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Dmitrii K.

AWS AI & DevOps Architect | LLM Gateways, RAG, EKS, Terraform

I build and run the AWS platform your AI product depends on: LLM gateways on Bedrock, RAG and agent infrastructure, EKS and Terraform, with security and cost under control. $1M+ earned on Upwork, 12,000+ hours, Top Rated Plus. Recent work - Fintech client: one governed AI platform on AWS. A model gateway in front of Amazon Bedrock and external LLMs, PII guardrails, per-team keys and token budgets, cost dashboards, full audit logs. - Stack AI (enterprise AI agent platform): multi-tenant AWS infrastructure for regulated financial customers. Passed SOC 2 Type II with zero exceptions. - Unstructured (document ETL for RAG): Karpenter GPU autoscaling on EKS. Cold starts cut from 110s to 28s. - Reece: 35-account AWS estate, 200+ services on EKS at a 99.95% SLA. $250K a year saved with Savings Plans and rightsizing. Deploys 85% faster with ArgoCD GitOps. What I do - LLM gateways and AI governance on AWS: Bedrock, guardrails, access control, cost limits - RAG, agents and MCP servers that hold up in production - EKS, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps, CI/CD - AWS security, IAM least privilege, SOC 2 readiness - Cloud and LLM cost reduction How we can work - Fixed-price AWS or AI infrastructure audit, 5 days - Build projects, 4 to 12 weeks - Monthly retainer as your part-time platform lead AWS Certified Solutions Architect. San Francisco. Send me your architecture or your AWS bill. I'll tell you where the risk and the waste are.

🇺🇸San Francisco, United States$125/hr100% JSS4.81 (65)Since Aug 2016

Earnings and projects

MRR
$10k

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#1,143 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#543 / 62.1k
Revenue, last 30 days
$25k

Last 6 months: $63k

World#140 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#78 / 62.1k
Total earnings
$1.06M

Billed in all: $1.11M

World#489 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#231 / 62.1k
Per project
$10k

$21k in the last 6 months

World#15,482 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#2,626 / 62.1k
Projects, last 6 months
3
33% fixed67% hourly
World#66,482 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#8,998 / 62.1k
Projects in all
104

Across 121 contracts

40% fixed60% hourly
World#26,344 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#4,239 / 62.1k

Earnings, last 30 days

$1.11M+$25.2k earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$1.08M$1.10M$1.12MOct 9Oct 24Nov 8

Skill rankings: Top 0.51% in CI/CD

Top 1% in 8 of 16 skills, ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.

  1. 3Amazon Bedrock204 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top 1%
  2. #4Amazon ECS for Kubernetes200 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #4Top 2%
  3. #6MLOps468 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #4Top 1%
  4. #7Cloud Security639 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #4Top 1%
  5. #10Cloud Architecture966 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #6Top 1%
  6. #19CI/CD3,691 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #7Top 0.51%
  7. #20Terraform2,052 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #7Top 0.97%
  8. #22AWS Lambda2,947 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #10Top 0.75%