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Nikunja Behari G.

AI-Enabled Tech Lead | Frappe/ERPNext, PHP/Symfony, LLM Integration

𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗽 𝘄𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲. 𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻-𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘆, 𝗔𝗜-𝗲𝗻𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲. With 13+ years of professional engineering experience, 6,900+ logged hours, and a consistent 100% Job Success Score on Upwork, I don't just write code — I architect robust digital infrastructure. As an AI-enabled technical lead, I take complex business applications from raw requirements and system design through to secure deployment and long-term maintenance. I specialize in intelligent SaaS platforms, custom enterprise ERP/CRM systems, and seamless business automations — combining traditional backend reliability with modern AI/LLM integration. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗜 𝗔𝗥𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗧𝗘𝗖𝗧 & 𝗕𝗨𝗜𝗟𝗗 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▸ 𝗔𝗜 & 𝗟𝗟𝗠 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 Production-ready AI workflows, RAG pipelines, custom GPT assistants, and document intelligence platforms. ▸ 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 & 𝗘𝗥𝗣𝘀 End-to-end custom Frappe/ERPNext apps, multi-instance production deployments, and automated business workflows. ▸ 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 High-performance PHP (Symfony, Laravel) and Python systems, optimized with Redis, Elasticsearch, and RabbitMQ. ▸ 𝗔𝗣𝗜𝘀 & 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹-𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Custom REST APIs, multi-party WebRTC audio/video streaming, and third-party vendor integrations. ▸ 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 Responsive, high-fidelity interfaces built with React, Vue, and Angular. ▸ 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗢𝗽𝘀 Containerized development with Docker, AWS, DigitalOcean, and strict CI/CD pipelines. ▸ 𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Safe upgrades of complex legacy platforms (PHP 5 → 8, Symfony 2 → 6) while keeping business functionality intact. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗝𝗘𝗖𝗧 𝗛𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗟𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧𝗦 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✔ 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗘𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 — Custom Frappe/ERPNext v16 platform with multi-instance deployment workflows. ✔ 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵-𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰 𝗗𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 — Scaled a directory platform with Redis caching and fast Elasticsearch search. ✔ 𝗔𝗜-𝗘𝗻𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 — Intelligent email customer-support ecosystem integrated with GPT/LLM APIs. ✔ 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗹-𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗩𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 𝗙𝗶𝘅𝗲𝘀 — Solved deep multi-party WebRTC issues affecting cross-platform iOS environments. ✔ 𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗰𝘆 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 — Audited and moved a monolithic Symfony system into isolated, secure, reproducible Docker setups. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 𝗪𝗛𝗬 𝗖𝗟𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗦 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗬 𝗟𝗢𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗠 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ My two longest partnerships here ran 𝟭,𝟰𝟲𝟯 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝟭,𝟰𝟯𝟭 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀 — over three consecutive years of high-trust collaboration. I focus on clean, standards-compliant, maintainable code. I can step into a large existing codebase, find the real infrastructure problem, design an elegant fix, deploy it securely, and keep supporting it. I use modern AI-assisted tools to speed up debugging, testing, and deployment — but architecture, security, and business-logic decisions always stay with experienced human judgment. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 👉 Modernizing a legacy platform, adding AI to your product, or deploying an enterprise ERP? Send me a brief overview of your goals, and I'll share a concrete architectural approach. 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸 PHP · Symfony · Laravel · Python · Frappe · ERPNext · Node.js · React · Vue · Angular · AI/LLM APIs · RAG · WebRTC · Redis · Elasticsearch · RabbitMQ · PostgreSQL · MySQL · Docker · AWS · DigitalOcean · Linux · CI/CD · WordPress · Firebase

🇧🇩Tangail, Bangladesh$40/hr100% JSS4.66 (26)Since May 2013

Earnings and projects

MRR
$448

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#82,347 / 412k
🇧🇩Country#2,063 / 15.0k
Revenue, last 30 days
$310

Last 6 months: $2.7k

World#73,711 / 412k
🇧🇩Country#2,158 / 15.0k
Total earnings
$131k

Billed in all: $135k

World#28,167 / 412k
🇧🇩Country#658 / 15.0k
Per project
$5k

$1.3k in the last 6 months

World#34,510 / 412k
🇧🇩Country#336 / 15.0k
Projects, last 6 months
2
50% fixed50% hourly
World#88,918 / 412k
🇧🇩Country#4,445 / 15.0k
Projects in all
26

Across 34 contracts

38% fixed62% hourly
World#109,599 / 412k
🇧🇩Country#7,419 / 15.0k

Earnings, last 30 days

$135k+$310 earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$134.4k$134.6k$134.8k$135.0kOct 8Oct 23Nov 7

Skill rankings: Top 15% in MySQL

Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.

  1. #48ERPNext215 freelancers · 🇧🇩 #2Top 22%
  2. #163Symfony944 freelancers · 🇧🇩 #4Top 17%
  3. #278Redis1,774 freelancers · 🇧🇩 #6Top 16%
  4. #367ERP Software1,408 freelancers · 🇧🇩 #8Top 26%
  5. #401Linux System Administration2,578 freelancers · 🇧🇩 #9Top 16%
  6. #678CI/CD3,691 freelancers · 🇧🇩 #6Top 18%
  7. #1,140REST API5,062 freelancers · 🇧🇩 #26Top 23%
  8. #1,565Amazon Web Services7,488 freelancers · 🇧🇩 #22Top 21%