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Usman A.

Fractional Data & AI Engineer | Pipelines, RAG, Agents | MCP, Claude

I build data warehouses that run faster and cost less, then build the AI layer on top that actually makes it to production. One client went from a $4,000 monthly bill to $40, with query times dropping from 84 hours to 2. WHO I WORK WITH ▸ Founders who need senior data work but aren't ready for a full-time hire ▸ Teams drowning in raw data across a dozen tools with no single source of truth ▸ Companies stuck past the AI demo stage, where the prototype works but nothing ships WHAT I'VE SHIPPED ▸ Migrated 250 million records from PostgreSQL to Snowflake for a B2B data platform. Monthly cost fell from $4,000 to $40, query time from 84 hours to 2. ▸ Built the dbt and Snowflake pipeline behind an influencer dashboard serving Nike, Under Armour, and New Balance. Adding New Balance lifted annual revenue by $1.8M. ▸ Rebuilt the reporting layer for a coaching platform with 100,000 users, taking dashboard refresh from 6 hours down to near real time. ▸ Scraped 10,000+ restaurant outlets across DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub at a 98%+ success rate, feeding clean order data into BigQuery. ▸ Built a knowledge graph app with multi-source OAuth ingestion, automatic document classification, and RAG querying across the whole corpus. WHAT I DELIVER Data platforms ✔ ETL and ELT pipelines (Python, SQL) ✔ Cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift) ✔ Data migration, data modelling, dbt transformations, Airflow orchestration ✔ Data ingestion (Fivetran, API integration) and web scraping at scale ✔ Cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, S3, Lambda) AI on top of your data ✔ RAG and document intelligence, where the real work is ingestion, chunking and retrieval ✔ LLM extraction pipelines turning PDFs, emails and listings into clean structured records ✔ Text to SQL and warehouse-native AI with Snowflake Cortex ✔ AI agents and MCP servers wired into your actual systems ✔ Voice agents (Vapi, LiveKit, ElevenLabs, self-hosted NVIDIA) that log every call back to your warehouse 150 contracts and $200K+ earned here, Top Rated Plus. Google Certified Professional Data Engineer, master's from Georgia Tech on a Fulbright scholarship, 8 years across these stacks. Based in Abu Dhabi, working US and EU hours, and I reply inside 4 hours. If your warehouse is slow, the bill keeps climbing, or an AI prototype is stuck short of production, send me two things: what you're running now and what it's costing you. I'll send back a free audit showing where the time and the money are going, and what I'd change first. Let's talk in chat.

🇦🇪Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates$50/hr100% JSS4.85 (86)Since Apr 2015
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Earnings and projects

MRR
$2.8k

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#13,820 / 412k
🇦🇪Country#126 / 2,720
Revenue, last 30 days
$1k

Last 6 months: $17k

World#42,531 / 412k
🇦🇪Country#212 / 2,720
Total earnings
$227k

Billed in all: $236k

World#12,531 / 412k
🇦🇪Country#121 / 2,720
Per project
$1.6k

$1.5k in the last 6 months

World#89,650 / 412k
🇦🇪Country#554 / 2,720
Projects, last 6 months
11

Across 12 contracts

50% fixed50% hourly
World#15,931 / 412k
🇦🇪Country#89 / 2,720
Projects in all
139

Across 150 contracts

51% fixed49% hourly
World#17,649 / 412k
🇦🇪Country#106 / 2,720

Earnings, last 30 days

$236k+$1k earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$235.0k$235.5k$236.0k$236.5kOct 8Oct 23Nov 7

Skill rankings: Top 6% in Python

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