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Manfred Junior Evald Ferdinand W Z.

Manfred Junior Evald Ferdinand W Z.

Tier 3 Tech Support & AI Support Setup | iOS App Builder (SwiftUI)

I'm Manfred, a Tier 3 technical support specialist for connected devices and apps. I also build AI agents and ship my own iPhone apps (8 live on the App Store). When a bug sits somewhere between the device, the app and the cloud, I find where it actually breaks. For the last 4+ years I've handled Tier 3 escalations for a large IoT product (smart pool systems). That means reproducing issues, isolating root causes, and writing bug reports engineering can act on. I also helped reshape how escalations were handled internally. What I work on: • Wi-Fi / Bluetooth pairing and connectivity issues • Device ↔ app ↔ cloud sync problems (AWS IoT) • Firmware behavior and edge cases • iOS app QA and bug reproduction • Escalation processes, bug reports and support documentation AI agents and automation: I build autonomous agents that run on their own schedule: • Multi-agent crews on GitHub Actions (scout, watcher, boss) with a hard monthly spend cap • Coding agents that fix issues and open pull requests on my repos • Content agents that research, write and ship guides as PRs • Support agents that draft ticket replies and flag what needs a human They run on Claude (Managed Agents, the API and MCP servers), with scoped access, budget limits, and a human approving anything that goes public. See the portfolio for four of them. What I build: I design and ship my own iPhone apps in SwiftUI: budgeting, AI-powered travel, games and a surf app. They include widgets, Apple Watch, in-app purchases, API and AI integrations, and localization. Building them myself means I understand why bugs happen, not just how to report them. Languages: native Dutch/Flemish and English, conversational French and Portuguese. If your team has issues that are hard to pin down, or work you'd like an agent to take off your plate, let's talk.

🇵🇹Lisboa, Portugal$40/hr100% JSS4.75 (38)Since Feb 2017

Earnings and projects

MRR
$1.3k

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#36,860 / 412k
🇵🇹Country#185 / 2,011
Revenue, last 30 days
$0

Last 6 months: $7.9k

Total earnings
$153k

Billed in all: $156k

World#22,980 / 412k
🇵🇹Country#165 / 2,011
Per project
$3.1k

$7.9k in the last 6 months

World#53,859 / 412k
🇵🇹Country#308 / 2,011
Projects, last 6 months
1
0% fixed100% hourly
World#128,092 / 412k
🇵🇹Country#538 / 2,011
Projects in all
49

Across 58 contracts

17% fixed83% hourly
World#62,381 / 412k
🇵🇹Country#295 / 2,011

Earnings, last 30 days

$156kNothing earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$154k$156k$158k$160kOct 8Oct 23Nov 7

Skill rankings: Top 6% in English

Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.

  1. 2Flemish Dialect22 freelancers · 🇵🇹 #1Top 9%
  2. #19System Analysis219 freelancers · 🇵🇹 #1Top 9%
  3. #37AWS IoT Core192 freelancers · 🇵🇹 #1Top 19%
  4. #39Dutch495 freelancers · 🇵🇹 #4Top 8%
  5. #58Mobile App Bug Fix453 freelancers · 🇵🇹 #1Top 13%
  6. #92Bug Tracking & Reports641 freelancers · 🇵🇹 #1Top 14%
  7. #103Internet of Things718 freelancers · 🇵🇹 #1Top 14%
  8. #119SwiftUI951 freelancers · 🇵🇹 #1Top 13%