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Hussen M.

AI Automation & Backend Engineer | Scraping | Data Pipelines | LLM

⭐ Top Rated Plus (top 3%) · ✅ 100% Job Success · ⏱️ 2,600+ hours · 15 jobs, all rated 5.0 👋 I build AI automation, data pipelines and backend systems that keep working after delivery: retries, monitoring, tests and clear documentation included. ⚙️ WHAT I DO 🕷️ Web scraping & data extraction: websites, APIs and PDFs, including Cloudflare-protected and JavaScript-heavy sites, delivered to PostgreSQL, MongoDB, CSV/Excel or your API 🔄 Data pipelines & ETL: scheduled collection, cleaning, deduplication and validation (Airflow, dbt, Python), with alerts when something breaks 🤖 AI automation & LLM integrations: GPT/Claude-powered extraction, classification and agents with structured outputs and cost limits 🧩 Backend APIs: FastAPI and Node.js services, bug fixes, hardening and security reviews 📈 RECENT RESULTS ✔️ Built and maintained a data collection system for one client for a full year (5.0 rating) ✔️ Collected ~200 GB of articles with multi-layer anti-bot handling in 3 weeks ✔️ Ran a multi-country legal data pipeline on Google Cloud across 11 jurisdictions ✔️ Built an Airflow pipeline across many venues with async fetching (5–9x faster) and no duplicate records 🛠️ HOW I WORK 📝 A short written plan before coding: what gets built, how we'll know it works, and what it costs to run 📬 Daily or weekly updates, small reviewable deliveries, and a README your team can use 🌍 Based in Addis Ababa (UTC+3), with overlap for EU and US mornings 💬 Send me what's slow, manual or broken in your workflow, and I'll reply with how I'd fix it.

🇪🇹Addis Ababa, Ethiopia$20/hr100% JSS5.00 (16)Since Jun 2023

Earnings and projects

MRR
$1.7k

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#27,434 / 412k
🇪🇹Country#77 / 1,609
Revenue, last 30 days
$1.7k

Last 6 months: $10k

World#25,194 / 412k
🇪🇹Country#67 / 1,609
Total earnings
$30k

Billed in all: $32k

World#110,605 / 412k
🇪🇹Country#167 / 1,609
Per project
$2k

$3.4k in the last 6 months

World#77,126 / 412k
🇪🇹Country#219 / 1,609
Projects, last 6 months
3

Across 4 contracts

25% fixed75% hourly
World#66,482 / 412k
🇪🇹Country#341 / 1,609
Projects in all
15

Across 18 contracts

50% fixed50% hourly
World#161,379 / 412k
🇪🇹Country#379 / 1,609

Earnings, last 30 days

$31.7k+$1.7k earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$29k$30k$31k$32kOct 9Oct 24Nov 8

Skill rankings: Top 5% in Data Scraping

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