Dr Ijaz U.
Claude Code & AI Engineer | PhD Academic Editor | NSF Grants
PhD in Computer Science (University of Nottingham). Top Rated on Upwork, 90 completed jobs, $30K+ earned. I work where two skill sets rarely meet: production AI engineering and PhD-level academic rigor. AI & Claude Development I build and run live AI SaaS products, not prototypes. An AI-powered CV tailoring platform (ATS scoring, cover letter generation, skills gap analysis) and an AI-driven exam prep platform (adaptive practice and tutoring) are both in production with real paying users, built end to end: architecture, LLM integration, deployment, growth. ✔ Claude and Claude Code development ✔ AI agent development and LLM application integration ✔ Prompt engineering for production systems, not one-off demos ✔ SaaS architecture, from first line of code to live traffic Academic Editing & Research ✔ PhD Thesis & Dissertation Editing, fluent in LaTeX and Overleaf ✔ Journal Paper Proofreading & Revision, IEEE, Elsevier, Springer standards ✔ NSF & Grant Proposal Writing, technical narrative through budget justification ✔ Active peer reviewer for Wiley and IEEE journals Why this combination matters Academic editors who understand AI tooling are rare. AI engineers with research-grade rigor are rarer still. If your project needs code that ships and holds up to peer-review-level scrutiny, or a thesis reviewer who actually understands the AI methods you used, that is what I bring. Message me with the project, the deadline, and what "done" looks like.
Earnings and projects
Last 6 months ÷ 6
Last 6 months: $5.3k
Billed in all: $41,379$41k
$296 in the last 6 months
Across 97 contracts
Earnings, last 30 days
Skill rankings: Top 6% in Academic Writing
Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.
- #28Thesis Writing254 freelancers · 🇵🇰 #11Top 11%🇵🇰#11 of 126
- #33APA Formatting348 freelancers · 🇵🇰 #14Top 9%🇵🇰#14 of 111
- #33Dissertation Writing304 freelancers · 🇵🇰 #11Top 11%🇵🇰#11 of 131
- #44LaTeX570 freelancers · 🇵🇰 #6Top 8%🇵🇰#6 of 128
- #44Literature Review486 freelancers · 🇵🇰 #15Top 9%🇵🇰#15 of 174
- #82Research Paper Writing1,019 freelancers · 🇵🇰 #22Top 8%🇵🇰#22 of 261
- #195Academic Research2,302 freelancers · 🇵🇰 #29Top 8%🇵🇰#29 of 343
- #209Academic Writing3,347 freelancers · 🇵🇰 #34Top 6%🇵🇰#34 of 603