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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Cloud Integration Services – Upgrade Your Cloud Infrastructure

Integrate your various cloud-based and on-premise applications, systems, and data. This seamless integration empowers efficient data flow, improves your business agility, and allows for flexible, scalable IT solutions.

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Clients Served

25,000+

Total Vetted Professionals

20,000+

Toptal Total Projects Delivered

64,000+

Industries Served

300+

TRUSTED BY LEADING BRANDS

Our Services

Toptal Cloud Integration Services

Do more with our suite of cloud integration services. Optimize your business’s operational efficiency, scalability, and agility, ensuring cost-effectiveness, data integrity, and compliance with security standards.

Application Integration Services

Enhance functionality and user experience by integrating applications in cloud environments.

Cloud Managed Services

Optimize your cloud operations with continuous management and support for business processes.

Cloud Migration Services

Seamlessly migrate to the cloud with tailored strategies enhancing efficiency and transformation.

Cloud Cost Optimization Services

Reduce costs through strategic cloud resource management and efficiency optimizations.

Cloud Strategy Consulting

Develop actionable cloud strategies to meet precise business requirements and goals.

Cloud Data Management Services

Manage and secure data across all cloud sources, ensuring real-time access and integrity.

Hybrid Cloud Consulting

Design and implement a hybrid cloud setup that aligns with your enterprise requirements.

Cloud Security Services

Safeguard data and applications against cyber threats with advanced security for cloud environments.

Cloud Infrastructure Consulting

Build a scalable and secure cloud infrastructure to support dynamic business needs.

Cloud Modernization Services

Modernize and transform your existing systems with cutting-edge cloud integration solutions.

Data Integration Services

Unify data across diverse sources, enhancing real-time decision-making in the cloud environment.

DevOps Services

Accelerate cloud delivery with our DevOps solutions, improving time to market and collaboration.

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PARTNERSHIP THAT WORKS

How We Deliver Cloud Integration Services

Our cloud integration team, with experience at leading companies, will work with you to develop and deploy tailored solutions that meet your business needs and unique industry demands, providing you with sustainable results and long-term success.

Discover

A leader from our team assesses your business challenges, identifies opportunities, and recommends the most suitable engagement model.

Define

A Toptal leader will work with you to define your goals and service needs – from full end-to-end delivery to consulting services.

Develop

We will create your unique project timeline, process, and first drafts, whether your project involves migrating comprehensive cloud strategy formulation or end-to-end cloud infrastructure deployment.

Deploy

Toptal will get to work, tracking quality assurance, handling project management, and maintaining the delivery schedule.

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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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CUSTOMIZED SOLUTIONS

Cloud Integration Solutions That Deliver Value

Toptal delivers leading cloud integration solutions through its diverse talent network and flexible delivery models. We implement the right skills at each project phase, blending expertise from various roles for seamless execution.

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On-demand Talent and Teams

Managed Delivery by Toptal

End-to-end project delivery per your specific requirements.

Practice Lead

Delivery Manager

Cloud Integration Expert

Cloud Engineer

DevOps Engineer

Cloud Integration Expert

Cloud Integration Architect

DevSecOps Engineer

TJ Urglavitch

Practice Lead

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Technology Experience

13+ Years

Rachael Karaffa

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

Emiliano Angieri

Verified Expert in Engineering

11+ Years

of Experience

Cloud Integration Expert

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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Peter Wiggers

Verified Expert in Engineering

14+ years

of Experience

Cloud Engineer

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 (GCP). Peter is also an experienced Python developer, an automation expert, and a Django framework fan.

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Vishnu KS

Verified Expert in Engineering

8+ Years

of Experience

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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Aditi Wadekar

Verified Expert in Engineering

10+ Years

of Experience

Cloud Integration Expert

Aditi is a senior cloud and DevOps engineer with 10+ years of experience building and automating cloud infrastructure on Amazon Web Services 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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Vadim Tsvetkov

Verified Expert in Engineering

9+ years

of Experience

Cloud Integration Architect

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 cloud integration platforms, infrastructure, optimization, deployment, CI/CD pipelines, migrations, and security.

