Salim C.
WordPress & Web Solutions Expert | IT Support | Custom App & AI Expert
Whether you need: • A custom web application for your business • A cross-platform mobile app (iOS & Android) • IT infrastructure setup and support • WordPress site development or migration • AI-powered website with intelligent features built in • Workflow automation to save time • Emergency technical troubleshooting • An AI chatbot to handle customer inquiries I bring enterprise-level expertise with the personal attention of a dedicated professional. With 8+ years of experience and cutting-edge AI certifications, I bridge the gap between traditional IT infrastructure, modern web & app development, and artificial intelligence applications. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT MAKES ME DIFFERENT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ AI-First Approach: I don't just build websites and apps — I integrate intelligent automation that saves you time and money ✅ Real Business Impact: My AI chatbot reduced client support tickets by 40% in the first month ✅ Full-Stack Capability: From servers to AI APIs to mobile apps, I handle the complete technology stack ✅ Enterprise Experience: Previously worked at Automattic (WordPress parent company) serving thousands of clients ✅ Always Available: Saskatoon-based, fluent in English/French, responsive within hours ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 APP DEVELOPMENT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Cross-platform mobile apps (iOS & Android) using React Native/Expo — one codebase, two platforms • Custom web applications built in React or Next.js • AI-powered apps with integrated chatbots, smart search and automation • In-app payments via Stripe, RevenueCat and PayPal • Push notifications, real-time data and offline support • Published to App Store and Google Play ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WordPress Development • Custom themes and plugins — no page builder bloat, clean PHP and ACF • WooCommerce stores with intelligent product recommendations • Site migrations, security hardening, performance optimisation • Ongoing maintenance and support (50+ WordPress sites built) AI-Integrated Websites • Websites with built-in AI chatbots for lead capture and support • Smart search powered by vector embeddings • Personalised content and product recommendations • Automated content pipelines (blog, SEO, social) Full-Stack Applications • React/Next.js web applications • REST API development and integration • Database design (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Vector DBs) • Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) that work offline ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🤖 AI & AUTOMATION SERVICES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🤖 AI Chatbots & Virtual Assistants • Custom chatbots that handle FAQs, bookings, and lead qualification 24/7 • RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) systems that answer questions using your company docs • Multi-language support and natural conversation flows • Integration with your existing CRM/tools 📄 Intelligent Document Processing • AI-powered contract analysis and key information extraction • Automated data entry from PDFs, invoices, and forms • Document classification and routing • Content summarisation for reports and research ✍️ AI Content & Communication Tools • Automated email response generation • SEO content creation and optimisation • Social media post generation • Marketing copy that converts 🔗 Workflow Automation • Multi-agent AI systems for complex business processes • API integrations connecting your tools (Zapier, Make, n8n, custom) • Automated reporting and analytics • Smart notification systems ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛠️ IT SUPPORT & INFRASTRUCTURE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • Office 365 administration (user management, Teams, SharePoint, Exchange) • Active Directory and Azure AD setup/migration • Network troubleshooting and security configuration • Hardware/software support (Windows, Mac, Linux) • Server administration and virtualisation (VMware, cloud platforms) • Remote desktop solutions and VPN setup • DNS, SPF, DKIM, DMARC and email deliverability configuration • Cloudflare setup and management ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Let's build something great together!
Earnings and projects
Last 6 months ÷ 6
Last 6 months: $5.7k
Billed in all: $26,320$26k
$303 in the last 6 months
Across 21 contracts
Across 82 contracts
Earnings, last 30 days
Skill rankings: Top 11% in CSS
Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.
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