Francis Beeson
An AI engineer on track to 7x his £85k Amazon salary in his second year as a freelancer.
Francis spent a decade as an NLP engineer at companies like Amazon, Yelp, and AstraZeneca. The work was interesting, but the agency wasn't. Two redundancies in four years, one during the 2020 lockdowns and one when his entire Twitch team was cut in Q1 2024, made the math impossible to ignore. He joined Data Freelancer and never looked back.
Two years in, he's on track to 7-8x his Amazon salary by year-end, has hired three engineers, and built a workflow that targets companies who have already burned money on AI projects that failed. Those clients know what good work is worth. He isn't competing with a generalist on Upwork.
The feast-or-famine fear most developers carry into freelancing never showed up either. The longest gap between contracts in two years was a single week, after a client cut him off mid-trip to Colombia. As an employee, a hiring process takes one or two months. As a contractor, Francis says, it can take two days.
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