
Security engineering is a fast-moving field, and getting left behind is not an option. This ask-me-anything-style Q&A covers compliance frameworks, security checks, and the importance of a DevSecOps approach.
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Zohra is a seasoned cybersecurity and risk executive with more than 15 years of experience leading enterprise risk management, cybersecurity strategy, IT governance, and regulatory compliance initiatives across Fortune 500 companies and global organizations.Zohra is a seasoned cybersecurity and risk executive with more than 15 years of experience leading enterprise risk management, cybersecurity strategy, IT governance, and regulatory compliance initiatives across Fortune 500 companies and global organizations.
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Information Security Practice Lead
Zohra is a seasoned cybersecurity and risk executive with more than 15 years of experience leading enterprise risk management, cybersecurity strategy, IT governance, and regulatory compliance initiatives across Fortune 500 companies and global organizations. As Toptal’s Information Security Practice Lead, she takes a strategic, business-aligned approach—building scalable, results-driven security programs that not only protect critical assets but also enable business growth.
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Experience
15+ 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

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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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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10+ Years
of Experience
Anurag is an experienced security professional with a strong background in incident handling and threat hunting based on different attack frameworks. He has expertise in Active Directory and cloud security (Azure), utilizing offensive security tools such as Bloodhound to identify and mitigate threats. He's played a key role in the development and deployment of SOC infrastructure. He's delivered training to different tiers of the SOC team on security best practices, compliance, and the cyber threat landscape.
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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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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, Microsoft Sentinel, Azure cloud tools, and those in Kali Linux.
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12+ Years
of Experience
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, healthcare companies, and small- to medium-scale enterprises worldwide.
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9+ Years
of Experience
Emmanuel is a cloud security engineer with experience in systems auditing, application security, and secure cloud deployment. He has delivered sensitive technology projects across the East African region and globally in the public and private sectors. Emmanuel’s experience is backed by three Microsoft Azure and two AWS certifications. He is a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH). Emmanuel holds a Master of Science in Information Technology from Carnegie Mellon and a Bachelor of Science from United States International University-Africa.
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14+ Year
of Experience
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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17+ Years
of Experience
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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12+ Years
of Experience
Alejandro is an SRE/DevOps/MLOps engineer and expert in cloud technologies with experience in Azure and AWS on large production environments. He can automate anything from code deployment to infrastructure while ensuring best practices and proper monitoring. He has always been curious about how things work to make them more efficient and enjoys learning new technologies. Alejandro thrives in Agile environments where he can put his problem-solving skills to work.
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13+ Years
of Experience
Ike is a senior cloud security engineer with 13 years of experience and a solid knowledge of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) publications, cybersecurity, cloud, and DevSecOps tools. Ike is proficient in infrastructure as code, managing a CI/CD pipeline, and protecting applications, websites, cloud networks, and infrastructure.
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19+ Years
of Experience
Claudio has 19+ years of software development experience and a cybersecurity degree. He has handled back-end, front-end, and full-stack development, DevSecOps, application security, penetration testing, and solutions architecture. With his combined expertise, Claudio focuses on helping companies by developing and architecting secure and resilient web and mobile applications.
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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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10+ Years
of Experience
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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Challenge: After a major Kubernetes outage disrupted service, Calm needed a more reliable infrastructure strategy to support continued growth.
Solution: Toptal migrated Calm to Amazon EKS and implemented automation that improved reliability, security, and operational resilience.
Impact: The new environment improved production stability, reduced exposure to outages that could cost up to $40,000 per hour, and supported ongoing platform growth.
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Security engineering is a fast-moving field, and getting left behind is not an option. This ask-me-anything-style Q&A covers compliance frameworks, security checks, and the importance of a DevSecOps approach.
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Michael is a seasoned information security leader with experience at the Advanced Cyber Security Center and Toptal. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a master’s degree in high-tech crime investigations from George Washington University.
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