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CSO & CTO, Technology ServicesAli 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.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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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.
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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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9+ Years
16+ Years
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Jay is a computer engineer with a strong background in high-performance applications, distributed systems, automation, and production readiness. He also has experience in embedded systems and digital design, both on the technical side and as a team leader. With excellent communication and business skills and extensive experience working with both local and remote teams, he is passionate about exploiting a team's full potential while increasing their work/life balance and overall joy.
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20+ Years
of Experience
Sorin is a software developer who enjoys challenges involving automation and security. Highly motivated by exciting projects, Sorin pushes himself to find solutions that work.
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17+ Years
of Experience
Bank of America, Anthem, and Lowe's are just a few of the companies that Johnmicah has worked at. He has 17 years of experience building web applications from not only both the front and back ends but also the platform and infrastructure sides. Johnmicah is passionate about performance, automation, and containerization. Johnmicah is also capable of fitting into and improving an existing team environment or building a new one from the ground up.
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15+ Years
of Experience
Divya is a fractional product leader with diverse experience in software engineering, consulting, and product management. She has held multiple leadership roles at high-performing organizations such as Facebook, McKinsey, and Y Combinator-backed startups. She can help companies build high-performing product teams, set a product strategy, and improve teams’ execution.
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9+ Years
of Experience
Gianluca is a highly versatile full-stack software engineer. He has helped many companies take an idea and turn it into a product that serves thousands to millions of users. He's built the software that powers Tesla's service centers for scheduling from scratch and worked at big tech companies, such as Atlassian, Adobe, Snapchat, Starbucks, and T-Mobile. Known for building fast and exceptionally well, Gianluca can work on either end of the stack.
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21+ Years
of Experience
Seema brings over a decade of software testing and quality assurance expertise to the table. She has substantial experience with manual testing and the test automation of web and mobile applications. Seema is a certified Scrum Master, IBM certified DB2 professional, and AWS certified solution architect comfortable with Agile and Waterfall approaches. Her in-depth knowledge of API and performance testing delivers excellent results.
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16+ Years
of Experience
David is a software engineer and an adjunct computer science professor at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. They’ve been involved in a number of startup businesses and have worked in the financial services sector on high-bandwidth/high-transaction computing. David is an expert in C#/.NET and TypeScript, having used both since initial betas; they also do regular work with .NET Core and Node.js on the back end and React, Angular, Cordova, and Ionic on the front-end.
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31+ Years
of Experience
Anderson is a software engineer who’s strongly committed to delivering the best solution for the problem. In his more than 31 years in the IT industry, he’s worked on projects in custom web development, collaboration portals, e-learning platforms, enterprise resource planning, content management systems, project management tools, mobile apps, reporting, and business intelligence platforms up to Internet of Things projects. Anderson has an MBA in project management and holds a PMP and MCSD .NET certification.
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12+ Years
of Experience
Dominik is a technological leader and product engineer with more than 12 years of experience. He has a strong background in CI/CD, DevOps, and creating extraordinary end-user-centric products. Dominik has helped accelerate the cloud transformation at SAP by scaling CI/CD for more than 20,000 developers. He is a passionate team leader, speaker, coach, and mentor.
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15+ Years
of Experience
Sreedevi is a ground-up executive with more than 15 years of experience building, scaling, and transforming organizations at hypergrowth B2B and large companies. She has led teams across Google, Yara International, and startups within product, strategy, and customer success. Sreedevi has experience working across several high-profile organizations and enterprises, including Unilever, Mondelēz International, Philip Morris International, and The Tata Group.
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18+ Years
of Experience
Claudio has more than 18 years of software development experience and a cybersecurity degree. He has worked in back-end, front-end, and full-stack development; DevSecOps; application security; penetration testing; and solutions architecture.
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19+ Years
of Experience
Chieko is a senior QA engineer with more than 19 years of experience testing software in various industries such as apparel, fintech, and security. She’s led teams in the implementation of software QA, test automation, and manual QA, as well as managing QA test plans to ensure that the end product is robust and high-quality. Chieko is passionate about achieving quality by following good development and QA processes, and is wholeheartedly dedicated to ensuring that software meets customers’ needs.
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7+ Years
of Experience
David is an IT professional with experience in diverse areas such as Azure Kubernetes technical advisory, enterprise solutions architecture, site reliability, and systems administration. He has worked in various industries such as financial services, manufacturing, and healthcare.
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16+ Years
of Experience
Jeremy is experienced in leading and driving design vision and strategy for Dropbox, Apple, Facebook, Cisco, Five9, PocketSuite, Zillow, Microsoft, and Expedia. He has also cooperated with many startups through his digital product design agency on zero-to-one initiatives, including Y Combinator and Founders Fund portfolio companies, helping them launch and bring products to market.
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20+ Years
of Experience
Tudor is a senior IT professional with over 20 years of experience, focused on creating meaningful impact via software. He is an Agile practitioner and a team player. He has architected, led, and/or co-managed the development of four SaaS products and one physical asset procuring and leasing service since 2015. As an architect and senior back-end engineer, Tudor works closely with clients across various industries, including finance, payments, fintech, insurtech, and eCommerce.
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A university modernized its critical PHP-based application infrastructure with Toptal’s expertise, overcoming security vulnerabilities and functional issues, and ensuring a stable launch.
Challenge: Before partnering with Toptal, the university encountered significant challenges due to insufficient PHP expertise. The acquisition of a codebase without proper review resulted in security vulnerabilities and functional errors that hindered effective deployment.
Solution: Toptal addressed the PHP knowledge gap by reviewing the code and resolving security vulnerabilities and functional errors using Docker and custom scripts. The team developed a Docker-based setup for version upgrades and streamlined workflows, ensuring a smooth path for future updates and enhancing overall system stability.
Outcome: The university successfully launched the platform for the then-current academic year—marking the first time it was fully operational—and ensured a secure, fully functional application. Toptal’s improvements created a stable infrastructure, streamlined operations, and positioned the university for future growth.
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