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Alona B.

AI Agent Developer | Full Stack Engineer | LLM, RAG, AI Integration

⭐ Hi, I'm Alona! I help founders to achieve business goals by leveraging modern technologies. It's not only about AI, it's about choosing right technologies for existing needs. Welcome to my page! 🎯 WHO I AM & HOW I CAN HELP. 🚀 AI Developer & Python Developer | 10+ years Full Stack Development | Senior React, Python & Node.js Software Engineer. 🏆$1M+ saved via AI workflows | 40+ projects: FinTech, LegalTech, Healthcare, and SaaS. I'm a Fractional CTO & AI Solution Architect helping SaaS founders and non-technical CEOs turn vision into production-ready software. My work spans AI architecture, machine learning consultant work, Gen AI development & AI consulting projects - without a full-time CTO cost As a Fractional CTO, I solve problems like: → We need a SaaS product but have no technical co-founder → We want to integrate LLMs, RAG, or AI automation but don't know where to start → Our architecture won't scale and dev is too slow → We need to modernize our stack and migrate to AWS or Azure → We need AI agent automation (n8n, custom pipelines), but no one can build it in-house 🏅 MY EXPERTISE Case 1 - Fractional CTO & AI Developer for LegalTech SaaS Built a multi-tenant platform as SAAS AI developer: NestJS, Next.js, React, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Azure, Terraform. AI Augmentation Layer: document extraction (Azure Document Intelligence), RAG research, AI-assisted drafting; Solution Architect, project manager. Case 2 - Fractional CTO & AI Engineer for a Healthcare Monitoring AI Platform Compliant SaaS developer: Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, WebSocket alerts, React. HIPAA/GDPR, Docker CI/CD. ML pipelines, computer vision models; data scientist, data analyst, AI Consultant, Virtual CTO Case 3 - Full Stack AI Developer for an EdTech LMS LMS build: React, TypeScript, Supabase, AWS (Cognito, Lambda). NLP personalization, GPT-3-powered recommendations, Moodle chatbot plugin. Case 4 - AI Engineer / AI Developer for a FinTech AI Startup Engineering: NestJS, Java, Azure SQL, Service Bus, blockchain-based payments, React frontend, AI content personalization, gamification; Solution Architect, AI engineer, Project Management Case 5 - AI Architect & AI Engineer: RAG, NLP & Speech Systems RAG platforms (Pinecone, OpenAI), speech intelligence (Deepgram, LangChain, FAISS), CRM automation (Anthropic/Claude). AI Agent Development and AI agent n8n automation, working as AI agent builder & AI agent creator. Agentic AI patterns, AI Model Integration, AI automation Case 6 - Full Stack AI Engineer & AI Developer for CRM & Auth Platform Microservices: gRPC, MongoDB, Neo4j. Multi-tenant auth (Azure AD); full stack developer, Cloud Architect advisor, AI Software Architect, AI Developer, data analysis pipelines. ⚡ WHERE I CAN BE HELPFUL ✅ Fractional CTO - strategy, leadership, team building for SaaS startups, virtual CTO services ✅ Technical Advisor - code audits, architecture reviews, cloud migration (AWS/Azure), Cloud Architect guidance ✅ Full Stack Development - React, Next.js, Node.js, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, React Native, React for mobile & Web development ✅ AI engineering & LLM Integration - RAG, LLM agents, NLP, Computer Vision, ML, chatbots, Generative AI Agent Development ✅ AI Architect & SaaS Architecture - multi-tenant, API-first, compliance, scaling, Software Architecture & Design ✅ Data & Analytics - SQL, pipelines, data visualization, ML analytics, data science, data analysis ✅ DevOps - AWS, Azure, Terraform, Docker, ArgoCD, CI/CD, Firebase support ✅ Mobile App Development - React Native, Android App Development, cross-platform SAAS mobile features 👨🏻‍💻 TOOLS & TECHNOLOGIES Frontend: React, Next.js, Angular, Vue.js, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Tailwind, MUI, React Native Backend: Node.js, NestJS, Express, Python, Java, FastAPI, Django, Flask, GraphQL AI/ML: GPT, GPT-3, Claude, RAG, LangChain, Pinecone, FAISS, NLP, Deepgram, PyTorch, TensorFlow, ML, Deep learning Cloud: AWS (Cognito, Lambda, EKS, S3), Azure (AI Foundry, Document Intelligence, APIM) DB: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, SQL, Neo4j, Pinecone, Qdrant DevOps: Docker, Terraform, Pulumi, ArgoCD APIs: OpenAI, Anthropic, Stripe, Pipedrive, MS Graph, REST, GraphQL, gRPC 🔄 HOW WE WORK TOGETHER Discovery Call - We discuss goals, challenges and product vision Technical Audit & Roadmap - I audit your stack and deliver a clear plan (Product Development, Solution Architecture, AI Development) Build & Ship - Weekly milestones, production-quality code (AI Agents, AI Automation, agentic AI workflows) Scale & Optimize - Performance tuning, AI automation, cost reduction, growth prep 🟢 MY CORE FOCUS AREAS SaaS product development (multi-tenant, API-first, AI-native) Healthcare & MedTech (compliance, real-time monitoring, HIPAA/GDPR) LegalTech (document intelligence, workflow AI automation, AI research) EdTech & LMS platforms (ML, personalized learning, analytics) AI-powered automations & AI automations (LLMs, RAG, NLP)

🇵🇹Funchal, Portugal$49/hr100% JSS4.91 (13)Since Nov 2023
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Earnings and projects

MRR
$1.4k

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#34,618 / 412k
🇵🇹Country#178 / 2,011
Revenue, last 30 days
$3.7k

Last 6 months: $8.4k

World#9,146 / 412k
🇵🇹Country#66 / 2,011
Total earnings
$39k

Billed in all: $41k

World#92,413 / 412k
🇵🇹Country#521 / 2,011
Per project
$2.3k

$2.1k in the last 6 months

World#69,568 / 412k
🇵🇹Country#402 / 2,011
Projects, last 6 months
4
50% fixed50% hourly
World#51,816 / 412k
🇵🇹Country#196 / 2,011
Projects in all
17

Across 20 contracts

30% fixed70% hourly
World#149,091 / 412k
🇵🇹Country#720 / 2,011

Earnings, last 30 days

$41.2k+$3.7k earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$36k$38k$40k$42kOct 9Oct 24Nov 8

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