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.
Workflow Consulting – Achieve Peak Productivity and Efficiency
Optimize business processes, improve efficiency, and reduce costs with Toptal’s Workflow Consulting. Our team will help you identify bottlenecks, automate repetitive tasks, and streamline business operations, resulting in smooth, scalable, and effective workflows aligned with your business goals.
Transform your business workflows with expert process-improvement strategies. We help you streamline operations, boost efficiency, and automate tasks to achieve greater productivity and sustainable growth.
Workflow Automation Implementation
Automate repetitive tasks and processes to minimize errors, save time, and increase productivity.
Process Mapping and Analysis
Create detailed process maps to identify inefficiencies and optimize workflows for better performance.
Business Process Optimization
Identify, analyze, and refine existing processes to enhance efficiency and reduce operational costs.
Task Automation
Develop tailored automation strategies for critical tasks, improving speed, accuracy, and team output.
Process Reengineering
Redesign workflows to eliminate redundancies and support the organization’s long-term goals.
Workflow Integration
Integrate new systems and tools into your current processes to create a cohesive and unified workflow.
Performance Optimization
Implement changes that upgrade workflow efficiency, ensuring optimal performance across teams.
Technology and Tool Selection
Boost efficiency with tools and technologies chosen specifically to align with your workflows and goals.
Workflow Design and Implementation
Build tailored workflows that facilitate project management, boost efficiency, and optimize task execution.
Digital Transformation Strategy
Design strategies for digitizing manual processes, leveraging technology to drive business transformation.
Process Analytics and Insights
Use data analytics to monitor workflows and make data-driven decisions for continuous improvement.
Scalability Planning
Future-proof your business with workflows designed to scale seamlessly as your organization grows.
Looking for guidance about the perfect workflow consulting service for your needs?
Our workflow consulting experts, with experience at leading companies, develop and deploy tailored solutions to meet your business needs and unique industry demands for sustainable results and long-term success.
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Discover
A leader from our team assesses your business challenges, identifies opportunities, and recommends the most suitable engagement model.
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Define
A Toptal leader will work with you to define your goals and service needs – from full end-to-end delivery to consulting services.
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Develop
Once your service is defined and you have your talent or team on board, they will create your unique project timeline, process, and initial proposals, whether your goals involve mapping out your workflows or optimizing business processes.
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Deploy
Toptal will get to work, tracking quality assurance, handling project management, and maintaining the delivery schedule.
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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Toptal delivers leading workflow consulting 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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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.
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.
Peer is a strategy and growth consultant with more than 31 years of experience. He has worked with leading corporations, private equity firms, and top-tier consulting firms, such as McKinsey, PwC, and Capgemini, across strategy, growth, GTM, opportunity and market potential assessment, change management, digital transformation, innovation management, and operational improvement. Peer advises clients in technology, telecommunications, financial services, insurance, retail, healthcare, and energy.
Francesco has 16+ years of experience in finance, consulting, business management, and sustainability. Throughout these years, he has worked on more than 20 projects as a consultant at Bain & Company and launched Uber operations in Turin, Italy. Lately, he has founded Tondo, an organization spreading circular economy concepts, and Tondo lab, a company driving the implementation of clean and circular innovations. Francesco is passionate about innovation and entrepreneurship.
Elena is a success-driven visionary with 11+ years of hands-on IT development and leadership experience. She has managed several large cross-functional teams with ownership across multiple development hubs. She has also managed cutting-edge SaaS platforms, end-to-end BPM applications, process automation tools, and API integrations. Elena possesses a wealth of experience, knowledge, and team-building skills in the vision and execution of IT products and solutions.
Alan is an international insurance digital transformation strategist and implementer, currently based in the US. He has helped some of the world’s largest insurers figure out how to respond to new technologies and changing customer demands—to the benefit of both their customers and themselves. Alan has delivered in multiple roles as a program director, change director, program manager, project manager, and Scrum master.
Serhiy is a management consultant with more than 20 years of experience managing large organizations and working with international companies such as P&G, Deloitte, Lafarge, Alexander Proudfoot, and USAID. Specializing in world-class management practices, Lean Six Sigma systems implementation, complex operations optimization, performance and profit enhancement, cost reduction, troubleshooting, crisis and change management, Serhiy is willing to share his experience to help businesses grow.
