S. Hong founded Top5soft in 2008 after a career in enterprise software QA. He sets editorial standards, oversees all scoring rubrics, and writes long-form investigations into emerging software categories.

Maya joined in 2016 after six years as a security consultant. She leads all VPN, password manager, and privacy tool coverage, and maintains our affiliate disclosure and data-handling policies.

Marcus covers AI assistants, LLM-powered apps, and machine learning toolkits. He built our AI evaluation framework and contributes to our How We Test documentation. Previously an ML engineer at two London-based startups.

Priya focuses on network-layer software – VPNs, firewalls, DNS resolvers, and remote-access tools. She runs structured leak tests and logs all results in our shared benchmark repository.

Daniel covers audio, video, and creative software. He has spent 20 years in post-production and brings a working professional’s perspective to tools that are often reviewed by people who have never used them on a deadline.

Sofia writes step-by-step guides and how-to content. She joined in 2021 and has since published over 200 tutorials covering everything from beginner setups to advanced configuration.