Richard A.Private profile: Upwork shows its earnings only to signed-in members, so we check it every few weeks, not daily. MRR here is a rough estimate (Upwork's six-month earnings ÷ months active). Last read Nov 7, 2026.

Cloud DevOps Engineer, Cloud Security Architect, DevSecOps, AI

Project Experience Apple - Site Reliability Engineer working with AWS and internet systems at Apple Sapiens - Senior AWS & Azure Cloud & DevOps Engineer Modus Create - Senior AWS DevOps Engineer & SRE - AWS CloudWatch Synthetics implementation and SRE best practices implementation Surge Forward - AWS Migrations Specialist - completed migration of IBM Netezza to AWS Redshift Hansen Technologies - AWS Cloud Engineer - Completed large scale migration from on premises Data Center to AWS Linux Academy - Cloud Training Architect Cloud Academy - Cloud Training Architect

🇺🇸Portville, United States$75/hr100% JSS4.92 (38)Since Sep 2017

Earnings and projects

MRR (estimate)

≈ $27,416≈$27k

An estimate from an earlier read

#80 / 412,022 / 412k

🇺🇸#50 / 62,087 / 62.1k

Revenue, last 30 days

$26,277$26k

Last 6 months: $164k

#114 / 412,022 / 412k

🇺🇸#63 / 62,087 / 62.1k

Total earnings

$464,342$464k

Billed in all: $481,570$482k

#3,267 / 412,022 / 412k

🇺🇸#1,059 / 62,087 / 62.1k

Per project

$5,594$5.6k

$12k in the last 6 months

#30,970 / 412,022 / 412k

🇺🇸#5,129 / 62,087 / 62.1k

Projects, last 6 months

Across 22 contracts

23% fixed77% hourly

#11,057 / 412,022 / 412k

🇺🇸#1,800 / 62,087 / 62.1k

Projects in all

Across 109 contracts

23% fixed77% hourly

#35,166 / 412,022 / 412k

🇺🇸#5,507 / 62,087 / 62.1k

$482k+$26.3k earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch

Dotted: longer than usual between two readings.

Skill rankings: #1 in 12 skills of 15

Rarest: top 0.02% in Git, of 5,766. Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.

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Richard A.Private profile: Upwork shows its earnings only to signed-in members, so we check it every few weeks, not daily. MRR here is a rough estimate (Upwork's six-month earnings ÷ months active). Last read Nov 7, 2026.

Earnings and projects

Earnings, last 30 days