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𝗜'𝘃𝗲 𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝗗𝗼𝘇𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 Develop AI / ML Prototypes. 🤖 Each one 𝗔𝗻𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗮 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗕𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: ❝Should we invest more money in data science?❞ Expert-Vetted Badge: Top 1% on Upwork. Free intro call - invite me! We will co-develop a plan to apply AI / ML to your business or product. 📈 👇 Learn More About Me 👇 ----- 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝗠𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲? ----- I've played many roles: 𝐞𝐱𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞, 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐫, 𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝, 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐫, 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿, and 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭. These diverse perspectives allow me to: 🟢 Ask compelling questions 🟢 Listen with empathy for a stakeholder's role 🟢 Hone in on the most important product features, capabilities and insights. This 𝗺𝗶𝘅 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 / 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀 helps me provide 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲. ----- 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗗𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗚𝗼? ----- We build in cycles: ▶️ We collaborate to set realistic goals. ⤴️ I build a little (or work with a team to build). 🔁 I let you know what I found; we restart. These cycles get larger over time, and stop when you know: "Should you invest more money in data science?" ----- 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗠𝘂𝗰𝗵 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆? ----- Cycle   Billed Hours    Key Discussion -------   ---------------  --------------------------- 1     ~5 - 10󠀠     What is the goal? 2      ~10 - 30      Product tradeoffs 3      ~15 - 40     How do we deploy? 4+      ~20 - 60     Product tradeoffs The total project cost depends on: 🟡What you already have in place 🟡Who you already have working on it 🟡Who else you need to bring in ----- 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗠𝗲? ----- I get great results for my clients, and they will tell you so! ❝ 𝙒𝙤𝙬. 𝘼𝙖𝙧𝙤𝙣 𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙖𝙨𝙠𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙬𝙚 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙚𝙨𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙚 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙨. 𝙃𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙪𝙜𝙜𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙖𝙡𝙨𝙤 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝙨𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙬𝙣 𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙨. 𝙃𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙖𝙘𝙝 𝙞𝙨 𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙨𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙩, 𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙩 𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙨𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙨. 𝘼𝙨𝙠𝙨 𝙜𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙙𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙫𝙖𝙡𝙪𝙚. 𝙏𝙤𝙥 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙛𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡! ❞ 🗣 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘂𝘀𝘇 𝗞𝗹𝘂𝗽𝗰𝘇𝘆𝗻𝘀𝗸𝗶, CEO of Curulis (50 person company; People Analytics space; Poland based). 🗣 I've also made a difference in full-time leadership roles: 📈 𝗩𝗣 𝗼𝗳 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝗔𝗕𝗨𝗩 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮: Built a sales information system and a data-driven marketing investment platform. Developed executive dashboards and a KPI tracker. Resulted in reversing a negative trend and growing revenue +20% y/y. 📈 𝗗𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗮𝘁 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁: Consolidated and rebuild trust in data. Built platform to analyze educational content, marketing effectiveness, and company KPI and KRIs. Resulted in growing revenue at +4% m/m. ----- 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀? ----- I've been an expert technologist for 15+ years (and a technologist for 10 more)! I have a toolkit for every size of data. Here's a representative sample: ▪️ Smallish: Excel, Tableau, Python / Anaconda, sklearn / pandas, MySQL ◾ Bigger: Redshift, Athena, MongoDB, Neo4j, NLTK ◼️ Big: Hadoop + Spark ecosystem; AWS ecosystem, Java / Scala, MLlib I also make liberal use of AI-coding agents. My productivity has significantly increased since early 2026! ----- 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗗𝗼 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗟𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗠𝗲? ----- I listen and I don't waste their money! ❝ 𝘼𝙖𝙧𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙨 𝙚𝙭𝙘𝙚𝙥𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡. 𝙁𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙝, 𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙨𝙤 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙛𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡. 𝙃𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙚𝙚𝙥𝙡𝙮 𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙢𝙮 𝙜𝙤𝙖𝙡𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙟𝙚𝙘𝙩, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙛𝙪𝙡 𝙩𝙤 𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢 𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙬𝙚 𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙣𝙚𝙙. 𝙃𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙢𝙚 𝙖𝙨 𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙬𝙚 𝙝𝙞𝙩 𝙥𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙟𝙪𝙙𝙜𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙨 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙙𝙚, 𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙫𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙢𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙞𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙪𝙡𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙄 𝙖𝙢 𝙨𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝! 𝙄 𝙘𝙖𝙣'𝙩 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝘼𝙖𝙧𝙤𝙣 𝙝𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙡𝙮 𝙚𝙣𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝! ❞ 🗣 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝗦𝗲𝗶𝗳𝗲𝗿𝘁, Founder of Decision Analytics (Consumer Analytics space; USA based) 🗣 ----- 𝗡𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗽𝘀 ----- 📞 Invite me to your job on Upwork! Thanks, Aaron Merlob

I am a freelance systems programmer, with several years of experience in both game design systems and in small scale, full stack software development applications. I am a quick and efficient worker. I have worked with unity multiplayer games utilizing fusion, and mirror networking APIs. I have also used C to make a full stack hydraulics testing software utilizing Redis data store, and Grafana data display visualization.

