High performance,
low overhead teams
of
Data Scientists
Data Engineers
Full Stack Devs
UI Designers
UX Designers
deployed in days
Data Scientists
Data Engineers
Full Stack Devs
UI Designers
UX Designers
with a product manager who cares.
About
Talented builds digital products for big enterprise and fast growing startups.
Our teams will bring your vision from an idea to a fully deployed, adopted and supported product. Our prices are very competitive, and we aim for scale and long term relationships over margin. Most importantly, our people have worked together and come as a full stack end-to-end team to create intuitive, user centered and beautiful digital products.
Values
At Talented we value speed, transparency, and security.
- We believe in small teams of 3-7 people assembled in days to drive speed.
- Full transparency is accomplished through daily work logs and 24-7 access to Product Managers.
- Data security is of the utmost importance. We will not have access to your data and will provide the scripts necessary to fully integrate the product.
- All IP created with Talented is the sole property of our clients.
Industries
We have worked with big tech, heavy industries, and top Venture Capital backed startups.
We leverage our AI, Machine Learning, and Optimization competencies for businesses looking to solve operational problems and leverage the scale, efficiency, insight, and flexibility of a fully digital business. For startups, our global resources allow us to provide exceptional talent to quickly create digital products.
Airlines - UX/UI Design
Rethinking the customer’s digital experience
- User Experience Design and Prototyping for ticket booking app and physical kiosks in airports
- User interface and Interaction design
- Digital Product Deployment and management
Aluminum Smelting - Data Science
Creating a Yield Optimization Engine
- Diagnose quality, availability/accuracy of sensor data and human input
- Continuous process automation
- Semi-supervised learning
Energy - Communication
Animating Complex Ideas for Org-wide Appreciation
- Script development & storyboarding of dense information into digestible content for mass consumption
- Style development and Animation
- Sound design, Voice Over, and Mastering
Energy - Data Science
Building Smart Predictive Maintenance
- Root cause identification
- Predictive maintenance using Long Short Term Memory models
- Prescriptive interventions routes
Finance - Data Science
Understanding decline in overall spending
- Unsupervised Learning to classify customers
- Supervised Learning to explain changes in spending
- Code-based visualization to measure impact of interventions
Mining - Data Science
Applying Advanced Analytics to Supply Chain
- Digitized supply chain process
- Anomaly detection
- Robotic process automation
Mining - Data Science
Digital transformation of Operations
- Cloud data platform
- Predictive maintenance using Long Short Term Memory models
- Digital Maintenance Work Management
Oil & Gas - Data Science
Setting Up Downstream Digital Transformation
- Cloud data platform
- Digital Maintenance Work Management
- Short Interval Control
Railroads - Data Science
Designing Service Schedule Optimizations
- Encoding of physical constraints
- Optimization of schedules using mixed integer linear programming
- Train scheduling interface
Railroads - Data Science
Using Data to Reduce Work-Related Injuries
- Visualization to understand sources and root causes
- Injury prediction using gradient boosted trees
- Recommendation engine for systemic interventions with random forest
Travel & Leisure - Data Science
Building a Consolidated Data Platform
- Fleet management
- Route and service optimization
- Dynamic pricing / revenue management
Travel & Leisure - Data Science
Strategic Planning with Loyalty Simulations
- Merging of multiple loyalty programs and benefits
- Customer behaviors simulation
- Features testing using Discrete Choice Model
Profiles
Great teams deliver great products.
It's difficult to hire great people, and even harder to have them work well as a team. Talented has experienced Data Scientist, Data Engineers, Full Stack Developers, UI and UX talent, QA personnel, and Product Managers that work together daily. We value speed and flexibility and have created our own product development tools to enable efficient communication and quick problem resolution.
Kim Tomacruz
Illustration
- 7 year of experience in Graphic Design and Illustration
- Kim seeks to find the elegant and cohesive visual solution. Careful consideration of the project’s goals and diligent creative research set her work apart.
