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Raja K.

Fintech CTO & Senior AI Engineer | Payments | Fraud ML | RAG

I build production AI and fintech systems, not demos. 20+ years in banking, fintech and enterprise technology, with the last 5 focused on production AI. I’m hands-on across architecture, engineering, AI and integration, taking complex problems from idea to reliable production systems. Recent production work: → RAG platform processing 1M+ documents → AI accounting platform processing 100K+ invoices → Fraud detection for KSA fintech, 70% loss reduction / 100K txns/month → LLM knowledge assistant deployed across 5 enterprises → Voice AI solutions using Whisper (OpenAI) and MMS (Meta) → EU payments and fintech platforms AI: RAG · LLMs · Agents · Document AI · OCR · HITL · Computer Vision · Voice AI (Whisper, MMS) Fintech: Payments · Fraud · KYC/AML · Credit · Open Banking · PSD2 Stack: Python · PyTorch · FastAPI · LangGraph · React/Next.js · PostgreSQL · Docker · Cloud Especially useful when you have an existing product, codebase or prototype that needs to become production-ready without unnecessary rebuilding. Also available for CTO engagements, architecture reviews, technical due diligence and helping founders turn an early product into a scalable technology platform. EU-based · Available immediately.

🇦🇹Vienna, Austria$60/hr100% JSS5.00 (4)Since Jan 2023

Earnings and projects

MRR
$453

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#81,907 / 412k
🇦🇹Country#85 / 545
Revenue, last 30 days
$0

Last 6 months: $2.7k

Total earnings
$148k

Billed in all: $155k

World#24,068 / 412k
🇦🇹Country#31 / 545
Per project
$37k

$1.4k in the last 6 months

World#1,857 / 412k
🇦🇹Country#7 / 545
Projects, last 6 months
2
100% fixed0% hourly
World#88,922 / 412k
🇦🇹Country#103 / 545
Projects in all
4

Across 5 contracts

40% fixed60% hourly
World#283,744 / 412k
🇦🇹Country#394 / 545

Earnings, last 30 days

$155kNothing earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$152k$154k$156k$158kOct 9Oct 24Nov 8

Skill rankings: Top 15% in Model Tuning

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