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Jeff is dedicated to helping clients of all sizes build digital marketing strategies that directly impact revenue. With a background in digital growth consulting with Accenture, Jeff brings expertise across demand generation strategies, content, campaigns, lead and funnel management, operating model design, cost optimization, martech and data, and digital transformation.
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Digital Marketing Practice Lead
Jeff is dedicated to helping clients of all sizes build digital marketing strategies that directly impact revenue. With a background in digital growth consulting with Accenture, Jeff brings expertise across demand generation strategies, content, campaigns, lead and funnel management, operating model design, cost optimization, martech and data, and digital transformation.
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Technology Experience
15+ Years

Delivery Manager
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.
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Experience
9+ Years

8+ Years
of Experience
Cheryl is a seasoned content manager with more than eight years of expertise in content marketing, SEO, social media, PR, and communications. She has been successful in crafting compelling narratives that drive traffic, engagement, and revenue. With strong project management and storytelling skills, she delivers exciting copy for various channels, formats, and audiences. Discover how Cheryl can utilize her strategic abilities to elevate your brand and meet business objectives.
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8+ Years
of Experience
Hafiz is a full-stack developer with more than eight years of experience developing robust applications for high-volume businesses in an agile environment. He is a problem-solving team player with a can-do attitude and phenomenal communication skills. Hafiz has been working as a remote independent contractor with companies all over the globe.
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6+ Years
of Experience
Denes is a seasoned SEO and AEO expert who has successfully managed and implemented hundreds of online marketing projects across diverse sectors, including eCommerce, B2C, and B2B. With a proven track record of working with both small startups and large multinational companies, he possesses extensive knowledge of international business. Denes excels at collaborating with cross-functional teams, is passionate about educating others, and delivering measurable results.
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13+ Years
of Experience
With an engineering degree, two master's degrees, including an MBA, and the ability to speak four languages, Adrian has delivered as a product manager in North America, Latin America, and Europe on multiple innovation initiatives, including software development, AI strategy, project delivery, blockchain, geolocation, and Agile implementation. Adrian has extensive experience in technical and business roles and has worked in several industries: telecom, cloud native, supply chain, retail, fintech, and IT.
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13+ Years
of Experience
Camila is a seasoned professional with 13+ years of experience in marketing and analytics. She has worked for agencies like Omnicom Media Group and companies like Just Eat, managing budgets of over £7 million globally. With a master’s degree in advertising and multiple certifications, Camila excels in agency transitions and establishing in-house teams. She is an innovative thinker who thrives on pushing boundaries, leveraging analytics and digital strategies to drive outstanding performance.
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15+ Years
of Experience
Claudiu is a senior full-stack developer with around 15 years of industry experience. He has built various projects, from marketing websites and applications for digital agencies to internal tools at Facebook, civic technology projects, and SaaS products. Claudiu is passionate about open source, developer experience, clean code, and maintainable software.
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17+ Years
of Experience
Nimrod is a researcher, consultant, and developer with 17 years of experience and expertise in software architecture and development, mathematical modeling, and algorithm development, in fields such as mathematical optimization, AI, algorithmic game theory, and operations research. Early in his career, Nimrod was a software engineer and tech team lead at Google, and he holds a PhD in computer science. From a polymath perspective, his EBS numbers are Erdös 3, Sabbath 7, and, arguably, Bacon 6.
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15+ Years
of Experience
Dmitry is an SEO and content marketing expert with solid experience growing organic traffic and revenue in scale-up and enterprise companies. His expertise—spanning technical and on-page SEO, content strategy, link building, and globalization—is rooted in hands-on work across 50+ sites and leading teams of 20+ specialists. He also collaborates cross-functionally to drive integrated and sustainable growth. At Skyscanner, Dmitry grew organic traffic by 4x and email subscribers by 20x in two years.
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24+ Years
of Experience
Lovro is a machine learning engineer and data scientist with a strong enthusiasm for deep learning applications. By combining his academic knowledge with practical industry experience, he is able to contribute to every stage of the AI software development process. Lovro’s professional background spans startups, large corporations such as his engineering role at Amazon, and research positions in academic institutions and universities.
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24+ Years
of Experience
Denis is a senior full-stack AI engineer and data scientist, highly skilled in modern generative tech (GPT-4, Midjourney, and more), machine learning, ETL pipelines, data analysis, mathematical modeling, big data, and MLOps. He has a PhD in mathematics, and his data science expertise includes probabilistic risk modeling, revenue forecasting, geospatial data analysis, handwriting recognition, anomaly detection in time series, data engineering, and team leading.
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14+ Years
of Experience
Joe is a digital marketing consultant with more than 14 years of experience, primarily with B2B SaaS organizations. He specialized in multiple disciplines, including UX, CRO, SEO, content marketing, SEM, paid social, and globalization at a Fortune 500 company. He also owned digital marketing end to end at several startups while working agency-side. Joe leverages this experience to deliver integrated and impactful digital marketing strategies and help organizations scale their digital marketing activity.
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27+ Years
of Experience
Radu is a senior GenAI and knowledge graph solution architect delivering solutions for cybersecurity, investments, agriculture, and economy domains. For over 27 years, he has accomplished numerous proofs of concept and pilot projects, led standardization efforts at OASIS and ITU-T, and was granted patents for inventions in cybersecurity and enterprise knowledge management. Radu holds a master's degree in computer science from UNC Charlotte.
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12+ Years
of Experience
Isaac brings extensive experience in applying machine learning (ML), including Generative AI (GenAI), across diverse fields and complex challenges. He has worked on ML applications in ad security, supply chain management, business analytics, image tracking, healthcare technology, hardware, and failure prediction. Isaac has successfully led teams and managed projects from initial conception through full deployment in both startup and enterprise environments.
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11+ Years
of Experience
Felipe is an SEO strategist with 11+ years of experience helping businesses grow through technical audits, content strategy, on-page optimization, and search intent mapping. He specializes in building scalable SEO systems—from local to enterprise, combining data, UX, and automation to drive sustainable rankings. Felipe's work bridges algorithms and human behavior to create search experiences that convert.
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19+ Years
of Experience
Monica specializes in data analytics, enterprise data architecture, digital transformation, and data-driven strategies. With a background at Deloitte, she brings expertise in leveraging AI-powered solutions to optimize business performance. Currently, she leads projects on augmented analytics, data architecture design, and AI agents. As a passionate advocate for innovation, Monica works to empower organizations to unlock the potential of their data for strategic growth and transformation.
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Challenge: Edible experienced a 40% drop in organic site traffic after migrating its front-end to React, and needed an innovative SEO solution to recover and boost site performance.
Solution: Toptal quickly diagnosed the significant drop in organic traffic by conducting an in-depth SEO audit that assessed keyword strategy, technical elements, and other impacts of the React migration.
Outcome: Toptal’s strategic guidance positioned Edible to effectively address any upcoming SEO issues, including retiring zombie pages, improving page render times, removing duplicate content, enhancing website speed and mobile usability, and optimizing title tags and meta descriptions.
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Jeff is the Growth and Digital Marketing Practice Lead at Toptal. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Middlebury College and an MBA from Cornell University with an emphasis in leadership and innovation. Jeff has spent the past 15 years building demand generation, content marketing, and digital programs that drive meaningful transformation and growth for both internal teams and external clients. Before joining Toptal, he held senior management roles at Accenture Song, Material, and Telus International.
Chas Stikeleather 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 to optimize 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.
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