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Dmitri M.

AI Engineer | LLM | RAG | Agentic | Flink | Kafka | Python | AWS

⭐ Your AI is only as good as the data behind it. I build both.⭐ I'm an AI Engineer with a strong Data Engineering background. I build LLM apps and AI agents on top of real-time streaming pipelines and cloud data platforms in production. Check my skills 👇 🚀 AI Engineering: ✅ LLM application development with OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, and open-source models ✅ RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipelines: chunking, embeddings, hybrid search and re-ranking ✅ AI agents and tool-calling workflows using LangChain, LlamaIndex and MCP (Model Context Protocol) ✅ Vector databases: pgvector, Pinecone, Qdrant, OpenSearch and Elasticsearch ✅ Prompt engineering, LLM evaluation, cost and latency tuning ✅ Deploying AI services with FastAPI, Docker and AWS Lambda/ECS 🚀 Streaming & Real-Time Data: ✅ Apache Flink (PyFlink and Java) for stateful stream processing at scale ✅ Apache Kafka for event-driven architectures and real-time ingestion ✅ Real-time feature and embedding pipelines that feed AI and ML systems 🚀 Programming Languages: ✅ Python, Java, Golang and Node.js ✅ Complex SQL, query tuning and database performance optimization 🚀 Cloud Data Platforms: ✅ AWS: Lambda, Step Functions, S3, Glue, Athena, EMR, Redshift, EC2, ECS, ECR and CloudFormation ✅ Lakehouse: Apache Iceberg on S3 ✅ GCP: BigQuery and Looker Studio 🚀 Databases: ✅ SQL: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL and SQLite ✅ NoSQL: MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch and DynamoDB 🚀 Data Stack & DevOps: ✅ Spark, dbt and Apache Airflow for batch processing, data modeling and orchestration ✅ Docker and Kubernetes for containerized deployments ✅ Git, GitHub and GitLab CI/CD 🚀 Data Collection & Automation: ✅ Web scraping with Scrapy, BeautifulSoup, Selenium and Playwright to collect AI training and RAG data ✅ Social media data pipelines for analytics and AI enrichment ⚡ What I can build for you: ✅ AI chatbots and assistants trained on your company's documents and databases ✅ Real-time streaming pipelines that feed AI models and dashboards ✅ Moves from legacy ETL to modern cloud data platforms ✅ End-to-end AI products, from data ingestion to deployed API ⚡ Why clients work with me: ✅ Production-first: I build systems that are monitored, scalable and cost-aware ✅ Clear communication, with regular progress updates and documented code ✅ Flexible hours that overlap with US, EU and APAC time zones 💬 Have an AI idea or a data pipeline problem? Send me a message with a short description of your project. I'll reply with a clear plan, the tech I'd recommend and a realistic timeline, free of charge. Let's turn your data into something your business can use.

🇮🇩Bali, Indonesia$25/hr100% JSS5.00 (8)Since Oct 2019
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Earnings and projects

MRR
$822

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#56,786 / 412k
🇮🇩Country#572 / 5,726
Revenue, last 30 days
$28

Last 6 months: $4.9k

World#102,228 / 412k
🇮🇩Country#1,786 / 5,726
Total earnings
$62k

Billed in all: $66k

World#63,078 / 412k
🇮🇩Country#430 / 5,726
Per project
$4.8k

$2.5k in the last 6 months

World#36,296 / 412k
🇮🇩Country#237 / 5,726
Projects, last 6 months
2

Across 3 contracts

33% fixed67% hourly
World#88,922 / 412k
🇮🇩Country#1,628 / 5,726
Projects in all
13

Across 18 contracts

33% fixed67% hourly
World#175,714 / 412k
🇮🇩Country#2,316 / 5,726

Earnings, last 30 days

$66k+$28 earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$65,960$65,980$66,000Oct 9Oct 24Nov 8

Skill rankings: Top 8% in Apache Flink

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  8. #396Computer Vision2,498 freelancers · 🇮🇩 #1Top 16%