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Benjamin D.

Kubernetes & AI Agent Infrastructure Engineer | DevOps, SRE, MLOps

I run Kubernetes for teams shipping AI agents and LLM-powered products, so your agents stay up, scale with demand, and don't burn through your cloud budget. Top Rated Plus, $100K+ earned, 7+ years in DevOps and SRE. Getting an AI agent from demo to production is mostly an infrastructure problem: long-running and stateful workloads, bursty GPU and API usage, tool calls hitting internal services, and failures that are hard to see. That's the layer I own. What I do: • Kubernetes platforms: EKS, OpenShift and other managed clusters. Setup, migrations, autoscaling, upgrades, and dev/staging/prod environments • AI agent & LLM deployment: containerizing agents and model servers, GPU node pools, queues and workers for long-running agent tasks, secrets and API-key management • Observability for agents: Prometheus and Grafana dashboards for latency, errors, queue depth and API spend, with alerts that actually matter • CI/CD for AI apps: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI and Jenkins pipelines with safe rollouts and quick rollbacks for agent and model updates • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform and Ansible on AWS, GCP and Azure, so every environment is reproducible • Security & reliability: network policies, least-privilege access for agent tools, SLOs/SLIs and incident response Recent work includes long-term DevOps engagements for Blocksi and Education Ecosystem, running production infrastructure for their platforms. How I work: • I start with a short audit so we agree on priorities before I change anything • Everything is in version control and documented, so you're never locked in to me • Clear async updates, with working hours that overlap Europe and the US East Coast (UTC+1) Good fit: startups taking an AI agent from prototype to production, and teams whose Kubernetes setup is slowing them down. Message me with where you are now and I'll reply with how I'd approach it.

🇧🇦Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina$50/hr100% JSS4.97 (14)Since Jul 2019

Earnings and projects

MRR
$851

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#55,242 / 412k
🇧🇦Country#112 / 903
Revenue, last 30 days
$441

Last 6 months: $5.1k

World#66,067 / 412k
🇧🇦Country#130 / 903
Total earnings
$153k

Billed in all: $159k

World#23,002 / 412k
🇧🇦Country#62 / 903
Per project
$8k

$2.6k in the last 6 months

World#20,802 / 412k
🇧🇦Country#51 / 903
Projects, last 6 months
2
0% fixed100% hourly
World#88,918 / 412k
🇧🇦Country#153 / 903
Projects in all
19

Across 20 contracts

40% fixed60% hourly
World#138,388 / 412k
🇧🇦Country#355 / 903

Earnings, last 30 days

$159k+$441 earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$158,250$158,500$158,750$159,000Oct 8Oct 23Nov 7

Skill rankings: Top 11% in Linux System Administration

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  4. #71GitLab592 freelancers · 🇧🇦 #1Top 12%
  5. #71Infrastructure as Code430 freelancers · 🇧🇦 #1Top 17%
  6. #89MLOps468 freelancers · 🇧🇦 #1Top 19%
  7. #107Ansible931 freelancers · 🇧🇦 #1Top 11%
  8. #135Jenkins1,177 freelancers · 🇧🇦 #1Top 11%