Waleed I.Private profile: Upwork shows its earnings only to signed-in members, so we check it every few weeks, not daily. MRR here is a rough estimate (Upwork's six-month earnings ÷ months active). Last read Nov 5, 2026.

✅ Top Rated Plus ✅ 100% Job Success Score Hi, I’m Waleed, a PhD in Artificial Intelligence with 12+ years of professional experience delivering high-performance AI systems, backend platforms, and cross-platform applications—from early concept to production-grade deployment. I work with startups and enterprises to design, build, and scale reliable AI-powered products with strong engineering foundations. 🔹 Core Expertise 🚀 Data Science | Machine Learning | Deep Learning | NLP | LLMs | Generative AI I have successfully delivered a broad range of AI and software projects, including: • LLM-powered Q&A systems using LangChain, GPT-4/5, RAG pipelines, custom tools, and agent-based architectures • Fine-tuning open-source LLMs such as Mistral-7B and LLaMA-2 • Text analytics: sentiment analysis, summarization, classification using modern LLM APIs • Audio AI: speech-to-text, text-to-speech, transcription, and audio intelligence pipelines • Financial ML systems: Forex price forecasting and automated trading bots • AI-driven automation: GPT-5–based Jenkins build triage, failure analysis, and root-cause detection • AI for developer productivity: GPT-5–based code reviewers and automated patch generation systems • Computer Vision: image segmentation, object detection & tracking, GANs, Stable Diffusion • Web scraping & large-scale data extraction using Selenium and BeautifulSoup (LinkedIn, Reddit, Twitter/X, Amazon, eBay, Walmart, etc.) 🔹 Systems, Desktop & Product Engineering In addition to AI, I bring deep systems and application engineering experience, allowing me to build low-latency, production-ready software: • Low-latency, cross-platform desktop applications • IDE development and developer tooling • Desktop applications using Qt and Electron • Languages: C, C++, Java, Python • Frontend & UI: React, Electron • CI/CD & automation: Jenkins This background enables me to deliver AI solutions that are fast, stable, and maintainable, not just experimental. 🔹 Backend, Cloud & Deployment I specialize in building and deploying scalable backend systems for AI-driven products: • Backend frameworks: FastAPI, Django, Flask • Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, MSSQL • Cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP • Containerization & orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes 🔹 What I Deliver ✅ End-to-end project delivery from scratch to production ✅ World-class CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and automated workflows ✅ Full test coverage and quality-focused development practices ✅ Seamless integration of AI/ML systems into existing products ✅ Cloud-ready, secure, and scalable deployments ✅ Post-deployment monitoring, re-testing, and optimization I’m equally comfortable: • Launching new products from zero, or • Helping existing projects get unstuck, improve reliability, or scale I’m also happy to engage in technical consultation, architecture reviews, and AI strategy discussions. 🔹 Why Clients Choose Me • 12+ years of engineering experience + PhD-level AI expertise • Strong balance of research, engineering, and production delivery • Clear communication and long-term thinking • Focus on business impact, not just models or code 🚀 Let’s discuss how AI, LLMs, and solid engineering can accelerate your product and reduce delivery risk. Message me to get started.