- Served clients in Maritime, HR, Real Estate, Law, and Insurance industries
- BA Multimedia Arts De La Salle - College of Saint Benilde
Danny Castonguay
Product Manager
- 20 years of experience as a coder, designer and leader in building digital products
- At McKinsey he advised senior leaders and developed digital products across multiple industries including mining, energy, hospitality, retail, finance, and transportation
- Y Combinator founder
- Masters in Computer Engineering from McGill with focus on machine learning
- MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Janis Kukainis
Product Manager
- 12 years of operations leadership experience in traditional heavy manufacturing and modern fully digitized high volume operations
- Led teams of up to 1,500 people to deliver 100,000s of packages/day at Amazon
- Managed trades to deliver 40,000-ton ships to the US Military at General Dynamics
- Bachelor’s in Engineering from the United States Merchant Marine Academy
- MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Shie Mannor
Data Scientist
- Over 20 years of experience using math to solve real world and academic problems
- Focused on understanding high dimensional statistics to model dynamics and risk in decision and how to understand how to act and make decisions in dynamic, complex, and uncertain environments
- Served clients in defense, energy, communication, semiconductor, finance, and retail industries
- BA Mathematics, BS Electrical Engineering, and PHD in Electrical Engineering from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Hykinel Bon Guarte
Data Scientist
- 10 years of programming experience
- Solid fundamental in numerical methods and simulation, thermodynamics, and fluid mechanics
- Experience building data pipelines and data warehouses, simulating disruption scenarios, and resource allocation and scheduling optimization
- Competitive programmer in ACM-ICPC, with expertise in speed coding, data structures, algorithms, discrete mathematics, and computational geometry
- BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of the Philippines
- Stack/Technologies: Python, NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-Learn, MatPlotLib, BeautifulSoup, R, MatLab, Java, Lua, REST/SOAP/GraphQL APIs, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MySQL, SQL Server, T-SQL, U-SQL, Design-Expert, Aspen HYSYS, Pipephase, Android (Java), React Native, Azure Data Lake
Gladys Anne Mercado
Full Stack Dev
- 10 years of programming experience
- BS in Computer Engineering from the University of the Philippines
- Stack/Technologies: Python, Django, React, React-Native, Bootstrap, Foundation, Sass, jQuery, Semantic UI, Node.js, Ansible, BeautifulSoup, Socket.io, AWS, Google Analytics, Solr, PHP, Laravel, Wordpress, PostgreSQL, MySQL, REST/SOAP/GraphQL APIs
Karizza Crespo
Full Stack Dev
- 6 years of experience in software development in both Web and Mobile products
- Experience with NumPy, SciKit-learn, Pandas, and various scraping libraries like BeautifulSoup and various relational database systems
- BS Computer Science from the University of the Philippines
- Stack/Technologies: Python, Django, NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-Learn, BeautifulSoup, PostgreSQL, MySQL, REST APIs, JavaScript, React, React Native, Bootstrap, Semantic UI, Android (Java)
Jermaine Luis Agnasin
Full Stack Dev
- 8 years of experience in iOS development
- Developed and released iOS apps using Objective-C, Swift, and iOS SDK in native development and React Native in cross-platform
- Served clients in social networking, hospitality, HR, productivity on-demand service platform, and educational games industries
- Stack/Technologies: Objective-C, Swift, and Javascript (React Native), iOS SDK, Xcode, Fastlane, Cocoapods, React Native, Expo, TestFlight, Sentry, REST/SOAP/GraphQL APIs
Lorraine Grace Cardinal-Agnasin
Full Stack Dev
- Over 5 years of experience building web and mobile apps
- Served clients in government, energy, and education industries
- Stack/Technologies: Python, Django, JavaScript, Node.js, React, React Native, Java, libGDX
Mark Tan
Full Stack Dev
- 8 years of experience in full-stack software engineering and UX design
- Skilled in the setup and configuration of servers and databases on cloud services such as AWS, Google, and Linode
- Served clients in cloud software services, mining, telecommunication, and real estate industries
- BS Computer Science from Ateneo de Manila University
- Stack/Technologies: Python, Javascript, HTML5, CSS/SCSS, Django, React, Foundation, Bootstrap, Sass, jQuery, Semantic UI, Materialize, Node.js, React Native, and AngularJS, REST/SOAP/GraphQL APIs, Nginx, Apache, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server
Jayjay Montalbo
Full Stack Dev
- 10 years of programming experience and leading digital teams
- Served clients in education, BPO, fitness, supply chain, hospitality, small business, HR, micro-finance, productivity, and gaming industries
- Former competitive programmer
- BS Computer Science from the University of the Philippines
- Stack/Technologies: Django, React, Foundation, Bootstrap, Sass, jQuery, Semantic UI, Materialize, Node.js, React Native, Salesforce (Apex, Lightning, Einstein), REST/SOAP/GraphQL APIs, Nginx, Apache, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, GitLab CI, Jenkins CI, Docker, AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, SNS, SES, CloudFront, CloudFormation, Route 53), Azure (VM, Data Lake), New Relic, Heroku, and Linux server administration
Jerick Don San Juan
Full Stack Dev
- 10 years of experience in software development and DevOPS to create web applications
- Expertise in Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes and Vagrant for automated deployment, Django and Node for the backend, and React for the frontend.
- BS Computer Science and MS Computer Science from the University of the Philippines
- Stack/Technologies: AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, CloudFront, CloudFormation, VPC, EKS, SNS, SES, Lambda), GKE, Azure, Linode, Heroku, GitLab CI, Jenkins CI, Docker, and Linux server administration, Django, React, Node.js, Semantic UI, Materialize, Bootstrap, Foundation, Sass, jQuery, REST/SOAP/GraphQL APIs, Nginx, Apache, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Ansible, Vagrant and Puppet
Rey Alejandro
UX Designer
- 4 years experience in UI/UX Design designing products across multiple platforms and technologies
- Utilizes the power of visual design, animation and behavioral science to influence the behavior of customers and achieve their goals.
- BFA in Advertising, from the Technological University of the Philippines
- Tools: Figma, Sketch, Illustrator, Flinto, Webflow, InVision, Whimsical, Zeplin, Optimal Sort, Google Analytics, Git, Trello, Jira
Carl Graham
UI Designer
- 6 years of experience in web and graphic design, scripting, and video production and directing
- Carl’s specialty is to distill complex ideas into digestible and effective messaging. This can take the form of well-written copy, clever graphic design, or carefully-timed moving images working in unison with audio.
- AB Multimedia Arts
Global Presence
Presence in North America, Eastern Europe, Middle East, and Asia.
Our global presence allows us to focus on scale over margin and go to where the talent is available. We don't compromise on quality, and we are relentless about finding ways to deliver more for less.
Culture
We invest in our people, you reap the benefits.
At Talented we believe personal health, efficient communication, and a healthy workplace environment are critical in performing our best work. We are committed to a great culture, and are constantly searching for ways to enable the very best in our performance.