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Marco R.
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Marco R.

AI Engineer & Data Scientist | AI Automation | Hermes & Grok Bot

I build custom AI agents and AI automation that cut costs and time by up to 10x. I'm an AI Engineer specializing in AI agent development and AI automation, with over 4 years of hands-on experience building AI agents, AI assistants, AI bots, and data-driven applications for clients across multiple industries. Recently, I've been deploying custom AI agents at record speed with Hermes Agent, OpenClaw, Pi Agent, and Grok Bot. 🌍 I speak: English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. 🤖 I use: Cursor, Claude, Hermes Agent, Grok Bot. 💻 What you can get from me ↳ Custom AI agents and AI assistants for support, operations, and sales. ↳ AI bots for Slack, Telegram, Discord, and WhatsApp. ↳ AI automation workflows that don't constantly break. ↳ RAG and enterprise search (AI agents that know your data). ↳ Custom second brains. ↳ AI agent training (Hermes Agent, Grok Bot). ↳ ML and Data Science. ⭐ What I have done so far ↳ Created, designed, and deployed an AI agent that currently generates $45k+ MRR. ↳ Built AI agents and AI bots that run on Slack, Telegram, Discord, and other gateways, including custom web AI assistants (chat assistants). ↳ Built AI automation systems for content creation, including avatar videos, infographics, and social media workflows. ↳ Built production-ready Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems. ↳ Helped set up second brains with Gbrain, Obsidian, and custom solutions. ↳ Trained 5+ founders to use AI agents (Hermes Agent, Grok Bot) to optimize their workloads. ↳ Developed 5+ MVPs that successfully secured funding. ↳ Built MCPs for Claude MCP Marketplace and Cursor. ↳ Built tailored AI agent skills and AI automation workflows for clients across multiple industries. 🧠 What are the skills and tools I use the most ↳ AI Agents & RAG Systems: LangGraph, LangChain, Google ADK, ChromaDB, Vertex AI, OpenAI, Gemini. ↳ Harnesses: Cursor, Claude, DeepSeek, Hermes Agent, OpenClaw, Grok Bot, Pi Agent. ↳ AI Automation & Scraping: n8n, Zapier, Composio, Playwright, BeautifulSoup, Apify, Camoufox. ↳ Data Science & ML: Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-Learn, PyCaret, TensorFlow, MMM (Marketing Mix Model), NLP, Optuna. ↳ Dashboards & Visualization: Plotly Dash, Data Studio. ↳ Web Development: FastAPI, Flask, CSS, HTML, Jinja2, React. ↳ APIs & Integrations: Kling AI API, HuggingFace, HubSpot and other CRMs, Notion, OpenRouter, Cerebras, xAI API, OpenAI API. 🗓️ AI agents I'm building right now ↳ Customer support AI agent: assigns tickets to engineers and other team members, and runs a daily check that fixes some issues without a human in the loop. It uses Jev from TypeSafe for human-in-the-loop decisions. ↳ Project management AI agent: team members can assign tasks in ClickUp and other project management tools. ↳ Social media AI automation: uses writing skills, infographics, HyperFrames videos, Kling AI, and more to post quality content. ↳ Accounting AI agent: accesses multiple accounting platforms with browser actions to write reports and publish on finance platforms. If you need AI agent development that works, an AI automation that doesn't constantly break, or a reliable data platform, message me, and I'll help you design the right solution.

🇵🇹Lisbon, Portugal$55/hr100% JSS4.96 (38)Since Mar 2019
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Earnings and projects

MRR
$4.7k

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#5,966 / 412k
🇵🇹Country#42 / 2,011
Revenue, last 30 days
$1.7k

Last 6 months: $28k

World#25,273 / 412k
🇵🇹Country#135 / 2,011
Total earnings
$88k

Billed in all: $93k

World#44,921 / 412k
🇵🇹Country#296 / 2,011
Per project
$1.6k

$1.4k in the last 6 months

World#91,911 / 412k
🇵🇹Country#515 / 2,011
Projects, last 6 months
20

Across 22 contracts

27% fixed73% hourly
World#6,057 / 412k
🇵🇹Country#19 / 2,011
Projects in all
56

Across 71 contracts

28% fixed72% hourly
World#54,551 / 412k
🇵🇹Country#254 / 2,011

Earnings, last 30 days

$93.3k+$1.7k earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$91k$92k$93k$94kOct 8Oct 23Nov 7

Dotted: longer than usual between two readings.

Skill rankings: Top 1% in Document Automation

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  7. #104Data Science3,842 freelancers · 🇵🇹 #3Top 3%
  8. #110AI Consulting2,321 freelancers · 🇵🇹 #1Top 5%