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Matthew M.
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Matthew M.

Worldwide Top 1 Percent in AI, AWS, and DevOps on Upwork

Top-Rated Plus, Expert-Vetted, Upwork Top 1 Percent, Fortune 500, Federal, Inc 5000 Thanks for reading! 🚀 I build the world's leading AI and DevOps tooling — and we bring that same engineering rigor to every Upwork engagement. I've shipped production systems for Fortune 500 enterprises, federal agencies, the U.S. military, and Inc. 5000 startups. That means the patterns we deploy for your project aren't theoretical — they're running right now in environments with real compliance requirements, real uptime SLAs, and real scale. We've designed the kind of infrastructure other teams buy as a product, and now we're making that caliber of work available to smaller teams and faster-moving projects. Here's what you get when you hire me: 🏆 BATTLE-TESTED EXPERTISE Terraform, CI/CD, LLM pipelines, observability, secure-by-default AWS architecture — the full modern cloud stack, built by people who've deployed it in regulated environments. 🤖 FRONTIER AI & DEVOPS TOOLING We build the systems other agencies resell. When you hire me, you're hiring the builders, not the middlemen. 💰 ENTERPRISE-GRADE WORK, STARTUP-FRIENDLY PRICING I'm deliberately structured to deliver senior-level results at a rate that fits real-world budgets. No big-agency markup, no junior engineers pretending to be senior. Whether you need to cut an out-of-control AWS bill, ship a CI/CD pipeline you can actually trust, stand up an AI system that solves a real business problem, or just get a second opinion from people who've seen it all — I'd love to talk about what you're building. Hire me and you're getting the expertise of a team trusted by the world's most demanding clients, at a rate that actually makes sense. Let's build something.

🇺🇸San Antonio, United States$85/hr100% JSS4.99 (39)Since Sep 2017

Earnings and projects

MRR
$4.9k

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#5,707 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#1,894 / 62.1k
Revenue, last 30 days
$2.9k

Last 6 months: $29k

World#13,304 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#3,281 / 62.1k
Total earnings
$796k

Billed in all: $814k

World#1,000 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#418 / 62.1k
Per project
$16k

$9.7k in the last 6 months

World#8,494 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#1,504 / 62.1k
Projects, last 6 months
3
0% fixed100% hourly
World#66,479 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#8,998 / 62.1k
Projects in all
50

Across 58 contracts

22% fixed78% hourly
World#61,171 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#9,293 / 62.1k

Earnings, last 30 days

$814k+$2.9k earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$810k$812k$814k$816kOct 8Oct 23Nov 7

Skill rankings: #1 in 1 skill of 7

Rarest: top 2% in Cloud Security Framework, of 65. Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.

  1. 1Cloud Security Framework65 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top 2%
  2. #6Load Balancing101 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #1Top 6%
  3. #41Amazon EC21,513 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #9Top 3%
  4. #43Cloud Computing1,432 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #12Top 3%
  5. #80AWS Lambda2,947 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #22Top 3%
  6. #231Laravel12,549 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #39Top 2%
  7. #451PHP24,835 freelancers · 🇺🇸 #109Top 2%