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

𝐁𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐈 𝐬𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬 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? ✅ Proven track record including, 👨‍💻16 years professional experience building complex systems 🤖 Building AI systems since 2017, CV since 2012 👨‍🎓 Always keeping my skills up to date 👁 Computer Vision startup founder 🤵 Serial entrepreneur 📈 Case studies from delighted clients 🔍 Specialist focus on AI and data systems 🥇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. 🧙‍♂️Tech Skills I specialise across the backend tech stack needed for ML projects on the bleeding edge. Including: 🐍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 👮‍♂️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. 🇳🇿🥝Native English / Kiwi Central US timezone

🇳🇿Christchurch, New Zealand$125/hr100% JSS5.00 (16)Since Mar 2021
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Earnings and projects

MRR
$1.7k

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#27,645 / 412k
🇳🇿Country#28 / 622
Revenue, last 30 days
$5.2k

Last 6 months: $10k

World#5,296 / 412k
🇳🇿Country#5 / 622
Total earnings
$217k

Billed in all: $231k

World#13,471 / 412k
🇳🇿Country#17 / 622
Per project
$6.6k

$3.4k in the last 6 months

World#26,104 / 412k
🇳🇿Country#29 / 622
Projects, last 6 months
3
0% fixed100% hourly
World#66,479 / 412k
🇳🇿Country#68 / 622
Projects in all
33

Across 36 contracts

28% fixed72% hourly
World#89,874 / 412k
🇳🇿Country#137 / 622

Earnings, last 30 days

$231k+$5.2k earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$225k$230k$235kOct 8Oct 23Nov 7

Skill rankings: Top 9% in Python

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