance, handling project management, and maintaining the delivery schedule.
Business Strategy and Finance Consulting Practice Lead
As Toptal’s Business Strategy and Finance Consulting Practice Lead, Matt focuses on helping clients address critical issues and drive value across their enterprises. He brings 35 years of senior-level consulting experience, having held leadership roles at Cognizant, Accenture, IBM, and Deloitte.As Toptal’s Business Strategy and Finance Consulting Practice Lead, Matt focuses on helping clients address critical issues and drive value across their enterprises. He brings 35 years of senior-level consulting experience, having held leadership roles at Cognizant, Accenture, IBM, and Deloitte.
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IT Strategy Solutions That Drive Impact
Toptal delivers leading IT strategy consulting through its diverse talent network and flexible delivery models. We implement the right skills at each project phase, blending expertise from various roles for seamless execution.
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End-to-End Delivery by Toptal
Comprehensive project delivery, tailored to your specific requirements.
Business Strategy and Finance Consulting Practice Lead
Business Strategy and Finance Consulting Practice Lead
As Toptal’s Business Strategy and Finance Consulting Practice Lead, Matt focuses on helping clients address critical issues and drive value across their enterprises. He brings 35 years of senior-level consulting experience, having held leadership roles at Cognizant, Accenture, IBM, and Deloitte.
Rachael serves as a Delivery Manager at Toptal with a focus on leading diverse global teams in developing innovative solutions for our clients. She works across multiple disciplines, including technology, marketing, and management consulting. Rachael specializes in managing people and client relationships, process optimization, and driving teams toward optimal business outcomes.
Joan is an enterprise architect who excels in providing technology and architecture visions that align with business priorities and corporate long-term strategy. With over 20 years of hands-on experience working as an IT professional, she has established herself as a leader, advisor, collaborator, educator, and influencer in the area of architecture design.
Pedro is an award-winning PMO senior project manager and customer service leader who has delivered projects for top tech companies such as Google, Apple, AT&T, TMO, and Verizon and worked as a PM consultant at Stanford and MIT. He has experience as a regional head, trainer, PO, and Scrum master. Pedro is a certified PMP, Azure, and ITIL Agile coach with a talent for leading teams globally and defining processes and tools. He speaks four languages and has represented his companies in 15+ countries.
Joe is a seasoned security and infrastructure engineering professional with experience performing application and network assessments, writing and enforcing policies, providing defense for an enterprise environment, and administrating infrastructures. He has in-depth knowledge of information security, information technology, and information warfare. Joe is a competent Python programmer, adding automation and integration that reduces workloads.
Vanessa is an energetic and highly competent Certified Information Systems Security and Project Management Professional (CISSP, PMP). She has spent 10+ years successfully directing complex technical programs for companies like Salesforce, Microsoft, and Boeing. Vanessa also has an excellent track record demonstrating leadership abilities, executive decision-making, complex problem-solving, detailed project planning, and effective communication.
Mark is a risk assessor, program manager, security operations engineer, and architect with more than 17 years of experience implementing risk reduction initiatives. He has a deep understanding of various security frameworks and tools. Mark has successfully developed budgets, risk-informed roadmaps, and project plans and has led multidisciplinary teams to effectively reduce risks and demonstrate compliance with standards, as confirmed by third-party auditors.
Emiliano is a cloud engineer with more than 11 years of experience with Amazon Web Services architecture. He helps customers with cloud migration and adoption, designs cloud-native solutions, and migrates existing workloads to containerized infrastructure. Emiliano is an expert at creating reproducible infrastructure, reducing infrastructure costs, improving infrastructure security availability and performance, and automating the software delivery process.
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Arun is a senior DevSecOps architect with 12+ years of experience and a master's degree in information technology. He has worked with government departments, banks, telecoms, healthcare companies, and small- to medium-scale enterprises worldwide.
Mladen is a senior project manager and GRC consultant with extensive experience leading multi-country project teams in the banking and insurance sectors.
Peter is a security professional with more than 10 years of experience helping major multinational companies secure their infrastructures and customers. He is an experienced security engineer and consultant. Peter designs secure systems and applications, advising on security practices targeting web, cloud applications, and APIs.
Luis is a cloud solutions architect for Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud Platform. He’s keen on providing IT solutions focused on software development in DevOps adoption, Agile development, systems and platform integration, process automation, business development and optimization, and algorithm analysis.
Gökay is a senior manager and principal advisor specializing in cybersecurity, information security, audits, and standards and regulations. He is highly skilled in enterprise security architecture and an expert in delivering sustainable protection. He enhances reputation and digital presence while enabling risk mitigation to prevent financial loss.
Mahesh is an IT service professional with more than 19 years of end-to-end pre-sale and delivery experience on large complex assignments involving the integration of multiple platform technologies. He has worked in various industries, including government and finance. Mahesh holds a bachelor’s degree in electronics and communication and is a Google Cloud-certified professional, cloud architect, data engineer, network engineer, and security engineer.
Poliana is an embedded security engineer with 18+ years of experience integrating embedded systems in the automotive and aerospace products industry. Her expertise includes security requirements, threat modeling, risk analysis, secure architecture, and compliance based on systems engineering fundamentals.
Greg is a seasoned and highly qualified cybersecurity and compliance executive. He has built and led cybersecurity and compliance teams in various healthcare, financial services, and pharmaceutical organizations throughout his career. Greg's proven expertise in technical, administrative, and procedural controls for information protection allows him to help businesses keep their critical information secure, confidential, and intact.
Joseph is a cybersecurity professional who strives to be well-rounded while maintaining specialties in technical cybersecurity areas where he provides the best return on investment. As a master of many cybersecurity domains and fully qualified for all categories and levels of the IA workforce under the Department of Defense (DoD) 8140 and 8570, he advocates team-based approaches and promotes knowledge-transferable, shared, and open-source-based methodologies whenever feasible.
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CSR Limited’s digital transformation results in boosted sales performance and operational savings.
Challenge: Faced with increasing competition and escalating customer needs, CSR Limited, a global leader in the construction supply industry, was looking to offer more.
Solution: Toptal and CSR created CSR Connect, an application with a range of solutions. It digitizes ordering and payment processes for customers, manages accounting, and enables delivery tracking. The app uses JavaScript at its core, and the back-end platform is built on Amazon Web Services.
Impact: CSR boosted sales with enhanced customer experience and saved accountants’ time by automating monthly tasks.
Toptal helped us achieve our goals by bringing the resources to bear with very short notice, and very high-quality resources to boot.
Elmar Platzer
Digital Transformation Leader, CSR Australia
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Chas is an artificial intelligence and data analytics leader with experience at Bain & Company and Toptal. He has spent most of his career helping Fortune 500 companies, private equity firms, and SMBs across industries get the most out of their data. Chas holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Stetson University and a master’s degree in analytics from North Carolina State University.
Michael is a seasoned information security leader with experience at the Advanced Cyber Security Center and Toptal. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a master’s degree in high-tech crime investigations from George Washington University.
TJ has more than a decade of leadership experience in the hosting and cloud services industry and guides clients through the complexities of cloud computing adoption and transformation. He holds a degree in accounting from Delaware County Community College and accreditations for both Scrum and the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL).