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Israel D.

GO TO Marketing Engineer | GTM Engineer | AI Digital Marketer

I learned to build systems before I owned the tools to build them. I grew up in Akure, Nigeria. I watched television for the first time at twelve. I didn't own a phone of my own until I was twenty-one — the first two were stolen before I could keep them. For most of my engineering degree, I had no laptop. I borrowed machines, queued for lab computers, and learned to plan every line of work before I ever sat down, because compute time was scarce and I couldn't waste it. That constraint taught me the thing I now get paid for: how to design a system completely before building it, so that when it runs, it runs clean. I graduated First Class — top 3% — in Agricultural Engineering. Then a car accident took my father and put my mother in the hospital, and I became the person my family depended on overnight. I needed work that paid, scaled, and didn't require permission from anyone. I chose AI and automation. Not as a trend. As survival. Four years later, I'm Top Rated Plus on Upwork — top 3% worldwide — and I build revenue infrastructure for businesses that are drowning in manual work. ──────────────────────────────────────── WHAT THAT WORK HAS PRODUCED: - $300,000+ in closed sales in 60 days — an AI voice system that called, qualified, booked, and followed up for a solar company. Humans only closed. - 900+ appointments booked in 4 months — a multi-channel AI system that beat the client's human-only outreach by 50%. - 68% drop in support workload — RAG agents for two education institutions that answered, logged, and escalated only what mattered. - A custom AI app that reads roofing reports, insurance scopes, and contracts and generates material orders in seconds — work that used to take hours per job. ──────────────────────────────────────── HOW I ACTUALLY WORK: The scarcity I grew up with never left how I build. I don't bolt tools together and hope. I map the whole system first — where leads enter, where they leak, what decides, what executes, what gets logged — and then I build the smallest thing that moves your number. I separate reasoning from execution: the AI decides, deterministic code acts. That's the difference between a demo that impresses and a system that survives in production handling real money. And I tell you the truth. If what you've asked for isn't what you need, you'll hear it from me before you spend a dollar — not after. ──────────────────────────────────────── WHAT I BUILD: - AI voice agents (Vapi, ElevenLabs, Twilio) - GoHighLevel systems — 4 years deep — pipelines, AI chat, multi-channel campaigns, lead scoring - Cold outbound infrastructure with real deliverability engineering, not spray-and-pray - RAG agents on Pinecone / Supabase with Claude and OpenAI - Custom AI web apps (Next.js, Python, FastAPI) - Workflow systems on n8n, Make, Zapier I'm certified six times by Anthropic on Claude, as an AI Red Teamer by Microsoft, and in AI Security & Governance by Securiti.ai — which matters most when your AI is making decisions that cost money. I know where these systems break, because my job is to break them before your customers do. ──────────────────────────────────────── WHO THIS IS FOR: Construction, roofing, solar, agriculture, home services, B2B SaaS, agencies — operators with real businesses and no time to wire together their own infrastructure. I'm not the cheapest person you'll message. I'm the one you call when the leads are leaking, the follow-up is dying, and the manual work is quietly burning out your team. Easy problems bore me. Bring me the one nobody else has been able to fix. CORE EXPERTISE & TECH STACK: Claude code | Openclaw | AI Agent Developer | GoHighLevel (GHL) Automation | Zoho CRM Setup | HubSpot Expert | Custom Web App Development | n8n | Zapier | Make. com | Conversational AI | Vapi | ElevenLabs | Claude API | OpenAI | Shopify Developer | Website Design | Email Marketing | B2B Lead Generation | Construction Tech | Engineering Workflows | Roofing Automation Israel O. Dare

🇳🇬Akure, Nigeria$20/hr100% JSS5.00 (2)Since Jun 2023

Earnings and projects

MRR
$22

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#163,804 / 412k
🇳🇬Country#6,697 / 13.8k
Revenue, last 30 days
$0

Last 6 months: $134

Total earnings
$21k

Billed in all: $22k

World#138,119 / 412k
🇳🇬Country#2,156 / 13.8k
Per project
$2.3k

$67 in the last 6 months

World#69,393 / 412k
🇳🇬Country#1,120 / 13.8k
Projects, last 6 months
2
100% fixed0% hourly
World#88,918 / 412k
🇳🇬Country#5,057 / 13.8k
Projects in all
9

Across 11 contracts

73% fixed27% hourly
World#212,268 / 412k
🇳🇬Country#7,852 / 13.8k

Earnings, last 30 days

$21.6kNothing earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$21,250$21,500$21,750$22,000Oct 8Oct 23Nov 7

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