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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.

🇵🇰Peshawar, Pakistan$45/hr100% JSS4.96 (62)Since Jan 2018

Earnings and projects

MRR
$889

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#53,377 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#6,318 / 52.9k
Revenue, last 30 days
$1.7k

Last 6 months: $5.3k

World#25,154 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#2,892 / 52.9k
Total earnings
$41k

Billed in all: $41k

World#88,918 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#7,867 / 52.9k
Per project
$440

$296 in the last 6 months

World#194,742 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#21,197 / 52.9k
Projects, last 6 months
18
100% fixed0% hourly
World#7,230 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#1,717 / 52.9k
Projects in all
93

Across 97 contracts

90% fixed10% hourly
World#30,518 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#4,567 / 52.9k

Earnings, last 30 days

$41.4k+$1.7k earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$39k$40k$41k$42kOct 8Oct 23Nov 7

Skill rankings: Top 6% in Academic Writing

Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.

  1. #28Thesis Writing254 freelancers · 🇵🇰 #11Top 11%
  2. #33APA Formatting348 freelancers · 🇵🇰 #14Top 9%
  3. #33Dissertation Writing304 freelancers · 🇵🇰 #11Top 11%
  4. #44LaTeX570 freelancers · 🇵🇰 #6Top 8%
  5. #44Literature Review486 freelancers · 🇵🇰 #15Top 9%
  6. #82Research Paper Writing1,019 freelancers · 🇵🇰 #22Top 8%
  7. #195Academic Research2,302 freelancers · 🇵🇰 #29Top 8%
  8. #209Academic Writing3,347 freelancers · 🇵🇰 #34Top 6%