Hire an AI developer who ships to production
I’m Chaitanya Sharma, an AI and full-stack developer in Delhi working remotely with clients in the US, Japan, Australia and India. When you hire me, you get one person who handles the architecture, the build, the integrations, the deployment and the tracking that shows whether it worked.
- 100% Job Success on Upwork
- 13+ businesses across 4 countries
- Claude Certified Developer 896/1000
What I build for the businesses that hire me
Most of my work falls into three areas. The common thread is that every project ends in something running in production rather than a demo, and that I own it myself from the first architecture decision to the deployment and the numbers that tell you whether it is paying off.
- AI agents — lead-qualifying website assistants, Retell AI voice agents that answer calls and book appointments, tool-calling agents on Claude and OpenAI
- SaaS products — OnOffDeals, a real-estate analysis SaaS I architected alone: ~20K lines, live Stripe billing, 311 automated tests
- Automation — 50+ workflows shipped in n8n, GoHighLevel, Make and Zapier, from missed-call text-back to multi-channel outreach
Proof you can check before you hire
I hold a 100% Job Success score on Upwork across 11 jobs and 80+ hours. Charyx Labs, the studio I founded in November 2024, has a 4.8★ average client rating, and I have supported 13+ businesses across four countries. In September 2026 I passed Anthropic’s proctored Claude Certified Developer – Foundations exam with 896/1000, verifiable on Credly. In 2025 my team took 1st place of 8,744+ teams at the ISRO Bharatiya Antariksh Hackathon.
How an engagement works
I keep the process short so you see working software early and never pay for weeks of silence. If I am inheriting an existing codebase with no documentation, I reproduce the problem first, isolate it and write up the cause before changing anything, so you know exactly what was fixed and why.
- Free intro call — you explain the problem, I ask about your tools, your data and what success looks like
- Scope — a written plan with milestones and either an hourly estimate or a fixed-price quote
- Build with weekly demos — you see progress on real data every week and can change direction early
- Launch and handover — deployment, monitoring and notes your team can follow
Rates and ways to hire me
Rates start from $20/hour, and for well-defined projects I quote a fixed price so the budget is settled before work begins. You can hire me through Upwork, with the contract and payments running on the platform, or work with me directly through Charyx Labs. A typical first automation goes live in about a week, which makes it an easy way to test the fit before committing to anything larger.
Rates from $20/hour
Hourly for open-ended work, fixed price for defined projects. The first call is free and there's no obligation.
Frequently asked questions
How much does it cost to hire an AI developer like you?
Rates start from $20/hour. For projects with a clear scope I give a fixed-price quote instead, so you know the total before any work starts. On the free intro call we work out which of the two suits your project.
Can you work inside our existing codebase?
Yes. At Podiam AI I joined a Django and Next.js production codebase and split what looked like a single bug into three independent defects, fixing each with its own test. I reproduce, isolate and document a problem before I change code.
Do I hire you through Upwork or directly?
Either works. On Upwork I have a 100% Job Success score across 11 jobs. If you prefer a direct contract, you work with Charyx Labs, my studio. The scope, the weekly demos and the handover are the same either way.
Which AI models and tools do you build with?
Mostly Anthropic Claude (Claude API, Claude Code, MCP servers) and OpenAI, with Google Gemini where it fits. For automation I use n8n, GoHighLevel, Make and Zapier; for products, React, FastAPI, MongoDB, PostgreSQL and Redis.