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Dan C.

Helping Founder Led Businesses Exceed 7 Figures | Top 1pt AI Solutions

๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ก๐ข๐ซ๐ž ๐ฆ๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐ž๐ง๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐œ๐œ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ข๐ซ ๐œ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ฅ ๐€๐ˆ ๐ฌ๐จ๐Ÿ๐ญ๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฃ๐ž๐œ๐ญ๐ฌ I work with founder led businesses looking for a solid ROI on their AI systems. Whether that's business automation, the latest in agentic tech, computer vision projects, or even an entire business transformation. I have case studies redesigning 10 person orgs, all the way up to huge impact projects inside 60 billion dollar enterprises. So, why me? โœ… Proven track record including, ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป16 years professional experience building complex systems ๐Ÿค– Building AI systems since 2017, CV since 2012 ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐ŸŽ“ Always keeping my skills up to date ๐Ÿ‘ Computer Vision startup founder ๐Ÿคต Serial entrepreneur ๐Ÿ“ˆ Case studies from delighted clients ๐Ÿ” Specialist focus on AI and data systems ๐Ÿฅ‡My Approach: Get a fair assessment of your system before we start At the onset of a project, I'll guide you through necessary ingredients for success. This is an expert understanding of your domain. ๐Ÿง™โ€โ™‚๏ธTech Skills I specialise across the backend tech stack needed for ML projects on the bleeding edge. Including: ๐ŸPython's ML ecosystem - Agentic systems, LangGraph, Real-time voice + TTS / STT - OpenAI GPT, Gemini, LangChain, StableDiffusion - Tensorflow, TFLite, Pytorch, Keras, OpenCV and custom CV development - GCP, Azure, AWS (specialisation in Azure) - Relational databases and high throughput message streaming systems - Postgres, pg_vector, Mysql, MS SQL Server, MQTT, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Oracle - Serverless + ETL development - Distributed systems design including microservice architecture - Containerization including Docker, Kubernetes - System administration including self-hosted, containerized and bare metal ๐Ÿ‘ฎโ€โ™‚๏ธTrust, but verify High security or vulnerable intellectual property, all of my contracts are covered with a separate NDA under New Zealand jurisdiction with strong IP protection laws. Previously I've been entrusted with US govt EAR / ITAR restricted data, developed high security credit card PCI DSS environments and high value finance, medical and fraud domains. ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฟ๐ŸฅNative English / Kiwi Central US timezone

๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฟChristchurch, New Zealand$125/hr100% JSS5.00 (15)Since Mar 2021
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MRR
$952
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๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฟ#51/535
Recent Earnings
$5,711
๐ŸŒ#49.3K/363K
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฟ#51/535
Total Earnings
$211K
๐ŸŒ#13.1K/363K
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฟ#17/535
Avg. Per Project
$6,583
๐ŸŒ#24.2K/363K
๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฟ#27/535
Recent Projects
3
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Total Projects
32
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World Skill Rankings
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Computer VisionTop 16%
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#4,091Python
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#2Chatbot Development
#2Machine Learning
#2Computer Vision
#2Generative AI
#2LLM Prompt Engineering
#2Large Language Model
#6Python
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Dan C. โ€” Top 9% in New Zealand | UpworkMRR