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Engineering Experience
13+ Years
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Engineering Experience
12+ Years
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Engineering Experience
12+ Years
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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.
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Toptal’s Data Analytics services provide clients access to a global network of experts with specialty in optimizing data-driven enterprises and enhancing analytics capabilities. Utilize our expertise in analytics and data management to transform data into actionable insights.
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.
Previously at
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
47+ Years
of Experience
Art has decades of data architecture and cloud-computing consulting experience—mostly in building enterprise data warehouses. Art is an end-to-end solution architect and chief problem solver with a long history of focused execution—according to a statement of work—and successful delivery in a team setting.
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18+ Years
of Experience
Emilio is a computer science engineer and MBA graduate with 18+ years of experience helping businesses define and analyze their KPIs across marketing, sales, operations, and finance. He is skilled in SQL and has been working with Tableau since 2011, developing all data integration required to feed Tableau from any data source. As a Tableau consultant and trainer, Emilio can quickly interpret the business needs and build insightful dashboards.
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8+ Years
of Experience
Joslyn is a seasoned data practitioner with demonstrated experience across multiple industries, including technology consulting and customer service. With her academic background in applied statistics and a skill set in machine learning, data analytics, Python, and SQL, Joslyn has delivered numerous projects with positive business impacts on customers.
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11+ Years
of Experience
Davis is a seasoned engineer with more than a decade of experience in data engineering and analysis. He has led several data projects involving the transformation of on-premises databases to cloud-based data lakes using Amazon Web Services and Azure. Davis has a wealth of experience designing and developing data visualizations to present complex data models to stakeholders at all levels. He holds an MBA and has experience with data mining and machine learning.
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30+ Years
of Experience
Gabriel more than 30 years of experience installing, managing, and using SQL, NoSQL (key-value, columnar, graph), time-series, spatial, in-memory, and cloud databases. He's worked with 10TB OLTP databases, 10TB data warehouses, tables with 10+ billion rows, and databases with 10,000+ tables.
Previously at
17+ Years
of Experience
Thomas has 17+ years of experience in risk modeling and causal inference and has managed over €1 million in research funds as a scientist. Since 2019, he has worked as an independent contractor for various global pharmaceutical companies and CROs. His goal is to improve data-driven decision making by adopting state-of-the-art analysis methods and delivering scientific scrutiny in a timely fashion.
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24+ Years
of Experience
Denis is a senior full-stack AI engineer and data scientist, highly skilled in modern generative tech (GPT-4, Midjourney, and more), machine learning, ETL pipelines, data analysis, mathematical modeling, big data, and MLOps. He has a PhD in mathematics, and his data science expertise includes probabilistic risk modeling, revenue forecasting, geospatial data analysis, handwriting recognition, anomaly detection in time series, data engineering, and team leading.
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8+ Years
of Experience
Laura is a data-driven strategist with expertise in turning data into actionable insights. Laura fell in love with Tableau 7.0 in her MBA business analytics program and never looked back. Now, she is a Tableau certified professional and spends her days telling stories with data to influence business decisions.
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24+ Years
of Experience
Stephane possesses an impressive 24 years of international experience in data analytics and business process optimization. Throughout his career, he has excelled in various areas, including database design, business intelligence (BI), machine learning algorithms, big data, and predictive analytics. Stephane's expertise lies in developing solutions that automate processes, allowing clients to allocate their efforts toward value-added activities.
Previously at
7+ Years
of Experience
Daniel is a data engineer and architect specializing in Azure's cloud services. He's keen on collaborating with data analysts and data scientists to provide them with accurate data for dashboards and experiments, leveraging his clear communication skills and problem-solving mindset. As a certified Azure data engineer and a Databricks data engineer professional, Daniel's tech stack includes Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, Azure Analysis Services, and Microsoft Power BI.
Previously at
13+ Years
of Experience
Hanee' is a data expert who enjoys working on data analytics and segmentation to better target customers with campaigns. He is an experienced Java developer who has built enterprise applications that interact with millions of customers daily. Hanee' also has experience working with big data, Spark, and Python.
Previously at
6+ Years
of Experience
Bilal is an experienced data scientist with solid knowledge of machine learning, data analysis, and visualization. He offers more than six years of professional experience in data science, working on projects related to building and deploying machine learning models, extracting insights from data, and managing data. Bilal is passionate about working with teams whose vision aligns with his values and specializations.
Previously at
13+ Years
of Experience
Ernesto is a business intelligence professional with more than 13 years in the field. With his expertise in data warehousing, Amazon Redshift, MS SQL Server, ETL (SSIS), Tableau Desktop, and Tableau Server, he helps companies integrate and organize data from multiple sources to be used for reporting and analysis. Ernesto’s attention to detail, strategic thinking, and expertise make him a highly qualified individual for various projects.
Previously at
14+ Years
of Experience
Mabrouk is a data warehouse architect with more than 14 years of experience, and he enjoys his job like the first day. He has hands-on experience modeling and developing data warehouses on top of leading systems like SQL Server, Google Cloud BigQuery, Snowflake, and Databricks.
Previously at
4+ Years
of Experience
Jorge is a Microsoft Certified: Data Analyst Associate and Azure Data Engineer Associate with Power Platform and Power BI certifications. He specializes in data analytics, business intelligence, data science, and SQL. Jorge has solid experience as a Power BI administrator and developer working for various enterprise clients in banking, finance, oil & gas, and business services.
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