Hey I'm Virgil, a real human who doesn't use AI to talk to you. Based out of Beacon just outside of NYC. I've been a full stack dev for over five years and I specialize in building MVPs, AI software and automations, especially web and mobile apps.
I'm in the top 0.01% of freelancers on Upwork according to Upwork Rank. I don't like to toot my own horn but if there's anywhere to do it, it's here when I'm trying to stand out from all the other profiles you're reading :)
I've gotten here by prioritizing clear and consistent communication, setting deadlines and hitting them, and attempting to underpromise and overdeliver as much as possible. Please feel free to check my reviews and see how other clients feel about working with me!
Here's a (particularly flattering) example from one of my favorite clients:
"Virgil is an exceptional developer with multi-disciplinary, full stack capabilities. He is highly communicative, clearly sets then meets or exceeds expectations, and when necessary, serves as a very effective team leader/project manager. For our project, he encountered and had to quickly familiarize himself with multiple complex industry-specific concepts, which he consistenly did with remarkable speed, quickly becoming as conversant (and sometimes displaying even greater expertise) than our internal team. He knows when to come back with questions and when to take the intiative to educate himself and charge ahead, which saves asynchronous communications time while avoiding wasting time moving in the wrong direction.
Virgil never oversold his ability to complete a task (nor lowballed the time or effort involved), yet almost never needed to wave off a task as being outside his capacity. He consistently produced lovely, well-functioning front end interfaces and reliable, robust back ends, across a broad range of technologies.
Recommended without reservation."
If you've got an idea for a app and want someone to build it for you, whether it's AI based or not, a web, mobile, or desktop app, I'm happy to do that for you.
If you tried vibe coding an app with something like Lovable, Replit, Claude, ChatGPT etc... and now you want someone to take a look and fix what needs to be fixed, I'm happy to do that for you too.
I can also help you automate anything that is automatable, whether you need to use AI as part of the automation or not.
Virgil N. earns an estimated $25k/mo. That's 20.7× the typical freelancer and more than 99.99% of everyone we track.
In the last two years alone, I've done everything from building a trading platform used by a quant firm for internal tournaments that handles thousands of concurrent traders processing 1,000+ trades a second, to creating mobile dating apps. I've built robotics software that enables people to chat with a robot in realtime and controls its movement in sync with its responses. I've built educational AI one on one tutoring apps used to train drone pilots, apps that use AI to generate custom jewelry or professional headshots, a recruitment app that used AI automate the majority of the recruitment pipeline for a company with 2,000 applicants a week, workflows for processing wastewater treatment plant videos to generate SOPs...
In short, no matter your idea, your niche, tech stack or your use case, it's probably not too weird for me, and I'm confident I can help you figure out the best way to bring it to life. If it's truly outside of my comfort zone, I'll plainly tell you upfront.
Just for the sake of hitting search keywords, here are examples of some (but not all) of the tech that I work with on a regular basis:
NextJS, Laravel, Vercel, Supabase, Laravel Cloud, Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, OpenAI APIs, Claude APIs, Gemini APIs, Openrouter, Fal.ai, Replicate, Redis, Inngest, AWS, Typescript, Javscript, PHP, C#, Dotnet, Python, Stripe, Elevenlabs, React Native, Swift, virtually every type of AI model and provider you an imagine from LLMs, image models, video models, audio models...
A little more about me - I'm originally from Southern California but I know in my heart of hearts that NYC is the greatest city on Earth. I live with my wife in Beacon, about an hour outside of the city. I like to spend my days exploring the beautiful small towns and trails throughout the Hudson valley, and finding any excuse to take day trips into the city and get the greatest bagels on Earth.
My wife and I also love to travel, and frequently spend months and even years at a time doing the digital nomad thing. We typically gravitate towards Latin America, Europe, and Southeast Asia.
Anyway, I'd love to help you with any of your software needs and I'm sure I can make it a wonderful experience and exceed your expectations. Please don't hesitate to shoot me a message!