Adeel Kamal M.
Full Stack Engineer | AI Engineer | SaaS, API & AI Integration Expert
🏆 Top Rated Plus · $1M+ Earned · 70+ Products Shipped · 12+ Years of Full-Stack Experience · AI integration Expert Hi, I’m Adeel. I work with founders and product teams as a hands-on senior engineering partner to build, modernize, and scale SaaS products and web applications. My core development stack includes React, Next.js, Node.js, and Ruby on Rails, alongside extensive experience in AI development and integration. I take ownership across the full software lifecycle, from product planning and architecture to deployment and ongoing optimization. This includes frontend and backend development, database design, third-party and AI integrations, and testing. 𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗜 𝗖𝗔𝗡 𝗛𝗘𝗟𝗣 𝗬𝗢𝗨 → Build an MVP or a complete product: Turn requirements into a working application, from architecture and development through testing and launch, including enterprise applications built from scratch. → Take over, modernize, and scale an existing platform: Continue unfinished builds, modernize legacy codebases, and resolve maintainability, performance, cloud infrastructure, and reliability issues that slow delivery or affect users. → Add AI to your product and operations: Build and integrate LLM-powered features, AI agents, and RAG pipelines to assist users, retrieve relevant information, and automate workflows. 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗗𝗨𝗖𝗧𝗦 𝗜’𝗩𝗘 𝗕𝗨𝗜𝗟𝗧 SaaS, fintech, and e-commerce products, including CRMs, ERPs, AI-powered platforms, B2B marketplaces, payment platforms, learning management systems (LMS), analytics dashboards, workflow automation platforms, and internal tools. I’ve worked on platforms serving thousands of users, including IZEA (MarTech SaaS), ItsaCheckmate (RestaurantTech & Hospitality), xiQ (AI-powered B2B SaaS), Allocator (FinTech), Alosant (PropTech), Teachery (EdTech), Authorium (GovTech), and Postmoda (E-Commerce & RetailTech). 𝗔𝗜 𝗦𝗬𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗠𝗦 & 𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗘𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦 I’ve delivered production AI capabilities for SaaS applications and internal platforms. My work includes: → Assistants, copilots, and conversational interfaces: LLM-powered chat, content generation, summarization, and multimodal features using OpenAI models, Claude, Gemini, and Llama. → AI agents and workflow automation: LangChain, tool/function calling, and API integrations to connect tools and execute multi-step business processes. → Knowledge retrieval and document intelligence: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), semantic search, embeddings, and vector databases for finding relevant information in documents and business data. → Recommendation systems and predictive analytics: Recommendations, forecasting, and classification integrated into applications. 𝗛𝗢𝗪 𝗜 𝗔𝗣𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗔𝗖𝗛 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗗𝗨𝗖𝗧 → Ownership beyond implementation: I identify architectural risks early, make pragmatic technical decisions, and keep engineering aligned with your product roadmap and business goals. → Architecture and implementation: I design around your requirements, product stage, and maintenance needs, with clear trade-offs between delivery speed, complexity, and future growth. My work includes multi-tenant architecture, role-based access control (RBAC), third-party integrations, background processing, and deployment pipelines. → AI-assisted development: I use Claude and Cursor to accelerate development while retaining responsibility for technical decisions, testing, code quality, and long-term maintainability. 𝗧𝗘𝗖𝗛𝗡𝗜𝗖𝗔𝗟 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗖𝗞 → Languages: Ruby · JavaScript · TypeScript · (Python for AI development and integration) → Backend Frameworks & Runtime: Ruby on Rails · Sinatra · Hanami · Node.js · Express.js · NestJS → Frontend: React · Next.js · Vue.js · Angular · Redux · Tailwind CSS · Material UI → APIs & Realtime: REST · GraphQL · Webhooks · WebSockets · Third-Party API Integrations → Messaging & Background Processing: Sidekiq · Kafka · RabbitMQ · BullMQ · Background Jobs → Data, Cache & Search: PostgreSQL · MySQL · MongoDB · DynamoDB · Redis · Elasticsearch → Backend Services: Firebase → Cloud & Deployment: AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, EventBridge) · Azure · Heroku · DigitalOcean → Containers & CI/CD: Docker · Kubernetes · GitHub Actions · CI/CD → Architecture & Design: Multi-Tenant SaaS · Microservices · Modular Monoliths · Event-Driven Systems · Domain-Driven Design → Testing & Quality: RSpec · Capybara · Jest · Cypress · Pytest · TDD · BDD → Authentication & Access: OAuth 2.0 · JWT · SSO · RBAC → Compliance Experience: Applications with HIPAA, GDPR, and PCI requirements → Payments: Stripe · PayPal · Razorpay 💬Send me a message or project invitation on Upwork. Tell me where your product stands, what you want to achieve next, and the technical challenges you’re facing. Let’s discuss the approach and next steps.
Earnings and projects
Last 6 months ÷ 6
Last 6 months: $20k
Billed in all: $1,021,533$1.02M
$2.9k in the last 6 months
Across 90 contracts
Earnings, last 30 days
Skill rankings: Top 3% in ExpressJS
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