Usama N.

Top Rated on Upwork · 5.0 stars across 50+ reviews · I work US, UK and AU hours I am a forward-deployed engineer. I sit with one team, learn how it actually operates, and ship the software and AI agents that run it. Over 5 years of full-time client work. 𝗜 𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗣 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗗𝗨𝗖𝗧𝗦, 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗝𝗨𝗦𝗧 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞𝗙𝗟𝗢𝗪𝗦 Most automation freelancers hand you a workflow. I build the system around it, and I have the products to show for it: • FoxReach, a cold email platform with a developer API and SDKs • Deska, an AI voice receptionist for clinics and dental practices • Pipory, a drag-and-drop workflow automation builder • AdReel, an AI UGC ad-video generator • Vision, an AI-tagged digital asset manager Full write-ups and demos are in my portfolio below. The same pattern shows up in client work. For a DTC watch brand I built an internal command center: projects and tasks with an enforced definition of done, plus a daily Slack agent that DMs each teammate, transcribes their voice memo, writes the founder a report, and asks follow-up questions generated from that person's real overdue work. 𝗪𝗛𝗘𝗥𝗘 𝗜 𝗗𝗢 𝗠𝗬 𝗕𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗞 • DTC and e-commerce operations, from CX agents to revenue reconciliation • Clinics and practices, including after-hours voice reception and patient journeys • Home services, missed-call recovery, dispatch routing and call attribution • Agencies who need a build partner their own clients never see 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗖𝗟𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗦 𝗦𝗔𝗬 "Did a great job on the AI agent project for us" Dan Gebow, CTO, Recombo AI · 5.0/5.0 "Usama is pro at AI agent development in make and Zapier" Luca Bellavita, Founder · 5.0/5.0 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗜 𝗕𝗨𝗜𝗟𝗗 » AI agents and chat assistants · 5 to 10 days Support agents and internal copilots on Claude and GPT, with retrieval over your own documents so answers come from your content. They take actions in your tools and hand off to a human when they should. » Voice AI that books appointments · 7 days Inbound and outbound agents on Retell and Twilio that answer, qualify and book straight into your calendar and CRM. » CRM automation · 7 days GoHighLevel, HubSpot and ClickUp: pipelines, funnels, calendars, two-way SMS and email, and the automation behind them. » Workflow and document automation · 7 days n8n, Make and Zapier, or Python when the logic outgrows a no-code canvas. Lead intake, onboarding, invoicing, PDF processing, and syncing tools that were never meant to talk. » Data pipelines and dashboards · 14 days ELT into Postgres, BigQuery or Metabase, with dashboards your team will actually open. » Custom apps and internal tools · 2 to 4 weeks NextJS, FastAPI, Postgres and Clerk for when a spreadsheet or a no-code tool has stopped being enough. 𝗖𝗥𝗘𝗗𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗔𝗟𝗦 65 verified certifications, each independently verifiable. That includes the complete 20-course Anthropic Academy track: Claude, the Claude API, Claude Code, subagents, agent skills and MCP. If you are hiring for agentic AI specifically, that is the credential worth checking. 𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗪𝗘 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗥𝗧 Send me your problem in a paragraph. I will tell you what I would build first, what I would leave alone, and roughly what it takes. You get a fixed scope, a fixed price and a delivery date before any work begins, and you keep every credential, workflow and line of code. Skills: AI agent development, LLM integration, Claude API, OpenAI GPT, LangChain, RAG, vector databases, MCP, prompt engineering, n8n, Make, Zapier, GoHighLevel, HubSpot, Airtable, ClickUp, voice AI, Retell, VAPI, Twilio, workflow automation, business process automation, API integration, webhooks, Python, FastAPI, NextJS, PostgreSQL, Supabase, data pipelines, ETL, BigQuery, Metabase, chatbot development, customer support automation, lead generation, CRM automation, SaaS MVP development, forward deployed engineer.