Selam A.
Machine Learning Engineer | AI Engineer | Data Scientist
Senior AI/ML Engineer with over 4 years of experience building and deploying machine learning, deep learning, and LLM systems for credit scoring, natural language processing, code intelligence, and real-time inference. Skilled in Python, C++, and SQL, with advanced expertise in PyTorch, TensorFlow, MLflow, Airflow, Snowflake, PostgreSQL, and AWS services (EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda). Proven track record scaling AI solutions for 200K+ MSMEs, optimizing LLMs with RLHF and PPO, and designing behavioral feature engineering pipelines that turn raw event data into production credit and recommendation signals. Experienced in evaluating LLMs and coding agents on public benchmarks, building agent tooling on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and applying program analysis techniques (AST/CFG-level static analysis) to large codebases. Strong command of MLOps and production-grade infrastructure: FastAPI services on EC2 with systemd and nginx, S3-checkpointed distributed pipelines, delta/incremental processing for large-scale workloads, and end-to-end analytics pipelines from game and app telemetry (Unity Analytics, Snowflake) through to scoring models and stakeholder-ready reporting.
Earnings and projects
An estimate from an earlier read
Last 6 months: $45k
Billed in all: $64,483$64k
$9k in the last 6 months
Across 8 contracts
Earnings, last 30 days
Dotted: longer than usual between two readings.
Skill rankings: #1 in 3 skills of 20
Rarest: top 0.62% in AI Model Training, of 1,135. Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.
- Amazon SageMaker137 freelancers · 🇪🇹 #1Top 0.73%🇪🇹#1 of 2
- RLHF76 freelancers · 🇪🇹 #1Top 1%🇪🇹#1 of 1
- Feature Engineering40 freelancers · 🇪🇹 #1Top 3%🇪🇹#1 of 2
- Model Tuning111 freelancers · 🇪🇹 #1Top 2%🇪🇹#1 of 4
- MLflow55 freelancers · 🇪🇹 #1Top 4%🇪🇹#1 of 1
- Model Validation21 freelancers · 🇪🇹 #1Top 10%🇪🇹#1 of 1
- Amazon EC2 Spot2 freelancers · 🇪🇹 #1Top 100%🇪🇹#1 of 1
- Model Deployment115 freelancers · 🇪🇹 #1Top 3%🇪🇹#1 of 1