Syed M.
Senior .NET Architect | Full-Stack | React Developer | AI & LLM
I help product teams ship reliable software and add AI features that actually work in production. Senior full-stack (Upwork Top Rated Plus) engineer with 12 years of experience in enterprise SaaS (1,650+ hours, 100% Job Success). I currently lead a team of 8 engineers on a cloud-based financial aid platform used by higher-ed institutions. AI & LLM work 🤖 Adding LLM features to existing apps: chat assistants, document Q&A (RAG), summarization, classification, data extraction 🤖 OpenAI / Azure OpenAI APIs, vector search (Azure AI Search / pgvector / Pinecone), prompt design and evaluation 🤖 AI-assisted workflows: WhatsApp/web chatbots, appointment and support automation, tool-calling agents 🤖 Using AI coding tools (Claude, Copilot, Cursor) to ship faster without lowering quality Core engineering 🚀 C#, .NET Core, Web API, SignalR, Entity Framework, SQL Server, microservices 🚀 React, Next.js, TypeScript, Redux, Node.js 🚀 Azure, AWS, Docker, CI/CD, Redis caching, performance tuning How I work: clear scoping, regular updates, clean, documented code, and honest feedback on what’s feasible. Have a project or an AI idea you’re unsure about? Let’s do a free 15-minute call. P.S. My legal name is Syed M Baqer; I use Baqer Naqvi professionally.
Earnings and projects
Last 6 months ÷ 6
Last 6 months: $16k
Billed in all: $51,063$51k
$8k in the last 6 months
Across 26 contracts
Earnings, last 30 days
Skill rankings: Top 4% in HTML5
Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.
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