SysAdmin / DevOps for CPX32 Server Setup, OCR Pipeline (Python), and Airtable Integration

We need an expert developer to configure a production-ready environment on a cloud instance (CPX32 configuration). This is a short, precise, and highly monitored sprint. Requirements: 1. Configure a secure cloud server with Docker, Nginx (reverse proxy), and Firewall. 2. Deploy a Python (FastAPI) script with Tesseract/EasyOCR to process images (receipts and invoices) and extract text. 3. Connect the OCR pipeline to Airtable via API to map and insert data into 3 specific tables. All work will be supervised and audited in real-time. Code review will be performed before deployment. High performance and clean code are required .MANDATORY FILTER QUESTIONS FOR CANDIDATES: 1. What image preprocessing strategy will you apply in Python before passing the receipt through the OCR engine to ensure that blurry prices or wrinkled backgrounds are read with 99% accuracy? 2. To connect the server data flow with Airtable, will you use the official Airtable Python library or make direct HTTP requests? Justify which is better for handling connection drops without losing data. 3. Do you agree to work under a single fixed-price milestone of €100 and send the source code for periodic review through the chat before its final execution on the cloud machine?