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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 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
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14+ Year
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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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26+ Years
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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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11+ Years
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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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12+ Years
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Saeid is a cloud security architecture enthusiast who helps build secure cloud solution architecture. He has 12+ years of software engineering and cloud security architecture experience, including building secure cloud-based architecture, microservices, and applications using modern technologies.
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18+ Years
of Experience
Derrick is a senior programmer with extensive experience in software architecture and development. He specializes in cloud architecture and designing and writing cloud-native and enterprise-grade software applications. He is proficient in over a dozen programming languages, including Java, Node.js, and C#, with extensive DevOps CI/CD and IT experience. As a Certified Scrum Master and Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect, Derrick contributes to all aspects of application design.
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17+ Years
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Erita is a certified project manager with more than 17 years of experience managing technical projects from initiation to deployment, following Agile or predictive approaches. She has expertise in software engineering and a strong interest in cloud, big data, and machine learning.
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18+ Years
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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. With a total of 10 certifications in AWS, Azure, and GCP, as well as HashiCorp and New Relic certifications, Ifiok is comfortable being the intermediary between business requirements and engineering value.
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17+ Years
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Andres is a skilled engineer with over 17 years of experience across many facets of technology, including DevOps, web development, and system administration. At Amazon Web Services, he led the team that added new capacity to the AWS Edge network throughout Asia pacific. He is an avid believer in cloud native solutions that are appropriately sized, cost-effective, and deliver outstanding performance. Andres has enjoys working with organizations of all sizes, from startups to global enterprises.
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10+ Years
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Deepak is a cloud architect, specialist, consultant, SRE, and observability engineer with over a decade of intense professional experience. He has architected and built multiple platform-agnostic infrastructures from scratch for modern cloud systems. Deepak has a proven track record of hands-on operations in high-scale environments and is proficient in cost optimization, IaC, automation, cloud security, migrations, deployment pipelines, and observability.
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25+ Years
of Experience
Ryan is experienced in developing reliable and scalable production cloud systems. He specializes in SRE, DevOps, microservices, cloud architecture, and observability. He has a solid technical background as a back-end developer. He has good soft skills, is self-motivated, and is comfortable networking to achieve project goals. Ryan has an excellent ability to understand the business needs behind requirements and is able to program in several languages.
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22+ Years
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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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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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25+ Years
of Experience
Marcelo is an experienced technology leader, infrastructure solutions expert, open-source advocate, and multilingual. With more than 25 years of expertise in purpose-led high availability infrastructure solutions, he has excelled in engineering to executive leadership positions across Europe and Latin America. Marcelo focuses on building highly automated systems and has consistently delivered exceptional results. He is an open source enthusiast, CNCF contributor, AWS certified, and IETF writer.
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11+ Years
of Experience
Aditi is a senior DevOps engineer with 11+ years of experience building and automating cloud infrastructure on AWS and Azure for numerous clients. She has helped integrate open-source tools such as Jenkins, Git, Docker, ELK stack, Argo CD, and Helm. Aditi is eager to work hands-on with the latest technologies and help clients simplify their tasks and achieve their goals.
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9+ Years
of Experience
Ekaterina is a project manager following Agile methodology with a background in finance. 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 favors the servant leadership approach with her team, as it helps the team to produce results at the top of their abilities while maintaining a comfortable work environment.
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