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Kerim T.

Senior AI Engineer | Agents, RAG, Voice AI & Databricks

I'm a Senior AI Engineer who builds agentic workflows and voice AI that connect language models to real tools and data, including in healthcare. At Curo.ai, I wrote the entire platform for a HIPAA-compliant medical voice agent that books patient appointments by phone. It handled about 1,000 after-hours calls a week, and that success led to a phase 2 planned at 10,000-15,000 calls a week. At Databricks, I built HIPAA-compliant Agent Bricks and Genie workspaces that connect natural-language questions to tools that query the data, adopted by a 35-person team. For a national security customer, I built a hybrid search platform that powers LLMs, designing an ontology first and then building a knowledge graph and vector store from its documents. I also migrated a major media and entertainment company's AI/ML platform, improving model AUC from about 0.62 to 0.69. Before that, at Riot Games, I architected a petabyte-scale Databricks lakehouse handling 30M+ daily events and cut annual compute spend by $3M. Today I run my own self-hosted AI platform, where local coding agents execute typed, verified plans. I'm also a co-author on a vLLM fix that's in review, and I reported a gpt-oss bug in OpenHands that has a fix in review.

🇺🇸Los Angeles, United States$75/hr100% JSS3.69 (14)Since Oct 2021

Earnings and projects

MRR
$2.3k

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#19,024 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#4,419 / 62.1k
Revenue, last 30 days
$13k

Last 6 months: $14k

World#862 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#416 / 62.1k
Total earnings
$325k

Billed in all: $342k

World#6,668 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#1,897 / 62.1k
Per project
$16k

$14k in the last 6 months

World#8,248 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#1,460 / 62.1k
Projects, last 6 months
1
0% fixed100% hourly
World#128,092 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#16,472 / 62.1k
Projects in all
20

Across 34 contracts

29% fixed71% hourly
World#133,447 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#19,377 / 62.1k

Earnings, last 30 days

$342k+$12.6k earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$320k$330k$340k$350kOct 8Oct 23Nov 7

Skill rankings: Top 6% in PySpark

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