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Zachary E.

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.

🇺🇸Wheaton, United States$54/hr100% JSSSince Feb 2025

Earnings and projects

MRR
$534

Last 6 months ÷ 2, the fewest it counts (since Sep 2026)

World#75,272 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#11,264 / 62.1k
Revenue, last 30 days
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Read daily since Oct 13, under 30 days

Total earnings
$1.1k

Billed in all: $1.2k

World#387,807 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#59,201 / 62.1k
Per project
$1.1k

$1.1k in the last 6 months

World#118,118 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#20,113 / 62.1k
Projects, last 6 months
1
0% fixed100% hourly
World#128,092 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#16,472 / 62.1k
Projects in all
1
0% fixed100% hourly
World#360,671 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#53,151 / 62.1k

Earnings, last 30 days

$1.2kNothing earned since Oct 13Billed in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$1,120$1,140$1,160$1,180Oct 13Oct 26Nov 7

Tracked from Oct 13, 2026.

Skill rankings: Top 18% in DevOps

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