Work with Andrew
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Expert consulting & technical analysis
Architecture reviews, technical due diligence, and mid-flight rescues: hard deadlines, departed lead developers, codebases never seen before (a repeated, five-star pattern across the Upwork record). Expert-Vetted (top 1%), $500K+ across 27 contracts at a near-uniform 5.0.
Credentials
- $4.27M in lifetime personal contract earnings; Upwork Expert-Vetted (top 1%) with a near-uniform 5.0
- Mid-flight rescues: hard deadlines, departed lead developers, codebases never seen before
- Architecture reviews and technical due diligence
Evidence
Why these lanes belong together
The same pattern keeps returning in my work: someone has a system nobody wants to take seriously, and it turns out to be load-bearing. Vacation-home water heaters; a mold inspector's leave-behind sensors; forty federal datasets; surgical training in hospitals with bad connectivity. Every home in a 320-property rental fleet got a digital twin. The mold sensor went through contract manufacturing. The datasets became APIs that AI agents query directly. The surgical platform's prize was $700,000. It runs in Ethiopia. That is the useful part.
Good fit
- Ambiguous zero-to-one systems where the technical direction and the implementation are the same job.
- Data-heavy AI products that must operate reliably in production, under real compliance constraints.
- Problems that cross boundaries: software to hardware, engineering to institutions, prototype to operations.
- Small teams that need a lead who ships alongside them.
Not a fit
- Pure research roles judged on publications. The AI-mechanism work is applied engineering, not an academic track.
- Roles that are exclusively people management with no hands-on technical scope.
- Teams seeking a narrow specialist in a single framework. The value here concentrates where problems cross domains.
- On-site-only roles outside Austin, TX.
A useful first email says what you're building, where it hurts, and what form of help you think you need. Specifics get the fastest reply. hello@andrewfribush.com. The full record is at the engagement ledger, the short version at the résumé. Machine-readable: /career/brief.json · /availability.json.