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Ashkan Rajaee, TopDevz Founder and CEO: ‘Our Award-Winning Model is on Demand, at Scale, and at an Attractive Price Point to Manage and Deliver Some of the Nations Most Complicated Software Development Projects’ “We back this with trusted and effective communication that has earned us a spot as one of the fastest-growing companies in the country.” T 66 opDevz is a leading provider of expert, affordable onshore software development resources. With headquarters in Sacramento California and a regional headquarters office in Toronto, Ontario, the company serves the North American market delivering services to large global companies and mid- market enterprises. With previous experience of accelerating a consulting services company to $50M+, Ashkan Rajaee founded TopDevz on the principles that experience matters, that effective communication leads to higher quality results and that qualified onshore resources provide the greatest likelihood of achieving a successful project. The company was incorporated in 2017. software developers on their development teams to facilitate the process from start to finish. I learned from my previous experience in the industry that there is a big demand in the market for this, and being it is my highest level expertise, it was a no brainer to start this venture and offer a solution to the overwhelming demand. Ashkan Rajaee, TopDevz CEO/Founder, spoke exclusively to The Silicon Review. Below is an excerpt. And how did you expand Why was the company set up? The company was set up to serve the overwhelming demand for having elite and senior-level your company and its offerings over the years? We have actually done a lot to expand the software development solutions we offer to our clients. For example, where we originally