👨‍💻 Well hello there! Thanks for checking out my profile. A little about me: I have nearly 20 years experience as a software developer working for large fortune 500 companies. Now I spend most of my time doing freelance work building Google Apps Scripts projects for clients. I have an eye for design and love building sleek and attractive apps. In my heart I'm half engineer, half artist and love combining the two disciplines to bring an idea to life. Reasons to team up with me: 🎨 Aesthetic designs 🔧 Reliable and long lasting engineering solutions 📱 Automation and workflow improvements ⚙️ User friendly configurations 🔮 Fortune telling for your business! (Okay, okay...I jest, I jest) I specialize in Google Workspace products: ✔️ Google Sheets ✔️ Gmail ✔️ Google Forms ✔️ Google Calendar ✔️ Google Docs ✔️ Google Slides ✔️ Web apps ✔️ etc. I can integrate all of these and other GSuite/GWorkplace products for you as well as creating interfaces to other products outside of Google via APIs. Some commonly requested API connections to various platforms: ✔️ Quickbooks ✔️ Wise ✔️ Stripe ✔️ Zapier ✔️ Webhooks ✔️ OAuth 2 and other authentication schemes I have been able to bring my career as a Full Stack Developer to bear on the Google Workspace/Apps Script environment and deliver solutions to clients that are efficient, tested, and functional. There are many developers that can code a solution that works, but it's also important to find someone that does proper design work and chooses the best out of many possible solutions so the deliverable runs efficiently and has longevity. I can't tell you how many times I've had clients come to me to fix a poorly designed app that needs an overhaul. Given my software and math background I can build just about anything for you if it's possible, and I'm also good at suggesting new workflows, simplifications, and other solutions to streamline your work, and automate as much as possible so you can be creative with your business, and not busy with it. I'd love to hear your needs and challenges and see how I can help you. Give me a shout! Steve A few reviews 📝 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐: "Stephen is an absolute ROCK STAR! He is literally the BEST freelancer I have ever used on UpWork over well more than 10 years across multiple companies. We wanted to automate the creation of a daily KPI report we use to monitor our business. We have a team member that was spending 5 hours per day completing it. He was using data pulled from 4 or 5 different software applications. Our team member now spends about 1 hour per day and the other 4 hours per day is automated so he is freed up to work on other things now. We love it and our team member REALLY loves it! Stephen set the appropriate expectations about the project up front. He overcame multiple challenges. He created detailed video instructions for our team on how to use the final KPI and complete the information. He delivered so MUCH more than he promised. This is just the first project of many we will do with him. I didn't know he was the right choice when I hired him because he seemed similar to several others. WOW, he was worlds better than I could have imagined!" "All I can say is WOW! Stephens skills are absolutely incredible the attention to details and execution of this task was 2nd to none. One of the best freelancers we have ever used and will definitely be working with him again! Thanks again Stephen!" "Stephen was simply outstanding to work with and I will 100% be hiring Stephen again for future projects. In this particular project, Stephen was helping my team rebuild a pacing doc used every day by 150 sales professional who generate $200m annually. On top of his expertise, patience and determination to deliver, his biggest strength is his reliability. Stephen will get the job done. This project spanned six weeks and right over the holiday season and Stephen never failed to deliver and in all cases over delivered." "Working with Stephen was a absolute pleasure. He met and surpassed my expectations and added so much valuable input on how to structure things in the best and clearest way. I appreciated the continuous communication throughout and Stephen worked hard to get this involved project completed earlier then expected. Very skilled and a terrific person to work with!! I look forward to working with Stephen in the near future on the next phase of our project. Thank you!!"

I'm an experienced digital content creator and editor with skills in web content management, audio podcasting, and optimization of images, audio and video for the web.

I offer specialized design, development, and consulting services to clients across the country working as an extension of your team to collaborate on projects, render your vision, create brand identities, and provide creative support. From graphic design, to custom UI / UX applications in Node.js, 3D models & renders, and more, my career has given me a wide array of experiences support clients, their dev and marketing teams, and their customers. Partner with me to support your next project no matter how big or small.