Ahmad Q.
Liferay DXP Expert | Java & Spring Boot | Kubernetes | AI, LLM & RAG
Top Rated Liferay DXP architect and Technical Team Lead with 8+ years delivering government-grade portals and AI-powered digital services across Saudi Arabia and the UAE. 100% Job Success on Upwork. If you need a Liferay 7.4 portal built, rescued, upgraded, or run reliably in production, or an LLM / RAG capability added to your enterprise platform, I have done it end to end: architecture, custom modules, SSO, search, AI integration, CI/CD, and Kubernetes operations. WHAT I DELIVER Liferay DXP - Liferay 7.3 / 7.4 architecture, development, upgrades, and administration - Client extensions, OSGi modules, Service Builder, headless REST APIs, Objects, workflows, forms - Fragments, master pages, StyleBooks, multi-site content governance - Elasticsearch tuning, Search Blueprints, custom DSL, semantic and AI-assisted search AI, LLM and RAG - RAG pipelines over enterprise content (vector databases, embeddings, chunking, hybrid search) - LLM integration with OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Azure OpenAI, and open-source models - AI chatbots and assistants embedded in Liferay portals and government service journeys - AI-powered search, recommendations, document classification, and workflow automation - Prompt engineering, evaluation, guardrails, and PDPL-compliant data handling for AI Enterprise SSO and Security - SAML 2.0, OAuth2 / OIDC, Okta, Keycloak, LDAP / Active Directory, F5 BIG-IP - Nafath and UAE Pass national identity integration - NCA cybersecurity controls, PDPL, OWASP hardening, security questionnaires and evidence Backend and Integration - Java / Spring Boot, Node.js, REST and SOAP integration, microservices, API gateways - PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB - Enterprise document management (Doxis CSB, WebCube) DevOps and Cloud - Kubernetes (OKE, AKS), Docker, Helm, ArgoCD / GitOps - Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines - High-availability Liferay clustering (JGroups, shared storage, zero-downtime rolling updates) - SSL/TLS automation, monitoring, and production operations Government Compliance (Saudi and UAE) - Saudi DGA Platform Code (Kod Al Manassat) implementation and QA - WCAG accessibility, bilingual Arabic / English portals, RTL layouts - UAE Digital Government and Smart Services frameworks RECENT WORK - Led a 208-hour Liferay engagement on Upwork, rated 5.0 - Integrated Okta OIDC with Liferay role and group mapping - Delivered DGA-compliant portals for Saudi government entities on Liferay and Kubernetes - Built AI assistants and RAG search over institutional knowledge bases for public-sector platforms HOW I WORK Clear scope, daily updates, clean documentation, and code you can maintain after I leave. Fluent English and native Arabic, so I am comfortable working directly with GCC clients and their compliance and security teams. Send me a message with what you are building and I will reply within a few hours with a concrete approach and estimate.
Earnings and projects
Last 6 months ÷ 6
Last 6 months: $3.5k
Billed in all: $9,819$9.8k
$3.5k in the last 6 months
Across 5 contracts
Earnings, last 30 days
Skill rankings: Top 12% in Liferay
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