Aqeel R.

$700K+ delivered on Upwork across 145 projects with a 100% Job Success Score. I architect and ship production AI systems, Voice AI agents handling live calls under 2-second latency, computer vision platforms processing 8M+ daily events, and full-stack products running in production for years. What I build: 𝗩𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗔𝗜 & 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 Real-time voice pipelines combining speech-to-text, LLM reasoning, and natural voice synthesis. I built SloanConnect, an AI telephony platform that automates insurance verification calls end-to-end, navigates IVR systems, holds dynamic conversations with representatives, and scales to hundreds of concurrent calls. Sub-2-second response time, encrypted compliance handling, production-stable. 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝘁 𝗦𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲 Lead AI Engineer on two production CV platforms: Adlytic - privacy-safe in-store retail analytics with GDPR-compliant pipelines, heatmaps, and POS integration, and SportsEye - real-time soccer analytics from broadcast feeds with 96% accuracy across player tracking, field mapping, and tactical metrics with zero on-field hardware. 𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 Hybrid recommendation engines on PySpark processing 8M+ daily impressions. NLP and sentiment systems wired into live dashboards. Healthcare process automation with HIPAA-aligned data handling. Models built to live in real environments, not notebooks. 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗟𝗟𝗠 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗳𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀 (𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗲, 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗔𝗜, 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶-𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹) End-to-end AI agents shipped to production: a Shopify + Amazon SP-API customer service agent with order lookup, refunds, returnless-refund policies, Slack/Email approval gates, and Klaviyo sync. Multi-step LLM pipelines with tool use, RAG, function calling, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints. I design these as systems, not single prompts, and I'm comfortable across Claude, OpenAI, and open-weight models depending on what fits the workload. 𝗙𝘂𝗹𝗹-𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 Every AI product needs scaffolding that holds. I've shipped Django/Node/React/Next.js platforms that ran 3+ years in production, Alchemist Real Estate, audIT.app, and a long-running B2B SaaS that grew from MVP to hundreds of users across $195K+ in contracted development. Distributed backends, REST/GraphQL APIs, AWS-native deployment, data pipelines, and the DevOps to keep them stable. 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗜 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 As Lead Engineering Architect, I stay hands-on through the whole lifecycle, discovery, architecture, core implementation, deployment, and the long tail. I don't hand off and disappear. Most of my Upwork work is repeat business or long contracts measured in years, not weeks. If you're building a Voice AI agent, a computer vision platform, an LLM-driven workflow, or a full-stack AI product that needs to survive real load - let's talk.