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Denis K.

Video Surveillance CCTV Computer Vision OpenCV EdTech | Detection Dev

Video Surveillance, CCTV, Computer Vision, OpenCV, AI โ€“ I build CCTV, object detection, and real-time video systems that scale. 14,700+ hours and $600K+ earned on Upwork. 100% JSS, Top Rated Plus. 15 years of senior engineering + Spec-First Agentic Engineering. โšก ๐—™๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ ๐—ฃ๐—ฅ๐——. ๐— ๐—ฉ๐—ฃ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐Ÿณ-๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฐ ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜†๐˜€. ๐—™๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜„ ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—ฎ ๐Ÿฎ-๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ธ ๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—ฒ๐˜…๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฏ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐—ฒ. โš ๏ธ Press the Invite button on my page and let's talk about your project. ๐—ฆ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ข๐˜‚๐˜๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐˜€ โ†’ VALT - enterprise CCTV and video surveillance SaaS. 770 organizations, 50K+ users, 2,500 IP cameras. Grew from a $1M launch year to $9M ARR. Motion detection, HIPAA/GDPR storage, 12-year partnership. โ†’ MindBox - smart video surveillance with AI analytics. Anomaly detection, facial recognition, and forensic search across 50+ deployments with live camera-map feeds. โ†’ Tennis analytics - a computer-vision pipeline that tracks players and the ball from match video for automated stats. โ†’ ALDA - generative AI course builder. Co-designed with 70+ U.S. educators; partner schools serve 500,000+ students. +20% educator efficiency. โ†’ BrainCert - world's first WebRTC + HTML5 LMS. $3M revenue, 100K+ customers, 500M+ classroom minutes. ๐—œ ๐—”๐—บ ๐— ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—˜๐˜…๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—œ๐—ป โ†’ Video Surveillance and CCTV - custom CCTV SaaS with secure storage, IP-camera ingestion, motion detection, and forensic search โ†’ Computer Vision and Object Detection - OpenCV, YOLO, TensorFlow, PyTorch for anomaly detection, face recognition, background blur, and incident alerts โ†’ AI Full-Stack Apps - OCR, real-time translation, autonomous agents, and object recognition on top of video โ†’ Video Streaming and Players - RTMP, HLS, WebRTC, sub-second latency, custom players on AWS โ†’ E-Learning, EdTech, and Virtual Classrooms - LMS and course authoring, curriculum and instructional design, live WebRTC and Agora classrooms, interactive whiteboards, AI grading and assessments, generative-AI courses, SCORM/LMS integrations ๐—”๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฐ ๐—˜๐—ป๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด & ๐—ฆ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ-๐—™๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐˜ ๐——๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ I work spec-first, not vibe-first. I write the technical spec and architecture before any code is generated. Then I drive AI agents (developer, tester, analyst) against strict guardrails to produce production-grade code. The hard parts I handle or verify myself: real-time computer vision, OpenCV detection pipelines, and high-load video backends. You get the speed of AI with the stability of a senior engineer. ๐—›๐—ผ๐˜„ ๐—ช๐—ฒ ๐—ฆ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜ 30-min discovery โ†’ spec-first plan with architecture and a ยฑ10% estimate โ†’ AI dev environment with guardrails โ†’ MVP with CI/CD and a 2-week demo cadence. ๐—›๐—ผ๐˜„ ๐—ฌ๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—–๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—ช๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ธ ๐—ช๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต ๐— ๐—ฒ โ†’ MVP from scratch - the fastest safe path to production with Spec-First Agentic Engineering โ†’ Team extension - I join as the lead on hard modules: computer vision, AI, video surveillance, WebRTC โ†’ Rescue mission - I fix, modernize, and stabilize existing codebases, including vibe-code cleanup ๐—ง๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ป๐—ผ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—œ ๐—จ๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐——๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—น๐˜† โ†’ Computer Vision and AI: OpenCV, YOLOv8, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, Image Recognition, OpenAI API, Whisper, Deepgram, NLP โ†’ Video: WebRTC, Agora, FFmpeg, Wowza, Kurento, HLS/DASH, RTMP/RTSP โ†’ Backend: Node.js, NestJS, Express, Python (FastAPI), PHP/Laravel, C++ โ†’ Frontend: React, Vue, Angular, TypeScript โ†’ Infra: AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis โ†’ Security: AES-256, HIPAA, GDPR, SOC II โ†’ EdTech: LMS/SCORM, virtual classrooms, interactive whiteboards, course authoring, quizzes and assessments, AI grading ๐—ช๐—ต๐˜† ๐—™๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ ๐—ฆ๐—ผ๐—ณ๐˜ 100% Upwork JSS ยท 914 jobs ยท $10M+ earned ยท 401K+ hours ยท 625+ projects since 2005 ยท 400+ clients across 17+ countries ยท Top WebRTC Developer 2022 and Top Telecom Developer 2024 ยท 1 of 400 devs passes our internal selection ยท estimates within ยฑ10% of actuals. ๐—–๐—น๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—™๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐—ฏ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ธ "We've been working together for 10 years and continue. Fora Soft planned and built our entire Wowza-based video surveillance SaaS from scratch across web, iOS and Android." - Dustin, CTO @ VALT (50,000 users, 770 orgs, 2,500 IP cameras) โš ๏ธ Press the Invite button or message me โ€“ I'll send back an SRS, an estimate, and the fastest safe path to production.

๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝMexico City, Mexico$40/hr100% JSS4.99 (6)Since Jul 2018
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MRR
$10,900
๐ŸŒ#1,067/363K
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Recent Earnings
$65,400
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Total Earnings
$646K
๐ŸŒ#1,484/363K
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Avg. Per Project
$53,841
๐ŸŒ#747/363K
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Recent Projects
2
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Total Projects
12
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World Skill Rankings
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#1
YOLOTop <0.01%
#2Object Detection
#3Keras
#3Image Processing
#4OpenCV
#4Neural Network
#6Video Stream
#7WebRTC
#8TensorFlow
#11PyTorch
#12Computer Vision
#16Deep Learning
#22Natural Language Processing
#27C++
#56PostgreSQL
#71Machine Learning
#93Artificial Intelligence
#160Node.js
#183React
#189Python
๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝMexico Skill Rankings
of 2
#1
WebRTCTop <0.01%
#1Machine Learning
#1OpenCV
#1Computer Vision
#1Video Stream
#1Keras
#1Natural Language Processing
#1Image Processing
#1C++
#1YOLO
#1Object Detection
#1TensorFlow
#1Neural Network
#1PyTorch
#1Deep Learning
#2Python
#2Node.js
#2PostgreSQL
#2React
#2Artificial Intelligence
Denis K. โ€” #6 in Mexico | UpworkMRR