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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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On-demand Talent and Teams

20,000+ vetted professionals, ready to deploy individually or in teams

Cloud Project Manager

Cloud Integration Architect

Cloud Architect

Cloud Infrastracture Engineer

Cloud Architect

Cloud & DevOps Engineer

Cloud Engineer

Cloud and DevOps Engineer

DevSecOps Engineer

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

18+ Years

of Experience

Cloud Integration Architect

Luis is a cloud solutions architect for Azure, Amazon Web Services, 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

14+ Years

of Experience

Cloud Architect

Tim is a senior software architect and engineer. 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 3D games, retail, banking, the Internet of Things, high-performance servers, machine learning, and scalable application server design. He has worked with cloud servers from Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Azure.

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Verified Expert in Engineering

24+ Years

of Experience

Cloud Infrastracture Engineer

Marcelo is an experienced technology leader, infrastructure solutions expert, open-source advocate, and multilinguist. With more than 24 years of expertise in purpose-led, high-availability infrastructure solutions, he has excelled in engineering to executive leadership positions across Europe and Latin America.

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Verified Expert in Engineering

13+ Years

of Experience

Cloud Architect

David is a principal cloud architect with more than 13 years of experience helping customers design and architect cloud solutions on Azure. He has also acquired 10 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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Verified Expert in Engineering

6+ Years

Engineering Experience

Cloud & DevOps Engineer

Paweł is a seasoned DevOps engineer and cloud architect with 6+ years of experience designing, automating, and managing cloud environments for high-profile clients. He specializes in Amazon Web Services and Azure, and holds multiple certifications that highlight this expertise.

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Verified Expert in Engineering

22+ Years

of Experience

Cloud Engineer

Kaustav is a hands-on, goal-oriented, versatile technology professional with more than two decades of experience, primarily in open-source digital technologies, such as blockchain, IoT, microservices, cloud, distributed architecture, R&D, design, and development, with a proven track record delivering consistent business results. He loves to take on technical challenges, learn about new technology innovations, and deliver successful products worldwide.

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Verified Expert in Engineering

of Experience

Cloud and DevOps Engineer

Eimantas is a DevOps/SRE engineer and back-end developer with more than six years of experience working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a certified architect. Adept at working with various AWS services and principles, he's handled projects of varying sizes and complexities—from single containerized APIs to highly available ones—including scalable and fault-tolerant applications in Kubernetes. Eimantas emphasizes security, compliance, and access management, ensuring projects meet the highest standards.

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Verified Expert in Engineering

12+ Years

of Experience

DevSecOps Engineer

Arun is a senior DevSecOps architect with 12+ years of experience and a master's degree in information technology. He has worked with government departments, banks, telecoms, customer products, healthcare companies, and small- to medium-scale enterprises worldwide.

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UNRIVALED EXPERTISE

Our Talent Has Worked With Top Companies

Having previously worked with these leading global companies, our talent brings valuable insights and expertise to deliver world-class outcomes.

Why organizations choose us

Toptal in Action

Discover the cutting-edge benefits our clients enjoy from the global Toptal network.

How Calm achieved better production stability with EKS on AWS.

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

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 at Calm

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OUR THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

Explore Insights From the Cloud Integration Field

Read the latest articles and resources to keep you current on emerging trends in digital innovation, cloud migration strategies, serverless technologies, and more.

Efficiency at Scale: A Tale of AWS Cost Optimization

Understanding total spend is a common challenge for cloud users, especially on projects with complex pricing models. This article explores the top AWS cost optimizations that will help you scale your platform effectively.

Rudolf Eremyan

Verified Expert in Engineering

Rudolf is a data scientist who has architected big data processing infrastructures on AWS and implemented data engineering solutions for Fortune 500 companies, including Disneyland Hong Kong and Philip Morris. He was invited to participate in NASA’s 2021 International Space Apps Challenge as a speaker and judge.

Expertise

AWS Data Engineering

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