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TJ is the Cloud Services Practice Lead at Toptal, dedicated to helping companies overcome challenges in their cloud transformation journey. With more than 13 years of experience in the hosting and cloud services industry, TJ is a passionate technology leader.TJ is the Cloud Services Practice Lead at Toptal, dedicated to helping companies overcome challenges in their cloud transformation journey. With more than 13 years of experience in the hosting and cloud services industry, TJ is a passionate technology leader.
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TJ Urglavitch is the Cloud Services Practice Lead at Toptal, dedicated to helping companies overcome challenges in their cloud transformation journey. With more than 13 years of experience in the hosting and cloud services industry, TJ is a passionate technology leader.
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David is a principal cloud architect with over 14 years of experience helping customers design and architect cloud solutions on Azure. He also has acquired ten years of experience in the financial services industry. David has also worked in the automotive industry, focusing on assisting customers in enabling autonomous self-driving vehicles by leveraging Microsoft Azure.
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11+ Years
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Emiliano is a cloud engineer with more than 11 years of experience. He helps customers with cloud migration and adoption, designs cloud-native solutions, and migrates existing workloads to containerized infrastructure.
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20+ Years
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Victor is a certified Microsoft Azure solutions architect and is skilled in AWS. With more than 20 years of experience in information systems, he has developed a broad range of skills and gained exposure to various aspects of information systems, including cloud and hybrid solutions. Recently, he has been focusing on Microsoft Azure, AWS cloud architecture, and project implementations. Victor has experience in application migration from on-premises to Azure and looks forward to his next challenge.
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8+ Years
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Vishnu is an open-source contributor and researcher with substantial experience in the public cloud and DevOps. He helps companies in their digital transformation journey by moving workloads to the cloud, adopting DevOps culture by implementing the right DevOps tools, and educating developers through workshops.
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14+ Years
of Experience
Peter has been a Kubernetes fanatic since the birth of this amazing orchestration tool in 2015. He designs and builds efficient, scalable, and maintainable solutions in Google Cloud Platform. Peter is also an experienced Python developer, an automation expert, and a Django framework fan.
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11+ Years
of Experience
Gaya is a cybersecurity expert who loves finding cracks in company security and creating powerful solutions to fill them. With numerous global CTF (capture the flag) competitions under her belt, Gaya excels in vulnerability management, cloud security, incident response, security awareness, and security risk management (PCI/DSS, ISO 27001, CMMC). Gaya is well versed with Qualys, Rapid7, Nessus, Splunk, Carbon Black, SentinelOne, Azure Sentinel, Azure cloud tools, and those in Kali Linux.
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9+ Years
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Ekaterina is a project manager and a certified Scrum master. She enjoys the complexity of a project manager’s work, with its problem-solving, technical analysis, communication with the team and stakeholders, and the ever-changing nature of the work from project to project. Ekaterina also holds Certified Salesforce Administrator and Salesforce Service Cloud Consultant certifications.
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7+ Years
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David is an information technology professional with seven years of experience in diverse areas such as systems administration, technical customer support, and enterprise technology sales.
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18+ Years
of Experience
Luis is a cloud solutions architect for Azure, AWS, 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.
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18+ Years
of Experience
Ifiok is an accomplished cloud practitioner with demonstrated success developing and executing cloud technology solutions. His knowledge of cloud and operational strategies helps promote organizational growth and cloud adoption acceleration.
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6+ Years
of Experience
Paweł is a seasoned DevOps engineer and cloud architect with 6+ years of experience designing, automating, and managing cloud environments for high-profile clients. Specializing in AWS and Azure, he holds multiple certifications that highlight his expertise.
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12+ Years
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Deepak is a cloud architect, specialist, consultant, SRE, and observability engineer with more than 12 years of intense professional experience. He has architected and built multiple platform-agnostic infrastructures from scratch for modern cloud systems.
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22+ Years
of Experience
Subbu is a subject matter expert in information security and has more than 22 years of information technology experience. He has assisted large enterprise customers in the banking, telecommunication, and e-commerce sectors with security transformation, DevSecOps, security architecture, and implementations. Subbu’s security expertise includes AWS, GCP, IAM, enterprise security, data protection, and application security and compliance.
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26+ Years
of Experience
Fabrice is a DevOps engineer with extensive experience in AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform. He is highly focused on automation using CI/CD and infrastructure as code, always opting for the simplest solutions to complex problems. Fabrice has worked with clients such as Cisco, Topps, MyDocSafe, Armedia, HMRC, and the UK Home Office, as well as medium-size companies and startups. His greatest joy comes from seeing his work being utilized in production and making a positive impact on his clients’ businesses.
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9+ Years
of Experience
Vadim has more than nine 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.
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