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Ali is an IT leader and strategist with 25+ years of experience at IBM, Verizon, Thomson Reuters, and Cognizant. He has led global teams, building and scaling multibillion-dollar annual growth. As a turnaround and strategic growth expert, he has jump-started innovation, grown revenue, and improved productivity.
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Ali is an IT leader and strategist with 25+ years of experience at IBM, Verizon, Thomson Reuters, and Cognizant. He has led global teams, building and scaling multibillion-dollar annual growth. As a turnaround and strategic growth expert, he has jump-started innovation, grown revenue, and improved productivity. He has worked across verticals and across a wide range of technologies including AI/ML, cloud, ERP, CRM, ITSM, cybersecurity, and others.Ali is an IT leader and strategist with 25+ years of experience at IBM, Verizon, Thomson Reuters, and Cognizant. He has led global teams, building and scaling multibillion-dollar annual growth. As a turnaround and strategic growth expert, he has jump-started innovation, grown revenue, and improved productivity.
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CSO & CTO, Technology Services
Ali is an IT leader and strategist with 25+ years of experience at IBM, Verizon, Thomson Reuters, and Cognizant. He has led global teams, building and scaling multibillion-dollar annual growth. As a turnaround and strategic growth expert, he has jump-started innovation, grown revenue, and improved productivity. He has worked across verticals and across a wide range of technologies including AI/ML, cloud, ERP, CRM, ITSM, cybersecurity, and others.
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Technology Experience
25+ 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
15+ Years
of Experience
Tim is a senior software architect/engineer generalist. He has built the technology stack for multiple startups from the ground up. Tim also has experience rescuing projects and turning train wrecks into successful launches. He has worked in many domains, including retail, banking, the Internet of Things, high-performance servers, machine learning, gamification, and scalable application server design. He has worked with cloud servers from AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure.
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24+ Years
of Experience
Bogdan has 24+ years of hands-on experience with enterprise-level systems, delivering tens of large projects for top organizations in energy, pharma, telco, eCommerce, banking, and the public sector. As a solutions architect, Bogdan can drive a solution from concept to production or provide end-to-end POCs (or MVPs) regarding solution architecture, design, development, and release pipelines.
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24+ Years
of Experience
Tao is a senior full-stack developer and architect who worked on over 14 million lines of code on large-scale, real-time acquisition software projects. He primarily focused on the back end for more than 24 years. Tao's expertise is mainly in C++, C#, Java, Python web development, performance optimization, and troubleshooting in Azure and AWS.
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11+ Years
of Experience
Peter is a security professional with 11 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. He works on secure application development, cloud-native security, and DevSecOps. Peter is a certified CISSP, OSCP, and AWS Solutions Architect – Associate.
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20+ Years
of Experience
Seema brings more than 20 years of software testing and quality assurance expertise to the table. She has substantial experience with manual testing and the test automation of web and mobile applications. Seema is a certified Scrum master, an IBM-certified Db2 professional, and an AWS-certified solutions architect comfortable with Agile and Waterfall approaches. Her in-depth knowledge of API and performance testing delivers excellent results.
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15+ Year
of Experience
Chris is a seasoned principal DevOps engineer with several years of experience building and managing applications. Formerly the director of DevOps/SRE at an AI company, Veritone, in Costa Mesa, CA, and a solutions architect at AWS. Chris has led numerous large-scale cloud architecture designs and implementations, including building a real-time serverless AI platform on AWS.
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24+ Years
of Experience
Piotr is a software developer, architect, and technical lead with 24+ years of experience working with CERN, Motorola Solutions, universities, and more. He has led projects, served as a scrum master, and developed and delivered complex web and mobile solutions, including business and technical requirements, architecture, 3rd-party API integrations, data acquisition, and processing for BI. Piotr co-developed the pan configuration language and has a PhD in computer science.
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20+ Years
of Experience
Tudor is a senior IT professional with over 20 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.
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20+ Years
of Experience
Anne is an experienced developer who has worked both for large corporations and startups. After building financial trading applications for eight years as an engineer at Merrill Lynch, Anne founded and built LoudUp, a music-based social network that she designed, developed, and launched from the ground up. She specializes in .NET technologies and JavaScript.
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17+ Years
of Experience
David is a customer-focused, results-oriented professional with 17 years of experience delivering digital products and P&L accountability in financial services and telecom, meeting the needs of consumers, SMB business owners, and corporate accounts. He delivers results with strengths in enterprise tech, SaaS, UXD, API integration, AI decision engines, B2B partnerships, credit risk management, omnichannel marketing, and overall product management in either large enterprise projects or agile.
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12+ Years
of Experience
Urmila is a senior Salesforce consultant and certified developer with 12 years of experience. She is highly knowledgeable about advanced Apex programming, Aura components, LWC, Force.com sites, Salesforce Community, asynchronous Apex, REST integrations, and exposing RESTful APIs from Salesforce and Visualforce. Urmila has a good understanding of business and business concepts, enabling her to communicate with clients effectively.
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11+ Years
of Experience
Nolan has worked on everything from back-end web development, front-end web development, mobile development, and machine learning (ML). After graduating, he got a job as an automation engineer at Ford, where he made a significant impact by delivering an essential proof of concept (POC) for management. Now Nolan would like to take on new challenges and projects!
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8+ Years
of Experience
Brandon is an experienced full-stack developer who loves the process of bringing a person's vision to life through building applications. His biggest strength is that he can develop products quickly while not sacrificing quality. He also believes clear communication is key to exceeding expectations. Brandon is keen on TypeScript, which has allowed him flexibility in both back-end and front-end development.
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10+ Years
of Experience
Nicolas is a senior front-end engineer who has strong experience building bug-free, performant, and user-friendly mobile and web applications from scratch to production. His clients were well-known American organizations like NFL and Cox Automotive. Nicolas is a leader who has managed development teams and created project architecture. He expresses his passion for programming by participating in knowledge-sharing sessions, developing student learning guides, and mentoring.
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10+ Years
of Experience
Vadim has ten years of experience as a cloud architect and DevOps engineer and a background in full-stack Java web development. His expertise includes infrastructure, optimization, deployment, CI/CD pipelines, migrations, and security. Vadim prides himself on being easy to work with and a great asset on complex projects requiring security and stability.
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Solution: Toptal swiftly assessed the client’s current system and isolated issues with outdated management and unscalable peer-to-peer connections across their many apps. Leveraging Agile techniques to implement MuleSoft API, Toptal spent 18 months implementing an API-first strategy to replace old processes with automated, modernized solutions for 10 of the client’s applications.
Outcome: The new API-focused operating model saved the client 5,000 hours annually, valued at $500,000, while improving data consistency and reducing errors. By replacing peer-to-peer dependencies, Toptal’s solution enhanced functionality and created a scalable architecture for future growth.
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