Michael L.
FreelancerTop Rated PlusPrincipal Full Stack Software Architect | Mobile, Web, Systems, AI/LLM
Member since 2012 · 100% Job Success
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$10k
MRR
est. monthly
#1,329
World rank
of 1,051,457
$564k
Lifetime earnings
since 2012
41
Total jobs
completed
About
Need a senior architect who can build it, scale it, and make it beautiful, with AI woven through the whole thing instead of bolted on the side? That's what I do. I'm a principal full-stack architect and polyglot engineer, 15+ years taking products from idea to production across fintech, health-tech, cybersecurity, blockchain, defense, and AI.
💡 Work clients know me for:
- A $500M real-time fintech trading platform (web + mobile)
- A $100M real estate CRM built from scratch; the firm was acquired by Cushman & Wakefield
- Solana indexing infrastructure handling $1–3T in daily transaction volume
- A live algorithmic quant trading platform running real money on a tier-1 broker
- Federated-learning threat detection for an AI cybersecurity platform
- Solo-replaced a 10-developer offshore team on a national assistive-communication app
🤖 AI / LLM, where much of my recent work lives:
- Production LLM systems with structured outputs, guardrails, and audit logging in regulated fintech
- Multi-model pipelines (Claude, Whisper, Gemini, OpenAI, ElevenLabs) chosen deliberately for cost, latency, and accuracy
- MCP and agentic tooling, with official Anthropic certifications behind it
- A production AI agent and grounded voice-and-chat assistant on frontier models (Gemini, Claude, GPT), with real tool-calling into live equipment data, RAG over the actual manuals, a scorer, and an adversarial grounding eval harness that gates every deploy so it cannot hallucinate to users
- Architecting specialized-model training on proprietary field data: fine-tuning small open models (Llama/Qwen) for domain tasks like fault diagnosis and failure prediction, with labeled eval sets and an eval-gated deploy pipeline
- The discipline that keeps AI output reliable and affordable in production, not just impressive in a demo
🛠 Stack:
- Full-stack: TypeScript/React/Next.js, Node/Deno, Python, Go, Rust, Ruby/Rails, PHP/Laravel
- Mobile: Flutter, React Native, Swift, Kotlin
- APIs & data: GraphQL, REST, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis
- Cloud & infra: AWS, GCP, Supabase, Docker/K8s, CI/CD
- AI: Claude, Gemini, GPT, MCP, multi-model orchestration
- Security: PCI DSS remediation, federated learning, RLS/RBAC, signed webhooks
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World#1,329 / 1,051,457Top 0.13%
United States#594 / 137,039Top 0.43%Front-End Development#45 / 8,925Top 0.5%
Back-End Development#24 / 5,535Top 0.43%
API Development#50 / 7,935Top 0.63%
Artificial Intelligence#104 / 18,931Top 0.55%
Software Architecture & Design#22 / 1,667Top 1%
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On Upwork since2012
Rating100% Job Success
Skills tracked5
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Front-End DevelopmentBack-End DevelopmentAPI DevelopmentArtificial Intelligence
Michael L. works mainly in Front-End Development, ranking top 0.5% of freelancers in that skill.
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Michael L. earns more than 99.87% of all freelancers we track.
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$500–$1k
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$1k–$2.5k
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Michael L.'s bracket · $10k
You32%$0–$500
You12%$500–$1k
You17%$1k–$2.5k
You13%$2.5k–$5k
You12%$5k–$10k
You10%$10k–$25k
You3%$25k–$50k
You1%$50k+
Michael L. earns an estimated $10k/mo. That's 6.8× the typical freelancer and more than 99.87% of everyone we track.
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