Gökay is a Senior Manager and Principal Advisor specializing in cybersecurity, information security, audit, and standards and regulations. He is highly skilled in enterprise-security architecture and an expert in delivering sustainable protection and enhancing reputation and digital existence while enabling risk mitigation to prevent financial loss.
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As a former KPMG and PwC consultant and Fortune 1000 executive, Barbara has collaborated with CXOs in diverse industries for 36+ years. She has diversified industry expertise across consumer and industrial products and services, manufacturing, logistics, e-commerce, retail, and technology, which gives her a multi-dimensional approach to problem-solving. Functionally, her work has spanned core operations and front- and back-office processes. Barbara is a mechanical engineer and Kellogg MBA.
Mihai is a seasoned program and project manager and transformation consultant with extensive experience in digital transformation, process optimization, automation, software development, and technology integration. He strategically navigates change and manages senior relationships within tier 1 banks, global blue-chip companies, and startups. He restructures troubled projects, solves problems, and devises operating models and Agile methodologies, fostering collaboration and long-term success.
John is a highly commercial, entrepreneurial leader who speaks six languages. His proudest achievement was founding his own travel technology startup, CultureMee, which won global awards in business and leisure travel. He is also proud to have led a Europe-wide, cross-functional supply chain project, which drove a €40 million reduction in working capital in CRH Plc, one of the largest construction companies in the world.
Rick is a business strategy, financial planning, and operations expert with more than 30 years of experience as a chief operating and strategy officer and a Big 5 management consultant. He has led three company turnarounds, including one for a $500 million multinational firm, growing revenue by 28% and increasing profitability by 21% within two years. Leveraging his experience with companies of all sizes and across industries, Rick is willing to start delivering value and results in new projects.
Juba is the founder of angioClast, a Cambridge-based biotech startup focused on cancer research. Before entrepreneurship, Juba was a seasoned CFO with multi-industry experience and worked on projects ranging from an equity sale of a $150 million telecom company to a $50 million hotel business turnaround. He joined the Toptal network to resolve diverse FP&A, M&A, buyout, and strategic analysis challenges.
An MIT MBA graduate, Michael served large corporations at Bain and helped build new businesses at firms backed by top-tier VCs (Kleiner Perkins, Mayfield, Softbank). He’s led pricing work at a Silicon Valley firm acquired for $185 million and joined Toptal to work on challenging business problems. His work has led to the discovery of multimillion-dollar business optimization opportunities and contributed to a client’s multifold revenue increase.
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.
Since 2014, Adrian has been developing using Java and a variety of testing frameworks such as JUnit, TestNG, Selenium, Cucumber, and REST Assured, along with tools like JMeter, SoapUI, and IntelliJ IDEA. He has worked with numerous teams and projects, which enables him to communicate easily and adapt seamlessly to new work environments. Adrian is passionate about test automation and has joined Toptal to broaden the reach of his expertise through freelance projects globally.
Olcay is a data engineer with a PhD in computer science and 15+ years of professional experience with extensive projects. He is a data warehouse (DWH) expert and a developer who focuses on productivity using robotics. He also has superior communication, decision-making, and organizational expertise backed by a master’s degree in business management. Olcay is an excellent team player and leader who undertakes challenging jobs with his outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills.
Having previously worked with these leading global companies, our talent brings valuable insights and expertise to deliver world-class outcomes.
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Toptal enables global media giant to advance security operations amid digital transformation.
Challenge: The company faced rapidly evolving security threats while struggling to keep pace with hiring needs. The slow hiring process and difficulties retaining staff created gaps in security operations, leaving the company vulnerable to emerging cyberattacks.
Solution: Toptal assembled a team of security specialists with expertise in cloud security and vulnerability assessment. Throughout the partnership, the team implemented robust product security measures and leveraged threat hunting capabilities to identify potential vulnerabilities. Additionally, by integrating DevSecOps practices, the team fostered a culture of continuous improvement and resilience against emerging threats.
Impact: Toptal’s close collaboration led to the successful delivery of Terraform and Ansible code, with the pre-production phase completed two months ahead of schedule. This achievement was crucial in ensuring that the client could effectively continue its digital transformation without delays.
Toptal’s contributions to our Splunk migration from our on-prem data center to AWS have been critical to our success. Communication and collaboration with both our team and customer teams has been outstanding.
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