
Master creative empathy techniques to help you understand what other people want and need, then apply these skills throughout the design process to create products that resonate with people.
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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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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.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
Brad serves as a principal delivery manager at Toptal with a focus on implementing cutting-edge technology solutions for our clients. He works across our entire portfolio, driving impactful business outcomes for startups and Fortune 500 companies alike. Brad specializes in product and go-to-market strategy, management consulting, and process optimization.
Previously Managed Client
Experience
10+ Years
17+ 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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23+ Years
of Experience
Paula is an experienced digital age leader, bridging businesses, customer centricity, marketing, and technology. With her visionary and at the same time, hands-on approach and attitude, she can successfully lead a range of business and development themes. Her most vital abilities are future strategy and vision, innovation and new product development, growth, strategic marketing, and branding as a product leader.
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20+ Years
of Experience
Lee is a startup veteran and former UX consultant who has led product design for companies like Toyota and Apple. He leverages business and customer insights to collaborate on design solutions that are highly engaging, low friction, and easy to use.
Previously at
29+ Years
of Experience
Chris is a self-starting entrepreneur who transforms visions into compelling SaaS product strategies and delivers ROI. He's invented and led product, design, and CI/CD engineering up to 130 FTE for impactful products in real-time analytics, NLP, and IoT for consumer/enterprise markets as well as healthcare AI/ML. Chris's platforms generate $350 million in revenue, using emerging technologies at SAP and Cognizant. He is a two-time recipient of the "IoT Evolution Product of the Year" award.
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18+ years
of Experience
Christine Chen, CFA, is a fintech product leader specializing in data, credit, alternative investments, and payments. She focuses on AI and ML and shapes product vision, design, and development for optimal market fit. Christine's achievements span democratizing a DTC investment app, orchestrating a multi-million-dollar investment platform, leading AI product discovery for an asset management firm, and leading enterprise-wide cloud transformation of the world's largest financial data provider.
Previously at
10+ Years
of Experience
Gabor is an Android developer with over ten years of experience in the tech industry, four in fast-paced startups such as Facebook, Hailo, and Deliveroo. He can build prototype apps with a Firebase server allowing you to validate your ideas fast; give advice and suggestions on what is technically feasible in an app, then build a production-ready MVP. Gabor can then further support the app, iterate on it, and keep track of crashes and issues to help your business lift-off and grow.
Previously at
21+ Years
of Experience
Amélie is a design and product strategist with over two decades of experience in product design, helping startups audit and repair their underperforming products. Prior to consulting full-time, Amélie has led and collaborated on design initiatives at companies like The New York Times, Google, Facebook, Apple, eBay, Adobe, Travelers Insurance, Booz Allen Hamilton, VenueBook, and Lola.
Previously at
23+ Years
of Experience
Brian is a US ex-pat working as a human experience designer focused on healthcare, sustainability, fintech, and IoT. For 23+ years, Brian helped startups and businesses like Philips, ING, Land Life Company, and WaitWhat turn innovation strategies into award-winning products and services. His specialties include prototyping, behavioral design, and UX strategy. Brian has given talks and workshops in 12 countries. His first book, The Creative Empathy Field Guide, is available in ebook and paperback.
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22+ Years
of Experience
Ciprian is a product and UX designer who can distill complex experiences into seamless and fun user flows. Over the last 15 years, Ciprian has discovered that great design is born at the intersection of business goals, user needs, and beauty. Some of Ciprian's clients include HubSpot, Neil Patel, and Single Grain.
Previously at
10+ Years
of Experience
Daniel is a designer with 10+ years of experience working with clients such as Fox Sports, BMO, IBM, and RBC. He loves the human-centered design approach and delivers optimized, unique, and thoughtful experiences through collaborative processes using UI/UX, art direction, design, and animation. Daniel leads digital experiences to shape the most desirable products giving businesses a competitive advantage. He has worked as a product and motion designer for companies in Canada, the US, and Brazil.
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23+ Years
of Experience
Anna is a well-rounded marketing expert. She has launched commercially successful products and has specialized in brand management and marketing communications for the last six years, including managing over $40 million in traditional and digital brand campaigns for a Fortune 500 company and digital marketing campaigns for a small startup. Anna's ability to be hands-on and a team member in a cross-functional environment have prepared her to be a valuable addition to any organization.
Previously at
20+ Years
of Experience
Christine is a multidisciplinary creative UX designer with skills in illustration, copywriting, and branding who holds an MFA in product design. She has 20 years of experience at companies like CrowdStrike, Lowe's Home Improvement, The Hershey Company, and Dell. She uses design thinking processes to discover user needs, define value and fit with proofs-of-concept and MVPs, and iteratively improve and redesign products through testing and experiments.
Previously at
6+ Years
of Experience
Laurynas has over six years of professional experience developing web and mobile applications with modern and efficient technologies. He is proficient in a diversified tech stack, including C#, .NET, Node.js, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, React, and Angular. Laurynas has worked across the financial, eCommerce, video games, and software industries and is willing to embrace new challenges.
Previously at
22+ years
of Experience
Evgeny is a self-described hybrid designer which means that he's very experienced and successful in both UX/UI and visual design. He has over 15 years of experience in designing the UX/UI for web and mobile applications across a broad range of industries including the internet of things (IoT), retail, computer games, design, real estate, and entertainment. His specialties are UX design, UI interaction design, and mobile/web application design.
Previously at
7+ Years
of Experience
Kamil is an agile project manager and scrum master with a robust background in business analysis and change management. He has extensive experience leading teams and implementing Agile scaling practices at international companies, including BAE Systems, an FTSE100 company and the largest defense contractor in Europe. Kamil is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, PMP, and PMI-ACP.
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Solution: Bridgestone partnered with Toptal to create Basys, a system that tracks tires from collection through retreading to delivery. A primary goal of the solution was to ensure the product design layer was user-friendly for Bridgestone’s factory employees.
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