Zachary E.
Forward Deployed Engineer | AI Systems, Automation & Internal Tools
I turn an idea, or the thing you've been building with AI, into a system your business can run on. Most people come to me having a problem and not knowing what to build to solve it. What I build - A browser interface your staff signs into, with an API behind it and the systems you already run wired into it. - A job that produces the report somebody rebuilds by hand every Monday, on a schedule, while the person keeps the judgement calls. - One place to see data that currently sits in systems nobody built to talk to each other. - A system that produces a deliverable or answer on its own, with every figure traceable to the record it came from. - Sensors, firmware and a screen when the thing you need to measure is physical. What the process looks like - I sit with the people doing the work and turn the problem into a short list of requirements you can read and argue with. - I build it, and you see it working in stages. - I test it against that list and show you the results. - I deploy it, hand over the source and show your people how to run it. What you get - The system running, on your infrastructure or on mine, whichever you prefer. - The source code, the deployment and a written handover, so somebody else could pick it up. - A straight account of what it does, what it does not do yet, and what closing that gap would cost. Work that crosses a boundary usually takes three vendors: mechanical, electronics, software. I cover that span myself, so the integration has an owner from day one. Anything a language model writes cites its source and gets checked before it reaches a person. Stack: Python, TypeScript, React, Node, Docker and Postgres, plus hardware and firmware when the problem is physical. Message me with the idea and I'll tell you straight what it takes to ship it.
Earnings and projects
Last 6 months ÷ 2, the fewest it counts (since Sep 2026)
Read daily since Oct 13, under 30 days
Billed in all: $1,157$1.2k
$1.1k in the last 6 months
Earnings, last 30 days
Tracked from Oct 13, 2026.
Skill rankings: Top 18% in DevOps
Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.
- #48Systems Engineering226 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #17Top 21%🇺🇸#17 of 91
- #108Rapid Prototyping448 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #45Top 24%🇺🇸#45 of 182
- #238Automated Testing1,000 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #14Top 24%🇺🇸#14 of 72
- #311Software Architecture & Design1,465 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #49Top 21%🇺🇸#49 of 207
- #3593D Printing1,922 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #84Top 19%🇺🇸#84 of 412
- #477Mechanical Engineering2,036 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #101Top 23%🇺🇸#101 of 431
- #548SolidWorks2,691 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #116Top 20%🇺🇸#116 of 518
- #549LLM Prompt Engineering2,457 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #64Top 22%🇺🇸#64 of 237