Islam R.
Senior Data & AI Solution Engineer | Quant Analyst, Finance, Economics
💪 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿 | 𝗔𝗜 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿 | 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁 | 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗔𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝘁 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗣𝗵𝗗 I design and build data infrastructure, AI-powered systems, and quantitative models that turn complex data into measurable business and financial outcomes. 𝙈𝒚 𝒘𝙤𝒓𝙠 𝙨𝒊𝙩𝒔 𝒂𝙩 𝙩𝒉𝙚 𝙞𝒏𝙩𝒆𝙧𝒔𝙚𝒄𝙩𝒊𝙤𝒏 𝒐𝙛: Quantitative Analysis & Energy Markets — 15+ years of advanced modeling, forecasting, and risk management Machine Learning & AI Systems — End-to-end ML pipelines, LLM integration, and AI agent development Data Engineering & Analytics Infrastructure — Scalable pipelines from ingestion to decision layer Automation & Intelligent Workflows — Process automation that eliminates manual bottlenecks 𝑹𝙚𝒄𝙚𝒏𝙩 𝙛𝒐𝙘𝒖𝙨 𝙖𝒓𝙚𝒂𝙨 𝙞𝒏𝙘𝒍𝙪𝒅𝙚: - Building and deploying AI agents and LLM-powered document processing systems (Vertex AI, Gemini, LangChain, CrewAI) - Designing end-to-end data platforms on Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, and Redshift - Developing automated trading strategies and quantitative execution systems - Creating real-time dashboards and reporting with Power BI, Tableau, and Streamlit - Implementing workflow automation using Power Automate, Airflow, and custom API integrations - Integrating ML models into production — from feature engineering to serving and monitoring 𝑪𝙤𝒓𝙚 𝙩𝒆𝙘𝒉𝙣𝒊𝙘𝒂𝙡 𝙨𝒕𝙖𝒄𝙠: - Cloud & Infrastructure: GCP (Vertex AI, BigQuery, Cloud Functions), AWS (S3, Lambda, Redshift), Azure - Data Engineering: Snowflake, Databricks, Apache Spark, dbt, Airflow, Kafka - ML / AI: Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, LangChain, Hugging Face, OpenAI/Gemini APIs - Automation: Power Automate, Zapier, n8n, custom REST/GraphQL integrations - Visualization: Power BI, Tableau, Streamlit, Plotly - Languages: Python, SQL, R, JavaScript Published researcher with multiple peer-reviewed articles in energy economics and risk modeling. Leadership experience spanning industry and academia, including curriculum development and team management. I work best with founders, operators, and technical teams who need systems built — not decks delivered.
Earnings and projects
An estimate from an earlier read
Last 6 months: $5.3k
Billed in all: $5,680$5.7k
$5.3k in the last 6 months
Earnings, last 30 days
No data since Nov 5, 2026.
Skill rankings: Top 9% in R
Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.
- #30Quantitative Finance197 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #7Top 15%🇺🇸#7 of 28
- #60Cloud Engineering344 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #8Top 17%🇺🇸#8 of 46
- #71Quantitative Analysis687 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #21Top 10%🇺🇸#21 of 169
- #73Trading Automation467 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #13Top 16%🇺🇸#13 of 42
- #83dbt375 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #16Top 22%🇺🇸#16 of 60
- #158R1,693 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #51Top 9%🇺🇸#51 of 447
- #267ETL Pipeline1,396 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #58Top 19%🇺🇸#58 of 233
- #300Business Intelligence1,802 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #81Top 17%🇺🇸#81 of 343