To begin with, I've been working as a "Business Intelligence" developer since 8 years and mostly specializing in Relational Databases and ETL. I've worked for 5 different reputed companies in just 8 years in the quest to work on variety of projects for different clients to experience in different aspects in client's respective domains. Ultimately, I feel beyond technical expertise in this field understanding client's requirement is equally important.

I'm passionate about cracking the toughest challenges in the area of Business Intelligence and arrive at the apt solutions. To quote one of the challenges, I have optimized one of the data ingestion process involving gigs of data to complete in just 10 minutes - unoptimized process had taken 6 hours to execute. Toptal.com is one such platform to prove one's ability and expertise in their area of interest. I came to know about this platform six months ago, through one of my friends.

Few benefits that attracted me towards Toptal are: to enjoy the flexible work hours - choose your own hours and work during most productive hours; earn salary proportional to your skill –by retrospecting the weakness and strengths enables skill development;  and I'm the boss - no longer to answer anyone but your clients and myself. Taking decisions which is sometimes the tough part will now become my responsibility and I would have all the control. 

Initially, I thought it is very easy to crack the Toptal's interview as I'm very confident about my technical skills. Later, I realized after the first round of interview that the professional communication is also a major factor that will be judged during the interview process.

After polishing my communication skills, now I'm geared up for the interview process with the Free-lancing giant. I hope my dream, to be in the top 3% of the toptal SSIS engineers group , will come true.