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.
Earnings and projects
Last 6 months ÷ 6
Last 6 months: $10k
Billed in all: $31,712$32k
$3.4k in the last 6 months
Across 4 contracts
Across 18 contracts
Earnings, last 30 days
Skill rankings: Top 5% in Data Scraping
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