Experienced in creating and automating AWS infrastructure
Let me help you to
* Create your cloud infrastructure from scratch, or formalize your current infrastructure
* Advise on the best / cheapest / fit for purpose setup for your app or website
* Automate pipelines and deployments
* Automate scaling, monitor and alerting
* Integrate with communication and management systems
* Reduce notification fatigue and increase effectiveness of your alerting
RequestD - An Elasticsearch backed dashboard and interface to track and monitor websites and APIs. Great tool if you need to monitor error rates and other SLA related metrics for a web service.
An interview is more about how you present yourself than about your actual skills, so make sure that you create a good impression first before telling them. In my interviews I usually ask about a record towards the end of the interview so that I'm not biased, but if it comes up earlier, be truthful about it.
I've done a couple of contracts through them. For the most part it's beem a good experience.
They try to vet the clients as well as the coders / talent, but it's not perfect process so sometimes a dud falls through the cracks. They do have solid procedures for both the client and freelancer to follow if either party isn't happy, which includes the person who set up the engagement initially.
Project: I'm building a simple management interface on top of Elasticsearch. I find their pricing model where you can only get some key enterprise features (like security) when you take a support package somewhat restrictive. It's still early days, but I'm getting there :)
My experience working through Toptal has been mostly positive (although I haven't done a contract through them in quite a while).
I failed my initial application due to my inability to solve a couple of algorithm specific tests as other commenters have mentioned. I reappllied a couple of months later, did a couple of codility tests to ensure I'd pass this time, and flew through the rest of the process.
Yes, their signup process will potentially disquallify a couple of good devs, but it will also weed out a lot of bad devs that can't take the time to learn the solutions to common algorithm problems.
Once in, they have a variety of jobs available, some good, some bad. Overall I don't mind working for them. I've been happy with the Upwork dev's I've hired so far, so can't comment on if I'll hire through Toptal.
DevOps specialist for hire
Experienced in creating and automating AWS infrastructure
Let me help you to * Create your cloud infrastructure from scratch, or formalize your current infrastructure * Advise on the best / cheapest / fit for purpose setup for your app or website * Automate pipelines and deployments * Automate scaling, monitor and alerting * Integrate with communication and management systems * Reduce notification fatigue and increase effectiveness of your alerting