Cloud Services Practice Lead

13 Years of Experience

TJ is the Cloud Services Practice Leader 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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Toptal’s Azure Consulting Services empower businesses to maximize their Azure cloud potential. From strategic planning to implementation and optimization, our cloud experts deliver scalable, secure, and innovative solutions on the Azure platform.

Azure Strategy and Roadmapping

Develop a strategic Azure roadmap to guide your cloud journey effectively.

Azure Infrastructure Services

Design and manage robust Azure cloud infrastructures for optimal performance.

Azure Cloud Migration Strategy

Seamlessly migrate your workloads to Azure with expert guidance and support.

Azure Security and Compliance

Strengthen your Azure deployments with top-tier security and compliance measures.

Azure DevOps Consulting

Accelerate software delivery with Azure DevOps practices and tools.

Azure Data Services

Leverage Azure’s powerful data services for analytics and insights.

Azure Managed Cloud Services

Outsource Azure management for continuous optimization and operational excellence.

Azure Application Development

Build and deploy scalable applications on Azure to drive business growth.

Azure Machine Learning Solutions

Implement Azure AI and machine learning to unlock new capabilities.

Azure Cost Optimization

Reduce Azure costs with strategic optimization and management practices.

Azure IoT Solutions

Deploy and manage Azure IoT solutions to enhance operational efficiency.

Azure Business Continuity Planning

Ensure business resilience with Azure disaster recovery and backup solutions.

Azure Data Lake Implementation

Deploy a robust Azure Data Lake to manage data at scale with efficient storage solutions.

Azure Data Factory Integration

Seamlessly integrate data with Azure Data Factory, streamlining your cloud analytics workflow.

Cloud Integration Services

Ensure smooth integration across services with Azure, enhancing your cloud technology stack.

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TJ Urglavitch

Cloud Services Practice Lead

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

Practice Lead

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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Technology Experience

13+ years

Lauren Beam

Delivery Manager

Lauren serves as the Senior Director of Managed Delivery at Toptal with a focus in driving high-impact innovation and implementing cutting-edge technologies across diverse client portfolios, from global startups to Fortune 500 companies. Her expertise within product strategy, program development, and performance optimization contributes to her success in crafting forward-thinking solutions that redefine success in the ever-evolving tech landscape.

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Technology Experience

10+ Years

David Apolinar

Verified Expert in Engineering

13+ Years

of Experience

Azure Cloud Architect

David is a principal cloud architect with more than 13 years of experience helping customers design and architect cloud solutions on Azure.

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Emiliano Angieri

Verified Expert in Engineering

11+ Years

of Experience

Azure Cloud Engineer

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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Victor Zuno

Verified Expert in Engineering

20+ Years

of Experience

Azure Solutions Architect

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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Vishnu KS

Verified Expert in Engineering

8+ Years

of Experience

Azure DevOps Engineer

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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Peter Wiggers

Verified Expert in Engineering

14+ Years

of Experience

Cloud Architect

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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Gaya Dissanayake

Verified Expert in Engineering

11+ Years

of Experience

DevSecOps Engineer

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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Cloud Project Manager

Azure Cloud Developer

Azure Cloud Architect

Azure Cloud Developer

Cloud & DevOps Developer

DevOps Developer

Cloud Security Architect

Cloud Architect

Cloud Developer

Verified Expert in Project Management

9+ Years

of Experience

Cloud Project Manager

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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Verified Expert in Engineering

7+ Years

of Experience

Azure Cloud Developer

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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Verified Expert in Engineering

18+ Years

of Experience

Azure Cloud Architect

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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Verified Expert in Engineering

18+ Years

of Experience

Azure Cloud Developer

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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Verified Expert in Engineering

6+ Years

of Experience

Cloud & DevOps Developer

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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Verified Expert in Engineering

12+ Years

of Experience

DevOps Developer

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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Verified Expert in Engineering

22+ Years

of Experience

Cloud Security Architect

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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Verified Expert in Engineering

26+ Years

of Experience

Cloud Architect

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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Verified Expert in Engineering

9+ Years

of Experience

Cloud Developer

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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Toptal helps Calm achieve better production stability with EKS on the cloud.

Challenge: The company behind the leading meditation app found itself in a decidedly noncalming situation when an outage had catastrophic consequences.

Solution: Toptal was able to immediately help Calm’s team build a new, fully automated cluster to be managed by cloud services, running under Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS).

Impact: Calm benefited from improved stability, reliable networking, and elimination of costly outages. In the months since, the company has been able to easily absorb significant revenue growth without performance issues.

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

Technical Program Manager

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K8s/Kubernetes: AWS vs. GCP vs. Azure

Kubernetes (“K8s”) won the battle of container orchestration tools. Now AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud each offer a managed Kubernetes version. How do they compare?

Guillaume Dury

Verified Expert in Engineering

11 Years of Experience

Guillaume is a DevOps engineer who specializes in improving automation to help engineers deliver faster. He mastered Docker and Kubernetes while working for startups in Hong Kong, then launched his own cloud consulting company, and now serves as a senior site reliability engineering manager at Cisco’s Duo Security.

Expertise

Kubernetes AWS Cloud AWS

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