I'm Rabie, an Upwork Growth Consultant and software developer by training. I help agencies, consultants, and high-skill freelancers across the globe win better clients at higher rates, without burning Connects on proposals that never get read.
Top Rated Plus
Top 3% on Upwork
$200K+
Earned on Upwork280+
Jobs delivered17,000+
Hours on platformTop 3%
Top Rated PlusI started my career writing code from 2020 to 2022. Somewhere in there I picked up business development as a side gig, mostly to help other devs land work, and I realized I loved it more than the building itself. There was a puzzle in it: why did one profile get invites while an identical one got ignored? Why did one proposal get a reply and ten others vanish?
In September 2022 I made the call: I left my developer job and went all-in on Upwork business development full time. No safety net, just a conviction that this was a system waiting to be cracked, and I cracked it.
Since then I've worked across just about every niche you can name, for clients all over the globe, the US, Canada, the UK, across Europe, India, Pakistan, and beyond. Different markets, different time zones, the same underlying playbook. Over 1,000 profile audits, 3,000+ jobs analyzed, and 50+ profile revamps later, the patterns are undeniable. The freelancers who win aren't the cheapest or the loudest, they're the ones with a system underneath the effort. So I built that system, and now I install it for people serious about scaling.
“I went from building products to building pipelines, and I never looked back.”
The Path
2020–2022
Software developer
Started my career in code, and picked up business development as a side gig along the way.
Sept 2022
Went all-in on Upwork
Left my dev job to do business development full time. No safety net, full conviction.
2022–Today
Global, every niche
Clients across the US, Canada, UK, Europe, India, Pakistan and beyond. One playbook, many markets.
Now
Top Rated Plus · Top 3%
$200K+ earned, 280+ jobs delivered, and a system I install for serious operators.
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Volume without a process just burns Connects. Every result I produce comes from a repeatable, measurable sequence
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No vague guarantees. Real dashboards, real reply rates, real hires. The numbers do the convincing.
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I'd rather land you five $5K clients than fifty $50 gigs. The right clients change the trajectory of a business.
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I'll tell you what's working, what isn't, and what I'd cut. Straight talk from someone who's done it, not theorized it.
The advice I give isn't a hunch. It's drawn from thousands of real data points across the platform, refined over four years of doing the work.
500+
Profile Audits
3000+
Jobs Analyzed
100+
Profile Revamps
21%+
Cold-outreach reply rate
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Upwork client
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