Haythem T.
GCP & AWS Architect | Ranked in the top 1 percent on Upwork
✅ I'm the highest-rated and one of the highest-earning Devops and Cloud specialist freelancers on Upwork, with more than 60 5-star reviews and overwhelmingly positive feedback. 💫 I am featured as the top freelancer in the IT category on Upwork, which has over 116,000 Freelancers in the category. 👨🏻💻 I am your all-in-one DevOps partner and your co-CTO: I help tech & AI startups build scalable, secure, production-ready infrastructure from day one. Whether you’re launching an MVP, deploying ML models, or scaling your SaaS, I bring 8+ years of DevOps expertise to move fast without breaking things. 🔐📆 🥇 Proud to be part of Upwork’s Expert-Vetted Talent Pool (Cloud & DevOps) 🆘 I’ve helped: - AI platforms optimizing LLM and inference workloads - NLP + computer vision teams deploy fast across dev/staging/prod - Founders ship early and scale confidently with clean infra 🍝 History: - 70+ projects completed - 2400+ hours of DevOps & Cloud consulting delivered - Clients include AI platforms, fintech companies, and early-stage startups 😌 Why your life would be easier working with me: - All-in-One Expert : From day one, I handle everything related to infrastructure, DevOps, and CI/CD. You’ll never worry about scaling, monitoring, or hiring multiple engineers. - Infra that just works : I build platforms that are reliable, observable, and secure. You focus on product. I’ll take care of the rest. - Speed + stability : I move fast while following best practices. That means rapid delivery, clean automation, and fewer late-night emergencies. - Efficiency-focused : I help you avoid cloud waste and complexity. This means fewer headaches, reduced costs, and a stack that scales confidently without technical debt. 🔧 You’ll get infrastructure that is: - Cost-optimized and cloud-native (GCP, AWS) - Automated and reproducible (Terraform, CI/CD) - Designed for scale (Kubernetes, GitOps, GPU-ready) - Observed and hardened (Monitoring, Security, Secrets Mgmt) 💬 Recent Client Feedback: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “I was extremely impressed with Haythem's professionalism, knowledge, skill, and experience throughout our engagement. His communication was excellent - he consistently responded within an hour or two and really understands business requirements well. He's very efficient at solving not just simple problems, but complex ones too, and he truly gets how development teams work. Haythem communicates really well with our entire team and is even willing to adapt to DevOps related technologies he's not familiar with. The quality of his work was consistently excellent. I would highly recommend him to anyone looking for outstanding DevOps support and help. If we have another project, I would definitely hire him again in a heartbeat.” - DAOSTREET - https:// daostreet.io ⚙️ Tech Stack Expertise : for AI & Tech Startups - Not limited to - - Cloud: GCP (GKE, Cloud Run, Vertex AI), AWS (EKS, Lambda, SageMaker), Azure, DigitalOcean, OVH - IaC & Automation: Terraform, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins (Groovy), Cloud Build, Ansible, HashiCorp Vagrant - Containers & Orchestration: Kubernetes (GKE, EKS), Helm, ArgoCD, Docker, Docker Compose, Docker Swarm, Harbor - MLOps: Model deployment pipelines, GPU workloads, feature store integration - Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, Sentry, Cloud Monitoring, Zabbix, Munin, Loki - Security: IAM, VPCs, TLS/SSL, WAFs, HashiCorp Vault, Keycloak, OpenVPN, IPSEC, pfSense, fail2ban - Databases: PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, Firebase, Cloud SQL, MySQL - Web & System Services: Nginx, Apache, Tomcat, JBoss, Postfix, Kannel, Alfresco - Linux & OS-Level: Debian, Nix, RHEL, Pacemaker, Corosync, LVM, VDO, Stratis - Dev Tooling & Scripting: Bash, Python, Maven, Gradle, NPM, Git, Node.js - Networking: SMPP/SMS, SMTP, DNS, DHCP, NTP, FTP, SSH, T.38 - Virtualization & Firewall: VMware, Cisco ASA
Earnings and projects
Last 6 months ÷ 6
Last 6 months: $1k
Billed in all: $129,803$130k
$1k in the last 6 months
Across 86 contracts
Earnings, last 30 days
Skill rankings: Top 19% in System Security
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